Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1930, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR 7 teen passengers was carried, an average | may give the poet again the chance to With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. 'MONDAY. ....September 15, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 1itp 8t and Pennsyivania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t. jcago Office: Lake Michi; uilding. an Office; 14 Regent Si.. Tondon, n: Rate by Carrier Within the City. ine Star... .. 45¢ per itonth % Eening ane Sundsy 8iai fwhen 4 und; 60c per month aning an ‘ThVe o a5 Aunda ..88¢ per month day S S el 20py | oiJestion madt ai the end of ench month. | Orders may be sent in by mail or .elepncne | Rational 5000 nday’ Siar ¥8) A Rate hy Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, §.m and Sunday.....1yr.S1000:1mo. 88c aile only 1yr. 3600: 1 mo. $h only 1yr. #.00 1mo. 4oc | unday All Other Stat ada 117 and Sunday. iy only .. unday only ...l Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 4o the use for republication of all news ai: es and yr. 812000 1o, 8100 1yi. $8.00: 1mo. 7dc | 137l 85.00; 1mo. %0c| ted in this paper and also the locai 1ews Published herein. All rights of publication of #pecial dispatches herein are also 1eserved —_— Germany's Black Sunday. | The results of yesterday's Reichstag | elections in Germany will bring com- | fort only in Rome and disquiet in the Test of the world. For Fascism, mas- guerading under the title of National| Socialism, won a landslide victory. Adolph Hitler, alien leader of the Ger- man Black Shirts, did not mpllu‘ri control of the Reichstag, but, together with the Communists, the extreme rad- feal forces will have 176 seats out of a | total of 430-0dd parliamentary places, The Fascists rolled up close to 6,000, 000 votes, compared to the paltry 800,- 000 they polled in 1928. They now hold 101 seats as against 12 in the preceding | Reichstag. Hitler, though ineligible | himself to sit in Parliament because | of his Austrian citizenship, has become | overnight one of the most powerful | figures in the Reich. The author of | the notorious Munich “Putsch” of 1923—the frustrated plot against the | young German Republic, fomented with the aid of LudendorZ—has marched | far in seven years. Yesterday, from ev standpoint, | was thus a black Sunday for faction- | rdé=- Sermany. The Hindenburg- Bruening government, which risked a general election for a vindication of its constitutional powers, is not over- thrown. But it has given the malcon- tent population of the Reich an oppor- of more than one hundred and fifty air travelers a day. That the planes were ninety-five per cent on time in thirty-nine thousand miles of flying is an indication of safety, good ad- ministration, modern equipment and skillful pilotage. The patronage figures tell the startling story. It is the public education to flying and its use of the air that, in. the final analysis, is the basis for the steady progress of com- mercial aviation. And the American public is unques- tionably taking to the air. The Pan- American Airways, the largest in the world and a model of efficiency, has brought South America almost to the doorstep of North America. But it hes been enabled to accomplish this great ant and time-saving elements in air travel. Three days in a well appointed plane now takes the place of almos three weeks by boat in the South American trade, and time was never | more valuable than it is now in this fast-traveling clvilization. It is now possible for the American air traveler to go almost anywhere he desires by this modern means of trans- portation. Plane services span the United States and more will g into operation as soon as the demand is shown. The writing is in the sky, and it will not be long before supremacy will rest where it belongs, in the birth- place of the art of fiying. —— Stage Set for Campaign. Seven from tomorrow the voters go o the polis in all the States| except Maine, where the elections have | already taken place, to elect members of the Houze, and in many States Sen- 2tors, Tomorrow is the final primary date, with the people of Massachusetts, New York and Wisconsin nominating | their candidates. Two or three other States nominate by convention. But, to all intents and purposes, the gen- | eral election campaign will be in full | swing after tomorrow. The issues have | been joined. Nationally, the issue is| the Hoover administration and the leg- islative record of the Republican Con- gress on the tariff, ferm relief and a score of other subjects. Locally the parties and their candidates are fight- ing over still other issues, among them prohibition, In New Jersey, however, prohibition, which threatened to be an issue in the coming election, has been effectually eliminated. When Dwight W. Morrow, the Republican candidate for the Sen- ! weeks feat because of the rapidly growing ap- | preciation by the public of the pleas- | tunity to express mistrust in, and bit- | ter dislike of, the regime which has ate, in his opening speech of his cam- | paign for nomination, declared himself | been making so honest and so effec- | for the repee! of the eighteenth amend- tive & bid for German raconstruction | ment and the return of the control of on sound lines and for rehabilitation | liquor traffic to the States, with proper of the Reich's international position. | safeguards for those States which wish Early indications portend that Chan- | to continue prohibition, he took the wet eellor Bruening will be able to rebuild | and dry question out of a campaign in his coalition cabinet and govern, this | which the Democrats had figured they | time with the indispensable aid of the | would gain much because of their sup- Socialists, who refrained from partici- | port of the anti-prohibition side of the pation in the first Bruening adminis- | case. The New Jersey Republican State tration. How long or effectively it will | convention accepted Mr. Morrow's dic- | govern is another question.. The So- |tum, and the platform runs along with clalist remains, after yesterday's cyclone, | the Morrow statement. And now it is the individually strongest party in the reported that Mr. Morrow, who is soon Reichstag, but the Mhl-communlfllm return to New Jersey from Mexico, phalanx henceforward will be an vgly , where he has concluded his work as thorn 1n the side of whatever sort of | American Ambassador, will discuss in- a cabinet attempts to conduct German | dustrial questions, unemployment and affairs at home and abroad. foreign relations in his campaign The Social Democrats polled 8,223,286 | speeches. Mr. Morrow in this shows his votes, but the Fascists and