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not so well educated or intellectually "m EVENING STAR |ber the murderous erook of his motor[people. It is true that many persons . WASHINGTON, D. C car and he would be crippled. He has ....October 10, 1980 more than upon sives 48¢ -""%m.m L v q each monta: ol S000. or teleplione Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. of safe-bresking. erack of a pistol shot that such a sound, though heard by hundreds simultane- ously, attracts no attention whatever. A few years ago such a sound would bring everybody hearing it to atten- tion, would attract many people to the scene. Nowadays one hardly looks up from his reading or pauses in conver- sation when such & noise occurs, much less looks from 8 window to see what is e }:L&[h-mlq. Consequently, whem pis- i 1 mo . 40¢ | $12.00; 1 mo. $8.00° 1 mo. $8.00. 1 mo.! Assoc: xclusively entitied o epusiication. of wil B ‘Sedited to it or et stherwise cred i s0js, BAzer 804, A0 oF pubiication of e All rights ches herein sre also reserved. Our First Line of Defense. _In his address before the American Legion at Boston last week President Hoover, in few but significant words, feminded the country that “we have assured the maintenance of an efficient Navy as the first line of defense.” It nNow comes as something of a shock to friends of adequate American prepared- fiess at sen to learn that this “main- fenance” is to be warked by the most drastic cuts the ficet has undergone since the World V/ar ended. ‘Forty-six ships of different types are to be decommissioned. Enlisted per- s0finel is to be cut by 4,800 men. Sec- retary Adams, in announcing these cur- tallments of our “first line of defense,” explains that they will bring the com- missioned and operating fieet within the limitations set by the London treaty. Some $30,000,000 is to be saved. Congress made avaiiable appropria- tions sufficient to provide for about 84,500 enlisted men during the current fiscal year, which ends next June. The ahnounced reduction in personnel is to bégin on November 1 of this year, when recruiting will be decreased from 400 $0 200 men a month. Sailors, no more tols are fired in the streets in eriminal centers, eyewltnesses to what has oc- curred are remarkably few in number. In the case of the murder of Jake Lingle in Chicago, who was shot down in a crowded subway, only a few persons were aware that a man had been killed, the majority of those who heard the sound of the gun thinking it to be & backfiring in the street above. Thus the motor car aids as speedy transport for the crook to and from the scene of his crime, as the death car for the carriage of his victim, even as the camouflage to cover the neces- sary noise of his enterprise. Yet it is an essential of modern life. The fact that the lawbreaker has adapted it to his wicked uses does not lessen its val- uable utility. It is simply another case of progress turning introvert to take toll of advancing humanity. —— o A Little Patience. Chairman Wickersham's definite an- nouncement that the Law Enforcement Commission would have & report on prohibition ready for Congress im De- cember should serve to end some of the conjectures that have been flying thick and fast regarding the commission’s probable procedure. The picture built by some of these published stories gives the impression that the commission is a hotbed of internal strife, its mem- bers torn between comflicting desires to soft-pedal on prohibition, to be brutally frank and strongly critical, to say that prohibition has been a howling success, to make the report politically expedient or to delay discussion of pro- hibition and put all its steam into a or not it was a rather unfair e's part to make the is rural inferiors ted and feared, number. . Thirteenth Street. than a year ago, the move to have the Government reconsider the plans which call for the shutting of this main traffic artery has so far made little progress, although data have been obtained which demonstrates clearly the traffic chaos that will result if reconsideration is not given. At the present time more than three thousand vehicles pass the inter- section of Thirteenth street and Penn- sylvania avenue at the peak periods. With the concentration of workers in the new buildings below the Avenue this figure will probably be greatly increased, and it can be readily realized that dangerous congestion will develop. It is certainly up to the Gov- ernment to proceed cautiously lest ‘Washington's already aggravated traffic situation becomes intolerable. ———————————— Little or no surprise is elicited by the fact that the American Legion went on record as in full favor of preparedness. Just remember that those were the fel- lows who suffered most by our lack of it about fifteen years ago. Like all fathers, they want to give their sons advantages they never enjoyed. ‘The principal of a Los Angeles high scheol tells a Congressional Investigat- ing Committee that the Reds have 20,000 arms concealed and there will be a Communistic revolution out there on November 24. Another thing that seems OCTOBER. 10, 1930 * BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘Trees forever remain a mystery to those who love them. One would have thought that, owing to the drought, every tree in Washing- ton and its suburbs would have lost its leaves by this time. As a matter of fact, many of them have not even begun to show a change of color. Truly the tree is a sturdy product of Nature, As the friends of trees survey this resistance they in to hope that the beg i long, dry Summer will have no inimical effect upon them. It has been estimated in some quar- ters that the actual money which trees add to a city is very large. If this is 80, the National Capital is very well off in this as in other particulars. Trees continue to be cut down, how- ever, out on K street, much to the distress of all tree lovers. ‘Traffic_conditions, dying trees—these account for what seems to many to be & ruthless destruction. There can be dittle doubt, even in the minds of friends of trees, that the tree is doomed in the modern