Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1930, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.....September 20, 1630 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th 8t. and Pennsyivania Ave, New York Office: 110 East 42n A icay Of Rutldine. ffice: Lake Michizan an Office; 14 Rezent St., London, England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Eveninz Star ;- .45¢ rer month e Evi and Sunday Sfar ndavs) 60c per month iar -.85¢ per month \....8c per cop: nd of each month. i ders may be sent in by mail or (elephone or KAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 80: 1 mo- 43¢ fly snd Sunday.....1vr. *10.00: iy only - a 6 5 ay only " $4.00; 1 mo., 40c All Other States and Canada. E:y and Sunday ily only ... ay only this paper and aiso herein. Al rights of pub! al dispatches herein are Teser; The Hindenburg Line. The lapse of two weeks since the Pascist-Communist landslide in Ger- many has sufficed to permit the govern- ment at Berlin to recover its equilibrium and reform its lines. Chancellor Bruen- ing, plainly unterrified by the brasado of Herr Hitler, announces that the cabi- net’s fiscal plans, which precipitated the recent general election, will pres- ently be submitted to the new Reichs- tag. That body, now so heavily listing to the extreme left, will be confronted, as to the government's program, with the ancient alternative of “take it or leave it If the Reichstag prefers to “lcave it,” and again refuses to ratify the pro- gram, the chancellor once more will ask President von Hindenburg to ad- Journ Parliament and exercise the pow- ers of dictatorship by the cabinet, as specifically provided by the Weimar con- stitution. Drastic as this procedure will be, especially in the heated state of public opinion generated by the Fascist-Communist boom, the govern- ment's supporters contend that there is no alternative if Germany's cha- otle economic conditions are not to drift rapidly from bad to worse. ‘The government, if Herr Bruening re- orts, as he inevitably must, to another coalition cabinet, will prevail in the coming Reichstag by roundly two to one. Apparently the chancellor doubts Whether he can patch up a Working been previously accomplished in a sin- gle year. Then he went to Minneapolis to defend his American open title, blasted his way into the lead in the third round and won the championship by two strokes, That left him needing to win at Philadelphia to complete the perfect year. Facing the amateur fleld at Merion with the same game that had carried him through three champion- ships in the space of three months, Bobby romped through with something to spare in every match. His apparent ability to “turn on the heat” at will and crush his opponents under an avalanche of birdies enabled him to finish 28 holes in front of the field at Merion. Not one of his matches went past the fourteenth hole. « His campRign from mid-April through Iate September is the most remarkable | one-man achievement in sport. Fifteen thousand miles of travel to win four ‘mnjm— championships and set so many c | Tecords that the sport historians have | not yet chronicled them all! But these facts will suffice: He has won the world crown in golf. He has set a new record for the American amateur cham- plonship by winning it five times. He won the medal round at Merion. And through all the adulation and the halo of glory that surrounds the winner, Bobby has retained his balance. He | is the outstanding figure in the sport world today and there is no reason Wwhy he should not remain so for many vears to come. All hail to the con- | queror! e A Bold Stroke. Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt's call on Mayor “Jimmy” Walker of New York to order Tammany officeholders to re- turn to the grand jury investigating alleged trafficking in public offices, waive immunity and testify is a bold stroke. It cannot fail to stir the resent~ ment of the Tammany Tiger, however, and the Tammany vote in New York Oity s vital to the success of Gov. Roosevelt in his campaign for re-elec- tion in November. On the other hand, it has been clear that Charles H. Tuttle, the Republican nominee for Governor, would attack “corruption” in New York City and would seek to align Gov. Roosevelt with the Democratic organi- zation there. Indeed, already the word had gone out that the Republican on- slaught would deal principally with the corruption fssue and would charge Gov. Roosevelt with failing to do his full duty toward exposing the Tammany organization. With the Democratic State convention slated to open today in Syracuse and Gov. Roosevelt’s nomi- nation at hand, it was necessary to act quickly. Th~ Governor has acted. What coalition in the Reichstag. Against any concrete Fascist-Communist “putsch,” parliamentary or otherwise, the strong- est individual German party, the Social Democrats, would be instantly at the government’s side. But it is not so sure that they are ready to go along with the Hindenburg-Bruening fiscal reform measures. The chancellor has that contingency in mind. He will resort to the recourse of not reconvok- ing the Reichstag until the' govern- ment’s program has been put fully into effect. The constitution-framers plainiy realized that the time might come when the Reich could use a ‘steam-roller to g0od effect. Emil Ludwig, famous Germean blogra- pher, writing in yesterday's New York ‘Times Magazine, admonishes Americans not to take too seriously the furore teus tonicus issuing so brazenly from the lips of Germany's Mussolini-imitator. will be a considerable time, if ever, Ludwig points out, before Hitler ascist guillotine will begin in the sand” at Berlin. that Hitler is barred Reichstag and 18 Ppublic opportunity himself.” Mean- of Germany's five mil- organized trade unionists has re- to the Hitler guillotine manifesto by proclaiming that they would march to a man against a revolution, whether of Fascist or any other origin. ‘The Hindenburg line looks as if it were going to hoid for a while, —ve— George Bernard Shaw refused to come to this country to lecture. Thanks t0 mail and telegraph, he evolves opinions on American affairs and lec- tures, nevertheless. He attains repu- tation as an economist, as a showman who curtails his salary list and serves @s his own press agent. o The Round-Up. ‘There is nothing much to be said and absolutely nothing at all to do about, this Jones lad from Atlanta, Ga. All the superiatives have been given a tryout in describing and