the Com- good political judgment. The world munists between them amassed some- |knows now how he stands with regard thing more than 10,500,000. The Bour- |to the prohibition amendment. He geols parties of the Center and Right, | could add nothing to what he has al- hitherto the bulwark of the Hinden- ready said. 4 burg-Bruening government, ran hope-| Despite his decision to say no more lessly behind. The People’s party of | about prohibition in his present cam- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1930. speak to the multitude, &s in the early days of civilization. Yesterday he re- cited some of his poems, and no one caa tell how many million people heard them. Doubtless a vast audience listenad to the stirring, graceful lines. But, as yesterday’s broadcaster said, | the poet speaking to an unseen audi- | ence, however great it may be, will ! never know when his work fails, and | why. He cannot get the reaction even lof the printed comment upon a mew {poem that is committed to the world | in types. He speaks into the air, and | there is silence afterward. Yet he must know—if he is a true poet he will know —that his words have reached the minds and the hearts of many. It will be even as Masefield said yesterday in closing his introductory remarks, that the very silence into which he speaks gives the impression that his sudience has been listening breathlessly. It is with great delight that such | broadcasts as this of John Masefleld are received. The ear-weary listener, ( besieged with blatant sounds of bombast {in speech and modern mimicry of mu- | sic, rejoices to receive an intellectual offering, especially from one whose | | printed words have often been enjoyed. | This sort of broacasting is indeed a| | worthy use of the radio, which has such { | great possibilities of giving pleasure, or pain, r——— Bromley's Failure. Harold Bromley's fourth ambitious attempt to fly the forty-five hundred miles in & land plane from Japan to the United States has ended in another failure, but it is the kind of failure that connotes skill and courage of the highest sort, and stamps the young Canadian airman as one who ie likely to garner many honors in aviation be- fore he puts away his leather helmet | and goggles. For, like the famous Coste, Bromley turned back when the going became jmossible due to fog and rain and when his gasoline line sprang a leak. Because he had the couiage and skill to reverse his course at the Azores when he was making his first attempt to reach America by air Maj. Coste lived to see the fulfillment of his dreams. Bromley did the same after covering twelve hundred miles on the air trail to the American coast. He wisely decided that discretion was the better part of valor and turned back to land safely near his starting point. And so Bromley lives to try again, if he cares to, and should success eventually be hir it will be because he is the type of fiye: to whom aviation owes its great strides; cautious, skillful and coura- geous, but withal possessing the daring of the ~'neer to whom “cannot” is an unknown word. Streets are torn up. Detours are sig- naled. The Nation's Capital retires to primitive conditions. Some of its most important thoroughfares take on the aspect of & mining camp, e i If Sir Thomas Lipton should win a yacht race he would probably be a little embarrassed. His customary role in the public eye is that of a good loser. possil < el i Clamor for farm relief is misinter- | preted. It is demanding recognition as | the volce of distress rendered audible and no idle campaign cry. Vi L Radio is powerful. Yet the most in- fluential statesman is not invariably the one who can command the largest hook-up. DA SR R New York transportation operates | with a nickel car fare. The receiver should worry. THIS AN BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “If people of inferior intelligence | hear of the Tao, they Jaugh immensely. |t would not be the Tao unless they | as the man with a sore mouth treats laughed at it."—Laotse. ; It is remarkable how many things | and persons people of inferior intelii- gence find to laugh at. Their laughing _material _includes everything and everybody they do not liie. Thus their scope is wide. They keep themselves in remarkably good laughing trim. There has never been a great inven- tion put on the market but that these persons found the time to laugh at it. Mostly they laughed “immens the Chinese philosopher sa: his saying, however, the word car- | ries with it a ring of humor, but in the laughter of the crew of grinners there is never any fun Their laughter is the human subs tute for the bared teeth and draw back lips of the wild animal. They would kil if they dared. x %ok ok They laughed ha! ha! and haw! haw! when the first umbrella appeared on | the streets of London The inventor was called “crazy. favorite word with all persons of in- ferior intelligence. | Yet today millions upon millions of umbrellas in all the countries of the wide, wide world show what fools these mortals be, | Newness is what they eannot stand. | The first European to appear smoking a pipe was dubbed no better than he should be, even if he was a lord. The | appearance of the new drink, tea, led | to_an immediate sttack. | New styles in clothing always induce the pack to chortle mightily, not be- cause the clothes are not good, but simply because they, wonderful ones, have not seen fhem before. They re- sent keenly being shown something they know nothing about. | Yet within a vear they are wearing the same styles themselves and priding | themselves on being very “chic.” Before the World War men who dared appear on the streets of our Eastern cities without hats were the subjects of many stares and often audi- ble comments. They were minding their own business, and committing nothing more helnous than going with- | out & hat. What they did was all right, but the fact that it flouted the conventions of | the Universal Herd was all wrong. To | dare to be different—from us—there | was the rub | Medical advice to many men back from the war to go without hats finally gave th> vogue to an innocent, health- ful fad. Today a man may venture on the streets with or without a hat, just as he pleases, without meeting the grins, | semi-concealed or open, which at one time greeted him at every corner. The person of inferior intelligence just cannot mind his own business. His | eyes are continually open, and his ecars | laughs” in an unpieasant way thinks | lured into laughing at others, but they D THAT see if he can spy on the coming and goings of others. He treats these others his aching tooth, he is always rubbing his t8ngue over it, and then wishing he | had not done it. o What