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THE EVENING STAR . With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. BATURDAY. ....October 11, 1930 At i THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company Evening and & 5" Rund Tig Sunday st Collection ma Riders mex be sent'in by mail Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Delly and Sunday. Daily o ?’ . Sunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusivel 1" e AlGe 07 repuntication o sl ews Al rl‘ch.l credited it or not otherwise cred- pUblahen Heretn: ANl siehis of publication ot " Al Tights of publication of Special ‘dispatches hereln are Also reserved: 3 o) each menth or teieplione y ;ad Sunday.. ¢ 13r. 312,00 1mo. 4100 ay only 3 mo. s0¢ 1yr.. $5.00. 1mo. 50c Waterfront Improvement. The river and harbor act for 1925 aythorized the chief of engineers to make & preliminary survey and report on the treatment of that portion of ‘Washington’s waterfront lying to the east and north of the Washington Channel, and after nearly four years the report was completed and forwarded from the chier of engineers to the Speaker of the House. It was referred to the Committee on Rivers and Har- bors and is pending there now. ‘The report has been given wide pub- licity. The improvement of Washing- ton's unsightly waterfront has been urged for years by the Board of Trade and other active citizens’ organizations, as well as by the officlals charged with beautification and development of the Capital. It has been regarded for many years as one of the essential projects in Capital development, and it is to be hoped that the coming session of Con- gress will find the time to get around to it and embody in legislation the best features of the Army engineers’ re- port. The cost of the whole project was set at $3,691,600 and the division . of expenses as between the Federal and the District governments was sug- gested as $2,392,280 for the former and $1,209,320 for the latter, the expendi- sure and work to be spread over a period of five years. In the meantime, the annual report of the Whart Con:lttee of the District of Columbia sheds interesting light on the immediate effect of the Army engi- neer report. “The administration of ‘whar! affairs by the Wharf Committee during the past year has been trouble- some because of the uncertainty as to when the general improvement of the waterfront will begin,” the report says. “Whar{ tenants naturally decline to make improvements on rented property ‘because of short-term leases. Recurring requests for funds for reconstruction and maintenance of wharves used for municipal purposes’ must be made, due o deterioration and decay of waterfront structures. Further delay in general improvement only adds to the ccst of maintenance.” In other words, the waterfront is deteriorating while every one waits to find out what is going to be done and ‘when it is going to be done. As it is impossible to permit deterioration to go forward unchecked, temporary repairs are necessary. But every repair means 80 much wasted money, as the improve- ment of the waterfront will radically change the set-up of buildings and streets. The waterfront was never much, to begin with. It is one of the sore spots of the Capital now. The coming session of Congress should en- deavor to approve a plan and let the work of improvement and beautification begin without an indefinite and pro- longed delay. ———— School Health Work. The recommendation in the annual report of the District health officer that more adequate provision be made for the medical and dental inspection serv- fee in the public schools is one that should receive the earnest considera- tion of the Commissioners and the com- mittees in Congress who handle Dis- trict affairs. If, as the report states, the present corps of nurses, doctors and dental ex- aminers is inadequate to give pupils the amount of supervision they should have, the subject is one that should be fol- lowed up. As the health officer points out in his report, “It i of the utmost importance that the children in the schools of this District should be in good physical condition in order that they may pursue their studies in a comfortable and effi- eient manner.” % ‘The report shows that provision was made recently for two additional medi- cal inspectors, two nurses, two dental hygienists and four dental operators, and thet funds also have been made available for two more dental clinics this year. But the report adds that the medical and dental service, even with these additions, “continues to be in- adequate to meet the needs.” With the school system growing steadily, it is a timely suggestion that the facilities for promoting the health of the city's future citizens be kept in mind along with other school needs. o With majestic and costly pageantry Ohicago celebrates the anniversary of er great destructive fire of sixty years wgo. The calamity of today proves to be the blessing in disguise of tomor- Yow. ———————— A Deathblow to Free Trade. Free trade in Great Britain, which has been reeling ever since the body blow it suffered at the hanas of Joseph Chamberlain more thar. twenty years Ago, 1 groggier than .ever in conse- amence of developments in Londor this week. At the imperial conference now in progress there, Premier Bennett of Canada led the way to a remarkable demonstration of dominion sentiment in favor of inter-empire protection. He was supported enthusiastically by the spokesmen of Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, and to a somewhat lesser extent by the representatives of the Irish Pree State, Newfoundland and India. Though _the degree of L dorainion warmth for an imperial tariff varies, there is no longer any doubt that the idea is irresistibly on the march. The existence of & Labor government in the mother country naturally impedes its progress, for Mr. MacDonald and his colleagues are still wedded to the an- cient shibboleth of free trade. If the Baldwin Conservatives were in power, the chances are strong that John Bull would shed his obsolete fiscal garments |and don & modern protective tarift at- tire before the imperial conference ad- journed. The sentiments voiced by.Canada and the other “daughter nations” at least annihilate the hopes of Lord Beaver- brook and his school of British thought for ‘“empire free trade.” The domin- ions want empire protection, not empire free trade. Thev are willing to give Great Britain preferential protection to the extent of a ten per cent rebate in the rates imposed on non-British wares. But the idea of non-tariff in- tercourse within the empire itsclf is definitely rejected. Unli~s