Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1930, Page 30

4 With Sunday Morniye Eaiion. WASHINGTON, D. C SBUNDAY.......October 12, 1930 . THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 65¢ per month c per copy each month. end of or telephone t collecuon guu. A g end o ders sent in 2. RAtional Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. = Maryland and Virginla. 17yr., 210.00: 1 mo., 85¢ ily snd Suw 141 ] - .00: 1 mo., 8¢ B A R 1. All Other States and Canada. s fl’ and Sun 1 vr., $12.00; 1 mo., 81 ly only . » iday only 00 BRI yr.. $5.00. 1mo. 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And the Commissioners may be assured that when they take up the recommendations ‘which have been approved by the joint bodies they are the result of in- tensive study of the best practices of other cities and are designed to bring Washington in line with uniformity and the most modern and expert thought on - traffic control. .. Washington in some respects, of ‘éourse, has its own peculiar problems, “but 1t is quite obvious that with State lines almost non-existent due to the motorists’ love of travel nothing but confusion results when an attempt is “made to solve them which does not con- .form with basic and fundamental prin- ciples of traffic regulation. That is why one of the major recommendations of the Commissioner’s committees is the abolition of the rotary left-hand turn and the substitution of the Hoover “turn, which is used in every other city Christopher Columbus. They are made of the same dauntless stuff. They, like he, court perils and hardships unim- aginable. In the holds of the ships that carry the Byrds of these times, and which carried the Amundsens and An- drees of another lion-hearted day, rides the soul of Christopher Columbus. It rode with Lindbergh. In that aspect of the Discovery of America, which the Nation celebrates today, Hes full cause for commegrorat- ing Columbus day in plous pride. Revising the Tariff. The creation of thé new Tariff Com- mission was greeted a% the outset by words of wisdom from one of the Na- tion’s outstanding commentators on current events. In & few terse and highly remunerative sentences ex-Presi- dent Coolidge gloomily noted reports that the Tariff Commission is about to start investigations of a wide variety of commodity schedules and predicted that this news would not be cheerfully received by business, for “A very bad tariff would be better than constant agitation, uncertainty, foreign animosity and change. * * * Hope for & purely sclentific tariff will prove s delusion. * * ¢ Any prolonged investigation * ¢ * will do more harm than good. Many will be injured while none will be satisfie ‘With the picture of the difficulties that beset his own Tariff Commission in mind the former President's rather bleak out- look on what many profess to see as the one bright feature of the new tariff act was obviously justified. And it is safe to say that no one was, or is, more fully aware of the dynamite that lies in “monkeying” with the tariff schedules than is President Hoover or his chairman of the commission, Mr. Henry Fletcher. For them the vicissl- tudes and pitfalls of tariff-making have been merely transferred from the halls of Congress to the hearing rooms of the Tariff Commission. Some seventy- odd spplications for revisions in the 1930 tariff schedules are now before the commission. Needless to say, there is enough potential controversy in many of them to send resounding echoes through the ranks of business. The commission’s first duty is to dis- pose of this flood of applications. Natu- rally, it may be presumed that they are for revisions upward. After that the commission will doubtless undertake on its own initiative the matter of downward revision to equalize & few other sched- ules. But in either case the commis- sion’s success in adjusting tariff rates will depend upon the procedure adopted. in the country except Cleveland. It is the same with other recommen- dations. The general principle of uni- formity is carried out even if the regu- lations are not as drastic as in other citles. Many communities, for instance, arbitrarily ban parking in the congested district. The suggestion which is now sdvanced to the Commissioners is that prohibited in downtown mm between eight and nine- mmm;mwms It has been shown, however, that this type of parking, while it prob- ably accommodates more vehicles than ‘parallel parking, is dangerous and ham- pers moving traffie. Accordingly, the ition has been made that it be banned on all streets, as it has been fidnmanmmmdnm committee states that “it is just as im- portant to install automatic signals at gertain points as it is to leave other points free from this type of regulation,” and Fecommends a code for future use in the installation of signals. This code is the result of study of the practices in five or aix of the largest American cities and if adopted will expedite the move- ment of traffic. There are many other recommenda- tions, which the Commissioners will act upon. Most of them are excellent and sl of them are designed to create im- proved conditions. This was no hap- bazard study of the needs of the Na- tional Capital. It was a determined effort by public-spirited citizens in co- operation with the Commissioners and the trafic authorities to put Washing- ton in step with the rest of the country. Uniformity is the nation-wide demand and it is only by uniformity that hope can be held out for a lowered auto- mobile fatality and accident toll. Wash- ington will be s better Washington from a traffic standpoint when it catch- es up with the procession and the re- port of the Commissioner’s committee, 1f adopted, will do much to bring about this desired