Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1930, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR __ With Sunday Morning Eaition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY....September 30, 1330 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t. icago Office: Lake Michigan Building. uropean Office: 14 Rewent St., London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. ar. ... 45¢ per month e Evening ana sinday Siar (Snen 4 Sundays) . 60c per month ; S e Lony duy Star D TGoieeion made at the end of each montn ders may be sent in by mail or (elephone NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payal in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. - day.....1 ¥r. *10.00: 1 mo.. 8¢ F“ ‘only . £6.00: 1 mo.. 50¢ inday” only . + $4.00; 1 mo., 40¢ All Other States and Cana and Sunday..1vr.$12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 only 1yro 8.00° Lino. 8¢ ndas 500, 1 mo.s Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- atehes credited 1o it or not otherwise cred- d in this paper and also the lncal news published herein. Al rights of publication of epecial dispatches herein are also reserved. _ only Lunch Room Red Tape. ©One would think that the provision of lunch room facilities, under the pe- culiar circumstances attending this case, would be as important to the Government's work of computing the census returns as the provision of desks, typewriters, carbon peper and pencils. But Controller General McCarl “thinks ciffcrent.” Thercfore, the cen- sus workers must stand or sit on the curb and buy prepared lunches from wagens or roll their own lunches at home and devour them during the noon hour at their desks. The pian of cen- sus officials to use some extra money appropriated for “contingent expenses” and miscellaneous supplies and to con- struct, from second-hand lumber, a temporary lunch room has been vetoed by the controller general on the ground that “there is no general responsibility on the Government to provide lunch room facilities for itz employes, and there is no general connection between the work of taking the census and the construction of a lunch room to be used by such emplcyes engaged in such work.” As usual, the controller general is! right. for all that is required of him in making his decisions is to stick to the letter of the law. If Congress had anticipated the existing rituation, where the census employes are left without convenient lunch room facilities, it could, and probably would, have in- serted a sentence permitting the provi- sion of such facilities. But neither Congress nor anybody else thought of it in time, and the employes must suffer thereby. When snow flies or rain falls, the census workers will be worse off than they are now. By denying the “general responsi- bility” of the Government to provide lunch room facilities,; the controller general naturally means that there is no general rule requiring the Govern- ment to provide lunch room facilities. Is there any “general responsibility” on the part of the Government com- pelling it to provide adequate heat and light? If such things were inadvert- ently omitted from an appropriation bill, would they be denied by the con- troller general? And if they were, would not this make the efficient ad- ministration of Government rather ri- diculous and constitute an admission on the part of the Government that red tape has replaced common sense? It undoubtedly would, and in the case of lunch room facilities for the aensus workers such a conclusion is inevitable. ‘The dispute between the Census Bureau and the controller general places rich and powerful Uncle Sam in & rather silly, not to mention helpless, position. —_— e A “loving cup” cannot satisfy Sir ‘Thomas Lipton. Loving cups are pre- sented on all kinds of occasions and for all sorts of reasons. There is just one kind of cup that will content the soul of this ancient and honorable mariner, and that must be won under strict rules, fairly and without favor. e Information has been volunteered that President Hoover does not fish on Sun- day. Which custom is not only becom- ing to & pre-eminent citizen but lucky for the fish. ST W LIS “Sermons” Aguinst War. If one chose to regard the Arnty relief exhibition at Washington Barracks last week as anything but & downright goog show, it would be immensely comfort- ing to see in it an eloquent demonstra- tion in behalf of peace, and therefore to urge that it be put on wheels and transported from city to city in order to brifig it before the citizens of the land. For after listening to descrip- tions of the deadiiness of .50 caliber machine guns and water-cooled ma- chine guns that fire 500 rounds per minute; watching the roaring dives of squadrons of planes at 200 M. P. H. that hail bullets and bombs; witnessing the devastating charge of armored cars with their fire-spitting batteries or the ponderous march of heavy tanks belch- ing one-pounder shells, not to mention the rattle of rifie fire or the thunderous charge of cavalry—after secing all these things the natural reaction on the part of the civilian spectator ought to be a shiver and a sigh and & Zake of the head denoting a firm resolve not to raise his boy to be a soldier and to live and die in the blissful security of peace on earth end good will among men. But e'~r! Isit? It is not. m zzy The m: s up cnd d-wn his pairiotic spine. ht of b'ood and gore is not cant. If h» is heir to human fiesh and b'ood he becomes the man in the tank, wishing in the secret recesses of his heart that he did hot have to fire a blank cartridge. He pictures himself as.the aviator, suppressing un- holy desires as he swoops down out of the sky, merely simulating machine- gun fire at the lovely target made by a battalion of infantry sprawled upon the ground. He thinks of himself as the chauffeur of one of the Army's new armeorsd cars, willing to give a month's pay really to try it out on a oping op ot cavslry and he looks, with hi d's eye, at 1-2st, along the shimmer- ing barrel of a Springfield and gets 2 low-flying airplane between the sights, longing to insert a real cartridge and try his luck at bagging of the pleasant of the The flags ic sends cold with fresh and fearful of fallen comrades and torn battlefields, should be the most ardent and effective disciples of peace. Another is that theatrical entertainment which takes the form of a display of war’s horrors is a terrific sermon against war. But these theories, unhappily, are not founded on any proved fact. And if any lasting safeguard against