Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1930, Page 38

THE EVENING STAR m&!fiw&m WASHINGTON, D. C.; SUNDAY. ....Beptember 14, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Ne per Company 11 yivania_ A fi:”&i‘.@.mwfi“u‘fi s ; days) . ana’ Bunday’ BidF, ys) per month 36 g 3f s manl the Associated ses, or & better boat in sharp windward work. The regatta is not decided by » single contest. Yesterday's race showed that Enterprise is a marvel in & drift- ing wind and that her commander is capable of getting the utmost out of her. If the conditions in which that race was sailed are repeated, Enter- prise, barring accidents, must win the final decision. ——— Radio and Rum-Running. A Federal grand jury in New York has indicted and Government agents have just arrested a number of men on a charge of operating a bootlegging | fleet, effecting the importation of mil- | ons of dollars’ worth of liquor. The trial of the cases will, it is indicated, dis- close & remarkable series of investiga- tory operations, of a scientific char- acter, more interesting than the out- come of the legal proceedings. Amm( to a representative of the Department of Justice who has been conducting this inquiry, the Govern- ment agents have been on the trail Press. sively entitled all news ais- l" cred- 8ot ton, o éa otherwise er of publication paper erein. Discovery of America. The historical background of the dig- @overy of America is complicated and ©Obscure. The idea that a Genoese sailor mamed Christopher Columbus developed @ queer obsession—obviously contrary to @ll reason and common sense—that the world was round, and was 8o persistent Shat he finally obtained financial back- tng and almost miraculously justified his abstract reasoning, still may linger in the public mind due to antiquated text books. But it probably has not been entertained for years by any com- petent historians. Now a Peruvian professor claims Bave discovered evidence that Columbus had been across the Atlantic before the claims to Ferdinand and Isabells, ac- eording to this historian, he was stating facts instead of theories. And { g 3 £ i e é ; i § 't | 5&5 {r i T E £ g fidsy! | s i ; 5 i R 11 7 % il £.8 5! g F f2 & ; : | ! a § ;E il ! 5 i It | + i | I | | i;‘ ! ez iH | il I Hy i i & g H less & bit of bad luck at the time, one of the most consequential facts of his- tory instead of a mere personal ad- venture. —————— ‘The ruthless hand of Time has done away with what many persons once re- garded as J. Hamilton Lewis’ greatest personality asset. Perhaps its impor- tance was exaggerated. The Lewis whiskers are white instead of pink. ‘They continue tp flourish in public in- terest just the same. et e Enterprise Wins the First. American cheers for the initial vie- tory of the yacht Enterprise in the fourteenth regatta for the America's Cup yesterday were probably somewhat half-hearted. For undoubtedly a sen- timent prevails in this country favora- ble to Sir Thomas Lipton, who is now making his fifth attempt to capture the trophy. This is not like the days of Lord Dunraven’s challenge. That British contender made himself unpop- ular in this country by his querulous insistence upon small technicalities in the measurement of the yachts—a prac- tice that has been discontinued in re- cent years—and by his unsportsmanlike demeanor in general. But Lipton is different. He is personally beloved and his steadfast persistence in trying to “}ift the cup” has won the admiration of the American people. Nevertheless there could not fail to be & prevailing feeling of pride in the performance of Enterprise in her first bout with Shamrock V. She was the perfect yacht from start to finish of the rather tame contest, and she was per- fectly handled. One of the reasons for her selection over Whirlwind, Weeta- moe and Yankee, her rivals for the honor of the cup defense, was that she had proved herself especially clever in light airs. Yesterday she showed this quality from the start, and though the race was not a walkaway, it was & trail- ing mateh from the boom of the start- ing gun. Enterprise rounded the stake boat two minutes shead of Shamrock and finished at the end of the thirty- mile course at least a thousand yards ahead. Thus the score stands one to noth- ing. Monday a race over a triangular course will be sailed, and on Wednes- way and back of this organization for six months. First it was discovered that rum-run- ning operations had been instituted on & large scale on the south shore of Long Island, the scene of previous enterprises of the same kind. Then it was found that the shore contacts of the gang were maintained sys- tematically, the small transport craft being accurately