city. Just how much bad air, owing to the continual automobile exhaust, has to play in annual loss of trees we do not know; but if we can judge from the foul air which swirls into public vehicl:s it must play a large part. ‘The lack of rain this season has worked havoc to trees, there can be little doubt, even if their leaves do not show the damage. There is a chance, of course, that their tremendous vital- ity will pull them through without ulti- mate hurt. * ok ok x One must expect them, however, to disappear from the city scene. "Eve in residential sections most of them ultimately will die out. We know that industrious efforts are made by the| municipality to prevent this, but we have been watching the small trees as planted in some sections and are not thrilled by the prospects. ‘The sapling must meet the same vitiated air conditions faced by the large tree, the same weather and the same indifference from the general pub- lic. Until every one becomes what one hesitates to call “tree conscious” the fate of trees in modern urban areas will remain doubtful. The very sturdiness of this tremen- dous shrub works against it, since it This work is now being carried | to happen out in California is that “th’ goblins’ll git ye.” ——— Gangsters now appear to get Army machine guns and ammunition through the aid of conniving non-commissioned personnel. However, the way things are going, it may not be long until they just march up, defeat the Army and take them. makes the average person feel that trees need no attention. Then, too, the belief on the part of the average householder that the municipality does not desire him to touch the trees also tends to work against their general | welfare. He has been told, bly by some | other home owner, it he must not/ sow seed in the parking space between | the trees and that he must not fer- tilize the trees. The result has been| that many home owners have carefully | children, and rolled over by the little in had ones on 'scooters and ‘wagons more to do with this lethargy than any lack of interest in the matter, * k% Some people, of course, have & greater and more abiding interest in trees than others, just as some home owners “‘go in” for shrubs, others take up the cultivation of annuals, and others pre- fer broad-leaved evergreens. There can be little question in any one’s mind, however, as to the desir- ability of trees in residential sections. One has but to go to certain communi- ties entirely bare of them to note the general effect of bareness which their entire lack creates. Even a few trees, if they are large enough, will change the aspect of suoh a neighborhood. We cannot say as much for the small trees fenced in by ugly boxes, but no doubt the ugliness must be borne with for the sake of the | hope of future beauty. We say “for the sake of the hope,” for tree culture in a city is not today what it once was. The increase of gas, the increase of concrete areas, have ‘done much, we believe, to make it difficult for trees to grow into the old-time luxuriant beau- ties which cast their shade over streets and sidewalks. A hopeful sign is the emphasis being placed on the retention of trees in home building sites. It was not so many years ago that a general con- tractor, going into an undeveloped neighborhood, made a clean sweep of all the trees on the land. Today that attitude has almost re- versed itself. Builders sometimes go to extreme lengths to preserve every pos- sible tree, sometimes even planning the | house to fit the trees. We have scen a few instances of where this laud- |able desire has been carried too far. | Huge caks left clese to chimneys tend to cut down the draft. It is true that furnaces will work under such condi- tions, but they will not work as well. Yet that is but a practical point. The | real point lies in the consideration of the house and the tree from the stand- point of beauty. The esthetics of the situation call for the placement of the tree at a certain distance from the house. Any one can prove this for himself by creating & model of a lawn, a house and a tree, or perhaps two trees, and then placing the trees at various dis- tances from the house. ‘We refer, of course, to the trees which might be called front trees, or front | elevation trees. If these are jammed | close to the side of the house, or by the front door, or next to a porch, some of the general effect is lost. Withdrawing them to positions for- ward and to one side invariably tends to make the house look larger, the en- Itire grounds better, helps to-give vista to the house, and the whole place an air of well-being. More Cash Needed to Cure Economic Ills To the Editor of The Star: ‘What bad influence keeps the “best inds” from continuing to go Wwhere logic leads when the question of the industrial breakdown is debated? All authorities agree with Henry Ford that unless the great mass of workers are enabled to purchase and consume their share of goods production will be crippled in such a way as to hurt all classes of y. Ford continually stresses the need to pay high wages. He and other publicists unfortunately, | however, stop right there. They do |not tell us what to use for money! Now, Ford has managed so far to practice what he preaches. He is en- !gaged in an eminently sure-fire busi- ness. He makes a commodity particu- larly easy to sell. But the majority of business men are finding it almost im- possible to meet their normal pay rolls. | They cannot even borrow the credit to “carry on.” What is the trouble, perforce? They are deluged with plenty of “psychology”; they are warned to ignore the pessimism of knockers: they are advised to spreadeagle their ad- vertising nmp.i,:!