Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1930, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR e Xlih Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C THURSDAY . .September 25, 1830 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor ‘The Evening Star N iper Company 11 It..u:n?'-‘lnnlvinh Ave. “giay0¢ per month ELL v port frirkardy Rate m—r:.yzble in Advance. wflw Sunday. ....1 yr. "‘ i 1mo. g8 only " 135 3000 1Tmon 400 Other States and Canada. And “Sunday. .} yr. $12.00 . 3 A MR R y . Member of the Associated Press. %umuu« Press is exclusivaly entitied o ‘use for Tepublication of all news ai m credited to it or not otherwise cre aper and also the local e 1l rights of publication lerein are also reserved. each month. or telephcne st 1mo, i me. " ite 1mo. Disarmament’s Gloomy Outlook. Events of the past twenty-four hours in a Europe groping desperately for political peace and economic tran- quillity have done anything but advance those worthy causes. At Geneva, where the League of Nations is wind- ing up its semi-annual assembly in a blaze of acrimonious oratory, British and’ German spokesmen clashed vio- lently over the disarmament issue. Elsewhere at League headquarters the Pranco-Italian negotiations over naval limitations came to a sorry inconclu- sion. This morning, with the German Su- preme Court at Leipzig as his forum, Adolph Hitler, leader of the Reich Pascists, flung a new firebrand into the troubled European situation by de- shirts. The long, long trail that some day is to lead to a warless world looms 88 & thornier path than ever in the presence of such developments. Breakdown of efforts to bring the French and Italian Navies within the scope of the London limitation treaty is, for the moment at least, the most disconcerting feature. Were Hitler- to achieve power in Germany, the ballot or the bullet, and revolutionary policies into ef- Europe would face a situation automatically banish dis- as a debatable issue. But is singing in the key of Germans call “Zukunftsmusik"— the future. There are many | cross before his Fascists can the doom of post-war set- o t of the Paris and of | anything that comes their wa; small minority of browbeating, dis- courteous and unreasonable policemen. And while there ave undoubtedly some who are in need of the corporation counsel's admonition, it is patent that | even they will come off second best in arguments with police and that 1t is the police themselves who should have continued instruction in regard to re- | Iationship with the public. ————— Simplifying Home Ownership. i There is more truth than poetry in the President’s apt simile, “The whole process of purchase and finance (of a home) involves a ceremony like a treaty { between governments. And while the comparison extended only to the busi- ness of where and how to get the money, there are other equally impor- tant factors that involve the individual contemplating the purchase of a home {in more negotiations and diplomatic conversations than preceded the sign- ing of the treaty of Versailles. To the man about to buy a home the peace of the world in general and comity among the nations are matters of relative small importance. If he buys this house, will a fire! engine station be erected next door? Is he safe from the trespass of a pee-wee golf course, which might find the vacant lot across the street an attractive site? Can the children safely cross the street on their way to school? Is the house too far from the street car to please the maid? Is the street in front to be torn up and widened and paved as a through trafic boulevard, bringing about an additional assessment that will deplete the bank account already suffering heav- ily because of the manifold demands in- volved in the original purchase? How high are the taxes? Are the neighbors good citizens? Do the empty bottles in the alley denote anything more than a nearby family’s fondness for iced gin- gerale? Is the mysterious garage a few doors away, around which dark figures congregate at night, in danger of being padlocked? Will this neighborhood in the next five years be rezoned to permit the erection of apartment houses, shut- ting out light and air? 1Is it too far from the corner store, or too near? Is it convenient to the office, and will Aunt Sarah be pleased? The President’s conference on home building and home purchase is to be supported by privately contributed funds. Its creation does not mean that Uncle S8am has turned realtor, nor that all the difficulties of home ownership will be solved. But taking note of the decrease in home building and home ownership and of the consequences apt to result if this becomes a Nation divi- ded between landlords and tenants, it is hoped that the conference will put its finger on some of the tangible obsta- cles that have arisen to decrease home ownership and to suggest ways and means of removing them. The financing of a home, as the President points out, is an involved and complicated process. If it does not stagger the applicant by the size of the obligations about to be assumed, the intricate formalities met in the assump- tion of the obligations will. But closely connected with the home ownership problem are such matters as protection against depreciation of property values through proper zoning, the extent of category of ships to another. insisted on the right to butld one and one-half units covering the period of -years. On this rock t to smash. Anglo-German set-to in the Assembly yesterday has a gen- though no specific current European . Count Bernstorff, speaking for the Reich, assalled the League dis- armament commission for its alleged “do-nothing” policy. He argued that for ten years its ordained program of bringing about world disarmament had been systematically honored in the 1 | H quality as & leader in the disarmament movement, vigorously challenged Count | Bernstorf's charge. The British states- | man counseled continued patience, denying the allegation of procrastina- tion. Germany, having been relatively