Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1930, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR o With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. YHURSDAY.....October 9, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 43nd Bt e Michigan Bullding. Regent St.. London, ‘England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Brenine Btar. ..o 45¢ per month ening and Sundey Siar (when 4 Bundays) 60¢ per month The Evening and Sun i Collection made at the end of each month ers mav be sent in by mail or telephione [Ational 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Ei}i m’lun« All Other States and Canada. HY and Su Bailz a6 ° only Member of the Associated Press. Associated Press is exclusively entitled T Tepublication of all news dis B d to it or not otherwise cred: od, also a1 news publ; rein. All rights of publication of special dispatches hercin are also reserved. the loc The Chamber's Objectives. An awakening civic consciousness is 8 hopeful sign in any city. In Wash- ington, where taxpaying folk are not yet granted full rights of citizenship, it is an especially heartening thing to note the effort, time and thought ex- pended by unofficial, volunteer groups in the interest of the general welfare of the Capital. ‘Though deprived of any direct voice in its law-making body and under the administration of appointed officials not by law responsible to them, local residents display a civic consciousness truly remarkable in its steadfastness of purpose. The success of the work of such bodies may be gauged by the number of projects they have sponsored or inaugurated which local and Federal officials have adopted in the admin- istration of the National Capital.~ If one were to tabulate the number of hours per year which are devoted by members of local trade, professional and civic groups to serious study de- signed to make Washington a greater and better Capital City, the total no doubt would be amazing, even to those who know of the public spirit that abides here. The Washington Chamber of Com- merce, one of the bodies through which local taxpayers have an opportunity for service, row is in the midst of a two- first by building a larger membership to the end that it may speak for a larger body of Washington residents. Concurrently, the chamber is reorgan- izing its activities that more effective work may be accomplished by its spe- clalized committee groups. ‘The Chamber, like other worthy lo- cal groups, has performed laudably Ifishly in ‘serving the interests ital and its populace. Week Fe 1 1 famous and slowly grew as new items * | were added. Tempting offers were made to Col. Oldroyd, as he was known throughout the country, for the sale of the collec- tion, but he refused them all, hoping that eventually the Government would take his treasures and preserve them for all time as a public museum of his- tory. That was finally done only a few years ago by act of Congress. Col, Old- royd survived this jong wait and had the satisfaction at last of finding his collection insured against disintegration and loss. 7 Now at the age of eighty-eight he is dead and deeply mourned. He rendered & valuable service, unselfishly and in a patriotic spirit. Had it not been for his youthful inspiration gained from his reading of a campaign tract of 1860 he would probably not have carried through his unique enterprise, the result of which is today the assemblage of ma- terials relating to Abraham Lincoln that otherwise would never have been 8¢ preserved. ————— Legislating by Correspondence. Correspondence released yesterday by the Board of Education, consisting of letters between Dr. Ballou, Senator Bingham and Representative Simmons on the proposed reorganization of the kindergartens, is interesting in that it establishes a unique principle in the business of interpreting legislation. A legislative provision written into the last appropriation bill stated that as teacher vacancies occur in the primary grades from one to four during the current fiscal year, such vacancies “may” be filled by transfer of kinder- garten teachers. Taken on its face value, the provision merely made kin- dergarten teachers eligible for transfer to the grades. Heretofore they have not been eligible. ‘While that was all that appeared in the law, a great deal lay behind it else- where. During hearings on the bill, Mr. Simmons, in the language of his subsequent report on the bill, developed that the “District of Columbia was greatly overstaffed with kindergarten teachers,” and while the average en- rollment .per teacher elsewhere was 57.9, it was 31.8 here. By cutting down the number of teachers in the kinder- gartens, 78 of them could be transferred to thé grades, thereby saving the em- ployment of that number of new grade teachers. The policy to be pursued in cutting down the kindergartens was never writ- ten into law. When Congress adjourned the school officials were left with a rather innocuous legislative provision on their hands. But in order to find out what the conferees finally had in mind regarding the kindergartens, seven let- ‘ters passed between the superintendent and the conferees during the Summer, in which Dr. Ballou was asking if the conferees meant this-and-that or thus- and-so, and the conferees were replying that they did not mean thus-and-so but this-and-that. The resulting policy, which the Board of Education will dis- cuss soon, was recommended by Dr. Ballou on the basis of what the con- ferees had in mind as developed in lengthy correspondence, but which was never written down clearly enough or i k out, its members have set personal objectives to study clvic questions. Tax and problems have been given ught of its members. Na- representation for the District, rates, police and traffic, di- and of in and aside ! 5 § ;EE g 51 | Chamber can well be proud of #ts past, for it has served ‘Washington ly. Its five-year expansion pro- designed to enlarge the scope its work and to increase the mem- p for which it speaks. Chamber merits the congratula- receives for its past record and many wishes for real success in program. ———— A hundred millionaires, members of & committee of capitalists who Winter 8t Miami Beach, are soon to sit down to dinner together. And it is a safe bet that many of them once read the right-hand side of the menu first and that the waiters, captains and other personnel who serve them will be prop- erly tipped, but not overtipped. —_———— If all the miles recently retreated by Chinese rebels, according to Na- tionalist government advices, were added up—well, 1t would be something like translating a lot of light years into the same unit of measurement. ———— Bergt.