Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1930, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR | ___With Sunday Morning Edition. ot ' Rafly and Sunday. iy ‘only .. ay only WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.........October 3, 1830 ‘ THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The lv-lu.%lnn: Newspaper Company ot S B ! 3 H‘R. ent. Engiand. sylvania Ave \ichisan Buudine. 8. Tondon, Rate by Carrier Within the City. .48¢ per month enine Star.. 3 ening and Sunday Siar when 4 Sundayy) - 60c per month (w indays) . 63¢ per month e Sunday Star 5S¢ per copy llection made rs may be fAtional 5000. S s Rate by Mail—Payable in A|:vuwe. All Other States and Canada. y and Sunday $12.00: 1 mo., HKLT $8.00° 1m0, inday only $5.00, 1 mo.. Member of the Associated Press. e Associated Pres exclusively entitled $o *the use fcr republicagion of all news dis- published herein. ights of publication n: special dispatches are also reserved. $1.00 B The Gospel of Confidence. It anybody expected President Hoover before the bankers at Cleveland last night to deal in concrete prophecy about the business situation, disappoint- ment is the result. The Chief Execu- tive carefully kept off the perilous ice of prediction. He confined himself to generalities concerning the ‘“severe shock” and “disorganization in our eco- nomic system, which have rarily checked the march of prosperify.” But he did not fall to preach to the masters of the Nation's finances & healthy and hopeful gospel of confidence. He ad- Jured them that in their intimate re- lations with the people, as guides, philosophers and friends, there rests upon them in a peculiar sense the duty of maintaining that morale without | which business recovery cannot be ac- celerated. Perhaps the President calculated that markable brace and playing winning ball on its home fleld, goes unmis- takably to show that the American League is comprised of better base ball teams than the National. Washing- ton’s performance during the past sea- son, though not as good as that of Philadelphia in percentage reckoning, was better than that of St. Louls, its winning record being higher than that of the Caidinals. And the loyal sup- porters of the Washington aggregation .| believe that they could take the meas- ure of the National League champions now battling so ineffectively ‘against the Athletics, this belief being supported by the fact that the Senators took a majority of the games played this ~ea- son with Philadelphia. But base ball is a tricksy sport, and the play of the next few days may completely upset the apple cart. Cases have been known where world series con- tenders have suddenly turned from ap- parent defeat to ultimate triumph. Man- ager Street's pitchers may regain their form, his batters their eyes, his flelders their cunning. To date all of them have fallen short. Or, rather, the superb team play of the Athletics and their wizardry at making their hits count for the utmost have made the serles a repetition of the America's Cup races, with Enterprise decidedly outclassing Shamrock. And this is much to the sorrow of those Washingtonians who, for auld lang syne, have hoped for the success of their old friend and team playmate, the battery partner of the beloved Walter Johnson. Our Increasing Budgets. Senator King's alarm over the up- ward trend of District budgets is shared by the taxpayers of Washington, who have more reason to fear the conse- quences than he has. The taxpayers of ‘Washington are the ones who have been affected by the annual increases. The national partner in Capital nfinte- nance and development, who also desig- nates the purpose and controls the size of expenditures, has come off pretty well. Despite the yearly growth of the budgets, the national contribution has remained stationary until the half mil- lion increase that resulted last Spring - to dogmatize the bankers of the coun- | {fOm the Senate's fight against the in- try about the economic outlook would be akin to carrying coals to Newcastle. One of their own shining lights, Col. Leonard P. Ayres of Cleveland, had told the convention earlier in the day that the end of 1931 might reasonably be fixed as the date when “statisticlans’ normal” i. e, the mean between the peak of pre-crash- prosperity and post- crash depression, would be at hand. At several points of his thoughtful, if cautious, remarks, Mr. Hoover stressed the ephemeral character of America's commercial and industrial, plight. We have survived “a thousand temporary setbacks,” he asserts. “Temporary” is, of course, a relative term. Hitherto our ‘economic recessions have run an aver- age course of twelve or thirteen months. If Col. Ayres’ expert prognostication is well founded, business will have been “In the red,” so to speak, for more than twice as long a period. Yet—and herein lies the kernel of President Hoover's Cleveland speech— there is nothing in even so protracted & spell of bad times to dishearten, Cis- courage or demoralize our people. It cannot sap or undermine the funda- mentals upon which American national ‘wealth and prosperity rest. These re- main, unimpaired, as Mr. Hoover use- fully points out. That they will, as in the past, prove to be the foundation of revived welfare cannot be doubted. The President counsels the country to take heart from its history. In the homely vernacular, he ssys to us that we may be down, but we are far from being out. By their unstinted applause of these steadying sentiments, the bankers con- verted them into the keynotes of Mr. Hoover's address. They approved his affirmation that “this is no time for surrender.” They ascquiesced in the declaration that “the spirit of this peo- ple will never brook defeat.” Between the lines of his speech runs the plain hint that to put its house in order is rather the task of American business itself. The Government can only co-operate n that process, as it has signally done during the past year and a half. adequacy of the lump sum. ‘The rising tide of municipal expendi- tures is a problem that is not confined ‘Washington. -As Senator King says, most cities are experiencing the same thing. And Washingtonians who have protested against the unfair division of expenses in connection with the Fed- eral City have not sought to escape their Just obligations by seeking a cut either 1n the size of the budget or in the amount of their tax burden. Their petition has been that