Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1930, Page 30

THE {EVENING STA ‘With_Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.....September 21, 1830 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor Yhe Evening Star Nt'l;:per Company g 053 2 116y 8. "SRd Fennevivania, Ave N Office. 110 East <and &t ‘Bullding. Lon icago 8§ e: Lake Hichll‘n et e T Carrier Within the City. + . . 45¢ per wmonth 80c per month "m per month <8¢ ¢ the end of each month. t in by mall or ielephcne Raie by B R Rate by Mail—Pasable in Advance. ryland and Virginta. §.fly and Sunday.. fié‘ aily only .. junday only Tyr, $10.00: 1 mo.. 135 '36.00: § mo. 1 $4.00 1 mo.. All Other States and Canada, | fi-fly and Sunday. .} vr., $12.00: 1 1:0., 81 a o only 1yr. 88 indas only iy 88 Member of the Associated Press. e, Associated Press is exclysivels entitied o the use for republication of ail news ais- patenes credited to it or not Stherwi d! ted in this pape; publisned herein, "All ¢ 1 publication of special dispatcheés herein are aiso reserved —_— The New School Year. The public school year which opens tomorrow finds completed construction providing additional space for 760 new puplls at the Park View School and the Buchanan School; the new A. J. Bowen Schiool replaces an abandoned building, while a much-needed combina- tion assembly hall and gymnastum has been added to the congested Eaton School in Cleveland Park. But as en- rollment figures this Fall are expected to exceed the peak enrollment figures of last year by some twelve hundred, and as Congress failed to provide addi- tional teacher personnel, except for two specifically designated schools, one of which will not open untll February, there is small hope seen for reducing the congestion that has beset the school system since the war, On the othn' hand, congressional meddling with edu- cational policies in the schools, as ex- emplified in the new kindergarten pol- icy, will undoubtedly add to the dim- culties of school officlals in providing sufficient teacher personnel to reduce the size of already large classes. Con- & human while glued to Mother Earth, Daytona next Winter is to be the scene of' America’s attempt to regain the title. Peter de Paolo and Harlan Fengley two veteran aces of the speed- way, afe building the car. The two motors with which it will be powered have already been tested. They are of twelve cylinders each and develop twenty-four hundred horsepower. The chassis has not yet been constructed, but the two drivers hope that by December the complete car will be assembled. More than twice the horsepower of Maj. Segrave'’s Golden Arrow, the American machine will be buflt for the almost unbelievable speed of three hundred miles an hour, The trials wil take place in February when beach condi. tions are propitious. The race against time has cost many lives, but 1t cannot be sald that | sclentific data of extreme value have not beeni obtained, and it seems that man must always make sacrifices in his search for knowledge, especially in the realm of high speed, whether it is on the water, in the air or on the earth. Frank Lockhart and Maj. Segrave have departed this world because of their experiments in velocity and many others of lesser fame have preceded them. But the insatiable search for knowledge will continue. Tires, wheels, engines, chassis and all component parts of an automobile will be’ subjected to the severest possible tests by those who are determined to learn the maximum speed that can be attained in a man-made contrivance, and from the experiments will come perhaps death, but certainly | information which can be used to pro- vide great benefits for civilization. R Mussolini's Private Army. If the League of Nations at the cur- rent Assembly in Geneva, or at a later session of the world's greatest debating THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, R stands as the greatest ever attained byfl.reperh»l-llwron'. Maybe they see things only from the exterior point of view and not from that of the occu- pants. Certainly they like columns for the outer ornamentation of the build- ings they plan. So did the Greeks and the Romans in their structural works. | It must be admitted that colonnades | are not favored in the designing of fac- ‘tories and private office bulldings. But a public office construction is something more ‘than a mere workshop. It is & monument as well, as a utility. Some- thing must be conceded to the eyes of the beholders as well as to the eyes of the occupants. The two structures mentioned hap- pen to be those of all the Washington public bulldings that, with the possible | exception of the old Pension Office, have been most criticized by architects and even by non-professional observers. Perhaps in their interior arrangements they have merits beyond those of pos- sible successors. But assuredly they do not add to the glory of Washington, and from the esthetic viewpoint the | replacement of the one and the re- modeling of the other will be hailed with joy by the great majority of people. ———— Another Taxicab Evil, of the District, is reported to be quite upset the names used by some of Washington's newly organized taxi con- cerns. Such titles as “Ride With Me,” “Forget Me Not,” “Amos and Andy” and others have offended the genial inspector’s sense of what is fitting and proper for the National Capital. And Inspector Harrington would do some- thing about it, and that quickly. In fact, he is considering asking the Com- missioners for & board of censorship, The inspector’s perturbation is clearly the result of the chaotic taxi situation in Washington, with some three thou- sand cabs plying the streets and ap- soclety, comes to grips with land dis- armament, one wonders how European statesmen are going to deal with Mus- solini's Black Shirts. In & remarkable dispatch from Rome, the Associated Press has just described the dimensions and purposes of that amazing military organization. On its face it eonstitutes nothing more or less than the dictator’s private army, owning allegiance to none but him, and yleld- parently no means of enforcing regu- lations on any of them. His feelings are shared by many Washingtonians. But the residents of this community 80 even further than the hack inspec- tor, They object to the colors used on many of these taxicabs. Like the names on Pullman cars which defy pronuncia- tion, the colors on cabs are an offense. Of course, if the colors and the names on public vehicles could be harmonized there might be some sense to it. For ditions will vary with the different lo- | ing literally blind obecde::™® to his wishes | instance, the gaudy purple cabs