\d and they are in- formed by “inspired” writers that the slump will soon be over—that, in fact, it is already over. Yet what good is all this? No one bothers to tell them what they are to use for money, ‘This inconceivably silly farce, it seems to me, has gone quite far enough. It is getting sufficiently wearlsome. Since money, so far as I know, hasn't been abolished as an exchange medium, and since all of us have about a hundred uses for every dollar, may it not be that there is a slight shortage of the well known wherewithal? May it not be that business doesn't flourish be- cu‘ul:e there is nothing to do business with? ‘Would it be altogether such a crazy j procadure to issue more counters, so that the game can go on? During the past 15 years, while making an intensive study of the currency, I have been offered only one adequate reply to the above question. Here it is. There is an enormous deficit of legal tender in the United States. On the present in- finitesimal amount of cash—some $6,- 000,000,000 or $7,000,000,000—most of which stagnates in bank va usi- ness eannot be done without tragic dis- turbances, and conditions cannot possi- bly improve unless Government liberates several times that amount of new money, preferably based upon improved land or public utilities, Call this “in- flation,” or call it anything you like, facts are stronger than fancy, and it is an absolute, undeniable fact that bank credit is a spurious circulating medium, infinitely inferior to legal tender as an intermediary. Bank credit is “debt,” and its bad effects cannot be remedied in the least by any other method than d-r::’nmg it with primary money or c | _Yes, under-consumptivity causes the | present unrest. But lack of new, pri- mary money causes under-consump- tivity! I defy any one, high or low, academic or lay, to refute the above challenge! ANSWERS TO QUESTION BY FREDERIC ‘This newspaper puts at your lwull a corps of trained researchers in Wash- ington who will answer questions for you. They have access to the Govern- ment departments, the libraries, mu- seums, galleries and public build and to the numerous associations whi maintain headquarters in the Nation's Capital. If they can be of assistance to you, write your question plainly and send with 2 cents in coln or stamps to The Evening Star Information Bureau, gcdenc J. Haskin director, Washing- n, D. C. Q. Are the actors who depict the schoolgoys 1 “All Quiet on the West- ern Front” quite young?—D. M. A. They are. it was the purpose of the producers to procure for the roles the youngest men they could find with proved dramatic ability. Lewis Ayres, who plays Paul + 18 21 years old; Willlam Bakewell, who is Albert, is 22; Scott Kolk (Let u]zs. ; h‘l.ll Walter Browne Rogers, who plays ; Owen Davis, jr. (Peter) is 21, Russell Glea~ son (Muller), 22, and Ben Alexander, who is Kemmerich, is only 19. g. When were pictures first printed? A. The first printed pictures were from wood blocks for playing cérds, run off by an unknown printer, now called Cards,” in “The Master of Playing Basel, Switzerland, in 1436. Q. Where is the cemetery for which the sofl was brought from Calvary?— P. B A. The Campo Santo (Garden of the Dead), in Pisa, was made with earth brought from Palestine by order of Archbishop Ubaldo. Fifty-three ships were used to the soil, took five years to complete the ceme- tery. Q. What city in Oklzhoma has i.aéue of Belle Star, the famotis bandit A. Ponca City has this statue. It was ordered by E. W. Marland, oil mag- nate, who is quoted as saying that his ‘was not to perpetuate the mem- a ? purpose ory of the dress and appearance of the first white woman in Oklahoma Territory. Q What is & “Mercator map"?— |2 . H. A. It is a map constructed on the principle of Mercator’s projection. The meridians are drawn parallel to each other, and the parallels of latitude are straight lines, w) distance from each other increases with their distance from the Equator, so that in all places the degrees of latitude and longitude have to each other the same ratio as on the sphere itself. This produces an appar- ent enlargement of the Polar regions, s bandit, but rather to preserve | Q. W many | insane asylums J. HASKIN, dustrial plants when chemicals are in use?—F. P. P. A A n&n made to the American Chemical ety says that a few years ago in many ches of the chemical industry gas masks were rarely used in dally work, Today there are gas masks available providing relplnu:{ ‘protec- tion against practically known poisonous gases. Q. How many law schools are there in the United States?—H. H. H. A. Statistics for 1930 are not available in as accurate form as 1929, when there were 178 in all—80 full-time and 98 part-time schools. During 1930 at least one of the latter group has been discontinueti. The 1929 Autumn registration in the law schools of the country was 45,150. The gradu- ates in 1927-28 numbered 8,620, Q. What is light?—S. T. A. Light is radiant energy. Modern scientists say there are many lines of evidence showing that light is simply electrical waves. The waves which are called light because they happen to affect our eyes are not essentianily if- ferent from the longer and shorter ones, which we make use of in other ways. Q. How long has Mexico been in- habited by a civilized people?—C. R. A. Recent excavations in Mexico and other parts of Central America have led scientists to believe that possibly there were extant in that part of the world civilizations older than those of China and similar nations. At Cui- cuilco, Mexico, excavations revealed a temple and some skeletons which indi- cate that it was probably constructed nearly 8,000 years ago. - - @ How do some of the most popu- g.rhmn ranks as to durability?—A. A. It is said that if otfer, the strong- est fur, is given a 100 per cent dura- bility rating, others of the furs rank thus: Beaver, 90; chinchilla, 15; hare, 5; natural fox, 40; dyed fox, 25; baum m"n ine marten, 60; dyed marte: mink, squirrel, 20; coney, 7, muskrat, 45, and dyed muskrat, 35. Y % 1:““ Gallant Fox race next year? A. Gallant Fox, owned by William Woodward, has been retired, and is to be to the Claiborne Stud, near Paris, Ky. He has won the most money of any horss that ever His earnings were close to $329,000. Ho people are there in the of the country?