complimenting him, and all the golfers in the world have attempted in this year of 1930 6 stop him. It just cannot be done, and that is all there i to it. The round-up is complete, and the game of golf lies humbled before his wigardry. As for his opponents on both sides of the ocean, they have long since become accustomed to finishing second best. It s Old Man Par him- eelf who feels that life is hardly worth Uving while Jones studies the fairways, although he is the only one who can give the incomparable Bobby the sem- blance of a battle. It may be that this year's devastating campaign will furnish a solution to the complex problem of what to do with & golfer so skilled that victory over human opponents is conceded before the white ball soars down the first fair- ‘way. Why not have Jones play only against par perfect golf and let the others fight it out among themselves? Par is inflexible, and it may be that some day when Bobby is not feeling up to snuff he might suffer defeat. Of course, Bobby is just as flexible as par 18 inflexible. He is nearly as often under par as he is over it, and when he humbles par he is just a little bit better than perfect. What can the genlal Georgian be called? Superla- tives fall flat against the unequaled wizdrdry of the stocky Corsalr of the links. Bobby reigns supreme in a game where consistency is indeéd a rarity. And his consistency 1s the rarest jewel in the quadruple crown he wears. Back in early April this remarkable little Napoleon of the ancient game left Atlanta for England, where he was to captain the Ameérican Walker Cup team against a British challenge, and e i the the of T gk i 3 the effect will be remains to be seen. The Tammany leaders, headed by Johtr F. Curry himself, summoned be- fore the grand jury now investigating the Ewald and other cases of alleged purchase of judicial offices in New York City, declined to waive immunity and testify. Mr. Curry, Tammany chief- tain, holds no public office. Gov. Roosevelt'’s demand, therefore, does not apply directly to Curry, but to those other Tammany leaders who are on the municipal pay roll. There are a num- ber of them holding fat jobs. Gov. Roosevelt has said very properly that the declination of eity officials to tes- tify and to waive immunity in so doing is “contrary to sound public policy.” Certainly the declination of the solid phalanx of Tammany leaders summoned before the grand jury to testify was making & very bad impression on the publie, Mayor Walker had fallen in with the views of Gov. Roosevelt. He will tell THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO! "Foundation” to premote, “through charitable and benevolent activities, the well-being' of mankind throughout the world.” This was but a climax of re- peated endeavors to extend the benefits of his great wealth, amassed through his remarkable ability in co-operation with his brothers, chiefly in the promo- tion of metal industries, in which the Guggenheim family had become a force Of great potency. The services of Mr. Guggenheim in behalf of aviation were inspired by his belief that it could be made a public utility giving vital service to the Na- tion’s business and economic welfare as well as to its defense. In 1926 he gave $2,500,000 as & basic fund for the pro- motion of aeronautical education, the extension of fundamental aeronautical | science and the development of com- mercial aircraft as an aid to business. Ungquestionably the great advance that has been made in commercial flying in this country during the past few years has been due very largely to the effec- tiveness of this endowment. American philanthropic records, en- compassing innumerable instances of the unselfish and wise use of private fortunes for the benefit of mankind, give the lie to the charge often voiced against the people of this country that they are money grabbers and selfish usurers. It is impossible, indeed, to compile these records, so far flung is the bestowal by Will or during the lives of men and women of funds for charity, for educa- tion, for healing, for the promotion of science and for the economic and social betterment of the people. In just the past half century these gifts and endow- ments that have gained national atten- tion have reached into billions of dollars, And there are countless others that have been known only to limited circles, but enormously valuable in the aggregate. Daniel Guggenheim “made his money” in this country, to which his father had come 8s an immigrant. He and his brothers eonstituted a remarkable group, gifted with a keen sense of business and guided by high principles. They not only made money for themselves, but for countless others to whom their enter- prises gave employment and oppor- tunities. ———— Should there be another war, Den- mark will have nothing to do with it. Its minister of defense is frank in admitting that it is better to confess lack of equipment in advance than struggle for the unsatisfying glory of & lost cause. e Other statesmen occasionally look worricd. Tt remains for Speaker Long- worth to be always the photographers’ friend in acsurance that publie office in Americ still retains reminders of the Joy of living. e Things that Marx never thought of are dragged into the Russian com- munistie calculation. Marx made no pretensions whatever to being an ex- pert in American market manipulations. ————— Musicians are not as powerful in art as they might be if they could be resolute in refusing to'lend their talents to the promotion of words that repre- sent literary decadence. o A good loser has his place in sport. Bir Thomas Lipton claims affection as great as that which might go even to the invineible Bobby Jones. - ‘The motto of the silent Wilhelm and the unperturbed Hindenburg appears to be, “Let the heathen rage.” PFinance in New York continues to be represented by higher and better office buildings. the Tammany officials, holding public office, to go back to the grand jury room and testify, he has said. Probably, how- ever, Mayor Walker is scarcely more Pleased at being told by the Governor of the State what his duty is in this connection than are the Tammany lead- ers, who will now be expected to open themselves up to questioning by the grand jury. It is one thing for the mayor to act on his own initiative and quite another to be told by the Gov- ernor what to do. If the grand jury turns up additional cases of graft and corruption in the city government of New York during the interval between