might calities. In some there will be room to spare, in others the overcrowding will be acute. ‘The new additions to the Park View Bchool, providing fifteen new rooms and increasing the capacity of this institu- tlon by 600 “sittings,” should bring woouf the permanent abandonment in that location of the five portable school buildings that now occupy playground space across the street from the main bullding. The policy of the Board of Education in regard to these portables will be watched with interest. They should be permanently abandoned, in- stead of being stored or immediately transferred to some other section. As long as these unsatisfactory bulldings are kept avallable for use, their replace- ment by permanent bulldings will be delayed. Since the war they have been shifted about continually from one place to anothér and, despite Repre- sentafive Simmons’ threat that these “propaganda buildings” will be kept in use until the eity stops growing, the reasonable view of the matter is that an adequate and consistent building program, anticipating future growth of population in outlying sections and en- larging factlities elsewhere, would lead to the permanent abandonment of a type of bullding unsuitable for con- tinued use and, in some respects, haz- ardous to the puplls forced into them. Instead of providing new teachers for the elementary school system—and more teachérs are needed—Congress, or more properly the conferees, decided on the expedient of transferring kindergarten teachers, of whom, they decided, there ‘were too many, to the lower grade posi- tions. As originally interpreted, this move was seen as giving the elementary grades the seventy-odd additional teach- ers that would come from the kinder- garten system. Instead, however, the kin- dergarten teachers are being used merely to fill vacancies occurring in the grades, ‘The result is a complete fallure by Con- gress to supply the growing demand for more teachers in one department of the schools, while drastically reducing the | umber in another department. I The school year now beginning will witness the most encouraging progress in school building since the so-called “five-year program” was adopted, Thir- ' teen separate projects will get under way. The largest is the new Theodore Roosevelt High School, to replace the ! Business High School, and others in- | clude the four-room “extensible” type ©of buildings intended to eliminate port- | sbles in neighborhoods that ordinarily | would not justify permanent construc- tion. The public school system has been laboring for many years to catch up with the demands of the new Washing- ton. Within the course of the next few years school facilities should be provided that will anticipate the greater demands of an increased population by exceeding current requirements. Not until then will the schools be able to reach that degree of efficiency that parents expect and demand as a modern right. - ‘While he misses the yachting cup he coveted, Sir Thomas Lipton may still be congratulated on the fact that his fame and prosperity are still signalized by the tea cup. | e - The Land Speed Record. | An ambitious effort is now ‘under way to regain for America the num-f mobile speed record which has changed hands 50 often during the past few vears with the English most per-| eistent in seeking to retain it. Pisst, Maj. Campbell, a Britisher, set the mark around two hundred miles an hour. Closely on that followed Ray Keech with his gigantic triplex, who| boosted 1t to two hundred and seven miles an hour, This was the machine which later killed Lee Bible, an un- known race driver, who attempted to better Keech's mark. Then came Maj. Sir Henry Segrave on his triumphant voyage to America with what later turned out to be the fastest automobile ever or commands. Italy, or spokesmgn of the Italian government at a disdymament confer- ence, might agree to reduce or limit the national military establishment—the army that has taken the oath to King Victor Emmanuel. Such a commitment would apparently have no reference to or impose any obligations upon the Black Bhirt leglons of Mussolinl. They are a power unto themselves, or, rather, unto him. ‘There are 363,465 Black Shirts for- mally identified with the Fascist mili- tary branch. The party’s grand coun- cll—an agency wholly disconnected with the Italian government—has just mapped out a ten-year program, the purpose of which is to raise the Fascist army to & peak of emergency and fighting effi- clency unparalleled in Europe. A regu- lar “reserve corps” is being founded. To it will be eligible all officers who wokp-n)n the march on Rome in the Fall of 1922. It is the determina- tion of the Fascists to weed out “old” timher and give places of command to youriger men. . well assume the name of the “Sweet Violet Company” or the cream-colored ones the “Lily Transportation Company.” These names harmonizing with the colors might remove some of the annoy- ance that is caused by & prospective customer being unable to tell until a cab has passed whether it was a lavender “You and ‘Me and Lizzle” or a purple “Let Me Take You Home.” If the scheme was adopted, one glance would be sufficient and the hackers might profit immeasurably. Oh, well, even if the plan is not put into opera-~ tion, this is just one more thing for Washingtonians to bear! ———. Boviet government imposes stringent economies that bring its populace to the verge of penury. Yet it is accused of indulging in wild speculation in the Chicago wheat pit, where speculation is regarded as a game that only unlim- ited capital can afford to play. The prosperity of a country is judged by the family market basket as well as the stock market. The Prench work Black Shirt officers’ training schools are to be established, There is & nom- inal liaison between the Fascist forces and the regular Italian Army. Black Bhirt officers participated in the Sum- mer maneuvers of the King’s troops in the Apennines. But Gen. Teruzzi, com- mander in chief of the Fascist militia, is responsible only to Premier Musso- lini. The program to be carried out under Gen. Teruzzi's direction between now and 1940 provides for systematie, comprehensive” training for all grades of the clvilian community, to the end that “our forces will constitute a for- midable garrison, on which the nation can count in whatever emergency arises.” Mussolini will stand for no non- sense among his Black Shirt war- riors. They must be whole-hog Fascists. Wavering spirits will be ejected on the first sign of backsliding or lukewarm- ness. Only those willing to swear to |follow 11 Duce and whatever orders ne issues can Tetain their