Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1930, Page 30

THE EVENING STAR With_Sunday Edttion. WASHINGTON, D. C. EUNDAY.....September 28, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star N per Company usiness Office: 11 yivania Ave 8t. - d SR L e Carrier Within the City. + a; . - 45¢ Der izonth y ‘Star_* . 60c per month 'st ner mug;h' Star < per coue:uon’ mlat at the end of each month. Orders may be sent in by mall o ‘eleprcne RAtional 8000 Rate by Mafl—Payable in Advance. , Maryland and Virginia, Daily and Sund: 1 yr.$1000: 1 mo &l’g ily only ... .. $6.00: 1 n.o. uns-y only . ST X 1 wo.. 46¢ All Other States. Exy and Sund ily only . day only . ssociat is exclysively entitied to e s 0F Tupasiication of 1l Hewn ige o8 It ot Jtherwise cred- so AL A e Ry Back to Standard Time. Daylight saving time, which came ! to an end at two o'clock this morning, 15 not unliky the vegetable, spinach. Some persors like it and others do| not. So divided are the schools of | thought on both subjects that there | 1s no hope of ever bringing them to- | gether. The points of view are based on deep-sea'ed and fundamental preju- dices that cannot be removed by argu- ing' according to any of the known systems o/ logic, and discus:ion favor- ing either side is wasted effort. The' only common ground existing in the matter of daylight saving is the com- plets aisngreement over its merits and the resulting confusion. Connecticut, Maine and Wisconsin, accordirg to an interesting discussion of the subject in the United States Daily, forbid daylight saving by statute, but some of the cities of Connecticut ted Press. are found among the approximately four hundred municipalities that prac- ticed daylight saving during the 1930 season. It is safe to say that in none of these cities was the practice adopted without strong dissent, usually taking form in outraged letters to the editor from those who believe that man should let well enough alone and use what some of them have called “God's time.” The Federal Government’s experi- ment with daylight saving was short and conclusive. President Harding stated with extraordinary emphasis that “we have adopted it for this year and I do not want to change that now, but it will be the last time I will ever approve the adoption of such a meas- ure.” But other cities have continued it with such determination that it seems destined to remain for many years to come, until some movement is started to put reverse English on clock setting and try a daylight wasting experiment. ‘While difference is found among in- dividuals concerning the merits of the plan, the lssue squarely divides, as a whole, the urban from the rural popula- tion, with the city folk welcoming an edditional hour of daylight after work in which to tend the garden and sprin- kle the lawn and thé farmer voicihg outraged protest over having to Tise an hour earlier withéut any arrange- ment whereby the sun would follow suit and hasten its drying of the dew, And i if the various Federal departments were to vote on the subject; one would prob- ably find the Department of Agricul- ture condemning daylight saving as the work of the devil, with the Depart- ment of Labor praising, it a5 a boon to the workingman. The Post Office De- partment would find fault with it, un- less the time were universally adopted, for the changes in time twice a year for mall schedules in cities adopt- ing daylight saving time, while trains continue to operate on standard time, cost & lot of money and involve some confusion. The other -departments, no doubt, would register their votes ac- cording to the personal inclinations of the Secretaries. The chief difficulty with daylight saving time, of course, is the confusion that resuits when nearby cities and ad- | Joining States take opposite stands ‘The only perfect colution lies in a Na- tion-wide referendum. on the subject, with. the losing minority given the choice between being shot at sunrise, daylight saving time, or of stopping their ceaseless chatter of -why they voted the way they did, and, by George, intend to fight for their rights! —————— Expert prediction intimates that ft will be poscible for some time to coms to talk about the weather without | undue lots of t>mper. . —— et There is still no question about the basic prosperity of the country. But even in connection with prosperity thers 1s often a problem of distribution. ' et E Public Timekeepers. Before many months have passed ' ‘Washington will lose another of its landmarks, the tower of the Post Office Department Building, which is to be razed to make room for the completion of the Internal Revenue unit of Gov- ernment constructions. This tower has been a dominating feature of the land- scape of downtown Washington for more than thirty years, and for the greater part of that time the clock ‘which is its most familiar f:ature, has been the subject of perennial jest. Of late vears the clock has been doing better than in the carlier period, when 1ts vagaries were a chronic subject of joke smong Washingtonians. But for the lack of a bell it might have been an exemplar of that clock of Jerome K. Jerome's which, according to that veracious Britisher, signified twenty minutes past three when th: hands Ppointed to six-forty and the gong struck nine. Washingtonians often wished that the Post Office clock had a striking apparatus just to add to the public entertainment. Latterly, as suggested, the clock has beu doing better. Its inechanism has been improved and it is & reasonably accurate timepiece,’ though it would never do to rely upon it exclusively for catching trains. In a recent letter to the London Times 8ir Frank Dyson, the astronomer royal of Great Britain, has called attention to & remarkable performancs on the part of what is perhaps the most fa- mous clock in the world, “Big Ben.” ‘which is housed In the tower of the par- liament houses at Westminster. On only twenty-one days out of two -hundred onds for it to reach Trafalgar Square, this performance may be rated as per- fect. Only for astronomical purposes is greater accuracy required. ‘The controlling device which enables the clock to keep 80 nearly perfect time consists