end. ———————— “Today the news columns mention both the aircraft which arrive safely on transoceanic voyages and those which do not. The day will come when only those which flop will get a headline. ieiiss e Senator Copeland, it is announced, “gxpects” the Benate to ald the District of Columbia during the coming session. If they were all like the New York Benator he could be sure of it. — e Columbus Day. Recurring anniversaries of the day on which Christopher Columbus discovered America remind us, or should remind us, of the continuing importance of the greatest find on record. Four hundred and thirty-eight years have passed into history since the adventurous Genoese's earavels dropped anchor in these wa- ters and planted the banners of a brand-new civilization. Events of more Sranscendent and direct importance to what was to become the American peo- Ple transpired three centuries after 3402. but Columbus' achievement was Shelr precursor. After all, it was he @nd his fellow-voyagers who blazed the trall along which the legendary heroes of the Republic eventually were able to Sollow, to the glory of what is now the Vnited States of America. 1t is well that the epic of Christopher Columbus and the Discovery is taught to the youth of America. It still breathes the spirit of courage, enter- piise and heroism. Today only a few Any long period of uncertainty as to what will happen, once the commission takes an application for rate change under advisement, is certain to react adversely in the industry affected. As itis impossible entirely to avoid this reaction the commission's only recourse is to cut short the period of uncertainty and waiting. This it hopes to do by regard- ing every application as a matter of public importance and expediting the business of hearings, lnvufinfim and kept a deep and dark secret during the period of investigation. Mr, Fletcher's plan, which is described in detall else- where in today's Star, should make it possible to cut down this time to months, instead of years, and the pro- ceedings will be given full publicity. President Hoover foresaw the dan- ciples laid down assure & protective basis.” In other words, the Tariff Com- mission is not planning to go into a huddle over the 1930 schedules and emerge with a recommendation for wholesale revision of rates. Each item will be, and should be, handled sepa- rately on its merits and disposed of one at a time. The keynote of the Tariff Commis- slon’s policy should be speed and cer- tainty that every application will be settled, one way or the other, in the least possible time. This can only be accomplished by rigid adherence to the principle that the Tariff Commission is not & political tariff-making machine, but & scientific fact-finding body, and by the introduction of efficient methods for the quick disposal of public busi- ness. Mr. Fletcher's announced plans are the best answer to Mr. Coolidge's undoubtedly well founded, but not nec- essarily accurate, observations. ————— Atlanta, Ga,, in her suit against the director of the census to obtain & much greater population figure and a higher rating, should remember Aesop's fable of the frog who puffed himself out to emulate the ox. ————— ‘The Prince of Wales wears a high- land bonnet on his trips to Balmoral Castle, but 50 far no Scottish lassle, or maid of any other nationality, has been able to put & bee In it. e Speed. No air speed records seem to be safe | from this doughty Capt. Hawks, who every time he steps into his tiny plane goes somewhere faster than anybody else has ever done before. The latest is a little jaunt he took from New York to Philadelphia and back. Going down, his motor must have been missing, be- cause it took him all of twenty-four minutes, but on the return trip he made up for it by setting his ship down at his destination just twenty minutes after leaving the Pennsylvania metropolis. Before that Capt. Hawks had been in Boston, When he started from New York, a few days ago, he was in a little bit of a hurry, probably late for an appointment or something, and he THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 12, 1930—PART THE EVENING STAR |resions are the modern prototypes of | tably behind in speed development and the issue has been put squarely up to commercial aviation. And the answer to it is the two-hundred-and-fifty-mile- an-hour racer with which Hawks is daily compiling new records. ‘To be a success from any standpoint, military or civil, flylng must be fast in order to be effective. Granting stur- diness of construction, it was the speediest planes in the World War which were the most to be feared. In civil fiying, as it is developing today, the planes must be fast in order %o compete with other methods of trans- portation. If an air trip, for instance, takes almost as long as a train trip, little is to be gained by using the ether route. Hawks and others, who by their ac- complishments lead the way in speed development, are promoting the cause of commercial aviation. Plane builders are studylng new methods of stream- lining, and engine builders are striving to produce lighter, more powerful and better motors, Both are given incen- tive by fiyers who draw public atten- tion o the latent speed ability of ships of the air. Even wheels ave now being incased in streamlined hoods, while the motor cowling is still novel enough to be classed with the latest developments. In fact, successful as is the air- cooled radial engine, it would not be surprising if at some future date it was abandoned for motors cooled by a newly discovered chemical because of the small wind resistance offered by the latter type. Speed is the watchword, and speed will be had. And it is well within the bounds of reason that a few years hence will see regular air liners approximat- ing the speed that today is made only by special racing planes. ———— Btocks are ‘way down and Stock Ex- change seats 'way up. To the uninitiated this situation always seems suspiciously strange. One of the ways to improve it is for the uninitiated to prefer to stay that way. ———— e A shipment of matches from Russia was assessed an extra penalty because the boxes were 8o illegibly marked that the country of origin was not plainly shown. The heads might be “Tom Thumb” bombs, too. —_——— ‘There are more law schools and law students in the United States than ever before. But not so many of the latter on the strong foot ball teams as for- merly. —_——— Since Mussolini's rise to power the “boot” of Italy has to be kept equipped with & rubber heel. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Unreality. Wise men figure out ‘That we're gravely in doubt About things—many things. 8o philosophers say, And the poet, 8o gay, Likewise sings—sweetly sings. They err who insist Some things really exist, For it seems—merely seems; And the world, with its show, And the days, as they go, Are but dreams—idle dreams. The pleasures we nurse, ‘The misfortunes we curse, Are but shades—empty shades. O'er the mind comes a thought, Like & picture swift caught, Then it fades—quickly fades. We stumble and grope, And we sometimes lose hope "Mid these schemes—wicked schemes. But we'll waken sope day, And we'll smile as we say, “They were dreams—idle dreams.” Profiteering. “So you still think that every man has his price?” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “And & lot of the little fellows manage to do some scandalous overcharging.” ‘ An Enterprise Came to Naught. “What Crimson Guich needs,” sald Broncho Bob, “is a race track.’ “Why don't you start one?” “Tried it. But it was no use. There ‘wasn't anybody that would bother about gallopin’ the ponies. Everybody wanted to be a bookmaker.” Law of Compensation. ‘You'll see it proved 'most every day; ‘The story isn't new— ‘The man who has a lot to say Has nothing much to do. Slighted. “How's your brother doing in the Government service?” “Oh, he's 'way in the background!” answered Farmer Corntossel. “He never gets nobody to take any notice of him. He's worked for the Government for ten years and nobody has sald a word about investigating him.” Significance. “Remember,” sald the grave counselor, “that much money does not necessarily indicate great success.” “No,” answered the ambitious youth, “but its entire absence is a pretty sure sign of failure.” Transition. A sharpness soon will touch the air As Summer turns to flee; Ere long we'll find a frost bite where The freckle used to be. “Some chbfllun,” said Uncle Eben, “learn to talk befo' dey is two years old, but mighty few of 'em learns to say anything wuf listenin’ to by de time dey is fifty.” Or Yes-Man Jobs. From the Port Worth Record-Telesram. It is, maybe, all right to say what you please, but it is only those who prac- tice saying what pleases other people that get to be radio announcers and toastmasters. ————t “stepped on it.” He made the distance in fifty-three minutes. And then there is a little matter of the day that the fiyer decided to hop off from Los An-| geles to keep a dinner engagement in New York that night. He kept his en- gagement all right, landing in New York twelve hours and twenty-five min- utes later, with a flying time of less' or 50 having been devoted to refueling and & bit of lunch. Hawks and his plane are what Amer- ica has required for years. So startling places on the earth await the first- eomer. Admiral Byrd and the other fritrepid men of America and Europe ~ Who from time to time invade the hith- are his achievements that they graph- ically stress the need for continued de- velopment of high-speed ships. The erto untrodden reaches of the polar Army and the Navy have fallen lamen- than twelve hours, forty-five m:nuuui But It’s Righteous. Prom the Des Moines Tribune-Capital. | _After bandits have grabbed off about mm of a bank’s money, they don't y to listen to a talk on the subject cnme Never Pays. S On the Stock Exchange. From the Toronto Daily Star. They sa; t.hn\tyoulnoklben | strasght in’ the eye he will tun and make off, but let those who say this meet a bear and try it. oo Try to Find Them. "oln the Liitle Rock Arksnsas Democrat. e Good Samaritan role is mights uunmnt 1! you can find enough fol t suspect your motives, CHANGING SEASONS BY THE RIGHT REV JAMES _E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, ishop of Text: “Forgetting the ‘hlfidl which are behind, and stretching /mg'm to the things which are before.”— Philippians, .13, The long Summer days are ended, the days of vacation are but memories, the schools are full of ruddy children, and busy world i once again at its mh season n.s lt oomu and goes ‘To some o( ere h llttle that is Mce-ble ot 'change except the con- sciousness that time is ing and that things continue as they were. To the more reflective each changing season must have & meaning. There must come not only the sense of shortened days and cooler nights, but a deepen- ed sense of what all this implies. One does not have to be morbid to be reflective. One does not have to be a critical moralist to see in the signs | tha of the seasons lessons that have a deep meaning. Our age is not given over- much to reflection, and serious think- ing is less common than it once was. I confess as I grow ohtler ‘m’n every passing season, every transition, y Vwaao period, yes, every anniversary has a memlhl. & meaning that I dare not neglect to consider. That life’s outlook is affe more by what we thlnk than by en- vironing circumstances is clearly evi- dent. Luxuries and conveniences, thesa we gladly