places in his army. As the ultra-Fascist newspaper L'Impero exclaims the top of its front page every day: “Mussolini is al- ways right!” The Black Shirts—they are called Camica Nere in Italy—out- number the regular army by roundly 130,000 men. They drill once & week, and for several wecks at & time at an- nual periods. Numerically and politically the Fascist army is a nut which Europe will find it extremely hard to crack if and when |land disarmament “over there” is seri- | ously tackled. B Germany has an abundance of philosophers. History reveals very few instances in which & professional philosopher was of much use in a political crisis. Differing Architectural Views. Never was a public bullding erected that pleased everybody in design. Prob- ably there were Greek critics of the Parthenon. Certainly there are crities of much of the large construction of modern times. The skyscrapers of New York, towering for scores of stories, are condemned with as much sincerity and emphasis as they are praised by thelr{ admirers. The fact simply is that there is no universal type of building design hard, save their m and A the | majority of cases invést only in cer- | tainties. Individual thrift is a great national asset. ey An epidemic of so-called bolshevism would mean & new kind of world war, worse than the one from which hu- | manity is only beginning to recover. ——— A constitutional amendment to sup- press racketeering might be suggested, but it would probably be even harder to enforce than the eighteenth amendment. —— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Mendacious Intruder. When Hard Luck whispers in your ear A story grimly new, Brace up, good friend, and be of cheer— | Perhaps it isn't true, They say the songs have all been sung And friendships are but few. | They've sald it since the world was | young. It never proved quite true. In spite of every threat of il ‘That darkly comes to view, We always find this comfort still— Perhaps it isn't true, Throwing a Shadow. “What did you say to that detective when you found he was shadowing you?” “It was on one of those hot days,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I told him that if he must shadow I wished he would get himself an umbrella and throw a shadow that might be some comfort.” Jud Tunkins says everybody ought to have two automobiles—if he can afford them and has the right kind of a patient disposition, The Need of Leadership. Dictators cheerfully hold sway. The populace does not grow cross. “Just call him what you like,” men say, “If he cam prove a Real Boss.” Advantage of the Plain Citizen, “Why don't you run for office?” “Why should I be criticised for my opinions,” said Miss Cayenne, “when that all approve. Just now an evidence of this disposi- tion to differ on the score of archi- | tectural artistry and of practical utility in public buildings is offered by an | outspoken eriticlsm uttered at a meet- ing of one of the local citizens’ associa- tions. ‘The critic, addressing his fellow citizens, declared that the columns feature of the newer bulldings arising in Washington for the housing of Gov- érnment offices, in fact-keep the light ! from the workers and serve principally as pigeon roosts. He protested the demolition of the old Post Office De- partment structure, which is to follow immediately upon the construction of built. And Sir Henry, who has since met a most untimely death in setting a new world mark for the water, piloted his huge one-thousand horsepower crea- tion over. the sands of Daytona Beach at more than two hundred and thirty- ‘one miles an hour, the speed that now its successor, and also, despite the ap- proval of the Commission of Fine Arts, | the remodeling of the State Depart- ment.~ Both of these office buildings, he which form, to some, such an attractive, 50 many people will be perfectly lovely to me in the hope that I will decide to vote for one of their relations.” “Every public leader,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “should be compelled to be & horseman. Before undertaking to manage merr he should at least be able to prove that he can manage a “horse."” Increased Toil. I work this dial disc with patience slow; My time—I feel its loss each day— anew, On the phone surely go For all the extra work I have to do. pay Toll I should D. C, SEPTEMBER 21, MEMORY BY THE RIGHT R!V JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, Bishop of I have sometimes thought that one of the divinest gifts we have is memory. When the Master was about to leave His disciples, He promised them Iflu gifrt of the Holy Spirl, saying, “He will bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have saild unto you.” He could confer upon His disciples no ‘greater gift. “My mind to me & king- dom is,” said one who was living upon the riches he had stored up through long experience, reading and observa- tion. As we grow more mature memory becomes -a finer treasure house. Trus we may, along with blessed and hal- lowed experiences, recall those that were touched with bitterness. . There scars that even time does not heal, but even the scars, the result of bitter dis- appointments, have their value. We would not if we could efface the mem- ories that are associated with those whom we have loved and lost awhile. They live forever with us, even like a “cloud of witnesses” about our path. It was this the poet had In mind when he wrote: “Forever near us, though unseen, The dear immortal spirits tread, For all the boundless universe Is life, there are no dead.” Joseph Harrington, hack inspector | of our King life, and more 80 as the do we rem! We visit the scenes even where the old landmarks are removed, the very at- mosphere is redolent of personalities and associations that we treasure as the cheicest of life's experience. “How dear to my heart are the gcenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.” Many of us are saved from serious mistakes and follies that leave bitter- ness in their wake by the memory of days when we felt the loving caress of one wi we have long since lost, but whose glowing influence still persists. We read some time ago of one who had gained all that wealth and in- creased luxuries could add to life, who on his fiftieth birthday secretly stole ‘“Yfio?ul;hwz ;‘he ulldh e(-fim where he ‘was born, that he mi ve again the homely scenes of hl'l boyhood. The world had hardened and disfllusioned him, he had come to know so much that ‘was superficial and artificial in its ways that he yearned for renewed contact with those scenes where kinships and m:n‘fli;n‘l.gs lwe}-e real and love was with- ou ulation. The experience gave him a new impulse