-Manager Street claimed Tues- day that the Athletics had “shot the works.” That is the difficulty with all champions; they shoot the works and then find one more, hitherto unsus- pected, shot in the locker. - The Collector of Lincolniana. Probably every boy has at one time or another in his juvenile career the passion for collecting things. Some | collect stamps, others coins, others as- semble natural objects, animals, min- erals, plants, or again it is just a lot of miscellania of no particular classifica- tion, the odds and ends that attract a boy's attention. Usually these collec- tions languish and eventually disap- pear. Again, in rare instances, they persist, and the habit continues and often there are valuable results. Such was the result of the collection enterprise of Osborne H. Oldroyd, who seventy years ago, at the age of eighteen, was inspired by a pamphlet relating to the career of Abraham Lincoln, then candidate of the Republican party for President of the United States. This frail booklet, a mere “campaign docu- ment,” gave young Oldroyd an objec- tive, which was to assemble everything Available relating to his new-found hero. Lincoln was elected President, and the Oivil War began soon after. In the first year of the war the Ohio boy en- definitely enough, either in legislation or in reports on legislation, to be un- derstood. One naturally wonders if this method will be pursued hereafter to its logical extreme, and in the absence of our legislators from Wash- ington during the Summer, District ofi- cials, other than the school authorities, will be exchanging letters concerning what the members of Congress really had in mind, but failed to write down, as to the way the various agencies of the municipality should be run. Many interesting possibilities present them- selves. As for the correspondence itself, it is comforting to note that the con- ferees never intended that kinder- gartens falling to show the required minimum daily attendance of twenty- five pupils before October 14 would be closed. Such was the apparent inter- pretation by the school officials of what the legislators had in mind, until an rticle in The Star was brought to the attention of Mr. Simmons in Chicago, who promptly wrote to Dr. Ballou about it. Two subsequent letters have cleared up the matter and it now appears that while a minimum daily attendance of twenty-five pupils per teacher is the standard set for kindergartens, the matter of what is to be done with kindergartens failing to show such a standard will depend upon enrollment and other considerations left to the discretion of school officials. o It ever there were a purely honorary title it is that of “Secretary and active chief of the Pascist party,” Tecently conferred with solemnity by Mussolini on Signor Giluriati. It is hoped the latter, for his own sake, will not Teally believe in that phrase, “active chief,” and try to start or to stop anything. ———— Baltimore spellers decidedly defeated Washington orthographists recently. Never mind, we are probably better pronouncers! ————. A’ Pitching Masterpiece, To George Earnshaw, husky right- hander of the Philadelphia team, who, during the past week, has emulated the pitening achievements of that old mas- ter, Christy Mathewson, must go the lion’s share of the credit for the second consecutive world championship of the team from the City of Brotherly Love. Of course, Earnshaw could not have won by himself, and his mates gave him, valiant support both offensively and defensively, but in hurling a total of twenty-two scoreless innings out of the twenty-five he pitched and allow- ing the Cardinals only thirteen rafe hits and two runs over this stretch “Big George” is the outstanding hero of the series. And when it is realized that Earnshaw, after holding the enemy to two hits for seven innings on Monda: “Oldroyd collection” became nationally T Hallahan and Haines in winning M' games, but the base ball fates were against him and he was not destined to turn in a victory. Due to the pitching superiority of Earnshaw, Grimes and Grove the hit- ting in this serles was pitifully weak. During the regular season the Cardinals batted well over three hundred as a team and the Athletics just missed the coveted mark, but in the championship St. Louis compiled the puny average of two hundred, while Philadelphia trailed with one ninety-seven. Gelbert, sup- posedly a weak-hitting shortstop, led the Cardinals at the bat with three fifty-three, while Al Simmons, slugger extraordinary of the Macks, showed his mates the way with an average of | three sixty-four. Base ball now goes into moth balls until next year. If has been a good season from the standpoint of both the fans and the clubs. The National League race was a close one throughout, with three teams fighting for the lead almost down to the finish. In the American League Philadelphia had lit- tle difficulty in winning, although Wal- ter Johnson and his crew put up stub- born resistance. It is all over now, though, until next April, when the stands will be packed with thousands of base ball hungry enthusiasts, ready to back their favorites to the limit. —e— The very worst aspersion that has been cast on Admiral Byrd by any member of his various exploring parties is that they deliberately let him win at poker. And if that is not a marvelous record, St. Louis won the world cham- plonship. ——— ‘Winston Churchill's son, aged nine- teen, is in Ahis country for a lecture tour. He is following in the footsteps of father, who was himself considerable of an infant prodigy at that age. D Frank Hawks flew from New York to Boston in fifty-three minutes. New Yorkers are inclined to think that he was in too great a hurry to reach the Hub. ——————— It is expected that the roster of Chi- cago's,anti-crime crusaders will be in- creased and, enhanced by an enthu- siastic active membership in the name of Mrs. William Hale Thompson. —.