Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1930, Page 8

- A {THE EVENING Sunda; Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY.......October 27, 1030 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor r Newspaper Company Business Office: and Pennsylvania Ave. ork Office: 110 East 42nd 8t e: Lake Michigan Bulldii.g. ice: 14 Regent 8., London, England. 11th St New the City. . 48c per month ar 4,80 per month yer, month Mail—Payable in Advance. land iy All Other States and C: and A Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is cxclusively entitled to_the use for republication of ail news cis- Patehes credited (o it or not ‘otherwise cred- i this paper and also the local news is pap s published herein. Al rishts of publication of special aispatches berein are also rererved. Navy Day and Limitation, ‘Whether by accident or design, Great Britain, Japan and the United States chose October 27, Navy day in this country, as the date for a spec- tacular, globe-encircling radio broad- cast, wherein was proclaimed the im- minent exchange of the documents ratifying the three-power limitation pact of 1930. Listeners throughout the world this morning heard Premier Hamaguch! of Japan,. Prime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain and the President of the United States acclaim in brief but prescient words the bless- ings of the treaty. These consist, in Mr. Hoover's phrase at the White House, of “the substitution of mutual trust, good will and confidence for sus- pleion and competition” in the realm of naval building. In another striking passage, the President described the effects of the Anglo-American-Jap- anese agreement as “fair to all, dan- gerous to none.” No statement of the President will challenge so much attention as the rugged expression of his hope that the rule of “common sense” will continue to prevail, so that the cause of naval limitation will progress. Mr. Hoover did not fail to dwell upon the barrier that lies across its path in the form of the Pranco-Italian impasse. But he cherishes confidence that the efforts of Paris and Rome, though ineffectual to date, may eventually lead to their Joining Japan, Great Britain and the United States in putting a definite ‘world-wide end to competitive construc- tion at sea. LS It is well for the American people to be reminded on Navy day that an un- derstanding among all the naval powers remains yet to be accomplished. The signatories to the London treaty have set a notable example. Among the three of them, they represent the vast bulk of the world's sea power. But with the French and Italian navies out- side a limitation agreement, it cannot be sald that the ideal of total abolition of international ' rivalry has been achieved. Indeed, until France and Ttaly afrive at what President Hoover limitation is only partially obtained. The famous “escalator” clause definitely gives Japan, Great Britain and the United States the right to build beyond the treaty provislons if other powers ~—ie., Prance and Italy—do not come to terms. Mr. Hoover asserts that “never again must a race in naval armaments be allowed to develop.” Pending the Reports are that “fh Jackson County, West Virginia—an agricultural county on the Ohio River—two families out of every five will not have sufficient food for the Winter.” Other counties prob- ably are in a situation nearly as seri- ous. There will be plenty of work for relief agencies. The distress due to the drought is found in patches, but it is none the less real. It is largely confined to the countryside and the small towns in the agricultural counties. It has added little to the distress of the cities and the industrial towps, for there has been no notable national food shortage resulting in higher prices. Such com- munitiesshave troubles enough of their own. Thus concentrated in scattered places the drought disaster is rather inar- ticulate. In a prosperous year much attention would be paid to it which it does not receive under present condi- tions. The stricken neighborhoods are spurred on to greater efforts to work out their own salvation. . They will receive some help. But in the rural areas of the Middle Atlantic States there is a considerable fleld for ingenuity and initiative, even in eold weather, for persons familiar with the ways of nature. All that can be said is that the picture is very nearly painted. roe o A Scandal Gone Wrong. Ofll is a slippery substance, but oil shale is a rocky formation. A careful study of the Department of Justice re- port on Mr. Ralph Kelley's charges against Department of the Interior administration of oil shale lands in- vites the