to set his l\f)u:‘lfl order, gave him new determination to live the years that remained in ways that were sound and wholesome and deeply satisfying. Memory proved his salvation. He was literally born again through contact with the things of the past. It would prove a wholesome ex- are | easily met. tedly in la years multiply, | min t of the past. Washington. perience to many of us to turn periodl- cally to scenes where life was real, where all its impulses were born of motives that were pure and undesigned. He is poor indeed who has no such sacred spots to which to turn for re- freshment and inspiration. ‘The color and glamour of new environ- ments can never adequately compen= sate us for ‘the loss of the old. We miay have more of and of the so-called comforts of lifé, and these we will not deny ourselves, but they will be- rendered more. and. satis- fying by contact with other days when our ways were simple and our tastes Thus m serves. its large purpose, preserving to us the most recious and compensating things of life. One of the 'g:uwn -of modern scientists tells us t he holds today as a precious legacy of the past the memory of a simple peasant home, to- mn with the homely precepts taught at his mother's knee. It has been repeatedly said that a man who treas- ur”l o “Mm :Iht‘;:d’zgodthlun e A wmn1 long e things of ip we link those of friendship. To many of us the list is growing th! and it is hard to supplement it with new-found associates. ‘e live over the days of the past and keep sacred cer- tain anniversaries, associating wif them certain personalities that left an ineffaceable impression on our plastic ds. While touched with sorrow, these are memories that we would not Ipln with if we could. Thus the more mature years are rendered richer and better for what we have experienced and for the fellowship we have enjoyed. Some people have a capacity for re- membering pleasant things, things that enrich and ennoble character. They will not give place to evil thoughts; they refuse to cherish the unkind and ungenerous experiences of life. They are happler for it; they are not given to morbid ways of inf fon. A great collector of pictures once saig to me: “I never buy a picture that - trays that which is cruel or sad. There is enough of that in real life, and I do not wish to be reminded of it in my home.” He was a wise man. Neither in our homes nor in our memories is it profitable to preserve that which speaks of life's tragedies. There are sorrows, bitternesses, that are truly sacred; these we will hold and keep secret in our heart of hearts. There are experiences that witness to disappointment and disillu- sionment that we will carry with us to the end of the way. They were undis- blessings, in that they taught us lessons of great and lasting value, and we are the better for them. Let us put a text at the end of this little medita- tion, a text that has real value: “What- soever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are Jjust, whatsoever things are pure, what- soever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, think on | these things.” Party Line-Up on the Prohibition Issue Now in Progres BY WILLIAM HARD. The Democratic party in its national situ convention in 1932 will adopt a cam- paign platform plank tinged or satu- rated with wetness; and the Anti-Sa- loon League is already, in effect, out for Herbert Hoover for 1932 renomination and re-election. These are the deduc- tions thought here to be irresistibly ap- parent in events coming to their cli- max at this week end. In the following States the Demo- cratic local State organizations are de- clared here by authoritative Democratic observers to have committed themselves, either by local platforn adoption ” or by effective internal understanding to the repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment: . ; In New England—New Ham Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Connecticut. In the Middle Atlantic region—New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. In the border region—Delaware, Maryland. In the Central Lake region—Michi- gan, Illinois, Wisconsin. In the prairie region—Iowa, Minne- sota, North Dakota. In the mountain region—Montana, Nevada. On the Pacific Slope—Washington. * ok ok o In some of these instances the local platform plank has not yet been adopted, but is inevitably imminent. In some instances the call has been, or will be, rather for the submission to the States of an amendment revising the eighteenth amendment than for out- right repeal of the amendment, but the Mere to be in reality identical. In an instance or two the revelation of opin- jon has not been explicit, but that the opinion is, in fact, wet is undoubted. ire, land, All the States mentioned are expected, in the next Democratic National Con- vention to have delegates emphatically jnclined toward the amendment repeal idea. Their delegates will number 494. The total number of delegates in the convention will be 1100. A majority will be 851, To get a wet plank, the 494 delegates from the States mentioned will need to add only 57 delegates to their ranks in order to have a major- ity and victory. * ok kX irgy-eight of these 57 they can prgm Dggk up from the “Territories,” which comprise the District of Colum- bia, the Virgin Islands, Porto Rico, the Canal Zone, Alaska, Hawail and the Philippines. These “Territories” in both party conventions are much influenced by b{a party national organization, and the Democratic _B;:cy national organi- zation 15 wet. States mentioned, plus the “Territories,” would bring the total wet vote in the next Democratic National Convention to 532. There would remain then on!’y l‘t; to get in order to arrive at a majority. Local Democratic wet spots in domi- nantly’ dry States, such as Indiana, in which this year several Democratic can- didates for Congress are running wet, might together furnish the 19. There wlllf probably also be some wet delegates in the convention out of even the solid South from the States of Louisiana and Florida. Moreover, the whole 19 might be derived from the one State of Ohio, which will have 48 delegates and which will undoubtedly in the next Democratic convention be strongly promoti a candidacy for the presidential nomina- tion by Robert J. Buckley, wet, if he succeeds, this November, in beating Ros- coe C. McCulloch, Republican dry, for election from Ohio to the United States Senate. ke ocrats all over the country are begglr: strong hopes and efforts toward Mr. !u‘klty, He has already captivated the party imagination. He is, in a way, the Democratic Dwight W. Morrow. He is a man of highly superior personal and