some scheme of tariff preferences 7Svults from the present London confestnce, the cables tell that many domir=¥n reprecentatives will look back upon it as a failure. Should the MacDonald government take a definite stand against empire protection, it will undoubtedly—sooner or late—provoke a general election on the issue in Great Britain. The Con- servatives are eager for battle on it. They are prepared to depict a tariff systsm as indispensable to British in- durial resuscitation and solution of the unemployment problem. Premier Bennett of Canada has specifically demanded that any program of empire protection shall give Canadian and other dominion wheat a ten per cent advantage over American wheat. That will permit the Laborites, if they must go to the mat on the tariff issue, to exploit the “bread-tax” bogey with a vengeance, Such a battle cry—the threat of an artificial rise in the cost | of the workingman's food—has proved efficacious in Britain before, and may do so again. But Labor will invoke it, it is now plain, at the cost of a grave rift with the “dominions beyond the seas.” e The Columbia. ‘That veteran of veterans, the good old ship the Columbia, has added an- other wreath to her weather-beaten frame and now possesses the unique dis- tinction of being the only plane in his- tory which has successfully accom- plished two non-stop flights across the Atlantic Ocean. The Columbia, which first made its public bow five years ago, ‘was built by the noted designer Giusseppe Bellanca. It has had many THE EVENING STAR, \’\’ASHINGTO[, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1930. vious that the American audienges are losing millions of dollars’ worthiaf jokes annually because they cannot heaf them. The comedians who do their stuff for the talkies are confronted, on their part, with & problem of no small propartions. Suppose they undertook to stop talking after each one of their sallies, thus permitting the roar of laughter from imaginary audiences to die down. But suppose the joke did not “get over”? Then the pause would be more con- spicuous than the joke. The abysmal silence would be interpreted as ham acting on the part of ths comedian. His next joke would lose force, and if nobody Jaughed the chasm of ensuing silence would beat on the ears of the audience like hail on a tin roof. What is needed, therefore, is a cam- paign of education. The American movie audiences must learn to laugh deeply but silently. They may rock with laughter, but not roar. Ushers must be trained to walk up and down the aisles, threatening with eviction the patron who guffaws or chortles. The hysterical giggler or the man with the horse- laugh who sees the joke after everybody else is through laughing will be barred at the door, and silence will reign in the “cathedrals” of the talkies. - “Walker to Resign for Job With Films,” reads a headline. However, perusal of the article reveals the fact that Mayor Jimmy is to enter the legal, not the Thespian, department of a big film company. hoped it meant his sartorial elegancies, not, to mention his lyric-composing abil- ity, were to delight our eyes and ears in the near future. st A New signs, . reading, respectively, “Nice Weather” and “Bad Day,” the appro- priate one of which is hung in his car to forestall conversation. They are said to be most efficacious. When it comes time to install the one reading “Merry Christmas” he will probably find that one does not work as well as the other two. ————s The Post Office Department declares the volume of third and fourth class mail has for sixty years proved an ac- curate business barometer, and that said volume points now to better things. In lage is an antidote to that depressed feeling in the pocketbook. ‘The various Capone brothers are in and out of jail so rapidly and so fre- quently that probably the easiest way for them to communicate one with an- other is simply to leave a note with the warden. - masters and it has' served them well. And yesterday, when Capt. J. Errol| Boyd and Lieut. Harry P. Connor | brought her to earth thirty miles off | Land's End after twenty-four hours in | the air from Newfoundland, it was only | because of a small defect in the gas line | that prevented a greater triumph, thxt: of reaching Croydon Airdrome, outside | of London, which had been set as the goal of her latest sky adventure. Pive years ago when the Columbia emerged from the shops glistening with her fresh coat of paint she immediately achieved recognition by bagging two trophies at the International Sesqui- centennial Air Races in Detroit. The next year Olarence D. Chamberlin, whose name, with that of Charles A. Levine, is most closely associated with her career, took with him Bert Acosta, another famous fiyer, and established what was then the non-refueling world endurance record. So impressed was Chamberlin with the plane’s perform- ance that late in 1927, after LindBergh had made air history by his startling dash t» Paris, he, with Levine as a pas- senger, set out from New York to Ger-| many, coming to earth forty-two hours later outside of Berlin with a new dis- tance record. At this point in her career the Columbia survived a bad crash in Italy and the semi-comic at- tempt of Levine, who was not a pilot, to fly it across the English Channel. Last June Roger Q. Williams and the two aviators who took her across the ocean yesterday decided on a mon-stop flight of seventeen hundred miles, from New York to Bermuda and back, and picked out the old Columbia for the venture, With Connor navigating and “hitting the nail on the head” by keep- ing the ship on an unerring line to the | tiny island, the trip was a complete | success. That yesterday Connor could not duplicate his feat of navigation of last June with a much larger target to aim at was no fault of the old Colum- | bia, and had she not been taken morc than one hundred and fifty miles off her course she would probably today be resting from a non-stop flight to the English mainland. It is planes like the Columbia that promote public confidence in aviation. As Levine sald on learning that Boyd and Connor were forced to land short. of their goal, “at least it is a plane that gets you over—you don't need to worry about losing your neck when you start out in it.” The Columbia has been | most emphatically a plane to “get you over,” and after all that is the main thing in flying. —_— e Advices from the Lynchburg region of Virginia point to a big fruit crop, and announce that orchard peaches are not injured by continued dryness.