today and No- vember 4, when the election is held, it is not likely to help the Democratic cause in New York State, However, Gov. Roosevelt’s demand upon the Tammany leaders became necessary. He would be in far worse position it new scandals were discovered and pub- lished had he kept his hands off. Even now he 18 being charged with holding oft too long. ‘The New York political situation has taken a strange twist in the last month. ‘The Republicans have been helplessly divided in the Empire State. Gov. Roosevelt’s re-election seemed assured. But the nomination of Charles H. Tuttle, who as United States attorney has had a leading part in showing up scandals in the city government of New York, on & plank demanding re- peal of the eighteenth amendment, has changed the picture considerably. Gov. Rooseveit and his supporters have thought that it would be possible to make prohibition the main issue in the campeign. That issue has now been taken away. Corrupt government looms as the main issue. It is true that the professional drys are intent now on puiting an independent Republican candidate in the field, who may take many votes away from Tuttle. On the other hand. many wet Republicans who in the past have been content to vote for the Democratic candidate in New York are likely to return to their old | party allegiance. With election day only five weeks off, the Democratic leaders have a good deal to worry about. — e If all the stories that come out of Russia are true, what was once called “Darkest Russia” has become even darker than ever. 5 ——— e Daniel Guggenheim. Daniel Guggenheim, whose sudden | death yesterday causes recital of his | munificent gifts in the promotion of SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. From 014 to New. Out of the old world, into the new, Cazing intent, as we try to see through Clouds that grow black, as the Future draws near, With Faith still supreme over shadows of Fear. Striving to find our ideals, at last; And make a new Present, forgetting the Past, Facing, in Honor, the things we must do— Out of the old World! Into the Newl 1 Complicated Question. “Do you regard prohibition as a ques- tion of public morals?” “Partly,” answered Senator Sorghum, “But as I study the map I also regard it as a question of political geography.” Jud Tunkins says whenever he thinks of wheat he wishes he had quit tryin' to raise it. Farmin’ is gamblin’ and he might as well have tackled the Ohicago Board of Trade in the first place, Unbusinesslike Business. The world is bringing new regrets In its pursuit of knowledge, I kind o' wish those Soviets Had gone to business college, Road Agents. “Is Crimson Guich still headquarters for highway robbers?” “Yes,” answered Cactus Joe. “Only they work different from what they used to. Instead of holdin’ up the traveler they operate as political bosses and collect taxes for roads that never happen.” Bookishness. Though several nations claim to look On culture as our need, The Ledger is the only book They really seem to read. “He who has no sorrow,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is incapable of tympathy for sorrow and becomes the loneliest of men.” One Note After Another. Musicians study notes with care Before they play; And go on studying others there Which they must pay. “Peace is de Dest, after all” sald Uncle Eben. “Dar is & heap mo' com- fort in a fried chicken dan dar is in & ! aviaticn, had been engaged in philan- thropic enterprise with his wealth long before the develcpment of the airplane, He had given liberally and wisely in support of institutions for the benefit of humanity. The total of these gifts may, as in the case of Henry Phipps, never be known to the public, for he to make @ pereor=] bid for the British chempionchips, for which he was eligi- (Els. He nct only 1ag his te=m to vic- tory, byt won ths amct-nr end open Brieln, @ feal that hag not gave not for ostentation or self-exploita- tion but for the relief of suffering and the helping of the ' :rtunate to re- @~ themselyes. In 1924 he and his wife joined in ibe establishment of a fightin’ rooster.” i Bad Bills Go to Fair. From the Indianapolis News. others sttending th some $10° counterteit bills, were about as welcome as a hi- ‘banquet. Jacker at a rum runners’ Cow’'s Record Stands. Prom the Omaha World-Herald. D. C, MONDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Book lo\;en ‘l'fll nothice ‘:.hl! &e mue- lar vogue for biography is on the wane. 'I‘hge“ still are biographies published, but by no means as many, large or expensive as during the crest of the year 1929, ‘This 18 well. ‘Too much of anything is bad, espe- ally biographies. Listening to the discussion of “lves” & few months ago, one might have cil thought that nobody had ever written | or_published a biography before. In the popular opinion, there seemed to have been no biographies before the year 1914, - A The surest thing in American life is that anything, be it book, game or whatnot, which attains to the stature of a fad will go down again, sooner or later. Even Amos 'n’ Andy and minia- ture golf! ve you read the life of So-and- So?” was a question which, asked by one of another, led to a sort of writing, publishing, reading hysteria. Just how much of it was due to the real popularity of lives and how much to the fact that one’s friends were talk- ing about such books must be left to the gentlé mercies of the psychologists It was plain enough that biograph: Was no new thing in the world and that no modern biographer had done a thing half so startling as the booksell- ers made out. for reasons of their own. The eighteenth century was made memorable not only because the Ameri- can Revolution began then, but also because Boswell published his “Life of Dr. Johnson” and Gibbon issued the first 16 chapters of his “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” EE We_predict that from now on bi- ography will take its normal, justified position in the world of letters, instead of ng as something new in the world, a sort of pseudo-dazeler for the newly rich in the things of bookdom. Vogues and fads are inevitable in any such sophisticated age and country as the present United States. We speak, of course, of the urban civilization. The widespread dissemination of newspapers and magazines, with their Interesting advertisements and well written ac- counts of popular fashlons, is largely responsible for these interesting de- velopments. Backgammon, for instance. a game as old as