professional reputat whose wet~ ness is another rainbow of respecta- blity on the shoulder of the wet cause. He further, as a Westerner, is remote from the New York odor and the Tam- many odor, which causes so many Southern Democrats and so many Western potential Democratic adherents to allege a moral disgust and recoil. He has thus a certain possible political advantage over Gov. Franklin D. Roose- velt of New York, who otherwise is by far at this time the outstanding Demo- cra presidential nomination prob- ability. * ok % % The votes of the delegates from Ohio and also from other States in the next Democratic National ‘Convention will be influenced additionally by the contem- plation of the fact that notable Demo- cratic presidential timber satisfactory to the e: measurers and graders of “You gotta show some interest in helpin' yohself,” sald Uncle Eben. “In holds, are bciter adapted to service than the new design of public structures. ‘Well, there you arel The architects haulln’ waten” addition to prayin’ foh rain I has got out de mule an' de buckets and is busy 4 the prohibition organization is scarce. Mr, Owen D. Young of New York, who hovers in the background of Gov. Roosevelt. as the Democra 's tic test A . St S S timents thus revealed are calculated | .| tions. for the 1932 Campaign sons which included l{mp-thy with Mr. | Smith’s eriticisms of the prohibition ation. Even §Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, a dry and the only remaining Democrat really im- portantly mentioned at the moment for the next Democratic presidential nomi- nation, was bitterly fought this year by prohibition organizations in his State during his campaign for renomination to the Senate on the ground that he ran with Mr. Smith on the Democratic national ticket of 1928 and that, so nter sk et 5 o gioss o ek s a glass uor was a highball and out. * ok ox % + These facts and these tendencies all put Yo,nhn point so clearly to some sort of wet declaration by the next Democratic National Convention that Mr. Jouett Shouse, executive chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and always officially extremely careful not to say anything out of harmony with the ascertained actual or prospec- tive dominant sentiment of his party, did not hesitate the other day to an- nounce: “The d principle of local State control is, in my judgment, the only possible- ultimate solution of the liquor problem and will constitute the big- gest forward step to a return to the theory of States’ rights upon which this country was founded and from which it has so seriously departed.” * ok ok x Organizations like the Anti-Saloon League think they clearly foresee in the Democratic party the coming develop- ment here sketched. They persistently repeat their expressions of confidence in President Hoover, and it is in the light of their favor toward Mr. Hoover and in the light of their fear of the Democrats that the public must read the current statement of F. Scott McBride, Anti-Saloon League national superintendent, to the startling effect: “Already the presidential election of 1932 is on.” * ok ok % ‘The White House gives yet no sign of any surrender to the wet wave, or of any essential compromise with it. Nine—and only nine—sitting Repub- lican members of the House of Repre- sentatives, seeking renomination in the recent primary elections, have failed to secure it, and all these nine were drys and all were beaten by wets. Nu- merous other manifestations have oc- curred of increased wet strength in the rank-and-file of the Republican party; but the administration believes that prohibition law enforcement is improv- ing and that wet sentiment will there- upon recede. The present chances are most certainly that the administration will endeavor to make the least possible concessions to wet sentiment in the next Republican National Convention and that contrariwise the dominant elements in the next Democratic Na- tional Convention will outrightly en- deavor to draw wet sentiment enthusi- astically in behind the next Democratic presidential nominee and that there- upon the Republicans will again appeal for nugpon to dry Southern Democrats and the Democrats to wet -Northern Republicans. (Copyrisht, 1930) r——— If Foreign War May Come BY HARDEN COLFAX. War profits still arouse a fond re- membrance in many a business man's breast—a fact that has been drawn to the attention of the Treasury and State Department In the last few days. Men not given to being deceived by mirages have asked in all seriousness about the possibliity of another war and its effect as a stimulus to American business. ul lXelo not for one moment imagine that the United States would again 5.“ in or be involved in any world con- ict, but they see this country as the gra; , bank and warehouse for those coun! which might be involved, as it was before 1.!11‘. FE The Department of State naturally is not likely to comment on conditions in another country. To do so would vio- late all precedent. The Treasury De- partmené is equally averse to voleing views on conditions outside the Unites States. But when officials were con- vinced that the inquiries were really made in good faith, it is understood that the questioners were given'a decided intimation that this Government could see no such probability in prospect. Most of the inquiries came from busi- ness men and financiers who have visited other countries during the Summer. Some believed they had heard distinct echoes of saber nmin1n1n France. Oth- ers viewed with much interest the prob- able effects of the recent German elec- Still others indicated they feit tension between 1:-1:‘ u‘m Jugoslavia. * The way most of them outline the American Business Asks| 1930—PART TWO. Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. In these days when the National Capital is undergoing a wonderful period of rebuilding, the wise and century- spanning foresight of George Washing- ton in personally selecting the site for the seat of Government and in laying out the main features of the Federal City amazes those who are carrying out the plans he laid down. ‘This is emphasized by Willlam Tyler Page, who as veteran cletk of the House has had much to do with the passage fof legislation for the development and embellishment of the Capital, and who is executive secretary of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission. , Mr. Page takes great gratification in pointing out to the youth of today with their greater opportunities how they may well emulate the traits and rules of life by which Washington learned self-control. He points out that Wash- ington from his early youth was & business man: ‘With his earnings he bought property, here and there. He knew real estate values. He was always on the lookout for sound investments. In the purchase of frontier lands and in the promotion of plans for the build- ing up and development of new parts of the country he was performing im- portant public service. He opened up vast tracts of land fitted to become the home of millions of American farmers. He assisted his brother Laurence in th | various business enterprises, among them the Ohio Co, which had a grant of 500,000 acres on the east side of the Ohio River. At 31 he organized the Mississippl Co. to take the place of the Ohio Co. In his remarkable will we find Western lands appraised at over $400,000 which he owned. After his brother Laurence's death he acquired Mount. Vernon and added to its acres, becoming the successful owner and di- rector of an agricultural estate of 3,200 acres. He prepared a treatise on agri- culture. To the original acreage of Mount Vernon he added 5,500 acres, one-third of which he placed under cultivation. His management of this estate was businesslike. He kept a set of account books as he did for all his other en- terprises; he also kept labor costs and in fact detailed records of all transac- tions, He farmed the place scientifically. In after life he wrote: “I am led to re- flect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of mak- g improvements on the earth than 1 the 'l!nlhr{ which can be d from ravaging it by the most ter~ ru] career of conquests.” 3 ashington developed into & captain of indusf He became part prietor of large iron works, and shipped his products direct to England. e was connected with a number of real estate and transportation companies. He managed the estate of his wife, the rich widow of Col. Custis, and of his step- children, and so successful was this management that his stepchild, John Parke Custis, at 21, became the richest young man in Virginia. ‘Washington's responsibilities led him into the fleld of banks and banking, and gave him such knowledge of bank- dent of the United States, to approve the bill for a national bank against great opposition. For the Custises he was & stockholder in the Bank of England. Washington was a stock- holder in the Bank of Alexandria and in the Bank_ of Columbia, then in Georgetown. It was in the latter that the stock in the Potomac company was deposited, this stock having been pre- sented to him by the Virginia Legisla- ture, and which Washington bequeathed for educational purposes. Due to own investments he be- came the dent of the James River Co. and of the Potomac River Co. The latter involved the first interstate com- merce negotiations in this country. ‘Washington saw possibilities of a water- way from the sea to the Great Lakes by ley, the present route of a great barge canal. He joined with Gen. Clinton 4in the purchase of 6,000 acres near Utita. He was manager of one of the Arst conservation companies in the Eng- lish Colonies, which under his direction for five years drained a part of the Dl.lmll| tNsvump and made good money ou;‘;l “In short,” says Mr. Page, “George Washington, a poor boy, with little edu- cation, succeeded in business as in the other things his hands and mind found to-do, and at the time of his death was one of the richest, if not the rich- est man in the United States. Read his remarkable will, written by him- self. And behold there the trained mind of & business man, careful and pains- taking in minutest details, expert ac- countant, meticulous and precise book- keeper, see there reflected the perspicac- ity of the cautious banker, manufac- | turer, realtor, and the keen mind of an ablé lawyer, and then wonder how so much wisdom, how such versatility, jcould possibly be concentrated into the mental and physical alchemy of one human being. “Realizing his own limited educa- tional facilities, is it any wonder that he was solicitous to provide liberal fa- cilities for the youth of the future, which we are now enjoying, and to say in his Farwell Address, “Promote, as an ob- ject of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowl- edge?’ " o Odd Similies. From the Toledo Blade. | in Maine are now making a noise like a | windshield wiper during a drought. ———— Politicians Spoil Autumn. From the Albany Evening News. It is just too bad to spoil the beautiful Autumn time with & lot of political campaigns and such. situation is that there is imminent & clash between Italy and Jugoslavia. As- sociated with the latter country could be ‘hoslavia, Rumania and Poland. France is regarded by some as a moving factor in the affairs of the countries of the little entente, of which Jugoslavia is a member. Hungary is counted as a friend of Italy. 1t is asserted that Italy is irked by the at one end of the Mediterranean and in Gibraitar at the other, with France in betwzen having bases at Toulon and Marseille. France, the alarmists claim, would welcome- a chance to settle once for all the question of who is “boss” in the Mediterranean and in Africa. * Kk % France, they point out, Is prosperous with no unemployed. Other nations are in a depressed condition, especially | in Southeastern Europe, and some coun- | tries have a keen desire to get back territory lost under the treaty of Ver- sailles. An attempt by Poland to breaden out, they say, would bring Germany and Russia into the picture, adding that the latter country always | has wanted to get Bessarabla back from Rumania and obtain a free out- let to the Mediterranean from South- (ern Russian ports. The accession of Carol to the throne of Rumania is seen by some as peace- threatening possibilities. * % % ok ‘These deductions are discounted and in fact derided in official circles. It is pointed out that there is general op- position to further argied conflict all over the world. It is noted that the recent political changes in South Ameri- ca took place with less conflict and bloodshed than some American elec- tions can be counted on to produce. Today the nations Which have arbi- trarily changed administrations in South America are going about their business as usual and have achieved formal diplomatic recognition from the United States. | It is further instanced that it costs money to make war and that debts con- ! tracted in past wars still are unpaid, ing method as caused him, when Presi- | published | Democrats who talked about winning | dominance of Great Britain in Malta | AFTER THE GHOST BY FREDERIC A flank attack on the practice of ghost writing has been launched from that citadel of learning, Paris. Ghost writing is the anonymous aythorship of books and articles’ which, when pub- lished, are signed by persoms distin- guished for some reason or another, but who have not so much as read what they are supposed'to have written. Ghost writing is more prevalent in America than anywhere else and it is here that the effect of such an attack will be felt most keenly. The attack huka§ the !