Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1930, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. - SATURDAY......October 4, 1830 ' THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Ne " Business Of 11ty St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd Bt. ieago Office: Lake Michigan Buildin. Fhrobean Ofice. 14’ Revent: Sr.. London England, jper Company Rate by Carrier Within the City. 45c ver moth 60c per month th D: h month. phone 85¢ per mon! 5¢ per co Qidors may be‘senit in' by mail or [Ational 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ly ond Sunday. .. 1 vr. £10.00: 1 mo.. g8 llg only . L1y £6.00: 1 mo.. 50¢ junday only weeen 1 Y0, $4.00; 1 mo., 40¢ All Other States and Canada. ily ln‘d Sunday } vr., $12.00: % mo . £1.00 ily only 3800 1m0, 8¢ unday only 3500, 1mo. S0c Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Press is exclusive he use for republication of wil ne atches credited to it - ted in this paper and slso the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches hierein are 4lso reserved. —— 1yl The Crisis in Cuba. It is impossible to disguise the grav- ity of the political situation in Cuba, which has just required President Ma- chado and the island congress to sus- pend the constitution and ordain martial law for thirty days. The pur- pose is to insure tranquillity, especially in the metropolitan district of Havana, during the period immediately preced- ing the national elections on Novem- ber 1. The extraordinary situation thus de- creed under sanction of the law was provoked by recent unrest in Cuba, similar to that which led to revolution- ary excesses and successes in Bolivia, Peru and Argentina. More or less serfous armed clashes between police, soldiery and citizens—the latter de- scribed as consisting, for the most part, of hot-headed students—symbolized the ferment with which the Cuban popu- lace is seething. To suppress it before 4t bolls over is the acknowledged pur- yose of the radical measures to which the Havana government has now tesorted. As elsewhere on the face of this disturbed planet, economic disorders are largely responsible for Cuba’s woes. For 150 years sugar has been Cuba's single crop. The island's prosperity has risen or fallen, as the price of sugar was high or low. In 1920 Cuba exported more than $700,000,000 of its vital product. Then prices began to decline. 1In 1922 only $276,000,000, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C," SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1930 T melancholy and uncivilized. ‘They m’nmer murders have been committed like ghosts of dead woodlands which cannot rest in the grave civilization has dug for them. ‘The lawmakers, the policemen, the sober and substantial citizens have not found them. Nobody throws crumbs sentimentally to the walf woodiands. But the neighborhood children have found them and play with them. There is . mutual attraction between these strayed patches of the soul of the primeval wilderness and the primeval soul of childhood. THe waif woodlands shrink in fear from men and women, but they love children. They would be happy if left alone to play with the children. The neighborhood scalawags also have found them—and this is responsible for & major part of their melancholy. Their broken whisky bottles, corks, caps and labels. After dark they are bits of the ancient, silent," beautiful forest night. In the midst of this the bottle opener seems an unspeakably obscene instru- ment; the merriment of the drinkers the most terrible blasphemy. One might expegt that great, sad buried god, the primeval forest itself, to rise from its grave and smite the intruders. If only these pathetic waifs, strayed 50 far from their natural habitat, could be left alone to play with the children who understand them! - Tmpersonality of the Census. No matter how altruistic may be the aims of those desiring the information, the Attorney General has ruled that the Census Burcau may not furnish the de- tailed data concerning names and ad- dresses which would form the basis for contemplated work. In the case of the Woman's Bureau, which wanted certain information relating to workers in Rochester, N. Y., in order to conduct & study in employment among women, and in the case of educational organizations interested in specific cases of illiteracy, the Attorney General's ruling has for- bidden access to the census records involved. The ruling is based on the absolute necesSity for maintaining the inviola- shadowy depths are found strewn Wllhl since Lingle was shot, and no one has been identified as the slayer in any of these cases. The latest measure of house-cleaning adopted by the city is & round-up of well known gangsters on vagrancy charges, the validity of which is questioned. ‘This all seems so futile that the corript connection of police and criminals now charged by the grand jury would Appear to be estab- lished as a fact. e, Cramton Loses by Twenty-Five. Representative Cramton’s defeat for jnomination in the seventh congres- sional district of Michigan has finally been confirmed. After counting and { recounting, the contest eventually going to the State Capital for a conclu- ive test |of the returns, the margin in favor of Mr. Cramton’s competitor has been placed at twenty-five votes, a reduction jof seventy-seven from the majority | originally announced. This is a very narrow squeak. But, as Mercutio said, i though not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door, it will serve. Mr. Cramton is eliminated from the race for Congress this year. His suc- cessor in the House of Representatives will almost certainly be the successful competitor for the Republican nomi- nation, for the seventh district is par- ticularly Republican in the strongly Republican State of Michigan. But, of course, this does not mean that Mr. Cramton is eliminated for all time from the congressional equation. The persistence with which he questioned the primary returns until he wory his opponent’s margin down to twenty-five votes shows that he likes the job of Representative. He will probably be in the running two years hence. He may aspire to the Senate. He may go for a’ State office. He has distinguished THIS AND THAT - “BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Collectors of singing cups are rare. Most pecple do not even know what a singing cup is, much less own one. A cup that sings is an ordinary tea cup which has a flaw in the glaze on the inside. ‘When hot liquid is placed in it, the cup emits & pecullar sound, which may be called singing without a very largs stretch of the word. . We know a gentleman who has