Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1930, Page 8

A—S8 THE EVENING STAR'! —_ With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. .September 11, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evenine Star.............45¢ perionth ' and Sun ) ays) 60c per month 5¢ per month -Sc per copy Ath Collection made at the end of each mon sent in by mail or ieleph: rders may be fAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. {lv and Sunday.....1sr. $10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ iy only .. junday only 1yl $6.00: 1 mo.. 80c 15r, §4.00° 1mo.. 40c All Other States an {ly and Sunday..lsr.s fly only . unday only . Member of the Associated Press. | The Associated Press is exclusively entitled | to the use for republication of all news dis- Phiches credited to it er not otherwice cied. ted in this paper and also the local 1ews published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are wiso rescrved. -_— The Taxicab Hearing. If the taxicab hearing before the Pub- lic Utilities Commission yesterday did nothing else it brought cut the fact that much dissension exists between the owners and operators of the various types of vehicles now on the streets and that the rate war is likely to con- tinue for a long time. The public, how- ever, is not particularly interested in this phase of the situation, although it does derive a small monetary benefit, of course, from any rate war. The public 1s primarily concerned with the ques- tion of safety and it is obvious that there can be no real security against hospital bills and funeral expenses that will wipe out any supposed profit that the victim has received from lower fares unless every driver of a public vehicle carries liability insurance, ‘That and the number of cabs to be permitted on the streets are the really important questions. Certainly there should be no usurping of the city's thoroughfares by taxicab companies or individual hackers, but the situation is aggravating in the extreme when the Public Utilities Commission finds itself unable, to date at least, to provide financial security on the part of taxicab drivers for the hapless victims of negligence and recklessness. There may be some dispute as to whether Wash- ington streets, with their more than three thousand taxicabs, are not being turned over to private interests, but who can contend that with the m: Jority of these three thousand oper- ators unable to pay a single cent toward damages to persons and property the situation is not one of grave concern to every right-thinking person? Of course, it is convenient to be able to hail a public vehicle immediately upon appearing on the street, and it is equally easy on the pocketbook to be enabled to ride a long distance for a small amount. That is the ideal con- dition. But combined with this ideal must be the knowledge on the part of the passenger that he is riding in & safe vehicle, that his driver is com- petent and that in the event of acei- dent the driver or his company will be able to compensate him or his estate for injury or death. Washington is the only city of its size in the country which apparently cannot regulate its public utilities, and the responsibility must be laid solely en Congress, which at the last session failed utterly to take cognizance of the situation and provide the remedial measures that were suggested. Action on this important requirement in the National Capital should not be further delayed, and when Congress reconvenes one of its first moves should be to pro- vide the Public Utilities Commission with the authority it needs to correct & situation that no other city would tolerate for a moment. e cne d Canada. i 12.00: 00 0. 18 50c | | + $5.00i 1 mo.. A man defeated in the primaries is permitted to return to the pursuits most congenial and perhaps more remunera- tive. “Victors” in the primaries may claim the “spoils.” But spoils in these days are not invariably collected without & struggle. Ameriea Wins at Polo. ‘Whatever results from the meeting of Enterprise and S8hamrock V in the in- ternational yacht races this month, the United States keeps one of the inter-! national sports trophies that has been | in competition for many years. Yes- terday an American polo team beat a team of British challengers in the con- cluding and deciding match of the tri- ennial engagement for the Westchester Cup, putting this country well ahead in the series, seven to four, from the start in 1886. There is a certain likeness between the Anglo-American polo competition and the yacht races. The sailing con- test began with an American invasion | of British waters, when the schooner | America went over on invitation to | participate in a contest with English craft. She won and later was awarded & cup that has become world renowned | as the most significant sporting trophy in existence. Polo, a distinctly British | game from its importation in 1869 from India, where it gained its modern prac- tice after 1863, was virtually unknown | in this country until 1885, when it | ‘was started as an experiment by some Americans who had observed it abroad. S0 keen an interest was developed in the sport here that a cup was put up by some New York enthusiasts, known as the Westchester Cup, as a challenge | trophy and overseas went a bid for 8 contest. The next year, in 1836, John | Watson, one of England’s foremost | players, accepting the challenge, | brought a British team over here and won the match, which was played at Newport, taking home the cup. In 1900 an American team went over to seek to regain the trophy, losing at Hurlingham, and again in 1902 an American chal- | lenging team lost at the same field., Then there was a lapse of seven yeare, In 1809 an American team crossed the Atlantic and at Hurlingham took the trophy by winning two straight matches, bringing the Westchester Cup back home. The next three contests were on American soil, at Meadowbrook, Long Island, in 1911, 1913 and 1914, the three-year interval not vet having been established. American success Wus scored in the first two of these con- tests and British success in the third, each by two matches straight. Thewar interrupted the lnwm:uoml | the seventeenth century. Then a Brit- | of ponies is as important as the train- contests, and it was not until 1921 that an American challenging team crossed the seas. At Hurlingham it won two straight matches and brought the cup home, other teams defending it suc- cessfully in 1924 and in 1927, and again this year, Polo is rated as the most ancient of all games played with ball and stick, its earliest records being found in Per- s From that country it seems to have spread throughout Asia. In India it