such a man can never see is that the one he laughs at would not be the one he laughs at unless he laughed at_him! There you have a bit of Oriental subtlety not at all difficult to under- stand. * It simply reverses the judge. The joke of it is that “‘the man who he is judging the other, whereas it is much nearer the truth, in many cases, to say that the one or thing laughed at doing the judging. The man who laughs, not being wise enough to know how great, wide and wonderful the world is, childishly im- agines that there is nothing more to know than what he knows. Therefore all things and experiences outside of his knowledge are, to him, £o much foolishness. He is perfectly sincere about it The ignorant peoples of any have never heard of the great m art works of their own country. If you say “Caesar” to a low-grade Italian, he will not have the faintest idea whom | you are talking about, ook ¥ Fven high-grade people at .. race and are are always ashamed of it afferward. The person of inferior intelligence is never ashamed. If anything, he is proud. He may be exposed to the gr est man in the world, but he never catches a bit of his spirit. Pshaw! he know this guy, and who is anyway, that he should be so stuck-up? There is nothing “catching” the superior man to the inferior man, especially in a country such as the United States, where, by some magic alchemy of human nature, all men are supposed to be free and equal. The great mass of men are willing to admire, in the abstract, especially when they get no closer than the “man in the crowd” to the subject of hero worship. But just let them become acquainted with the man, later, they soon proceed to make the memorable discovery that he is in no wise different from them- selves. Familiarity does, indeed, breed the well known contempt * kX % about Our man of inferior intelligance (and it is, in truth, rather a matter of in- telligence than of character, as it some- | times seems) refuses even to see the half dozen good traits of his victim. How does he accomplish this? By the simple expedient of looking for a flaw, and then magnifying it out of all proportion. This gives him his aim, something to laugh at, and at the same time prevents him from seeing, thus admitting, the six good traits. So one may see how easy it is. after | generally {to name the candidate of the party for always pricked up, to learn all he can | 2ll, to be a person of inferior intelli- about. others, especially those whom he | gence. It doesn’t take any brains, but does not like, |only & solid determination to see noth- Just why his continual preoccupation | ing good and to see everything bad. with those he does not care for must| If tiore is nothing bad, it is com- remain one of the mysteries of human- | parativ:lv easy to twist a good trait kind. One—let it be said openly, one | into a bad one. Just refuse to meet the of superior intelligence—might be in-|other half way, on any ground, then clined to think that he would be willing | turn upon him’ for being a ‘“grouch.” to let them alone. Then laugh at him fmmensely. But re- But no, they intrigue him. He is|member, he would not be himself unless forever standing in the front door, to you laughed at him. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS Another scholar in politics with a|trafic in this country is not of recent background comparable to Woodrow | origin, said that as_early as 1 Wilson's or that of Henry Cabot Lodge | fore there was a Nation known as the adds interest as well as atmosphere to | United States of America, the Conti- the 1930 campaign. Dr. Wilbur L. Cross, | nental Congress passed a resolution rec- dean emeritus of the Yale Graduate ommending the passage of laws to pro- School and editor of the Yale Review,| hibit the manufacture of distilled nominated by Connecticut Democrats | liquors. for Governor, s one of America’s lead ing literary critics. A professor, editor,| The “wooden sword” incident, which lecturer, college trustee, university dean, | caused the first fist fight in the House | Shakespeare commentator, author, mem- | of Representatives, is related by A. R. ber of the American Academy of Arts Newsome, secretary of North Carolina's and Letters and a chevalier of thelHistorical Commission, somewhat as Legion of Honor, Dr. Cross, at 68, now, follows. Matthew Lyon, a hot-tem- tilts with the J. Henry Rorabacks Who | pered, uncouth, fairly able Democrat for years have made a practical thing from Vermont, had made himself a of politics in the Nutmeg State. | veritable goad'to the Federalist Con- | % ® w the lamented Stresemann, which, nu- merically slender in the Reichstag, was influential because of its leader's pres- tige, is reduced to virtual impotence. Stresemann’s successor at the foreign office, Dr. Curtius, was re-elected to| the Reichstag, but his power in the | Wilhelmstrasse promises to be of pre- earious tenure and atrophied influence. The world will await with deep anx- fety the true inwardness of the eruption in German politics which the Fascist- Communist upward swing denotes. In| France the result is already analyzed 25 a triumph for the elements of “re- venge.” The Hitlerites and their Com- munist adherents, to say nothing of the Hugenberg Extreme Nationalists, are unblushing apostles of the program which calls for disruption of the treaty i Versailles; disavowal of the Young plan, recovery of Germany's war-lost colonies and other provocative inter- national policies. They oppose any idea of Burcpean federation. They espouse reactionary nationalization schemes for German labor and industry. ‘They openly advocate the dictatorship, a la Mussolini, Doubtless world unrest due to globe- v '’a economic distress and depression p'zoed its role when Germany marched to (he polls. The first-voter element— flaming youth—is said to have plumped | aimost en bioc for the blind redicalism | typified by Pascism and Communism. “The republic at Berlin still lives, But that its life is menaced by the amazing developments of the past twenty-four hours is impossible to question, There was one feature of the German | polling which deserves attention—and emulation —in the United States, Roundly, 90 per cent of the country’s enfranchised electorate of 37,500,000 exercised the priceless privilege of suf- frage. Tt will be interesting to observe how that splendid record matches with | what the enfranchised portion of fhe | American people will do in November. | ———— Soviet statesmanship thinks hard about social equality, but also reserves a few thoughts about red-ink accounts | on the international Jedgers. ———— Taking to the Air in America. | An sxample of how the Uniled States | 15 at last taking its rightful position in | the world of aviation is furniched in the figures just released by the newly | organized New York and Washington air line, which operates planes between the two cities every hour on the hour. In (he past Europe has led the way in the development of commercial flying, but the heavy patronage not only on this new Eastern airway but on the transcontinental, the Western seaboard and the South American lines indicates clearly that America is fast catching up #nd that the Old World should in- | of men and the beauty of women. — rmte———— 3 SHOOTING STARS. paign, Mr. Morrow definitely made a deep impression with his speech last May advocating a return of control of the liquor traffic to the States. In a measure, his speech marked the turn- ing pcint for many persons on this particular issue. Since that time, other candidates for office in other States have said the same thing with varia- tions. The primary campaigns have ' pro- duced wet gains in a number of States. The publicity which has been given these gains has perhaps magnified them out of all proportion. But one thing seems clearer as the weeks pass. If the prohibition question is to become an issue nationally between two political parties in 1932, the Democratic party— despite the dry South—will have the wet side of the fight. Perhaps it would be fairer to call many of the gains “repealer” rather than “wet.” General- ly speaking, the Republicans are still clinging to the dry side, although, as wets have made gains in Michigan, Washington and other States, The Republicans have been split Wide | g0 chum “In these days no statesman | open in Massachusetts in the senatorial | aetyally decices. His opinions are | primary campaign this year, with Wil- | forced on him. liam M. Butler, former Senator, sup- | — porting the eighteenth amendment and| Jud ‘Tunkins says a man who ad- Fben S. Draper running as a wet. The | vertises that he can print something general electicn fn November is likely to | clever every day is first cousin to a gold bring even more definite political | brick racketeer. alignments on the wet and dry issue. | Should the wet Democratic ncminee for | 1., the Senate. Bulkley, win in Ohio, for example, over the dry Senator MeCul- loch, the situation might be vitally | affected. | BY PHILANDER JOHNEON. Drouveht. A steel-blue sky When vapors sometimes meet, And then drift by Amid the cruel heat. A starving stream ‘That limps along its way Where pebbles gleam Beneath the sun’s flerce ray. A moaning cow, Who licks the calf new-bred, And wonders how Her creature shall be fed. A human wife, ‘With lips thin drawn and stern, A baby's life Is all of her concern. Popular Pressure. “Why did you decide to switch and become & wet instead of a dry?” “1 didn't decide,” answered Senator Moscow Art Impression. e heard of Sovietistic ways, I do not understand the stuff, Which seems to claim a statesman’s | praise | with, “Tell rough.” ‘em nothing, treat ‘em ——— One of the new superstitions relates to Labor day. Tt is always expected to afford climatic relief, but has never done so. | The Big Feature Phrase, “Your night club has made enough money to enable you to quit business.” “Oh, yes," answered Ohio Hattie. “Yat the business keeps going.” “No difficulty about that. I have educated a parrot to say ‘Hello, | sucker! R John Masefield Speaking. When the world was younger and when people led simpler lives one of their greatest pleasures was that of 4 listening to poets reciting their verses.| «Ap honest man,” said Hi Ho, the telling of wars and loves, of the heroism | sage of Chinatown, “in order to remain The | such must find his companionships bards spoke to their hearers directly, | among honest people.” in the field, in the great chambers of g palaces. Then, said John Masefield, poet. laureate of England, vesterday, in hie transoceanic broadcast, poetry vas part of the lives of people, and the rapture of hearing beautiful words and lines and inspiring thoughts expressed in the form most effective to stimulate and to be remembered was part of the joy of life. When printing came, said the poet laureate, it was thought to have assured great benefit to the poets, but shortly after the printing press came other | Nothing is impossible in a world where improvements, which complicated life, | iwo cars can obey the parking rules by and with the at first slow and later |3Wapping places every hour swift development of modern facilities T T Valuable Information. My Radio! My Radio! You play me many tricks, Yet of these subjects let me know Tooth paste and politics. “Tain’ no use advisin' anybody not ! to gamble,” sald Uncle Eben. “One! little winner is a bigger advertisement dan fifty thousand losers. r—o—s Dig at Motorists. From the San Prancisco Chronicle. * ok K x The George Washington Bicentennial Commission will soon determine which | portrait of Washington, of the many in | existence, is the best, meaning which bears the closest resemblance to the man himself. Of the 21 artists for| whom Washington sat Gilbert Stuart| is perhaps the best thought of today.| His portrait of Washington in the Bos. tom Athenaeum has been most widely copled of all. Other popular portraits | of the general are those by Charles Willson Peale, Rembrant Peale, John Trumbull, James Sharples and Edward Savage. The portrait of Washington designated the best by the commission’s Portrait Committee, of which Dr. Lei- cester B. Holland is chairman, will have the most extensive poster circulation ever accorded a picture. It will reach every community of the United States and nearly every community of the world, s e Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Ar- kansas gets first honors in the prelim- inaries of the 1932 national presiden- tial sweepstakes. The ringing indo ment given him by his State ccnven- tion may not thunder ac as many reverberations as C velt’s repeal declaration, but it was the first formal indorsemcrt among the rumerous statesmen whose names are heing heralded in connection with the next quadrennial party clash. “The finger of destiny is point>d straight at Arkansas,” the Democrats of thai State heard and joyously believed. * ok ok X Unemployed persons are warned by the Commerce Department against looking to Latin America for jobs, inas- much as the economic situation in not one of those countries is good at this time. In a special bulletin the depart- ment seeks to destroy some myths deemed to be partly responsible for the abit of jobless young men to turn their faces to the sunny republics. “The glamour and romance fostered by novels of adventure concerning life in Central and South America have misled many youths into believing that in that region is to be found a rich