dis- armed by her World War conquerors, comprehensibly craves the hour when they, too, will proceed to beat swords | into plowshares. But with the Reich hovering on the brink of revolution, and France and Italy unable to bury the naval hatchet, Lord Cecil's contention that the business of disarmament must be tackled warlly smacks of common sense, devoid through it be of promise 1n the desired direction. —————— Lawrence Hope. the real estate tax burden assumed by the purchaser, the adequate design of homes in & day when domestic help is elther scarce or expensive, accessi- bility, plus the provision of enough space in vacant land around the home to make the venture more attractive than renting an apartment. That Curious Library. An Iowa lawyer has left his fortune to build a masculine library from which women and women's writings will be barred, It is to be hoped that the executors will not permit the novels of George Eliot and George Sand to get in by mistake. Nor the poems of Some woman should be mspired by this action to found a feminine library from which will be banned neither men nor their writings, but simply ill-bred | men, lascivious men, mean men, and all the books which relate to such men. Such discrimination would have some point to it. Men have tried to run the world for some thousands of years, and in 1914 they ran it into a World War. The so-called “great powers” are trem- bling now over the results of a possible | future conflict. They realize that man— | not woman—now possesses the power to wipe out the entire human race. | The curious womanless library will | lack the poetry of Elizabeth Browning, | the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the—well, what difference does it make? | Women have never set the world afire | in writing, anyway; but the greatest| books in the world have women in Mussolini called those who had ques- | tioned his robustness of health to see him on horseback. Ringling Brothers might arrange a competitive oquu-l | which holds man’s hand at the hour of said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “In ! death, and smooths his path when he spite of our resentments, we all hope trian test for dictators. Unreasonable Enforcement. ‘The action of a judge in Police Court | | them, and invariably something of the | | feminine spirit. | The feminine spirit, that great love 1s alive, is a thing about which the poor | “man hater” unfortunately knew noth- ‘1 TH assigned as referee, a special grand jury has been organized and a special in- vestigator has been appointed to conduct the grand jury inquiry, which began on Monday. Several persons called as witnesses before the grand jury have declined to testify on the basis of a waiver of immunity, this refusal being tanta- mount to & plea that te testify before the jury might tend to incriminate or degrade them. The latest of these re- calcitrants are John F. Curry, the leader of Tammany Hall, and Charles L. Kohler, director of the budget, and district leader. They went into the jury room smiling and affable and came out angry and almost tearful, declaring that they had been “insulted.” They had been asked to sign walvers, which was a reflection upon their integrity, to which they would not submit. Almost at the same time the Governor of the State was announcing at Albany that he propeses to present to the Legislature at the next session a bill compelling office holders to sign waivers of immunity when called before grand Juries to testify regarding their official acts. Counsel for Leader Curry ap- proves his refusal on the ground that the grand jury's inquiry is merely a “fishing expedition,” conducted for political purposes. This is rather a re- markable statement inasmuch as the investigation was started by Democratic Gov. Roosevelt, who is as good as & Tammany man himself, and the bene- ficlary in office of Tammany support. It begins to look as if there were a difference of opinion in New York re- garding the propriety of some of the proceedings under Tammany's adminis- tration of America’s biggest city. ———— Chain stores are represented as an economic benefit. During the hot Sum- mer season, they seem to promote & certain irritability among sales people and customers. Perhaps everything will be all right when they can shove a figure of Santa Claus into the show window and call for a return to the hopeful innocence of happy childhood hours, ———— Old references to “Darkest Russia” E _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 1930. BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Frozen-faced clerks without s smile—are they to be censured, or sympathized with? The ultimate consumer finds them everywhere. ‘They stand behind thousands of miles of counter and not one of them jever cracks a smile for the purchaser’s fit. “What kiss you? Such would be the reply of one of them, but such a hasty action would horrify most sedate buyers. All we want is a smile. * ok k% John Wesley, seeing taken to the gallows, declared, “There, but for the grace of God, goes John Wesley.” Thousands of average human beings, as they see men and women behind counters, may truthfully say to them- selves, “There, but for chance, I stand.” All of them might have been selling clerks if life had stacked up a bit dif- ferently. The man or woman, the boy or girl, who sells over & counter is fulfilling & necessary and honorable task, and, like all such tasks, it should have some Joy in it. There are many things to take the Joy out of it, of course, including cus- tomers. The writer here is sure that if he had ever attempted to sell any- thing over a counter he would have ended in a fist fight the first day. * ok ok X The ready smile, it seems to us, is the solution of the whole problem. It 15 even more necessary to a sales- person than to a chorus girl. We have seen some very fine solemn chorines, but never yet have been waited on_happily by a glowering salesgirl. No, we don’t want 'em to bow low when we come in, and we would run if they attempted to kiss us, but we do like