two of these cups. He claims to be the only collector of them in the world. But he s mistaken. We had a fine specimen once ourself. A" Hxs® It was an ordinary cup, of no particu- lar worth aside from its musical ability. It sang better for coffee than for tea. With the former beverage its “volce” could be heard clear across a room, if there were no other sound. For tea it did not do so well. Whether the cup preferred coffee to tea is problematichl. No sooner was & hot liquid poured in than the singing commenced. Placing cream in the cup dampened, but did not stop, the interesting whis- tling or singing sound. Sometimes cream lowered the pitch, as it were, but it never entirely muffied the tone itself. * ok Xk ‘The singing continued usually for the entire time the coffee was in the cup, which, with us, is not very long, for we happen.to be a rapid coffee drinker. Scmetimes the sound stopped when the coffee wa$ about three-fourths consumed. And then one day, after the cup had been performing for half a year, we noticzd a lessening in the ardor of the vocal flaw. ‘Was the voice cf the cup going to cease? We rather disliked the idea, for we had come to get a certain amount of cheer out of listening to the vigorous himself in Congress and stands well with his party and with his State, de- spite his present defeat, which is at- tributed to other than economic or per- sonal questions. —————— Hindenburg is a fine old gentleman, but if he hopes to hold Germany in line under his influence, he will have. to bility of confidential information ob- tained by the Government in its work of compiling statistical records. One has only to realize the dangers inherent in a departure from the traditional secrecy swrrounding the census returns to agree that the ruling is sound. To make any exception would open the door to requests, for detailed data that might soon undermine ‘the faith of the people in Uncle Sam’s ability to keep a secret. Political pressure and “influ- ence” being what they are, information that would be worth its weight in gold might be obtained from the Census Bu- worth of sugar was exported. The n.-’ ure for 1925 was $368,000,000, but by 1928 1t had dropped to $199,000,000. Three years ago, to arrest the steady slump in sugar prosperity, President reau that would not be used in any such righteous work as fighting illiteracy or bettering conditions of employment among women. ‘The United States, once every ten make more speeches. —————_ France is the nation now representing accumulated wealth. Our own honored® philosopher, Benjamin Franklin, advo- cated thrift above alf other things. ——ee When & pessimist philosopher gets married he flops and uncompromisingly Joins the ranks of sentiment as an optimist. R The police have a clue. Criminals do not hesitate to leave behind clues which they regard as having no value whatever, Lt Cleveland, Ohio, started w street demonstration during the President's address. For some time Ohio has been Machado brought about the enactment | YeATS, 0es to every citizen and makes | suspected of trying to take its politics of & “sugar defense act,” whereby the|® conditional proposition. If the citi- altogether too seriously. crop was to be curtailed and prices thus pegged. But the plan failed of its purpose. Economically, Cuba has drift- ed from bad to worse. The net result is the present plight to which angry dissatisfaction with the Machado regime has added a species of purely political strife. Sugar is at the root of Cuba’s turmoil, but far more bitter issues— accusations of reactionary autocracy, trampled suffrage rights, and govern- mental irregularity in & host of direc- tions—now color the picture at Havana. How far tranquillity will be insured under martial law which sispends the constitutional guarantees of 600,000 Havana citizens, including freedom of the press, free speech, the right of as- sembly, and even the right to vote— that is manifestly a precarious thing to predict. It contains the ingredients of explosion. President Machado evident]y Tealizes the peril of invoking the drastic Ppowers now* vested in the government. “Official spokesmen” contend that they will be exercised only in case of “ex- treme emergency.” The interest of the United States in Cuban developments is profound. The Platt amendment still clothes us with power of intervention, if and when the island authorities are demonstrably incapable of preserving law and order and fulfilling the functions of govern- ment. In 1901, during the early days of the second McKinley administration, | Secretary of State Elihu Root pro- mulgated an interpretation of the Plait amendment, then but a year or two old. Mr. Root set forth that the amend- ment does not contemplate American “intermeddling’ ternal affairs of Cuba. Americany acts as would maintain an adequate government to protect lives and property and fulfyll American ob- | ligations under the [reaty of Paris which ended ‘War, would be justified under the Platt declaration. The Root interpre- tation was communicated to Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood on the eve of his retire- ment as Governor General of Cuba, It has remzined American doctrine ever since, The State Department allows it to be undersiood that the United States still stands on the Root pronouncement. with the pufely in-| Only such | the Spanish-American ! zen will answer personal questions, en- abling the United States to provide impersonal and purely statistical in- formation for those desiring it, the in- dividual answers will be jealotsly guarded from all prying eyes, and none will be the wiser. And every citizen accepts this promise for what it is worth and answers questions. The imper- sonality of census returns is the citi- zen's protection against what otherwise would. be régarded as a decennial spy- ing exPedition on the part of an army of census enumerators. ————— It is the functiod of base ball to remind the world that life must not be taken too seriously. A home run be- comes, for the moment, quite as im- portant as an election victory: L ————————— There is depression, experts declare, Business has been exhilarated. It loses enthusinsm. Likée everything else that is human, business is temperamental, e Chicago’s Triple Alliance. Attention which has been directed toward New "York recently in resp:ct to the disclosures of corrupt dealings in the -selection of magistrates and Judges turns back to Chicago, where rand jury, closing its term, virtually indicts the police department of that city for corrupt r:lations with the criminal element. This is not the first time that suspicion has been direct=d toward the pglice