timed to meet the larger ocean-going carriers with pre- cision. This indicated that the small THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, tions Committee In succession to the incumbent whose health is failing. On the other hand, there is a feeling of regret at the departure of Mr. Cram-. ton from the congressionalifield, where he has labored diligently and faithfully according to his lights. In one re. spect particularly has he rendered valu- able service. That is in the eventual enactment of the park bill bearing his name, which provides a broad, system- atic basis for the proper park develop- ment of the Capital and the adjacent territory in the States. In securing the enactment of this law, which required persistent and taxing labor, Mr. Cram- ton earned the thanks of the Capital and of the Nation. In Booth, a Day of Rain. As week followed week during the Summer while the drought was on it seemed as though it never could rain again. Day after day the skies would give faint promise of clouding and then the sun got the better’ of them and dried up all the moisture that might possibly have sent a few drops to the parche’ earth. At last faith in the coming of the rain was almost lost. There were many, indeed, who felt that the time had come when, as the camp D. C, SEPTEMBER 14 SURMOUNTING HINDRANCES BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, Bishop of Washington. ‘When we come to study the lives of those who have ’nmmmd u;dplwu of large usefulness in world we rec- ognize that there is “a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.” How frequently we discover that an original plan or design seems to miscarry and early ambitions come to untimely ends! Few of us in early life can so project ourselves into the future as to see the precise and peculiar place we are to occupy in the scheme of mlnfllo Any study of the lives of those who have made their contribution to life discloses the fact that their at- tainment came after repeated experi- ment, and in some instances ran counter to thelr original desires and designs. Gladstone had in early life a deep-seat~ ed yearning to enter the Christian ministry and with reluctance pursued law as a profession, only to rise to supreme heights as a statesman. Phillips Brooks would follow teaching as a pro- fession, but experience in the Boston Latin Bohool proved disastrous and turned his genius to preaching, Aan ‘,ztut prophet of Citation citation might be that, our meeting song refratn has it, “It Am't|D Gonna Rain No Mo'.” Now it has been proved that clouds can form and the rain can fall just as of yore. Yesterday afforded a demon- :mmmtmammumuuw boats were working on schedule in ac~ cord with the movements of the larger . This suggested constant com- munication by radio between shore and ships. Wireless experts were then en- listed in the research. They “combed” the air systematically until they found source of the was determined three different & certain side of the building. Thén other stations were located, one Island and the other in Man- .- The code messages were mean- being read, and much informa- ¥ 3 in temperament. Having completed his duties in warfare, he managed to es- cape the temptation to utilise fame in politics. s The America’s Cup is described as “old-fashioned.” So is yacht racing, for that matter. In the tendency to revert to ancient sports, a revival of bicycle racing may yet be made possible. —— et ——————— Should a “United States of Europe” Old World shall olaim the political prestige accorded over here to Ohio. ——— A strong sentiment is calling on de- tectives to retire from politics and get back into the story books. —— Representative Cramton's Defeat. Somewhat mixed emotions are caused in Washington by the announcement of the defeat of Representative Louls C. Cramton of Michigan in the pri- maries of Tuesday by the very narrow margin of 102 votes. This was supposed to be an assured seat in Congress, where he has been sitting for nine successive terms, and as a dry he was supposed to be quite secure in the traditionally dry State of Michigan and particularly the dry seventh district. However, it is almost a rule of politics that eventually the long-sitter is ousted. This has happened in Mr. Cramton's case, and the District of Columbis is interested because of the part he has played in its affairs in the past. There is, it must be confessed, a feel- ing of satisfaction on the part of those who regard Mr. Cramton as suthor of one of the most grievous financial flls from which the District is now suffer: ing, the so-called lump-sum appropria- tion of Federal money in Capital support. This evasion, virtual violation, of the