the controlling partner in this task of maintaining and building the Capital City- recognize its obligations to the extent of increasing its lawtully imposed and nevej repealed proportion- ate contribution; that as Capital City expenses mount, the Federal contribu- tion should be larger in the same pro- portion that the local contribution has become and continues to grow larger. One reason why this city's budgets are increasing, however, is that the legislators who control the purse strings have obtained the power, unique in America, of spending other people's money without the necessity of con- sulting them as to how it should be spent. The lid is off. The wise checks and balances on the generosity, not to say the whimsical impulses, of Congress that lay in the fixed proportion system of appropriating for the Capital with- out representation from the taxpayers have been set aside from year to year, Dot by the deliberate action of the Congress, but by a legislative expedient successfully resorted to by the House. Senator King would render invaluable service, not only to the unrepresented taxpayers of the city, but to the up- building of the American Capital, by lending his valuable efforts to a con- tinuaticn of the Senate’s fine fight for fiscal equity in District affairs. ————————— “Power of the Press” remains un- diminished. The importance of a radio address s measured by the amount of newspaper space it can command on the day following. e Russia was referred to by Poet Kip- diction or advance judgment regarding the worth of testimony to be submit- ted by “a man named Groh” call off the inquiry? Would any witness dare insinuate that the “man named Groh” 'was & mere red herring drawn across the trail? The importance of “a man named afidavits. The relevance of & charge depends upon whose telephone wires have been tapped, and the degree of 1ibel is measured by identity of the per- son who is libeled. Such is the law in the year of our Lord 1930 and of the independence of the Republic the 154th. ) A Holiday for the Recalcitrants. ‘When Mayor Walker called his official henchmen before him the othi: day and told them that, under penalty of dismissal from office, they must go be- fore the grand jury and, waiving im- munity, give their testimony on matters in inquiry, he granted them twenty- four hours for compliance. That period expired at four o'clock yesterday after- noon, and at that hour not one of the seven recalcitrants had appeared at the grand jury room. When the mayor was asked about this, he said that he had, without public notice, in effect granted an extension of twenty-four hours. This was because of the fact that yes- terday was a Jewish holiday, and he “would not take any man who is ob- serving a religious holiday and ray he must stop that and go down to the grand jury and present himsell.” The mayor was unsatisfactory in his reply to questioners when asked whether this extension of time limit applied fo all seven of the office holders, whose names are Charles H. Kohler, Michael Cos- grove, William Kavanagh, Terence Mec- Keever, John J. Dietz, Clarence Neal and Solomon Goldenkranz, although he did say that whether they all knéw that the day was a Jewish holiday or not, he, the mayor, knew it. So, at any rate, he gave them twenty-four hours more, to include a day that was not on any cal- ender of religious observance. And it is repqried that while explaining this interesting grant of grace he kept his face just as straight as he did when he admonished the seven “insulted” ones that they must walve and testify under pain of official death. ‘Whatever may be the outcome, the Ewald case and its ramifications will have given New York more entertain- ment than any revue that has been presented on Broadway for years. ——e——————— England does not hesitate to ban an American play, such for instance as “Green Pastures.” America has always been more liberal, even since the old days, when it welcomed “Lydia Thomp- son’s Blondes.” ———e—s ©Ohio enjoyed the honor of an address by President Hoover to the bankers of the Nation. Ohlo is still strong in its ancient assertion of & right to the ‘political spotlight. 5 o There are still a number of kings scattered through Europe. In order to be a successful king it is necessary for & man to be quiet and well behaved and to know his place. ‘Tax increase is always contemplated «» THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. cheers many a man through life. He looks upon it, not so much as a forelorn hope as a happy possibility, though not probability. Like its foundation, hope, it is an expectation which hurts no one, and possesses in {tself fine mental tonic qualities. The expectation of being famous, in one way or another, is an intellectual antiseptic. Those few who desire to be notorious, at any price, have succumbed to a taste for too much pepper. The fame of which we speak is that good fame which an honorable person desires, whether he admits it or not. There may be a man, here and there, who honestly covets no notice from the world, but the majority are not so. * K % % In writing letters, even the most per- sonal ones, the average letter writer | may well feel that some day his epistles may be collected in book form. If this possibility, remote, it you will, no more than cause him to form his sentences a bit better than he might ordinarily, the belief has done a great deal for him. Or perhaps it may make him leave out of his slight narrative the most un- necessary details. Many private lette) are burdened with them. It may necessary to make a distinction here between the letters of men und the letters of women. The feminine letter writer, as a rule. is better able to include the trivial with some attempt at charm. There are some men, however, who are blessed with the same gift. Then their letters | may be devoted to something other than politice. Just how intimate a letter may be must be left to the individual writer, who will know better than any one else. In most cases it will be better to omit the details of the too Intimate kind. There are certain topics which do not look well in writing, either with pen, pencil or typewriter. ‘These topics may do very well for conversation, but somehow in writing they seem too close for inspection, es- pecially by the possible third person. Some time or other one may come across in street or alley a letter which has blown out of & trash basket, or been