was the chief sport of the people for centuries, the records ceasing there in ish Army officer brought the game back to India, by the organization of two native teams, giving an exhibition match at Calcutta in 1863. Six years later the sport reached England, and in 1885 the United States. In polo perfect co-ordination of man and horse is required, and the training ing of men. A polo stable is an expen- sive outfit, usually consisting of ten or a dozen ponies for each participating player of a team. In the course of the match ending yvesterday the four Amer- ican players rode, in all, twenty-five different ponies. The necessity for an extensive stable makes the sport a costly one and thus limits the range of participation. . v The Theater Labor Troubles. Habitual patrons of the motion pic- ture theaters of Washington are con- siderably puzzled over the prospect of continued entertainment at those places. As the case stands now musicians re- fuse to amend their contract, and un- less an arrangement is effected between now and Monday they will leave the theaters, and if they go out the pro- Jjection operators will, in a sympathetic action, likewise leave. Yet the theater owners announce that their houses will continue in operation and there will be no interruption of the showing of films. Just how they are to keep their shows running without the services of the union projectionists is a mystery that is not unveiled. Perhaps the local union of projectionists, which has re- cently obtained a favorable new con- tract and is content to carry on as far as the Washington members are con- cerned, will disregard the order of the national organization to quit if the musicians are not retained. Or that order may be rescinded between now and Monday. Many of the public are a little puzzled over this action of the national union of projectionists. They do not quite see the relationship be- tween the men who work the machines and those who make the music. Yet evidently higher up in the union or- ganization there is a close co-operation between the mechanical and the musi- cal units of the entertainment business. Should the theater owners undertake to operate their houses in deflance of the unions they will be confronted with serious difficulties. It is possible to foresee in such circumstances a lively ‘war for and against patronage. So great are the interests at stake, so large is the amount of money involved that it would seem doubtful whether the theater ownmers would risk such = competition. As 1t s, regardless of the action of the projection- ists there would probably be many people abstaining from patronage on the score of the lack of human music, out of sympathy with the musicians or because they do not like mechanical music. Again, there are those who will sympathize with the contention of the musicians that the show business as now operated in Washington is & heavy drain of local funds into alien pockets. Or again there may be a pronounced reaction of public sympathy for the theater owners on the part of those who feel that the musicians should not dic- tate the size of the orchestras and have no real equity in their other demands and that there should be no obstructionto continuous public entertainment through co-operation between unrelated units of the theater organization, Yet, even with such a sympathetic attitude, it is hardly likely that the audiences under the con- ditions indicated-by the owners’ an- nounced intention to carry on regardless of opposition will be as large as in the | past. e A Strange Motor Accident. With all the variety of tragic hap- penings in motor transportation there has probably never been one just like that which is reported from Sanger- hausen, Germany. A sightseeing bus was being driven on a highway near that town at high speed. Without the slightest warning of weakness the driv- ing shaft broke and a flying plece of it tore a hole in the floor of the bus, so extensive that four of the passengers fell through to the roadway and were crushed to death beneath the wheels. It is doubtful if there is a parallel for this mishap in all the history of mo- toring. ‘The broken driving shaft might have killed one or more members of the party outright. Or the break might have caused the bus to be wrecked in collision or by overturning on the road- side with heavy casualties. But to tear a hole in the floor big enough to let four people fall through to their death is one of those things that could not possibly be foreseen. What has hap- pened once, however, may happen again, and this accidert would seem to suggest the wisdom of sheathing the floors of motor busses in such & way as to prevent their puncture and the spilling of their passengers to be ground to death under the wheels. —— e Plans for a United States of Europe carry hopeful inspiration. All Europe will need is a George Washington, a Thomas Jefferson, a Ben Franklin and a few other men like those who made the United States of America & success. r———ee The Transition Period. Decision has been reached not to re- construct the building known as Tem- porary No. 4, which housed the Federal Trade Commission and two bureaus of the Department of Labcr. The fire which attacked it about ten days ago damaged it to such an extent that restoration would be unwarranted, This is a wis2 conclusicn. The reconstruction of one of these temporary buildings would be really an invitation to disaster. With the exception of the two which stand on the south side of B street in Potomac Park, all of the war-time con- structions are firetraps, and no rebulld- ing process could make them less dan- gerous. Indication was given the other day that greater speed than was expected T several of these structures will have been cleared and the foundation opera- tions will be in progress. It is likely that at least three more of the major units of the Mall-Avenue triangle group will be actually under way within six months. These will house many of the bureaus now located in the temporary bulldings on the Mall and elsewhere. Meanwhile, it is the part of discretion to lessen the chance of loss to place some of these bureaus, which cannot be moved to their permanent homes for at least two years, in privately owned bulldings which will afford better accommoda- tions than the best of the war-time con- structions. Just at present there are ample a commodations for Government offices in the private business structures in Washington. This condition will not long continue. With the revival of busi- ness in general and with the settlement of the Government in its own perma- nent housings, space in these business structures will be in greater demand. That demand will probably absorb