accept and enjoy, but they do not necessarily guarantee to us hap- piness or determine our judgments as | to the real values of life. After the Sum- mer has passed as we Tesume our nor- mal duties, what is our outlook uj rn the world in which we live? What our relation ot it? Some one says, “We get out of life precisely what we b into it.” This is largely true. In otl words, our mental attitude is the clp- termining factor in the whole matte: ‘Take our occupation as an illustration: we can, if we will, look upon our work as imposed drudgery, a duty to be done it as our contribution to the common good of the community of which we form a part. There is 8 view of work that lightens some of its burdens and lends to it a zest and an enthusiasm that makes it a real privilege. If we Cotton Meeting Means of Spurring Buyers|s BY WILLIAM HARD. Just about the most important eon- ference 80 far between Government and business for the revival of business ac- umy and prosperity is hwpmlu to- rrow in New Orleans, when the pri- vlte traders belonging to the Atlantic Cotton Shippers’ Association will begin | di meeting with governmental officials headed by Secretary of Commerce La- mont and Chairman Legge of the Ped- eral Farm Board, The occasion will be of such consequence that it would have been attended also by mlme Meyer, new governor of the Federal Reserve Board, had he not Ween ulled to New York by a death in In company with Chairman Legge there will be Carl Wluh.uu, cotton member of the Federal Farm Board, who takes the open view that: “The man who does not buy cotton now will pay more for it presently.” Basis of Stability. Cotton our principal export product, as a basic product for domu'-lc consumpuon. the Federal au- thorities regard its present plight as one of the main obstacles to general ?Hu restoration and stability throughout courtry. It is noted here that the ad- vent of Mr. Meyer into the governor- ship of the Federal Reserve Board has been accompanied immediately by a considerable concentration upon _the cotton problem. The meeting at New Orleans, while held upon the initiative of the private interests composing the Atlantic Cotton Shippers’ Association, is known to be in y with the positive desires of Federal ‘The meeting represents a definite ef- fort to harmonize the public policies and the private policles wh!ch in the matter of cotton as well as in the matter of other commodities in other parts of the country, have lately fre- quently clashed. Private traders in as in wheat, have in numerous instances expressed themselves puzzled and antagonized by the Federal Govern- ment’s dealings through co-operative societies and_through stabilization ecor- porations. The New Orleans meeting may be taken as a.deliberate endeavor to establish now in cotton and perhaps afterward in other lines of business a genuine unison of sentiments and of actions between governmental assistance and private enterprise. Must Stimulate Buying. The basic question at New Orleans, it is held here, will be the same one which is perplzxin‘ every region of the whole country. That question is: What can start people buying more of the basic ordinary things of life? It is observed that movies and base ball games and aeronautical exhibitions | done, have drawn vast assemblages. It is ob- served that multitudes of people are pil- ing up mounds of surplus money in sav- ings banks. It is observed that people on the whole are meeting their ml payments for past purchases It is observed that even Wi M is great unemployment a large per- centage of the unemployed seem to be carried along by members of their fam- ilies of by remoter relatives who are still working with a consequent smaller a:ed of charitable rescue than there ings, it is obnrvad exist; and yet, at the same it s Nulu] 0 bserved, enormous tuna exist rud\lyllvomuptumwwmb\mm it they n flo in even a small part of their potential volume toward e;xluted purchases basic common- places, ~ At New Orleans the conundrum of howmnve--unwmcnwwmb. the central query of all present. problem-uul element chiefly ltllfllnd will be the psychology of the llnfl chaser, the ultimate consumer, of and of cotton goods. Government Offers Many Alds. ‘The Federal Government has already gone great distances toward financially fortitying the producer of cot- ton itself in his weary waiting for the ultimate consumer to resume or increase his consuming. The tale of the Gov- ernment’s special aids to the primary producer in order to enable him to hold out for a cotton price advance stands today as follows: Out of a total existing world supply of American cotton amounting to some twenty-one million bales, the Govern- ment’s Cotton Stabilization Corporation is holding some one million three hun- dred thousand bales which it acquired at a Erlu quite higher than the price prevalling today and which it has en- Ifed itself not to liquidate till next unless in the meantime a substan- !ltl price advance shall have occurnd ‘The money for the holding of these one million three hundred thousand bales of cotton has enucumdbythe Cotton Stabilization ration in | many millions of dolhn om private commercial banks, in many other mil- lions of dollars from the Federal inter- mediate credit banks (which, in turn, have sold a corresponding amount of ‘debenturu" to private investors), and, finally, in many other uaw@x milt lions of dollars from the Fedes of rectly from the Federal ‘neuurxl total of public and private fun involved in actual outright vm.hdnml of cotton from the market is placed by Carl Willlams, cotton member of the Federal Pum Bonm at above eighty- five million dol Mr. wlllllml mrt.hn‘ states that on an appropriation of some two hundred and fifty million dollars from Congress and done