dropped by the trash colleetor. Curiosity demands that one start reading it, but a certain amount of good breeding causeg one to throw it away again, as he r that what he reads was not T e ereatest fault of the' verage grea lault of the a letter is that absolutely no thought was t on it before the writer began. It is a_hodge-podge of _thoughts, or rather fits of starting and stopping. A letter preferably knows what it wants to say and says it. It pays some attention to the letter to which it is an answer. The best natural | wil introduction is a plain statement that the writer recei the last letter, and acknowledges the good points in it. Perhaps most letters so begin. It is at once a natural and graclous introduc- tion, qualities which ought to be found in every good letter. * % ok X ‘The kittenish letter, we believe, is the form which ought to be avoided most. Men as well as women are given to it. The desire to be clever is a modern disease, one from which few even of the dullest minds escape, It takes real character to avold it. Yet the truth is that few ought to attempt it, since real cleverness is rare in the world. There are, of course, many cheap imitations. Attempts to be clever spoil more otherwise good letters than anything else. Cleverness, 85 a separate quality, re- quires a perfect technique, of & sort which is inborn, scarcely ever acquired. Unless there is some perfect bond of understanding between writer and reader, a letter writer who induiges in too much cleverness will run the large risk of finding his words merely silly. Another danger of the letter is that of sentimentality. This is the stumbling | was seeking self-glorification and en- block of thousands of writers of all forms, not onlincl the letter, as such. Often’ he who knows the danger is un- able to avold it, for two good reasons: He finds his thoughts taking on a senti- mental tinge, despite himself, and he cannot be sure that what is not senti- mental may not strike another as burdened with it. ‘The sense for the sentimental is*very large in many persons, especially those who are afrald of sentiment. Most people know the difference between true sentiment and sentimentality, The former is , the latter often bad. Sentimentality usually comes into be- ing because a tender heart and kind mind attempt to force real sentiment where the factors in the case do not yet quite measure up to it. ) Many persons who abhor the senti- mental go too far in that direction. They even mistake genuine sentiment for the wrong kind. Thus the letter writer who knows in advahce the dan- ger sometimes finds it impessible to pre- vent another from branding a letter as sentimental when it by no means de- serves such a judgment. *x x x @ Naturalness, of coursy, must be the keynote of the good letter. 1t one is by nature sentimental, his - letters should be sentimental. If he (or she) is kittenish, in the ordinary meaning of that word, perhaps it is best that his letters reflect this quality. Yet even the crudest person finds himself restraining his pen, when sit- ting down to write & letter, so there would seem to be no good reason why every one, in letter writing, should not attempt to live up to the best in him. ‘This will account, no doubt, for the artificial strain which runs through the various collections of the world’s best letters. A reader can have no doubt, as he reads, that the writer was on dress parade when he wrote. All ‘writing, in a sense, is dress parade, because there is an audience, and he would be a foolish general who would refuse to avail himself of the snap of white gloves, the swank of Sam Browne belts, the appeal of polished swords and glittering rifle barrels. vm"::'m h} N oaer pnr:‘de with wo ngly appear on collar, rusty sword, stained musiet? A little thought to the gl'b- prieties hurts no writing, although it may put it in a position which permits a dullard to call it dull. Better dull, the honest letter writer may well say, n flippant, mean, half-witted in a laborious attempt to be witty, kittenish trying to impress some one. A good letter is much like good writing, and must show some jualities of the gentleman and the gentlewoman, even at the cost of the disdain of the bounders. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President Hoover made & hit with the bankers at Cleveland last night as & future possibility. The ability of | mainly because of what he failed to » public to pay taxes for value received | 58y. On no score has the adminis- 1s one of the measurements of its pros- perity. ——————— Stalin pushed Trotsky out of the Soviet picture. Trotsky wanders abroad, but he always leaves his address so that the Russians can find him when they grow tired of Stalin. ————————— tion been hammered and knocked in the financial world during the past year so hard as when it indulged in )phecy and optimism. “Preserve us any more predictions from Wash- !"" is the cry that echoed from almost every counting house in the land after some cheer-up message from the National Capital. The lamen- tations were evoked by the strange cir- cumstance that rosy prognostications emanating from the Potomac were in- variably the signals for fresh slumps Popular imagination finds delight in Wall Street, the Chicago Board of crime Investigation and the police dis- | Trade and commodity and securlty ex- play a generous disinclination to destroy | changes generally. Mr. Hoover, there- a fascinating mystery. fore, watched his step before the bank- ibsiiard i 4 ers. s the radio lisieners of the country coul ol Tve, le convention SHOOTING STARS. cordially welcomed the President’s speech, devold, as it was, of attempts to foreshadow a situation which he knows is still heaylly shrouded in un- certainty. * kX x X Believe it or not, but Calvin Coolidge addicted to the literary form gave him immortality three BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Good Old WorM. Good Old World goes rolling along With space for a blossom and time for ‘v./ m‘g;" S years ago. Recently Louis J. The goldenrod keeps its splendor &y | Cleveland, who specializes in present- d the mocking bird carols the same |ing celebrities to the American lecture & ’ audience, approached the Sage of It is well that Mr. Hoover chose, in |ling as the Bear who Walks like a erence to prophecy, to emphasize| Man. In the Chicago grain market his “undaunted faith in those resources | Teference is made to the man who and