of & tray fixed about half-way down the pendulum on which a penny or half-penny is placed when Big Ben is losing time, making the pendulum vi- brate a shade more quickly. If the clock is gaining a penny or a half-penny is removed. This makes the apparatus as delicate in effect as a jeweler's scale. Public timepieces are at best, with perhaps this notable exception, mers ap- preximators of the time. . They are & positive nuisance, however, when they are “off” by minutes. So far as the plans for the Mall-Avenue triangle | Com buildings are disclosed, there will be no successor to the Post Office clock. If in the remodeling of the State Depart- ment structure the “time ball” that has for many years been dropped daily at " {noon precisely on the roof is eliminated Uncle Sam will make no contributions to the time knowledge of the commu- nity, accurately or otherwise. ————— The Cost of Government. It wes not o very many years ago when the counry gasped on finding that it ad become a “billlon-dollar nation,” the annual Federal appropria- tions for maintenance having reached that impressive figure. But now a bil- lion dollars is not regarded with awe or alarm. Billion-dollar Congresses are succeeding one another with material additions to the total of Government allotments of funds. The five-billion mark has now been approximated. Mean- while there has been a great increase in the cost of other forms of govern- ment within the United States, State and local, until today, according to & research recently conducted into this subject, the annual expense of running public affairs is well over twelve billion dollars, or a per capita cost of more than $100 for every man, woman and child in the United States. New York City is an example of the constant increase in expense. In 1900 the grand total of the annual cost of Greater New York was a little more than $92,000,000, In 1929 it had grown to very nearly $539,000,000, and for the current year it is practically $570,- 000,000. The budget for this coming year of 1031 is estimated at between $630,000,000 and $635,000,000. According to the latest computations for all three groups of public expendi- tures, Federal, State and local, for the fiscal year 1927—Ilater figures are avail- able for two of these groups but not for the third—the grand total of govern- mental expendiiures in the United States was $12,170,000,000. This is di- vided as follows: Federal, $4,069,000,- 000; State, $1,656,000,000, and local, $6,454,000,000. The per capita expendi- tures are: Federal, $34.30; State, $13.96, and local, $54.41. Thus it is to be seen that it costs more to run the ¢ities and towns, the various municipal units, than the States and the Nation, All this means taxes of various kinds and in varicus degrees. That it means waste is evident to any inquirer into the ways and means of muniocipal, State and Federal management. It may be esiimated without risk of exaggeration that at least twenty-five per cent of the costs of government, State, local and Federal, could be saved if the country in all of its branches and units of or- ganization were run on strictly busi- ness principles. Makeshift methods of administration, the intrusion of politi- cal factors into the equation of govern- ment, the lack of a scientific system of providing as well as expending funds, all these are elemenis of waste. New York City's budget of over $800,000,000 probably represents at the very least one hundred millioy, dolars of outlay for which the texpayers get noth- ing but an increasingly expensive politi- cal organization. ————— Germany values Hindenburg's influ- ence. Seasoned and experienced minds have often been more appreciated in that part of Europ: than elsewhere, Stromboli's Strange Freak. ‘The other day the Volcano Stromboll aupted and caused several deaths and many 1injuries to persons and much damage to property on the little Med- iterranean island of which it is the principal feature and of which indeed it occupies almost the entire area. The 3,000 inhabitants of the island might readily have been wholly eliminated by the eruption, which was merely the latest of a long series of siesmic dia- gorgements. Stromboli 1s oneof the most persistently active of all the earth’s vents and has a sinister record of destruction. This latest eruption appears to have been of an unusual character. When the blast came, the volcano blew off its cone. This ordinarily would suffice to furnish an outlet for the pent-up forces within the chimney leading down to the inner fires of the earth. But in this case Strumboll needed more freedom than that gained through the blasting out of the “plug” at the crest. An opening was forced through the earth at the base of the great cone, and from this poured lava and burning sand, which reached the villages In the coastal plains even bafore the lava from the crater itself. This is an extraordinary phenom- enon. In many cases of volcanic ac- tivity vents have been formed on the higher slopes of the mountain mass, near the central crater, but rarely if ever have they occurred at the base. Etna, which dominates the island of Sicily, not many miles south of the Aeolian Islands, of which Stromboll is a feature, has in the course of its cen- turies of eruptions pitted its sides witt craters and cones as the lava has been forced through weaker seams of the structure in various directions. Strom- boli, however, has been hitherto as a rule consistent in voiding its dejecta from the central crater. This outburst from near the base of the mountain is articularly unu-ual in the case of this | ancient fury of the Mediterranean. The Aeolian Islands, from the fact that they were the scene of violent storms in long ago times, as now, were 50 called by the anclents because of their belief that Aeolus, the god of the winds, resided there. As Etna was at- tributed to be the home of Vuican, so Stromboli was the seat of the great wind god, who could be beneficent or THE SUNDAY ;STAR, malevolent, according as he blew fa-| vorable and gentle or adverse and furi. ous winds The largest island of this 3 Lipari, has in late years gained l""' ister significance with the Italian peo- ple, for upon