reluctantly, or we can regard | ga Board, which derives its Tesources dl-lvf ‘wool. ashington. can really feel that the small or I place we fill is indispensable to common good, then our work has its own compensation, If we can judge it not by exaggerating its lmporhnee but by appraising its real value, it can be- come to us a source of joy and deep satisfaction. It were well for us to for- le' l“ Xuflul'u and disappointments, to to our assets than to our lilbfllflu Again, as we front the new season, it were well that we made a fresh ap- praisal of that part of the world in which our life is cast. Too many of us carry over into every new season old prejudices and dislikes. Some of us tend to grow critical and cynical in our judgments of men and Now and again we meet those who seem to hnvo as their pet maxim, “There is none t doeth good; no, A hope ful mvl of life' is far better and more satisfying. We cannot better the world about us by thinking ill of it. The most helpful people in & community are in- variably the most hopeful. If our Chris- tian faith does not make us more opti- mistic it is out of consonance with the ideals and teachings of the great Master. , in our relation to the church, cted | of whatever name it may be, it surely is wise for us to make a fresh appraisal of our responsibilities and obligations as they concern our relation to it. The chusch is not tendered efficient simply because on its official side it is well or- ganized. Beechur used to maintain !.htr. ‘what mok place at the door of the church was of equal importance with what took place In its pulpit. In other words, those who make up a congrega- tion determine very largely the church's atmosphere. If we look on our attend- ance upon the church's services as a duty to be reluctantly discharged, if we have an attitude of mind that is critical and ungenerous, we create situation that the most eloquent preach- ing cannot resist or overcome. Congre- tions largely de e the pulpit's efficlency and power. The Fall has come, the slogan is “Business as usual” life resumes its normal course. Let unmt the things that are behind and out to the things that are before. to Seek the Federal Farm Board now, in ufll to the value of $1,250,000,000. sum thus ted under Federal i 'f‘%ni‘éw“’“‘“&"‘x' Srimary cultural prospects for ary producers would seem to be almost as wwlul as the most daring could uea.nwhlle. altogether aside from the 1,300,000 bales of cotton held by the Government's Cotton Stabilization - poration, t.hn Pederal Farm Board has , or has inspired other agencies co-operative societies whlch now together hold some three million bales. OHM'I to Discount Loans. Meanwhile, mruur the Federal Farm Loan Board, lddo from its co- m- wl Federal Farm has offered uxmulh its own in- termediate credit banks discount loans extended by commercial banks to cotton growers to the extent of 9 cents on each pound of cotton, although the current hardly rises above fhat level. This offer has been widely ‘welcomed in the eowon Meanwhile, finally, the serve Board, almost instantly upon Mr. Meyer’s assumption of its .vvernorsmp. lnnomud wlax ll;n eye known to be direc upon cotton, that the ’edcrell‘pecl’eflerve banks would “meet the pn;\;lems connected with the mar- m’rfi: lum“git"file situation then is: has and is being carried flrthzr Can the New Orleans meeting devise any method of bringing the consumer into action? ‘The answer, if any, it is here belleved, would have echoes everywhere. (Copyright, 1930,) Decrease in Farmers Seen as Relief Plan |, BY HARDEN COLFAX. Industrial, commercial, financial and political Washington is still worrying about the question, “What are we gols to wo with or for the farmer?” Economists within and without the great governmental departments have come to the conclusion that the only thing that can be done is to reduce the farmer in numbers and increase his earning power. ‘The trouble is that few of these specialists agree on how this is to be ‘They agree that perhaps we have wo mny farmers in the United States. rural mulnlun drawing sus- 'cnl.nol from the farms amounts to ent nearly one-third of the total population. e auf es, among them the executives of large railroad lines, say that 10 per cent cmud produce all the foodstufls n-eed by the enure country and that the remaining 23 per cent should be placed in mdumm activities. Farmer Doesn't Fix Prices. Merchants, on the other hand, say (:‘:‘GI the 33 perl cent Xlrg‘ pupuhuoni an_annual wer of some 3120000000%3 is th fickbnn of the Nation's business. The farmer g mwywpumnot:;fn;n y more proportiona = what he b\ll’. from others than he 4 celves for what he sells them. ‘The farmer is the only producer in m world who does not fix ce of e produces. The buyer fixes the yflu for practically everything the farm- er raises. When the farmer wishes to “ | sell his , hay, live stock, eggs or try, he brings his product to mar- et. There he is told that the price is Tm&:mnhhe“h dlfiell]lclined !?edlell al e, he reques| to hhhh'lrum:l‘; ye’!uzhe cannot take them home. He has no place to put them and some of them are sure to deteriorate on his hands. He is therefore at the mercy of the buyer, If there is a demand for certain products and supply is short, competi- tion between buyers forces the price high; but if there is a surplus the farm- | er must take what the buyer offers. Surplus Makes Price. Few farmers realize that the price is not made by volume, but by surplus. ' This country consumes a certain num- ber of bushels of wheat. If the farmer Capi_taI Sidelights ‘l! "ll.'