conclusion, however, that if one cannot slip up on ofl shale, one may stub one's toes. Mr. Kelley has stubbed his toes. ‘When Mr. Kelley came roaring out of the West with astounding revela- tions concerning a gigantic steal on the part of various and sundry power- ful interests, amounting to such hand- some sums as forty billions of dollars’ worth of ofl shale lands, and blamed the theft on political favoritism shown powerful interests by the Interior De- partment under past and present Sec- retaries, the public sat up and took notice. An expert Government official, with twenty-five years of faithful serv- ice behind him, is not apt to go off half-cocked or to shoot at the moon, and Mr. Kelley was an expert Govern- ment official with twenty-five years of faitbful service behind him. But when Mr. Kelley laid his charges before the pubiic through the columns 6f the New York World, presumably at an attractive rate per column, instead of placing them before the Department of Justice, public confidence in Mr. Kelley's dynamite must have been shaken just a wee bit. A faithful public official, pessessing the knowledge or velief that his Government and his Nation have been victimized by schem- ing politicians and hungry ofl com- panies, ought to find other mediums for presenting a carefully drawn in- dictment than the columns of even so fine and upstanding a newspaper as the New York World. And now the Department of Justice has given its version of the Kelley charges, it is difficult to d-cide whether Mr. Kelley or the Department of the Interior should henceforth assume the role of defendant. For the case may not end with the Department of Justice report. The Senate may want to look into it. If it does, Mr. Kelley will have as much to defend as the alleged culprit whom he has accused. Of the Department of Justice find- ings, two of them are interesting for reaainess of the two great Latin coun- ['the light they shed on the Kelley tries of Europe to support the Japanese, British and American peoples in making naval limitation an enduring, and not an ephemeral, situation, the American charges. The Government still owns 97 per cent of the 8,257,791 acres of Government ofl shale land in Wyoming. Utah and Colorado, and has patented, jmining camps. President’s noble aspiration is doomed |or leased, 175724 acres in all. The to remain a pious hope. patented land constitutes 3 per cent of With Europe filled with more unrest | the total. The land involved in Mr. than immediately preceded the World ‘War in 1914, with four-fifths of South America in revolution, and With China and India in varions stages of civil war, Mother Earth can hardly be said to be enjoying a placid existence or one de- signed to strengthen the world's craving for peace. Happily, no omen darkens the horizon which is designed to dis- turb our own fair land. But no man lives who can predict what may por- tend. That. “common sense” which President Hoover today glorified should persuade the Congress of the United States to enact with s minimum of delay the legislation necessary to bulld “the treaty navy.” Our statesmen fought for such a fleet at London. It is the plain duty of Congress to con- struct it. —_——— ‘Whiskers are having a rousing re- vival at the University of Kentucky. ‘There is little doubt that flerce whis- kers inspire awe in certain sorts of breasts, and also furnish a modicum of facial protection in foot ball. But the old boys who mixed it up in line play back in the 70s and 80s can tes- tify that too luxuriant & crop may prove | & boomerang. A beard makes a fine handle for a quick-fingered guard or tackle intent on breaking through. e An outstanding New Jersey business; executive declares that the cause of our business {lls has been removed and that a period of steady convalescence is at hand. Perhaps. However, many persons think there remains a chronic, though sometimes quiescent cause, and that it is plainly visible from Trinity Church Tower, New York. —tee— A Creeping Disaster. The drought was a creeping disaster. ‘Through the Summer and early Autumn prediction was hazardous because any day might bring a notable change in meteorological conditions that would alter the entire picture. There was little to do but wait for cold weather when the resources of nature would be sealed finally by killing frosts. As the Kelley's charges is presumably reduced to & portion of 7,278 acres, which were patented over Mr. Keiley's objections; patented with Mr. Kelley's partial recommendation, or patented without Mr. Kelley's saying anything one way or the other. . There was a charge that Assistant Becretary Pinney wanted to