it have been imprisoned those convicted of crimes against the Italian state. It is today the abode of many who have been exiled for machi- nations against Mussolini. Come On! Say It Again! An envelope addressed to The Star contains the following ringing, if Aanonymous, challenge: I do not know your name, But every year about this time, When the meam of your paper have ASet T ceased beal u:n[h:l.nhs of victims stricken by the at, ‘You grab write Of ‘Washingion's. glorlons "~ mmers, Its g.cwhu fame as 04 L. We v‘n‘thnxdnrcpnmm And time is slipping fast. e on. I dare you. Dare whom? Despite the hottess, dryest and alto- gether gosh-darndest Summer in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, those remembering more than fifty years back, Washington continues to rank high as one of the best places in the United States to spend a vacation. The hottest and most disagreeable days of the Summer continued to produse crowds at the ball park. The golf links were jammed as usual. ‘The river's cooling breszes were sought by scores of canoelst”, motor boatmen, yachtsmen, while the riverside drives were packed to suffocation with thousands of auto- mobilists. Moving picture theaters did @ rush business during the dull season, many of them permitting their cus- tomers to stand in lines for an hour or more to work up a suitable fever of anticipation before sitting down and looking at the picture, this being noble on the part of the movies. The many public buildings were thronged with armies of pop-eyed tourists and the guides at the Capitol say that this talk of depression is m lot of bunk, what with the clink of tips ringing in their ears. But the surprising proof of the pud- ding Is conteined in the fact that every vacationist who foolishly left the Cap- ital for Maine or other mosquito~in- fested spots this Bummer has come back to town this Fall, breathed a long sigh of relief, found that none of the silverware has been stolen, stretched out in the easy chair and made the follow- ing statement: “Well, home is the best place after Al And, in’ addition, those who rémained in Washington this Summer were as happy as thote who went away. If that is sour grapes, remember that a rolling stone gathers no moss! Put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Challenger! e —— It is reported that 8ir Thomas Lipton has changed his mind and will try again for the ecup. In leisure almost supesrabundant he must have occupation and probably prefers yacht building to solitaire, - ————— There has always been great profit in aleohol. In political argument about the mansgement of .liquor, the professional purveyor can usually re- main neutral, 1 T — Chicago is struggling against & bliz- 2ard. Even the reporting of the weather man in order to be truthful becomes: sensational. Soviet Russia, having studied the Ohicago market, decided to forget ethics and go bucket shopping. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Your Uncle Sam. (A Bit of Pardonable Jingo.) Your Uncle S8am will do his part, ‘Whatever may draw near. He'll strive with sympathetic heart, But not a trace of fear. Of history both grave and gay The pages he will turn, And what he may not know teday, He'll undertake to learn. Your Uncle Sam, as is well known, In hardship starte¢ out, And everything he did has shown He knows what he's about. ‘We know that glory cannot fade For those who do and dare, He's often easy to persuade, But mighty hard to scare. History and History. “Every one in Massachusetts remem- bers the Boston Tea Party.” “I'm not so ," answered Senator Sorghum. “Boston is as keen about sports as anybody,'an¢ a lot of the citizens there continue to think that the real glory of the old town rests in the biography of John L. Sullivan.” Jud Tunkins says farm literature is 50 abundant that printing presses are beating the tractors with scarcely a struggle. Summer of 1930. ‘The torrid wave would score a hit And ample joy return us, 1f we could only bottle it Securely in the furnace. The Alluring Labels. “Do you favor prohibiticn?” “Cerlainly,” answered Miss Cayenne. “I never go even so far as to purchase 8 soft beverage whose label is obviously designed to indicate a suggestion of the old-fashionec alcoholic kick.” “An enemy honestly defeated,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is far less dangerous than a friend betrayed.” Close Living. As we with care economize, Apartments still decrease in size. Living is more condensed today, And “Pee-Wee" golf is what we play. “I has reformed,” sai¢c Uncle Eben. “I is convinced dat gamblin’ is wrong, And, anyhow, I's broke.” But It Tsn't a Car! Prom the Omaha World-Herald. Eight-horse state coach used by Wi liam Hohenzollern sold to fhe King Abyssinia for $6,000. Good price for used car, 11- of a - Easy for Some to Do. Prom the Toledo Blade. If all the people couldn’t the time in Lincoln's l:.y ‘|tory in the November election. CO-OPERATION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES Bish Text: “All the body fitly framed and kmit together thi h _that which every joint supplieth.”—Ephe- stans, {v.16. ‘The author of the above passage not of a machine that functions with unfailing precision, whose every movement is carefully planued; he is m-ung rather of human society and relation of its members one to another in making it orderly and happy. In other place he has said, “No " His argument concerns the whole scheme of life and the relation that one part of the. human - mechanism bears to every other ‘Frt. Insular living, a kind of hermit life, is impractical and unworthy. No situation is econceivable where a man or & wom- an ean reserve to themselves the right to live irresponsibly or independently of those about them. Neither exalted po- sition nor wealth, knowledge or rance, joy of sorrow, success or failure confers upon its recipient the right to & Separate and lonely existence. Society oould hot endure if such conditions V2t aites scd SpiLides, we.sge ot ere s and aptitudes, we are All of one mind, politically, religiously or industrially. ere this not so, life would be deadly dull and all progress arrested. We readily acknowledge the advantages that accrue to a diversity