the hills, is the “latest fad” in New York, from whence it is destined to spread slowly but surely into the hinterland. Every one knows about backi mon, whose board has been in the reverse side of checkerboards for years on years, Nobody has played backgammon, no- body has wanted to play backgammon. ‘Then, one bright morning, one sees a cleverly constructed “ad” in a New York paper about how backgammon is be- coming all the ‘“rage” at the “smart watering resorts.” One smiles indulgently. for a fad,” and so on. But the idea sinks in. Backgammon is acquiring Something—the prestige which goes with social leadership. The idea sinks in. Boon one will see something else about backgammon. Later will see a picture of two prominent society persons play- e. ing the game. The first thing one knows, he will be dusting oft reverse side of the checkerboard and trying the game. And then, because it is a fairly good game, he will “discover” backgammon. The same effort is bei “table tennis.” It was pong” 30 ,cars ago, on account of the fancied sounds made by the slap of the wooden paddle against the ball and its “Anything bounce from mother’s mahogany dining room table. SR One of the earmarks of the “new"” biography, now on the wane, was deal- ing summarily with the birth and child- hood of the subject. This was a re- action against the old style “life,” which usually began, “The subject of this sketch was born on a farm near Cross | Roads, Wis.. June 5, 1773.” | But'in attempting to wean blography | from being wooden, those who fondly | patted themselves on the back for not | being “old-fashioned” leaned too far in the opposite direction. Despite the fact that modern psychology places great stress on the first six years of life, these nobby new biographers, aimost to a man, let their subjects down without ommitting the terrible crime of being “old-fashioned. It was old-fashioned to tell about Napoleon playing soldiers with his mateS; one might give a playful glance in that direction, but our hero mostly arose into life like Venus from the sea, | full formed. These biographers loved man,” such a wording often being used as a subtitle in the heyday of the ‘new” biography. At the very time that they were striv- ing so valiantly to “de-bunk” their sub- Jects they were creating new myths by epresenting their heroes as being just a little different from all other men. By creating this atmosphere, or at- tempting to create it, they rather mag- nified their own astuteness for selecting such a theme. * ok ok x This sort of ballyhoo fooled the reading public for several years. It is still fooling some of the readers, But the signs in the publishing wind show that the tremendous vogue for biogra- phy is losing some of its force, and that in a few years this branch of writing will resume its normal place. ‘The one outstanding contribution of the “new” biography to an old art was in making a story out of the life of a man, Too many of the elderly “lives” went on the assumption that a depart- ed great man lived only in musty docu- (ment, in letter files, in state papers. | Go read the lives of George Washing~ ton by Washington Irving, by John Marshall. Research plays a large part, too large a part. They almed to treat their subject serlously, and they suc- |ceeded. But it is a question whether | they did not hold him too steadily in a severe light. The newer approach to biographical writing attempted to rectify this mis- take by a certain gracefulness of ap- proach based upon the conviction, held by writer and reader alike, that a hu- man life, if one could know it all, was & story almost of novel proportions, Often this mental attitude approached too close to levity. But it is to the credit of many writers that their work succeeded in elucidating the old maxim that there is at least one novel in every man. The so-called “new” biography threw a searchlight on its victim, or a spot- | ight, rather, hoping to catch the man |in one of his wilder moments. Some- times it did, but the average reader often had a better sense of sportsman- ship than publishers gave him credit for. He felt as he read, “What right has any one to divuige these things, even' granting that they are interest- ing?” So the “new” approach over- shot its mark and proably has suffered the reaction. There will be biographies In the future, it is safe to say, but they will be mormalized, decent treatments of human beings. 'Many of them, no doubt, will In, as lives usually do be- gin, with atement of birth, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS ‘The Wickersham commission is being drawn slowly but surely into the whirl- pool of the prohibition guestion and some lively sessions of Mr. Hoover's board of law-enforcement experts are in prospect when the commission re- convenes here next week after a Sum- mer recess. A full and perhaps final report has been promised in time for the President to transmit to Congress in December. ‘That the commission finds- itself divided as to and content of this report is an open secret. Whether it shall be confined to factual survey of existing conditions, leaving to the President and Congress the business of formulating remedies, or whether the commission itself shall as- sume the initiative in recommending changes In the prohibition enforce- ment i8 & question of sharp con- troversy. One widely circulated report last week pictured the commission as ready to recommend 2.75 per cent beer. ‘This brought a prompt denial from Commissioner McIntosh of Washington State, a dry jurist. Commissioner Ken- yon of Iowa, another dry, is bitterly opposed to any action’ by the com- mission which impliedly impugns pro- hibition. Senator Borah visited Judge Kenyon in Maine in August. Borah is said by his friends to be ready to g0 on the warpath in the Senate this ‘Winter in criticism of the administra- tion's prohibition policies in general and the Wickersham commission in par- ticular. Mr. Hoover thus finds him- self between two fires on prohibition. * kX X ! eports from Worcester, Mass., that th? pfi-rlne Reserve Corps company there was proposing to disband on ac- count of the withdrawal of Federal aid has brought from the Marine Corps headquarters here the disclosure that orders have recently been issued stopping all drll pay of Marine Corps Reserve units throughout the country, as well as curtailment of the issuance of uni- forms and other equipment. This move, it was reported, was part of the Hoover economy program whereby all