statute requiring & fixed ratio of Federal-District money was the work of Mr. Cramton while chairman of the Subcommittee on District Appropria- tions of the House. He has fought for it through repeated conferences, During the last session he was not a member of the conference committee but he was its stout supporter in the long dis- cussion over the lump sum which re- sulted in & compromise forced by the Senate's unylelding insistence upon greater equity to the District. quality of an unusual phenomenon. Rain fell so “easily” that skeptics were confounded. The slanting lines of fall- ing water made a lovely picture. The spattering of the drops on the pave- ment formed a ‘charming pattern. Shower after shower came, and some of them were accompanied by sun, that gal always interesting combination of light and shade. It brought to mind the old saying that “the devil is beating his wife,” for which there is no known origin. People who had forgotten how to safeguard against showers were caught without raincoats and umbrellas and did not seem to mind it, so re- freshing was the novelty of the experi- ence. ‘Then just to make the day a perfect one in respect to reassurance that na- ture is still taking its course, there was & rainbow, not a brilliant one, but bright enough to serve as the arc of promise. ‘The Wefther Buresu has said that it will take at least two months of pretty steady raining throughout the dry area to replenish the wells and sat- urate the sofl to the point of the needs of plant life, so protracted and desic- cating was the drought. Be that as it may, yesterday's contributions, though not the first of the renewed series of precipitations, were heartily welcomed. —_——— Oandidates who have switched from “dry” to “wet” introduce the broken pledge as a plank in the party plat- form. A little rainfall is welcome as a re- We've rent for Uncle Jim once more To come and meet us at the store And try to tell us just what is ‘The trouble with the Nation’s bis— ‘That is to say, if anything; For Uncle Ji 1t not “I think motorists have some rights,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I don't propose to get into any real estate controversy. All I say is that we ought to accommodate the persecuted fiivver by some plan for more parking.” Jud Tunkins says there is a limit to the extent to which you can be kind to animals. Nobody yet has succeeded in taming a moth. None Too Much. They say we haven't any grain To send across the bounding main. It won't stand idle on the shelves, For we can eat it all ourselves. Clash in Art Circles. “Didn't I tell you to smile when you delivered that speech?” asked the di- rector. “I told you it was an absurd speech.” “I remember. But why didn't you smile as directed?” “I was afrald of overdoing it. I could hardly keep from laughing out loud.” “Our ancestors,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “look down on us and possibly smile superciliously at new ideas which cause supercilious efforts to look down on them.” Exit Too Long Deferred. In politics we lose some man ‘Who shows, as. problems double, In what short time some bonehead can Oreate @ lot of trouble. ‘Tell a friend not to gamble,” said Uncle Eben, “and he's lable to take all kinds of tips and fobgit he’s yoh friend—till he goes broke.” ——— et First-Rate Idea. From the Albany Evening News. ‘That man who .ml; 700 pairs stockings probabl Efln where he thit that ve to buy hose for his x:ehum perhaps he oould : Resembles Sarcasm. Prom the Detroit News. ‘That' New York ed that when he was himself on'l gratt o ment would be shorn of many of its most commanding figures. Failure an bitter disappointment have repeatedly marked the tmn%fi:fi in a career lized the genius and added a of high magnitude to the the immortals. John Oliver lve book, ur- his ted ht failures and inf s by step to the attal ment of that which he desired He could not reach the '‘“haven where he would be” without long years of trial and suffe: . What he is to- is the culmination of defeats and 3 "!Ihharfl'gloonlarnl!l unger in Jflul’ heart,” he says. He continues: “Waiting is a wholesome discipline, if only wait- ing one does not fold one's hands and do nothing else except wait. Very slowly and very painfully I learned to put my waiting and my wanting into Senate Committee on Campaign Purity May Now Turn Its Attention to the South BY WILLIAM HARD. Complaints from North Carolina d ‘gennulu and Louisiana indi- Senator Gerald Nr. i North Dakota, would soon turn its at- tention to the Southland. This will be the first occasion, it is said, on which senatorial campaign inquiries in recent days have penetrated into the region mfih of the uunnu .mmdun& w&:: vigor frequently e: north of it. Agents of Senator Nye's committee have already mu&omhd to the com- ts from North Carolina and Ten- nessee and have explored those States in search of election incidents or elec- tion_habits, which would ate toward kno whe tlemen to be elected to the Senate ve been mxl&ed in in New Jer: and Illinois nnsylvania and States in the North and in the Northern West. * %ok x ‘That similar :fin" have made their | o way into Loul is_hinted here, though not ‘That detective work has been done for the committee in North Carolina and in Tennessee is abundantly known. The complaints from North Carolina are grounded on the allegation that large sums of money were imported into the State from New York City in order to compass the recent defeat of Senator Furnifold M. Sim- | pee; mons for the Democratic nomination as Senator to succeed himself and in order to achieve the victory gained over Mr. Simmons by Mr. Josiah Bailey, * ok %k It is thought here that fuel has been he on this fire of suspicion and of investigation in North Carolina b friends of Mr. George M. Pril , the North Carolina Republican nominee for the Senate against Mr. Bailey. The leaders of the Republican national or- have entertained hopes of eating Mr. Bailey with Mr. Pritchard | by’ and of providing country with the :gectuh of & blican Senator from - by four years 1 - publican candidate for the .s':nm from refusing to support Alfred Emanuel Smith for th &:flldmy. might give Mr. Pritchard year a chance to run the Rerubllun percentage of the North Caroliga electorate up from 40 to beyond 50. * ok ok % They were annoyed by not or, at any rate, by hearing, that first investigator sent by the Nye commit- tee into North Carolina was a Demo- cratic ex-secretary of & Southern Democratic_statesman. They felt that a more unflinching inquiry would be made by Republicans such as Senator Porter H. Dale of Vermont and Sen- ator Roscoe C. Patterson of Missouri, who are members of the Nye commit- tee. Calls to those Senators for help have been forwarded to Washington from North Carolina by both Pritchard Republicans and Sim- mons Democrats. The question in- volved is not at all the character of Mr. Balley, but the outside money alleged to have been brought into the ' State on Behalf of his candidacy. * ok k% In Tennessee there is similarly no fl:,','u"" of the character of Mr. Cordell ], the Democratic nominee for the Benate, who is admitted to be one of the most sensitively scrupulous men in American public life. e allegations in Tennessee are with regard to elec- tion-day irregularities in which it is not thought that Mr. Hull had the slightest complicity and in which the perpetrators are thought to have been curlulnl only their own subordinate purposes. That such irregularities occurred on a large scale in certain parts of the State is the burden of ctries which have been carried here by agents who have investigated on the spot. * % % % ‘The case of Mr. Huey P. Long, cratic nominee for the Sen: Louisiana, is in a category again ferent. The charges against Mr. are that his personal habits an methods render him unfit to occupy a Senate seat. He is accused of escapades in_the underworld and of wearing in- sufficient clothing in the course of the discharge of his duties in the upper of- ficial world. He is of ter- Demo- from ait- d | must come days the hands of God. In the meantime, I would do what I could to further the accomplishment of that thing for which 1 waited. 8o when, suddenly, unex- gecudly, the achievement came and the unger was stilled, I was like a man in I could not believe that it We cannot think that this is a unique experience; it is common to most men who have eventually attained what they sought. A friend of mine who throughout his youth found -study and who repeatedly failed in bis classes came suddenly to a realizing sense of his latent gifts, and with fresh application and awakened zeal graduated at the top of his class, and with an entirely new outlook upon life fitted himself for a career that he had never hitherto dreamsd of. It would be interesting to discover how many men and women who have achieved real distinction came to their place of power only after re- peated failure in some other sphere of action. The real secret of their suc- city to refuse to defeat. 