%r'm 4:{ tne ouping together of a number of writ- ;"_r! 1iving in Paris, most of them French- men, but some American, for the pur- se of publishing works anonymously. ese writers are, for the most well known fo the world of letters. | are taking the position that the best wa; to get rid of the ghost writer is to pul lish works which glorify no name wha ever, whether it be that of a profes- slonal writer or of a celebrity who has his material-written for him. The central idea is that if works are published absolutely anonymously they will stand or fall on their merits. Ghost writing is not alone attacked. The idea goes farther. It is felt by many earnest writers that a good many per- sons who have written one or two works and a _repu “a name” as it is called, proceed to coast u) oo, wad continie & produce inferior works which will sell because the au- good | index to the type that reputation, let down, relax | hist ‘WRITER® J. HASKIN. his special concept! . 8, Tor “example: will visualise build up & personality for him, and the fact that it merely is' a pen name raises no bar to the imagination. But who can picture Anonymous? His wfltln: are oo prolific and various to furnis an index to personality or character, opinions, or even nationality. \ Nor even to sex. ‘Women writing under men's names some way toward accomplishing this g:mm of the reader, but only so far as themselves and those who are aware of their identity are concerned. Unin- formed readers of George Eliot, George Sand or of Michael Strange pic- ture & man as the author. But they do picture a peérson. But Anonymous utterly defeats them. “n the past there were very good reasons for writing anonymously which no longer exist to tent. Political writings, if pressed opinions at all liberal, enda gered liberty, and even life. So in every country there have n great out- pourings on politieal subjects by Anos mous. Even a pseudonym in such mat- ters sometimes is dangerous, as the choice of & pen name sometimes is an of person using it. Political controversial writings in our own éarly and somewhat dangerous tory an excellent example. The author thor is famous for earlier and better | eralist, writing. Publishers, it is asserted, are nw;tr; u:h.: ": rugm; public will “buy an; g by Bo-and-s0.” Magazine pub- lishers know' that to print on thelr’:xw- ers the name of a popular writer insures urchase of coples and increases circu- lation and thereby enables them to raise rates charged for advertising space. Indeed, there are known to be cases where writers who have arrived and acquired a following do not even make the effort to produce fresh work. Al- most every writer of merit in these times has striven sometimes for s before selling anything and ac publica- tion and ularity. It is an ingrained habit of writers to hoard their rejected manuseripts as a miser hoards gold, as & crow hoards anything it can gfl and carry off, and the late Queen Victoria hoarded empty boxes, wrapping and pleces of . These are - fully stored away in desk drawers or an old trunk. When the name has been made, the old, roiecuc things are dug up and then sold. The practice is i Pl:r ':filng out, o}f‘ the trunk. e n group has nized a small publishing gouu and m‘my. it is T 1 bey books beai e , iss ing only the “Anonymous.” Members of the grot are foregoing considerable sums whic! their mere name would command did they send their manuscripts to regular publishers and permit them to be is- sued in the usual way, fully identified w£: list of previous works and publish- e™ blurb. Famous Pseudonyms. . Relatively few works of today are a ously, although for- merly the method was widely employed. Thu‘reudonym is muoh used, but that is quite different. Take O. Henry, for example, one of the greatest of short story writers of recent years, That pseudonym became so generally known that most readers assumed O. Henry was the real name of the writer; in fact, | Eve it Prnblhly would pe safe to say that half of the readers of his stories still think so. The name of Sidney Porter means nothing to them, where 5 Henry means a good deal. By far the most outstanding case in American letters is furnished by Twain. More people know that mlnhlpleudg.n‘ymthmknwo‘ Henry is; nevertheless, Mark Twain Tings far more familiarly in the ears than Samuel Langhorne 8o in t!‘-: f u%ym e case of is the same pemmr:lormuon taching to a name as when an act cognomen fzm'd 'fa same iychol ‘works. would n 2 %k Mark Twain be- cause it that s :rt:n. assuming that it must be work. The utter I of identification in Anonymous, however, is a different mat- ter. Tt is, in a sense, a in the face to the reader. There isn't a clue. Mark | result of nll'l of tient guhlmwd ldenmyp‘of no tified, although there is strong reason to suspect Thomas Jefferson. In days when people were shot by private per- sons or executed by public order for their opinions it was not safe to write frankly under one's own name. ‘The same applies with even more force to early religious writings. Persecu- tion, torture, the stake might well follow identification of the writer of what the powers regarded as wayward dootrine. Not a Gentleman’s Business. 'I‘l'"l:n. too, when writing was not & gentleman’s ess, & good many gen- tlemen, nobles and the llkem:ho felt the litera normally looked down on writers. He sequent novels were signe Author of ‘Waverley.'” " It was years before he came into the open with his name. The very basis of the !hnkumfl- Bacon controversy is that Lord on did not want to appear publicly as writer of popular another name. writings which he claimed were somewhat heavily philosophic, such as a peer might properly produce, Maidenly modesty has obscured the identity of many writers. In ish literature. alone there are mo; 1,000 mostly poetry, signed .” One must judge by the text and quality of the writing to the accuracy of the descriptive inwre. s‘em and more ré?;nu Kip- many verses “ " or “Ol dlgu d.” Daniel Defoe, author of “Robinson mm."flmmumongoudy- Sodid 8o did Sir Robert Bridges, t laureate of Great Britain. Iy = donym, Owen Meredith, by w] he still is best known in the fleld of poetry. As early as 1806 Antoine-Alexandre in his Dictionaire, using the research, less than a,&oo ANONymous writers. ¢ as politicians, tresses, g:n,"‘nd oot ball the like, the muse of literature will have & fresh, untrammeled start. A full stop will 'be pyt to such incidents as that in which a base ball star sald to & pugilist: “That was a great iece you wrote in the paj the re] German Elections Causing Anxiety in Great Britain BY A. G. GARDINER, England's Great Liberal Editor. LONDON, September 20.