branches of the Army and Navy were to cut ex- penses wherever possible. It is not claimed that there is any actual de- ficiency in the funds appropriated by Congress, “but rather is an effort to spend less than the allotted funds. The rill pay of enlisted men in the Naval Reserve figures a bit under $1 per drill. It means & pay check of about $7.75 per month where units drill twice weekly. Officers draw pay of from $20 to $40 per month, for drill and other duties. All this is cut off. The economy order also stops the issuance of Winter uni- forms, the blue, and overcoats and other equipment. There are upward of 5,000 men in the Marine Corps Reserve af- fected by the new policy. * X ok % ‘The report of Postmaster General Brown olpl’?h own investigation of post office leases, made public at the White House last week, gave a cleah Lil of health to his department. Government officials were found to have been with- out favit in the negotiation of it of- fice leases which have been called into question The special senatorial investi- gating committes, headed by Blaine of ‘Wisconsin, which has been delving into the subject, may start public hs:r:en‘: in St. Paul within the next few kB, John Holland, an aide to Walsh of Mon- tana in the oil scandal re and last ‘Winter the official counsel for the Cara- way Lobby Probe Committee, is now at- tached to the Blaine Post Office Com- mittee. He has been busy all Summer and announces he is ready to shoot as soon as the committee gets together. * K K % Little 18 being heard here nowadays of the all-Southern Republican organi- zation announced with a flourish of trumpets a few months back by Col. Horace Mann, which was to buck the on's Southern patronage nd was to take the Re) the form posing other than that when 1932 rolls around the Southern delegates will turn up at the Republican convention safely geed"d to President Hoover. Such has en the time-honored perquisite of every Republican incumbent in the White House. * kxR The magnificent million-dollar Hard- ing Memorial at Marion, Ohio, was finished while Mr. Caolidge was still in the White House. To informal sug- gestions that he fix a date when it Would be convenient for him to journe; to Marion to participate in dedication ceremonies, the President is said to have suggested that he would leave this task to his successor. Two years have passed and the dedication is still in abeyance awaiting Mr. Hoover's pleas- ure in the matter. The subject again came to public notice when the recent Ohio Republican convention had before it a pr 1 that a formal invitation to the sident to dedicate the me- morial be officially resolved. The ad- ministration forces at the convention, led by National Chairman Fess, suc- ceeded in side-tracking the invitation, evidently wishing to spare Mr, Hoover from what they Aappear to regard as either an unpleasant or difcult task. It is now reported that there is a con- siderable group in Harding's State which intends to press the issue and call for a show-down. Though there has been no_dedication, the memorial is n to the public and more than ;20&_ 0 persons visited the shrine last year. * ok xR New England finds herself without representation on the reorganized tariff commission for the first time in its his- tory. Chairman Thomas O. Marvin of Boston, a high apostle of high protec- tion, is replaced by ex-Ambassador Fletcher of Pennsylvania, but otherwise the complexion of the commission is little changed by the Hoover revision of its personnel, finally completed last week. It is reported in ‘Massachusetts that Richard Olney of that State, Dem- ocrat of distinguished name and fam- ily and member of Congress during the second Wilson administration, was Mr, Hoover’s first cholce for the sixth and Democratic place on the commission. Olney served on the War Debt Com- mission with Mr. Hoover a few years ago. The President is said, however, to have found little political support here for the Olney appointment and to have reluctantly come to the conclusion that it would be inexpedient to name the Bay State man. * Kok X The national headquarters of the Re- publican Natlonal Committee in the Barr Building here is turning into a busy hive of industry, strongly reminiscent of the days of the 1928 campaign. Sen- atorial and cqngressional campaj committees are now more closely affili- ated with the national committee than ever before and are all housed under the same roof. The headquarters staff occupy one entire floor and parts of several other floors in this office build- ing, and Iast week the committee took over ' temporarily some large vacant ground floor space, where scores of girls at long tables are busy mailing out campaign literature by the ton. ‘There is ample evidence of an efficient and well financed ization. (Copyright. 1930.) — e +* *Try This Next Time. Prom the San Francisco Chronicle. Another ald to longevity is to watch your Panama as the wind rolls it through trafc and say, “Go to thunder, then,” oo For Better or Worse. Prom the Hamilton Bpectator. There may not be much so-called “bootleg gasoline” in Ci , but maybe it's better at that than some of the lads are drinking. Work Panacea for Worry. thiey 'Wour, they weuld Torge o were Where “Jack” to think of themselves as treating “the | g SEPTEMBER 29, 1930. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. ‘The New York State Democratic Con- vention, meeting in Syracuse today, will nominate Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt to succeed himself. That has been a fore- gone conclusion for months. The Democrats in New York and the rest of the country have rather taken it for granted that Mr. Roosevelt would be re-elected and that he would be a prin- cipal contender for the presidential nomination of the party in 1932. But the clouds have gathered on the Demo- cratic horizon in New York. As usual, “Tammany” seems to be at the bottom of the trouble for the Democrats. The Republicans haye un- earthed reported scandals in the Demo- cratic city government of New York. They have brought about the indict- ment of one of the judges and the Tammany leader to whom it was al- leged a payment of $10,000 was made when the judge was appointed. The corruption issue has become the domi- nant jssue of the campaign, with rles H. Tuttle, United States attor- ney, as the Moses arisen to lead the G. O. P. out of the wilderness. Should Gov. Roosevelt fail to carry New York this Faill the picture for 1932 will be greatly changed. ok ok ‘That applies not alone to the Demo- cratic camp, but to the Republican. ‘The Repubiicans in New York not only nominated Tuttle, a foe of the eight- eenth amendment, but .