war is ever set up, it will make its appeal to cold intellect alone, and not to the emotions, for these do not respond as optimists like to think they do but as human experience knows they do. The Law Preservation Party. ‘The “Law Preservation party” had its birth in New York yesterday. Twenty representatives of dry organizations met and accepted the candidacy of Robert P. Carroll, Syracuse University pro~ fessor, for Governor. The only law which the new party is interested in preserving appears to be the prohibition Jaw. The drys, however, insist that ,Lhey did not adopt the name “Prohibi- tion party” because that party had been legally extinct for several years. The opposition suggests that the word “pro | hibition” was left out of the new party | designation because of the unpopularity of the term. The drys in New York, those who demand retention of national prohibi- tion as it stands on the statute books today, have officially cut them- selves off from participation in the a fairs of the two major political parties by their action yesterday. They are es- tablishing - & new party, which corre- | sponds to the old Prohibition party. whatever the dry lesders may say. y are callng upon the voters who favor national prohibition to desert their affiliation with other political parties and to follow Prof. Carroll. The estab- lishment of the new party seems to take these drys definitely out of the Repub- lican party in New York, and out of the Democratic party. How effective the new party will be in the New York election this year; whether the plan will spread to other States, it is too early to predict. It is quite clear, however, from the statement of Mrs. Leigh D. Colvin, State head of the Temperance Union, that the drys are out in New York to teach the Republicans & lesson for deserting the cause of national prohibition. She is quoted as saying: “We propose tq beat the Republican leaders so badly that they newer again will dare to nominate a wet candidate in this State.” Her statement would indicate that the new party, the “Law Preservation party,” is, after all, to be but a tempo- rary affair. The desire of the drys is again to control in the councils of the G. O. P, in New York. Mrs. Colvin says nothing about throwing the fear of the dry voters into the hearts of the Demo- crats. It is ths Republican party which is to bear the brunt of the blame, and is to suffer at this coming election. She admits that the “Law Preservation party” candidate for Governor has no chance of being elected. The only pur- pose of placing him in the fleld is to prevent the Republican candidate, Charles H. Tuttle, who has come out for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, from being elected. And when Tuttle is defeated, Gov. Roosevelt will be re- elected, according to Mrs. Colvin. Gov. Roosevelt stands as strongly for repeal of the eighteenth amendment as does Mr. Tuttle. But his victory at the polls this November will be halled as & triumph by the professional drys in New York. ‘The drys in New York four years ago, adopting somewhat similar tactics as they have now undertaken, brought James W. Wadsworth, Republican, and a foe of the eighteenth amendment. |lican candidate, Cristman, and gave {him a total of 231,000 votss. Had | Wadsworth received .these votes he would have defeated Senator Wagner, his Democratic opponent. Mrs. Colvin is claiming that Prof. Carroll will re- ceive 500,000 votes this year. Crist- man, who ran as an independent Re- publican, was a State Senator, a man of considerable prominence in New York politics. Carroll, who 1is little krown and without political following, is to run as the candidate of a new party. That he will receive as many vote® as did Cristman in 1926 is extremely doubtful, to say the least. Furthermore, the up-State dry Re- | publican leaders have announced their support of Mr. Tuttle. Apparently this year they are to put their allegiance to the Republican party above their de- sires for national prohibition. This does not mcan that they have sur- rendered their desires for national pro- hibition. It does mean, however, that they are intent upon winning the gov- erncrship of New York, and prcbably that they are content to take their chances of impressing their dry views upon the party at another time. ——— As in so many cases of smaller cperators, something sudden may yet happen to the Sovie's if they persist in trifiing aleng with the tipsters of the Chicago Board of Trade. B Office Buying—and Selling. Senator Robert F. Wagner, chosen as keynoter of the New York State Demo- cratic convention at Syracuse, had a difficult task to perform yesterday in his necessary reference to the judiciary scandals that are just now of greater interest to the people of the State than the prohibition issue or any economic matter involved in the campaign. The reference was necessary because of the announced intention of the Republican candidate for the governorship to pitch his campaign in the key of Tammany corruption and the Governor's relation to it. So the Senator had to face the question-in behalf of the Governor, who is being nominated today for a second term, and of Tammany, of which the keynoter is a faithful member. This is the way he did i The Democratic party has always stocd for the highest probity in public office. The Democratic party is ruthless in its demands that the courts must be kept pure and undefiled. I kntw that I speak for the iank and file and the conscience of the Democratic party in cur State wioen I say that he who “tains jud i or other public office dishones. means sheuld be driven efrom as also fiom h: ranks of cur party. It is necdless for me to say thrt similar treatment must be accorded about the defeat of former Senator | They backed an independent Repub- | THE EVENIN | erand sury which 18 now sitting under 1 Gov. Roosevelt’s mandate in investiga- tion of the Ewald judgeship appointment scandal. They had refused on the ground that they had been insulted by the requirement that they weaive im- munity, They doubtless joined in the applause that marked Senator Wagner's reference to the necessity of keeping the courts pure and undefiled. They were perhaps gritting their teeth over the duty of voting for the renomi- nation of Gov. Roosevelt, who has just written a letter to Mayor Walker urging him to require the officeholders under him to obey the summons of the grand jury and to waive immunity and testify. But they also recognized the political necessity of the Senator's ringing de- nunciation of those who obtain