of Chicago in search of the secondary if not the primary cause of the great prevaknce of law- lessness in that city. ‘The grand jury declares the belief that there 1s a “well established three- { cornered alliance btween the Chicago | Police Department, the corrupt politi~ cians and the criminal element.” It | blames this alliance for the murder of | | three business men and eleven officials of | labor unions during the last three years. It declares that. business men them- selves have bzcome involved in racketeer- ing through collusive agreements by which they should establish them- selves in preferential positions. It charges these business men with con- | spiring with labor leaders to win exces- | sive profits, and assoclation with gang- sters and corrupt politicians to maintain But Becretary Stimson points out that while we have never intervened to maintain any Cuban government in power, each case must be looked upon as a separate entity. A situation might arise which would distinguish it from those which the United States Gov- ernment uses as precedents for its pres- ent-hour policy. oot Discontent is inevitable in a republic. Management of discontent is the test of . @ public’s fitness for self-government. kg The Lost Woodland, Once the site of Washington was & woodland. Through the years the tree- covered hillsides were replaced with | houses, streets and yards. Only patches. captured and tamed, remaincd as parks, ‘They were in cages with brick and stone bars—fed regularly, lazy and con- tented with their lot. But cne can find here and there in the newer sections, which still were forest within the past decade, sad little Jost waifs of woodland, each like a frightened wild deer which has strayed out of the countryside into & city street. New houses are all about them. Build- ing operations have passed over them. They are the property, for the most | suspicion cf complicity in other crimes. discipline within the racket and to | cscape prosecution, It finally declares | the belief that this manipulation of trade costs the citizens of the county | 1o lets than one hundred million dollars i a year. That this is “old stuff” only adds jto its significance. ihas been charged before that the po- lice and a certaln class of business men and labor leaders and criminals have sssociated to bleed the com- { munity only increases the peignancy of the tragedy. For it would seem to be impossible to correct this condition, which has cost so dearly in blood and treasure. The corrupt and criminal groups which have maintained the rackets, with their extortions and black- mailing operations and murders, are only a small percentage of the popula- tion. The majority seem helpless to ef- fect reform in the organization cf the municipal administration. | Coincidentally with the declaration * everybody. The fact that il‘ .- SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. , Parenthetically Speaking. The farmer comes at break of day And sings his old accustomed lay About the sunrise and its charm For those who work upon the farm. (I never knew, strict truth to quote, A farmer who could sing a note!) The farmer rises with the bird Whose welcoming song at morn is heard And revels In repose complete When night brings rest. to weary feet. (A farmer yet I never knew ‘Without more work than he coyld do!) Dryness. “You are talking s lttle like & dry as well as & wet.” v “Perhaps,” answered Senator Sor-| ghum. “Prudence calls for an um- brella in politics as well as in the weather.” Jud Tunkins says farmers want re- lef. As far as he can hear, so does Katydid Combine. The katydid has suig a lay Abaut the coming frosty day, And soon his good companions will, For heat, send in & bigger bill. New Conditjons. “Didn’t I tell you not to Interfere in my affairs?” asked she. “Yes,” answered Cactus Joe, “and that was all right for the home. But since I've got to be a movie director, you may as well understand that éverything Is different.” “True friends,” said Hi Ho, the sage | of Chinatown, “are those who love us not because of ourselves, but in spite of ourselves.” Pins. ‘The ' laundry lady doth insert 80 many pins into my shirt, I do not think I ought to g For punishment to realms below! I'm surely answered for my sins Right here on earth, by all these pins. “Tain’ no use complalinin’,” cle Eben. “A loses friends by hollerin’ - po The One Limitation, From the San Antonio Express. A child born in 1930 will live 10 vears longer than the 1910 child, the United States Public Health Service premises but it mustn't play in the street. r—.— Mind. Your Man, Missie! From the Columbus Ohio State Journal. Almost every day one sees items in the per which should be a solemn warning to all girls to be careful about marrying strangers. The Dreamers. From the San Prancisco Chronicle. Oh, for the good 0ld days when peo- ple did their day-dreaming under the lawn trees instead of the stzering wheel! voe—s Lethal Lanes. From the Boston Evening Transcript. said Un- never yet did git by the grand jury there comes & con- fession by & gangster or & hanger-cn in gangland that he wes a participant in the Lingle murder to the extent of driving two of the murder group to the scene of the execution. This man has been in custody for several months en As the paths of glory lead but to the | grave, #o, too often, do the paths of concrete. e b The Same Chances. From the Toledo Blade. Man might as well be & pedestrian in the land of the free as to think inde- part, of real estate companies not ready | He now names two of the party and de- to utilize them. They have not been | scribes the man who fired. the shot, tamed into parks. Some of them are so| whose name he does not know. well hidden in the developing labyrinth of streets and houses that few know of months without any near approach 0 ward are cal taair existence. Ty are restless and the solution of the mystery. Several some, of course, are cal A2 ) ‘The Lingle case has dragged along for pendently in Russia. —_ oo Patient Practitioners. Prom the Akron Beacon-Journal. ‘Those who ‘without hope of hilant] tho Lt doctors. . | reimburse the city treasury for the vast singing of this pet cup. Perhaps the diminuendo was due to the quality- of the coffee. Or maybe the cup was tired of the one brand! It was a happy idea. i Accordingly, we changed our brand several times, but something told us it was all in vain. ‘The singing cup was drying up. Soon it would sing no more, Day by day its “voice” grew beautifully less, as W. S. Gilbert once phrased it. ‘The time came when we had to ?pply our ear very closely to the rim of the cup to hear it at all, and then we