“YM a plank in their Eflrty platform calling for re- peal of the eighteenth amendment. If a wet Republican candidate can carry New York State on a wet platform, the G. O. P. may have to revise its ideas considerably, too, by the year 1932. The Republican party has been the dry party as between Democrats and Re- publicans during the last few years. But the indications are that it is be- coming less dry as the months roll by. * ok ok % ‘Whether any political significance should be attached to the announce- ment here Saturday by Prohibition Di- rector Woodcock that brewers of beer and makers of wine for use in the home are practically immune from interfer- ence by the Federal prohibition enforce- ment agents is not quite clear. Cer- tainly, however, an effort will be made to attach significance to it. The ad- ministration, it would appear, is com- mitted to suppressing traffic in alco- holic beverages, as distinguished from the mere drinking of beer and wine that is made for home consumption. Furthermore, President Hoover's Com- mission on Law Enforcement is still to be heard from finally. What will be the position should that commission re~ port on amendment of the eighteenth amendment or some modification of the prohibition laws? There was a hint in the preliminary report of the commis- sion dealing with prohibition enforce- ment, submitted to the months ago, that in the end the com- mission might make some rather drastic recommendations, * K ok % Is home brew to be considered a kind of sop to the wet Republicans of Massa- chusetts, Iliinols, Ohio and Delaware, where the Republican nominees for the Senate are opposed by wet Democrats? In Massachusetts last week the Re- publicans held their State convention and adopted a platform which, while dry enough in the main, contained a kind of compromise which was insisted upon by some of the wet Republican leaders there. ‘The Republican plank makes five major points in the party’s stand on liquor question: Reafiirmation of the 28 national plank for enforcement of ; indorsement of President 's views that all citizens have the right to work for the repeal of the laws they cannot believe in; a stat t that the party has always opposed the saloon; & suggestion that the report of the Wickersham Commission ~will _throw light on a proper solution of the prohibi- tion question, and an asse thal when the will of the le is expressed, a8 will be the case & wet-dry State referendum in November, it should be carried out, but until then the party is not obliged to discuss referenda sub- Jects in its platform. * kX% The action of the Massachusetts Re- | Y | publican convention, while it does not g0 the length to which the Republican convention went in Illinois, does rather place the party in a position of agreeing to be wet if the referendum on that subject this November turns out to be wet. Certainly the Republican leaders are placing their ears to the ground all over the country to ascertain just what, it anything, this drive of wet sentiment against eighteenth amendment means. As in New York, the Republicans in Massachusetts have at last put their fighting clothes on. They are intent in the Bay State on electing a Governor and a United States Senator. The Democrats still appear to have the bet- ter of the situation there. But there are more Republicans in Massachusetts than there are Democrats, which means that if the Republicans really get gether, disregard the prohibition ques- tion, they may make it hard for the Democrats after all. Former Presi- dent Calvin Coolidge sat on the plat- form at the Republican State conven- tion in Boston, and recelved an ovation. The party leaders would very much like to have him take a hand in the campaign. But it is doubtful if the for- mer President will do so, except per- haps to issue a statement. * R Kk ‘The Democrats of the Bay State held their State convention last week also. The most significant happening at their convention was the appearance of Mayor Curley of Boston and his ka“ to sup- port the Democratic nominee for Gov- ernor, Joseph B. Ely. Mayor Curley was the center of a terrible row in the pre-primary campaign. He urged the Democrats to nominate John F. Fits- grnld. former mayor of Boston, for overnor, and charged that !lf was hostile to the Irish race. Fil d had withdrawn from the contest ause of il health. Whether the Democratic forces could get together after their primary troubles has been a question. The Boston Democracy apparently has decided to swallow the party ticket, however, although it contains neither a Boston candidate for Governor nor for Senator. Certainly the Democracy of Massachusetts outside of the city of Boston ought to be satisfied this year to- ra. n | with the selection of candidates. * oK ok K ; ‘The wet and dry issue, which mani- fested itseif strongly in the Republican primary in California this year, con- tinues to make itself heard in the election in that State. Mayor Rolph of San P‘nnc‘u'.n;.o won 1;\1: guberna nomination of the Republicans, he was opposed by the Anti-Saloon League on the ground that he was a wet. It indorsed his op; s Rolph kept quiet about issue, but the wets lined up for him, believing that he was with them. drys moved on the Republican State Convention last week, seeking to have the Republicans draft a prohibition plank, The convention, however, omit- ted all mention of prohibition in the platform. 1t did not even contaln & reference to law enforcement, ok ox X ‘The drys then sought, and with bet- ter success, to impress their wishes on the Democratic State Convention. The Democratic nominee for Governor this year is Milton K. Young, who managed “Jim"” Reed's campaign for the presi- dential nomination in registered again t, | nomination of Philip, brother of Senator 1 | Sasoline the The | H movements in his State « | to toleras ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ‘This is a special department devoted to the handling of inquiries. You have At your disposal an extensive organiza- tion in Washington to serve you in any capacity that relates to informa- tion. Write your question, your name and your address clearly, and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for reply. Send to The Star Information Bureau, Fred- eric_J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. c. TQ. Why are men called bachelors?