judicial or other public qffice by dis- honest means and those who dishonestly assist them. ‘The special grand jury has requested the Governor to remove the limitations which in his mandate he imposed on the attorney general in order’ that the investigation may be conducted into other suspected instances of office- buying corruption than the Ewald case. No word had come in response from the Governor when Senator Wagner deliv- ered his keynote speech. It is possible that no word will come until after the convention has made its nominations. The political preoccupation at the moment prevents more prompt action. And meanwhile, when the delegates have returned from Syracuse to New York, they will perhaps receive the mayor's orders to go before the grand jury and tell all they know-—within reason—regarding the sort of thing that Senator Wagner so definitely denounces as contrary to democ:atic principles. ————— Somewhere in comparative obscurity Mr. Scopes of Tennessee is studying with ideals and purposes of his own. He is obtiuding no remarks on evolu- tion, and, after all, his position is rather more dignified than that of the gentle- men who crashed into the controversy for obvious purposes of sheer publicity. ———— Dictatorship depends on a relaxation of nationalistic sentiment when a patient and loyal public feels con- strained to admit that business is not 50 good. i — Having studied the chain store system in America, some of the leaders in Europe are inclined to apply it to politi- cal economy and Mnk up the govern- ments, —————— A man who tries to go on with a campaign fund of less than a hundred thousand dollars is regarded by veterans s merely playing “Tom Thumb" politics, r——— Golf continues to be composed, appar- ently, of Bobby Jones et al. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Last Word. Good Old Mister Common Sense Views some things that seem immense; Lengthy documents unturled, Meant to regulate the world, With directions pointing to ‘What folks should or shoildn't do. Mister Common Sense, says he— “Wait until you hear from me!” Listens as big talk is heard, While he never says a word In reply to efforts new To make dreams or jokes come true. ‘When he speaks his mind at last We forget a troubled past. So he says just now, you see, “Wait until you hear from me!” | ! Easy Deduction, “Those persons who broke into my desk,” sald Senator Sorghum, “were low-brow specimens, who had been educated very little beyond simple arithmetic.” “How do you Sherlock out all this?” “I left one of my most polished and entertaining speeches on top of my papers. They pald no attention to it and went after nothing but statistics.” Jud Tunkins says the successful ag- riculturist just now is the one who can get wages by sitting up to,a desk and getting up figures about the crop yields in different areas. Ghost Writing. The “ghost” was once a thing of gloom ethereal ‘That did not claim a share in things material, But now he writes for those who woo the gallery. ‘The actor tolls. The “ghost” draws all the salary. Beauty With Discretion. contests this Summer?” “I did not compete,” answered Miss Cayenne. “I am fond of clothes and did not care to call attention to how few I could use and still preserve ap- pearances.” “Desire for wealth,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “when realized may bring disappointment. Yet what could be more certain of sorrow than a de- sire for poverty?' The Great Statesman. My Radio! My Radio! My door bell’s use is running low. Into my bed room now you slip With all the arts of salesmanship. “Folks used to sing ’'bout dem ‘Golden Slippers,’” said Uncle Eben. “Now de most they’s thinkin' 'bout is new shoes foh de automobile tires.” o Statistics on Everything. Prom the Duluth Herald. We are a methodical people. It is possible to get statistics of nearly every- thing except the total cost of opening Jackpots for the fiscal year, e ———oo—e— Girdles Must Have Halyards, From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. If the new girdles for men are to be & complete success, they'll have to be rigged up with enough long halyards to hold up the sock o e What Is an Earthquake? | Trom the Oakland Tribune. | Now that it's discov-red rth hos a pulsc, we may n scon wheth ' an cari- n~cze or a shiver. B tha! the t to to thzse who dishonest!y 2:sst him. Sitting within the range of his voice were several of the Tammany district leaders and officeholders who last week the special Prohibition Satisfactory. . From the Louisville Times. " P‘:ohlhmon is "n:" 11 y:u old, and entirely sa everybody the United States the “Did you win in any of the beauty of wets seemed to what we @ WASHINGTON, D. C, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Reminiscences of the seashore, car- ried in this column recently, struck a | popular chord, judging by the letters received from readers. The sea makes its appeal to all, is an_elemental thing; surging in the very heartbeat of humanity, this love for the ocean. the sea and all that belongs to it. physically timid person may love it well as the bravest mariner who e trod a deck. The fascination which a well told sea proves our contention. Next to & love story, we do not believe that there is any form of writing which is likely to have a greater appeal. Scme authors, such as Conrad and Cooper, live solely because of their ability to put the ocean on paper. A feat, that! The reader hears the whistle of wind through riggings, learns that a “sheet” is a rope, smells the fresh salt {air, all without stirring from his com- fortable chalr, Herman Melville, whose stories enjoy a vogue now which they never had during their author’s lifetime, puts the reader aboard ship in chase of the great white whale, Moby Dick. Dana years before the mast. e ‘Those who serve up mental pictures of the seashore must be content with more delicate fare. Sand dunes take the place of mountainous waves. The little people of the world love the dunes. . An ordinarily imaginative child can turn an idle dune into a palace, & fairyland or & modern rich man's island estate, depending upon what he may have chanced to read the day betore. . The dunes which stretch along the Maryland and New Jersey coasts about a city block behind the breakers are nature. One may wonder just how the sand begins to pile up into these fasci- nating hills, these miniature mountains. And always crested with a sparsely growing sea grass, which somehow man- ages to draw nourishment out of the sand and air, the former sometimes dry, sometimes wet; the latter