were forced to bid all talking éease. One day when we listened for the voice of the cup all was still. ‘The flaw no longer worked. The cup was silent at last. *x ox * We still have the cup, but it no longer fings. Something that only & ttery manufacturer knows about has appened to the flaw in the glaze. ‘Whatever it is which has happened, it has stopped the extra-activity of an in- feresting dish. ing one with this amigble character- istle. Few cups can do it. We have drunk coffee out of huge thick mugs and from the once-favorite eggshell china, but never once have we found another cup which sang a perpetual high C. Our friend, who has two such cups— we have heard neither—swears that they sing in the keys of ® and G, but we know ours excelled in high C. - WA If such a characteristic could get into a cup through a mistake, surely it might be incorporated on purpose. A whole battery of singing cups not only would offer amusement for young and old, but surely would enliven any dinner, especially of the type where every one tries to be witty. A dozen cups might be tuned, as it were, and taught to play tunes, or the same result might be secured by mak- ing each sing a different note, accord- ing to the warmth of the liquid which it contained. ‘The possibilities of teacup music seem endless, and one good thing about it would be that it could annoy no one, it would be so soft, so effortiess, so— ah, yes, unique! ook w But no doubt some sad wight would apply the same principle to soup bowls and make them roar out of tune. Consider the clamor of half a dozen bowls of eream-of-tomato soup going at full blast in a student boarding house! Tureen music, whether the dishes contained mashed potatoes, stying beans or beets, would scarcely be ingratiating. It would be a slow, vegetable noise, rather resembling a grate. So it is perhaps ms well that the singing teacup 1s a rarity and wholly an accident, So long as ny manufac- turer takes these stray sounds seriously, they will remain the delight of the con- noisseur of the unusual. Teacup music 18, indeed, & “little music,” as the lady once called the sounds com!ng from & tiny loud speaker. ‘There is much to be said for the sug- gestion of music, rather than full-toned musie. Especially in an age when misuse of radio sets and speakers has made music and noise almost synonymous a “little music” goes & long way. * ok o ox We would advise all those who dine out, either at their friends' homes or at restaurants, to keep an ear open for singing cups. It will scarcely do, of course, to hold one of the hostess’ cup up to one's ear, as If to introduce a new style of aural consumption. But one might lean & bit closer than is usual and listen intently in pauses between conversation. It will add a new note to a dinner and make each meal & quest for the interesting. If & true singing cup is discovefed, quickly drink the contents and. at the first favorable moment, slip the cup into & side pocket. Be sure to give it afterward only good coffee, for & good-singer resents tea, and positively will not sing for ‘We suppose one might purchase a hundred thousand cups without find- MPARCIAL, Montevideo.—The man: agement of the Usinas Electricas del Estado (State Electrical Servic:s) | has inaugurated a general inspec tion of all private, commercial and industrial: electrical installations, to| ascertain if subscribers to the enterprise | have altered in any way, the wiring and | connections, thereby benefiting illegally in the consumption of current for which they do not pay. The manag:ment ii nds to prosecute vigorously all de- tected in these frauds, and, in addition to making them xny for the diverted power or light, wili give their names to the public. b W Berlin Official's “Property Taken to Pay City. ey Cologne _Gazette.—Stradtrat . (City | Councilor) Busch has been the financigl | ruination of Berlin. For months, the papers have been filled with fresh de- tails of his activities in connection with | the notorious Sklarek scandals, a series of malfeasant operations with funds and property belonging to the munici- pality, which netted Herr Busch and certain other officials percentages in | deals made between the city and private | interests, particularly in the matter of Teal estate transactions. Last Fall, when details of the Sklarek scandals began to reach the public ear, through the press, Stradtrat Busch op- portunely made a trip (Dienstrelse), ostensibly in the city's interests, to Cali- ; fornia, where he desired to study the | modern trend in public-market archi- tecture. While he was gone, the scandal flared to new heights, and the council- men inauguratzd criminal proceedings against him, an action which received | impetus when it was discovered that a | busincss associate of Herr Busch, the | Hollander Lutkie, had received large | sums from the Berlin official to deposit in Holland benks. It was satisfactorily roved by Herr Lutkie, however, that he Enew nothing of the source of the money he received, further than that it proceeded from what he beli¢ved to be Herr Busch’s private business ventures. Before Herr Busch could be called | before the court to answer for his| astonishing machinations with Berlin properties and ressurccs, he was sum- moned by & higher trib which left the investigators no resort except the confiscation of his private legaciss to amounts lost through his collusion with outside interests: * 0Odd Fellows Act As Matrimonial Agent. ‘The Evening Timss, Gl w.—How the Manchester Unity of .Odd Fellows has sometimes to act as a matrimonial agency was described at.the Plymouth conference recently. Director Baldock of Stepney said that an_agricultural | laborer belonging to the 1. ©. O. F. and earning 35 shillings a week had beén | hero enough to marry the widow of | & brother Odd Fellow, who had 11/ children, 1 * % x * ok ox X Women Gradually Taking Over U. 8. Wealth. El Comercio, Lima.