to be waited on with a smile. we ever heard of lkes to with a smile, * ok ok x Somehow there reposes in the back of the average head a feeling that when one spends a little money with a store, or ln'y. :ll’l:hbllah:nent. ht:xe aforesald store or esf ment ought to appreciate it. About the only way a mopdpms would you want us to do— & man being Everybod: be waited o’n were expected to disappear. If anybody attempted to turn on the light, some one else turned it out and left the place darker than ever. How much is the interest in the base ball pennant a genuine enthusiasm, and how much is it an effort to forget the really serious cares that public con- sciousness must confess? —_———— Occasionally an audacious national legislator ventures to protest against the danger that the President may em- barrass the United States Senate. ———ree A membership in Russia’s Soviet is regarded as so valuable as to create the fear that a new racketeer system has been evolved on an enormous scale, —— e An invitation to a political rally reads like an effort to revive the forlorn hope of being spellbound by speakers who have been overrehearsed. P — ‘The Soviet group gets plenty of pub- licity even when it is denied formal recognition, and publicity counts tre- mendously these days. ————— SHOOTING STARS. : The Fair. The county fair goes on its way And orators had things to say. Of cattle some folks watched a bunch— | And wished that it was time for lunch. No more the horses deigned to trot. ‘They ran. Some of us lost a lot. And several children ate too much Of popcorn, sandwiches and such, With gayeties like these at hand, At last we clearly understand That motto, worthy of our care, None but the Brave deserve the Fair. Marginal Notes. “Did you ever speculate on a margin?” “Not in finance,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But I have frequently been | on the ragged edge in politics.” Jud Tunkins says while praying for the hot wave to break, don't pray for it to break so quick that you'll have ml start in all of a sudden shoveling mow.i The Farmer., The farmer says the price of grain Has led him to a sense of pain. He's talking wheat—not merely chaff, And does not aim to get a laugh. The farmer once could sing a song And bring quaint comedy along, But we who buy the bread agree A serious personage is he, Unmistakable Influence. “Have women made politics better?” “Well, anyhow,” answered Miss Cayenne, “they have made it more interesting.” “This life cannot be so very bad,” for immortality.” Record Season. in dismissing & charge against a motor- | " His strange will is not a subject| o 14 Termom we must deplore, ist of passing through an unoccupied safety zone at two o'clock in the morn- | treatment of policemen. In dismissing the charge the judge said, apropos of arrests, that “I dare say a large num- of these cases should not have oc- would not have occurred if been less anxious to make for laughter, but for sympathy, and per- haps tears. R Ofl companies are in competition. Realtors may still be hopeful so long! as there is s0 much demand for sites for numerous oil-filling stations in one small area. | o Mrs. Ewald’s Pandora Gift. | When Mrs. George P. Ewald of New | York turned over $10,000 to Mr. Tom- maney, sheriff’s clerk, to be handed to District Leader Healy on the eve of her | husband’s appointment as a magistrate, | she probably had no idea whatever that this kindly action, intended solely to , shown more courtesy and to apprehend the more im- portant violators of the law.” help Mr. Healy buy a suburban home— Although it looked so neat. We'll have to bulld two stories more To measure all the heat. “Dey ain’ no way,” said Uncle Eben, “to convince a man dat it's wrong to | samble when he thinks he's got a sho'- nuff sho' thing.” B ] The Beginning of Charity. | Prom the Louisville Times. More charity began at home in the good old days than now for the simple reason that there was always some- body there to begin it. ———————— How to Please the People. From the Toledo Blade. In & republic the big idea is to give she taking only a memorandum note for | the people what they want, the theory Of course, it is obvious that neither | three years without security and with- | being that they won't want it long. policemen nor citizens should engage in | Out interest in acknowledgment of the wverbal or physical contests, but it is| loan—would lead to serious and embar- equally obvious that an arrest on an | FAssing complications for the Tammany utterly unreasonable and trivial charge | Of8anization and the municipal admin- ——— . Vest Pockets Coming Back. From the Toledo Blade. Regardless of what the Weather Bu- can show its appreciation is through the clerk, or contact man. Too few clerks seem to realize that they are, in the last analysis, the real ‘“contact men"” of the store. They may not be “key men,” who- ever they are. We have asked various executives, from time to time, what a “key man” is, but have recsived rather nebulous answers, if any. A “key man,” 5o far as we can dis- cover, bears upon his person no key of any kind, size or material. He gets his name from a supposed similarity to the keystone of an arch, the stone that keeps the others from slipping. These “key ‘men” meet together every once in & while, according to the United States system, and discuss how well they are keeplngnt‘m rest of the hands from shppln!. en, having agreed to slip themselves a little extra salary, the sec- retary writes, “The meeting was ad- Journed.” * x % x ‘The smileless clerk ought to be a genuine source of worry to key men and others. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands L PROGRESO, San Juan—It is impossible to measure the de- Ee of improvement which may ve pocurred since the Ameri- can occupation of Porto Rico began in 1898. Wi and price data are not of a character to permit any careful statistical or quantitative meas- urement of the change. Certain broad inferences, however, can be drawn from direct observation of the people then and now. The country folk one now meets on the highways and byways, on the whole, are better clothed than for- merly; many of them wear shoes where formerly practically all went barefoot, and several times as many neatly clad children as before are to be seen in the public schools. Wooden houses with floors and corrugated iron roofs are met with in districts where a large part of the population formerly dwelt in thatched huts with the bare ground for a floor. These observations compel the conclusion that average in- comes must have increased since the turn of the century, yet even this fa- vorable picture gives a picture of life on the island that is drab indeed. A daily wage of 70 cents, with em- ployment of four days out of the seven, represents approximately the earnings of the larger part of the dally laboring population. It is doubtful if the aver- age income of the rural workers in Porto Rico exceeds $150 a year. The earnings of wife and children, together with supplemental income from the cultivation of small parcels of land and from the ralsing of poultry and lve stock, increase the income of the aver- age rural family to something like $250 or $275 a year. The earnings of the town: laborer, taking into consideration the higher cost of living in the city, are not greatly in excess of those of the country laborer. But life is no worse than in other densely populated trop- ical countries, though it should be bet- ter, as Porto Rico has a right to share in the economic advantages of the | United States. * ok ox Nature May Have Purpose in Crazy Contests. ‘The Evening Post, Wellington.—It is impossible 1o glance at the papers now- adays without discovering that some new pinnacle of fatuity has been stormed. Here somebody !s pushing a pea up a mountain with his nose; there somebody has delivered a non-stop oration of 48 hours while standing on one leg, and throwing up and catching three tennis balls. And this, of course, is a record. Previous orators who stood on one leg and juggled tennis balls broke down at the pitiable achievement of a mere 46 hours. These affairs are usually called Marathons, which is a trifie hard on the purposeful and prodigious gallop of the runner who took the great news to Athens. America even has its “spitting’ Marathons, and we read not long ago of an American Sunday school which knocked the Baltimore _pole-sitters right off their topmost perch of lunacy. { This Sunday school organized a com- petition to discover which of its heaven- aspiring scholars could display the greatest number of warts! Marie Lloyd. impersonating a poor, nniless wretch, deserted by her hus- and, and thrown down the stairs by the landlord, a woman without so much hope in the world as the price of a beer, used to say, “Well, I suppose all these things are sent to try us!” No | doubt for the same high ethical pur- pose do certain bridge parfners exist, for in that category of temper-testers we are all certainly placed by our com- panions. And yet, perhaps, nature may have a purpcse in these idiocles, Such per- formances are not only amusing to va- cant minds, but they serve to remove The drys in New York State are bat- tling today to keep their grip on the He or she worries enough customers, b — Republican party there. The G. O. P. ven knows! The trouble is that executives'have no more way of knowing about this—exe when some honest is expected to adopt a plank In its platform declaring for repeal of the eighteenth amendment and to nomi- nate United States Attorney Charles H. Tuttle for Governor. Tuttle recently declared for repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the return of liquor control to the States, at the same time handing in his resignation to Presi- | dent Hoover as United States attorney. Four years ago when the Republican State Convention met in New York City the drys were in control. It is true that former Senator James W. ‘Wadsworth was renominated for the Senate, although he had declared him- self Tlmt the eighteenth amendment. Byt the convention at that time de- clared strongly for enforcement of the laws and picked Ogden Mills, now Un- dersecretary of the Treasury, as its can- didate for Governor. Mr. Mills had taken no extreme stand on the liquor question, L In the s of four years, however, the wets the Republican party of New York have gained the ascendancy. Many of the Republicans in New York Who were not at heart in favor of na- tional -prohibition four years ago were contedt to m along with the drys in the hope of harmony and putting across the State ticket. These Republicans programs and how many turn off their sets. Those: who have read the autobiog- raphy of Jean Jacques Rousseau know that he was the of one sort of uni- versal customer, man who, for no apparent reason, is afraid of stores. ow there are millions of such people. Rousseau would stand for half an hour in front of a shop, afraid to go in, yet longing to do so. In modern American parlance, time he was outside the stor losing money. But it was a psycho- logical matter, about which the mer- chants knew nothing. No doubt, Jean Jacques looked extremely businessliks as he stood there, reluctant to go awa; scared to go in, all the e Was * ok x e smile on the face of a clerk is ‘Th the only thing that will put such a pur- e 15 expecting % find ‘a1 e expec! bl a lal | , .ho will glare at hlul,hty WOl as if asking, “Why did you come in to worry me, when I have plenty of wor- ries of my own?” Instead he finds & human being. Think how that pleases him! He thought to draw a frozen-face and he got a smiling rose. ’ * K ko Every store ought to have a Smile !n‘"“rd. 1t) f the Smile Enforcer The duty of the nforcs would be simply this: To walk around | wet side of the issue. in the establishment and see that em- ployes smiled sweetly at customers. Perhaps in time his title might changed to Smile Controller. It would be up to him to control the reception received by each and every customer, from the large fat lady whom nothing suited to the timid lit- tle man who was willing to be