destroy some papers. Mr. Kelley's only basis for the charge, the Department of Jus- tice declares, was an alleged conversa- tion with former Commissioner Spry of the Interior Department, who now is dead. The papers in question, more- over, were not destroyed, but are still on file. And why anybody should want to destroy them, the Department of Justice has not been able to discover. The Department of Justice has given the Department of the Interior a clean bill of health. It has found nothing to substantiate Mr. Kelley's charges. Be- cause one department of the adminis- tration has cleared another depart- ment of the administration, there will be demands that the whole business be submitted to the Senate. Such & eourse would be excellent. With a copy of the files of the New York World in one hand, and a copy of the De- partment of Justice report in the other, the Benate should be able to dispose of the Iatest ofl scandal to everybody's satisfaction, and in a minimum of time. e Reds, when they beat Roman Cath- olic missionaries in China almost to death with strips of iron, fail to further, to speak mildly, their cause among the many million communicants of that faith. Most people do not like, admire or sympathize with them anyhow. It might be well for their leaders to go into conference, and propound to one another not the question, “What shall ‘we do next?” but the question, “Whither are we getting?” Gold. There is not much more undiscovered gold in the world, according to a volumi- nous report of a committee of the League of Nations. months passed rains came over consid- ! erable areas of the parched ecountry, neéw grass spread over the pastures and Tye sprouted in the fields. It became apparent that the disaster was concen- trating in certain localities—notably the Middle Atlantic States of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. No more Californias, Australias, South Africas or Alaskas remain to be found and “exploited, bringing n wealth to a few and profound changes in the economic balanee. A colorful chapter in history is very near & close. There is hardly a reglon on earth ‘h has not been penetrated and mapped by ex- Now this section has experienced its first killing frosts. The growing season is done. Very little more is to be hoped for from nature. The picture is development make Pl ‘The sunrise tints are duller on the horizon. The mystical call of far lands is less alluring. ‘The lands still unknown which offer any financial reward to the explorer and prospector are very few. Parts of T STAR |little difference. There can be a stock- | the Island of New Guinea have not been visited by white men. The interior of the Arabian desert still is a land of mys- tery, except to the nomadic tribes which dwell there. South America still has two or three considerable areas of al- most impenetrable jungle. Such Arctic wastes as Greenland and, Spitzbergen have been explored rather thoroughly in recent years. Now the Russlans are concentrating on Franz Josef Land and the other islands north of Siberia. Mac- Millan and Wilkins have effectively re- moved from hypothetic maps of the Arctic the mythical “eighth continent.” The Byrd and Wilkins expeditions have dissipated much of the fog of mystery that covered Antarctica, the ice cliffs of whose shoreline so long remained: the last frontier of explorers. Still much remains unknown in that vast, lifeless waste surrounding the South Pole. Its geological history is far from clear. Perhaps there are deposits of gold and precious stones there, awaiting the shovel of the adventurous prospectors of the future. In the other unexplored lands there is little to be hoped for. They will be made known to the world not by fortune hunters, but by scientists drawn by a more powerful allurement than prospects of sudden wealth, or by adventurers to whom danger and mys- tery are essentials of living. The world is a more drab place in which to live. Man seems to be approaching a condition of stabilization which may or not be good for him. The lure of gold has been a powerful civilizing force. The plow and the factory have fol- lowed the prospector. Farming villages and industrial cities have followed the Now mankind is left with no more worlds to conquer, victim of a hopeless but insatiablg longing. It is storing up a force which sooner or later is likely to explode in one direc- tion or another, —————— A glimpse of pictures of the old quar- ters for both officers and men now be- ing properly replaced at Camp Meade, Mc,, tends toward the conviction that not only war but peace, also, may be hell. An alley-dwelling elimination campaign would scarce produce