all | of the room left vacant when the Gov- ernment moves out of now rented qua ters into its own accommodations. The greater use of this space in the private- ly owned buildings during the next four or five years while the public building program is under way will not only be a deserved boon to the owners of those structures, whose enterprise has here- tofore greatly served the Government in its straits for office quarters, but will afford safer and more effective accom- modations for the departmental workers. - In some circles of literary New York it is devoutly believed that one reason for the deficiency in current drama is due to the fallure of the late Joseph Pulitzer to provide funds for more prize plays. e Russia desires to trade with the U.S. A. Uncle 8am is perfectly willing to put up his money, but the shell game which leaves it doubtful where the little pea of political authority will next be dis- closed is somewhat old and discouraging. ————— Argentina follows the customary pro- cedure which sends out a riot call for Liberty and concludes by welcoming any one willing to risk his life in service as a dictator. ———————— Art cannot overwhelm business life. Al Smith was one of the most popular of radio broadcasters. But he would rather devote his attention to becoming & good business man. ———e———————— ‘When public powers are intrusted to commissions it is naturally to be ex- pected that some commissions will prove better than other: —_— e Maine's election, held early, is a good publicity demonstration to keep the old State in the public eye. — SHOOTING STARS. HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. C., THURSDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “It has not the arrogance of wine, the self-consciousness of coffee, nor the ‘(.smeerlnx innocence of cocos."—"The Book of Tea.” | 'Those who think and talk only of spirituous liquors have a childlike belief that every one in the world is inter- ested in what they are interested in. ‘They would be azed to know that millions ‘of persons prefer tea to beer, coffee to whisky, cocoa to wine. Yes, actually. The fine thing about tea, coffee, cocon is that they do not cause their devotees to talk lbolutlbh'.m all the'ume. ‘The world is given a rest. | _They are the ':n drinks. Those who drink tea like cats, those who drink | coffee love books, those who take their breakfast cup of cocoa can go into raptures over a glorious sunrise or | sunset. We are aware of the fact that these are generalities, that many who drink strong liquor also love dogs and cats and fine paintings. But, in the main, we believe these distinctions to have meaning, and to be true. One should not refrain from saying something just because there may be exceptions. * oK K % Tea is a universal beverage which has suffered somewhat during the past half century through the onslaughts of coffee. J The book from ¥hich we quote speaks of the self-consciousness of coffee, as if the bean had a character of its own. Well, it has, as any one knows who has drunk it, and most people have, at some time or other. It is not called the universal drink for nothing. No doubt part of this attitude of importance on the part of coffee is due to the “go-getter” tactics of the coffee trade, which during the past 50 years has put coffee “on the map,” in a real and poetic sense. There is so much coffee grown to the south of us today that nobody knows what to do with it, hence the drastic reductions in the price per pound, which have pleased and slightly amazed the American consumer. Housewives today can get a better coffee for 35 cents than they could for 85 cents a few years ago. Despite these changes, largely economic, coffee re- mains what the tea e:nhufluz called it. * K K % The self-consciousness of coffee is one of its charms, especially in an ar- rogant bustling age. We of the United States, as a class, demand something of self-sufficiency, even in our daily beverages. Coffee can be served and drunk in enough ways to make it incumbent upon every drinker to announce his preference to the server. Some like it hot, some like it lukewarm, some want it “dark,” others “light,” some plenty of sugar, some little, some none at all. Even_the different brands call forth their champions, and one coffee toper no sooner names his favorite than all the others at table spring to the de- fense of their own choice. ‘We have never recommended s cof- fee to a friend without the other say- ing, “Oh, we use So-and-So, and think it perfect!” 1In coffee, as in ks, every man to his own taste, and there is no arguing. The peculiar thing is that those who bave made no study of taste, as such, set themselves up as authorities. The BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Old Man “Vox Populi.” Whatever the grief that compels you you to pause, ‘You may turn to this cheering re- flection: ‘Though displeasure results from offi- cials or laws— ‘There’s always another election. ‘When & Pharaoh was made from the picture to fade And the populace called for cor- rection, He would gather his crowd and re- mark, undismayed, “There is always another election.” | However autocracy struggles to please, Supporters will threaten defection. On hearing the hint, he 15 left ill at ense— “There’s always another election.” When Fortune has failed me, when hopes have been high, ‘The future will offer protection; I will look for a much better “break” | by and by— There's always another election. Popular Perception. “How is your public? “Tame as a kitten, tor Sorghum. “But is it one of those kittens who haven't got their eyes open yet?” answered Sena- Jud Tunkins says he kind o' pities the man who isn't important enough to be made the subject of untruthful comment. Impresario. ‘The impresario causes wrath old familiarity, “It suits me,” will not suffice. Excerpts From Newsp L DICTAMEN, Vera Cruz.—Five persons were fined by the board of health for refusal to be vac- cinated. The fines were imposed under article 115 of the Federal Sanitary Code and ranged from $5 to $21 Continued unwillingness to sub- mit to this sensible precaution against the smallpox will lead to further penal- ties. The heaviest fine was imposed on Senor Filiberto Figueros, who refused either to be vaccinated himself or allow any of his children to receive this hy- gienic protection. All those presenting a certificate of successful vaccination from their own physician need not submit to the atten- tion of the board’s vaccinators. In lieu of such certificate, however, 8 new ex- | posure to the lymph is compulsory. * ko ¥ Police Hold Dance Hall Regulation in Tokio Unreasonable. Japan Advertiser, Tokio.