—Is there any- body more wealthy than Los Ameri- canos (American men)? Yes—Las Americanas (American women). Every day in the United States wealth is assing from the hands of men to the nds of the wcmen, more and morz, Of the 496 declarations last year of those whose incomes amounted —to $1,000,000 or more, half of them were made by women, and in a majority of th. Btates the total income of the women exceeded that of the men. Particularly was this true of the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Hllinois and California, the four richest and most lous States of the confederation. he most powerful corporation in the country, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., with 454,556 share- holders, reports that more than 50 per cent of them are women. Women of lats years have become better “business men” than the masculine element, and .they are making fresh progress in every enterprise in the United States. In. New York City there is a banking house dealing exclusively with the ac- counts of les. This bank refuses to be annoyéd with the mediocre affairs of men, and all the employes, as well as the patrons of this bank, are women. It is a significant fact, too, that in the recent stock market crash it was the woman speculators who suffered the least, which is an eloquent testimonial to their business acumen. R E Shi r Mixea His Metaphors. cocoa, And & singing cup knows its coffee, Highlights on the Wide World - Excerpts From Newspapers of - Other Lands Baldwin, the British ex-premier, is a ood deal of a Mterary stylist, which, Do doubt, is why the people are all the mcre amused by & recent speech in which he confessed to having “put his foot in it up to the hilt.” This is really not & “bull,” however, but an ordiary mixed metaphor, such as we all make far oftener than we realize, Some mixed metaphors are so well worn that they pass unnoticed in even the statéliest prose. How often do we talk of launch- ing & “campaign,” which is surely & mixture if ever there Was one.. Mr. Baldwin _must realize by now that there's many a siip “‘twixt the foot and the hilt,” but he can derive comfort at any rate from the good company he is in, for even Shakespeare gives us Hamléet’s speech mbout “taking arms against a sea of troubles,” and the elo- quent Burke once talked of “Savoy and Nice, the ‘keys’ of Italy, and the ‘citadel’ in her hands to ‘bridle’ Switzer- land’-—a triple mixture! 1 THY genuine “bull” may depend on mixed metaphor, but it must possess some other pointed incongruity., The now quite seriously ussd phrase, “con- spll)mlxlaus by his absence,” is, in’ origin, a bul Another ' good example was trated before the Parnell commission— “Better be a coward for five minul than dead all the rest of your life! Which rather reminds one of the speaker talking of China, who sald that a rich man condemned to death could always find & poor man, who, in return for & small recompense, would act as his substitute. *“And,” continued the speaker in his enthusiasm, ‘“quite & number of poor Chinamen get their living by deputizing in this way.” ‘Then there is the double meaning such as Cobden's famous remark in speech about fres trade in the Lan- cashire cotton Industry- w take the géntleman on my left. He is a spinner of long yarns of low quality.’ Sometimes, the humor of such things depends upon the words being spoken, not printed, as with Lord Coleridge's eloquent eulogy of Oxford, which con- clud=d with sentence, “I Speak not of this college nor of that, but of the university as a whole, and, my friends, what a_whole Oxford is!” Mr. Baldwin may be glad to know that other prime ministers have been guilty of this sort of thing, and that one other unsuccessful candidate told his supporters that at the néxt contest he was sure he would be “much further up the poll!” (balder). B Uncertainty of Jobs " In Base Ball Is Noted From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Nothing could better iljustrate the abgence of sentiment in major league base ball than the announcement that Manager Joe McCarthy of the Chicago Cubs will be out at the end of the season. Until two weeks ago the Cubs were leading the league. There was every indication they would again meet the Athletics in the world series this month. ‘This in spite of a serious run of injuries that had kept much of their playing strength on the bench. ‘Then for some unaccountable reason the Cub pitchers forgot how to pitch. en_they returned to Chicago fromy their Eastern invasion they were all but out of the race. ner, Willlam Wrigley, jr., owner of the Cubs, says Rogers Hornsby will lead the team next year. He has a high regard for McCarthy and will help him find a new job, but he is through at Chicago. Fair-minded fans who have watched McCarthy bring the Cubs from the bot- tom of the league to the top in his tenure of five years are unanimous in the judgment that he is receiving shabby treatment at the hands of his employer. Who shall manage the Chicago Cubs is not exactly a public question. But those who have so generously contribut- ed to their support in recent years have more than a passing interest in it. If the White Sox management is alert to its opportunity, it will win back to the South Side much of the hold it had on the Chicago base ball public before the Black Sox scandal of 1919. ) On the Firing Line, From the Lowell Evening Leader. Famous Indisgn fighter dies after scrv- ing for a decade as a night watchman. But in these lawless days and nights Irish’ Independent, Dublin—Mr. even that occupation may have its oc- casional thrills and perils. Asserting that he must have a win- | I THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover Cgli Edward B. Clark, veteran news- Papét.man and clever conversationalist and_sfory teller, who is & Washington ‘when he is not in Chicago or w"’m written an interesting bi- of one of the foremost Unitéd States Army Engineers, “William L. Sibert, the Army Engineer.” Col. Clark, himself a West Point man and & colonel in the United States Army, Reserve, is well fitted to write appreci- atively and understandingly of the achlevements of Maj. Gen. Sibert. These achievements are of great na- tional importance. He built the largd Atlantic locks of the Panama Canal, Gatun Dam. He investigated flood conditions in China for the Red Cross in 1914. He was chief of the Chemical Warfare Service during the World War. It was due to his initiative that the 9- foot channel on th: Ohio River was planned and carrled to completion. rebuilt entirely the harbor and seaport facilities of Mobile, Ala. His last im- portant public duty was as chairman of the committee appointed by President Coolidge to study and report on the Boulder Dam proposition. L Col. Clark's book is well arranged in chapters whose headings are interest- ingly suggestive: . “When He Followed the Furrow,” “Of the Stock of the | Pioneers,” “The Stripling Soldler,” “The Pathway of Hif hievement,” “Boss- Light and Serious,” “Under the Red Cross in China,” “As Chemical Warfare Chieftain,” “At Work for His Native State,” etc. Opening his story, Col. Clark says: *“This is the life story of a American engineer, one of the world's greatest engineers, and, if we can accept the estimate of the great Frenchman Bunau-Varilla, the world's greatest engineer, Willlam Luther Si- bert, major general, United States Army, retired.” Gen. Sibert