pleased by anything handed him with a smile. “Young lady, where was your smile when you waited on that.thin-lipped woman?” he would ask. Jones, she is an old ‘What has what she is got to do with 1t? It is your smile that counts. No smile, one demerit; one demerit, one deduction; one deduction, one thousandth of a chance gone to be a Enforcer tiptoeins down the aisle. He catches the eye of Miss Sallle Smith, beautiful and blonde, as the papers say, who danced until 2 am. and no wonder she is sleepy. But her dancing was not the fault ! of Mrs. Percival Jones, also beautiful and blonde, who is a mild, sweet tem- pered woman, and who asks nothing more than smiling service. Mrs. Jones would sympathize with Sallie if she knew about Sal's troubles, but she doesn't, so when Miss Sallle eets her $30 purchase with a frozen 'ace, Mrs. Jones mentally decides to §0_some place else next time. It is right here that the Smile Con- troller comes in. He catches Sallie's “Smile!” he commands as plain as_words. Sallie grins beautifully. Mrs. Jones ks: “What a nice girl, what a beau- tiful day, what a nice store! I always gid iike this store. I will always come re.” And she does, all because of a smile. They do not be- lieve that the nomination of a dry candidate on a dry platform will get be |the G. O. P. anywhere in New York State today. * When Senator Wadsworth was a candidate for re-election in 1926, the extreme dry Republicans undertook to ditch him, and they did. They put into the fleld an independent dry Re- publican, a member of the State Senate, Cristman. This dry candidate received approximately 231,000 votes, which if cast for Wadsworth would have elected him instead of his Democratic o&ponem, Senator Wagner. The drys in those would not listen to the plea of the Republican leaders for party ony. They were out to give the wets, including lesson. They Mr. Wadsworth, a adopted the rule or ruin licy and put a wet Democrat in office order to keep a wet Republican out of office. * ok ok ok The dry leaders in New York today are again threatening to glace in the fleld an Independent Republican dry to make the race for Governor, in the event the Republican convention adopts & ‘“repealer” platform and nominates Tuttle. The drys, according to reports, are not so adamant in their opposition to the nomination of Tuttle as they are in their opposition to a ‘“repealer” . It has even been indicated drys would not bolt a “mod- érately moist” platform, whatever that may be. “Revision” is the word most often used in this connection. * Kk % It may be that the drys will be able, if they put an Independent candidate for Governor in the fleld, to make e the re-election of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who is slated to be the Demo- cratic nominee for Governor. Roosevelt has declared strongly for re) of the eighteenth amendment. Just where the drys will gain by such tactics is a moot question. However, having no hold on the Democratic party in New York, the are naturally loath to see the Republican also alligned % put piotibition, Sove perty topeite: on_above oyalty, Inlf“‘o let mm“whr: thyn .overnonn? a ve a wet Republican win on a repealer plat- form. There is the chance that by so dolnr they may intimidate the Re- publican leaders and be able to control the situation two years hence when the time comes for another election in New York, ] The Republicans in Massachusetts who meet in State convention in Bos- ton on Saturday are having their wor- ries over the liquor question, too. The sentiment in the Bay State, as it is in New York, is strong against the eight- eenth amendment. But the Republicans in Massachusetts have already nomi- nated their candidates for Governor and Senator and members of the House, The ticket is headed by Gov. Allen and former Senator William M. Butler, both of whom have stood by the eighteenth amendment in their primary campaigns. The convention therefore is merely to draft a platform on which the stand, there are other candidates ondrv!he ticket who are decidedly wet, including having their vacation during June, Suly and August, in conformity with the school year in most other localities, should dismiss their classes, say, at the end of December, the puplls the*months of January, Febru- and March, which, while nominally “Winter” months, are certainly the best time in the whole year to be out of doors in this region. If Prof. Schnei- der’s suggestion is adopted, school will therefore continue thi lon until the middle or end of December, and hereafter the school r will com- mence the first of April and continue until the first of January. This will also enable children to be freed from their courses during the season of the year when they can be of most as- sistance to ‘their parents, both in urban and country life. * ok k% Chile Asks Army To Select Martial Hymns. El Mercurio, Santiago.—The govern- | ment has directed all those in charge of the various units of the national army to solicit the men of their various coms | Sveral of the nominees for the House. mands to compose, suggest or select & announced himself in favor of the re- military hymn, to become the specific | peal of the eighteenth amendment and song of the soldlery throughout sll the | WOR renomination over a dry by an | overwhelming vote. The nominee of years to come. At present, each regl-'ihe Republicans in the second congres- ment or battalion has its own war chant, | signal district, the district so long .ll;eld sung to the favorite martial air of 8 by genator Gillett, is & wet. This b greater or lesser number of the enlisted the district in which the Democrats men. “There should be one common anthem, | i I aaa ¢ seainat with a stirring air and vigorous appeal of words and sentiment, like that of “The Sor tie first time the district. ever Marseillaise” of France. It is hoped by | 2 enlisting the interest and sympathy of | ok ok % all the men to decide upon the martial | The effort of the Republicans in hymn combining the greatest inspira- Massachusetts is to write a plank that tion and the noblest patriotism in its Wil be s lently satisfactory to both words and music. This does not mean the wets and the drys. The wet Re- that he army cannot have a multiude | Publican strength in "Massachusetts, as of stirring and patriotic songs, but there | In New York, has grown in recent years should be one song supreme to fortify | Very considerably. 