and virgin field where & minimum of effort will pro- Guee a maximum of golden returns in the most pleasant of tropical atmos- pheres,” the bulletin comments in ex- ploding the delusion. * ok X % Gov. Huey P. Long, srlf-s(\'led‘ “Kaiser of Louisiana,” is described as| a fantastic showman of huge diamonds tremendous energy and limitless ambi- | tion. At 36 he has led a political re\'u_lt\ which will take him from the magnifi- | | Freighter Due Honor | of “airplane motors and all the other | | impedimenta that goes with an official gressmen. He had had the misfortune ' to be unjustly cashiered during the | Revolution, but soon was_completely vindicated. In the House Roger Gris- wold of Connecticut, repeatedly slan- dered Lyon by sneering references to his “wooden sword,” and Lyon, instead of slapping Griswold's face, spat in it. Denunciations and indecent characteri- zations followed, and Lyon failed of expulsion only because the Federalists could not command a two-thirds vote. Later Griswold attacked Lyon at his desk with a heavy hickory stick. Lyon retorted with a pair of tongs. They clinched, rolled on the floor and were feparated by colleagues. In 1799 the Federalists succeeded in making Lyon a victim of their persecution. He wi arrested, tried, convicted and impr oned for criticism of the Federali President. st | (Copyright, 1930.) ——— In Rescue of Tahiti From the Lincoln Nebraska State Journal | When the steamer Ventura entered the Golden Gate bearing a load of pas- sengers rescued from the Tahiti, which foundered in the Midpacific recently, the town of San Prancisco celebrated | the event with whistles, shouts, the| dropping of many flowers, the droning welcome. But does the Ventura all the honor? When the Tahiti found itself in dan- ger in the heavy sea and called for| help, the Norwegian freighter Peny was first to answer the call. It w reinforced later by the British warship | Veronica. Transfer of passengers could have begun on the Penybryn's arrival, | but when it was learned that the Ven- tura was on its way it was decided that it would be better to wait, if possible, for that ship, since the freighter did not offer passenger accommodations and since waiting was possible as long as the two ships were at hand to ren- der aid if necessary. It was better to wait than to transfer passengers to the freighter and then to the Ventura, since transfers are risky on heavy seas, and the risk would thereby be doubled. So, as o matter of convenience and lux- ury, it was decided to wait as long as the Tahiti’s master deemed prudent for the Ventura. Fifteen hours after the Penybryn hove in sight the Ventura arrived. Pas- sengers were transferred and less than | deserve | | sives have not been able to win the | the presidency in 1932 is definitely on. | the Democratic National Committee all cent executive mansion built under his | three hours later the Tahiti sank. Dur- direction in Baton Rouge to the United | Ing the last few hours residence on the States Senate, where his seat, he pro-| Tahiti was extremely precarious. If the fesses to believe, will be a stepping stone | Penybryn had not been at hand, the ty the presidency. Of the Governor’s|passengers could hardly have been re- mansion, he said to the architects, “I|Strained from taking to the lifeboats. want it built as & miniature White|The success is due largely to the fact House, so when I get to Washington 1[*that the officers retained the confidence | will be amid familiar surroundings.” and there was no The man who received Capt. Lothar de Ia Perriere in green silk pajamas and Maj. Gen. Frank R. McCoy, U. Al in his underwear, usually appears in expensively tailored clothes, but loves to | talk of the days when he wore a hickory | shirt and one-gallus overalls. “My head is bloody, but unbowed,” is his favorite | quotation. | R B i | The States have 175,000 peace offi-| cers—marshals, constables, sheriffs and policemen. The Federal Government has 1,750 prohibition enforcement agents, one to every 100 State peace officers, or one to every 70,000 inhab- itants. That's why G. Aaron Young- of their passenger time when panic worked its havoc. The Ventura made a gallant rescue But the Penybryn had a share in it. It is fine that San Francisco pays tribute to the Ventura in the adopted New York style, but honor is also due the Penybryi,, a lowly freighter. o Good for Schoolboys. Prom the Kalamazoo Gazette, According to beauty experts, black will be one of the most fashionable tints for fingernails this season, The style| will no doubt be popular among the Nation's millions of schoolboy | A A, | | The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. The Democratic row over guberna- torial and senatorial candidates in Mas- sachusetts became still more complex last week when John F. Fitzgerald, “Honey Fitz.” withdrew from the con- test for nomination for Governor, giv- ing ill health as the reason. Daspite the fact that it has generally been be- lieved that Fitzgerald could not défeat Gov. Allen, the Republican nom in the November election, it had been conceded that Fitzgerald would be nominated by the Democrats. His eleventh - hour withdrawal leaves two candidates in the field for the nom- ination, Joseph B. Ely and John J. Cummings. * k% % Mayor James F. Curley of Boston, who has been backing Fitzgerald in the rimary campaign, has come forward with ihe novel suggestion that the Democrats of Massachusetts go ahead and nominate Mr. Fitzgerald and that the nominee withdraw after the pri- mary election. Then the Democratic State Committee will be in a position This suggestion has been violently attacked by Ely and Cum- mings and other Democratic leaders, who insist that Curley is seeking to set himself up as an “overlord” end dictate who shall and who shall not be nominated for office. They say that the voters themselves. are entitled to pick their candidates. Curley has coun- fered by publishing a list of fifty men, any one of whom, he said, could be nomi- nated and elected by the Democrats. His list, of course, does not include the names of Ely and Cummings, to whose nomination he is violently opposed. In the list of fifty put out by Mayor Curley | are half a dozen Republicans, among them Gen. Clarence R, Edwards. PR With Fitzgerald out of the running. it lorks as though Ely may win the noemination Ely is an out-Stater not a member of the Boston democracy. | He is a “Yankee,” too, and not one of the Irish-American Democrats of the Old Bay State. The fact that El; may now win the gubernatorial nomina- tion is complicating the senatorial race | for the Democrats. It has_bee of the Demo nominate all-green” the gubernatorial and senatorial nomi- | nees both Irish-Americans. When