was born in 1860 on a farm in Alabama, which had only about 40 years before been part of the Cherokee Indian hunting grounds. His ancestors were from Alsace-Lorraine, “sometimes Germany and sometimes France.” His father served in the Confederate Army throughout the Civil ‘War., From country school ‘to gradu- ation at West Point is the summary of the younger Sibert's education. After West Point came a commission in the United States Corps of Engineers-and & distinguished career. The high spots in that career have already been men- tioned. £ xox A Nfe whl'u" n‘s Gen. "Blborlt‘s l(])f interestin nings must naturally foduce some good anecdotes, and Col. Clark has related a number of these. There is the story of the mule Mike, belonging to the Sibert family during the Civil War, which “brought his batteries instantly into ‘action rear'” when some Union soldiers intruded on his domain. There is the story of the opossum and coon hunts in the house of the gen- eral, then major, at Panama, when the animals took advantage of the tropical partitions, not reaching to the ceilings, and escaped through all the rooms of the house. It was at Panama, also, that Maj. Stbert found a specimen of the extremely poisonous fer-de-lance snake lying on the rug in_his hall at the foot of the stairs. There is the story of how Maj. Sibert . entertained Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt &t luncheon at Panama, when he sent word to his Jamaicen cook to prepare luncheon No. 1 (Mrs. Sibert had arranged a series of numbered luncheons for the cook before leaving home for some weeks), and the cook, thinking that one luncheon was not gocg enough for the “Queen of America,” prepared luncheons No:. 1, 2 and 3 and served them successively, with all the silver and bric-a-brac in the house placed on exhibition in the dining and living | Yooms. Mrs. Rocsevelt “had been alive to the fun of the thing from the be- ginning * * * and had been having the time of her life.” Many other anecdotes show the humor that light- ened life full of serious endeavor and attaiment. * ok kR Ome of the best of recent books for children 1s “Smoky,” the story of & horse, by Wil James. The story of Wil ‘James' own life is interestingly told in “Lone Cowboy—My Life Story.” Horses, drawing pigiures and writing have been the great interests in the life of Will James. The book is illustrated by his own drawings. “I've mnever sketched from life,” he says, “and never watched any animal with intentions of sketching it.” He was born in 1892, when his parents were covered-wagon ploneers in Montana. His mother died whin he was an infant and his father a few years later, His guardian and educator was then for many years a French-Canadian trapper named Jean Beaupre, a friend of his father. This man taught him to camp, to trap, to ride. The two wandered about the Northwest and into Canada, visiting ranches and camps, and at the age of 17, when Beaupre had been killed by drowning, Will James decided that the life of a cowboy was the life for him. Many and varled were his experiences, among them cattle stealing and a term in prison, where_he was set to exer- cising the prison fa] horses. Re- cently he has decided that he is too old for the occupation of struggling with wild horses and has turned to writing, where his success has been good, * ok K X One of the recent siriking novels of French authorship is “Les Peloueyre,” by Francoils Mauriac, which has been | translated by Lewis Galantiere under the title of “The Family. It is in two { parts, really two stories—“The Kiss of | the Leper” and “The Matriarch.” Both are rather grim and morbid, but ap- pealing through their real human trag- edy, In the first, Jean Peloueyre, heir to a considerable fortune and the fam- ily name, is afflicted with a sickly, de- formed body, so that he is repulsive to every one. Yel his father is deter- mined that he shall marry and selects for his bride a handsome, healthy pe: ant girl, Nocmi, whose family is over- whelmed with the honor and the finan- clal prospect, and never thinks of re- fusing. The marriage takes place, Noemt* is obviously wretched in spite of the pathetic kindness of her deformed | husband, and finally, in order to set | her free, Jean ends his life. The sec- {ond story is that of the possessive love of a mother for her son and her domi- nation over him, even after he has {reached the age of 50. Felicite Caze- Inave alienates her son Fernand from his wife apd thereby brings about her own downfall in his submission, for after the death of the wife Fernand is 50 overcome with remorse that he turns against his mother and the old woman finally dles In defeat. XK KX Additions to the recent civil list of Great Britain—that is, the list of per- sons recefving small government pen- sions—include Mrs. Mary St. Leger Harrison, daughter of Charles Kingsley, who, under the nom de plume of “Lu- cas Malet,” won considerable success a generation ago by her novels “The Wages of Sin" and “The History of Sir Richard Calmady,” and Beatrice Har- raden, whose “Ships That Pass in the Night” was read and talked of by every one at about the same time. The amount of the pensions awarded to those on the civil list is small, and a consideration in the award is that there must be actual need of additional in- come. Witk 4 The MacKaye family sees life dra- matically. Steele MacKaye, his son, Percy MacKaye, and now Percy's son, Keith MacKaye, will have all been given to playwriting or acting. Keith MacKaye's play “Honey Holler,” in three acts, is a partly realistic, partly symbolical presentation of life among the dwellers in the Connecticut hills. ‘The central character is the Leather Man, father of the girl Lil and of the boy Dave, whom Lil's stepfather wishes her to marry. The situation is certainly dramatic _enough, also unpleasant enough. Keith MacKaye handles it with skill, if not with genius. ated the Gatun Lake and built the | He | e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 'BY FREDERIC This is a speclal department devoted solely to the handling of queries. This paper puts at your disposal.the services of an extensive organization in Wash- ington to serve you in any capacity that relates to information. This serv- ice is free. Failure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to which you are entitled. Your obligation is only 2 cents in coin or stamps, inclosed with your inquiry foy direct reply. Address The Evening Sfar Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- | ton, D. C. Q. Please list the gifts that have been made to the Peace Palace at The Hague by the governments of various coun- tries?