of fts. It is quite another thing to be- ve that our h being our castle, our position honorably gained and a comfortable competerice assured, we can regard ourselves as immune to social responsibilities and obligations. A state out A highly developed social con- soiousness faces anarchy and ultimate dissolution. Insistence upon a mem< | ber’s responsibility to all the other members, of & just recognition of his obligations in all human relations, is indispensable to orderly living. A mechanism that functions effectively is made up of many members and all the members have their particular place and their particular duty to perform. The one thing that can lm?alr it_and destroy its efficlency is friction. Fric- tion wears the bearings. ‘This holds true of the great human machine. Every member of it must have a defl- nite function and, in discharging it, it must be in cordial and willing co-oper- Ation with every other member. Let it fail through carelessness or selfishness to make its contribution to the good of the other members to which it is related and presently A situation ensues that caues arrested motion and, unless lgeeduy corrected, issues in suspension of operation, Argue as we may con- cerning our freedom to do as we please, urge as we frequently do our inalienable right -to independent action, we thereby only create a situation in which we be- D. 0p of Washingt, come the vietims of our own folly, and in doing so bring misfortune upon those C., SEPTEMBER 28, E. FREEM. , D. D, LL. D, ‘who readily and gladly do their gnrt. A homely but conspicuous exam of what we mean is illustrated daily in our city streets. With increased automobile {s| traffic a situation has arisen that calls for and demands lesuhtlon and super- vision. To this end new traffic rules have been made that apply to driver and pedestrian alike. These rules have but one purpose, namely, to guarantee um.d and afford facility of movement to all concerned. Without such rules, fairly enforced, our city streets would be impassable. In the face of this situ- ation we witness daily the most wanton and willful violations. Almost all acci- dents are due to the sslfishness of those who are h law unto themselves and who ciaim the right, in spite of the common , to do as they please. They refuse 10 co-operate and in doing so bring dis- aster and sometimes irreparable damag: to law-abiding reople. he l{mllufim of all this to other aspects of our core porate life 18 obvious. Industrial strife and (:‘l:‘ord':r mml r|v]::rles and mal- adjustments with resultant suspens! of communal fellowship, bitter polmm animosl! and, most reprehensible of all, religious controve: gov out of the failure chrum mem-+ 8 of the to play their part ac- cording to a well ordered plan’ that is designed to serve the common concerns of all. Our interests are so closely knit and our relations one with another are $0 intimate that we cannot long enjoy what we have without cordial and gen- erous co-operation. The Christian ideal of life must find its largest expression Just here. Fundamentally, Christianity 18 a system that demands fellowship &nd co-operation. It is not a theory of life designed for our personal comfort or our personal salvation. It is a com- munity interest it is designed to serve. Falling in this, it fails in one of the great purposes of the Master. His whole ministry was one of beneficent service. He sought to make life more abundant. He created a society of men and women designed for mutual benefit. He emphasized repeatedly man's social responsibility, He directed His ministry to those who had suffered injustice, those who were the victims of the self- ish greed of others, those who through their own or others' faults had miscar- ried or been disappointed of their ex- pectations. His sternest denunciation was directed against the shallow pre- tenses of those who made thelr religious profession a cloak to hide their own sins, Human soclety is a big machine. We are all essential parts of it. It sur- vives and works efficiently only in so far as each several part selflessly co-oper- ates to the fmd of the whole. Play| the game of life with a high resolvi and unselfish motives means being a benefactor to the generation of which we are & part. ‘Mrs. McCormick Gains Votes in Illinois As Result of Nye Committee’s Actions BY WILLIAM HARD. The hostilities between Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican nominee for the United States Senate from Illinois, and Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Da- kota, chairman of the Senate's Speeial Select Committee on Campaign Ex- ndltur?fi h-v;e now gone far Iztyonu uestion of campaign expenditures merely, and they presented at this week end an issue of fundamental law which prolonged senatorial and tional controversy. Mrs. McCormick and her political associates are raking votes off the Illi- nois praries with continuous emphatic claims of alleged gross violations of their legal rights as citizens by the Nye committee and its agents. The local success of mhheleeuonuml.w nunv&;:’l: now . genrally admii instead of hurting Mrs. has, in fact, helped her and. has increased her chances of vic- £k .. ‘The McCormick managers, in the midst of their outcries against the “persecution” of their heroine by Mr. ye, admit that he has provided them with their most useful instant vote- getting argument, and it might be sup- posed that in such circumstances they would be willing to grant to Mr. Nye first gratitude and then oblivion. They seek instead to perpetuate their com- plaint against him #nd to bring it to Washington as petitioners for a redress of grievances which they assert to have been inflicted upon eitizens of Illinols and upon the State of Illinols under color of authority from the United States Senate. TR . Thus rises the first politically impor- tant effort to set bounds to the hithe unlimited powers in practice exerciced over citizens and their personal effects by senatorial committees of investiga- tion and exploration. A check was given to this effort in Chicago last week by Mr. Nye when he refused on behalf of his committee . to listen to evidence which was proffered to him by the