always filled with moisture. Even this rank grass has a salty, clean smell, as everything has at the seashore. Those whose sensitive noses sometimes resent the gas-filled air of | the cities, with occasional whiffs from hidden incinerators, find that the clean, fresh, salt breezes from the ocean were made for them. * W Standing on a dune, with one's hair blowing violently, one may look out far over the ocean; not much farther, it is true, than if he stood on the beach, but somehow the effect is of an increased | distance, both out and to the sides. | If the dune has & hollow place at the top, as many of them do, the enjoy- Imem of the exploration is increased; for here is & natural shield against the incessant blowing of the gale. ‘The dunes form around some clump of vegetation, some old spar or wrecked soap box. They have a movement, it is said, of many feet a year, but the ordi- nary observer would have to be ex- tremely patient to catch it. If one will drop down to the land side of & dune, he will find complete calm. He can see the salt grass wav- ing violently at the top and bendi:lfi the sand the sides, but here is quiet. These contrasts help make up the charm of the seashore. | RESSE - VEREINIGUNG, 'Ober- ammergau.—This is a hamlet of men with long beards and un- shorn hair such as are seen no- where else in Europe in these days. Shaves and haircutting have been forbidden by the mayor (burgermeister) and town council of Oberammergau for many months past, for practically every inhabitant of the village has a chance to participate in the historic Passion Play, which has been per- formed according to a vow of the vil- lagers every decade since 1630, *x ok % King George Strengthens Monarchy. The Daily Herald, London.—The weird metaphysics of the British crown are not easily appreciated, save by its subjects. A King who réigns, but does not’ govern; who has influence, but not power; who has prestige, but no au- thority—this is & position extraordi- narily delicate to handle-in a success- ful way. No one who examines the emerges with distinction from the test. He followed an extraordinarly popular monarch. It cannot be said that he had made any decisive impact upon the public mind when he ascended the throne. Yet it would be merely the truth to isay that the monarchy is even more strongly enthroned in publ esteem than when he succeeded to it. He has been hard-working, patient and self- effacing in & task that is necessarily dull and calls for qualities of extraordi- nary tact and restraint. The 20 years of George V's reign have been the most eventful of modern history. When he came to the throne, monarchy was the rule, republicanism the exception, result of the war, the reverse is the case. Russia, Austria, Germany and Greece have become republics, and the monarchy of Spain. after an evil dic- tatorship, totters on its foundations, while that of Italy is hardly more than | & shadow. It says much for our King's discre- tion that all these mighty changes abroad have not created any serious movement toward republicanism in Great Britain, although he has shown a recognition that the basis of power in gland has changed, for which tactful perception no praise can be too high. * ok ok ‘Man of Balloons” Thrills Bucnos Aires Children, La Naclon, Buenos Alres,—One of the entrancing sights enjoyed regularly on our streets is, that of the “man of bal- loons” marching, perforce, not on the sidewalk, but in the thoroughfare, of necessity, for there are floating above him dozens of his brightly colored spheres, inflated with gas, which oc- cupy so much of the astral area there is no space for them, pulling at their strands, above the footway. . To the children especially the presence alone of this vender excites an ecstasy derived from no other source, and, de- spite the inconvenience such a peram- bulating merchant is to trafiic, the au- thorities view his business with an jndulgent eye, beca of the appeal t etty variegated globes have for th ittle ones. Needless to say, the strolling mer- chant does a good business with chil- dren having money wherewith to buy a toy balloon of their favorite color, yet even those without any money take an equally eager delight in these brilliant, bounding orbs. * ok X % | Australia’s Great Need Is Increased Production. The Bulletin, Sydney—As an item in the prograr1 of readjustment, the prac- tice of putiing people off for so many days & week, or one weck in so many, may be unavoldable, but all the same | ever to be lost sight of the- fact ought n ¥ great need is produc- that Ausivel’ a1 tion, and that on 1> man s worse than a meorely wasted mzn. For while he is standing down he has to be kept; so everybody goes a little shorter than he otherwise would. T Swineing ‘slons aterly regardiess 5 g along utterly "’.’mm truths. Noth whether we earne no consequence 8t enables the least scaworthy to spend | record of George V can doubt that he | hrevious generation to learn German. n Europe. Today, as the | story has for the majority of readers|to a creamy tone. exceptionally interesting creations of | ‘Those grown-up children called “elders” get quite as much ehjoyment out of treasure trove on the beach as the little ones. There are il sorts of It | colored stones and shells of many shapes. There are—or at least there were—a multitude of corks and long bamboo poles. There are bits of wreck- The happy thing about it is that one | age, some heavy and long, others light; does not have to be a sailor to love | there are soap boxes: th ere are weeds; A | at times even jellyfish, and occasionally no less an inhabitant of the mighty deep than the devilfish, whose proper ame we do not know. The colored stones range from rose Many of thew are 00d | perfect in shape, having been rubbed to their state by the incessant rolling of the waves and the friction of the sand. One speculates on their chances of having ‘arrived these shores from the other side, or else from hundreds of miles “out.” Today one will have to go far up the beach to find the big shells which one used to be able to pick up in front of the cottages. Children put them to their ear “to hear ‘he ocean roar.” And the strange part—or at least so the children thought—was that the shells still roared after they had been brought back to the city to prop against the fireplace. Householders always had to admit to themselves, although they might have been ignorant of the theory and prac- tice of interior decoration, that the shells looked perfectly out of place in the city. And every time he felt so he