—The star- tling electoral success of Pascism in, Germany and the impression of a com- | plete deadlock between Great Britain | and France at Geneva have deepened the depression in political circles here and cannot fail to have important re- percussions upon the imperial confer- ence which opens in London a week hence. All correspondents of the British press in Berlin attribute Adolph Hit- ler's triumph to two main causes—the calamitous economic condition of the country, which has embittered popular feeling against the Young plan, and the complete failure of the League of Na- tions as an implement for disarma- ment under the Versailles treaty. ‘The backbone of the Hitler movement always has been the disbanded milita- rists of imperial Germany. The sudden emergence of the movement into a for- midable political force which threatens the republic is the cumulative conse- quence of the French policy of en- circling disarmed Germany with mili- tary forces more powerfully armed than any in previous European experience. * ok kK It is impossible for this situation to continue indefinitely, and its existence, coupled with the failure of the League | to_grapple with the question of the ful- | Allment of this aspect of the treaty, is ipmroumfly reacting upon German feel- ing and, as events this week show, is | threatening the life of the republic, which may be crushed between the | Sovietism. This danger is acutely felt in gov-| ernment circles and lends significance to Foreign Becretary Hendersan's erful insistence at Geneva that the re- duction and limitation of armaments must take precedence over all else in the affairs of the League. He has made it clear that if Britain shares in a scheme of & more economically united Europe it must be a Europe in which the promise of treaties to reduce arma- ments has been carried out. ok ok X Germany was disarmed as a prelim- inary to general disarmament, and nothing at Geneva has made a deeper impres-ion on the Assembly than Hen- derson’s declaration thai the disarma- ment provisions are “no less sacred than any other obligation which those treaties contain.” The German elections have lent ex- ary emrhun to this tence on_honest dealing. It is not only on the gubject of dis- armament, in regard to which France is expectéd to pursue her obstructive measures of the past, that the breach between the two countries has béen em- hasized. The British delegation has en the most formidable opponent of Aristide Briand's scheme of a European economic union, in which the Assembly has generally described a spirit of hos- tility to the League and to League offi- clals—a view strengthened sby Briand's attempt to prevent discussion of the plan by the regular organs of the League. * ok x x The British position has been over- whelmingly indorsed the Assembly and the idea of a separate body to deal with economic relationships, ;.I DIMI 3 any- 'htm.her mnmmndl have hué or not, Any gal country might make !'temporarily from a conflict between " others would have to be pald for in lost markets and frozen credits. (Copyright, 1930.) Prance, is definitely dea wthmwmuntthnpmpoflolnlum— pu:flln&n'mhmdmhim- e League Lea officials and methods. hammer of Fascism and the anvil of | g, operated by | truce Fifty Years Ago In The Star “The peaceful citizens of G street be- tween Second and Eighth streets north- ;. west,” says The Star Pursuit of & : of September 15, 1880, 2 “'were startled out of Petticoat. . propriety about twilight last night by a rather amusing Ooocurrence wiiich happened as follows: Two Colored women were engaged in an animated conversation about some- thing, one of them being very tall and the other very short. The conversation increased in volume of e until the bystanders heard the short one remark to the long one, ‘You have stolen my petticoat.' “The tall damsel repudiated the insinuation with some heat, when the short one again remarked, ‘You have stolen my petticoat and you've got it on now, and I mean to have it off back.’ An active skirmish resulted in the tall female breaking away from her tormentor and scamper toflowed and ‘sained. “The Leiser camis &al 3 e rather walk became trot and rapidly in- creased to a gallop and the two soon disappeared in the distance, followed .lLy ': constantly increasing crowd of all Tts. “The gpce was rather a large one, but the short damsel did not give the tall one a moment to get her second wind, but pegged away hotly and overhauled her on G street in the rear of the Patent Office, where she cornered her victim against the iron fence and was surrounded in a twiniling' by a large and admiring audience, humorously in- clined, who warmly seconded her ve~ hement demand for that article of un< Twear. ‘Give me ‘that dark-brown petticoat. Give it to me now, this minute, right here’ said the plucky short citizeness, ‘or I'll tear every rag off your body.' The tall victim looked around and said, ‘How can I right here before all these people?” ‘I can't help that,’ sald tne irate short one, strong in her cause and nobly seconded in the ‘I must ve that petticoat ek, orhhl take it.” one looked around N The crowd was incre: and rem e textile ex- cellence of the garment. She turned around udmg did something -with her outside clothing, untied, or un- hooked, or unbuttoned, or untwisted something else, let go with her hands, shook herzelf, stepped aside, and & shapeless mass of a dark hue remained where she had stood. The short female pounced upon it, lifted it up, rolled it into a convenient form for transporta- tion. tucked it under her arm and turning to her victim, whose rotundity had - suffered the tion, said, ‘You couldn't d an g to steal among them cheap folks up where you live, so you come respect- able, decent ladies for underclothes,” and turning on her heel the triumpl damsel departed.” are not hopeful and the comparative fallure of the attempt to get an agree- ment on the tariff truce has cast a shadow over the deliberations at Geneva. William Graham, presid:nt of the British Board of Trade, was com- pelled to admit the reluctance of many states to ratify the truce convention. He made an eloquent m for negotiation between the protect it countries in order vivendi, but much af to his ‘ent threat that if the tariff Great Britain to discover a modus don_her -necked landed gentry, who g hant - and free trade ly . ays and hid under . I