at- torney general of the State of Illinols, Oscar J. Carlstrom. It thereupon be- came necessary for the McCormick ad- herents to make plans for taking that evidence either into the eourts in per- sonal suits ageinst Mr. Nye or his agents, or else in some manner to the Senate floor for full senatorial consider- ion. » * kKW ‘The personalities of the altercati betweenv Mrs. McCormick and Mr. Nye at this point sink into unimportance, and a public national issue appears, which may be stated as follows Will the Senate or the courts give appro’ or disapproval to senatorial investigation methods which Mr. Nye did not originate, ‘but which he was merely exemplified and perhaps ex- anded? ; kS The charges brought against the Nye Committee by Attorney General Carl- strom and W. C. Dannenberg, head of a detective agency in Mrs. Mc- ick's employ, are in summary these: That Mr. Nye personally unlawfully demanded and secured from & bank in Chicago a large number of papers hav- ing to do with the personal affairs of | Mr. Dannenbe: and having nothing at all to do with his employment by Mrs. McCormick and covering transac- tions which In fact in many instances had taken place long before his em- ployment by Mrs. McCormick. * k x i That Mr. Nye, personally, unlawfully, a'so demanded and secure: l;:m : ::(l;- ‘aph company a large number of - E:‘?- rromp. and to Mr. Dannenberg similarly having nothing to do with his employment by Mrs. McCormick and similarly in many instances ante-dat- ing it. hat Mr. Nye in any case h{-:lh 2o right to possess himself of any of documents even if they related to Mr. Dannenberg's employment by Mrs. Mc- Cormick, since that employment had th expenditures for That Mr. Nye's agents, or persons inspired thereto by Mr. Nye's agents, caused Mr. Dannenberg's ptivate tele- hone wires to be tapped and recnrds be made of his private telephone con- versations in criminal violation of the ant'-wire-tapping statutes of the State of Iliinois. ST That the Nye Committee unlawfully demanded the private records of the Dannenberg Detective Agency, lnvalm matters over which the committee no jurisdiction, and that Mr. Dannen- berg was within his legal rights in de- {ying the committee and refusing produce the records. That agents of the Nye Committee unlawfi demanded from Mrs. Mc- private account books for a period of two years her into the contest for the sen- Tllinols and that ‘That in the atmosphere of lity thus created there was a criminal“tap- ing of the ulcphone wires leading to ?‘m McCormick’s farm home at Byron, Il, and a criminal forcible entrance effected into her farm office and into the files of papers located in that office. * K K K That these illegalities and invasions of private rights represent a gradual rowth which for many years has been ostered and devel by _successive Senatorial Investigations ittees and that a formal repudiation and pro- hibition of them by the courts or by the Senate is demanded by the public in- terest in harmony with the decision of the United States SBupreme Court to the effect that: “Few, if any, of the rights of the ple guarded by the funda- mental law ere of greater rtance to their happiness and. safety n the right to be exempt from ail arbitrary or unreasonable inquiries and dis-| closures in respect of their personal and private affairs” * kK X Tt is to be noted that the McCormick forces do not claim that they can con- nect the Nye.Committee with the illegal invasions of Mrs. McCormick’s privacy at Byron. They assert only that those invasions happened in the midst of what they term senatorial terrorism. To illustrate that terrorism they proffered testimony (which Mr. Nye declined in Chicago to hear) establishing, as the; contend, the fact that information u: by him in committee hearings was g‘lmd on the committee’s behalf by vid Grob, whom they identify as an ex-convict indicted and sentenced for manslaughter. * X% It is realized in Washington that Mr. Nye has acted with no really exceptional ruthlessness and only essentially in the customary modern manner of an ad-| venturous Senator on an investigating expedition. The Senator’s normalcy on this point is, indeed, the wohle im- portance of the controversy in being and in Rroapect. Mrs. McCormick, through Attorney General Carlstrom, has declined to appear further before the committee or in any way further to co-operate with it till, as she and he say, “the objectionable features of the investigation are corrected and discon- tinued.” When, therefore, the commit- tee reconvenes in Chicago in Novem- ber, if it summons Mrs. McCormick to appear before it and she refuses to do 80, an action for contempt of the Sen- Ate against her may bring the issue of senatorial privileges and private rights before the country in full form. Mr. Nye ®nd Mrs. McCormick would then pro- tract their contest as the symbols of two oppesing ideals, for each of which strong arguments will be made, all through next Winter on into the special Spring Senate session for the seating of new Senators. (Copyright. 1930.) Many Americans Enjoying the Blues BY HARDEN COLFAX. ‘The Al Jolson type of song is licked temporarily in this country. It has been licked primarily not by depression in business, but by people whom that dzgx;eulon has not touched. esent conditions are due largely to the mental attitude of the American people. This is clearly illustrated by reports to Government officialc, by the messages which these officlals have at- tempted to get to the public and by pri- vate but reliable investigations. Many men prominently connected with the commercial life of their vari- ous,communities have assumed the roles 1930—PART TWO. | Capital Sidelights BY m P. KENNEDY. President and visitors to his executive jce #re delighting in & handsome suite of traditionally correct American furniture, the recent gift of the Grand Rapids, Mich., wood furniture menufacturers. The suite consists of 16 plects which were made by the best craftsmen ustcuu for the private office of the Chiel ecutive when his office was “restored” following the fire on. Christmas eve. Mrs. Hoover was first to correct an erroneous _re| that she gave this furniture to President. ‘The