| Neither, by the way, are girl peaches. ————————— Smile—but Not Out Loud. One of the greatest problems con- fronting the American people today is how not to laugh out loud. "What we need, in other words, is an ability to laugh up our sleeves, to swallow a chuckle or to become adept in perfect- ing the silent snicker. The talkies de- mand that something be done. In the old days, when men were men and not flickers on the silver screen, our leading comedians uttered their “wise cracks” and while the audience was convulsed with result>nt laughter and shouting upraariously the comedian paused untii the storm died down, thus permitting the audience to hear the next sally. The talking pictures have chsnged all this. The comedians speak thelr funny lines, and the audience shrieks, with delight, the shrieks grow- ing in volume and gaining applause as the joke comes home. But instead of the pause to allow the tumult to subside, the comedian, talking as he is to a machine that hangs above his head and not to an audience of flesh The eightesnth amendment is “totter- ing,” accerding to Senator Copeland. It has been tottering for years, perhaps, but is reminiscent of those stage come- dians who ar: always about to fall but never d e Gov. Huey P. Long has made his pri- vate secretary, youthful and good- looking, Secretary of State of Louisiana. To what may not a neat-appearing and industrious office boy now aspire? ————— . George K. Eastman, multi-millionaire kodak manufacturer, has made a great gift for the establishment of a dental clinic in Sweden. “You press the den- | tist's button, we do the rest,” as it were. RN e, SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Contented Tenant. Some folks dey keeps complainin’ 'Bout dis world we’s livin’ in; Dey's lookin’ for improvements ©On de ways it's always been. Dey says it needs repairin’ And they criticizes free, But I wants to tell you, honey, Dat it's good enough foh me. Dar's a heap o' work an’ worry; Dat’s de rent you got to pay; But I'd rather hustle, honey, Dan have to move away. While dar’s blossoms in de meadow And dar’s sunlight on de sea An’ a song for every season, Dis world's good enough for me. Not Best. “There is nothing so satisfactory as & clear conscience.” “No," answered Senator Sorghum; ‘“and the next best thing is a good law- yer.” To Be Encouraged. “Do you think young people should be encouraged in literary effort?” “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. “I would rather have people write their impressions of things in general than insist on telling them to me.” Uncertainty. The statesman oft finds future grief In present triumph hid. He wants to speak, and later on He's sorry that he did. Lucky Miscreant. “What do you think of the man who stole that immense sum of money?” “Well,” answered Broncho Bob, “I 'spose we'll have to go ahead and spend time an’ money on a trial. It's lucky for him it wasn’t a hoss.” The Next Step. “I don’t want any government at all,” said the anarchist. “Suppose you succeeded in abolishing government?” “Then I could step in and start one of my own.” A Compact. O'er little ills that life endures Oh, let us not repine! I'll do my best to laugh at yours, And you may laugh at mine. “Don’t try to make too much noise in de world,” said Uncle Eben. “A good ingineer ain’' gwinter use up all his steam blowin' de whistle.” - Practice. Frem the Li Rock Arkansas Democrat. Ameri- ;. sm: Wondering how peo- ple get up courage enough ‘o ride in an | airplane.” Turning corners in an auto- mobile at 50 miles an hour. e Must Have Been. From the Beloit Daily News. Douglas County wants the State Con- | servation Commission to send up a million fish to restock the Brule. We had no idea that Calvin Coolidge was such an exhaustive fisherman. ———— Evolution. and blood, plunges ahead into his next mirth-provoking observation, with the re<uit that nobodv hears him. Sem From the Columbla (8. C.) State. “Man s the only creature f cah twiddle ft¢ thumk<” "The ¢ r ani- ra2's have inslinet vhen they .ack telligence, And we had fondly | York elevator man has two | other words, the taste of stamp muci- | Washington if he were presented with | a fine new movie camera and projector? This was the question hurled at our inoffensive head recently by a rich friend who had taken pictures of his family and his friends’ familles, and was casting around for other worlds to_conquer. Who or what, indeed, would one “take” if he became the proud owner of one of these intriguing toys for grown-ups? The problem is by no means as simple as it sounds. Picture taking, either with a still or motion picture camera, is both an art and a business. It is easy enough for any one with the money to own a camera, but just |what to take thereafter is something | else again. As a problem, it calls for a sure knowledge of one’s city, a bit of imag- |ination, and a real interest in pho- tography. Lacking any one of these elements, it is probable that the ami teur will soon tire of his work. No doubt there are thousands of idle motion picture cameras around the United States, each backed bv a few score reels riding his kiddie car, Mary walking along the | sidewalk and Towser running down the front steps. Such pletures, essential though they are in the scheme of home movies, by | no means exhaust the possibilities, and every owner realizes as much when he al suggestions as to “what to take | next.” { Junior Mg ey ‘The writer here does not set himself up as an adviser on this all-important subject, but poses simply as an inter- | ested person. ‘When asked for suggestions, he coun- | which was emincntly truthful. _After- ward he got to wondering what on earth he would take if he suddenly came into pos: ion of one of these | new-fangled, foolproof cameras. Would one kaunt public buildings to | catch glimpses of famous men as they strode out to lunch? Well, one might. We can recall mental pictures of Theo- dore Roosevelt walking down Sixteenth strect in the old days before automo- | biles took intimate possession of that thoroughfare. Surely a motion picture film of that historic figure, wearing, as our child- hood memory believes, a tall silk hat, would be an interesting addition to any home film iibrary. Fifteen or twenty feet each of the justices of the Supreme Court would form an interesting film, and as much could be sald for any or all of the present incumbents of the distinguished offices in the gift of the political parties. ‘The motion picture camera in ama- teur hands, as we see it, has two good local uses—to furnish pictures of build- | ings, scenery and so on, without any particular motion in them except as given by the sweep of the film itself, | and furtker to give pictures, perhaps