- P. KENNEDY. With a vigorous campaign on for control of the House, and with some S S AT crats may gain s majority in the House sufficient to allow them to “organize” the House—that is, to take over the Speakership, chairmanship of commit- tees and have first call on the various Jobs uludl{ referred to as “‘patronage”— mflflfl"bo speculation has arisen re- the committee chairmen and t.hu pcepondgn.nt power that the South ‘would exercise. Under the senlority rule, time-hon- ored and adhered to by whichever party may be in majority, the South would command the chairmanship of 33 out of the 45 committees. Representative John N. Garner of Texas, now minority leader, would be elected Speaker, and Representative James W. Collier of mpl l' ogl‘d .t::pomnut) %’ d of the an eans Committee. ive Jo- nph w.n Byms of Tennessee come chairman of the House Appropria- tions Committee. ‘The other committee chairmanships that the South would inherit are: Accounts, Representative Lindsay C. ‘Warren of North Carolina. Agriculture, Representative James B. Aswell of Louisiana. Census, pruenhuva John E. Ran kin of Mississipp! Civil MflCE. nmuuv- Lamar .Yerflerl of Alabama. laims, Representative John C. Box of 'rexu. and Representatives in Congress, resentative Lamar Jeffers of Alabama. Elections, No. 1 Representative Ed- ward E. Eslick of Tennessee. Elections, No. 3 Representative John H. Kerr of North Carolina. Expenditures in the Executive De- partments, Representative Allard H. Gasque of South Carolina. Flood Control, Representative Riley J. Wilson of Louisiana. Immigration and Naturalization, Rep- resentative John C. Box of Texas. Interstate and mre%n Commerce, Representative Sam Reyburn of Texas. Merec! Fisheries, Rep- resentative Edwin L. Davis of Tennes- Military Affairs, truenuun Percy E. Quin of Mississi Naval Affairs, ntative Carl of Georgia. Patents, mruenhuu Pritz Lanham of Texas. Public Buildings and Orounds Repre- sentative Fritz G. Lanham of Texas. Rivers and Harbors, Representative Joseph J. Mansfield of Texas. Representative Edward B. Al- mon of Alabama. Rules, Representative Edward W. Pou of North Carolina. Territories, Represéntative Willlam C. mk!ord of s o Repuun ve Miles C. All‘md of Alabam ‘World War anm Legislation, Hhfln John E. Rankin of Ipp! nmnbomhdmtwm.etthu Southern members have their choice of several eommmae chairman- ships if the Democrats poll a m!vmy In that event, in & number of instan the next ranking Democrat on the oon- mittee is also a Southerner and will succeed to the chairmanship. The election holds such great Pe«nllo- g‘ ‘The “noble conception” of World War Veterans in the Bowen-Frankl Post, No. 55, ment to Richard , soldier in the War between the States, on December 13, 1862, during the battle of Fredericksburg, 18 commended by Representative John J. McSwain of South Carolina, himsel! a World w.r veteran, who, ln _describing Kirkland’s mu—m act, sa3 ‘whole world knows of the ter- rible slaughter executed by Gcn!sdmu Tocated at. the Toot of Marpes Hel a of Maryes Hellhh. More than 8,000 of Union mlmmvpenfleldmdneun:to amn«o the Confederate line were killed and wmmded during the seven brave charges made across the open jpaces. The dead and wounded were strewn thick upon the land, and late in the day young Dick Kirkland, a mere lad in his early teens, heard some of the wounded enemy moaning and beg- ging for water. From many directions in that field of death and blood there arose cries for ‘Water, water; for God's sake, water!' The heart of this noble youth was so moved by lgrnla that he l’pplled to be permitted to carry into the field where bullets were flying thick and fast from every direction. Cuia. e sttty T cuf The Boutlumer bounded over the mgzm :It&! six 1:nxteen‘:fl of water an e nearest sufferer un- harmed. He knelt beside the wounded man, then known by the world as an “enemy,” and tenderly raised his droop- I wates 1o the Jversh Sipe o the e feves of the suffering mldler. ‘Then !mmp'ona another of those suffering and cryln( for water he went until the supply was gone. Then he returned for another l\l piy of water and for an howr and if did this noble young mas rush back and forth with his canteens full of water to minister to the cries of humanity. Thus above war's hideous roar, above the passions of sections and parties, did the appeal for mercy and relief prevail in the heart of a brave soldler and a true man. Young Kirk- land was soon promoted to be a leu- tenant, and at the battle of Chicka- mauga he poured out his own lifeblood ldl"fur'.het evidence of his devotion to uty.” Long, Long Trial. From the Oklahoma Oity Dally Oklahoman. Bishop Cannon seems to be finding {the 1928 presidential campaign a rather protracted affair. with rusty and obsolescent equlpman wm: such !n{nu they say—and Chair- an Legge of ?fl’t both in farm machinery and in arm production, bears them out—the domestic farmer cannot compeu with the Russian farmer, who is forced to labor at a low and stipulated wage produces more than that amount he | jave], must sell the surplus elsewhere. The return from his full crop dzrenda not t of it for, but what he can get for all of it. Economists say that it is for this rea- wn that, any effort to aid the farmer prices has failed. It may to control markets and prices within this country, but this country does not control world mar- kets, which are dominated by world sur- pluses. Despite the fact that the United States is one of the main food pro- ducers of the world, the price of wheat is made in_Liverpool. S0 is the price The of American fresh meats is made in Chicago, but the price of world meats is made in London and Buenos Aires. Argentina dominates the linseed market. Australian and Scan- dinavian butter can compete in our do- mestic markets, tural Department experts dn- clare ‘that no smail of on lnuflcr ica’s crops are iced and m&m&efl methods ane lands, under e Farming Is Big Business. Some of