most important piece in the suite is an extraordinarily beautiful desk 84 incl made from carefully selected wood, picked for beauty and grain, It is in intricate tooled design, with hand- wrought bronze trimmings, . bulging drawer fronts and back panels, and carrying detalled work by the leading artisans of th: tndustry. Edwerd Pranklin Tabzr, who is called from coast to codst to design elaborate and expensive offices of leading Amer- fcan execulives, was responsible for the erel scheme. He and strite, | red and gold being used. The suite includés several chairs cov- ered in rich fabrics, & pair of beautiful 'b‘ock cabinéts and several oceasional xr X ‘There has just been placed on the edge of tae Lee Highway in the town of Falls Chutch, Fairfax County, Va., & { marker which stands about a hundred yards from the Colonial church which gave that town its name. The inserip- tion on the marker is as follows: “The Falls Church, “The first church on- this site was bullt in 1734 and was in Truro Parish, George Washington was elected & vestryman October 3, 1763. In 1765 the ‘church fell within the newly- created Fairfax Parish, of which Wug- ington was chosen a ves an. The present church was built in 1768. It Was used &8 & recruiting station in the Revolution and as a stable by Union troops in 1862-65.” The marker was provided by the Vir- ginia State Concervation Oommission at the suggestion of the present rector, Rev. R. Allen Castleman, and Repre- sentative R. Walton Moore, in wl district this church, as well as those at Pohick, Aléxandria and several other Colonial churches are located. The walls of the church are As strong as when they were built, and the interior has been restored to about the condi- tion in which it wes in the eary days. The Falls Church marker is only one of mi hunidred which are not to be seen along the highways of historic Virginia, and the. number is being: in- creased constantly. It is sate to that those who travel in Virginia the bicentennial year, 1932, will find markers pointing to all the places with which Gen. Washington was .in any way identified. peak| try or Europe. He says that in a visit this Summer to localities in Penn- sylvania and New Jetsey, where the batties of the Revolution were M{lhl. he was impressed by the comparative absence of such historical markers as are now found everywhere in V! in. * % ew ‘The most famous house in all ‘the world—our White House, home of the Presidents—would be literally torn to pleces if all the relic or trophy hunters could take away a small pi b 1t fully .. However, repairs are being made, cerfain portions ot the wood removed are caréfully dis- ensed as souvenirs, which are highly “mor'e 50 than if of the White: House were much more numerous and indiscriminately dis- tributed. .« John A. Elliott, jr.. historian of Tea- neck, N. J., Post, No. 128 of the Amer~ ican Legion, has wriiten: “I turned the plece of timber from the White House over to this post, which in turn loaned it to the trustees of the Teaneck Public Library for public display. PFrom re- ports received, many residents are mak: ing special trips just to see this relic.” Thor Orem, past potentate, Ahmed Temple of Marquette, Mich., writes of' his pleasure dn “giving a thrill” to the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons ?lf Michigam-at their annual convoca- tion : avel our n ebilock of mrq\lem, &Ln.. it was said by hundreds present that never in the history of the chapter had so inter- esting a gavel been used and a great many crowded the station to look at it and to handle it. It furnished one of the outstanding features of the session that was a series of outstanding events.” t an olAd,;;lme thrill out oL the alleged anger, nobody enjoys scared like a banker. Penmn: ended play in El Paso by a parade of from Fort Bliss, which was viewed (by invitation) by Pancho Villa snd all his staff, but the El Paso citizens had had their thrill,” * o x X Citizens of other sections are now gemnn a thrill out of visualizing raids Yy & more potent enemy than Villa. They seem to enjoy being scared. A Middie West newspaper the section thought to be hit hardest by low crop prices and drought and general business depression instituted an inquiry. A re- porter stopped 47 men and women and #sked them, “Is business good or bad?" Forty-four said, “Bad.” Asked if th:{ were nding less than they would if they ht busi- ness were good, 41 of the 44 said they were. They were asked whether the business depression had decreased their | Income. Again 44 said it had not. Asked why, if they had not had their income cut, they were spend less, 36 could not answer, 1 told the ques- tioner it was none of his business and the others gave convincing reasons. * K Xk ¥ As for examples of spending, it should be noted that Americans spent some $8,000,000 this year for grouse and deer shooting and fishing rights in England and Scotland, including salaries to beaters, game licenses, cartridges and equipment. Other Americans spent 10 times that amount at home for similar purposes. The base ball world has never had as prosperous a season as in 1930. The golf and miniature golf of prophet, seer and revelator, and, like actors, strive to make the shivers course up and down the backbones of their audiences 3 Government officials are makl efforts to induce the would-be oracles no to misread the signs. Secretary of Commerce Lamont in making a full ex- position of business situation stressed this point. The officials realize fully that directions to “look for the . | silver lining” are far more popular when the silver lining is plainly visible, but few of them or of the sound business men who confer with them have much tience with citizens who look toward he future with anticipatory shudders. Much of the blame for this attitude is placed on the doorstep of the bank- The latter, it is alleged, have been 80 taken up with the idea of convincing the public that their banking pojicies are thoroughly sound that they have man- to their custom>rs with a insecurity. * ok ok ok One member of a delegation from Texas, who came to Washington last aj sense of to | week to press for advice as to how to re- lieve