qualities which have driven us ever | trades like a bear. forward.” The American people need to regain confidence in their own boundless strength. No surer remedy for the economic blues is available. The inexhaustible fountains of well- being are still with us, carrying their certain guarantee of a solid future for & virile people of 120,000,000 souls. No less proper than the President’s re- minder on this score is his exposition of the fact that the 1929-1930 depres- sion is world wide, springing from causes far beyond our own power to control. “The nee< of today,” Mr. Hoover ob- served in his peroration at Cleveland, “is continued unity of effort and es- tabli$hment of safeguards for the fu- ture.” If American business takes that sdmonition to heart, its existing trials | and tribulations will turn out to have! been blessings in disguise. ——— A few new yacnts mean nothing in the life of Sir Thomas Lipton. Sports- manship is expected to show a su- periority complex when the cash regis- ter is mentioned. ————r——————— The Mackmen's March of Triumph. ‘While the world series of 1930 is un- finished, it looks decidedly as if the trend of the past few years in these post-season interleague contests is to be continued. Philadelphia has taken the first two games and has now to win two more to entitle it to the supreme honors of the land in base ball for an- other year. As the two teams move west- F' o resume their contest tomorrow St. Louis, the prospect is that Mr. Cornelius McGillicuddy and his merry men will triumph once more. If they oo Hindenburg continues to sit on the political lid in Germany. Hitler has no hesitation in trying to render the lid uncomfortably hot. —e—. “A Man Named Groh.” Senator Nye, explaining his own view of that libelous matter concerning the committee's alleged wire-tapping activ- ities, says Mrs. McCormick’s agents wanted to present two afidavits which asserted that the makers of the afidavits had been approached by “a man named Groh” with the proposal to tap Mrs. MecCormick’s telephone wires. As no one by the name of Groh was employed by the Senate commitiee, and as the committee never intended to tap any- body's telephone wires, the afdavits could have no value. If the committee allowed these aMdavits to be presented, many more of the same kind would fol- low, and the committee’s time would be wasted on irrelevant afidavits. Therefore the committee refused to ac- cept the afdavits and would not hear such testimony, and anybody who talks about it any more is apt to find him- self defending a suit for libel. ‘The only thing that apparently does not occur to Mr Nye must have oc- curred to every other citizen who has been interested enough to follow the proceedings of any Senate investiga- tion. Suppose that any Senate com- mittee—not including, of course, the Nye committee—were pursuing a hot tip thet somebody was doing something that did not conform 5 the senatorial view of ethics in g-neral. Suppose some witneas, after being raked over continue at their present pace, winning four straight, they will leave the Na- tional League in a sorry state as to the record of the past four years. In- the world serles of 1927, 1928 and 1929, the National League pennant winners and world series contenders have won only one game out of thirteen played, that single success being scored by Chicago last year in the series with Philadelphia. Thus to date, reckoning from and including the series of 1927, the so-called junior circuit, the Amer- jcan League, has taken fourteen of ffteen games. ‘This regord, . Be bicken by .. 4 the coals and admitting that his an- cestors were expelled from Scotland for shebp stealing, chrelessly mentioned the existence of an affidavit containing mention of 8 “man named Gréh" and reflecting on the character of the wit- old lay. Good Old World goes hurrying on, For every darkness there waits'a dawn. There's time for a greeting and for & smile, And Life's beauty is what makes Life worth while. No Argument. “Do you believe the wets will get the better of the election argument?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Out my way they won't wait for an argument. They simply telephone for a favorite bootlegge: Jud Tunkins says the influence of a great citizen now depends on the amount of radio hook-up he can con- trol. Selective My Radio! My Radio! Your language is prolix. You're most impressive when you go To talking politics. My Radio! When you discuss t some one.Is or Has, 1 sometimes wish you'd stop the fuss And get back to Plain Jazs. Draftsmanship. “Do you draw as large a salary as you are credited with in print?” “No,” answered the movie star. “For actual pay you've got to draw on the cashier and not on the press agent's imagination.” “Men continue to be misled,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “because a flattering falsehood is more easily believed than simple honesty.” Tndomitable, Sir Thomas says he'll bulld a boat To beat all others now afloat. He'll take a cup—s cup of tea— And mark the Shamrock “ADV." “You gotto take yoh turn as s loser,” sald Uncle Eben. “If one hoss could go on winnin’ all de time, dsr wouldn’ be no use of hoss races.” ness under investigation. Imagine the bustle andstir in the committee room, the hasty dispatch of committee inves- tigators, the subpoena of telegraph files, the search of correspondence, the dash hither and yon of Department of Jus- tice agents on the trall of “a man named Groh.” Would any thought of irrelvancies deter the committee in its which of course may pursujt of the “man named Groh"? 