'y would not be ‘The application of all this to our experience is pertinent. How frequently do we find that our lons and resolutions meet Now and again do we find on our tongues our devotion " Faith, lt«rona robust, that once sustained an comforted us seems no longer to sup- us. We “lose our grip.” That i e danger point, that is the time when we need to say with the Great Apostle, “None of these things move me.” We cannot live always on the heights. There when shadows fall across our pathway and the buoyancy of hope is no longer ours. Even the sym- thetic counsel of friends is unavail- ing. We do not recall a single religious leader who has been immune to suc periods. They are the testing times and once past and duly evaluated they should mark a fresh advance with added strength. The Great Master himself reckoned with such experiences. Hear Him saying to Peter: “Simon, Satan hath desired to have thee that he may sift thee as wheat, but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fall not; and clear n_of grea added, “Nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou wilt.” Life is a succession of fallures and successes, and rightly ap- the failures themselves may uznf‘ qualifica- - | tions are defective—or delinquent, roups comprising | !in the South. Since business has been e the stirring impulses to our truest and highest attainment. sylvania and Mr. Prank Smith of inols and which provides that the Senate “shall be the judge of the quali- fications of its own meml » It s maintained that Mr. * % kX of an incursion into the cheered have resented the epithet, “Assistant rat,” which has been hurled at him in the North because of his concen- tration to date upon Northern primary elections. Senator Nye, it is ited out, has recently made stro pub- North Dakota and the North only rtant complaints at region and be- trate Brst. i“n%tm invest ‘They contend that his whom he now has a. will bore their wi Bia “impartiniity his own party. investigators, of considerable luppl{. Pt 1 Al pitinacy. siections nd i al el ns ant in all ug:r elections before they con- clude their labors. * % ¥ % It seems probable, indeed, that Sen- ator Nye's ins will be the first of its sort to cover the whole field and br! the whole problem of senatorial campaign inquiries to a head. In New Jersey and, Ivi and Iilinois the supporters of Dwight W. Morrow, James J. Davis and Ruth Hanna Mc- , the Republican nominees for the Senate, have so far been able to turn Mr. Nye's activities in their States into an issue to their own advantage on the ind that those activities have n by the North Dakota Nye.solely mgainst the TeguisrRepub: ye solel regularsRepub- lican . ‘The Non-Partisan League, with which Mr. Nye has been associated, does not much fear Demo- crats in North Dakota, but is naturally in favor of making regular RS UN( ble as - . This theory for the explanation of Mr. Nye's pre-occupation with Re- blican aries has in New Jersey jped Mrs. McCor- tion is anticipated at the present time by current fessional of two to one. It is a theory wi today seems likely nevertheless to be quite upset, as Mr. Nye's investi- gation. to “all country, (Copyright, 1030 P ] Slack Business Has Upset Latin America BY HARDEN COLFAX. Business dtsnulon and political un- rest are linked closely to each other in many parts of the world at present. M{Opll!n'-l in this country have had an_influence in creating conditions which have resulted in numerous changes in government throughout South Americt though they have not been a major factor. The changes have had for their principal object the revision of fiscal policies. ks As a result, the revolutions in South America have been comparatively bloodless. No one has been stood against a wall and shot, as has frequently hap- pened in previous revolutions, although many Americans persist in considering Letin American political changes as comic opera. The struggles in most cases have not even involved the use of firearms. In the first place, firearms | than are not easy to buy and less easy to pay for. The business of financing revolutions has become obsolete, since successful revolutionists are unable to reward their “angeles” adequately for vy financial outlay. * ok k¥ ‘What has happened in most instances, according to reports to government of- ficials, is that when a certain number of citizens became acutely dissatisfied, holders of office were forced out by &o action which might endanger the lives or property of foreigners or arouse an- tagonism in foreign countries. Each side has realized that its suc- cess in office must depend on the growth and pr ity of commerce and trade, and also that it takes money to run every government and that suth funds are avallable only from foreign loans or out of revenues from forel trade. It is this dependence of the Latin American countries on the United States which has made this country & factor in the changes in administration depressed in the United States, this| country naturally has bought less from Latin America. Naturally, revenues of