had a sudden mental picture of how well they looked on the wet beach with the glistening water upon them and the sunshine bathing them. Why hadn't he had enough sense to let them alone? The small shells were different. They retained something of their luster in the city. The clean pink ones in par- ticular always remained pink. The corks sometimes came up by the hundreds and thousands. One memo- rable morning the beach was strewn for miles with them. After another storm bamboo poles littered the beach. Were they from some wreck at sea? We young searchers never knew. But for weeks afterward corks and bamhoo poles were to be seen everywhere, * ok ok ‘The sea is a perfectly satisfacto infinity for the landlubber, Mostg when one thinks of “infinity” he thinks of nothing at all, for the word in the abstract means nothing. Buf when a city man is confronted with the ocean he realizes that here is an infinity which means something. These spars flung up on the sand have come from “out there,” that satisfying infinity. There is, he knows, a vast “out there” which to him is unknown, but which to others is known, to some ex- tent at least. He sees the far trail of smoke as tiny black things, called ships, sink over the horizon. They are ex- ploring the mystery of what to him is the infinite. He knows that i he were aboard that boat his infinitude would be ever be- fore him and would give way at last to & seaport of the Old World. Maybe all infinities are the same, with an end somewhere. It is the hope of hu- manity. He dreams of Lindbergh, alone above that vast infinity, ever pushing it be- fore him, leaving some of it behind him. Man makes his own infinities, and perhaps as surely ends them. able to pick up some of the shining treasures as he goes along, he is lucky. It he can keep a few, he is happy. If he can give them away to make others rejoice, he is blessed. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands all. Indeed, we set pleasant fools up in high places’ to award wages based not on earnings but on a workman'’s needs, and we called the pleasant fools judges and gave their decisions the force of law. All that nonsense has to stop. people from whom we borrowed to pay what we didn't earn have buttoned up their pockets. Now, therefore, the community has to earn what it gets. But, unhapplly, that does not mean that the individual will get what he earns. Indeed, he cannot get what he earns so long as there are hordes of people Who are getting more than they earn, and thousands more who are get- ting something and earning nothing. * ok ok ok French Edueation Being Revised in Alsace. Le Matin, Paris—French education is meeting ‘with a general revival in Alsace, though in the rural communi- ties formerly occupled by the Germans it may take as long to teach the deni- zens the Gallic tongue as it required the ‘The University of Strasbourg, however, which before the war never had more than 1,200 students, now has an aver- age annual enroliment of 3,000. As the center of French culture in the recov- ered territory, the complete restoration of the French language seems, however, eventually assured. * ok ok ok Hope Chairman ‘Will Persecute Horse Beaters. Palastin, Jaffa.—Maj. Broadhurst has been elected local chairman of the S. P. C. A. Considering how some of the poor animals are treated in the carts, we hope the new chairman will be fairly active and persecute some who beat their horses unmercifully. * ok ok X Sanitary Agents Close Little Meat Shops. El Diarlo, La Paz—All meat shops, particularly the little retailers, whose systems of refrigeration are not ade- quate in the opinion of the public health department, are being summarily closed by sanitary agents. Much illness and pecuniary loss has been attributed to the sale of tainted meat by certain small dealers. Aok ow ok Tokio Plans Reduction of Unemployment. Japan Advertiser, Tokio.— Wwhich will reduce the num unem A project ber of the ployed by 300,000 during early Fall was announced recently by the Tokio Municipsl Office. The project will take the form of sewer system improvements and_will cost 3,000,000 yen ($1,500,000). It is tentatively ex- pected to furnish work for at least 300,- 000 men. At the completion of this project, the municipality will start its regular Winter employment relief enter- rrlnes, which will cost 1,000,000 yen and ast from December to March. Men for this work will be chosen from among those registered at the city office. ok ok ok Plane Equipped With Skis for Movie Work. Neues Wiener Abendblatt, Vienna.— The German flyer, Udet, has flown over the Trent Glacler, at an elevation of 3,000 meters in the Mont Blanc group, with a double-decker equipped with snowshoes (skis) instead of wheels. ‘This modification enabled Herr Udet to make a successful landing upon a pla- teau of snow near the summit in con- Jjunction with the operation of & French studio expedition filming different aspects of the glacler. Until Herr Udet's spectacular feat, no one with the camera party had been able to get near enough to take pictures of the moving ice-stream, though endeavoring to do so for several weeks. The flyer also brought suppjles of food to the isolated party, whoe provisions were | running low, | Herr Udet prsbibly will take the members of the party back to Chamonix in successive flights of his plane. AP R e Weak Point in Structures. From the Asheville Times. enduring except the of the party plat- If he is| {In stor T ll'hy?fl’lln!!. the humans at home TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1930. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M ROADSIDE MEETINGS. Hamlin Gar~ land. The Macmillan Company. ‘Too long and bitter and lonely, those Dakota Winters. Too grilling the Da- kota Summers, bent to sowing and har- vesting mile upon mile of shining fields of wheat. Besides, this young man had come under the spell of learning, had fallen into the net of reading, was be- ginning to sense the power of words as one of the irell creative forces. So, in- | stinctively, his mind ran away from the present out into the future, away from the dreary here into some brighter | there. His future, his place, lay, clearly, in thé East, where existed. then, the main body of culture possessed by this country. ‘Therefore, with a penny or so in his | pocket—literally, a trifie over $100—he fared out upon the great adventure of youth—an adventure that expresses it- self in an infinite variety, but one that is sourced ever in young blood, in big dreams and in & lust of personal en- counter with the