1c.5 (aking & Te- Weuld any tiought of comum. . . P Hairpins Looking Up. Prom the Albany Evening l'.';.n b Well, anyway, the halrpin manufac- turing business seems to be reviving somewhat. o No Ex-President Problem. From the San Antonio Evéning News. Problem of what to do with ex-Presi- dsnis was never so difficult in South “n iblies as here. \ Northampton with a tempting offer to become a lyceum star. Weeks elapsed before Mr. Cooli answered Mr. Al- ber's letters. Finally, only a few days ago, came this response, “I do not choose to lecture.” * ok ok ok The world is full of people who find significance in numbers. What do they make of this? The Washington tele- phone number of Charles Michelson, Democratic publicity director, who has met with such eminent success in get- ting the G. O. P, goat this year, has just been changed to “1932.” What Re- publicans are asking is whether that's an omen, or merely a coincidence. * ok ok kx Unbiased suthorities in Washington think the Hoover administration has exhibited both good sportsmanship and a clear conscience by assigning Seth W. Richardson, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, to probe charges of corruption in Colorado shale-oil con- cessions. Richardson h.ngpeu to be the closest personal friend of Senator Ger- ald P. Nye, Republican Progressive of North Dakota, who holds no brief as a whitewasher of regular Republicanism. The broad-shouldered young lawyer was appointed to his present post in the De- partment of Justice mainly at Senator Nye's instigation. Richardson has shot big game both in Alaska and in North Dakota. The animals he went after in his own State were the Standard Oil Co. and the lignite coal operators, whom he prosecuted as special counsel for North Dakota in litigation ten years ago. 4 * oK K K According to authentic reports, it is a Republican revolt in Oklahoma that’s likely to send Thomas P, Gore, Demo- crat, back-to the United States Senate in November. Herbert Hoover carried the State in 1928 by 175,000, but the incumbent Republican Senator, W. B. Pine, has not given the administration that 100 per cent support at Washing- ton which the Oklahoma G. O. P. thinks the President was entitled to. The re- sult, it 18 now predicted, will be a Re- blican swing to Gore which'll put the lind statesman over by a comfortable majority. Gore's enemies are capitaliz- ing his vote against war in 1917. Later he played the game by backing all Tequisite war measures, ts think they are effectually spiking that phase of Pine's attack. * ok K * One of the strangest documents which Senator Borah’s Committee on Foreign Relations has ever had before it re- cently arrived from Japan. It consists of a protest, sign<d by about 90 Amer- icans resident in Nippon, mostly mis- sionaries, objecting to the class of American movies exhibited in Japan. ‘The protest reads: “‘We, the following American citizens living in Japan, basing our action upon persorial observation and opinions ex- pressed by Japanese people, feel com- pelled to report to you that 1y many, and probably the great majority No Comparison Between Kaiser and Mussolini To the Editor of The Star: Under. the caption “Il Duce's ‘Kaiser Compléx’ " I read in a recent edition of The Star an editorial which has left me in a quandary as to whether or not the writer thereof has even s meager understanding of the character and “make-up” of Mussolini. After a recital of a number of the omniscient and omnipotent attributes of the former German Kaiser, the writer compares Mussolini with him— which is comparable to comparison of Rouswell with the former Czar of Rus- sia. Is there any valid reason or justifi- cation for such comparison? _Absolutely none for all who know well both the real Kalser and the real Mussolini. e Kaiser is—or was—an aristocrat; Mus- solini is deeply democratic. The Kaiser largement of his empts Mussolini is ardently seeking only the renaissance of his country, serving her with deep devotion and sacrifice. No, there is not & point of comparison between the two. On the contrary, the difference between them is abysmal. When Mussolini was simultaneously filling several portfolios himself, he was doing so simply because of the exigen- | cles of the moment. There were several things that requi his personal atten- tion. When sus ings began to go along satisfactorily he {Eed such port- folios with competent men. Even when he performed such multilateral duty— Wwhen he himself functioned in place of several ministers—he received the sal- ary of only one minister, the salaries of such others as would -have been em- ploved had not he himself done the work that they would have been ex- pected to do having been returned to the uet.:“r" the appropriateness of the aforementioned motoring episode and exhibition of enviable horsemanship, were they not things that almost any one would have done with a lot of self- satisfaction? Why not? The heir to the throne, Prince Humbert, has done similar things to the accompaniment of the smiling applause of all Itallans, WhY“nOt? The superior horsémanship and “time-saving” motoring referred to had the effect of showing the news- Paper men that Mussolini was not ill at all—as his enemies had been saying and pul:ll.-hlnf1 in foreign newspapers he Wwas. See, he says, smiling and sat- isfled, “I am a sick man—am 17" Let us be fair, even with those great personalities who excite our admiration, or our contempt, or our envy. g Is not the spirit of “fairness to every- body” one of the foundation stones on which our great America was reared? MARIO BARRA. ) Ocean Treasure Hunt Difficulties Are Cited From the New York Herald Tribune. If the Italian diers now at worl Brest succeed in recovering the u,fio&"- 000 worth of treasure reputed to lie in bfi;a wreck of the Egypt, that will be th a reward for patience and courage under almost inconceivable difficulties and a promise of adding hundreds of millions more of gold and other precious objects to the world's useful store; for there is probably no assemblage of treasure in present human possession which approaches quantity that which lies lost in sunken ships. For ore than 30 centuries the ocean has taken its toll of treasure thipped by sea. There are two difficulties—pressure and visibility. Ordinary diving methods use dresses, diving bells or other devices from which the water is kept out by a greater air pressure insi There is no mechanical reason why such devices might not be sent down' thousands of feet instead of 300 or less, but there is a biological reason why no diver could inhabit them. The » nan body will not endure the high air pressure which then would be necessary to keep out of, American films shown in Japan are to a very serious degree detrimental to the moral welfare of the youth of Japan because the films depict chiefly the exploits of the idle rich and of the fast and eriminal groups. Unfortunately, these are taken by the Japanese to be typical of American life and , and cause real misunderstanding of and disgust for America. We earnestly re- quest the Forelgn Relations Committee, therefore, to take more effective steps for controlling the exportation of films.” It Jooks as if Will Hays might be facing another senatorial inquisition, * ok koK Newton D. Baker's name is cropping into the 1932 