the men who want to see the farmer succeed, and they 1nc1uda leaders in the railroad and manufac- turing lnaut-rm and the wholesalers and umum express the bellef that 11 is big business and that in this day of competition it must be handled by big corporations which can utilize every advantage to be secured from the money market, from the de- velu‘fmenl. of machinery and from the aval lbllity of lll:or 40-acre farms they see moooo -acre hrma ‘They see the rel.. tively unptoducfive or worked-out lands returned to forestry and the growing ol timber, and they relegate to the city neighborhoods the dairy and truck the Farm Board, an ex- [ 92 operations which have been scattered heretofore, but which, they feel, mliht gub their < overhead ' costs -materiall through the transportation and dmrl bution methods of bl; companes. (Copyright, 1930.) ly ! plaint is made that a CITY NOISES BY FREDERIC There are eight main sources and seventy suhldhry sources of the noises that go to make the bedlam that is the l'rumz city of the world, according to the report of the Noise Abatement Com= mi<sion of the Department of Health of the City of New York, which has just been made public. The main headings are traffic, 8- portation, building operations, s, streets, river and hlrbm‘ collections and deliveries and_miscellaneous. Under traffic, automobiles, trucks, busses and motor cycles are charged with contributing to the city roar through their horns, brakes, cut-outs, gears, defective mufflers, exhaust Whistles, rattling Elfl-s and rlfll\n‘ loads, sirens, L] doormen’s whistles. Trolley cars, Lrllnl the sub- way and the elevated are the trans- portation sources of noise Which comes from their turnstiles, brakes, rattling wheels and bodies, defective switches and joints, wheel impacts, whistles. bells, “steam and other exhausts and shifting cars, In building operations there are pneu- llflmc drills u;\d Hv]:un,h el u‘:‘t; Tom steam and gasoline hoists shovels, pile drivers, blasting, loading and unloading, shouting and compressors to add to the din, whflemlhamm- of almost seven millions of people llndincredlbh volume hogn no hsh::; loud speakers, piamos, p! other musical instruments, Kfl par- ties and barking dogs and yowling cats. Classed as street noises are those from radio and music stores, from ped- dlers 2 d {1 arages Elsction of President, Vice President | s taut stongsc From the Tive o the river and harbor are heard whlltlu. bells and sirens, motor exhausts and horns. Ash, ‘bage, milk, newspaper, food mail and express collection or deliveries join in the assault on eardrums and! gec nerves, while classed as miscellaneous are the sounds from airplanes, factories, restaurants and amusement halls. Nothing is said in the report about Tom Thumb golf courses, the cheers with which transatlantic aviators, polar explorers and Bobby Jones are wel- comed and the crashes and groans when the bottom falls out of the stock mar- ket, but it may be assumed the com- mission will take them up in & supple- mentary investigation. chlng. an and municipal omehll, of all companies connected with ship- ing was pledged to diminish the such sources. Men in charge of fleets of motor trucks agreed to have the pro: lous blewlu of horns mgped nnd drivers of il wagons ha: tructed by to keep euz—cuu closed ‘warning uu postmaster and to use their g signals only revent accidents. The Interbor- ansit_Co. 'o turnstiles throughout lfinan Manhattan Transit Oo followed Fifty Years Ago In The Star Street Names. ' ol The Star in its issue of October 7, 1880, comments 1. HASKIN. W. Wynne, the commissioner of health, m-eummeawm-mep ss that has been made. Residents of and visitors to the metropolis may be unable as yet to believe that the city s materially quieter than it was a ago, but that, it is said, lnbeclu.seth‘ volume of noise by day and by nl,h‘ was 50 nut that lnthlnx short 50 per o nducuon could not be noted save A quutlonnllre lo determine what kind of noises annoyed New Yorkers showed that 36.28 per cent of the com- plaints were against traffic noises, 16.39 per cent against transportation noises, 12.34 per cent against radios, 9.23 per cent t the noise made in collnc- tions and deliveries, 8.28 against whistles and bells, 7.4 per cent against pneu- matic drills and riveters and other con- struction noises, 7.27 per cem against newsboys, ‘reddltl’fl dogs, d wild fes and 2.89 per cent uumt noises rom miscellaneous sources. How Noise Is Measured. A traveling noise laboratory crulsed Greater New York under the direction was m: cal me: and mflefly&nd fitted wfl.h noise meas devices of two t; ne that measured the deafening effects of noise and the other, called a noise meter, that picked up the noise direct- ly through a mictophone and registered ts intensity on a dial. The unit of loud.ne- used was the decibel, which has been described approximately as smallest change which the ear can detect in the level of sound. More accurately, the unit may be de- fined as the ratio of intensities. Thus if the intensities of two sounds are in the ratio of 10 to 1, they differ by 10 ibels. Without lotfll into the tech- nicalities of the processes by which it arrived at its conclusions, it may be said that the commission found, for example, that the clatter of riveting and the roar of blasting in subway ex- cavations are almost 10,000,000,000 times as intense as the smallest sound that can be distinguished by the hu- man ear. The blast of & steamship whistle is Politics in Britain BY A. 0. GARDINER, England’s Greatest Liberal Editor. dentally set up Stanley Baldwin, whose seat in the Conservative party saddle had been tottering under the attacks of Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere. blunt dismissal of the idea