—A, D, A. United States of America, marble atue; Argentina, a bronze statue; Aus- tralia, & writing desk with silver ink- stand; Belgium, bronze doors of the main entrance with smaller doors to match; Brazil, palisander and cedar wood (stems) for hall and foom wood- work; Chile, group of bronze statues in the grounds; China, four cloisonne vases on pedestal; Denmark, a fountain of Copenhagen porcelain in the inner court; Germany, the ifron railing with gates to the main entrance of the grounds with carved work of natural stone; England, four windows of stained leaded glass; France, a p°inied scene (Besnard), & sketch of ¢ gobelin which has not been delivereq, a painting (Chi- got); Greece, a marble seat; Haiti, fine woods to be used for woodwork; Hun- gary, four large vases of baked earthen- ware; Italy, marble to be used for col- umns; Japan, wall coverings of hand- woven silk; the Netherlands, the site of the Peace Palace, seven windows of enameled leaded glass, the permanent loan of four paintings by Ferdinand Bol; the Netherland-East Indies, 170 M3 Djatti or, teakwood (stems) to be used for woodwork; Norway, worked granite for the drive at the main entrance; Austria, six bronge candelabra; Rumania, four small rugs; Russia, a large vase of jas- per marble; Salvador, fine woods (stems) to be used for woodwork; Spain, 12 silver inkstands with penholders; Turkey, a large rug; Sweden, carved granite for the facade, and Switzerland, carillon with four clockfaces. Q. Where does Omaha rank among the cities of the country?—H. G. . Omaha ranks thirty-ninth among the cities of the United States, with a popuiaton of 214,175, 1930 preliminary census report. In 1920 with a popula- ;lflnd:f 191,601, Omaha ranked thirty- ourth, Q. How can you keep leather goods from mildewing?—M. N. H. . The simplest way to prevent mil- dewing is to keep the articles in a well ventilated, dry, well lighted place. When first_detccted, mildew should be wiped off wiih a damp cloth, the leather well dried, and put in a drier place. Mildew probably will not seriously damage the leather unless it is allowed to remain for several weeks or longer, but it may change its color. Q. I8 l.hepre a fish called the John Its English name is be- orruption of the French “jaune doree,” in reference to the golden-yellow color of the living fish. The John Dory inhabits the Atlantic coasts of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Australiafi seas. Q. When was the Lehigh Valley Rail- road built?—L. K. A. The Lehigh Valley Railroad was|’ built between Easton and Mauch Chunk, Pa., in 1855, Q. What is the depth of the water J. HASKIN. where it N — RGO lagara Falls A. The depth of the water at the crest of the American Fall at Niagara measures from 1l to 4 feet under usual comiditions, but sometimes the water is set back by northerly and easterly winds so that the Fails are almost dry. The depth at the Horse- shoe Fall is not definitely known. Q. Who was the “father of modern gardening”?—J. K. A. Willlam Kent (1685-1748), an English painter and architect, was so described by Horace Walpole . Kent was the first to adopt the natural as against the artificial or formal in landscape gardening. Q. What was the population of Chi cago at the time of the Chicago Fire?— "A. 'The big fire In Chicago was In 1871. In 1870 the populatiog of Chi- cago was 298,977, Q. What is the meaning of curie, a common noun?—C. L. A. Curie is the unit for measuring the amount or mass of emanation from & radioactjve substance in equilibrium witlf one gram of the element radium. Q. Who_discovered the Isle of &t. Helena?—B. M. A. The Portuguese discovered the Island of St. Helena. The Dutch took possession of it. It was later ceded to Great Britain. The Portuguese imported live stock, fruit trees and vegetables. They, however, formed no permanent settlement, The first known perma- nent resident was Fernando Lopez, a Portuguese who was mutilated by order of Albuquerque. Q. What is the highest temperature of the ocean water during the bathing season at Atlantic City and at Palm Beach?—E, B. A. The. Coast and Geodetic Survey has made daily observations at Daytona Beach, near Palm Beach, Fla., and at Atlantic City, N. J. The warmest water temperature in the last several years was 79.7 degrees Fahrenheit for Atlan- tic City in 1915 and 86 degrees.Fahren- heit at Daytona Beach, Fla. Q. Should one use the word “you” or “your” in the following senten ‘There is no~objection to you (or your) - forming ‘any additional work"?—H. fl A. The noun or pronoun which pre- cedes a gerund must be in the posses- sive case. It is therefore correct to say, “There is no objection to your per- forming any additional work.” . Was Alols Havrilla born in this country?—G. D. A. He was born in Czechoslovakia. He came to this country at an earl age and studied music from childhood. He was a concert soloist before he went into the radio field. Graham McNamee heard Havrilla sing and sug- gested an audition. After giving re- citals over the air he turned to the announcing end of the business. Q. Why does the air get thinner as we ascend a mountain?—E, 8. . A. The air is held to the earth by the force of gravity, The air close to the ground is pressed down by the weight of the air above it, which makes it denser. As the distance from the earth increases there is less air above, therefore it expands and is thinner, Q.-‘Are the Indians correctly spoken of &5 aborigines!—W. Re > A. Aborigines is a term used to refer to the earliest known races of a, coun- try, those found at its first disco s Tnaians. are therefore ‘correctl termed the aborigines of America. Womanless Library Sceuted - As Contradiction in Terms The eccentric will of the Iowa law- yer endowing & library from which women and all her works be barred, whilé not taken very seriously by the public at large, brings forth comment on woman’s growing stature in litera- ture that would make its misogynistic donor turn in his grave. Provision in the will that the words “No woman admitted” shall be chis- eled over the entrance of the proposed building inspires the statement by the Newark Evening News, “Perhaps some- thing near the truth might be expressed ‘were there to be added to the inscrip- tion designated in the will the further words of Bernard Shaw, ‘Woman’s dear- est delight is to wound man’s self-con- ceit.”” The Evening News also offers the comment’on the purpose of institution: “His dislike for women, Mr. Zink’s will declared, came from experi- ence and the study of philcsophy, his- tory and science. Maybe somewhere in his science or philosophy he got his conc:ption, which seems somewhat vague, of