list of Democratic presi- dential possibilities with a persistence pleasing to his legion of friends in Washington. Nobody suggests that Woodrow Wilson's brilliant Secretary of ‘War is organizing a boom at this early stage of proceedings, but October radio programs tell a rather significant story. mmn, October 26, Maj. Frederick Palmer, famous war correspondent, is to broadcast a series of 12 weskly talks dealing with America’s part in the World War, prepared from Baker's files. For the purpose there have been turned over to Palmer 20 loose-leaf volumes of the war Secretary’s private papers. Ac- cording to_the broadcasting people. “Secretary Baker was the keystone of the arch of the whole American Army effort. His files are said to contain the gx:';;sct plece of modern history yet u o (Copyright, 1930.) ——e—s Problem Confronts “Bustling America® Prom the Milwaukee Sentinel. Bustling America finds it difficult to comprehend the attitude of less up-and- coming parts of the globe. The narrative of a British village which sturdily refused to permit itself to be made a second Hollywood will therefore be scoffed at by a good many of our live wire and go-getters through- out the United States. It seems that the village of Esher, some 15 miles from London, lies in the midst of & beautiful landscape. Ideal conditions for motion picture manufacture are sald to exist and about the village. An outright promise was made by movie magnates to transform the place into a second Hollywood, with all the material benefits which accrue from the residence of thousands of players, directors, scenario writers and mechani- Bt the good b e urgesses of the village declined with thanks. They like th!'ir village as it is and they do not yearn for movie studios, cafes and the appur- tenances which necessarily go with the movie makers. It may be an error from & material point of view, but somehow we can’t help feeling sympathetic toward the village fathers of Esher. There are too few garden spots of that kind anywhere nowadays, where life goes on tranquilly, if dully, and where man can live in sim- ‘ple peace and happiness. ———— Slow About Revolting. From the Ann Arbor Daily News. Speaking of backward states, how about those few South American repub- &cfithlt ?‘xlven't had even one revolution ———— Making Excuses a Talent. Prom the Grand Rapids Press. Some people know how to make such excuses that they don't to anything else. B fid L Add Perils of Life. From the Rutland Herald. A life saver says the two ments of danger to human and water. He must be one of those fellows who have never seen an auto- mobile or a gang war. ————— Loses and Finds Address. From the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator. That Toronto hold-up man who, run- ni l'lghmm the acene of his crime, azgm address, will be given an- the judge; other one by the water. The equipment in use at the wreck of the Egypt is of a different type, resembling in fundamental d})rin- ciple the hermetically ving sphere in which Dr. Beebe and Mr. Barton recently descended over a quar- ter of a mile. These devices contain air at ordinary pressure. The water is kept out by chinkless construction aad by mechanical strength of walls suffi- cient to withstand the water pressure, as it would be kept out of & bottle tightly corked and sealed. Dr. Beebe's diving sphere permits nothing to its occupants but obze ‘vation. The Italian apparatus in use on the Egypt has mechanical arms and other contriv- ances by which the diver, although sealed inside his case, can manipulate hooks and other tools outside. This provides, it appears, a sufficient solution for the difficulty of diving pressure, but experience on the Egypt seems still more to emphasize the other difficulty, that of poor visibility. We think of water as a transparent mate- rial, just as we think similarly of glass, because we commonly see water by the tumblerful and glass by the pane. Any great thickness of either has consider- able opacity. Added to this natural dimming of undersea vision, even by clear water, many of the gold-laden wrecks that men will wish to find lle, doubtless, in places where currents or other disturbances make the water tur- bid with bottom mud. A diver cn the sea bottom is not like an explorer on land, able to see around him for miles. His view is more likely to be limited to inches; at most, to a few feet. This is a handicap even in working on a wreck ‘when it has been found. The handica) is much greater in the preliminary jol of finding the wreck. There is oppor- tunity here for some inventor to devise either a way of seeing for greater dis- tances under water or some different method of wreck-finding from the sur- face; some electric or magnetic detec- tor, for example, that would respond to metal of cargo or hul'. sealed Doubts Economy in Using Frail War-Time Shacks From the Baltimore Sun. It is not at all surprising that the shack which housed the Federal Trade Commission and the Children’s Bureau of the Department of Labor has gone up in flame and smoke, and along with it records compiled at enormous ex- pense, some of which cannot be re- placed. It is rather more surprising thay these temporary war-time sheds in " which important governmental agencies have been housed for more than a decade have escaped the fate :: “Buflding No. 4" as long as they ve. ‘The purpose in using these structures has been economy. Now that the logi- cal fate of one of them has focused attention upon this part of the Federal establishment, some bright young re- search student may be inspired to make a study of just what kind of economy this has been. During the Summer it has been necossary to dismiss the workers who occupy these buildings, so called by liberal tic license, on many occasions. ey have been as uninhabitable as baking ovens, but the pay of the workers has necessarily gone on just the same, And in weather that has been tolerable in standard office structures, the workers have been bowed down by their enormous capacity to attract and hold heat. With their flimsy and squatty construction, there is little reason to doubt that the toll of sickness among those working in them has n abnormally high. That could probably be checked from the Government records. There is no way of telling until some one does the necessary digging for facts, but it seems a reasonable guess that the money saved by using barracks has been far overbalanced by loss of labor em:loncx and their in- evitable destruction. At any rate, the results of an investigation of this par- :Iil ticular phase of governmental economy would be interesting. BY FREDERIC researchers, who can get any information on any subject, are at your command, without charge to you. A 2-cent stamp will bring you a per- sonal answer to any inguiry of fact you may make. Thousands of newspaper readers use this great service. 