ll: appeared that Fil would be the nominee for Governor, the srgument was_advanced that Marcus A. Coolidge of Fitchburg, a “Yankee” should be nominated for the Senate, thus balanc- ing the ticket. If Ely is named for Governor now, are the Democrats to put another Yankee and non-Bostonian at the head of the ticket in the person of Marcus A. Coolidge? With Ely and Coolidge holding the key positions cn the ticket, Boston and the Irish- American democracy of the State would be without representation The primary in Massachusetts comes off tcmorrow. The campaign has been bitterly fought both cn_the Republicax and Democratic side. The Republicans are going to renominate Gov. Allen without much difficulty. But the race for the senatorial nomination has been heated, to say the least, with Willlam M. Butler running as a dry and Eben S. Draper standing cn a wet platform, and Andrew J. “Bossy” Gillis, mayor of Newburyport, providing the comedy. Butler looks to be winner. There are believed to be more dry Republicans in Massachusetts than wet. *® ¥ X X The Democrats insist they have a wonderful chance to win in Massa- chusetts this year, because of the in- dustrial depression and because of the liquor issue, with the Republicans, for part, taking the dry side of stion. If they lose, it will be their own fault, and because of the desire of the Boston democracy to gobble up all the high offices. Sen- ator David I. Walsh has warned his party colleagues that winning elections in Massachusetts over the Republicans is no easy matter. Senator Walsh is; right. The idea that the Democrats can nominate “any one” for the Sen- ate or Governor this year and win, held by some of the local leaders, may get them into trouble. Senator Walsh has been able to win, not because he gets all the Democratic votes, but because | he receives the votes of many inde- pendents and Republicans, and a good bit of the so-called “high brow” vote. Al Smith had much of the same sup- port two years ago in Massachusefts that goes to Walsh, but he carried the State by only some 18,000 votes. e Wisconsin tomorrow stages one of the most interesting primary elections of the year. Young “Phil” La Follette is matched with Gov. Kohler, the bath- tub king, for the Republican nomina- tion for Governor. It is a desperate struggle between the La Follette pro- gressive wing of the G. O. P. and the “stalwarts,” as the regular Republicans are called in the Badger State. If Phil La Follette loses, it will be the first time a La Follette has been defeated at the polls in Wisconsin in more than a quarter of a century. He is the son of the late Senator Robert M. La Follette and brother of the present Senator. “Phil” La Follette is little more than 30 years old. His candidacy for Gov- ernor this year is a desperate expedient of the old La Follette group to win back the control of the State House in Madison ., Since the death of the lat: Senator La Follette and the election of John Blaine to the Senate the progres- Governor. with governorship, although they have twice | tried it. If the younger La Follette | wins the Republican nomination he is | virtually sure of election in November. If he wins, the La Follette progressives will be strongly in the ascendancy again. If he lcses, the progressive organiza- tion will be left weaker than it has been in the past. The regular Republicans are making 4 strong effort to re-elect Gov, Kohler. They hope hy so doing to further weaken the grip of the progres- sives on control of the Republican party and the State machine in Wisconsin, * oK Kok The drive to nominate Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York, for And_just as definitely the attempt of the Southern democracy to prevent the | nomination of the wet Mr. Roosevelt has been launched, with Senator “Joe” Robinson of Arkansas as the probable selection of the Southern dry Demo- crats as the man to head off the New York Governor. The New York Times has undertaken to poll the members of over the country to learn what they think of the statement Gov. Roose- vi. recently made favoring repeal of the eighteenth amendment and_return of liquor control to the States. The r piies of the committeemen and commit- teewomen so far published show that, generally speaking, all those from the North, East and West are favorable to Roosevelt's stand on the liquor ques- tion and to him a: the probable nom- inee of the party in 1932. From the South, however, and a few of the West- ern States come strong dissent, For example, Gov. Richards of South Caro- lina says' flatly in his reply that Roose- velt has eliminated himself from the picture as a presidential candidate by statement on_prohibition. his Oswald West and Scott Ferris, national com- mitteemen from Oregon and Oklahoma take much the same view. But thc great majority of replies have been favorable to the Governor and his stand. What becomes of Al Smith as a possi- ble candidate in this effort of New York democracy to nominate Roosevelt? R Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, ‘ the Republican nominee for Senator in Illinois, has admitted expending a quarter of a million dollars of her own money to win the nomination and that another $50,000 was expended also on | her behalf. Her late husband, Medill McCormick, when he was Senator, voted | ec, |and briefly. | Q. Please describe a bowie knife?— T™.B T ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS * BY FREDERIC Any reader can get the answer to any | question by writing to our_Information | Bureau in Washington, D. C. This offer applies sirictly to information. The bureau cannot give advice on l"‘]r. medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, or undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write your question plain: Give full name and ad dress and inclose 2 cents in coin o stamps for return postage. The reply is sent direct to the inquirer. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Prederic_J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. How many private boats are there in the United States?—W. E. A. There are 243,702 numbered boats listed by the Government. This tab- | ulation inciudes only boats over 16 feet and those under 5 net tons. It does not incorporate craft not capable of going to sea, nor does it include larger boats that come under the registration rule. Q. At what time of year is there the | , sickness?—N. M. S. | The United States Public Health | Service says that the most illness oc- | curs during the months of February and | March, and the least during July and | August. mo: Q. What is King George's full title? | J. H. H. A. The title of the British monarch | is His Most Excellent Majesty George | the Fifth, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and all the British Dominions | Beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the | Faith, Emperor of India. Where did the game of dominoes originate?