1In the senatorial and inspire all the soldiery and all the Primary this year the dry Mr. Butler nation ih time of stress and danger to Won over his wet opponent, Eben S. the state. | Draper, by only 7,500 votes, and if pro- Such a song, while it should be strong | hibition may be considered the issue and dignified in its expression, and full | between the two, the party appears to of grandeur and harmony in its music, | be rather evenly divided. it is not long | should not be too erudite or classical a | #nce the estimate was 70 per cent dry State convention, meeting in Albany, | apparently have now gone over to the | D Y | influence has gone far toward creatin Republican | g them is A. Platt Andrew, who | composition, for it should combine a message and a melody that can be learned eull{ by all, even by the most unmusical of our population. Soldiers desire an air they can master and words they can readlly memorize and nof soon forget. Such a military hymn, for all the republic, as is comprised, for in- stance, in the song sung so long by the ational In(.ntry School, but never recognized officially as the national an- them. Perhaps Senors Benjamin Oviedo and Javier Rengifo, who wrote, respec- tively, the words and music for this stir- ring ode, can compose another that will live eternally as the hymn of the re- publie, recording the past glories of the Chilean soldiery, and the honors yet to come. * ok ok X Frenchman Dwarfs Primo Carnera. Imparcial, Montevideo.—Primo Car- nera is really a dwarf—compared with Fernand Contat, the Frenchman, who 18 the latest candidate for the pugilistic championship. This gigantic man-moun- | tain, who calls himself as yet a mere “sprig of a boy,” stands 7 feet 8 inches tall, and weighs 415 pounds. At present he is traveling with a circus in Europe, but his great ambition is to come to the United States, that land to which every- thing eccentric or colossal gravitates, and to try his fortune there. The box- ing profession overseas has had its eyes on him for some time as a lucrative pos- sibility, and he admits bending an ear to the chant of the sirens. Big as he is, there is not an ounce of fat on his |and 30 r cent. wet for the Republicans | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ‘The Evening Star In: Bureau, mflccd. Haskin, director, Washing- Q. How tall was Lon and what was his weight?—P. D. A. He was 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighed 165 pounds. Q. How much did the new Banff golf course cost?—L. 8. A. It was built by the Canadian Pa- cific Railway at & cost of $400,000. ' Q. How much money was spent in Europe by Americans last year?—L. A. A. In 1029 282,702 American tourists went to Europe and the Levant. The estimate of the amount of money spent in Europe was $300,000,000. Q. Has Sir Thomas Lipton any chil- dren?—H. R. G. A. Bir Thomas Lipton has never married. Q. Can people get paper like that used for United States currency?—C. 8. A. Paper currency is engraved and printed on one grade of paper, which is purchased under contract from the Hives of the- Tressury’ Deparimen ste ves of the ent are maintained in the Crane factory dur- ing the manufacture of this particular aper. The Crane com'zu%_h also un- der the supervision of the Treasury De- partment’s representatives during the delivery of the paper to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. No outside person can buy this paper. Q. Did the 48th Canadian Highland- ers wear kilts?—G. H. 8. . Kilts were a part of the army uniform of the 48th Canadian High- War, Q. What was Whistler's comment when the Prench government purchased the portrait of his mother for the Lux- embourg?—A. W. D. A. At that time the artist said, “Of all of my pictures I would prefer for ‘The )(ot.‘u' %0 solemn a consecration.” h ‘Who is the educator recently ap- pointed in the Government as & spe- clalist in Negro education?—C. B. A. Dr. Ambrose Caliver is the pointee to this office, which has for its object the stimulation and advancement of Negro education all over the country. Formerly he was dean of Fisk Univer- sity, and he is.a graduate of Knoxville College and the University of Wiscon- sin. His Ph. D. degree was taken at Teacheis' College, Columbia University. O° How many le take the For- eign Service examination and what per | ceni passes?—J. B. M. A. The number of applicants to the Foreign Service examination is not uni- form from year to year, and it is - cult to give an average that would be representative. In the last few years as many as 250 have taken the Foreign Service examination and about 10 to 20 per cent passes. landers, which served during the World ' J. HASKIN. -ball foot on furniture?—M. G, the Chippen troduced to Eng] . t is the signifi s ignificance of ¥he A. This Q. Is the ocean deepest at a point off Guam?—E. T. A. Mariana Deep, off Guam, is 11,000 feet. There are two deeper places known—Mindanao Deep, off the Phil- zplnu. 34,000 feet, and Tuscarors, or pan Deep, 32,000 feet. Q. Which state in Australia has the largest population?—A. M. T. A. New South Wales has the largest Fo ulation—2,418,511. Sydney, its cap- , has & population of 1,101,190. It is the largest city in Australia and one of the largest in the British Empire. Q. Who started the Playground and MMA 1'-_;'011 Auoc‘ lauon?—~l’, G. . " e association was organ in 1906 by Theodore Roosevelt, Luther Halsey Gulick, Jacob Riis, Jane Addams and others. At that time only 41 citles had public play areas under leadership. The number has now increased to about 900 cities and towns. Q. Has Richard Strauss ever visited the United States?