— Expert dietitians contemplate the removal of spinach from the menus of children. Now if only some benevolent scientific group will take it away from grown-ups, too! ————— “Rolling Down to Rio” might be taken as the official chantey of those Brazilian revolutionists. ——e—. The name of St. Louis' first-sacker may indicate his batting position in 1931, SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Wonder Workers. This world is like a fairyland Where nothing need go wrong: listed in the Northern Army. He fought [came back with only one day’s rest to throughout the four years of the con-|limit them to five hits yesterday the flict, and on his return to a peace-time | qualities of his performance can be career the death of Lincoln gave him & | really appreciated. fresh inspiration to carry on his collec- | Despite the wizardry of Mack’s great tion of Lincolniana. He made it & |pitcher, the St. Louis team made a Where fortune smiles on every hand, And lures us with a song. In business we may all succeed; No malady may rage— Or 50 it seems whene'er I read ‘The advertising page. ‘There is no pecketbook too scant To purchase fine attire, Your features they'll adjust and slant Till all your friends admire. They will supply your every need And all your griefs assuage If you with care will only read ‘The advertising page. \ No Use Worrying. “What will you say when your eon- stituents ask you for an explanation?” “I don't know,” answered Senator Sorghum. “There's no use of worrying about what I'm going to say. They won't believe it, anyhow.” Not Criticizing. “People spend a great deal of money foolishly nowadays,” said the appre- hensive citizen. “Yes,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. “But I don't feel like blaming them. If nobody spent money foolishly it would be impossible for some of us financiers to amass such large fortunes.” The Candidate. He speaks on themes of every kind, He argues and he quotes. But the real question in his mind Is how to get the votes. The Early Boom. “When I was & boy,” said the rather vain person, “everybody said I was go- ing to be President of the United States.” “Yes,” answered the seasoned poli- tician. “Your case simply illustrates my argument that it isn't safe to start a boom too far ehead of election.” ‘Woman's Way. “So you made him promise to give up smoking?” said one girl. “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. “But I never knew you seriously ob- jected to smoking.” “I don’t. But I had to make him do something to show his affection.” Literally Crushed. If time were really money, My lucky stars I'd thank. 1'd save up all my leisure hours And straightway start a bank. “Sometimes,” said Uncle Eben, “a man complains 'bout de selfishness of other people, when what ails him is dat his own selfishness ain’ gettin’ a show.” o A Needed Merger. Frpm the Fort Worth Record-Telesram. 'We still maintain that foot ball is short of its meed of public acclaim just so0 long as lh!{ delay fixing things so | a player can kick a home run over the fence, — oo Topsy-Turvy Land. Prom the New London Day. The President of Ecuador has re- signed. Congress rejected the idea. Evidently Ecuador would rather have a revolution than not. —— o life work. game fight to win the coveted title. Bit by bit he gathered relics of Lin- | “Gabby” Street, Walter Johnson's old toln's career—books, furniture, Writing | battery mateé and now manager of the The Bane of Youth. From the Daston Deily News. Now that soap has been f¢ found to an sntidote for little beys will Bave b o careriR ot to Be polssned. Better Times. HE EVENING STAR, be | ables them to cure all maladies simply b “Fastic WASHINGTON, 1 y D, C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1930. — e . e e S . — ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Looking at some photographs of the English countryside the other day, we were more convinced than ever of the desirability of hedges. The hawthorn, the hemlock, these and other hedging materials has neglected in the United State many sections of our cou thrive as readily as in England. ‘We have California privet and Japa- nese barberry as two tremendously re- liable hedging materials. Between the two there is no choice as far as many tastes are concerned. The privet forms a denser hedge, and for that reason far surpasses the bar- berry, think some enthusiasts. Privet grows well efther trimmed or untrimmed. While the cropped hedge is preferred, there are many examples of free-growing privet to be seen in and around Washington. This double mlty of the California rivet, to make either a low or a high Kedu. constitutes one of its best char- acteristics. There are many situations where the formal, clipped hedge is not so de- sirable. Take the side of a house, on the average 50-foot lot. If there is a porch, piazza, portico, or whatever one chooses to call it, the space left between two adjoining houses is not very large. ‘The customa: close foundation planting offers little protection from the stares of neighbors. Neighbors are not supposed to stare, of course, but sometimes they do. In that event, a nice, high-growing hedge of privet is the best thing a sensi- tive person can establish. It is good- looking, remains n almost all of the year and surely offers protection. * kK X We are always glad when we see some one putting in a hedge. If the kids will just let it grow, it will be all right. A hedge is the modern equivalent of the iron fence of yesterday. Solid fencing has its place, along with iron dogs, deer and horse blocks. Solid fences still have a place behind a house, or as a support to a growing hedge, but the average home owner of today feels that a hedge looks better at the front of his property. There are styles in chl::: a8 in everything else. Today the ige has the drop on the iron fence, even the time-honored white picket fence. There are, around the ‘Washington suburbs, many extremely interesting and ‘beautiful examples, of the use of these fencing materials. Often wire fences, sunk in concrete, beautify a property, especially when covefed with vines, particularly the rose. It is difficult to understand the view- point of the person who does not want a boundary mark of some sort around his property. Perhaps