1t today. Make your inquiry easily read and easily understood, and address The Evéning Star Information = Bureau, gemgcc‘x Haskin, director, Washing- Q. What is the diameter of the new golf ball>—H. C. G. A. It 1s 1.68 inches. Q. Have the Jews ever changed the day for celebrating their Sabbath?— D. K. 2 A. It is the claim of the Jewish peo- ple that the Jewish Sabbath is still ob- served on the same day as it was from the giving of the law regarding its ob- servance to Moses. Q. Should ofl be used on a waxed floor?—A. J. P. A. Oll softens wax and should not be used. Neither should water be used. When the floors need cleaning, gasoline. Q. How should the name “New Or- leans” be pronounced? I mean the city in Louisiana?—E. W. D. use, Dick’ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS J. HASKIN. yot ) including & major and three lieutenants, and 38 machine guns. Q. What is the address of Billy Sunday?—E N. Winona Tase tnd, will be ma Itxaunonnehome,humu taken care of or forwarded. Q. Plase name 50 of the -best novels.—R. L. 's Dr., iam Lyon Phelps, distin- guished critic and Yale University Tofessor, lists 100 best novels. The llowing are 50 taken from his selec- tlon: Defoe, “Robinson Crusoe”; Bwif “Guiliver's “Travels”; Richardson, mela”; Fielding, “Tom Jon “Manon Lescaut”; Goethe, “Wilhelm Melster”; Austen, “Pride and Preju- dice”; Scott, “Ivanhoe”; Cooper, “The Pllot”; Hugo, “Les Miserables”; Du “I'wenty Years After”; Balzac, Gorlot”; Flaubert, “Madame Bovary”; Dickens, “David ' Copperfield”; Emily Bronte, “Wuthering Heights" eray, “Henry Esmond”; e, “The Scarlet Letter”; Melville, “Moby ick”; Stowe, “Uncle Tom's Cabin"; "Aaam Bede” “The the Hearth”; Bjornson, “In Gogol, “Taras B The accepted pronunciation 1is| Tolsto A, New Or-le-anz, with accent upon “Or.” How long is the Holland Tun- Q. nel?—0. B. A. The Holland Tunnel,. New York City, is 1% miles long. Q. ‘Can you give me an idea of the number, of men end women working their way through college?>—R. L. A. A recent survey of the records of 763 colleges and universities in the United States made by the National Student Federation revealed that 46 per cent of the men and 23 per cent of the women enrolled in American insti- tutions of higher learning were earning all or part of their expenses in more than 200 different types of employment. It was found that only 2 per cent of college women are entirely self-sup- porting, however, while the number of men who earned all of their college ex- penses is about three times as great as the number of women. cQ How far do salmon travel?—B. United States Bureau of Fisheries in Alaskan waters in May and caught 44 days later in a Siberian stream was found to have traveled 1,300 miles in that time, ¥ Q. Please describe the Cremona violin.—W. McK. A. Carlo Berzonzi Cremona was an Italian violin maker. He lived from 1690 to 1746. This master has always been considered one of the best pu of Stradivarius. He made several mod- els usually flat, giving to the inferior part of the body of the instrument in widtb whatever the superior lost or gained in length. The sound holes, rather far apart, are very near the edges. The scroll lacks roundness, but at the same time has character. His varnish, alweys rich and transparent, although thick in places, varies light red to brown red, sometimes amber yellow, and tone is particularly beautiful, combining refinement and power, and any violins made by this man are superinstruments. Q. What was the feat which caused Foch to say that Sergt. York's was the greatest achievement accomplished by a private soldier in any of the armies in Europe?—C. D. W. A. While in the Argonne, October 8, 1918, armed with a Springfield rifie and an automatic revolver, Sergt. York killed 20 Germans, captured Hill 233, compelled the surrender of 132 enemles; A red salmon marked by the| Asia has a tendency to crackle slightly. The | minutes. "; Trollope, “Bar Tow- ers”; Collins, “The Moonstone"; James, > Portrait of a Lady”; Blackmore, Lorna Doone”; Meredith, “The. Ordeal of Richard Feverel”; Howells, “A Mod- ern Instance”; Hardy, “The Return of the Native”; ain, “Tom - Bawyer”; France, “The Crime of Sylvestre Bon- nard”; Maupassant, “A Life”; Moore, “Esther Waters”; Sudermann, “Dame Care”; Stevenson, “Treasure Island”; Shaw, *“Cashel Byron's Profession”; Barrie, “Sentimental Tommy"; Kipling, “Kim”; Zola, “The Downfall"; “The Re f “The Way Nigger of %ha Narcissus,” and De Morgan, “Joseph ance,” g.g:mtmnm-mmmmv A In prehistoric times the lon was ope, aid st the sy ""m‘""fl rope, an n toric has lnh;blmd Llloul Africa, an y-Greece. At the T Lt 2 B a, in an in Northwest Indfa. Q. How large 18 the new super-Bep pelin to be?—M. V. A. The LZ. Q. What was the record sf the giry who swam the English Channel not lonAg uo?—’.mllt. C. & » - ncan % nelfrom' Cape. Gris Nez, ‘Prance. 1o South Foreland in 16 houts and 15 Q. Who is the charge éhe heightening n;n-fl;enx'oi\?ln Dlm?z A. Sir John Norton-Griffiths, & noted civil engineer, was in charge. A short time ago he notified m.‘f...’fm gOV= ernment that the work d have to be suspended due to obstruction ca by inexperienced and incompetent | Egyptian _inspectors. On_ Saturda7, Sep;-ex:l::r 2fl7.'ge was found dead in & sur of e beach at Cairo, wi a bullet hole in his head. i Importauce is attached by the coun- try to the death of Maj. Charles Manly Stedman, Ropresentative from North Carolina, because his passing closes the period of Civil War veterans’ 1= pation in congressional duties. He is declared to have been one who com- bined in his record gallantry as a mem. ber of the Confederate Army, fine qual- itles as a gentleman and devotion to the service of his country in peace. Describing him as “Congressman and American Soldier, the Last of These Veterans on Capitol Hill,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch declares that “no one could have worn the honor with truer charm.” That paper also recalls: “His closest friend in gress was the last of the Union veters in the