how his womanless library is guing to curb the influence of Eve's daughters. After that Influence has increased, at the present rate, 75 more years, the won'rnle!s lbrary wmy serve #s & museum of that anclent time when man was, or imagined he was, the domi- nant se: “Mr. Zink apparently believed the hand that rocks the cradle wrecks the world,” says the Grand Rapids Press s:tting forth the difficulties that must be met in carrying out these provisions: “The trouble is that he failed to in- clude current events and future proba- bilitics. By the year 2005, when his will becomes active and his ‘library’ is put up, it won't be a library at all. It will be a museum. So much of the world’s literature by that time will be written by women that the trustees will have to draw chiefly on tne past—and even then they will be very busy dodg- ing writers of romance like George Eliot and George Sand, not to mention the ‘westerns’ of B. M. Bower, who also wears skirts, end vartous other works indistinguishable as to the sex of their authorship.” “The monument he plans, by its very omissions,” according to the Rockford Daily Republic, “will, if it is allowed at last to be created, stana as the greatest monument to the genius of women. Take the feminine influence out of architecture and there is little left sae a roof and walls to inclose one, for its has been woman’s influence, working on man's creative genius, that has in- spired beauty in building. Take woman’s influence out of literature and philos- ophy and there is nothing left. The truth s that men without women are lazy and uninspired, slothful beasts. And the same is probably true of women without men.” “Gruff old Stephen Girard of Phila- delphia,” suggests the San Antonio Evening News, “could give his dislike of the clergy enduring form; but this Iowan has set his executors a far more difficult task. Suppose they carried his taboo to the logical conclusion and barred all books in which women fig- ure—Mother Eve, Rebecca, Ruth, Esther and Mary Magdalene are in the Bible; Hera, Pallas Athene, Helen and An- dromache move through Homer's pages; ‘Don Quixote’ would have to go out with his fair Dulcinea; Shakespeare, ‘Faust’ ‘Elia’ and George Bernard Shaw would be expelled. Schopenhauer might stay, but Plato would be under a cloud. Even mathematics would require close scrutiny lest Hypatia creep in."” * ok ok ok “It is just about impossible to have a womanless world or a womanless part of the world,” contends the Albany Eve- ning News, holding that “a public library cannot be such if it is barred to one sex.” The Muncie Star advises that “it will be more than a joke 75 years from now,” and that “nobody can say what library needs or conditions will be three now.” At that time, in the opinion of the Fort Worth Record-Telegram, “it is highly doubtful if there will be any libraries” and “is equally doubtful if there is even 80 much as a womanless the ' better have taken S0 mbor shop.” The Record-Tel Eoramente Turiner: “por the first ‘ime in 10,000 years men and women gre becoming acquainted with each other. Both express frank wonder about each other by asking, ‘How long have you been going on?’ Seventy-five years from now they will be reading about 1930. as we are wont to read about the Salem witcheraft.” “Mr. Zink -donates,” according to the Charlotte News, “an institution that by the riches of its contents contributes ordinarily tb the abatement of prejudice, only under his provisions to propagate that very thing. The fullness induced by reading becomes, or will in the case of Mr. Zink's library, an imposed nar- rowness. The largeness of his_bequest is completely offset by the smallness of his motive.* “It is our opinion that Mr. Zink it his share of world’s goods along with him.” Chicago Crime Drive Of Minimum Magnitude From the Houston Post-Dispatch. Chicago's latest crime drive, studi- ously advertised in advance as eomln: lion” hunt in the jungles of gangland, results in th> bagging of a mouse. No big game has been located, say the hunters, but they have brought in the youthful brother of an alleged racke- teer. The youth will not be allowed to escape. A chaigs of driving an auto- mobile without & city license tag to and from school has been lodged agafnst him. He doubtless will be duly pun- ished for this crime. Police, not only in Chicago, but in most other cities, are paragons of perfection when it comes to enforcing the law against minor traf- fic offenders. The citizen who runs over an Imaginary traffic line or parks a few minutes too long is far more in danger of apprehension than is the murderer or the hi-jacker. In the meantime, the brother of the luckless young prisoner in Chicago remains at Ilarge, and if there has been any dim- inution of the illegal business con- ducted by him and the 25 other “pub- lic enemies” who were ordered to be “put on the spot” by law enforcement agencies, there has been no note of it. The speakeasles, we may be sure, are running in their customary way and without interference from the police. Those institutions are getting their sup- plies of illicit booze regularly and they are getting it from the liquor barons, whose gunmen continue to terrorize the city. The defin! relation between crime and the Jiquor business in Chicago has not been broken, but Chicago police are unable to find any of the principals in the racket. No police force in“the world, perhaps, is as distinguished for inability or unwillingness to bring in the real criminals as is the Chicago ag- gregation. Just for the nevelty of the thing, it would be interesting to see the force bring in & criminal they really had “something on.’ r——— Go on Laughing. From the Montreal Standard. Why do we laugh? Why do we ever begin to laugh? A psychiatrist ex- plained the whole thing to the British Association. He took the laughter of a child and divided it neatly into 10 stages of development. At 18 months the infant had discovered most of the reasons for laughter which adult minds possess. And, lucky child, it had no more idea at the end of it all than the rest of us have that laughter was not just & sim- le uproarious part of the Whole iness of being alive. Shade of Ra- belais, shade of Cervantes, shadd of English Shakespeare, why did you laugh? Would you have been metriez with a list of reasons for mcrriment in your hands like the list of * c damnations” which Browning _wrote ut. Why do we laugh? Stufry | abor ———e—————— I the Pre-Match Days. From the Kansas City Star. : “The match was invented just 100 guu 2go.” It must have been irksome fore then, if the office g‘ dropped IT evtryl five minutes for loan.of & ive coal.