the Bouthern countries fell off and they in turn were able to bu United States. Dep ; | ployment were accordingly intensified. L Many of the Latin American countries have - suff from inflation and sub- ‘sequent. ‘The coffee situa- 1930—PART TWO Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. A brand-new question raised during the past week, when the architect of the Capitol, David Lynn, was asked what the street number of that historic building is, emphasizes the fact that the Capitol is the “zero” point in the Capital City, from which all street nume bering starts. The only address is “The Capitol.” It occupies the site bounded by Pirst street, east and west, and B street, north and south, although the Capitol Grounds are now being ex- tended to occup{r with beautiful land- scaping the entire Plaza between the Capitol and Union Station. The Capitol's exact location would not be lost even if all streets were wiped out, for it is situated in latitude 38 de- grees, 53 minutes and 20.4 seconds north and longitude 77 degrees, 00 minutes and 35.7 seconds west from Greenwich. It fronts east and stands on a plateau 88 feet above the level of b the Potomac River. ‘The southeast corner stone of the original Capitol Building was laid 137 ars ago, on September 18, 1793, by ident Washington. T nriginal buudlxxl‘wu eomple:e;in c!r 1827, lt,d:,he amasingly small cos luding grading of the grounds, alterations and repairs due to the disastrous fire set by the British invaders on August 24, 1814, of 440" Gipitol Bulling ‘and. grounds of tl \pi and groun was given as ::1.500,005. * ¥ X The death of former Representative Frederick G. Bromberg, the other day in Mobile, Ala., the city of his adoption for more than a half-century, where he was loved and venerated as “the Grand Old Man” of the “Gulf City,” marked the passing of the oldest living former member of the National House of Representatives, who left his im- print on national legislation during his h | day. following the Civil War. Mr. Bromberg was born in the State of New York in 1837 and was gradu- ated from Harvard College in 1858. He was elected a tutor in mathematics in Harvard in 1863, which position he re- signed in 1865. He made his home in Mobile in 1866, and there a long and useful life was spent as one of the leading members of the bar. Mr. Bromberg was elected to the Forty-third Congress as a liberal Re- ublican from the first in 1873, While serving in Congress he took an active part in shaping legisla- tion for the improvement of rivers and harbors. He was author of the first na- tional quarantine bill which was passed by the House, but was not reached in the Senate. This legislation resulted in the enactment of the present national quarantine law of the Nation, In 1874 Mr. Bromberg latroduced a bill pro- viding for the establishment of a Bureau of Internal Improvements and he was on the subcommittee which drafted the “Eads Jetties bill” for the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi River. He was one of the organizers of the National Bar Association. Sir Frederick | % Pollock of Oxford, in speaking of Mr. 's particular interest in this Brom| particular legislation said: “The adop- ¥ tion by all of the States of the uniform negotiable instruments was the most important legislation ever ac- complished by the bar of the United | States.” . Bromberg was internatiopally known also as a fellow of the American Geographic Society and of the National Geographic Soclety, and was for many years vice president of the Southern Conference of Unitarian Churches. and was past president of the Alabama Harvard Alumni Association. * ® x X The eritical illness at Mount Alto Hospital of Maj Charles M. Stedman of North Carolina, the “Last Hero of & Long Line,” being the only member of Congress who fought in the confiict be- tween fl’l; Btates, and who is n&: nearly years of age and |oldest member of the House, marks the passing of one of the most picturesque, courteous characters and when aroused one of the most brilliant orators of his day. In a notable speech in the House when Maj, Stedman had reached his eightieth year, Senator Tom Connally of Texas, {hen a member of the House, paid a tribute to the last surviving wearer of the gray as “the rear guard of the ederacy.”