House, an Ohioan who served with Grant. Man; times, in them, the Blue and the Gray sat chuckling together, telling stories of the four years when they were on op- posite sides of the firing line.” “The country cannot evaluate too highly,” says the Pittsburgh Post-Ga- zette, “the splendid services which these men rendered—first in the hour of the Nation's sorest trial and distress and later through the years of recon- struction and upbuilding. Those who had seen the most of the war's suffering and carnage were the most anxious for real reconciliation and the mast ardent opponents of merely punitive mensures. Their fine and sturdy patrictism has been an xmrmuon through the years. They were leaders of the Nation at a time when it needed intelligent, co rageous and broad-visioned leadershij “‘Maj. Stedman’'s wish to die in har- ness, known to his friends,” according to the Roanoke World-News, “will serve to temper, to some extent at least, their regret at his passing. * * * His political strength came after the Confederate soldier vote in North Carolina ceased to be a considerable factor. In his earlier political campaigns he failed of election more than once, but from the time of his first election to the House of Representatives his position was secure.” The Asheville Times de- clares that “his life record, as soldier, as lawyer and member of Congress is a record for men and women of the South to cherish lnd*en‘:ul:u"" “He was a man of fine manners, of the old school, a very fine soldier and gentleman. In his death, not only the South but America has lost somcthing fine,” avers the Albany Evening News, while the Columbus Ohio State Jour- nal states, “We will say good-by .to the last of the soldier legislators with a heart filled with admiration for the fighting men who earned honors in war and peace.”” The Providence Bulletin adds the tribute that “he added a warming touch of color to the progaic deliberations of Congress, and his Pru- ence and personal charm will be missed.” “He unfolded to the Nation in full bloom the beauty and strength of a life that was Jargely dedicated to self-sac- rificing labors,” comments the Char- lotte News, while the Oklahoma City Oklahoman, linking the Confederate veteran with the late Senator Warren, Union soldier, continues: “It is an illus- trious list, the list of those who fought herolcally in days of war and served with unreserved fidelity in days of mce. And it may be said that the to_represent their vanished com- rades were worthy representatives of the armies who fought to & finish the issues of the Civil War. Warren won the plaudits of Army and co\mtr§ for at Port .Hudson. It is uffici to llfln;n to men- tion that he fought at el and fol- lowed Stonewall Jackson.” He is praised by the Greensboro News as “endowed with prodigious industry, A Boston Looks to Future. Prom the New London Day. Boston is planning streets for 100 years ahead. Since Boston is already 300 years old, it rs that the Boston authorities are still rather shortsighted. Or don't I.hsfi'fuuy expect the’city to live beyond next century? of with political sagacity and that ifinite patience which u: ly accompanies in- Maj'. Stedman Is Lauded as \ Last of Civil War Lea_ders i had | £ The Rockland Argus appi him as “a credit to his home State and to the Southland” and as possessing “personal qualities which en deared him to his associates gress and in private life.” * k% ¥ “Historians may not appreciate,” suggests the Louisville mum-.vmn. ‘the benefit to the country of having :l‘ld h: ('?onflmhlmmt con= ngent of men who 1 it sides. The national o mu:n‘: l:-cdeem -;e A-’:g:g : ‘%‘mxr influ- nces and assigne eir places of importance in the restoration of jus- tice and popular government. But these veterans were district leaders, close to the source of power in the electorate, and this comradeship, establithed bee tween men who had tested one ane other's mettle and respected it, perhaps Wwas more potent than perceptible. Had the South been permitted to send its brigadiers and colonels to Cengress in 1866 the wounds would have healed 20 years sooner than they did. No more worthy representative than Maj. Sted~ man could have remained on the stage of public affairs to take the last bow for that gallant roster of soldier-statesmen on both sides of the House.” “Known as ‘the Grand Old Man of North Carolina,’” remarks the Annis- ton Star, “Maj. Stedman was beloved by the people of his own State and gener- ally esteemed and admired as a true Southemn gentleman and patriot.” Re= ferring to Messrs. Sledman and Warren, the Boston Transcript holds that “the boys of the Blue and the Gray could not have selected more admirable repre- sentatives to carry on their work to ‘the last.’” The St. Paul Ploneer Press asserts that “the contributions of that generation, in the fleld and in the orum, reached an m{;u which staggers any modern conception of devo- thinks the Sa- tion to public servie “There is pathos, vannah Morning News, “in the feeling that, so far as congressional member- ;lvlln u_rehvnum-? Lho'v::r is indeed er. e passing of ongressman Stedman of North Carolina, who was of Jackson's command in the early part of the war and who for many years represented his district in the House of Representatives, attracts special atten tion, not only because of his fine char- acter and his standing in and his long service as a Con , but ajso because, of the army of veterans who have been members, he was the last. He was a fine type of Southern statesman._ His passing drops the curtain on an era.” 723 Auto Drivers Lose Permits in 3-Week Period From the Des Moines Tribune-Capital. The New York State commissioner of motor vehicles has announced the names of automobilists whose car reg- istrations and whose licenses to drive were taken away from them in that State in the three weeks onding Au- wust 30, b The number of them was 723. his generation.” raises in Cone hnical offenses. That is an indication that this kind of penalty—revocation or suspension of license—is one that can be enforced. It is an irresistible assumption that in New York State the fact that licenses can be and are taken away for serious -, enough offenses deters many an othere wise careless driver, Still another benefit from :lme purpo‘lf'. ‘The Ne;"l adds “his personality appeared the more as those away who with “him fhwehm vyf Old id manners, included in the heritage the gently born and gently bred of \ s