—Regula- tions which strictly limit the number of public dance halls in Tokio, and which force those in operation to close at 11 o'clock, are admitted by an official of the Metropolitan Police Board to be un- reasonable. H. Hisayasu, director of the foreign section, said he believed the present law should be modified in order that the young people of the city and foreign tourists might be provided with wholesome entertainment at night time. The night life of the capital is so woe- fully lacking in color, it is pointed out, and this is one of the reasons tourists do not stay here longer than they do. “It may be necessary,” said Mr. Hisayasu, “to prohibit the establishment of dance halls in residential quarters uptown, and to prevent students frequenting them, but districts such as, for instance, the Amid artistic chatter. He gave & gal a champagne* bath— The music doesn't matter. *Ginger ale. ‘Whimsical Complications. “Who invented ‘miniature golf’?” “I'm not sure,” answered Miss Cay- enne. “My guess is that it must have been that famous mechanical com- jcker, Mr. Rube Goldberg.” sage of Chinatown, “may become a devoted friend if he can become con- vinced that the defeat was accom- plished in strict fair play.” Radiads. My Radio! My Radio! You teach me to behave And, as along the way I go, ‘To brush my teeth and shave. “Fortune tellers,” said Uncle Eben, “has surprised me by deir knowledge of my past; but not one of 'em has yet been able to give me de name of & winnin' hoss.” —r—— Minority Is Warned. Prom the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Bathers are being warned to stay out of the water at Atlantic beaches. The warning should be heeded by the one- tenth of 1 per cent who make up the lclu:’l bathing personnel of any beach crowd. ———— Political Obstacles. From the Detroit Free Press. After bucking the windy obstacles of the Atlantic, Capt. Coste will find it easier to understand why the country he is now visiting doesn't make faster progress in politics. shisiowe PR Bridle Bridal Party. F:om the Shreveport Journal. Young fellow from Boston wed an Towa girl in Chicago, the wedding cere- mony being pronounced in a park while will be made in the institution of work on the remaining bulldings of the great program. In & few months the sites for the bride and bridegroom and attend- ants—even the minister—sat on the backs of horses. Quite idle party, we ahould sag. Ginza, may have more of them, provided control is not relaxed. Dance halls eas- ily become degenerate and foster disor- derly conduct.” There are 11 dance halls in Tokio, with about 300 dancers employed. At one time there were 20 of these estab- lishments here, but the questionable ones have been closed-since last year. x K % % Highland Ministers Reported in Extreme Poverty. ‘The Evening Times, Glasgow.—Some- thing approaching extreme poverty 15 the lot of many ministers in the High- lands. Examples of their hardships were given to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, in Edinburgh. One minister had to write his sermon in bed because he could not afford a fire in his sitting room. Another made all the boots for his family, while his wife made their clothes. A third could not any lnnfr afford himself the luxury of a weekly pipe of tobacco. In this con- nection one delegate to the assembly reported that some members of the church smoked 20 cigarettes a day. “If they cut out one packet a week,” he stated, “that would be £2 125 a year, which would be donated to the fund for maintenance of the ministry. People who have been in the habit of g:n ng their religion for nothing should taught to pay for it and that it is & privilege to pay for it—the greatest pos- sible return they can ever get for tmr money.” A total of £312,000 would provide a fund sufficient to give each minister £300 a year and a manse. Such an amount would be assured if each com- municant of the Church of Scotland contributed even 4s 4d annually, R New Zealand Enjoys Season of Prosperity, The Evening Post, Wellington.—Just 50 years ago the Evening Post hailed with great relief signs of the times inting to a lifting of the severe and ong-continued depression which had been responsible for so much want and unemployment in 1879-1880. ‘“There e dally increasing indications, which nnot be mistaken,” wrote editor, hat a marked improvement in trade is taking place generally in this city. ‘There is a palpable diminution of tha despairing depression which has so long prevailed in our midst and an equally gercepllblr revival of confidence and opefulness, Money is abundant: in- deed, almost too plentiful to find in- vestments at once safe and profitable. The coffers of the banks are full to overflowing, and very large sums are After all, coffee does quite as well as tea as a conversational medium. Per- haps there is something more masculine about it, better suited to the American male taste. ‘Tea, with us, is mentally associated with the soft rustle of feminine clothes and voices; coffee, in the other cup, is the drink of the trenches, the drink given to firemen on cold Winter nights, | the beverage of husky taxicab drivers. | Both coffee and tea shine as social | drinks because they loosen the tongue, but without causing it to wag foolishly. Coffee, in particular, is the best of all drinks for the morning conversation. A morning conversation is the im- promptu gathering of kindred souls for a cup of coffee and % bit of talk before the serious work of the day begins. It may come at 8 or 9 o'clock, but when- ever it arrives, the coffee is merely an excuse. Men need excuses. They cannot talk together without smoking or drinking. ‘They could as easily gather around a table, with nothing in their hands, and talk over the problems of the world, but that would take on the aspects of a debating soclety. They need something in their hands, something to give themselves an occu- pled feeling, when the conversation lags. Men are afraid of silence. What they say may please or anger them, but it will not make them afraid. Fear enters only when silence blots down upon the company. ‘The absurdity of it is that fear may be banished by the simple expedient of picking up & cup and solemnly quaffing & few spoonfuls. While one is occu- pled one is not afraid. oK % % Even he who prefers coffee will ad- mit the fascination of tea. This comes about, we believe, because tea leaves one unsatisfled. There is no tea, how- ever good, but what one may dream of a better. With coffee, this is not so. There are coffees on the market which are close to theoretical perfection. One scarcely ever tastes a tea, how- ever, without thinking that the perfect tea is yet to be found. In this the tea drinker rivals the pipe smoker, who eternally keeps on the lookout