— | . E. A. Bachelor is a word of uncertain origin. It 15 believed to be connected | with the Latin baccalarius, meaning a holder of a small farm. The word seems to have been used at first as a techni- cal law term, and is sometimes ex- | lained as a translation of the equiva- lent old high German hagustalt, mean- ing the holder of a small farm, an un- married man. Q. When did the new Federgl em- | lp(logml' retirement law take effect— A. The amended act for the retire- ment of employes in the Federal eivil | service was effective July 1, 1930, Q. Where was the eggplant first| grown?—T. R. 8. A. The eggplant is said to be & na- tive of Southern Asia, where it has been cultivated since remote antiquity. Q. What are the Ember days?—F, 8. A. The Ember weeks, the four seasons | set apart by the Western Church for | special prayer and fasting, are the com- | plete weeks next following Holy Cross | day, September 14; St. Lucy's day, De- cember 13; the first Sunday in lent, and Whitsunday. The ‘ednesd Fridays and Saturdays of these weeks are the Ember day: Q. Where should a violin bridge be placed for the best tone?—G. L. F. A. The bridge of the violin, which forms no small part of the vibrating part of the mechanism, needs the ut- most skill in its arrangement. Its usual Pposition is exactly between the two small niches mar| in each sound hole, but this arrangement is sometimes altered in the case of the stop being longer or shorter. The lower part of the bridge should be rounded in such a way that when the bow is used the player does not touch several strings at once against his wish. At the same time it should not be too much rounded, since this would result in difficulties for the. play- er, who would be obliged to make too many movements when bringing the bow from the E string to the fourth s Q. Was Rudolph Valentino's volce ever recorded?-—J. 8. A. In 1923 he made a record, singin; the “Kashmiri Song” in English an “El Relicario” in Spanish, Q. Please give some facts about the new Lindbergh beacon—D. R. A. The beacon is the gift of the late Elmer Sperry, who devised it as a me- morial to_Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's flight in 1927. Supported by a struc- tural steel tower incased in aluminum, it rises 65 feet above the penthouse of the Palmolive Building in Chicago, This gives the light a total elevation of 800 feet. The beacon consists of two lights, one mounted above the other. The upper one is the beacon proper and has an output of 2,000,000,000 candlepower brought into & beam 5 feet in diameter and revolving at the rate of two revo- lutions per minute. The lower light has an output of 1,100,000,000 candie- wer brought by a parabolic reflector J. HASKIN, Municipal Airport. It is computed that at a distance of 551, miles the Lind- bergh beacon becomes equivalent in brightness to the full moon. The ex- penses of installation and maintenance Will be borne by the owners of the building. Q. Do many people forget thelr per- sonal_belongings now that hotels have Tamms warning them not to do so?—- A. According to statistics compiled by the New Yorker Hotel, more than 10,000 articles have been left in its rooms by the 475,000 guests who have been accommodated ‘there since it opened nine months ago, Q. How are the cloud effects proe duced in the Chicago Civic Opera House?—0. M. A. According to the Professional En- gineer, these are produced by two ma- chines, each containing a 3,000-watt light unit, of special des The light is projected through eight lensed sec- * tlons connected to a controlled rotating drum. From this drum projection is directed onto the cyclorama by & series of mirrors. One of the machines rotates in a clockwise direction and the other in a counter clockwise direction. Ac- tual cloud pictures on a regular stere- opticon slide are used to produce the effects. For storms, the heavy clouds are projected at a very high ?eod in one direction and the lighter clouds in an opposite divection at a slower speed, thus giving the effect of tumbling, piling cloud masses, Q. When was the Daughters of Ree becea founded?—L. B. P, A. The Daughters of Rehecca Wwas founded at South Bend, Ind., in 1857 by Schuyler Colfax “to reconcile women to the pledge of secrecy made by their hus- bands by inducing them to take similar obligations,” Q. Is scurvy usually fatal?—V. B, A. On the contrary, even in desperate cases of scurvy it is said that recovery is hopefully anticipated when the dee ficient vitamin C is supplied. Q. In the amateur golf champion: when two players are all even at the end of an 18 or 36 hole rcund, Wi don't they play another full round to decide the tie?—D, G. H. Because the competition is at mateh Klny and the rules provide that a match be determined by the play of one or more extra holes if the pll’gl are all even at the end of the d round, whether it be 18 or 36 holes, Q. What is the origin of the Sealyham terrier?—R. R. A. The Sealyham terrier is a breed which has but recently come into prominence in the dog world. Although there seems to be no reason to doubt that such terriers have been bred for & considerable number of years in thels native land, Wales, the breed did not acquire extensive popularity until - its fanciers began participating in British bench shows. It is generally agreed that the Sealyham is a manufactured breed, being & combination of the fox terrier, Dandie Dinmont terrier, and bull terrier. Early specimens frequente Iy dl.:plly;fl :Kidence }?:a their ‘;nclxm:: ancestry, but the type now well fixed and individuals as a whole are uniform. Q. How many cities are there in the United States with 50,000 population or more?—T, P, A. According to the unofficial figures of the 1930 census there are 187 citles of more than 50,000, in the United nto & beam 36 inches in diameter fixed to direct visiting airmen to the States. Port Arthur, Tex,, with 50,067 is the 187th. Political Significance Seen As La The La Follette “dynasty” in Wiscon- sin, having tel in . the La Follette, as Republican candidate for Governor, is a subject of country- wide comment. That the two leading offices within the gift of the State should go to two sons of the famous fighting member of the United States Senate is declared to be u;x_g:ecefl.ented American politics. Ppolicies which ate believed to be upheld golntly by members .of this family and by the isconsin _mujority are viewed with dlfl;rlns nplllnlmu by '.h’- public. . “No small victory” is see: ‘Waterloo Tribune, ism 18 retained by Wisconsin” in & came pc‘ifn against Gov. Walter J. Kohler, & millionaire, and “per] man that could be found in the whole State.” So significant it appear to the Cleveland Plain Dealer that it ad- vises the Democrats to “make it unani- mous,” since “all they will get out of the campaign is forensic ing.” “The La Follette name,” says the Savannah Morning News, “is & sort of legend, a tradition, that is a wonderful handicap against any man who tries to defeat a member of the family.