—M. which when translated into distance is| V. C. approximately accurate. Q. Of the Mayflower passe! who A There are about 264,250 patients in the hospitals for the insane. T e DU T8 Ry refrained from doing the slightest bit| Perhaps the explanation is this: Q. If a flea were the size of a man, than soldiers, can be produced out of the ground—or the sea—overnight in| caise of & sudden emergency. The deci- paper on overtime parking. Mr. Wickersham has been frank enough to say that as a matter of fact the commission will probably have & sion to dismiss nearly 5,000 trained mex is cause for natural agitation among those who know that, after all, it is mien, rather than armor and guns, Who make 8 navy. Scrapping personnel on whose education, time and meney have been lavished strikes preparedness suthorities as verging on the penny- rines called for by the London treaty will release a considerable number of that the additional cruisers and aireraft carriers permitted by the treaty ‘wiil not be completed to receive the men 50" Teleased for several years fo come. This would be a plausible explanation. & public statement on the subject would sonnel slash is Admiral Pratt's statement that “nobody expects to have all the peace which will be wanted in war. What we need is a nu- sufficiently large 50 it | & number of men exercises Te- shape.” of & * Admiral mean what is gen- ‘we speak of ‘The justifica- is that should time, it can etvilian force an adequate i | i ] i HH ¥ H g 2 B Ef i3 it sii i E ] i be forgotten that time required to organize our ship- build ‘even the smallest | 1t takes years to time to turn green recruits into efficient saflors. A nucleus behind a nucleus is hardly designed, in President Hoover's!| ! Jeast have served to clarify matters that Tecent words, to “safeguard our de- » ~“Congress is sure to subject the nv‘li economy program to the scrutiny it deserves. - Former Representative Manuel Her- sick, when in office, was noteworthy fer his loneliness. In fact, he wrote fetters emphasizing it. Yet when re- Heved of his toga he picks out one of the loneliest possible jobs—firing & st ——t— Motors and Crime. . While it has proved a boon in the matter of affording speedy and com- fortable transportation to multitudes, the motor car has at the same time gomplicated life considerably and has| sided in the commission of crime. It has proved a valuable accessory to the | Sawbreaker, ensbling him to escape, | affording him a chance to execute| operations with lessened risk detection and capture. Recently in this region two cases have #ecurred of men grievously injured, one fatally, by being thrown from motor One of these cases has Sed to arrests, but with small chance of . the conclusive proof of gullt. The other just lately developing. The injured men were in both instances evidently “taken for a ride” as the Chicago phrase runs, and flung overboard and Jeft to perish, if they might, without avy thought for their welfare. The Chicago method s more direct. report ready for Congress, and that should the commission find that pro- hibition is not emforceable, it will cer- tainly say so. His frankness should he rewarded by a little patience om the part of the Nation, which is expectantly awaiting the commission’s findings on what is generally admitted to be the report on prohibition are rather difi- cult to understand. No matter what the report contained, the commission would be charged with releasing it for political effect if it- were made public before the elections. But aside from that, the Te- port is intended primarily for the in- formation of Congress. Congress will not convene before December, and there is no reason why it should be given out in advance of the session. Interest in prohibition that has been made more keen ‘by political develop- ments in the congressional campaigns is, of course, responsible for the pressure brought to bear on the commission for its views on the matter now. But one wonders whethen the public generally is not counting too much. on the extent of the ground to be covered in the com- mission’s forthcoming report. The com- mission has been in existence for only a year and & half. The people of the world have been puzzled over the pro- hibition question and how best to solve it for many hundreds of years. The commission has eleven committees, only one of which is concentrating its study on the problem of prohibition enforce- ment. And last January the commis- sion issued & preliminary report on enforcement, the general content of which gave no indlcation that its second report would be final or conclusive. 1t might have been wise, in the light of later developments, if the commission had announced at' its first meeting, in March, 1929, that it would devote two or more years to & thorough study of prohibition, at the end of which time it would submit a full and complete report of its findings. This would at subsequent conjecture and discussion have left cloudy and uncertain. But as the commission’s report is not going to usher in the millennium any more than it will solve the question of prohibition, its members should be given all the time they need to assemble a vast amount of data and draw their conclusions. Noth- ing is to be gained by haste. — e From two to four more years of life are given to the U. 8. dirigible Los Angeles by experts, It is sincerely hoped she may die a peaceful and orderly rather than a violent death. Ducal Delays. The - registry of the recently arrived princess, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, would seem to con- travene two fairly prevalent impres- sions. One is that nobility and royalty should be the leaders of and examples to their people in so far as it lies within their province and ability. The cther 15 that superstitious people are, in general, pretty narrow between the ears. All who have perused the public | prints lately have been informed of the ' fact that the birth of little Princess| Margaret Rose of York was not regis- tered at Glamis until some time after the happy event, and that this was |done in order that the young lady might escape the fate of being number thirteen on the village registration list. 1 The royal couple waited patiently until | another baby was born and registered and by this means the newest scion of the house of Windsor became number fourteen. ‘To see members of a ruling