—C. K. A. He has visited this country twice —once in 1904, when he conducted in New York the first performance of his “Sinfonia Domestica,” and again in 1921, when he appeared as guest con- ductor of several of the principal Amer- ican orchestras. Q. Are there many children born after the death of the father?—T. F. A. Life insurance figures show that one child out of every 280 children born in the United States is born after its father's death. Q. How does the number of Con- federate veterans still living compare "fl;.fl# number of Union veterans?— A. According to the last censuses avallable, there were 50,749 Union vet- erans April 30, 1930, and 19,095 Con- federate veterans May 1, 1929. Q How is collodion made?—L. K. I. A. Collodion is made by dissolving gun cotton and other varieties of pyr- oxylin in & mixture of alcohol and ether. Q. How large is the platform at the top of the Great Pyramid?—J. A. 8. A. It is 12 square yards in area. Q. How large is Mesa Verde Park? When were its ruins discovered?—T. M. A. The Mesa Verde National Park consists of a plateau of 51,273 acres in Southwestern Colorado. The ruins, which are in the Mancos Canyon, were discovered as early as 1874, when W. H. Jackson led a Government party there. The next year he was followed by Prof. W. H. Holmes, later chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, who drew attention to the remarkable stone towers found in this region. Q. How long has Coquelin, the French actor, been dead?—J. H. A. Coquelin died in 1909. Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow on the eve of his departure from Mexico City delivered a radio address which gi’l:fwlh what has been described by s , and the coun- try has received it with great interest. Mr. Morrow said: “It seems to us that the essential thing to do in a foreign colntry is to study the likenesses of men rather than their differences. When it comes to the profound experiences of life, the men and women on this small earth are not very different.” An incidental statement that 1s that “if we could all get clearly into our minds that other men have as much pride in the dignity of their nations as we have in our own, the solution of international problems would be difficult.” As to the application of the rule in Mexico, the Pasadena paper says: “Mr. Morrow was sent to Mexico as American Ambassador to clear up vexing questions which had irritated both the United States and Mexico.. He| has been remarkably successful. His g an atmosphere of good will, trustful- ness and cordiality between the Gov- ernment at Washington and the gov- ernment in Mexico City. This Nation owes a big debt to its capable and tact- ful men, prompted by patriotic impulse, | who sacrifice their personal interest to omote good will between the United tates and other countries.” “‘Mr. Morrow’s method is simple,” re- marks the Worcester Telegram. “He merely imagines himself in the other fellow's place. This, of course, is not new or original with Mr. Morrow. Yet it is rather rare. In international or national politics Mr. Morrow preaches and practices the Golden Rule. He is thereby conspicuous. s speaks well for him, but not so well for the great majority of men in public life.” ok ok x| “The meat of the whole matter,” de- clares the Birmingham News, “lies in | Morrow’s exquisitely homely words. Doubtless herein lies the substance of what lay heavily op Woodrow Wilson's mind—the will to make universal un- derstanding freer under the sun. Nobler even than to stand uncovered while hearing one's own national anthem played is to respect the emotions of other nationals standing uncovered while listening to their own anthems. quoted by the Pasadena Star-News is| m:flmd less | than t bolt Allen and Butler, the Democrats | Whatever may be Mr. Dwight Morrow's definition of the Monroe Doctrine's meaning for the American continent, sure it that -his simple sermon preached to Americans dwelling north and south of the border contained no hint of its existence, written or un- written. For whoever it might con- cern, he retold the story of the Pharisce and the Publican. Within sound of his radio voice there are pharisaical states and states profoundly meek—states with superfority slants and states with inferiority complexes. Between these lle Sfle“ chasms. Bl’ldll:f these deeps of difference is the sort of understand- ing men like Morrow reach and declare “moist” plank in the platform may spell | as a great new truth old as the world defeai for the ticket in November. |1s old, but suddenly reborn to help us “Nothing will more surely bring about | with our international viciousness and an unfavorable reaction than for can- | distorted sense of differences between !didates who won in the primary | men. If national prejudices, passions, through appeal to the dry voters to|serve to isolate races, why do they not espouse molst or wet planks in the also draw them ther? Truly, the party platform,” said Mr. Davis, difference between the patriotic Ameri- |can who hears ‘The Star Spangled L | - Benator Fess of Ohlo, chairman of | SRRRSE. With, blurred eves and the Republican State convention on Satur- ' day, insists that prohibition is not a party issue in this campaign, but that there are wet Democrats and dry Democrats, as well as wet Republicans Bay Stater s i New York, the | Democratic party and the Democratic | ticket in Massachusetts is decidedly wet. | It is clear that if the Republican wets | | of the | will win both Governor and Senator | this year. The Republicans have no de- | sire to lose either the governorship nor | the senatorship, both of which are held | today by Republicans. Hence their de- | sire to appease as far as possible the wet _element in their ranks. The Massachusetts dry leader, Arthur J. Davis, head of the Stat> Anti-Saloon Lo;flue. has issued a warning to the m-’ pul icans on the eve of their State con- | vention, in which he says flatly that & { | | ideal in his great doctrine of fairness among the nations” is sensed (and dry Republicans running for office. , This is quite true, taking the country by and large. But