of the same scenes, with motion in them. In other words, an interesting 100- foot length of the sweep of buildings along lower Seventeenth street might be given, with no more motion in them than an occasional passing car or pedestrian. The same scenes might be shown | with delegates to the D. A. R. congress | entering or leaving their beautiful build- ing. An interesting Flc!ure might be made, if would seem, of any Government | building at 9 am. or at 4:30 p.m., espe- clally if “close-ups” were taken of one | or mcre of one's friends who happen to work there. A series showing the Secretaries of the various departments, as they leave in the evening, would be interesting, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. tered with the reply that he had none, | & ‘What would one take pictures of in |chief clerks. Lunchtime would enable the photographer to portray the pretty girls, always good subje:u in pictures. * * % The National Zoological Park, it would seem, would furnish as many reels as one desired to take, particularly if a child could be shown, with its re- actions toward the various cages and exhibits. The writer here recalls an inimitable scene which he once saw at the Zoo, which 80 impressed itself on his memory that he can see it again at any time he closes his eyes. It was of three peacocks, which stood above the west entrance to the lion house. One of the fowls was just above the door, one a little lower at the left side, above the door, and the other on thy same level at the right. They were as perfectly posed as if the greatest screen director of them all, whoever he is, had wired them fast there. For a period of at least two minutes they stood, twisting their necks from side to side, preening their feathers, expanding their great tails, first in one direction, then in another. It was the chance of a lifetime, of course, and amateur movies were in their infancy, and we, alas, did not even have a hand camera! Perhaps one might visit the National Zoological Park for half a century witheut ever seeing peacocks in such a position | again. But these birds always would make interesting pictures, especially if taken with eolor film in full sunlight, as we understand color pictures must be taken. * % W A sense for pictures must be de- | veloped, whether one wiclds a motion picture or still camera. There are | scores of beautiful but unheralded views ound Washington, not only in Rock Creek Park, but in all directions from the city, which only the trained eye | will see as pictures. It is one thing to admire a scene and quite another to realize, in the midst of admiration, that it is a picture. The picture sense is much the same as the news or story sense with a trained newspaper man. Those who are un- trained will be interested in something, all right, but they will not have the slightest idea, perhaps, that what they hear is a “story.” The trained man ‘eels an electric something pass through him at the very start. It is almost as if some one had punched a button. It is a story, as he calls it! Only the man who develops the pic- ture sense will get the most out of his camera, whether it takes “stills” or “movies.” The field of the latter, of course, in some respects is tremendously broader than with the hand camera. The motion picture operator can get all that the man with the still camera can, and in addition he can take mo- tion, which delights all created things. In traveling along Conduit road re- cently, on the other side of Cabin John Bridge, we came across as pretty a pastoral scene as one would want to find. It was a “pleture” worth going miles to see—and take away in the form | of a photograph. We chanced to see a photograph taken of a landing from one of the small steamers which ply between here and Baltimore. The scene was ani- mated, showing a recalcitrant calf be- ing loaded on board. But the real pic- ture was toward the end of the road. By covering the lower Half of the pic- ture, for which the picture was taken, a beautiful view emerged, much supe- rior to the picture as a whole, This is the picture sense, and the writer here makes no particular claim to it, except as developed through = lifetime of taking pictures with small cameras. He believes it is easily de- veloped, and must be developed, if one is to take satisfactory “movies” and as would be a film showing the various make the most of his camera. Bobby Jones, Su The difficulty of finding words andy phrases to satisfy the desire to bestow adequate praise on this phenomenal | winner is voiced by the Cleveland Plain | Dealer, which says, “The oldest and | most reliable superlatives are utterl useless when it comes to Bobby Jones. To the Morgantown Dominion-News | “Jones is, of course, the nonpareil of | the golfing world.” The Minneapolis | Star calls_him “an emperor of golf.”| Says the Detroit News: “Bobby Jones| has passed the bounds of a rational | description of greatness. Call him Mr. | Universe and let it go at that. He the Mr. Universe of golf.” The Roa- noke Times cries, “Bobby Jones is the king of them all!” Analysis of the qualities of Bobby Jones as a man and as a player is made by many papers. “Nerve, brains, per-| sistency, self-possession, an unerring | eye and an unbeatable stroke have given Bobby Jones an honor that some man would give a million dollars to attain,” is the way the Wichita Beacon puts it. | For its appreciation the Scranton Times | quotes Jerome Travers, a former four- time amateur champion, Who & saw Jones play at Ardmore, and said of | him, “He combines to a degree at- tainci by no one else skill, power, cour- age .nd brains.” Of his playing the Wal: Walla Daily Bulletin remarks, “Fog pure consistency and day-after- day winning form, Jones is peer of all goifers.” The Davenport ~Democrat | considers that “his splendid character | and manhood will further add to the| prestige and popularity of golf as a| great American sport.” As the Buffalo| Evening News sums it all up, “in him are joined a varlety of fine qualities.” As to his achievements this year the Baltimore Sun states: “In other games it would not be surprising if a first- 1t star at the height of his game made a clean sweep in any one season. | But in golf it is so unexpected and 50| unnatural as to seem positively improb- able, even when it is accomplished. Speaking of the four championship contests, the Charlotte North Carolina | News declares, “The winning of any one of these four honors would have| satisfled the normal professional or the | most aspiring amateur in either conti-| nent, but Bobby went out to see what new kingdoms he might conquer, and| returns with