house of o & great empire not only apparently en- tertaining a superstition ss senseless as “unlucky thirteen,” but advertising to the kingdom and to the world at large ‘There will soon be 4,800 United States sallors out of a job, according to Ad- miral Pratt. If the naval recruiting posters are to be believed, they have | been everywhere and seen everything and can thus retire with peaceful minds. —e. Every conceivable variety of modern highway is being considered by the American Road Builders’ Assoctation, now eonvening here. Just think; per- haps some day we will bave them wide enough for two road hogs! ——at——————— PFirst Baseman Kuhel of the Wash- ington team is a beaming benedict. He will from now on make a much greater number of assists, although they may not appear in his official record. — e ‘The recent decisive defeat in a Boston ring of Primo de Carners, the Apennine glant, may get America awfully in bad with Mussolini. ———e— “Mexican Politics Likened to Chess” runs a recent headline. Go on; it is: more like deck tennis. — oo SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Making of Events. Some men are hammers, and they fall ‘With swift relentless shock. This life for them is, after all, One grand persistent knock. And some are anvils standing there In undismayed repose. Firm placed and solid, they must bear The impact of the blows. The hammer has its work to do. ‘The anvil may not yield In opposition. 'Twixt the two The world’s work is revealed. A Question of Obligation. “Are you going to betray the people after they put you into office?” “My dear sir,” answered Senator Sorghum, “you misapprehend. The people did not put me into office. And shall I go back on the men who did?” One-Sided. “So your wife objects to your playing the races?” “Yes. She is afraid that if I keep on she ‘will have to resign from her after- noon bridge club.” Transiency. Jes' a smile, an’ den good-by. Summer’s fadin’ frum de sky. Leaves is fallin’ at yoh feet, ‘Whah de rose once smiled so sweet; Seems no mo’ dan yesterday Since we felt de breath of May. Jes’ a song an’ den a sigh, Jes’ & smile an' den good-by. Arboreal Observation. “That supercilious man is always of work off their own lawns, although their hands have itched to plant grass seed. During the past Summer the District government, was forced to issue an ap- peal to residents to help care for the trees by taking the nozzles off hoses and permitting the water to flow around the bases for at least three hours at a stretch. It was suggested in this appeal that the water be turned down low, so that what did come cut of the nozzle would have & chance to soak into the soil. As far as the observation of this writer goes, very few householders availed themselves of the chance to help the Perhaps the practical difficulty of ing a hose across the sidewalk, and of having it walked over by scores of pedestrians, and roller-skated over by | That properly placed trees scem to | have been so placed by a designing mind, even when nothing but good for- | tune has dictated their placing, “here- | as trees stuck in helter-skeiter, even if done by the hand of man, seem to have been the result of a sad lack of intelligence. This is the theory of the thing. Of course, some houses and some trees just | naturally “go" together. They may vio- {late all the rules, and yet together | achieve a beauty which more formal | rules might never secure. | Nothing helps a house more than a fine tree to the rear. Rising up over | the roof, it givés an elemental back- ground which no amount of formal| good, ‘,ummm may give to a home. We have seen uuun;mnudeh i -fle)_;zm%n | trees, even a ouse * " by one tree. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Navy day, October 27, should give the bosses of Uncle Sam's fleet an ideal opportunity for explaining and Justify- the economy program they have just adopted. Secretary Adams and Admiral Pratt, the new chief of operations, will both broadcast Navy day addresses. If they will cut out the usual platitudes heard on such occasions and tell the country exactly why cheese-paring has | become the order of the day in the Navy, they will perform a useful service. While Secretary Adams and Admiral Pratt are before the microphone in Washington, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Jahncke will be holding forth in Texas. He is going to be at Houston on October 27, to accept, in the name of the Navy, the silver service which the Lone Star city is presenting to the new 10,000-ton cruiser which bears its name. U. 8. S. Houston for the purpose will crulse up the Houston Ship Canal from the Gulf of Mexico. * k% * With the passing of Mrs. Eugene Hale, venerable mother of Senator Prederick Hale, Republican, of Maine, the unique distinction she shared with Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins of West Vir- ginia remains solely with that grand old lady. They were the only two living American women who could boast of being, respectively, the daughters, the wives and the mothers of United States Senators. Ruth Hanna McCormick hopes to beat that record in one re- spect. The daughter of a Senator and t! be a Senator herself. Mrs. Hale, al- though an octogenarian, retained to her last a vivid interest in public affairs. The Navy was her hobby. Both her husband and her son, during her life- time, were in their days chairmen of the Senate Naval Affairs Committees. Mrs. Hale was a faithful gallery a tendant when the Navy was under dis cussion in the Upper House. Keeping herself abreast of the times, she was a valued counselor of her son, the present Senator, who confessed abiding respect for his mother’s judgment. * Kk ok K In a congressional campaign which has witnessed the flinging of a good deal of mud on both sides it was a treat to hear John W. Davis of New York discuss 1930 issues in a Demo- cratic “radio mlly” last night. The difference between that lawyer-states- man’s method and the tactics of the wife of a Senator, she expects to | most rustlin, talking about his family tree. “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. have observed in nature that it is al- | jyst as hard, but relies on subtle irony | ways the smallest twig that does the Empty Assurance. “Mike,” sald Plodding Pete, “did you hear dat stump speaker say de world owes us & livin'?” “Yes. But dere’s no harder job on eart’ dan collectin’ bad debts.” Discouraged Ambition. In Wall Street I would like to mix And juggle with finance, But they're exposing all the tricks And leavin' me no chance. “It's bes’ to be straightforward, son,” sald Uncle Eben. “De man dat keeps chasin’ de devil roun’ de stump is purty sure to get ketched up with fum behind.” —— ot e Injustice. Prom the Charleston. 