more depressing views. - —————— Light and radio waves can go com- Pletely around the earth ever so many times in one s:cond. The ancient joke about the man who, viewing the gigan- tic mounted fish, announced that its captor was a liar, is not quite that speedy, perhaps, but makes up for this lack by its regularity. o History of the past decade proves {that when a Chicago North Side gang chief comes into power and affluence, he has in reality been “tipped the black spot” just as surely as was Capt. Billy Bones of “Treasure Island.” And his chances of living anywhere near as long as that bloody pirate did are slim in- deed. N That just-uncovered salary boost for several New York' City officials, totaling $65,000, was not secret, it is claimed. Certainly not; it is just that there are so many things to talk about in and around “Walkerville” that, somehow, this never got mentioned. e A neighboring barber rescued the woman proprietor of a novelty store who had unintentionally set fire to her emporium up in Connellsville, Pa. If any singeing is to b~ done in that block, he is prepared to do it. —— e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. October. There's no use o' sighin’ fur roses that's dyin’ An’ flelds that are turnin’ to brown. An’ birds that were singin'—there's no good in bringin’ Their memory back with a frown; Nor to tell how you're missin’ the breeze that was kissin’ The flowers 'neath the big yellow moon. e When you think of the present so crisp and so pleasant, Well—honest, it's better than June! Somehow, every season has moods that are pleasin’, An’ the leaves as they drop in your way Have a businesslike bustle; they crackle an’ rustle An’ bid you take heart an’ be gay. The air is that bracin’ your blood starts a-racin’ £ An’ your pulses beat time to a tune That makes you feel brighter an’ stronger an’ lighter, It's great! It's lots better than June! Cheering. “Didn’t those hideous campaign cari- eatures make your wife angry?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. | “After studying them caretully, she has | concluded thes I am not nearly as homely as I might be.” Dignity and Cash. “Those wheelbarrow and long+whisker election bets are very foolish.” “Yes,” answered young Mrs. Torkins | with & sigh. “They are foolish, but, they're a great deal less expensive than | the kind Charley makes.” Autumn Leaves. How mournful seem the Autumn leaves! Our souls are most distressed When some one in our favorite books Has put them to be pressed. A Slowness Explained. “You English are slow to see a joke,” | said the forward young woman. “Perhaps,” answered the Londoner. “But, you see, real jokes are so scarce in our country that one has to uke‘ & little time to inspect any article that's | offered.” ! Pleased. N “Are you pleased with the educational Pprogress your son is making?” “Yes,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “After seein’ him in the foot ball game, mother 'lows there won't be any trou- ble with tramps when he’s livin’ home.” The Foot Ball Players. My envy their prowess does not com- mand; On their triumphs I look askance. "Tis better to cheer from the big grand- stand. ‘Than to ride in the ambulance. BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Don't be a chronic sneezer. ‘With the open season for colds at hand, it is easy to fall into the habit. Society's disapproval, for some strange reason, has not fallen upon this form of eruption. The sneeze is still tolerated with a polite indifference, as is also the cough. | Occasionally, in a theater, some one will turn around with a frown. time will come, one may feel sure, when coughing and sneezing in public will be looked upon 8s inimical to _the general welfare. Then the chronic sneezer will be- come scarce. * ok ok % or woman who makes a Especially will it stop the chronic sneeze. The sneeze which we call chronic— and we believe medical men use the | same term—is a habit, rather than physiological manifestation. A real sneezz has a real cause, in- herent in tissue conditions, but the chronic sneeze is mostly mental. It is a sneeze with the mind, rather than with the throat and lips. It uses these organs, of course, but its motivation lies in the intelligence which has worn a habit track. The chronic sneeze is just like the hankering for any other form of in- dulgence. By exertion of will power one may ‘The man habit of sneezing daily is something of | stop it. & nuisance, to put it mildly. He could just as easily restrain his a:xteeu, for it is a habit, not a neces- sity. A man with a bad_cold, one which has got away from him, as it were, may need the rellef of a sneeze. One