world, the unknown but beckoning world, It was around 1884 when Hamlin Garland turned toward the East, to- ward Boston, seeking the fortune of knowledge and culture, seeking oppor- tunity and possible contacts with one {or another already well upon the road that stretched so gloriously before him as the way of his own desire and am- bition. A long trip it has turned out to be. Almost half a century long at & turn in the earth’s business when, measured by Lachievement, 50 years count more than a millennium of former eras. A splendid {time. A fair journey, too, it has been through the domain of American letters and in the company of American authors. “Roadside Meetings” is, in sum, a record of innumerable ' hours and minutes of association with the writers of this country. It is, too, a sketchbook that pictures, vividly, many of these. | Again, it serves, in passing, to outline Hamlin Garland’s literary theory and practice from the standpoint of an American writer and to identify himselt and his work with a purely American school of authorship. This school runs current with Mr. Garland's own career and owes to him an active and unalter- able support, as both writer and ardent “Roadside Meetings” fs interesting. Absorbing, I call it. Why? Well, ft is record and not a beglamoured body of recollections. These records were made, obviously, when they were warm to the heart and close to the hand of the writer. Therefore, this is a book of dependable information about some- thing in which readers are keenly in- terested—the immediate work, the in- timate life of this or that one who stands as the source of pleasurable ex- perfence on our own part. The ac- counts are simple, straight, unaffected. ‘We see these literary Americans just about as Mr. Garland himself saw them. A kindly man who does not dig for faults, any more than he glosses them over. A fair-dealing man and a most genfal companion. Not easy for us to belleve that when Mr. Garland went to Boston Willlam D. Howells was the storm center of disap- proval with all who had been content to borrow their literary sustenance from Europe and who were rigid against change and innovation. 1t was with him that realism in Americon litera- ture really stood up for the first time, and after that it made its staggering way, through public indifference or rotest, on to the present of Theodore Breiser and many another of his kind. Interesting to follow the line wn by Mr. Garland to trace the course of this homemade literary stuff. By way of it he gathers those from all parts of the country who were setting down and poem and picture the thefr familiar behaviors. Here are ithered the dialect writers, a long ceseion of them, contributing rich- nd abundantly to the preservation of many a pricele:s phase of American life by way of their inspired, and faithful, portraiture. You don’t like them—these vernacular stories, drawn from the South, North, West end East? Nevertheless, they are the first fruits of our pioneering days, of our incom- parably rich soll. They can carry but one sin—that of carelers work, ‘of overdrawn idiosyncrasy. So long as they are faithful they are as inspired as any other venerated document. Hamlin Garland does yeoman service in this field, both in his own writings and in his advocacy of the tribe of local eolorists, of realists in American literature. A long line of writers—from Howells on. A great procession whosé members we see anew through this simple, almost casual way of coming upon them, of ex- changing a few words and moving on to another group, to another circumstance involving one or more of our American literary creditors. A fascinating book and an informing on: which, besides sketching Mr. Garland's own career, gathers up broadly and brilliantly cer- fain high. and vital points in the de- velopment of an independent American experiment in letters. # And I said to the professor, “If I were & school teacher, I'd let the boys and gitls in on something like this book—a wide and understanding book of home stuff, as neighborly as the fam- ily across the way, as delightful as most real and nearby things are.” “But you couldn't do that”” “No?” *“Why not?” “Well, it would upset the course and mess things up terribly. They're having some of Shakespeare now. You see, it wouldn’t do.” “Oh, no, of course not!" | —But just why wouldn't it do! | Xk K A TOURIST IN SPITE OF HIMSELF. A. Edward Newlon. Little, Brown & Co. I've gone along with Edward Newton in book-collecting adventures. I was in complete captivity to his “Greatest Book in the World.” So another book from the same source was an approach- ing joy of purest ray to me. No, yes, Do but it is the very same person, not another man at all. I'm no fickle friend, so if Edward Newton was going, even though in spite of himself, there was nothing for me to do save to join up, and I°did. Well, we've been and gut back. Been to Scandinavia and Eng- land and France, to Egypt and Jeru- salem and the rest. In pondering the adventure as every New England person is bound to weigh investment, the clear balance is all on the side of laugh- er and eating. 1 am pounds fatter, and s0 is Mr. Newton. Look at his pic- tures. He has a gift for scenting the finest cafes, the most delectable food caches, for combining viands into poems and pageants—and nightmares. You see, 1 knew nothing at all about the enerally open fact that Mr. Newton is a ’i:mmanst. 1 took him as a bcokworm, just that and nothing more, but, the nicest kind of a bookworm. And, I'm sure that he is just that. Since he went upon this “tour” against his certainly “in spite of hims:lf,” he, ver- satile man, turned phiiosopher, becom- | ing thereby the life of tne pariy in no more than an earnsst desire to make the best of a bad case. To pe sure in the going round and round, afier the manner of tourists generally, he does draw from one situation and another, from one locality and another, some very | useful stuff of informational brand, some spirited comment reminiscently charac- teristic of the soberer Newton. We gather up some figures about Norway and Sweden, some depressing facts about the eternal scrubbings and scour- ings of those overcleanly tribes. Oh, yes, there is no end of fact here, once it 1s picked out from the seas of mirth that override it! Gcod fact, too, once you get it. By the weight of birth and training and profession, this is & most serious man, & man who counie appreciably He just went a-playing here—and seems already to feel the pangs of re- gret over s0 much of hilarity in a clearly serious world. At any rate, the outing ends in a minor sound, ust now a ‘bland’ diet is highly recom- iy mended, guaranteed to add five years to ' The 80 his: wril B e i T T oAk m| cl ——for pe: Tast, a Little stewed Trult. o Know the | mond News-Leader, which calls the elec- ANSWERS' TO QUESTIG BY FREDERIC Thousands of Government experts are working constantly for the benefit of all citizens of the United States. They will work directly for you'if you will call for the fruits of their labors through our Washington Bureau. State your inquiry briefly, write clearly, and, inclosing 2-cent stamp for a personal letter in reply, address The Evening| Star Information Bureau, Frederic J.| Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. | Q. What is the name of the young| woman who has charge of the N. 3. C. programs?—R. J. A. Bertha Brainard has supervision over the N. L. C. erofr-m-. emanating from the East and extending over the | entire country and Canada. She is a former newspaper woman. Q. What is a square loop?—R. J. A. This rather unusual stunt is per- | formed by driving a plane straight up| for 1,000 feet, then on a line for the|R. same distance, and breaking from that into a 1,000-fQot dive. ‘= Q. 1s the mandolin suitable for solo | playing?—G. P. A. It is considered suitable. Q. Who are the members of the com- | mittee that has been formed to study the lynching problem in the South?— | D. V. H A. The commission consists of George Fort Milton, editor of the Chattanooga News, chairman; Dr. Howard W. Odum of the University of North Carolina; Julian Harris of the Atlanta Constitu- tion; Alex W. Spence, lawyer, of Dallas, Tex.; Dr. W. P, King, editor, Methodist Episcopal Church (South), Nashville, ‘Tenn., and Dr. W, J. McGlothlin, presi- dent of Furman University, An ad- visory committee includes Dr. R. R. Moton, Tuskegee Institute; Dr. Charles 8. Johnson of Pisk University; Huber of Georgla State College, and John Hope of Atlanta University. Q. What is the story of Robin Adair? —W. L. K. A. Robin Adair was a young medical student. When he was 22 years old he left his medical studies to go to Lon- don. While on his way he was run over by the coach of a London society woman. She assisted him to that city, becoming his patroness. After he be- came established in society there, Robin Adair fell in love with Lady Caroline Keppel, daughter of the Earl of Albe- marle. Disapproving of the matcH, her father banished her to Bath. It was there that she wrote Robin Adair. When her health became endangered by her brooding over the love affair, consent was given to the marriage, Q. How long has it been since sui- cides in England were buried on the highway with a stake driven through the body?—R. E. A. This practice was abolished by a law enacted in 1823. Q. Have many disabled persons been alded by the Federal Board of Voca- tional Education?—C. M. A. Since 1921 more than 38,000 have been rehabilitated. Q. Where is_the Flemish language spoken?—L. O. R. A. The Flemish language is spoken in the northern half of Belgium and by more than 200,000 people in the Nord Department of France. Q. Was Coleridge's “The Anclent B. F.|G J. HASKIN. the suggestion of the shooting of the albatross cam w e from his fellow poet, Q. Will & tank in which & vacuum has been created float as well s one co:m:lin: gomprem: :Irg;—h?. G. . Air has weigh . erefore, & tank filled with air welghs more than one which contains a vacuum. Both will float, but the one containing the vaeuum will float higher than the one containing compressed air. Q. How many Popes bore the of Felixsy. B, oPes bore R A. Felix was the name of five Popes. Q. What additional territory did Italy obtain as a result of the World War, and how much of this territory, if ai |did England and France agree th Italy should receive a: a condition of mugnz into the World War?—W, A. On September 10, 1919, the peace treaty with Austria was signed at 8t. Germain, whereby Italy definjtely ac- quired the frontiers assigned to her by | the treaty of London, on the north and northeast, plus the Sexten Valley and Tarvis. The treaty of London was con- cluded April 26, 1915, between Italy, Britain, France and Russia. Under its provisions Italy undertook to intervene in the war on behalf of the allles, and in return was promised the Trentino and the upper Adige Valley to the Brenner Pass, Trieste, Gorizia-Gradisca, Istria, and the Quarnero Islands of Cherso and Lussin, Dalmatia to Planka, Valona, full possession of Rhodes and the Dodecanese, and in Asia Minor a zone of influence and eventually' a share in its partition, Qi., ghat is mean by the universe?— A. The term “universe” is generally used in reference to the entire worldof stars and nebulae, not only visible to the naked eye but hundreds of thou- sands besides, so distant that their ex- istence is revealed only by the greatest telescopes and the most sensitive pho- tographic plates. The term actually includes also our own solar system. Q. Wasn't there a single gtyer from the District of Columbia in the national ‘a'm;uux golf tournament this year?— and former District champion, was the sole representative from the District in the national amateur this year at Merion. Q. How much would it cost to bore or dig a hole in the earth 5 miles deep?—F. A, S. A. Experts say it is impossible to estimate the cost of such an engineer- i% opergtion. It might cost $10,000,~ 000 or five times that amount, and it might prove impossible, no matter how much money was spent on it. Q. Which is the higher, Mount Shasta or Mount Rainier?—M. D, A. Mount Rainier is about 280 feet higher than Mount Shasta. Qéwhnt is the “dhoble iteh"?— 'A."rhu_ general term is applied in the trogficl to any skin disease trans- mitted by the clothin Q.W‘h‘twgodlmmhunil Mariner” an entirely original work, or was it based on a legend or some! of that sort?