8. C., Evening Post. ordinary spellbinder is the difference | between a man who uses a rapier and| il Davis hits | | one who wields a bludgecn. and logical argument for his points. He lambasted the ‘“Hawley-Smoot- Grundy” tariff without lumbering up | his attack with meaningless statistics and by that device “smeared” it effec- tively. Davis' radio introducer wound up with a prophecy. He predicted that the Democratic candidate for President in 1924 will be Secretary of State “in the next Democratic administration.” * X % X Current sessions of the International Road Congress once again call attention to the pre-eminent and indispensable place occupied in Washington life by the Pan-American Union. Whether Uncle Sam had it in mind when he donated the prope:ty, or Andrew Car- negie when the Pittsburgh ironmaster put up the money for the building, the marble pile has come far to outlive its original purpose. Today it is primarily the place—virtually the only place—in which the Federal Government can fit- tingly entertain distinguished guests on an extensive scale. It is our Bucuns- ham Palace, Foreign Office and Guild- hall all rolled into one. Indeed, London itself has nothing to excel it and little the chief thing that is wrong th capital punishment is that juries won't give it a fair trial. Hitleritis. Bend Tribune. i v e ey the H to equal it. Visitors from all over the world acclaim its beauty and unique facilities. Some day the story should be told of the man behind the gun at the Pan-American palace—that modest, indefatigable and superuseful person named Leo 8. Rowe, America’s minister ;;l‘tll‘l:ut portfolio) for Latin American Mabel Walker Willebrandt has now added radio to those other legal spe- cialties—aviation and grapes—to which she has devoted herscif since leaving the Government service, During the busy October sessions of the Pederal Radio Commission, the California Portia has appeared on behalf of important broadcasting interests in quest of con- cessions on the wave lengths. Another former Federal official, ex-Assistant Secretary of Commerce “Bill” Mac- Cracken, has also added radio to avia- tion as a law practice specialty. * ok x x Virginia Mackay Boy-Ed, widow of Capt. Boy-Ed of the German Navy, and a former Washington belle, has just published a protest against alleged aspersions on her late husband. It doesn't refer to what she calls the “cruelties” to which he was subjected by “war propaganda,” but to the im- pression, widespread since the captain’s demise, that his father was a Turk. Writing to the New York Times, Frau Boy-Ed says: Because I have a little daughter to bear his name, and because he was proud of being a German, I | wish to say that the statement that | my husband's father was a Turkish | merchant is only another one of the | false stories published about him | during the war. The captain’s father | was a German, born in ths city of | Lubeck of German parents belonging to an old Lubeck family, in which there is not nor ever has been a drop of Turkish blood. ¥ ey | “Keep Ruth McCormick out of the Senate and well keep out Josizh Bailey” is the new Republican threat in the pending senatorial campaign. It has reference, of course, to the Nye committee’s inquiry into Mrs. MecCor- mick’s political philanthropies in Illinois and the G. O. P’s intention to look into John J. Raskob's alleged munifi- cence in destroying Senator Simmons at the North Carolina Democratic primary. Bailey was the veteran Tar Heel's suc- cessful , rival. Senator Patterson of Missouri, one of the regular Republican members of the Nye sleuthing board has taken the bit in his teeth and | determined to probe North Carolina | primary affairs to the depths, (Copyright. 1930 —oe—s |A Contest in Name Calling. From the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. The reply of the Senate “slush fund” committee to Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCor- mick’s intimations and assertions that its agents have violated law in spying upon her is that Mrs. McCormick’s statements are false and that she must know them to be false. Senators Nye, Dale, Dill and Wagner characterize her charges as “falsé” no less than half a dozen times @n their brief statement, and “libelous” almost as many times, not to mention their use of “slander- ous” and “malicious” and various other adjectives. If Mrs. McCormick wishes any answer to her question, “What is Senator Nye going to do about it?" she has it now. As an example in tart rhetoric, the committee’s statement has its points, In that respect it measures up to any- thing that Mrs. McCormick, herself no gentle spirit when it comes to political statements, has said. But if this is to be the end of the whole business of the spying and counter-s| charges, it lacks & good deal of clarifying the at- mosphere. e public has believed hitherto that both parties are honorable men and women, and it would be loath now to accept the view which either holds and expresses of the other. This is a_mis- erable performance all around. What is needed is not further statements, but evidence. Infringement. From the Ann Arbor Daily News. Democrats are condemning the New York Republicans for likewise adopting a wet plank, but a: no suit for in- fringement of vlwnth been flled. | Civilization and the Opener. | From the New York Times. An estate of more than $100,000,000 credited to the founder of one of the principal canned-food concerns in the country serves to measure the revolu- tion in a nation’s food