in Massachusetts the liquor question has become a real is- sue, just as it has in New York State, | and as it threatened to do in New Jer- | sey until Dwight W. Morrow came out | me; now that we know the principle that guided him.” With similar recognition of his success as Ambassador, the Ann Arbor Daily News expresses the wish | that “Uncle Sam might make the posi- | and very s Morrow’s Diplomatic Rule Stirs Favorable ,Comment & neighboring community. He will have lenty of opportunity to apply them gmq' ‘The Buffalo Evening News states that he “has won golden opin- ions at home and abroad ig his services as the Ambassador to Mexico,” while the Rockford Daily Republic views his work “in restoring international confi- dence between the United States and Mexico” as 30 outstan dict on his life.” Quoting Mr. Morrow’s statements, the Po Oregon Journal recognizes it substituted agreement for that he “used reason rather threats”; that he ‘“negotiated bullied; satisfied rather ,” and that “during his administration a threat of war was re- placed by very amicable relations be- tween Mexico and the United States.” “At ght,” thinks the Kala- mazoo Gazette, “the Ambassador's statement may sound like a mere plati- tude, like one of those obvious truths which &ollmm 80 often love to pro- claim solemn fashion. Yet it de- serves more than casual notice. It a long way toward explaining Mr. Morrow's own brilliant record as United States Envoy to the Mexican Republic, and it enunciates a fundamental policy which any nation may follow to ad- vantage in the conduct of its foreign affairs. * * * He made his friend- ships through the same processes of courtesy and congeniality which char- acterize social intercourse Lmun, indi- viduals everywhere. * * * If this common-sense prescription were more generally followed by diplomats, the na- tlons of the world would no doubt find it much easier to get along in peace and friendship.” “In his homely words. is expressed all the wisdom of the Decalogue,” as- sérts the Little Rock Arkansas Demo- crat. ‘The Providence Bulletin feels that “he has shown that courtesy, pa- tact, understanding, honesty, could win over a hostile country,” and Tartford Times offers the judg- “It is small wonder: that the Mexicans shout ‘Here comes the Am- bassador!’ not ‘the American Ambas- sador,’ when he appears at some cere- mony. In ending his ambassadorial mission to Mexico Mr. Morrow richly deserves the gratitude of the American people for having interpreted our aims 80 eably and effectively to our nellmn across the Rio Grande.” Plane Carrying Sixty Marvel of Air Progress Prom the Atlanta Journal. 'Of all the dazzling experiments avia- tion has projected, the DO-X is, in some respects, the most remarkable. It moves almost in & separate dimension because it is an airplane, fast and pow- erful, and yet it has a capacity match- ing that of dirigibles. The proposed flight of the DO-X from Europe to the United States is, therefore, of unique interest. The plan is for the craft to leave Germany within 3he next few weeks. It will be remnbered that in its trial flights the craft, powered by 12 motors of 600 horsepower each, per- formed splendidly, taking aloft more than 60 passengers. A continuous n:rht is not contem- plated. There will be a yxop in the Azores and another in Bermwuds. But the most absorbing featuse of the jour- ney will be a descent about midway between those points on the water, where the gigantic cratt will be re- fueled. Here is an en‘srprise new in aeronautical history. Airplanes, small ly airplanes, have w}:ped ent to continent or from land, but never before has a ble of carrying a large pas. isiana o e ship, ca) reau has in view, we predict that men socn will be wearing vest pockets again. . Bring Out the Halo. Prom the San Antonio Evening News. If Coste and Bellonte shall come through all the America banquets un- scathed, their title to heroic rank will be secure. a dreadful preoccupation with life in all its grim earnestness, which might, without these absurd distractions, drive us prematurely to the tomb. * ok ok Suggests Change in School Vacation Time. El Diario, La Paz—A modification of for repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment and won the 'publican sena- | torial nomination, The New Jersey | State convention followed the recom- menldl';lonl of “)fr‘ . te a platform calling for 1 of the el Eteenm amendment. sy f New York nominated its candi- dates for Governor by the party pri. s frequently the very means of pro- | istration. It was such a simple thing moting abuse and discourtesy on one or | to do and the immediate result, her both sides. In this particular case the | husband’s appointment, was 50 satis- | offense, a minor one at best if the | factory. { But look at the consequences! The | Tammany district leader has lost his municipal position. Likewise the sherifl’s clerk. The Governor of th State has charged the Attorney Gen- eral with the duty of a searching inquiry into this particular transaction, & judge of the State Supreme Court has been tion in Mexico more attractive than it | casional diplomats who succeed down | there would stay put. There's no more important job in the cludes that paper. * ok * “Mr. Morrow is on his way home from the wilderness of Mexico, which he has helped reclaim,” remarks the Newark Evening N "“to the wilderness here with prohibition body. Fernand Contat is of a build en- | tirely and muscular. He is 28 ears old, and despises the compara- vely diminutive feet which have given Carnera such a world-wide fame. Con- tat wears shoes three sizes larger. ——— Keeping Sailors Out of Debt. Y R T b Prom the New London Day. ! but ‘what the n ‘The Navy has issued strict rules on year would have n a wet. The con- ews, the operation of automobiles by enlisted | vention system makes it possible for its confusions men. 'l;:ouuhhkupmn_l'og:o: minority ?‘rtmhdmh and other public questions. Under- o Orators’ Ignorant of Soap. these soap-bof ora! were “yubllc schools, whether advanced, instead of