the situation in that district ex- essed himself to this writer as fol- expenditures have topped any record for sport or amusement ever known. Once the circus was the money getter of the amusement world. It has men place to golf. Never has there n a gathering of yachts which could compare with the boats brought from far ports to see the America’s Cup races off Newport. xR . The ‘Federal Reserve Board announces that funds for the movement are readily available at lower rates than in the last decade. Public works are pro- gressing at a pace never before Government officials lay a of the pessimistic attitude of try Lg‘ the fact tlu: 1t convinel argument against . “I can’t alford It in view of the pres- ent depression” stops many a salesman. But the producers are now providing a convincing answer to* this in the declaration that no business man can 83 by the present low level R cum) l‘\lundni: as the in Personal Liberty Beset Again BY FREDERIC ‘That much hunted and hounded pet of the framers o tution of berty, 18 turesque of American mercial activity. ing the American people that Sam is stalking Personal Liberty this time by limiting the right of citizens g'ln aor:“tnlww. f ““Dglllu o 888, OF, & of sym| 5 It scarcely can be gainsaid that a suggestion of self-interest is to be de- tected in the fact that the warning comes from the people who are making tent medicines, but if they are not iterested and informed on the matter, who would be? General interest among both the hale and ailing mgy be found in the circumstance t the lum of drag- ging Old Man Personal Liberty into any srgument still is going on. Nor is branches of &- ine is by | the fact that & new round in the long- ::d'lcnl;\m‘ battle ‘Mml.l“fll\l patent ¢ men and of In charg of Federal statutes has been tutes commenced devold of interest. Many Medicines on Market. An_amasing number of proprietary Gunerally Known, are on. the are more own, are on the American market.,” Moreover, An amaz- ing number of ruom use them, Pat- ent medicine intricate'y entwined with American history. 80 many are the ills of man and so eredulous and hopeful are the alling that medicine feems a part of most lives. The priests of primitive peoples are called medi- cine men and -are practically wor- shiped. at least they are regarded as vicegerents of the strange gods they serve e Not unnaturally, ploneer Americans, coming into contact with the North American Indlans and finding active survivals of the medicine men who once occupled similar sway in Europe, made capital out of the situation. Many In- dians were, by long observation, ex- B:frlence and tribal tradition, skilled the ‘selection and compounding of herbs and simples, just as were me- dieval magicians in Europe. Obtaining the secrets of these, or preundln{ to, many an early American adventurer made his living, if not a fortune, by hawking preparations based on these ins. ight here in America, where few drug stores existed and few doctors, was & ready market, for people, even pio- , will buy almost any kind of medicine. Better still, discoveries of these marvelous new-old Indian reme- dies thrilled jaded Europe to*new hope. It was the day of the pack-peddier here and abroad. How many fortunes were started by these first remedies cannot be mhdy. but they were not siderable in number. Véreatile Medicine Man. ‘There is an entire period of American history decorated by the presence of the incon- say |itinerant, adventurous ploneer patent in‘| medicing peddier. He doubled, often, in religion as ed vilinges. empty, and in those many often were, he would u; e to preach the Word. Not seldom he did so with eloquerice and earnestness. . Many of the early itinerants had real Indians a8 a part of their stage e, whatever It wasguod for man cine, wi ver Wi for man and beast. Some went the length of & minfature circus; a dancing bear, pérhaps; an acrobat and contor- to days, were a pulpit circuit-riding J. HASKIN. }l‘g!nm: nndd. J:omn:u muw wrlulo would oxen an cl al to physical encounter for & nwnq%' All doubled in brass to form a small band. They paraded the streets and were, in a sense, the forerunners of the modern circus and the theater, ’rhz{ were the forerunners, more par- ticularly, of the great p: medi- cine companies which lay are warn- ing us that Personal Liberty again is under attack. The cry does not come strangely from this curlously descended rrolenyA ‘Those days of the itinerant sellers of patent medicine were days when perscnal liberty meant something. People did not split Nairs over the difference be- tween liberty and license. Liberty cone slsted of everything you could gst away with—including life and the pursuit of happiness. They were among those 'good old days” so often referred to at late hours among convivial com- pany. Out of the enterprise and the compe- tition of the peddiers grew the mtup':l providing for the protection by law of the various formulae. A medicine, n:nm:ted ny in- road upon personal that it provided por:mu for pirating & competitor's mixture. Pure Food Act Came Next. Next, and most importantly, came | the pure food and drugs mct. A tre- mendous battle was staged over that legislation when it panded in Congress, especially over that part dealing with drugs including, of course, patent medi- cines. This was an encioachment on the rights of th: patent medicine mak- ers to sell anything they could find customers for, and it was always pos- sible to find customers for any sort of medicine provided it contained a suf- ficiently large proportion of an ingre- dient that would give 1t the tonic ggnp:luu calculated to Inspire a testi- But the Government began interpret- ing the pure food and act with a certain amount of latitudinarianism. Of course, too, amendments were add- ed to strengthen the law from time to time. For example, the element of mis- branding entered.” No longer was it possible to advertise and brand & patent medicine as efficacious in ‘the treatment of everything from house- maid’s knee to heresy or hernia. The Government invaded the liberty of statements there Joyed by proprietaries by making and fleummlnl vy a :lol:‘eu-‘ur ;}r not certain celvably cure given nts. In at many cases it was found that lht':edlelnn’ mhht‘ghnr rg the patient temporarily, but lacked P medicines couls e healing we! ol prletm.