. It was one of his puwhtn delights ted out as ey to_be point one ‘Rode with Le:=.” To friends in the major for years has been g: an education in style you should "?5’, Alison's ‘History of Modern Europe. He has undoubtedly added to the circu- lation of that hornbook of his own mneration by this advice. As he goes into retirement his many friends about the Capitol wish that, like Tennyson's Ulysses, he may “find the happy isles and see the great Achilles,” whom he knew. L Representative John W. McCormack of Massachusetts is a student and reader who finds his greatest gratifica- tion as a member of Congress in find- ing some source of interesting and val- uable information and bringing it to the attention of the the land. He is distributing now a5 many coples as he can lay his hands on of a really worth-while book on citizenship, which covers in an in- teresting, alluring way the entire his- tory of this country. It is a training manual of the War Department pre- pared under direction of the Chief of One section of this hook is devoted to great Amer! and their achieve- ments. Included in this list, for ex- ample, is Eli Whitney describes as “a ploneer of modern industry,” and the story runs thus: “A school teacher from Massachu- setts, living in Georgia, in 1788 in- vented a machine called the cotton gin, by use of which a negro could easily clean 300 pounds of cotton a day, demonstrat! lhereb{. as no previous invention had done, the value of ma- chinery replacing or augmentin, manual labor. The whole question of cotton production and cotton manufac- ture was changed through the use o this invention, . parts of the| Stafy, tion is held accountable for this ih the case of eight and perhaps nine coun- tries. Brazil, for a time, with money borrowed from England, was able to “peg” the price of coffee at a high figure. This meant profits to the growers there and in other nations near or below the Equator. As a result they increased their plantings and the pro- duction which followed was far higher demand warranted. Prices have fallen, paper fortunes have been swept away and even government work on roads and buildings been halted, throwing thousands of men out of work. During the last six months the value of the coffee bought by the United States from Brazil alone fell off nearly $50,000,000,* although prices were only about half as high as they were in the 9. Sugar prices also have declined, and this has affected Cuba_ and other countries along the Caribbean Sea in which political un- rest also has manifested itself. In each of these countries the investors of the United States have heavy holdings. * % % % youth of | ALL-AMERICAN HALL OF FAME BY FREDERIC ‘The All-American Hall of Fame has been increased by 3,391 members, ac- cording to the last biennial edition of “Who's Who in America.” Of the new reciplents of this honor, 3,764 are men and 167 are women. In all, the new volume contains the life sketches of 29,704 outstanding men and women of the country, bri the grand total of | Americans” who been included in ithis hall of fame during the past 30 years to 56,463. Of the new members, 864 have achieved distinction in business as pub- lishers, bartkers, manufacturers, and general commercial lines; 707 are edu- cators, 498 clel <n, 308 lawyers, 254 editors, 229 public officials, 216 en- gineers, 205 writers, 157 physicians and surgeons, 131 artists, 99 scientists, 57 architects, 48 Army and Navy officers and 158 miscellaneous.. ‘The average age of these new mem- is 51.17 years and they have had active careers averaging 26.21 years; their average age at marriage X years, and they have an average of 2.1 children. In an effort to get at the educational d of these dist men end women it was found that 49 of them would furnish no data on that subject, 348 were educated in the com- mon schools, 103 :th schools and 106 ded academies ph:: 'fic had_partial coll uates, college_courses, 1,336 have A. B. or similar college de- grees, 615 received masters’ , and 705 were made doctors of pl hy, science, or medicine. Physicians show the highest percent- age of college trai —100 per cent. Educators come next with 98.9 per cent; clergymen are a fraction lower, 98.4 cent, while artists are credited with but 59 per cent. It is pointed out, however, that inlized art training is usually equivalent to a course in college. Value of College Training. A further analysis and comparison makes a strong argument for the value of a college education to those whose achievements entitle them to mention in Whe Census s show were tes, but not com- Alabama district | tic standing personages 1 remaining 95.45 per cent of the popu- lation of the country contributes only widely apart ‘There are only & few, says the who awake, as B; did, to find them were non-graduates g{ and J. HASKIN: 3! 