habits, which is often described as a social revolution. On the merits of the change opinions continue to differ. It is still maintained that the exodus of the American woman from the kitchen has been not only for her own but for the good of the Nation and its institutions. It is still charged that the home and the Nation, which rests on the home, are being sapped by housewives who feed their families out of a can. The conservatives, however, are having the worst of the argument. They must fall back on such ultimate abstractions as family and country and race. They cannot deny the visible stove and the kitchen sink which has come with the prepared food package in _can, jar or paper carton. If the stamina of the race is being undermined when the delicatessen store makes life too soft for the housewives, it is part of a degenerative process em- bracing our entire civilization. With all her new housekeepir:~ conveniences— electric washing machine and vacuum cleaner and mechanical refrigeration and motor sewing machine and the can opener—the woman of the house has won less relief from toil than her wage- earning husband over his' automatic machinery in his modern factory. Closer examination may further allay anxiety over whither are we going with our canned goods and packages. The revolution in food habits is not quite the cataclysm which the name suggests. In the year 1927 the output of the can- ning_and preservings establishments in the United States was valued at $652,- 000,000, or, roughly, two-thirds of a billion. But the food manufacturing in- dustry, as a whole, had a product valued at $11,000,000,000. Even allowing for flour which went into baker's bread and milk which went into preserved milk, the vast bulk of the food output was still prepared in the consumer's home. This would be notably true of meat to the value of $3,000,000,000, of which a comparatively small proportion represented the sliced bacon in a jar and the roadside hot dog. The bulk of meat tonnage still means house- wives bending over hot stoves. Finally, it should be recalled, in won- dering what grandmother, over her pots, would think of granddaughter, over her delicatessen cans, that grandmother, too, lived to a considerable degree out of cans, or at least out of glass-pre- serving jars. The only difference is that grandmother herself put up and sealed the jars, which she opened in the course of the long Winter, whereas granddaughter has them put up for her by billion-dollar food manufacturing concerns. But intrinsically unmoral a can of soup is not. ‘It is too often as- sumed that the modern wife opens a can of vegetables or fruit because she is laay. Frequently, most frequently, she does it to provide her family with out-of-season vegetables and fruits and delicacies otherwise unattainable. The delicatessen container in this sense sig- nalizes a rise in the standard of living. Riparian Rights. From the New Orleans Item. The Mississippi Supreme Court adds decisions in riparian rights. The rul- ing is that owners of land condemned for levee purposes must be reimbursed not only for the land proper, but for sand and gravel in the river bed to the middle of the stream. ‘The decision is of particular interest | now, with much river work planned | and many condemnation suits pending. This particular controversy was between the Board of Mississippi Levee Com- missioners and a_Washington County roperty owner. But the decision may used in other cases. —— e The Passing Punch. Prom the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 3 The defeat of the University of Maine by Yale in a one-sided cate to some that “Stein Song” is losing its punch. Hookey. From the Dayton Daily News, With® 1o year-old boys engaged in cross-country flights, things are getting tougher and tougher for the truant of- ficers. Teeny-Weenies. Toledo Blade. "'zfi‘,fi,":“k :floh.mulln‘ the atom has been going on for a long time. And all we have so far is & midget car and pygmy golf. e The Missing Letter. P ISuman Who always.talks about mitigation of drudgery over the kitchen | another to the imposing mass of legal | b D.T. Can A. Mr, James Chilton. { | fame may indi- e oft-crooned | station of the Bureau of Mines, that ngers qume first head of & family to die?— Q. What causes the humming of bees?—G. T. It is caused by the rapid vibra- of their wings. A, tion how far could it jump?—M. G. A. Prof. William , who has trained fleas, says that a healthy flea would jump what would to us be the cquivalent of half a mile. Q. What was the date of the last draft in this country for the World War from age 18 and up?—C. B. Qx.‘!;uw big does a jewfish grow?— 'A. Some species of jewfish attain & weight of 500 sea bass and ‘gmu notably the black black jewfish. Q.Anmmnn—;zncnundlnin- A. September 12, 1918. Q. What is Sir Thomas Lipton's ad- dress in England?—L. N. , Southgate, Middlesex, A. It England. Safety Full recognition of the need of wide- spread public co-operation in safety measures to meet the conditions of the American machine age has been given by the country as a result of the meet- ings of the National Safety Council at Pittsburgh, with an attendance of 7,000 men and women interested in the grow- ing record of disastrous accidents. In- dorsemenb is given to the campaign to to the needs of the moment. “This large gathering,” asserts the ‘Youngstown Vindicator, “shows the ex- tent to which the movement for safety in industry and homes and on the high- ways has grown in the .19 years since the organization of the L2Sfhe exhibition of many safety devices shows what has been accomplished in the pe- riod. = Twenty-five years ago such a gathering and exhibit were ot thought of, for safety then was a thing for only the individual to consider, but today it interests everybody because of the dan- gers on every hand in this machine age. Legislation and safety devices and cam- paigns have done much to prevent acci- dents, but the highways still present a problem; for this year's record of auto- ‘mobile fatalities is expected to be 36,000. This killing of people in streets and highways at the rate of nearly 100 