—T. E. J. | A. Tt originated in Ttaly. Tt was unknown until the eighteenth century The name domino is said to be derived | from the ebony backing which resembles the black cloak called the domino. | tage of the asparagus | ?--V. H. C. About 50 per cent of the aspara- gus raised in the United States is con sumed in the canning industry. | | A." A'bowie knife is one with a strong blade from 10 to 15 inches long, & single edge, with its back straight throughout | most of its length and then curved con- | cavely to the point, to which the edge curves convexly. Q. —J. | A. It lies off the coast of Spain 130 | miles south of Barcclona. It is a port | to which many fruit steamers go. It is | 58 miles in length. The population. ac- | cording to the latest census was 253,000. | Q. What do the letters K. C. C. H. mean under the name of a thirty-sscond | degree_Mason?—G. E. B. A They stand for Knight Command- | er, Court of Honor. Q. Why was the battleship Maine sent to Cuba?—W. H. B." A. The revolt of the Cubans against Spanish misrule in 1895 caused such un- settled conditions in Cuba that the American Government, believing the lives and property of its citizens to be in danger, sent the battleship Maine to Havana on January 24, 1898. The ves- sel was piloted into the harbor by an official pilot of the Spanish governmen and moored to the government bu The customary official and international calls and salutation, were exchanged be- tween the Spanish authorities and the commander of the Maine and there were no indications of the trouble that was to follow. The explosion took place | | Where is the Island of Majorca? | Ww. 0. | half-hour music T J. HASKIN. at 9:40 pm., on the 15th of February. Capt. Chariss Dwight Sigsbee, com- mander of the Maine. was aboard at the time. The explosion resulted in the death of 2 officers and 250 of the crew; 8 of the crew subsequently died of wounds. Q. From what people are the Basques escended?—A. P. A. The Basques are believed to be a fragment, perhaps the only distinct remnant, of the pre-Aryan race or ab- original peopls of Eyrope. Their lan- guage is the only non-Aryan language of Western Europe. Recent investiga- tions indicate conuections with the Bar- bers of North Africa, who are of Ha- mitic stock. Q. Ts it better for a child to tak~ a lesson or an hour lesson?—E. A. The Etude says that the half-hour lesson, or one oniy slightly longer, 8 satisfactory for most pupils. Q. How long did Benadict Arnold sur- e the Revolutionary War>—G. P. D. A. Arnold died June 14, 1801, in Lon- don. Q. What is the other name for the paim of the hand>—N. E. S. A. It is called the thenar. Q. Why are some bullets called dum= dums?—D. E. T. A. The dumdum bullet is a soft-nosed or expanding bullet so named after Dumdum Arsenal, the place near Cal- cutta, India, where it was first made. Its use was prohibited in warfare by The Hague Conference. Q. What Is meant by career and non- career men in the Foreign Service? D. McC. A. The terms career and non-career in reference to the Foreign Service refer respectively to men who have taken up tha Forelgn Service as their profession and to men who are appointed from private life to diplomatic positions. Q. How many farmers hatch their chickens with incubators?—R. J. 8. A. There are about 6,000 commercial hatcheries throughout the country where custom hatching is done for far- However, the Bureau of Animal ry has no figures on the number vidugl farmers who use incuba- atching chicks. The number rs who still use their hens for not very great, since this method tak-s longer and is more expensive when there are any number of eggs to be hatched. Q. Who first had ths idea of colors graduated on a music scale?—S. E. B, A. The Bureau of Standards says that graduation of colors on a musical scal> was first suggested by Sir Izaac Newton and has been followed by & muititude of other: Q Why was the Jarge tract of land !nJ Aénr‘rira given to William Penn? A. The father of William Penn had loaned large sums of money to the British crown, part of which .was paid by the granting of large proprietary interests in the State of New Jersey. As a further liquidation of the debt by a council the 24th of June, 1680, there was granted to William Penn a tract of land in America north of Maryland bounded on the east by the Delaware, on the west limited as was Maryland by New Jersey, northward as far as plantable (this Penn claimed to be three d-grees northward). The tract comprised 300 miles by 150. There was some dispute over the matter but ;:g:l signature was obtained March 14, Fur;her Safeguardsr ilrgedw To Check Hurricane Peril The great destruction following the | hurricane in Santo Domingo has stim- ulated a search for efficient methods by which the damage done by these storms may be reduced. It is pointed out that radio communication and de- | | velopment of Weather Bureau methods | been effoctive in avoiding dis- tress, and increase in study of the sub- ject is advocated as a public duty. “It sometimes seems as if it had been decreed that the sunlit regions about the Caribbean Sea should be the permanent home of turmoil and dis- ster,” says the Zanesville Signal. “This is especially true of the island that is the home of the Dominican Republic. * * * The hurricane is the embodiment of the threat that per- petually hangs over the West Indie: the final curse of the people who live about the lovely Caribbean.” The Co- lumbus Ohio State Journal sees in the storms there ‘destructive powers pe- culiarly their own,” causing the public to “shudder with horror as one is re- ported.” “An equinoctial storm does its devil's dance,” avers the Birmingham News, empkasizing “the great toll in life and property * * * when spiraling winds go howling over the Caribbean Sea and set their teeth in those sea mountains called the Antilles,” where “desolation ensues.” The result is described by that paper as “this latest tragedy of Nature.” The Hamilton (Ontario) Spec- tator declares: “With all our boasted scientific advance, humanity is piti- fully heipless in the face of Nature in an angry mood. The tropical hurri- cane is just as devastating today as ever it was: those who are caught in its path perish. But the advance of civilization can be shown in one way, at least—in the rescue of sufferers. Those who live in safer climes show their gratitude by respopding to the cry of distress. This is task of humanity.” Quoting a Marine Corps aviator, who said of Santo Domingo, “It is as if a giant had crushed the town like a s and then had stirred the pieces with a stick,” the Haverhill Gazette adds: “And the hurricane, awful spawn of the Caribbean, was such a monster. Badore it, beneath it, the works of nn were as futile as the ant hill be- neath your feet, and life, to its might, as trifiing as an insect's existence.” * x Although “there isn't anything the Weather Bureau or anybody else can Jdo to head off the hurricane or to moderate its fury,” the Duluth Herald recognizes that “its nature makes i¥ possible for the Weather Bureau to forecast its coming with great ac- curacy, and even to route its path and send warnings wherever ‘it is booked to go.