51.17 years, figures with umes it is seen that 4he average all-time age is nlahfly above 50 years. Hence it is apparent that the degree of eminence for inclusion roster of America’s famous is achieved by the majority after the half-century milestone has been . There is food for such speculation as to which is the more to be envied— the artist, who received his laurel wreath at 23, or the writer and clergy= man who had to c oniorlogem beyond the allotted life span of 70 be- fore they attained such recognition. "The Average Marrying Age. The average marriage age of the hew members of the Hall of Fame, 2844 years, is considerably above the ave g‘;fl for !ho' enfll’:fl country, nll.ch%uxh range of marriage om 15 to 65 years. Those ';:emm that n-rfl:gnu conducive to success must admit t the case is not proved for early marriages, since the average Who's Who notable waited 3.48 ¥m on his career at 24.96 of Thete 18 the banker, for instance, who graduates st the age of 21.65, but waits until he is 28.38 before B schooling st 28 course while 28 were grad-|ihe large among famous. Artists show the least tendency toward reproduction, with 1.11 children to the family, while clergymen head the list with 2.86, and bankers come second with 2.51. Writers have an av- erge of 1.47 children. f the 187 women whose names ap- cent, are of 1.2 7 children per family. A the total number of 29,704 nares 48 have ] table shows that 20,1 homes in this & g other extreme. Gandhi Opposition to All-India Congress BY A. G. GARDINER, England's Greatest Liberal Editor. greas galleries of the Capitol 32: wi ad to the difficulties inherent in constitution for India to divislons in the Congress party. * ok kX For s0 astute a man, this naive fession is racticable to his posil The probability is that his abstention from the conference will serve only to emphasize the divisions that 'already exist, especially in Bengal, where rupture between Sen Gupta Sul dra Bose has developed into B oberd Ho <5 oherats wiin the govern re) co-operal 20! - glenp:on the terms offered to Gandhi. The impression prevails that the Indian Congress party will officially urnunud. it is mot able that individual members party may attend the conference. * % % * Homer.( u&l‘orwwrln‘lu the m:-eo-“ operation of may be, hp:-mtn that gain 'lfir::-md the con- ference from the absence of the purely disruptive element. Apart Simionwil 1 ‘powsrgully represen op! wi Indian India, through princes who sent a third of all India, will strong position, and it is understood that they have been negotiationg with the Hindu moderates and are consider favorably a scheme for federa- tion on the lines of the Simon report, ted. gard to the central government. ok % conference in touch with practical issues will be the presence of strong com- mercial interests, both Indian and Bu- ropean. Indian business men are anxious to control the departments of finance and commerce in the central government, and the opinion is exe pressed that British and Indian busi- ness men are not unprepared to acoept a commercial convention ‘as & e~ guard. ‘The ¢hances of a successful lssue to the conference largely depend upon the emphasis laid on the intention to move toward the goal of full, responsible government with all the speed con- sistent with the vast complexity of the problem. If this is done convine uestion like the right to recede the empire bec:mu l.ne\;ely academie. * ‘The choice of the president of the conference is arousing discussion various names have been canvassed. The most obvious choice would be MacDonald, as head of the t is & q;nu"l.:on whether Cacao prices are low despite the de- | his mand from beverage manufacturers and confectioners in country. Cotton prices have dropped to a point where growers say there is no possibility of t. Rubber is at a lower figure t has been for years. In entina the effect of the world wheat situation has keen keenly felt. This is true also of the live stock and frozen meat industries. Since Europe has been depressed Europeans have consumed less beef and mutton and their requirements in this respect are filled largely from ‘Argentina. Hide Ehrlou are down all over the world and e flax situation is unfavorable. fces of non-fer- ’I:.:. shg‘wn‘ a heavy fallinf % rue copper, an . While silver prices have dropped - precedented level. . Y . (Copyrisht, 1930.) This ia anything, not : the : : ! i ‘worth dequate ur:f\ura on the subject of [ ullnd ith certain checks in Te- |50 An important factor in keeping the | BTee are not in any wise to be thanked. - * % The following printed in The Star-of September 11, 1880, refers to an incj : dent in Hawailan his- Hawaiian# tory thlt.dun :e veul dr:; 3 ‘member y _ e Agitation. . T0F by lcans and ropk whose names were once quite -mm to Washingtonians: = Kalakaua of the Hawaiian Is- tha and | Moreno, an in¢ the United States. Moreno was America, like St. John ment bitterly on the enthusiastic wel- was iny Indian extremist