may catch him unaware, even before he has time to pull out his handkerchief. But the chronic sneezer has no such excuse. He knows, or at least ought to know, that he will sneeze exactly 15 minutes after he has boarded his public vehicle for town. . Now, if he knows this—and surely he must, for every one else does—why cannot take some easily executed IE&I to stop it? en tal n, one might sug- wr)e::,wulédoumucnnmyflum el “I am going to sneeze in exactly five minutes,” he might say to himself. “Yesterday I did just as we were passing Sixteenth and K streets, and this morning, if my timing is accurate, T will sneeze at Seventeenth street. “This means,” so he will go on, “that unless I do something about this sneeze I will catch that old grouch unaware. I can see that he has me spotted as a chronic sneezer. He is looking for me to do it at Sixteenth street. “Instead, I will pull a fast one on him a block in advance! But no, that would be taking a sneaking advantage of him, one utterly unworthy of me and my sneeze. I will play square to- day. I will not sneeze.” * K K K ‘With this heroic resolve, the chronic sneezer comes to Seventeenth, let us ::!.e ‘The exact location is unimpor- nt. He sees the old grouch, the man who is afraid of sneezes, beginning to hitch in his seat. The old grouch draws over a couple of inches, getting all ready for the sneeze. The more inches he can put between him and the sneeze, the hap- pler he is. The chronic sneezer, feeling the de- | sire to sneeze come'over him, gently places the forefinger of his right hand firmly on his upper lip. Just what magic nerve this pressure effects he does not know, but he does know that in 99 cases in a hundred it will stop a sneeze. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS .BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. One of its highest trump cards will be played by the Hoover administration this week when it sends Andrew W. Mel- lon to the microphone to broadcast an eleventh-hour appeal for Republican vic- tory on November 4. It will be the Sec- retary of the Treasury's only speech of the campaign, and one of the few ut- terances on any "subject that has been extorted from him in recent years. Talk 1s not Mr. Mellon’s long suit. During his nine and a half vears at the Treasury his platform appearances can almost be counted on two hands. He is the shyest and most modest man in American pub- lic life. Since the late J. Pierpont Mor- gan’s days there has been no such sym- bol of national financial stability as Mellon. During the darkest days of the existing unpleasantness men have en- visaged “Uncle Andy” as part and par- cel of the administration at Washing- ton and taken fresh heart. Even Demo- crats go so far as to admit that Mellon is “the greatest Secretary of the Treas. ury since McAdoo.” * kK K Kentucky, land of fast horses, is al the realm of slow election results. I may be a week before the final out- come of next week's Blue Grass sena- torial contest is known. With candi- dates for two Senate terms—short and long—in the field, the colonels and thelr ellow-citizens will be on the anx.- | ous seat longer than folks in any otner | part of the country. Under the new | I national affairs. Kentucky State ballot law, voting boxes may not be opened until 9 am. of the day following the election. Some ex- perts belleve it may be Armistice day before all counties have been heard from and definite State-wide returns are available. * x % % “Jim” Davis, who has every reason- able expectation of being Senator-elect Davis of Pennsylvania before many more hours are past, occasionally flies from Washington to New York on the airline now in hourly operation be- tween the Potomac and the Hudson. The other day Davis turned up at the Capital airport, lugging a parachute which'd been loaned him by the War Department. The Army requires every- body who flies in one of its ships to be equipped to jump. After “Jim the Puddler” had strapped his parachute around him, he was a pretty bulky and rotund proposition. In . fact, it was found impossible to squeeze both him and it into one of the airplane seats. He decided to scrap the thing and take chances. During the past six weeks the ‘Washington-New York ‘“‘on-the-hour- .every-hour” air service has broken a world record—7,500 passengers carried within that period. On October 11, 241 paid fares were transported, which beat the Anglo-French channel-crossing peak for a single day's traffic. * K % X President Hoover has just established an appointive precedent in the United tates Army by making Maj. Gen. Mer- ritte W. Ireland surgeon general for a fourth successive term. Gen. Ireland