* Of the effect of this work, the Hartford Times voices the judg- “The bureau has the duty of ha the common | warning vessels and communities i its path, a service which oftentimes saves many lives and much property. Even from the advantage of knowing where it is and where it has been, pre= dicting the future course of a hurri- cane is not always easy. * * * The wissst meteorologist can da no more than state the probabilities.” Recognizing sucezssful efforts “to pred vent ships from sailing or steaming into | the storm zone,” the Fort Wayne News | Sentinel recalls that “in comparatively | recent times, without the advantages of- fered by the sciences. the people on other islands, the sailors at sea, and even the inhabitants of our own Eastern coast would have had little warning of the approach of the hurricane, and would not have heard of Santo Do- mingo's fate for weeks.” “So completely reliable is the service of the Weather Bureau,” states the Lex- | ington Leader, “that shipping is enabled to find safe harbor as a rule or runs around the storm center. The first sign of a hurricane is noted, its force and direction are known, its probable course is marked, and warnings are broadcast, Since the advent of radio communicas tions the shipping of the world has & | position of much greater advantage than | before. Yet it is possible that stormg | may occur in the future such as the | memorable one of 1780, which destroyed | two fleets with all on board while ig | what seemed safe anchorage. Men can do nothing to prevent these disturl ances, but science has done much te | mitigate the evils attendant upon them, | Florida_is not only building against | them, but is now so fully informed | about their movements that in the fu= | ture there will not be the same dam- | aging results should hurricanes strike | the coast.” ok ox The recent storm is ranked by the Belbit Daily News as “one of the major catastrophes of its kind in this hemis | sphere in the present generation,” as a ¢ | calamity which “will mean impoverishe ment for thousands of people.” The Ogden Standard-Examiner declares that “not until disaster such as this destruc= |tion presents itself do we realize how kindly Nature deals with this part of the world,” and the Toronto Daily Star comments, “Every now and then we are 1!(‘mlnd«d by far-away disasters that | one of the many advantages of life here |is the freedom from cyclonic and seis= mic disturbances.” The danger of flimsy construction in | places subject to such visitations is pointed out by the Charlotte Observer, i‘umle the Providence Bulletin, observin; that the stricken city “is a tangle of rui and wreckage,” belicves that “the dams age in the back country must be propor- | tionately great and the sufferings of the poor natives terrible.” That paper con- tinues, “Fortunately modern science, if it cannot prevent the mighty disturb- atching’ the tempest by means of 't:,,gmpmc e Thdto ‘reportaand | 8nce of the elements, can at least mitie fl::e the ‘l:lvfl‘l!‘y ;)f its aftermath by use of the airplane to rush suppli and relief.” B i | “Their misfortunes stir into action those humanitarian impulses which | prove, in time of disaster, the kinship of peoples,” says the Oakland Tribune. amount expended now for the nomina- tion of Mrs. McCormick. Only seven of the Senators who voted eleven years ago to seat Newberry and at the same time censure him are in the Senate today. The decision of Senator Harry B, Hawes of Missouri not to be a candi- date to succeed himself, announced | at the Missouri Democratic State Con- vention, has given rise to conjecture already as to his probable successor. Charles M Hay, “bone dry” and a can- didate for the Senate in 1928, may get into the race. If he does, he is likely to draw former Senator James A. Reed | into the confiict. Reed is a wet and | bitter political enemy of Hay. It is | not likely Senator Reed will view with The San Antonio Express makes the suggestion as to remedies: “Meteoro- | logical records show that severe hurri- |canes oceur in the West Indies every two or three years. It therefore would ,b:r:‘el'l:w .mt“"ll‘or mlin:-llnln[ a few e_transy Planes, equipped for re- lief work fi?’c-flhbenl:qal‘rrfiufl Te~ glons. Such ships could be employed by the Red Cross and other organiza- | tions for various tasks, and this service would help promote a better under- standing among the New World's peoples.™ “It would seem,” advises the Fort cquanimity an effort on the part of the Hay people to nominate Hay for the Senate again. Senator Hawes' term | Worth Record-Telegram, “that the nate ural reaction of a race of superpro- ducers, such as Americans indubitably of existence the poet fell from his place Detective Business Booms. | (05 acgictant Attorney General, char- Not So Common in Texas, | decade ago for the Senate resolution |of office ends two years hence. His | are, would need but one disaster of the its pace if it hopes fo retain alien of of teacher and mental and moral leader, | From the Boston ’rnnumtl,l i st e n imme: udi- ‘With candidates as well as inguisilors e ged b e i hiring detectives, it looks as though one X business was safe from the prevailing depression. ——— 72 Mr. Mescheld, acterized the national prohibition force | | as “pitifully inadequate” and appealed |From the Charleston (8. C.) Evening Post to the States for the co-operation of| Texas evidently has not as many of their t- | the “common people” as Ma and Jim officers. Y uist, point- | ing out the movement m the gl"fl\lm’ | Ferguson thought. condemning Truman H, Newberry, then Senator from Michigan, because there nad been e:rendafl on behalf of New- berry’s candidacy the sum of $195,000, more tba» 31MB,000 less than the withdrawal from the Senate will be a | magnitude of the present one matter of personal regret to his col- lan immediate mu?pm:n: %’} t'geukedm leagues. No man warmer friends |Cross with a reserve fund that would in the upper house than has the Mlunun succor to the yictims of what. from M&uurx. ever the future might produce.”