everything in sight in the| way of international medals in grip.” gl k% “To win four major championships| of the world in a single season is a feat never before accomplished by any| golf player, and a feat that probably will never be repeated,” asserts the Allentown Morning Call. “There may be others who will swing an iron as well as Jones, and there may be others who seldom require more than two putts when they reach the green, but we doubt that there will ever be/ another who can stand the strain of | four major championships in a single| vear," in the opinion of the Asbury| Park Evening Press, which thinks that | “is a hole that Jones will play alone.” | Speaking with pride of Georgia’s hero, the Atlanta Journal says of his playing in these four tournaments: “It ‘was not simply to add new plumes to his crest or new kingdoms to his empire, but to, do surpassingly, superlatively, supremely well the thing into which he has poured shining years of skill, cour- age, character. He has achieved more than championships—he has risen to that realm of excellence which history reserves for the finest deeds of men and calls classic.” The Savannah Morn News directs attention to phase o his triumph of which Georgia is whole- heartedly proud which makes the basis of a lesson for all young fellows. Bobby Jones takes his victory with the finest spirit possible,” says this Georgia pa- per. “He accepts triumph in a way that reveals something about him. Bob| roved he can be a good winner now By disciplining himselt years ago to be a good loser. The highest golf honors in the world rest upon this young !is a gloomy outlool perman of Golf, Lauded as Sport World’s Hero “Bobby Jones well may be taken as a model in golfing form and perform- ance, but, even more important, he stands before the youth and manhood of the world as an enviable example of fine sportsmanship,” in the estimate of the Flint Daily Journal. ‘There is some curiosity as to the future of Jones. ‘“What can he do now? ‘To what may he look forward?” asks the Ohio State Journal. “He has come so near perfection that he has, in a man- ner of speaking, no more worlds to con- quer. And that for a young man of 28 avers this paper. “But there will be another year,” ex- claims the Memphis Commercial Ap- peal, “and the renewal of the same championships. When they recur there will be interest in finding out %hether Robert Tyre Jones is as good as he lLas been,” suggests the Commercial Appeal. “If there are any other golf worlds for him to conquer, accord him a few | days’ rest and he will be ready to drive concludes the Asheville Times. However this may be, “any one dupli- cating Mr. Jones’ record of 1930 will have to be not merely as good a golfer, but, if this is conceivable, a better olfer than he is,” in the judgment of the Louisville Times. - Farm Board Influence Seen on Meat Price Cut from the Topeka Dally Capital. Pigures issued by the Virginia De- partment of Agriculture last week of the prices of live stock and of meats showed, according to Director Meek of that department, that “consumers of various agricultural products do nop receive the reductions in prices justi- fled by the prices to the producers.” The Virginia director cited prices as of May 15, 1928, 1929 and 1930 for both live stock and meats. They show- ed a decline in round figures of about a dollar for hogs, or about 9 per cent; $1.10 for beef cattle, or 10 per cent, and over $3 for lambs, or 20 per cent, while on the same date pork chops, bacon and sliced hams had declined only 2 or 3 cents a pound, or about 5 per cent, sirloin steak was about the same as in 1929 and chuck beef his |#nd plate beef were a trifle higher. C. B. Denman, member of the Fed- eral Farm Board, on June 26 called attention to the fact that wholesale meat prices had been reduced sharply, but retail prices had failed to come down in Fl’opunlon. Now the board reports that retail prices for beef have been “rather dras- tically reduced” and a larger volume of meat is moving to consuming mar- kets accordingly. The board appears to believe that Mr. Denman’s statement had some- thing to do with it. and it remarks that the purpose of the Denman state- ment, as well as the present one, was “to re-establish a stable market for beef” Mr. Denman says of meat re- ductions in Philadelphia that on July 15 they averaged 12 cents a pound to the consumer and in Chicago 11 cents for cheaper cuts of beef, compared with July 15, 1929, and such reductions show that “retail meat dealers are co-operating to make possible wider distribution of beef,” the price reduc- tions in these two cities being greater than the wholesale reductions. Letters to the board from Kansas City, Fort Worth, St. Paul and numerous smaller cities, Mr. Denman states, indicate re- ductions running as high in some places as 9 cents a pound. On better grades of beef prices are held up, and the Farm Board calls upon the retallers ;o co-operate further by leveling prices own ‘While many farmers are skeptical of any good to come from the Farm Board act in stabilizing agriculture, they must recognize that occupying the consple- its outgivings being news at this time, such exercise of its influence to diminish Georzian's brow. without turning his head.” the spread between producer and - sumer prices is a-benefit all nmm? uous position that the board does, all ' has THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover “Some of the greatest things thlt' have happened to me have happened on boats. Ft was on a boat off the coast of Malacca, one New Year's night, that I promised Mr. Barbour Lathrop that I would devote my life to the introduction of useful plants into America. And it was on the houseboat of Mr. Allison V. Armour, anchored oft th: Brickell wharf in the Miami River, that I agreed if he would buy a boat and equip it for the collecting of living plants, I would go with him on an expedition.” These are the opening sentences of the volunie loring for Plants,” by Dr. David Fairchild, head of the Office of of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture. The ex- pedition of which he writes took place and this book is derived from notes of the Allison Vincent Armour Expedi- of Agriculture, 1925, 1926 and 1927. Mr. Armour secured and equ'gped the yacht Utowana, but not all of the journeyings recounted in the book were made on her cruises. Dr. Fairchild's route took him from Florida to Panama, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, France, Morocco (where up the party), Spain. Canaries. the Balearic Islands, Italy (where the party left the