there will be no boundary marks in Heaven. One of the best of the recent books carries on at great length against the setting up of barriers in this world. Such a viewpoint is plausible. «But surely one is not attempting to be either sclfish, harsh or dictatorial when he atiempts to establish a bound- ary marking his own little property from the properties of others. i He knows, as well as any, that all | earthly holdings are for a time only, but he feels strongly that during that small time in which mortal laws allow | the land to be called his he should have | some right to a bit of peace and privacy. | And nothing but a tangible barrier of some description will give it to him in | this curious world of tangible trespass- | | seem too great, but after that the shrubs * ok k¥ | | The fence also has a philosophic de- | fense. The mind requires its defense, | t0o. The satisfying sense of ofmership is made the more by a tangible barrier | which keeps out those whom it will| keep out. Highlights on the Wide Worl(i | Excerpts From Newspapefi of Other .Land.s. APAN ADVERTISER, Tokio.—The | total number of births in Tokio | during 1929 was 5,351 less than | the figure for the previous year, | according to statistics made pub- lic by the city authorities. The figure | for 1929 was 51,789, approximately | twice the number recorded 45 years | ago. Despite the decline, Tokio is still the | most_prolific capital city in the world. ‘The birth rate for 1929 was 24 births for each 1000 inhabitants, while the city with the second highest rate—namely, New York—has only 21 births for each | 1,000. London’s birth rate is 16 and | Berlin's 10 for each 1,000 persons. * ok ok K Dread of Expenses Keeps Men From Matrimony. Neues Wiener Abendblatt, Vienna. —The young man who Just | received the anxiously awaited ‘yes word” from the object of his affection- ate adoration rarely remembers that the jeweled circlet that he slips joy- fully upon the lady's slender finger is| but a symbol of the price that a man in olden times had to pay for a wife and, as it were, a receipt that the trans- action had been duly consummated. In this respect, at least, a wife may not cost as much as she used to cost, if we except the sums which a man has to spend throughout the rest of his life in keeping his spouse bejeweled and appareled as richly as the other women she beholds. Indeed, it is the dread of these subsequent expenses that keeps many young man from matrimony, though he would have no objection at all to the purchasing of a betrothal | band. Even the fact that a prospective father-in-law is ready to go deep mwi his pocket in the matter of dowry does not entirely persuade the vacillating Jover. But in the old days the maiden’s father, instead of being under expense when his daughter was married, was | the recipient of costly gifts himself. A wife in Southern China used to cost, and perhaps still does, from $8 to $100, a roasted boar's head and a couple of fried chickens. Indians on | the American plains were satisfied to get a few ponies for their marriageable daughters, while the heads of African | families demanded leopard skins, cattle or goats. Tribal chiefs in both hemi- spheres likewise were partial to pay-| ments in rum or tobacco. Even in mod-l ern Europe, among the Rumanian Gyp- sles, a prepossessing damsel, sought in | marriage, fetches her father as much as 10,000 or 12,000 lei (a lei is vofl.h; 19 cents at par), and prices as high as 18,000 lei have been reached. * Kk % Physicians Move to Combat Fake Doctors. El Dictamen, Vera Cruz.—The presi- dent of the Association of Pro(es.!lnml; Physicians has called a meeting of all| authorized practitioners in this port to combat the injuries being done to their interests by unnumbered charlatans and herbalists, who for some time now have been monopolizing the attention and patronage of the sick and ini Though these unqualified “doctors” are not permitted to practice under the state and federal laws, nevertheless by disguising the nature and scope of their activities they are enabled to gain the| confidence and control of the purses of | many poor and ignorant patients, whom | they promise to cure of all diseases, from cancer to tuberculosis. Some of them use concoctions made from roots, herbs and the livers of snakes. Others use no drugs or potions, but modestly claim a supernatural power which en- ‘hands. rendered s0 unconscious nsed | immediately to be taken to | some days, as yet there is no eppre- ¢ | the city champlonship, and each found After all, they are the only ofles a fence does keep out. Those determined to get in will get in anyway, but the careless, the indifferent, whether they be humans or dogs, will simply go around. & A fence, then, is'a diverter. or some- thing which diverts the thoughtless footsteps of others into the proper channels of the public walks. No one should take property owner- ship too seriously, but surely it should mean something. A right of way over private property shiguld not be the right of every one who etiooses to take it. The very English foundation of prop- erty comes down from Roman law. Ownership ought to mean something and it does mean something. Fencing or hedging is simply a marking of what ohe owns. That is all. If it has other connotations they are entirely aside. One of these separate phases comes with the formation of pretty nooks, especially corners, where small statues may be placed to advantage, a tree planted or specimen shrub set out. He:e, 100, a seat makes a useful and beautiful garden adjunct. ‘Without the definite right-angle marking of a fence or hedge, corners are lost in the welter of adjoining proper- tles. One runs into another without any individuality. It is true that in some places the sweep of the landscape is better kept by refraining fiom fenc- ing. Such cases are individual. Per- haps the best answer to the no-fencing advocate is to point out that the largest est‘!ks are those which are fenced the most. The small place, however, has even a larger need for proper fencing. In the great place a high fence is erected be- cause of the very imability of the owners to personally oversee every nook of his property, A fence is put around a small place for exactly the opposite reason, that the owner can very well overlook