has now served uninterruptedly as the head of the Army Medical Service since October 4, 1918. Ordinarily a bureau chief’s tour of duty lasts four years, whzreum he gives way to & successor. The ident pays Gen. Ireland the signal com| t of extend- ing his tenure. nder the Te- tirement law, the surgeon general will be eligible in 1931 for honorable leave from the service he has so long adorned. Ireland will be 64 years old next May. He will then have completed exactly 41 years as & military surgeon. Indiana claims him as a native son. * F % % No fears are entertained at the State Department that Uncle Sam's recent refusal to let arms be sent to the Brazilian 1evolutionists has undermined | our status with the incoming regime at Rio de Janeiro. International prac- tice is all on our side in upholding that | attitude. It was constantly maintained during a decade of revolution in Mexico. | Three or four years ago practically the whole world joined in a treaty outlaw- ing shipment of munitions to revol tionary forces. As the result of an eventual arbitration g, it cost Great damages awarded the United States for the British venture in fitting out the Alabama for the Confederacy du the Civil War. Conceivably, this coun- try might have found itself in a similar had events taken a different pickle turn in Brazil. * ok ok * “Dar ain’ no downin' de average man’s self-esteem,” said Uncle Eben. “When he wins at de races he gives his judgment de an’ when he loses he blames de hfl.’l s Senator Norris of Nebraska its Natios facilities in for re-election. The was that as long as proceedin, Britain _some_ $15,000,000 in | their * ok ok x It is manifestly impossible to beli one may feel, that a person in good health could be suffering from a cold in the head every day in the year. Or can he? It would take a doctor to decide, and the bast doctor is the best. guesser, so it might be guesswork, after all. One may insist that a chronic sneezer usually is in too good health to resort to sneezing, if he wanted to quit the habit. We know several of these gentlemen, in a most excellent state of health, who sneeze because they like to sneeze. ‘They are so healthy, in fact, that a sneeze never bothers them, but they fall to realize that other persons, more susceptible to colds and kindred dis- eases, may recelve harm from some- thing which de:c :m‘hurt them. * If the chronic sneezer happens to be of a waggish d ition, he will be in- clined to make fun of his friends who resent his sneezing upon them. To him a sneeze is a harmless little thing, beautiful in execution, almost charming in results, especially when it gets some one's “goat.” There is a ertain satisfaction about a good sneeze, he would say, which off- sets any posstble harm it might do to another. If you say it is not exactly “nice,” he will ask if eating with one’s elbows on the table is nice, or if dipping bread into soup is nice. ‘Then he will sneeze again. FaE It is comical to watch a large, ro- bust, chronic sneezer personally con- ducting his smaller, cold-fearing friend to_work in the morning. ‘The sneezer, owning ‘the, automobile, perhaps feels that he has a right to do as he pleases in his own car. The cold fearer feels the same way. Not only must he not openly resent the. sneeze, he realizes, but he must not even pretend that he notices it. It is for him to fake a large, lofty indifference. Cold germs for the nonce, are his friends. ‘They get within a block of the office, 1 and he is just about to congratulate himself when the chronic sneezer re- ‘members. Ker-chew! publicans and Democrats were getting all the air they want, the idol of the | Progressives should be given an equal opportunity. It was represented to Norris' managers thaf the bnly cost jinvolved would be actual out-of-pocket | wire-relay expense. Sorrowfully they | admitted they didn't have the price, | nominal as it was. Thereupon the | broadcasting people decided to pay the | telegraphic freight themselves and | Norris will address the country by radio |on November 1 from Omaha. | Ty | The Pulitzer prize for the welrdest yarn of the year belongs to a Washing- tonian who stood up at a meeting the other night and solemnly divulged the following “news”: “The Chicago World’s | Fair, which was to have been held in 1933, has been postponed on account of confidential word from Ambassador ! Dawes in London that another war is | scheduled to break out that year.” The | story is all right, except that the fair | hasn't been postponed and that no such | message, or anything remotely resem- | bling it, has arrived from Dawes. His two brothers are the prime movers in | | the exposition, which is building and | planning with a view to opening on time in 19: * ok ok % Revolution in Brazil grew out of | resentment over continued domination of the great coffee State of Sao Paulo Unofficial word comes from Rio that th: anti-Paulistas will adopt a popular American jazz | | ditty, “You're the Cream in My Coffee, as the new Brazilian national anthem, but alter the title to: “We're the Cream in Your Coffee Now.” (Copyrivht. 