>—H. G. A, Coleridge embodied the dream of & friend in “The Ancient Mariner,” and that Country A proves Naming Of Kellogg to"World Court The election of Frank membership in the World Court to fill out the unexpired term of Charles Evans Hughes, which ends January 1, 1931, with the assumption that Mr. Kellogg will prior to that date be named for the ensuing term of nine years, meets with general approval. “No more fitting honor could have come to former Secretary of State Kel: logg of St. Paul to crown his very dis- tinguished career than that which the" League of Nations accorded him in call- ing him to the bench of the World Court,” says the St. Paul Pioneer Press, affirming that “Mr. Kellogg has bril- liantly served his State and the United States,” and that he is now “to per- form & service to the community of the world, which derives its especial appro- priateness from his own contributions to the ideal of international peace.” Also laudatory in its remarks is the | Duluth Herald as it declares that “no man in Minnesota's history ever had s0 distinguished a career, and Frank B. Kellogg has given distinguished service | in every public capacity to which he| has been called. Minnesota is proud of that career, as it has every right to be,” concludes the Herald. ‘That “M. Briand’s warm advocacy of the selection was couched in more than terms of perfunctory courtesy” is pleas- ing to the Philadelp] Evening Bulle- tin, and the Asbury k Evening Press sees in his selection “a friendly gesture to the American people and a tribute to the peace pact of which he is the author.” The South Bend Tribune considers the honor emphasized by the fact that it was not “for lack of other distinguished American nominees.” As the Worcester Daily Telegram says, “The American nominee was elected by tle Assembly and the Council of the League of Nations by an overwhelming vote” and “instead of al6otness and hostility there were mutual compli- ments.” Noting that “30 votes out of 47 were cast for Mr. Kellogg,” the Syra- cuse Herald says, “The opposing votes had but a negligible significance, as they were presumably distributed among cther Americans, owing to previous commitments.” * oKk Concerning Mr. Kellogg himself, the comments vary from that of the Rich- i tion “the climax of & ccmeback,” to that of the Wheeling Intelligencer, which remarks: “This elevation is a singularly happy one. Mr. Kellogg is one of the foremost authcrities in in- ternational law.” To the Utica Ob- server-Dispatch the election is “one of those appropriate results which some- times appear in public events.” In the opinion of the Columbus Ohio State Journal, Mr. Kellogg “has a great legal mind, and while he has made minor mistakes, recent years brought him op- portunities for world service which he met successfully.” As the Flint Daily Journal puts it, “he is a conservative, level-headed man and possessed of that rare attribute, an international mind.” As is natural, this selection of Mr. Kellogg has rencwed interest in both the Kellogg peace pact and the World Court itself, with some discussion as to the prospect of American adherence to| that Court. Says the Union, “In one respect this election is apt to prove a disappointment in | League circles,” and this will be asso-| clated with “the alleged influence that he will be able to exert toward bringing the United States into the World Court. ‘This question will doubtless come up for final solution at the next Congress, but rest); for lunch, a piece of whole wheat bread (and so on); for dinner, a little mutton—— * * * One should retire at 9, sleep on & hard mattress, rise at 4 in Summer and-—-' clear peni- tent, this man back from an orgy of Summe:time and travel. Then, even like th» Father of Lamentations, “Who woull wish to live' at suoh a price?" This regimen, however, affords exel- lent answer to Paul's question, “O death, | where is thy sting?” Let me tell you, | Mr. Newton, what ¢ do pretty soon, when you feel better. Write ing about ycur book collecting. Manchester , B, Kellogg to| the paper. As i out M. Kelloge Wil 1end sirenit main out r. and dignity to ‘th: ?_m:nu." The Detroit h;: which is of i election “will create no great amount of excite- ment in this country,” still that “those Americans who believe that the United States should enter this in- ternational tribunal without first make ing absolutely sure that its interests are protected are likely to regard Mr, Kellogg's selection as_the ‘American member’ of the World Court as a break in_their favor.” The Chicago Dailly News prophesies that “entrance by this Nation into the World Court presumably is a question of time only, and probably a short time.” The Hartford Daily Courant, noting the “close relationship between the pact which outlaws war among na tions and the Court, which provides means for the peaceful settlement of in- ternational disputes,” says, “So desir- able would be the participation of the United States in_the activities that i is greatly to be hoped that its adher- ents to the protocol will not be delayed, either by factious opposil at home or by suspicious forces abroad.” The Rock Island Argus thinks “he may live to see his country fully recognize that Court.” Citing the fact that “the Court will convene in special session on Ootober 20 to consider an issue between France and Switzerland regarding frontier customs zones,” the San Antonio EX- press is gratified that “Mr. Kellogg probably will sit with the Court for this special session.” Many papers see hope for further achievement in work for world peace by Mr. Kellogg. As the Kalamazoo Ga~ zette says, “in choosing Mr, Kellogg for this high honor the League electors have no doubt given due consideration to the man's sincere interest in the cause of world peace, as well as to his eminence as a man of the law.” The Raleigh News and Observer states, “At heart, Mr. Kellogg wishes world peace, and he has the opportunity now to show that he will fight for it.” “It may be supposed,” remarks the Milwaukee Journal, “that Mr. Kellogg's election is because of his activities for international peace. * * * Several of the candidates proposed for the place would presumably have been stronger figures on the international bench. America will therefore accept the nomi- nation with mingled feelings. At the same time, it will wish Mr. Kellogg a rich experience at The Hague, Service on the World Court did much even for Mr. Hughes, whose carcer was much more varied than Mr. Kellogg's at the time of appointment. —r——— Place for Lot of Hats. From the Albany Evening News. A lot of hats are in the and some of 'em might the ash barrel, litical ring tter be in .- Wanted: Radio Applauders. From the Toledo Blade. There is an idea in radio broadcasting for oratorical political candidates. Hire an audience to furnish the applause, o Pointer for Wrigley. From the Omahs World-Herald, ‘When Chicago Cubs lose, Owner Wrig- ley should be nonchalant and chew some of his own gum. Breaking the Drought. From the Roanoke Times. Possibly the t could have been h broken a month earlier if arrangements had been made to hold Fair week Avgust. SRRy ORI R Lesson From Yacht Races. 0s> are delightful and you've them “more than and Johnson play. to work U e of Time to go pernay