for the perfect tobacco. Even those who think they have found it, if you could get them to admit it, would be willing to say that there might be a better. “The philosophic resignation of the guest to the fate awaiting him in the dubious decoction proclaims that in this single instance the Oriental spirit reigns supreme,” declares Okakura Kakuzo, in his good book on tea. No one ever knows, when he faces a cup of tea, just what he will get. This is & part of its charm. The exact tem- perature of the water, the precise strength of the brew, in relation to the taste of the one taster, these things are of far greater moment than with cof- fee, and upon them depends the very essence, the very soul, of the tea. ‘We read a letler in the New York Times some weeks ago in which a tea enthusiast proclaimed a mixture of 12 ounces of Oolong, 2 ounces of Young Hyson and 2 ounces of Gun- powder, as the ideal. Here one has old- fashioned black and green mixed. According to him, the water should be brought to a boil, the tea put in, and then boiled just one minute, no more nor less. We have always been suspi- clous of steeped tea, in the cup, and believe this boiling method to be the correct one, if there is any such thing as a “correct” method in tea making, which perhaps there is not. Highlights on the Wide World apers of Other Lands now lying waiting for opportunities of investment on mortgage at 8 per cent; whereas not long since 10 and 12 per cent, or even more, could have been obtained readily on excellent security. “A day or two ago one &epositor with- drew some £10,000 from a bank on the rate of interest being lowered and took the sum to an investment soclety, which was greatly perplexed at having to re- celve so large a sum in the resent plethora of money, while, until its rule now in force should be officially altered, the unwelcome ‘embarras de richesses’ could not be rejected. “The moral and practical lesson to be deduced alike from our late depres- sion is that we should rigidly eschew and strenuously discourage that spirit of wild and reckless speculation which has been our curse in the past and de- vote all our energies to the genuine and substantial development of this colony and its legitimate trade.” Today, 50 years later, if there is no elioration of industrial and conditions to be at present ob- served, at least conditions are not get- ting noticeably worse, and if we follow faithfully the good advice in the pre- ceding paragraph happy days will soon be here again, and stay herel * ok ok ox Half Peanut Supplies Brain Food. Manchester Guardian.—According to Dr. Prancis Benedict of the Nutrition boratory of the Carnegie Institute, “half a peanut supplies all the brain food a university professor needs for an hour of continuous thought.” ‘This, of course, explains why univer- sity professors are rarely found on fair grounds and competing in those feats of skill or strength where the urize usually is a cigar (complete with band) or, alternately, a bag of nuts. The reck- less presentation of so much food for thought might result in spontaneous combustion—the unfortunate professor might go off like a tin of petrol, con- sumed by the fearful energy of his own mental processes. * ok kW Cleansing of Temples Must Be More Regular. El Telegrafo, Guayaquil.—For laxity In keeping the churches of the city in & clean and sanitary condition, the com- missioner of health, Senor Manuel Lo- zada, has sent a circular to the heads of all the different religious institutions maintaining these edifices, advising them that cleansing of the temples must be more regular and efficient, due to the great concourses of humanity which gather in them daily, and thus expose the population to divers naladies with which many of them may be afficted. ‘To obviate such fatal consequences to the faithful, the interior of all churches must be thoroughly washed with disin- fecting solution every three days, in & manner approved by the commissioner. * ok Kk Doubt Report Of Peak Higher Than Everest. Irish Independent, Dublin.—The re- ported claim of an American geographic expedition to have discovered a Tibet peak higher than Everest must be re- celved with reserve for the time heing. though it cannot be ruled out as in any way impossible. We are still only on the fringe of accurate knowledge of the Himalayas, especially the Tibetan side of them, and in the absence of any- thing like a detailed survey of the coun- try, it is conceivable, though hardly very likely, that Everest has a superior. It is # commonplace to every traveler that the highest peaks are by no means al- ways the most impressive, Everest itself is said to be far less stupendous in ap- pearance than the Matterhorn, and there are times and atmospheres when our own local Sugar Loaf looks as if it might require all the resources of an Alpine Club. * ok ok % Too Late for | Tommy’s Prayers. ‘The Bulletin, Sydney.— Mother—What about your prayers, mmy ? ‘I‘un:g (after late night at the pic- es)—Oh, mum, they'll all be gone up in ven. . | T s ., Hea ol ur bed to when it comes to candidate, SEPTEMBER 11, 1930. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. Senator William J. Harris of Georgia has successfully weathered the storm which this year has blown over the Southern States, eliminating from the next Senate three, and posibly four, of the sitting Senators. Senator Harris defeated handily former Gov. John M. Slayton for the Democratic nomination for the Senate in yesterday's primary, running ahead of his opponent in prac- tically all parts of the State. The Har- ris-Slayton campaign measured up in bitterness with the campaigns waged for the Democratic senatorial nomina- tions in North Carolina, South Carolina and Louisiana. * * % With the primaries, so far as the Senate is concerned, practically at an end, it is clear that there is to be a tremendous turnover in senatorial labor circles when the next Congress comes into existence March 4, 1931. An even dozen of the Senators now sitting will be missing, due to primary defeats and to the determination of Senators not to seek re-election. One sitting Senator, Senator Brock, Democrat, of Tennes- see, is running this year, but only for the short term which ends March 3, 1931, so he, too, will not be a member of the mext Congress. It is probable that a number of other Senators who have been renominatzA will be defeated by their opponents at the polls in No- vember, swelling still further the list of absent faces in the Senate when that body convenes for the next Con- ess. B hose Senators who have been de- feated for renomination in the party primaries are Deneen, Illinois, and Grundy, Pennsylvania, Republicans, and Simmons, North