his entire pyoperty, and demands that he be able to diee where his begins and another's ends, oo The definition of boundaries by = border -of mixed shrubs is practiced in the suburbs with much success. The mistake made here is in forgetting how large many shrubs will grow within a few years. It is safe to say that most amateurs plant lilacs and altheas too close together. They do not stop to realize that the former will grow 10 to 12 feet in five or six years and that altheas in the course of the same time will be even taller. Both the althea and the beloved lilac grow to become trees in time. This means that they not only will be high, giving a third dimension to the garden, but they will spread out for many feet in every direction. If one contemplates a mixed boundary planting of these two shrubs or of | similar things, he should never put them closer together than 6 to 8 feet. For four or five years this distance will will mingle their foliage. Such a fence, if fence it may be called, will keep nothing or any one out, but will serve simply to mark the boundary and to give that mental satis- | faction to an owner which only a well | defined boundary marking can give. | Rose hedges of the Rugosa variety | make good hedges, somewhat resembling the barberry, which is so pleasing to | many persons. To the writer the bar- berry is too sprawly, but that very characteristic makes it easy to care for, | requiring little attention. Its extreme | hardiness makes it serve well many a family. This is one hedge which may be set very close with good effect, mak- ing it appear thicker, practitioners. Desiring no longer to an- swer for the sins of these merce! quacks, and having received little sistance from the police and sanif agents, the physicians now intend to take a stand egainst these abuses them- selves, * X ok % Transplant Many Trees In La Moncloa Park. A B C, Madrid—The department of parks and boulevards is at present en- gaged in the transplanting of many large trees in the park of La Moncloa, and also in the planting of additional trees, to add to the arboreal adornment of this domain. The trees being trans- planted are moved by tractors, this method being necessary because of the extent of the earth which is moved with the roots to insure their growth in the new locality. It has been demonstrated by many experiments that if enough of the earth is taken with the roots there is never any loss or detriment to the tree or fronds, regardless of what sea- son of the year the transplanting is| performed. These trees are all for the | beautifying of the grounds surrounding | the University de la Moncloa. * ok K % Begging Taboo in Colombia Republic. El Tiempo, Ibague.—The mayor has prohibited, by means of a_decree, public begging. The same action has been taken by the authorities of Bogota and many other cities of the republic, who seek to do away with what so long has been an unpleasant manifestation of urban life. People really destitute al- | ways can obtain assistance through the proper channels, and there is never any necessity for them to go whining about the public streets and keep assaulting the passer-by with their eternal impor- tunities. Many of them are able to work, but have refrained from that commendable occupation for so they find it impossible to do anything more than engage in their daily lam- entations for charity, Though the decree against begging and vagrancy has been in effect for -~ clable reduction in the ranks of these mendicants, many of whom display the ravages of disease and deformity to supplement their demands on the more compassionate. For the public good, all these unwholesome sights should be banished from the streets, either to asylums or hospitals, and the bodily able to places where they can earn their daily bread. " Boxing Crowds Same the World Over. El Mercurio, Santiago.—A boxing march in the Centro Carmelo recently ended in a way that satisfled the yearn- ings of the spectators for blood and ex- citement, but was hardly in keeping with the canons and traditions of the Marquis of Queensbury. Moises Gon- zales and Felix Gonzales, brothers only in the art of the ring, were boxing for the other a particularly formidable an- tagonist. Round after round was evenly divided, with growing impatience of the patrons of the sport, who began vehe- ment vociferations of ‘“Pegale! Mas fuerte!” (Sock him harder!). Whereupon the contestants redoubled their efforts, but still without either being able to achieve a “K. O.” The imprecations and encouragement of the respective cliques at last began to tell upon.the embattied warriors, however, and the two boys The Political Mill Gould Lincoln. ‘The Bryan family is'playing its part in the political campaign this Fall Former £ of “Brother Charley,” is seeking again to becomq “Commoner,” who has resent fourth congressional district of Florida in the present Congress, is seeking re- election; and out ‘in Minnesota Silas an, son of Gov. Bryan and a nephew o the late William Jennings, is the Democratic nominee for Repre- sentative against William I. Nolan, Re- publican, in the fifth congressional dis- trict. If they should be_elected, the Bryan family would be decldedly in the limelight politically once more. As matters look today, however, Mrs. Owen's chances appear to be better than those of her uncle and her cousin. * ok ok % All these members of the Bryan fam- ily are running for office as Democrats. It does not seem conceivable that they should be anything else than Democrats in their political afliations. And con- sidering the record of the late William Jennings, it would seem entirely prob- able that all of these scions of th: Bryan family would also be ardent ad- vocates of national prohibition. But Silas Brown, named for his grandfather, is declaring that he favors a referen- dum on the prohibition issue, and say- ing he would be guided by that refer- endum in determining his own position if called upon to vote as & member of the House on liguor legislation or on a resubmission of the eighteenth amend- ment to the States. His Republican opponents are quietly amused at this stand of the younger Bryan. The dis- triet, notwithstanding the t that it includes Minneapolis, is regar ded as dpo- litically dry. Nolan is held to be a dry. * ok