a day shows how helpless mankind is in protecting itself against its own inven- tions.” Quoting & statement made at the meeting that “deaths from accidents in the United States during the year to- taled 100,000," and the opinion ex- pressed by the delegates that “the re- duction of this frightful loss should become & matter of chief public con- cern,” the Chattanooga Times points out that “President Hoover pledged all the Federal agencies under his control as aids,” and offers the further com- ment: “It need hardly be said that if every pedestrian and every driver of a machine should beccme personally con- scious of his or her responsibility and should be constantly warned by his or Ler knowledge of the potentiality for danger lying in every careless move- ment or reckless turn of the wheels, accidents would be reduced to such as may be humanly unavoidable. All will agree that the loss of 100,000 lives in one year is a humiliating reflection not alone upon the intelligence of the American people but upon their regard for life.” * K Kk The President's statemerts to the meeting, in the opinion of the Pitts- burgh Post-Gazette, “should not only increase individual effort to guard against waste of human life, but also public co-operation with the organized forces that are striving to reduce cas- ualties.” The Pittsburgh paper holds that “the thought should be fixed in every mind* that most of the disastrous loss is preventable”; that “each indi- vidual should realize his or her duty to aid in refucing carelessness,” and “4t is, in fact, a matter of self-preserva- tion.” The Post-Gazette also empha- sizes the contribution that its own city has made to the caase of greater safety, with the statement as to recent efforts: “The mills and factories of the district have for many years included safety divisions in their organizations, and annually awards are given to the de- artments mi the best showing in eeping down casualties. The result is that in many instances mouths and lony periods ‘m- without a single mishap. Here is the experimental has proved such an important factor for safety in .72 “It is hardly exaggerating,” Appleton Post-Crescent, * y this movement for safety in industry is one of the most important movements of the day. It represents one of the few organized efforts that mankind is making to nature of a | innumerable macl we have to live them for or for worse; but we have devoted ‘kably little time to the job of it just we et along e:‘ -f'&mm:m;‘fi"m'.» 3 induce all Americans to give attention|as W says the say that Council’s Leadership Stirs Machine Age Campaign the United are quoted b{ the Springfield , with the conclusion that “wherever the principles of accl= dent prw.e;:lon are applied in an in- é ine Jjuries and losses are much Jess severe.” As an illustration of .effective meas~ g.u. the l:nm B;‘fly Times refers experience ar Admiral company of irs at'the SBouth ple of careful plan- ning,” and argues: “It proves beyond question that when h ize fully the %- ‘beset them they can triumph ®ver ordinary perils, The usual causes of accident, inatten- tion to duty and reckle: ‘were Dot present. during the long - ths Rear Admiral Byrd and his men ‘were in the Polar region. It permits the hope that ultimately we can use similar rules of safety nearer. home.” The further comment on Admiral Byrd's achievement is made by the San Antonio Daily News in considering the work of the Safety Congress: “No | phase of his achievement—not even the dramatic flight over the South Pole— slve him greater pride than the itiora Teturn - without, the loss of & man and without one in the party hav- ing suffered permanent disability. That could not have been accomplished but for rare skill and foresight in prepar~ ing against every probable contingency. Lacking such preparation in minute de- tail, the flight over either Pole easil might have ended in disaster. _Col, Lindbergh attributes the overseas flight of the Spirit of St. Louis and his sub- sequent feats, with never an accident, to similar care in looking after details. oo The Great River Service. From the Cincinnat! Enauirer. ‘There is back of the new private- : owned Ohio-Mississippi barge service, now functioning, $3,500,000 of St. Louls and New York capital. It is the first private-owned express service on these rivers. The tows now on their way to New Orleans are the pioneers, it is be- lieved, of a new commercial era, since by this new system of transportation shippers will effect a saving of from 10 to 25 per cent under all-rail rates. These 300-ton barges will be pushed by the most powerful towboats on any inland waters. Tows will leave Cincin- nat{ and New Orleans each week. Six days will be required for the down- stream trip and from 12 to 14 days for the upstream haul. At the outset only Cincinnati and New Orleans will be served directly by the new barge line company, but other cities in the Missis- sippl Valley may profit through joint rail and water rates. Only express service for the present is to be negotiated, though it is cted that slower freight wfl; be inaugurated within movements ef terminal, now completel uuipm:’.‘] is here in Cincinnati. It is * capable of serving 20 freight cars and 40 trucks simultaneously and can un- load 1,000 tons of freight a day. The Qhio to Cairo, IlL, except for less than h year, will be open to navigation and the Mississippl from Cairo to New Orleans is grm the year through. Prom Cincinnati to Cairo is 500 miles, from Cairo to New Orleans 1,000 miles. This significant activity, the culmina- tion of years of earnest and indefatiga- ble missionary effort -on the part of river towns and interests, is a most im- portant step in the devel extensive - inland waterwa; From the St. Louls Times. ‘The League of Women Voters has . made a survey of women’s rights in the 48 States. is a great varia- tion. Nevertheless, no one that women are always right. * Kk K ts made at the convention In Al in to dustrial luable contacts probably hasn't made alent ately 1 oent. w valuable unpm , the W industrial workers

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