Carolina; Rams- dell, Louisiana, and Blease, South Car- olina, Democrats. Seven Senators have decided not to be candidates for the Senate in_the next Congress. Six of them are Republicans: Baird, New Jer- E Glllett, Massachusetts; Goff, West Virginia; Gould, Maine; Phipps, Colo- rado, and Sullivan, Wyoming. Senator Brock of Tennessee, Democrat, is the seventh who made no race for the next Senate. If elected in November for the short term, the remainder of the term of the late Senator Tyson, he still goes out of office along with the six Repub- licans who have not sought re-election for the next Congress. * % k¥ If the Democrats are to win control of the Senate, there must be a tre- mendous Democratic sweep all over the country. The Senate today is com- posed of 56 Republicans, 39 Democrats and 1 Farmer-Labor Senator. If the Democrats could win nine of the seats now held by Republicans and continue to hold all their own seats, the count would be 48 Democratic Senators, 47 Republican and 1 Farmer-Labor. If Senator Shipstead of Minnesota, the lone Farmer-Labor Senator, should vote with the Republicans for organization purposes, with the aid of the vote of the Vice President cast to b a tle, the Republicans might still be able to organize the Senate and name the standing committees. Ife the Demo- crats won 10 seats held by the Repub- licans and lost none of their own, they would have a real majority of one vote in the upper house. With only 34 Senate seats contested for in the November elections, it is going to be a difficult task for the Democrats to win control, an almost impossible task. In the first place, the Democrats will, in all probability, lose the seat now held by Senator Steck of Jowa, who is opposed by Representa- tive Dickinson, a popular Republican in a State that is overwhelmingly Re- publican. Also they will have their work cut out for them in the Montana election, where Senator Wi is op- d by a really strong publican candidate this year, Judge Galen of the State Supreme Court. * KK K Democratic leaders figure they will be able to win in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Kentucky, West Virginia, Dela- ware, Oklahoma, Illinois and probably South Dakota and Colorado, and possi- bly in Wyoming and Ohio. That's the crop of Democratic possibilities so far as the Senate is concerned, with the exception of Nebraska, where former Senator Hitchcock is running against Senator George Norris. But Democratic leaders do not figure on winning Ne- braska. The Democrats do mnot figure they have a show to defeat Borah in Idaho, Allen and Capper in Kansas, Cougens in Michigan, Morrow in New Jersey, Keyes in New Hampshire or McNary in Oregon. They talk of carrying Minne- sota, but the chances are that either the Republican, Schall, or the Farmer- Labor candidate, Lundeen, will win there. Therefore, if the Democrats win in the 11 States set down as probabilities and possibilities, they will have a net gain _of not more than nine seats and possibly only eight. From present ap- pearances, the Democrats must come through this senatorial campaign with every break in their favor if they are to have control of the Senate. One or two slip-ups and they have no chance at all of controlling the Senate. * koK % Gov. Pranklin D. Roosevelt of New York, frequently mentioned as the prob- able nominee of the Democrats for President in 1932, provided he is re- elected Governor of New York this Fall and his health continues good, come out flatly for repeal of the eight- eenth amendment in a letter to Senator Wagner, slated to be chairman of the Democratic State convention. This is the first definite and public statement from Gov. Roosevelt aligning himself in favor of repeal. His letter places him pretty much in the some posi- tion as Dwight W. Morrow, who won the Republican nomingtion for Senator in New Jersey. QGov. Roosevelt says he is flatly opposed to the return of the saloon and that the States which wish to be dry should be safeguarded against an inflow of liquor from wet neighbors. Outside of the “solid South” the Democratic party is becoming more and more aligned with the anti-prohibition cause, and Gov. Roosevelt'’s announce- ment is but another indication of this fact. In Illinols the Democrats are enthusiastically backing former Senator J. “Ham” Lewis, running as an extreme wet against Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCor- mick, Republican, who has straddled the issue, and Mrs. O'Neill, the inde- pendent dry Republican candidate. Ohio Democrats claim they have & chance to elect former Representative Robert J. Bulkley, a wet, to the Senate over the dry Senator McCulloch next November. Former Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, the Democratic senatorial nominee there, has boen regarded as an opponent of the eighteenth amendment in the past, although the issue has not there in the senatorial race * K ok X The stand taken now by Gov. Roose- velt on the wet and dry issue is re- garded as making it ceriain that pro- hibition will again be a dominant ques- tion when the Democrats come to nomi- nate their candidate for President in 1932. Even if Gov. Roosevelt should not himself be candidate for the presidential nomination, there will be other Democrats who belleve as he does knocking at the door for recog- nition by the national convention. In 1924 the drys in the Democratic party did their best to nominate William Gibbs McAdoo. They failed absolutely. ‘The compromise candidate of that con- vention, John W. Davis, was not looked upon as an ardent dry, but merely in favor of law enforcement. In 1928 the Houston convention named Alfred E. Smith and did not have to wait long to be informed that Gov. Smith was in favor of repeal or modification of the dry laws. If the wets continue to gain victories at the polls in Republican States, ac they did Tuesday in Michigan and Washington, the Republican Nationa! Convention 'two years hence may hav the prohibition issue strongly before it picking . had a remarkable love of books. a presidential all have ANSWERS TO QUESTION BY FREDERIC What is your question? Whatever it may be, 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 & per- sonal letter, Write your question clearly and briefly, inclose 2-cent stamp_for return postage and address The Eve- ning Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. What is the name of the tele- vision station in Chicago? Is it operat- ing successfully?