of em- trade as neither possible nor desirable was based on the fact that Canada is inflexibly committed to the protection of her manufacturing inter- those | ests, not merely against foreign coun- in the city which are now desig- nated by the meager and unmunlxu appeliation afforded by the letters of g: :ilblnbeL All the advantages of 2T¢ | hand pre- tries, but also against British competi-~ tion. Having swept Lord Beaverbrook from the fleld, Mr. Bennett with the other offered Premier MacDonald & to establish a system of im- 1 vruerennu between all parts of ' | the empire, based upon. & 10 per cent " | tariffs or uj be given to each one of the lettered streets. These names, it is sug- gested, should be those of distinguished American citizens, about whose his- torical importance and hold on the af- | Pomer: fections of the people there could be no question—those north of the Cupi'wl. to bear the names of men distinguished in the walks of statesmanship, litera- - | ture, me arts and sciences, and those south to be named after mmhry And a5 away wiin the present.dup) away wi present dupllutcd. easily confounded and senseless nomen- clnun. and give to each street a prop- significant and euphonious name vlum\n sacrificing any of the advan- tages of an l-lphnbeue-l arrangement. The adoption of such names would, moreover, indissolubly bind up with the everyday life of the National Capital a part of the history, honor and of the whole country—a point whlch would not be overlooked by any other nation this.” » * ¥ In The Star of October 9, 1880, is printed a third o{d- column_of con- Local News Ends,” vivid in Brief. tal of a half a century |¢o in part as follows: proposed parking of the street betmn the Ebbits & Hotse and Willard's on Fourteenth street has been aban- doned for the pruent ‘The unusual growth of the shade trees has been nouced this past season. The Sum- meu dof war does not seem to have the midnight concerts. An exumlan of one of the lines of street railway to the new Bureau of Engrav- ing and Printing s talked of. The ll) of the xnnm blocks on grades venth street is completed. It - the new sweeping conmpuon nwly all night to swee contractor swept it Semury Sherman's new opposite Franklin Square is about com- The M Street Bridge is being | tory, . Co! rulwilllnlm ed n:f increase D!BI' Monument _has grown this year. The Star received its telegraph matter one day this week over one of its new lknohlefnphu machines, which receives messages in shorthand. At the recent Boston con- vention the Washington Fire Depart- ment was regarded as one of the best 1n the UMM States, The telephone from Georgetown to Oumher- lAnd lnd is the lon in United States, 138 miles. Franklin Pu conhlnl a greater vlriev,y of trees than tzxk in the country of its size. The and Potomac Railroad will be double-tracked in less than a year. The police have broken up the monte games practiced heretofore on unsus- strangers at Arlington. Com- of boys v'nnonz are breaking wihdows al nlwoh avenue and R street with bean ers; the police have been glory | electorate increase in the prevailing general tariffs yet to be created. His meth rmnmu thh projecl. was onenunoulfy not to_th government in power, huc to the Cun- servatives, who hope soon to be in The gesture had an immediate effect. Mr. Bu.ld visibly relieved :t Lhe knockout administered Belvermook promptly lnau‘hed at lh! offer in order to rehabilitate himself in the leadership of the party, his fall from which seemed imminent. On Fri- day he issued a statement accepting the Bennm scheme and unnoununt that the Conlervmve ggcny formulate pgonl ect to the principle submit v.ham to the country at the lection on bue to submit it to a referendum of the when he is returned to office. Thus while Lord Beaverbrook is beaten Odds and | ofmc which present &! cause cture of t.he Capi- | by Premier Bennett on empire free trade, Mr. Baldwin is equally beaten on the policy he has sought to impose on the Conservatives. Ever since his defeat in the election of 1923 he has resisted to commit his party to support food taxes, not be- disapproved them, but be- cause he was convinced they would be fatal to the success of the Conserva- tives at the polls. But the tide of party opinion has gone overwhelmingly against him on the protectionist issue and hostile feeling had grown so strong that his deposition seemed only a mat- ter of weeks, If Premier Bennett's brave words have not overcome Mr. Baldwin's doubts, \‘-hey have provided him with the occa~ to take the plunge and retain nomlnll leadership of his party by fol- lowing in its wake. The effect of his declaration undoubtedly will be the con- solidation of the party by the oblitera- tion of the Beaverbrook-Rothermere disruptive factors, but in spite of !hh fact it is doubtful whether thexgl into whole-hog protection wi not prejudice Conservative chances of vic- for the cry of food taxes will eqmny consolidate the Labor opposition give them the support of the Ub!nu in constituencies where Liberal m&udflm are not standing for elec- n. All_ne comment es. i ST onman, s, food taxes the que ot r.he electlon n.nfl that the appeal to the country cannot be long delayed. The Conservative with few exceptions enthmhatflnnl;; indorlu t.he Bennett-Baldwin program, l)echwr pertinently asks whe'.her u tish imports cannot scale the present tariff wall of the dominions, they will be enabled to Sl more easily over the wall which has first been made higher only to be lowered again. Tho Liberal and Labor press denounces me as designed to tax the food o! 50,000,000 people for thie benefit of Canadian mmu(umnn‘ !mnu 10_per cent preference would still leave them as securely protected t British manufacturers a8 they are now, (Copyright, 1030.)