kK The hibition issue so far does not appear vt::bc playing an important part in the Minnesota campaign, *although Finar Hoidale, the Democratic nomince for the Senate, also stands for a refer- endum on the eighteenth amendment and gives in a measure his allegiance to the cause for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Hoidale has the support of the Association Agllm;l the Eighteenth Amendment in his ef- fort to win the Senate seat now occu- pled by the blind Senator, “Tom I x x x x Stlas Bryan has been given & clear fleld in his contest for the House seat against Representative Nolan, for the Farmer-Labor candidate, Johnson, has recently withdrawn from the race and indorsed Bryan. Bryan, an attorney, robably has too great odds against im to win the election, however. Min- neapolis is strongly Republican. It is true that Nolan, in the bye-election to fill the vacancy in the House caused by the resignation of Walter Newton to become secretary to President Hoover, only carried the district by 4,000 votes against his Democratic opponent, who at that time was Einar Hoidsle, the | Democratic nominee today for the Sen- , but in that bye-election only 50,- 5{’)‘0 votes were cast, although the same district cast 112,000 votes in the elec- tion two years ago. Thousands of Re- publicans, dissatisfied with the outcome of 8 very bitter primary, remained away from the polls and other Repub- licans voted against Nolan. In No- vember, however, most of the vote will be cast in the country. It is a district, however, which the Democratic organi- zation is striving to win in their at- tack on the Republican majority of the House, ok k * The Democrats have another wet candidate for the House in the third Minnesota district, where Joseph J. Moriarty is the party nominee against Representative Andresen, Republican incumbent. There is a Farmer-Labor candidate in that district, F. H. Shoe- meker. It has been reported that Shoemaker might in th: end withdraw. in fayor of the Democrat. | ite these evidences of gathering wet sentiment in Minnesota the poli- ticians and the people do not appear to be greatly excited over the issue yet. As one cynical but well informed Republic- an said: “The drys have the law and the wets have the liquor.” This same Republican_ volunteered the prediction that if prohibition were placed before the people of Minnesota on a refer- y | endum vote the State would go dry to- day. - Referring to the large Scandi- navian population in the State, and its propensity to vote dry, he added: “They have a saying out here in Minnesota that if an Irishman gets drunk he wants to fight, if a German gets drunk he wants to sing and if a Scandinavian drinks too much he votes for prohibi- tion.” * K ko The campaign this year in the States of the Mldfl?l;é West and Northwest has taken a curious turn, senatorial elections. many of these States the Democratic nominees for the Senate are seeking to win with the aid, not of the progressive or insurgent Re- publicans, but with the aid of the old| stand-pat element of the Republican party. It is quite clear that in most of these States the Democrats haven't & chance for victory uniess they receive Republican support. It might well be expected that the Democratic hope would be to receive the votes of the progressives_on the Republican side of the political' fence. But in South Da- kota, Nebraska, Minnesota and Okla- homa, for example, the Republican sen- atorial candidates are all rabid insur- gent Republicans, who voted against the administration at every turn. Indeed, they were ‘“coalitionists” with the Democrats of the Senate in opposition to the farm bill and the tariff bill. It is quite natural that the progressive Republicans, therefore, should follow these Republican nominees. And it be- comes necessary, if the Democrats want Republican support for them, to angle for the old stand-pat Republicans. You have Hitchcock, the Democratic sena- torial nominee in Nebraska, playing with the anti-Norris stand-pat Repub- licans. In Oklahoma, Gore, the blind former Senator and Democratic_nomi- nee, is opposed to the insurgent Repub- lican Pine, and in South Dakota Gov. Bulow, Democratic candidate for Sen- ator, is running against Senator Mc- Master, another -Republican insurgent. In Minnesota the Republican opposi- tion to Schall is largely among the so- called regular mpubfi-m. and Hoidale, the Democrat, is expected to benefit to some extent from that Republican op- position. * ok ok Indiana has no senatorial campaign this year, and perhaps 4t is just as well for the Republicans that it has not. There are signs of & political reyolt in the Hoosier State. Undoubtedly the re- | volt would have materialized two years ago and would have swept Republicans out of office right and left had the Democrats at Houston not nominated Alfred E. Smith for President. Right there the Hoosier Democratic stock | went down. But this year there is no Smith for the Democrats. They have been waiting & long time to cash in on the Republit scandals which have ! Me of the party leaders and offl- | sent some of the cials to jail, and now they intend to do so. Futhermore, they are aided this year in their attack on the Republican officeholders by the fact that there has| been a business depression and that the drought has teken its toll during the last few months. CE In the present Congress Indiana has 3 Democr‘:uc members of the House and 10 Republicans. If political ob- servers are correct, the Democrats may have seven members when the election has come and gone. Indeed, there are some who go =ve‘2|k(um;r and n-:y u:: Democrats may pick up five or six seaf (muchachos) finding the efforts of their | mand alre: fists of no a and more in Moises 8 the ren- Indeed Felix that he had the Asisten- cia Publica (City Hospital). Moises, a'unwhue, was m‘dnm to prison by vail, began ‘o engage more of “foot, 'ork:' ol ety | sondiak particularly in the | BY FREDERIC ‘The answers to questions printed here each day are specimens picked from the mass of inquiries handled by our great Information Bureau maintained in | Washington, D, C. This valuable serv- ice is for the free use of the public. Ask any question of fact you may want to know and you will get an immediate reply. Write plainly, inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage and address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. In considering noise abatement in cities, what noises are taken into ac- count?