>—T. E. A. WOXAL is the vu\;&l station ig Chicago operated in conjunction witl WMAQ, the Chicago Daily News sta- tion. More than 5,000 experimental listeners in the Chicago area are said be recelving the clarity. The station was designed and constructed by the Western Television ation and transmission is ac- complished in a special studio equipped with two television scanning machines. While ordinarily the transmission of images { persons has been confined to the e¢ad and shoulders, the ap- tus used at WOXAL gives a full ength of several artists at once. Q. Was Longfello “Hiawatha” writ- ten for any particular purpose?—B. G. A. Under date of June 22, 1854, the 't wrote in his diary: “I have at length hit upon & plan for a poem on the American Indiam which seems to me to be the right one and the only. It is to weave together their beautiful traditions into & whole.” Q. What is the salary of an airmail pilot?—G. K. A. In a survey of pay schedules of & representative group of operators conducted by the Department of Com- merce the average monthly salary of airmail and passenger plilots in the last six months of 1929 and the first six months of this year is shown to be $550. Pllots received an average base pay of $189 monthly, but this was in- creased by addition of sums paid for miles flown which varied with condi- tions and depended upon day or night schedules. Q. Do most people in India go bare- footed?—F. B. A. Of a total population of 320,000~ ?00. at least 290,000,000 go bare- Q. Is Sing Sing the oldest prison in New York?—F. H. A. Sing Sing was first called the Mount Pleasant Prison and is histori- cally the third in order of New York State prisons. The first is Newgate Prison, built in 1761, in New York City, and the second is Auburn Prison, built | in 1816. The Sing Sing cell block was | built entirely by prisoners with stones | taken from the prison quarry. It was, :nrlt’cfldsln May, 1825, and was completed n . Q. Please give a short biography of Jeflerson Davis’ youngest daughter.— F. . C. A. Varina Anne Jefferson Davis was born June 27, 1864, and died Septem- ber 18, 1896. She was born at Rich- mond, during the earliest days of the Confederacy. While Jefferson Davis was & prisoner at Fortress Monroe, she and her mother were with him. Ske' 13 years of age she was taken abroad and left at Karlsruhe. She remained five years and then went to Paris. She spoke French and German. At Beau- programs _with | J. HASKIN. voir she was the constant companion |of her father. Following her father's death she continued writing as & means of support. She was graduated at Karls- ruhe in 1881 and confirmed in 1884. “Daughter of Confederacy” was her title. She died at Narragansett Pier |and was buried in Richmond, Va. Q. Who wrote “Tales from Hoffman"? When was it written?—M. L. A. “Les Contes d’Hoffman,” comic opera, was composed by Jacques Offen- | bach. He worked on it during his last year and considered it his masterpiece. | It was first produced at the Opera Comique, February 10, 1881, and played 101 nights in the first year of its pro- | duction, | Q What is the meaning of the ;nl}ght on the Graham-Paige car?— A. During the early medieval period | of England, France and Germany, the ideals “and standards of the nations | were largely intrusted to the knighthood of the nations to maintain. For this | reason the use of the figure of & knight |as an insignia indicates that the product will be maintained at a high standard | and above reproach. Q. What is lanolin?—L. A. A. Lanolin is wool fat or wool gresse |in & purified condition. It is & sub- | stance consisting chiefly of the esters of cholestrin with certain higher fatty | acids. Prepared commercially from | wool as a yellowish white, unctuous | mass, it is miscible to a certain extent | with water. It is used widely as a basis for ointments. | . Please describe the building pro- | gram at the Vatican City —C. R. | _A. The bullding activities of Pope | Pius XI include & new railroad station, |an electric power station, picture gal lery and other works of lesser impor- | tance. The picture gallery covers proximately one-half of an acre. principal facade, 350 feet long, consists of two floors, each about 35 feet high. Subdivided into large halls, it will house the most famous pictures in the Vati- can collection, which will be grouped according to the various schools. The principal hall will be reserved for works of Raphael. Many other large build- ings are being erected on ground which is not actually part of the Vatican City, but which enjoys the right of extra- territoriality in accordance with Lat- eran treaties. Among these is the new seat of the Congregation Propagands ;‘I(;ie situated on a hill high above me. | Q. Is it true that in some places this Summer the sun cooked the apples the trees?>—E. L. G. ¥ A. One such instance was in Pénn- |Sylvania, where a plant pathologist from State College had on exhibition & collection of partially cooked apples that had been picked from trees in Franklin County. Q. How long is the Pacific Highway? A. The Pacific Highway from Van- couver to the Mexican boundary line south of San Diego is about 1,675 miles in length. Q. What is a “paddy bird”?—F. D, A. Paddy bird is the name given in India to a bird also known as m‘wnd heron. The name is also by whalers to denote the sheathbill. Country Is Divided on Issue ‘The Senate's decision is awaited in the controversy between Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, candidate for the highest congressional honors in Illinois, and Senator Nye, chairman of the com- mittee investigating campaign expenses. Her employment of detectives to seek information about the committee head has stirred up a heated conflict of opin- fon. While her general charges have been denied, there is some tendency to condemn both the committee and the candidate, though each side has its supporters in the resulting debate. “This turning of the tables on Senator Nye, as it were,” in the opinion of the Chattanooga Times, “may mark the be- ginning of a change in the Senate’s at- titude toward rrflmnry campaigns, which are purely party affairs conducted under State laws and with which the Senate can have nothing to do without stretch- ing its power and its function far be- yond originally contemplated limits. The Nye-McCormick episode is not a digni- fied beginning for a Senate reform, but the public will not complain about that. ‘The reform’s the thing.” “If debates over differences in po- litical philosophy are being replaced by & contest in the not exactly high-toned art of getting something on the other fellow,” according to the Baltimore Sun, “it 1s small wonder that it is increasing- ly difficult to get out the vote.” The New Bedford Standard calls it “un- worthy business,” and the Oklahoma City Oklahoman condemns “a spying contest of doubtful propriety.” ~ The Newark Evening News suggests “a case of dog eat dog.” “It marks apparently the end of