yacht), Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, Singa- pore, Switzerland, Sweden, Amcrica. Starting again and rejoining the yacht, he went on a cruise along the West Coast of Africa, visiting the Gambia, French Guins and Slerra Leone, Liberia, the Cameroon, the Gold Coast, and the Fouta Diallon Mountains. On many of these travels Mrs. Fairchild accompanied hign and he says: “Al- though her name is not on th- title page. it should be there” as co-author, but “she has dictated otherwise.” * X % So delightfully and so “Exploring for Plants” written even those whose botanical knowledge is confined to research in “Hcw to Know the ld Flowers” or “Our Common Flowers” are able to enjoy it. Scholarly scientists enjoy it also (some of them have told me so), though they probably go to the official reports of the expedi- tions for the detailed information which they can grapple with. The unscientific or the merely dilettante scientific reader enjoys this book for many reasons. In the first place, it is a personal record of travel, written with humor and with interesting detail about many different things, though botany is always the absorbing interest. Everywhere there was_ searching for rare tropical plants or for common ones which might be adapted to American soils or climatic conditions. There was the thrill of discovery, which the reader shares vicariously, and the interested specula- tion as to the part of the United States where the new introduction would flourish. Then there was the difficult and precarious task of preparing and shipping in special cases the seeds and slips for the United States. In this some other members of the party Tucidly € | helped, and Dr. Pairchild relates that one of them can never hear the name of a certain species of oil palm without looking down at his fingers to see if he got off all the yellow, oily dye. All the foremost botanical gardens and museums and arboreta were visited as a matter of course and enthusiastic visitings were carried on with all the distinguished botanists of the countries on the route. Dangers are described casually and with humor. Of course, exploring scientists encounter dangers and, of course, they rather enjoy them, one gathers. Ac- commodation to all sorts of transpor- tation methods, foods, living quarters, customs and weathers was only part of the day's work. In whatever «Km- culty of travel, whatever discomfort, he was involved, Dr. Fairchild seems never for & moment to have forgotten to be on the lookout for plants. In West Africa, on one occasion, he was coming down a mountain road at dusk, with a !long journey ahead, in a Ford equipped with no lights whatever, when a rear wheel patched with boards suddenly gave out. The native chauffeur con- cerned himself with the wheel, but Dr. Fairchild rejoiced that the accident had happened just there because he caught sight of “the powder-puff seed balls of Clematis grandifiora in great numbers on some vines on the hiliside.” o Java, which Dr. Fairchild has, visited before, has a favored place in his af- fections. He likes the natives, the food, the hotels, the jungles of Java and his son Graham likes its insects, of which he was an eager student. The description of the Javanese food Rochl"y' unity achieved through mul- plicity, the ‘“rijstaafel,” would, ex- cept for the “Bombay duck,” make the mouth of any epicure water. ‘“There arrives at your elbow a waiter who gives you a soup plate while another invites you to fill your plate from an immense bowl of rice, rice that does not stick together like bits of glue, but tumbles out in a light, alry mass. Be- hind the rice waiter in his mangosteen brown turban and white suit stands a waiter with a bowl of the hottest, most aromatic curry sauce imaginable, for ;;nu to pour over the rice. Back of im comes another waiter with fried eggs, back of him one with chicken croquettes, behind him one with fried plantains, then another with fried egg- plant, one with broiled chickens, and after him what seems like an endless string of waiters with pickled corn, browned grated coconut, browned al- monds or peanuts, little red fish like anchovies, Bombay duck, which is nothing less than dried rotten fish, wonderful translucent crisp crackers made of turtle's eggs, fresh sliced cu- cumbers, mixed pickles, and last, the shutneys. * * * after taking samples from some, or, if you wish, all of these dishes offered you by the string of noiseless barefooted walters, your plate is full, very full, and you begin to mix the contents up, but not too thoroughly, for you want each spoonful to have an individuality of its own.” Javanese life is apparently built about the bam- boo, of which many of the best varieties are found in Java. Its usefulness is foreibly shown by some of the specific detalls which Dr, Fairchild so fre- quently uses. “If it were possible to take away from the Javanese every- thing they have that is made of bam- boo, there would be scarcely a house standing, no fences, few bridges save those put in by the Dutch, no chairs or benches to sit on, no baskets to carry anything with, no poles on which to carry the bundles of paddy, no hats to wear, no water buckets, no way of preventing erosion in the torrential streams, no bird cages, NO SCATECTOWS, no baskets to protect the fruit, no cages under which to grow voung seed- lings where the birds cannot get them, no coverings for the carts, no ladders, and no beds to sleep on. Take away the bamboo from owur civilization and we would simply have to go fishing with some other kind of a rod; that would ‘be about all. * ok K K “Books—Their Place in & Democracy,” by R. L. Duffus, does not give a very optimistic view of the book culture of the people of the United States. This volume is a study, undertaken under the auspices of the Carnegie Corpora- tion, of the publication and distribution of books in ‘the United States. Mr. Duffus finds that the average American Teads only seven books & year and buys only two. Allowing for the reading and purchase of the real book-lovers, of course, this means that there are hun- dreds of ons who neither read nor buy & single book a year. No wonder that_authors and publishers lead anx- jous lives; that publishers are distraught whether to put prices up or down in order to increase income; that authors have to turn to lecturing or farming in order to make a living. * Wk K ‘The American book club virtue, or vice, has reached Spain, and Madrid st th club; of course, the best book is the one dog- matically chosen by a committee. The names of the committee command re- spect—Ramon Perez de Ayala, Ricardo Foreign Plant Introduction of the Bureau | tions for the United States Department | is . that | ANSWERS BY FREDERIC There is no other agency in the world that can answer as many legiti- mate questions as our free Information Bureau in Washington, D. C. This highly organized institution has been built up and is under the personal direction of Frederic J. Haskin. By bureaus and other educational enter- ises it is in a position to> pass on highest order. Submit your queries to the staff of experts whose services are put at your free disposal. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address The Eve- ning Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. What is the name of the play now running in New York in . whic the cast consists entirely of women?— H ‘A." “Nine Till Six” is its title. The | locale is a millinery and dressmaking | establishment. Q. 1Is the dial telephone in use out- de of the United States?—C. L. |, A Dial phones are in use or being installed_upon every continent on the [ globe. The Mist includes 57 countries, | and is so comprehensive that it includes China, Japan, India, Egypt, South Africa, Austraila, South American re- publics, Canada, Mexico and all the important countries in Europe. Could a person live indefinitely on cow’s milk?>—D. H. A. Milk is a complete food in itself, as it contains nitrogenous elements in the form of casein and albumen, fat | s It is believed that it would support human life indefinitely, although such an experiment has not been made. Q. How many pufis does a loccmo- tive give out in a minute>—J. N. A. For every revolution of its driv- separate puffs. rapid sending out of waste steam fr::y the smokestack. A locomotive witl a wheel of average size going 50 miles an hour gives out 800 puffs a minute. ‘When there are more than 18 per sec- tinguish them. Q. By whom are mbst of the mort- gages on farms in the United States held?—A. B. A. Life insurances companies hold 22.9 per cent of them: mortgage an- nuities, 10.4; commercial banks, 10.8; Federal land banks, 12.1; stock land banks, 7; active farmers, 3.6; retired farmers, 10.6; other individuals, 15.4; other agencies, 7.2. Q. Was Edgar Allan Poe's father an actor?—J. L. T. A. Both of his parents were on the stage. Q. Please give the history of posters. —A. L. A. Actually the poster or placard can trace its ancestry back almost to the dawn of civilization. Egyptian wall paintings, mural decorations and in- scriptions, produced more than 3,000 years B.C., have been discovered by archeologists. The modern poster be- gan with Jules Cheret, a Frenchman, born in Paris in 1836, self-taught as a draughtsman. He torved his appren- ticeship as a lithographer in England, and when 30 years old became inter- ested in announcements of theatrical managers and placards put out about that time urging recruiting for armlies. In 1867 the world saw the first modern Highlights on t L dered his two small ¢l ‘who would not let him sleep at night because of their crying. ~ For this terrible deed he has received a pun- ishment of six years in prison, three years for each baby. A few months ago certain other citizens who had been convicted of selling contaminated milk, intended for use in orphanages, were fined a few hundred francs apiece. It is very pretty to talk of cherish- ing all our infants, and to moralize about the heresies of birth control that lead to our depopulation, but discourses have no value in comparison with deeds, and drastic action should follow of- fenses as heinous as those we have alluded to. It is a curious contradic- tion that in a country so dependent upon the pr tion and conservation of new human life that we should set at so cheap a price the survival of the individual infant. * ok ok ok U. S. Missionaries Aid Culture in Bulgaria. Bulgarian British Review, For American mis- siona cultural work in Bulgaria. There are, in addition to the Samckov School, the beautiful American College now being completed a¢ Simeonovo, and the primary and kindergarten schools, which have been opened within the last few years. These institutions provide educational facilities, in various forms for the children of those living in the cities and towns where Western ideas and culture are demonstrated in a most practical manner. The masses, or peasantry, in the vil- Jages, however, have been neglected, with the exception of the fortunate few who had the means wherewith to send their children to the cities or towns for instruction in social, hygienic and other subjects. But this condition is chang- ing through the untiring effert of Dr. and Mrs. Haskell of the American Mission, who after witnessing the back- wardness of the women and girls of the rising generation, and the urgent necessity of their uplifting, by practical demonstrations in nursing the sick, caring for the babies and little children, and in matters of hygiene and domestic science, succeeded in raising funds in America for the opening of an insti- tution on the principles of the Danish “Folk School” adapted to Bulgarian conditions. * ok kX Wolves Terrorize Mountain Cattle Raisers. El Sol. Madrid.—The mountains of Asturias, we are informed by a dis- atch from Gijon, are infested with jumerable wolves, which are terrify- ing the cattle raisers of that region. A drive recently was started against this menace, resulting in the destruc- tion of 35 full-grown wolves that had been attacking and devouring even horses and colts that were out at pasture. E MATIN. Paris.—A citizen who 18 very much averse noise, upon an insane im mur- * ok ok City Council Asks Orchestras Be Retained. La Prensa, Buenos Aires—The city council has issued an appeal to the press, public and cinema-proprietors, urging co-operation in the matter of retaining the orchestras and individual | style of picture to customed with musicians in the picture houses where they have been displaced by the sound and talking films. Although a majority of our people seem to prefer the silent drama of the screen, this is not in keeping either with the desires of the thoater managements or of the foreign pdducers who wish to replace the which we are ac- the talking film. With the advent of the new pictures many motion picture establishments already have discharged all their musici and substituted discs corresponding the action of the 4 ‘This already has . w on the members of the o) it is likewise a severe blow tie and professional tendencies of the capital, for many talented longer desire to acquire skill in music s Ry g S L A keeping in constant touch with Federal | u autheritative information of the | as cream, milk sugar, salts and water. | ing wheel a_locomotive gives forth four | ‘These are made by the | ond the human ear can no longer dis- | TO QUESTIONS, J. HASKIN. poster of Cheret's, an_announcement of a play enacted by Sarah Bernhardt, then 22 years old. ‘The nounced a fairy play, eatitle au Bois.” Q. How much powder does it take to break one yard of rock?