‘ powers ascribed by the Government's Little List. Now the position is that list of aiiments has' been drame g by the Federal authorities as requ specific. treatment by a physician In | not amenable to patent medicines, As s00n a3 an i i foens an infirmity is placed on this contrary to law for & ;l‘:l:sn.: cure. lxn‘:pl?“ bn-re cancer, in- . pneumon! erculosis, ‘dia- betes, Bright's disease and the like. The industry defines this ag- guslve policy as a new aitack upon e right of & citizen to diagnoss his Own case and prescribe his qwn remedy. —With the aid of a book of ptoms, such as may be found in the literature of many patent medicine the almanac. Pains in ths. before the eyes, fatigue B fer L T, r Personal ogain! i Hitler’s Outburst Retards European Disarmament ¢ BY'A. G, GARDINER. LONDON, September af.—Public opinion here is much perturbed by Adolf Hitler's amasing outburst at the Leipaig trial of four officers in the Reichswehr and the incident is the subject of ine finite discussion in the press. Apart from Lord Rothermere's fren- zied eulogies of Hitler. in the Daily Mail, the general tenor of comment is directéd to calming public feeling by represent- ing the ineldent as a wave of emotion due largely to the exceptional condi- | tions of the moment. ' But the gravity of the matter and its disastrous effect on'| the European situation are fully recog- nized. * % ok ok Tt is generally agreed that the course ::' "!2:! at tll:l: omdevalgonleuxx:ie has n depressing an er’s explosion seriously darkens the outlook, ly in regard to ipects for the cisarma- ment negotiations. The Pascist success at the polls in Germany had been made. the occasion of the most extravagant press panic in France and the grm- slon was widely prevalent in polit! eir- cles_here that the event was being de- liberately exploited in influential quar- ters in Paris to strengthen resistance to disarmament.on the ground that France was In jmminent peril. Hitler's wild threats, of course, lent force to this view and to the aiarms on which the French militarist policy rests. * ok ok X | . As the Manchestor Guardian remarks, +We are paving today for postponing for four year: u?uel to Locarno. Qustav Stresemann’s pfidm of fulfillment has indeed trium) at last and brought bout the liberation of the Rhineland, but the victory was too long delayed and acknowledged' with so bad a grace that it has not placated the deep rerentment of Germany at the many injustices of While admitting EReRE by a victory of the hnltlul¥y Chauvi- nist faction in Germany, tak: that Hitler's Aol hd 8 should arvuse ridi- cule rather zm“ alarm outside Ger- many. It states that there is no rea- son to belleve that more than a few officers of the Reichswehr have been influenced by the Fascist propaganda and bases Its confidence on President Fifty Years A In The Stargo Fifty years ago Washington had not 80 much to visitors in the way of “BIghtS” f0r ahiinction ians o her Visitors, today. Outside of the Capitel and ‘the White House, the Smithsonian Institution was about all there was to be seen of in~ terest to the tourist. The tember 21, 1880, says on this subject: Star of Sep- “The returr of the Fal °=}Y apparent v ish al o,uplu streets and at the several traction in Washington; but some who generally tumn for thelr season of recreation. Just now the Smithsonian Institution seems to be the special attraction for visttors. It is estimated that for the past week the average of visil disappointed because the New Museum, Which is to be filled with many. famil- lar contributions from the Centennial and the many curiosities Uncle Sam iroduction of heating appliances. The appropriation having been exhausted, it is gu-lble that the flooring will not be laid until next Spring and the build m not be formally opened untll thai . “One of the features of the Smith- sonian collection which is now attract- ing more than usual attention is the. grouped phot phic collection of the eminent scientists of the world, In- cluded herein are also the Dholafil hs of the correspondents of the instit '.fim It is & study to analyze these faces. They differ as do the lights and shades of a picture, and yet in each face there is to be found some marked character- istic. It would seem, for one thing, that scientific men as a rule are blond and have blue eyes.” * % * x That subdivision of Washington which is known as Anacostia, on the southern & , Side of the Eastern Uniontown's Branch, was long ago New School. called Uniontown and habitants felt that they were diserim- Von Hindenburg's presi and com- manding influence ol‘r’er tfh’? army. . * ko K . Indeed, there is nothing more re- mMarkable in the press nnm'menu than the current feeling in this erisis. says the Times, fortunately has drastic powers and 1s as resolutely opposed any interference of the ogmn in lml‘f-l tics as he is hostile to attempt to subvert the oonamuflnn.:ry lead tge German nation into foreign adventures. a) "mh""mm strike would smother Oonflnha Views are e whether Hitler's threat * % % % ‘The danger of the situation is that the French attitude will continue to | Eh’ into the hands of the German | ndiaries, who, in. the Englith lib- | been made formid- itive effect of such vasion of the Ruhr, tion of the delay the inexcusable tion of the for many years its in- inated against in the matter of public improvements: In The Star of Sep- tember 21, 1880, is the following letter from a resident: “, 'After walting patiently for many Yyears, the people of Uniontown are to the sandbank where the old dilapidated structure stands that is called the school house, Work on the new edifice has. commenced and our people feel indig- nant and disappointed beca was the same air until heavy with a poisonous :u A visit in cold weather to our old bullding, when schools were in session, will reveal noxious state of the air. It is a - gnr !’:at :«: children have been al ive in sucht an atmosphere. Again, puplls that will the school rooms in one-half of the will: have the MM:& A8 patent medicine to claim that it pro-