| One brother is in the Senate, another is to be Governor. And if the second ‘one wants to go to the SBenate, the chanoes are he will do so, and the country will see the remarkable picture of two brothers sitting side by side in the Senate, representing one State. There has been nothing like that in American history.” ‘The Rock Island Argus, how- ever, advises that “La Follettelsm in Wisconsin will be put to a test, as the brothers are in full control. If they abuse thelr power,” continues that paper, “the victory just achieved at the Polls may prove to be their undoing. They have a wonderful opportunity to live up to their campaign oratory.” “It le!gm that so distinct a d{- nasty has jpeared in American poli- tics, and it will be interesting to see how long it lasts and how far it goes,” suggests the Charleston Evening Post, recalling that the parent of the two oung men “held Wisconsin securely to 18 leadership through a period of a quarter of a century, and the promo- tion of his sons to the hest offices the State can bestow dences the force of the legend he created.” *oxox % ;. n is the greatest American family possession,” declares the Chicago Daily Tribune, observing that “the sons take ther what the father took separately,” and continuing: “The dy- nastic control which the La Follettes have in the State 18 not independent of the public pay roll and of the political expenses met by tax money. When to the Senator has been added the Gover- nor the combination will be without any ?ll'lllel in an American Commonwealth, ¢ will be an alliance of State and Fed- eral patronage, and if Wisconsin whit« tles the opposition down to the use of a few postl;e stamps and one fill of ‘a Follette family will have the State as a palatinate.” ““The brothers have proved their po- litical genius," thinks the Omaha World- Herald, ab-ervtngutdhn ‘they took the over a road, and which their mvied. “However unpro- ductive may have been the elder La Follette’s career, from a political stand- point, none can deny that it was a tre- mendous success from a blological standpoint. Few more notable familles have come into view on the American mll: than 1a Follettes of Wis- consin.” +'The elder La Follette, founder of the | but Wisconsin dynasty,” ing to the Cincinnati Times-Star, “was a capital speaker, a still better actor, & bitter hater, thoroughly selfish, a born radical honorably {dentified with many forward : he was unable te a rival, to do justice falrly to state a the | seems to be true of the haps the strongest | lara 1| the campaign as to th Ropea % Follette Grqws make of their inheritance and how long will the dynasty last?” H “A real value was given the name,” in the judgment of the Milwaukee Journal, “in "days when the father's camy @gainst corruption was real and d be supported by facts instead of charged without any ~proofs” The Raleigh News and Observer recalls that “when the reactionary element of the Repube lican party tried to defeat the elder La Follette thousands of Democrats crossed party lines to stand by him because he was honest. They ‘loved him for the enemies he had made.” The same thing s0ns.” “in Wisconsin thers tion of what the ey proclaimed the Dece tion of Independence, enlisted in the Revolutionary War and wrote the American Constitution,” the Portland Oregon Journal says of the late Sens ator that he “carried the banner of the lain_man,” and continues: “Senator ob La Follette and Gov. Phillp La Follette of Wisconsin! They are two brothers carrying on the great work that the stricken hand of their father laid down. 1If only Bob La Follette could come -back for a little visit!" The Dayton Daily News comments: wThe La Follette dynasty has given Wisconsin honest and enlightened gove ernment. In every fleld—political, soe clal, educational—Wisconsin has been kept in the van of modern progress. P\« The voters of Wisconsin have shown & clear vision as to where their interests lle.” Contending that 1s a true conc meant when * ok ok X “The State has been, in actual fact, & Political laboratory,” in the opinion of the Baltimore Sun, which feels that “La Follette deliberately used his brains and his personality in & sustained effort to build w he conceived to be & model democracy.” The Sun attests that “it brings a bit of a glow to realize that one great sire has bequeathed to American politics sons who are of his own mettle.” The Salt: Lake Deseret News quotes a description of “Young Phil” as being “hardly inferfor to his father as a flashing blade of-a came paigner.” . A “Mr. La Follette will not find it easy to improve upon the record the man whom he has signally,” asserts the Fort Worth Star- ‘l‘el:cr m, vzim m’-r‘{,mk"m of the ‘rr;-‘ cent cam gn: “The ¢ Gov. Koh?‘. iterated and nlten‘t:‘d by tis rival and by the State's two United States Senators, Robert La Follette, brother of the gubernatorial candidate, and John J. Blaine, ranged from e cessive campalgn expenditures to affili- ation with trusts and monopolies and indifferences to the needs of the victims of the business depression. They were, as a rule, absurd enough, but absurdities persistently enough repeated are mad in political campaigns, to appear im- portant to many votess " The Peoria Star contends that tne ‘Wisconsin leaders are “‘not in ; mglhy with the needs of industrial gu or industrial populations,” and complains s to the Senators from that State that they “help to make laws for the balance f us to live under.” The Janesville Gazette notes that “the State has again Accepted what may be termed the Follette political philosophy, most which is ability to get votes.” Sioux Falls Argus-Leader to promises made by the successful faction and concludes: “The voters swallowed the bait and placed themselves in po~ sition for some more of the La Fol- lette misrule.” dison ul ncedes that Phillp La Fol may “assay his glopmlmy in his own right as greater than that of the ring.” Referring to “wild statements during e