—C. N, A. The nolse abatement question- nalre in New York City lists the fol- lowing: Loud speakers, automobile horns, trucks, busses, automobile cut- outs and brakes, riveting, drills, airplanes, nolsy pas motive whistles and bells, steamship whistles, elevated a way trains, subway turnstiles, street cars, ash and garbage collections, news- boys' cries, unmuffiled motor boats, traffic whistles. fire department Whistles and sirens, milkmen and factories. Q. How old is Mitzi Green, who is appearing in motion pictures?—L. P. A. She is about 10 years old. Mitzi Green was born in New York City Octo- ber 22, 1920. She is the daughter of Joe Keno and Resle Green, vaudeville troupers, Q. What bridge was it that had to be rebuilt recently because of defective wire in the cables?—S. R. C. A. There were two instances recently of bridges which had to be torn down and rebuilt before they were completed owing to defective wire in the cables. They were the Detroit-Windsor Inter- national Bridge and the Mount Hope Bridge connecting the island on which stands Newport, R. I, with the main- land. In the construction a new processed steel wire, heat-treated, was and “found defective. In both s it had to be removed and revlaced by the cold-drawn wire. The defects were not discovered until the cables were completed and considerable prog- ress had n made In the erection of the steel work, but in time to save & collapse. Q. What is the Palermo Stone?—R. B. A. It is & monument .of steel pre- served in a museum of Palermo, Sicily. It is inscribed with a list of festi: celebrated in honor of the various gods by the Kings who reigned in Lower Egypt before the end of the fifth dynasty. Q. Was the mast of the Enterprise as tall as that of the Shamrock?—R. C. W. A. The height of the mast of the Er terprise is 168 feet and that of the Shamrock” 163 feet. Q. How much money is spent by the big leagues for base balls?—D. A. A. Base balls cost the major leagues approximately $160,000 & seazon. Q. Please explain how our paper money is made—E. H. A. The paper used in mnking‘mper money is of the toughest linen is made by a secret process protected by statute penalizing its manufacture for other purposes. Supplies of blank paper are guarded as carefully as the finished money, for if a counterfeiter can obtain this distinctive paper he has made a good start toward producing spurious currency. The plates from whish money is printed are made with the most exact- ing care. The public is not permitted to see the engravers at work, nor does any one engraver prepare an entire plate. It usually takes about a year of continuous work to complete one of the original plates. The money never is J. HASKIN. nted from these originals, but from mpllclus madé by a mechanical process. The fine lines an paper money are made upon the original plates by & geometric machine which has as many combinations as the best safe lock, each combination producing a different de- sign. Each bill contains many symbols which tell the initiated from what plate it was printed, who engraved the plate and who printed the bill. It requires about 20 days to complete the intricate process of getting a plece of paper money ready for circulation, during which perfod it is counted about 50 times. The average life of paper money in the United States is less than two years. Q. Where does Washington rank among the cities of the world in popula- tion?—F. H. J. A. According to the latest figures available, Washington ranks ninety- third among the cities of the world. Q. How does the amount of money spent on cars in the United States com= pare with that spent for education?— L. F. A. The expenditure for motor ca:s in 1928 reached $12,500,000,000, while that for public education from kindergarten to college was less than $2,500,000,000. Q. In what part of Canada has & new ice field been discovered?—N. C. A. A party has returned from the headwaters of the Southgate, Littlewood and Toba Rivers in the Cascade Range, 160 miles north of Vancouver. The siity state of the rivers convinced the explorers that the streams were glacier- fed and so they traversed the virgin country at the headwaters. Huge snowflelds and glaciers estimated at an area of 350 square miles were seen m photographed for the first time in ory. Q. Who designed the State Capitol at Richmond, Va.?—C. C. A. It was designed by Thomas Jef- ferson, Q. How many people belong to the American Red Cross?—N. R. A. Eleven miilion adults and children belong to its 3,500 chapters. %.wm was the first American city to have gas?—F. A. M. A. Balttmore, Md., in 1816, Q. How many games does & foot ball team usually play in a season?—G. M. A. The foot ball season lasts for 10 playing days at the most. Q. Whv don't male mosquitces bite? Do they buzz?—A. E. S. A. Male mosquitoes as a rule do not bite because of the fact that the mouth parts are not sufficiently developed to enable them to plerce the skin. Both sexes buzz, although the pitch varies with the species as well as sexes. Q. Who suggested having a Status ary Hall in _the Capitol in Washing- ton2—J. D. U. A. In 1864, at the suggestion of Sen~ ator Morrill of Vermont (then a mem- ber of the House) the room which had formerly ‘been known as the Hall of Representatives, was set apart as a National Statuary Hall, to which each State might send statues of two of its distinguished citizens. Rhode Island was the first to respond, choosing Roger Williams and Nathanael Greene, and more than half of the States have contributed one or two statues. Q. How many newspapers in the United States have rotogravure sece e R serestes i g % inety-five newspa in s citles of the United States publis] rotogravure sections every week. New York’s Wet Tendencies Linked With National Issues “New York will be by far the most interesting battleground in the ccming czmpaign,” predicts the Kansas City Star, as it names as “the outstanding figure” Gov. Roosevelt, “who is stand- ing for re-election.” If he wins the fight “he will be a first-line candidate {for the nomination for the presidency i two years hence,” claims the Missouri | paper. In agreement with this opinion, i the St. Joseph Gazette remarks that | “New York politics will have much of terest for the next five weeks.” While the Columbia Record feels that we may “watch New York interestedly,” it sounds the warning “not to run away with the idea that as New York foes, |50 goes the Nation. It is not true. Many papers find in the New York | situation & challenge to prohibition | more decided than any it has had to | meet to date. Says the Cleveland Plain | Dealer, “The Democrats having gone wet, the Republicans dare not remain dry,” and the Richmond News-Leader declares of the new Republican stand, “This is the most significant ‘about face’ on prohibition that any major party has yet executed in any American State.” The Chicago Dalily Tribune remarks: “In Illinois and New York the Repub- lican party, with great caution, it will be noted, has begun to respond to what it plainly sees to be a change in the body of opinion upon which it relies for place. It would do that or it would presently be laid away on the shelf with its predecessors.” As the Pittsburgh | Post-Gazette phrases it, “It is impossi- ible to deny an issue that so steadily forces itself into a paramount position.” Pleased with the stand taken by the two parties in New York, the Chicago Daily News affirms that “the time has come for candid dealing with the pro- | nibition issue,” and suggests that “hon- est discussion of the issue by every- body, including persons not engaged in efforts to catch votes, will promote a genuine solution.” * K ok ok On the other hand, the Topeka Daily Capital asks: “How 1is the |liquor problem any nearer solution by |the mixed prohibition and State Ais- pensary plan of these wets? How are they going to enforce it any more than | prohibition could be enforced, or as well?” The Hartfard Daily Courant estimates “the position of the Demo- cratic party” as “perhaps sounder than that of the Republicans, inasmuch as the Democrats have wisely refrained from asking that repeal be accom- |plished by the adoption of another constitutional _amendment imposing uniformity on the States.” The Newark Evening News sounds a word of cau- tion when it says: “The wave of re- peal sentiment has rolled high, par- ticularly in the East. But the ground- swell for repeal must prove its perma- nence. ~Reaction must be guarded against.” “Gov. Roosevelt unquestionably has strengthened his cause as an aspirant for a second term in New York State by coming out unequivocally as a wet,” agrees the Roanoke Times, with, however, the qualification that “there is a serious question as to the effect his declaration will have upon his chances as a contender for the Demo- cratic _ presidential nomination two years hence.” The Cleveland News “Both parties, nationally and in the States, must eventually take some stand on this issue, be it for re- peal, referendum or sustenance. Party warns: the !enl'é and Wfi. elf expected to bear in Indiana a for leadership which simply denies the issue cannot long survive.” “New York Republican drys have bolted and will run a candidate of their own” records the Hartford Times, “not with the idea of electing Robert P. Carroll of Syracuse Uni- versity, upon whom the mantle of choice has fallen, but in the hope of demonstrating that the wet move of Tuttle misrepresents the Republicanism of the Empire State and should receive its rebuke.” The importance of this action is emphasized by the Worcester Telegram, the Chattanooga Times, the Kalamazoo Gazette and the Chatta= n:fsgl Nwel'll)!'t ‘;l'l"l; b(zhlrlotu Observer asks: “Wha ined in defeat of Tuttle, with the ':eb Democracy scorin lt}'v’el’ lrlé‘?" a parties stand “on the same platform,” the Charleston Evening Post declares: “Mr. Tuttle has a clear fleld for his fight upon Tammany control of New York City and its domination of the Democratic party in the State, and he has to his hand, fortuitously, a seething mess of scandal and corruj ticn, which he has been largely instrue mental in uncovering” The Jersey City Journal, however, believes that “if the prohibition issue overshadows Tame many, Mr. Tuttle will come out of the small end of the political horn.” A disadvantage to the New York Repub- licans is seen also by the Wheeling Intelligencer, the Bloomington Panta= graph and the Lynchburg Advance. The Springfleld Union, on the other hand, contends: “With a plank supported by majority public opinion in the State, and a candidate whose courage, intel= ligence and record make an exceptional appeal to the electorate, New York Re= publicans have good reason to be en= couraged.” “As for holding Gov. Roosevelt re- sponsible for conditions in New York City,” contends the Schenectady Gazette, “those who are endeavoring to do this would throw up their hands in were President Hoover to be charged ‘with accountability for corruption in Chicago and Philadelphia.” The New | Orleans Morning Tribune voices the | bope that “Tammany be forced to such | & housecleaning as it has not undergene | since the Croker scandals,” and cone- cludes: “Tammany owes it to the party to keep itself clean enough to bear & worthy part in the national campaigns. But Tammany appears to be forgettin, this obligation. Another presidential campaign is near enough to demand the best that the leaders of the party can give it in performance and counsel, | If Mayor Walker cannot keep Tammany virtuous encugh to merit the respect and co-operation of hinterland Demo- crats, perhaps Mr. Tyttle can scare it back into paths of decency.” A Billion-Dollar” City Next From the Shreveport Journal. When the lamented Thomas B. Reed, Speaker of the House of Representa- tives, a generation ago, announced that “this is a billion-dollar country,” the taxpayers of the land considered it merely as an argument in support of the Republican party's ext.uv;.;nn% expendi- tures. Now, we have gro to be a $4,000,000,000 country and soon will have a municipality spending $1,000,~ 000,000 _annually. New York City, we are told, has bud- geted for this year expenditures total ing $961,000,000, and next year is sure to become America’s first billion-dollar Some of this vast amount will be wasted, of course; a consideradie portion will go into the pockeis of fters, but that seems to be tHe ‘;‘lfl big ic busineases. ~