the age of chivalry in politics, if there ever was one” Herald, adding: “Mrs. McCormick can be just as hard-boiled as her able and hard-boiled father and political tutor. ‘I set the detectives on Senator Nye's trail,’ she says. ‘What is he going to do about it?” And the Senator answers by issuing subpoenas for the detectives to appear before his committee. ‘That's what I am going to do about it says he. And that’s only the beginning of what promises to be most interesting Jousting.” L “Senator Nye and his colleagues shouldn't be angry,” advises the South Bend Tribune. “If thieves and spies have not been assisting them, Mrs, McCor- mick's investigation may disclose that fact. Perhaps Mrs. McCormick is their benefactor.” “Clearly Mrs. McCormick has com- mitted lese majeste,” argues the Seattle Dally Times, “but unhappily for Sen- ator Nye and his committee our codes make no mention of that offense. There seems to be nothing to do until the Senate convenes and opportunity is presented to make a rip-roaring speech. ‘The treason act of Edward III gives as one of the offenses ‘slapping the chancellor, treasurer or King's justices while administering justice.’ If Senator Nye is crafty he might entrap Mrs. Mc- Cormick into committing that act, which nearly six centuries ago was a capiial offense.” “Politics as it is now being played,” in the view of the Fort Worth Record- Telegram, “strongly resembles the age- old game of chess with ‘double check’ slipped in between the original ‘check’ and ‘checkmate.’ The need for ‘double checking’ is rapidly becoming the para- mount issue of all campaigning.” Viewing the matter critically, the Asheville Times holds that “no citizen has e right to institute a private in- vestigation into the work of a jury,” hitherto managed to sidestep this issue rather effectually in their conventions. W With the Massachusetts primaries only a few days away, Mrs. Constance Williams, daughter of the late Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, has written a letter to Eben S. Draper, wet candidate for the Republican senatorial nomina- tion, declaring that his opponent, the dry Willlam M. Butler, was always a bitter political foe of Senator Lodge and that he had caused Senator Lodge to be “treated like & pickpocket” at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 1924, shortly before S n- ator died. Hers is an appeal for old e supporters to vote for agalnst Butler. says the Omaha World-| — | of her father,” dec Of Investigating Candidate and that “a committee of inquiry E’OP' erly appointed by the Senate is, ts general nature. comparable to a gran jury.” The Times believes that “Mrs. McCormick would do better to rest her case upon her declared consciousness of having done no wrong.” The Richmond News Leader believes “she is headed for the anxious bench in the room of the Committee on Privileges and " “It may yet appear by senatorial the Topeka Daily Capi- tal, . 's presump= tion in hiring private sleuths to annoy Senator Nye is not only a violation of senatorial courtesy, but a violation of law.” The Roanoke World-News finds | indications of “a contempt for the Senate that that body will not be apt | to pass over lightly.” The Lynchburg | News comments, “What Senator Nye does ‘about it' now, as Mrs. McCormick slangily calls it, is not of as much in- terest as what the Senate does.” “People are amused to find a woman calling the committee’s bluff,” avers the Lincoln State Journal, while the Wheel- ing Intelligencer maintains that “this very militant lady * * * was only exercising her rights as an American citizen,” and the Worcester Telegram demands “greater sobriety in probing, less recklessness in animadversion, more | reasonableness in procedure on the part of the more enthusiastic Senate investigators.” * ok ok % “Over Chairman Nye and his col- | leagues of the committee,” says the | Cincinnati Times-Star, “we write the cartoonist’s line, ‘No brains' * * Nye says he is ‘more amused than an- noyed,’ but being a member of his committee is really no joke just now. Charity leads one to hope that this is merely the stupidest group of Senate ‘investigators’ who ever got themselves into trouble while trying to make trou= ble for others.” “Mrs. McCormick is unquestionably antagonizing many Senators,” states the Philadelphia Inquirer, “by daring to resent strong-arm injustice, but, so far as the public is concerned, she has plenty of sympathy. She is a good fighter. May she keep it upl!” The | Milwaukee Sentinel is “afraid that | most American citizens will sympathise | with Mrs. McCormick,” an opinion which is shared by the Abiiene Report- er, and the Springfield Union pays the | tribute that her “courage and self-reli- ance command the highest admiration.” | “Unless Tllinois voters possess unique | tempers,” in the judgment of the New | York Sun, “the person who stands to | lose most by the Investigating Commit= | tee's ineptitude in Tllinois is Mrs. Mc- | Cormick’s rival for election as Sen- | ator.” The Sun also lays down the | principle, “The Senate of the United | States is not in the police business; it | cannot go into it, even by proxy, withe out endangering its own dignity.” | Answering the question, “What is | Senator Nye going to do about it?” the | Louisville Times states: “Well, the Sen- ator might employ a few detectives— | provided, of course, he can command |money s freely as Mrs. McCormick | has used it—and set about discovering the affiliations and_methods of Ruth Hanna McCormick. Some persons imag- ine that a good deal might be discov~ | ered that would be interesting, probably |at least as much as Mrs. McCormick | can_discover about the affiliations and | methods of Senator Nye." The Zanes- ville Signal remarks, “The outsider may be pardoned for failing to understand why Mrs. McCormick is making a North Dakota Senator such an outstanding | issue in_an_Illinois campaign.” “Ruth | Hanna McCormick is a true daughter the Raleigh News and Observer. “She not onl; spent $300,000 to secure the senator nomination, but she avows she is spend- ing more money to shadow Senator Nye, hoping to silence him by finding something about him that he will wish to conceal. Senator Nye will not be driven off.” The Charlotte News holds that “nothing she learns about the Sen- ator can change the accusation that | the Nation has laid at her door.” | “Mutual denunciation and recrimina- tion,” according to the Chicago Daily News, “can only confuse 'ho relatively | simp e issue involved in 1~ investiga- |tion of excessive cam expendi= tures.” The Flint Daily ., .i nal points out that “whatever her detactives might find out about Senator Nye's investiga tion would not justily her expendituges