—L. H. H. A. The Bureau of Mines says that | the amount of powder mnecessary break one yard of rock ranges from 2-10 pounds per ton to three to four | pounds per ton, depending upon the | kind of rock, its hardness and tough- !ness; the number of free faces ex- fwd' and the tightness of the z rom which it is to be blasted. smaller amount is necessary in propor= | tion for large quantities of rock. The | percentage of powder weuld depend also upon the rock. On some rocks a bete | ter breakage is obtained on lower per= | centages, as some rocks require a slows | acting explosion. From 40 to 60 per cent powder is used for ordinary | blasting. | Q Was Lucretia Donati, who was | the inspiration of Lorenzo's poetry, & woman of extraordinary beauty?—J. T, | _ A. That would be a matter of opins | jon. Lovely as she was, much of whal | Lorenzo wrote about her beauty mus | be discounted as the overenthusiasm of { & devoted poet lover. Q. Who executed the sculptured fig- ure of the “Lion of Lucerne"?—G. E. L. A. The “Lion of Lucerne” was copled from a model by Bertel Thorwaldsen, the famous Danish sculptor. The Swiss | artist was named Ahorn. He chiseled | the sleeping Hlon out of solid rock as a | memorial to the Swiss Guards who died in heroic defense of the Tuileries. Q. Please list the given names of Robert E. Lee's children~M. N. B, A. They were George Washington Custis, Mary, William Henry Fitzhugh, Anne Carter, Eleanor Agnes, Robert Edward and Mildred Childe. Q. What are the Romance langua and why are they so called?—A. C. | A. It is customary to list French, | Spanish, Portuguese, Itallan and Ru- manian as the Romance languages. These are largely derived from the speech of the Romans. Q. What is metal wood?—G. L. A. It is a new building material de- vised by German chemists, the density of which is said to be greater than that of wood. The compound consists of wood which has been blended with low fusing point metals such as lead, tin or alloys. Its power of swelling and its combustibility are small and it is ca- pable of being wrought like wood. Q. Where s Drew University?>—G. A. R. "A. Tt is located at Madison, N. J. Tt is under the supervision of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church and was founded in 1867. Q. Why do the leaves on trees turn red and yellow in the autumn?—M. T. A. The lower temperature and the smaller amount of light stop the manu- facture of sugar in the green leaves. When this occurs the chlorophyll changes into some red and yellow com- pounds, thereby changing the color of the leaves. Q. Is there a type which can be called “the criminal face”?—A. G. A. Criminal tendencies are not indi- cated with any certainty in the features. The great Italian criminologist, Lom- broso, held this theory, but it has not stood the test of time and investigation. he Wide World | ges, Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands if there is not to be any further pecuniary benefit to be obtained from the vocation. This artificial, imported and. metallic melody is likewise fatal to the expansion of our beautiful native music, destructive to the senti- mental patriotic reminiscences of the auditof. For the welfare both of -{ the public and the players, reinstate- urged ment of the orchestra, - | mediately in houses exhibiting either | mute or marol fllma.' s * * Urge Government Regulation for Telephones. Imparcial, Montevideo.—The ques- tion of the telephone is one calling for early and definite adjustment. Such equipment as now is in use in the city and throughout the country is anti~ quated, deficlent and unsatisfactory, but the private enterprise hitherto ex- plioting our telephonic system, so called, is unwilling to institute any radical improvements, until it is finally decided what the government proposes to do in the matter of regulaticn. 1f the authorities take over the lines, and make a state moncpoly out of the system, the private interests naturally will be eliminated, and they cannot be for reluctance to improve the present chaotic service while the whole proposition is surrounded with unces: tainty. We have continuously called the attention both of the government and the public to this procrastination, and urged an immediate decision in regard to future control and development of the telephone system. We need more phones, and a greater diffusion of wires. We need automatic telephones, instead of the antiquated and cumbrous. instruments now the vogue. Both busi- ness and social requirements demand these improvements, and further de- lay in furnishing them should not be tolerated. Memorial Completion By Borglum Urged #rom the Charlotte Observer. All the South will be interested in the proposition made by Sculptor Borglum to return to Atlanta and finish up the long-neglected work of sculpturing Stone Mountain, which should have long since developed into. one of the greatest war memorials of all nations. The Observer had enter- tained the feeling that the quarrel be- tween Borglum and the Monument As- sociation was of a childith nature at the beginning and might have been smoothed over with exercise of a bit of diplomacy. However that, the South has found itself under national re- proach because of delay in completing a great work of art in memorialization. Borglum’s proposition for renewal of work on the neglected monument seems of a nature which should enlist the thoughtful consideration of the authori- ties now in charge of the Stone Moun- tain project. The Houston Post- Dispatch argues that the success of this noted artist has achieved in carrying out a similar though less pretentious project at Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota, recom= mends his return to finish the Con- federate memorial. On the face of the cliffs of Mount Rushmore the faces of first President was unveiled a few days ago before a large throng. This me- morial will last, it is estimated, half a million years. The Stone Mountain memorial to Confederate heroes, if ex- ecuted as originally designed. will be far more beautiful and artistic the Mount Rushmore carvings. On the smooth face of the great granite moun- w!nn :\our Atlanta the‘ n‘ carve a o the Confederacy. :my the figure of Robert E. Lee has emerged, and the figures of his compatriots should soon follow him. ' *The could have T his WhICH has alréady been K n We are af with our Houston TSONS no | dissension