1930.) . War Against Insects Brings Bitter Fight { Prom the Atlanta Journat. On the old apple tree that used to stand by our garden gate, where we learned the mysteries of mumble-ty-peg and ‘where, on moonlight Summer nights, as we devoutly believed, fairies eame to dance, there was never a devil ish insect or rulnous wilt. The bees would swarm in April to gather future Boney and in Autumn golden butterflies would hold farewell flutterings there, but nothing more sinister. Year after year fruitage followed blossom without & misadventure. Little boys needed castor oll, especially when apples were freen, but the tree was sufficient unto tself in_all matters of physic. Sprays were unheard of. So, too, with the peach orchard and with the figs, ex- cept for an occasional plague of June | bugs, many of which met with con- dign punishment at the end of a piece of string. Horticulture was then a pas- Wme. Now it is a battle. .“l;loatue insects and plant disease en- upon our country an annual loss $3,000,000,000. Thus reports the clgs tains of the Federal Department of Ag-) riculture, and we take their word wif =| out question. “The unfortunate thing 18, ey ominously add, “that the en is not yet. Each year adds new pests and new diseases at an alarming rate. Only by adoption of the rhost efficient methods of control and eradication can we hope eventually to triumph over these apparently insignificant enemies.” Moths, beetles, borers and what-not are swooping upon us as menacingly as Goths and Vandals upon ancient e. This is no rhetorical flourish, reader. Consider the Mediterranean fly. What other incurslon of undesirable aliens ever wrought such havoc as did that pestiferous immigrant in Florida and in southern parts of Georgia? Consider the boll weevil. Its march was more destructive than Sherman's. Potato bugs we have had always with us, but | now comes the bean beetle, cutting a ; cleaner swath than did Attila the un. Devilish insects. we say, because they strike at our creative and promotive in- dustries. and If they took a motto it well might be Mephisto’s, “I am the irit that denies” Men have been ghting one another for thousands of years. Henceforth they must. make common war on the challenging insect or tHey will have no use for either swords or their plowshares. New Art of Listening. From the Omaha World-Herald. ‘There are 13,478,600 radio sets in use in the United States, and yet it is said that good listeners are rare. Dumping “Red” Salmon. From the Hamilton Spectator. canned salmon is being in the British market. This when red salmon | dates. By G. Gould Lincoln. Alfred E. Smith is showing his grati- tude for what the Democracy of Massa- chusetts and Rhodz Island did for him in 1928. The former New York Gover- nor is to make addresses in Providence tonight and in Boston Tuesday night, urging the election of the Democratic tickets in those Stat:s. Gov. Smith's appearance outside of New York in this campaign appears to be limited to these two States, both of which gave him their electoral votes two years ago. ‘The Democrats are seeking to main- tain the grip on both Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which has been quite steadily Republican in the past, was going for President Hoover, includ- ing four States of the Democratic solid South, these two Northern and Eastern States swung over to the Democratic column. The appearance of the former Demo- cratic presidential candidate in any States outside of Massachusetts and Rhode Island might prove anything but an advantage to the Democratic candi- dates. Smith as a Democratic speaker in Ohio, for example, where Bulkley is the party'’s candidate for the Senate and a possible winner, might prove a handicap rather than a help. The Democrats are not likely to urge the former Governor to travel too far afield this year. ‘There is no terness of the appéw., however, desire to Tenew the bit- fight of 1928. It does as thml"l;l Smlu ith’s appearance and addresses assa~ cg\g:l!tts and Rhode Island should be a material assistance to the Democratic party in those two States And if the Democrats are able to hold these States this year, as they claim they will be able to do, they will have accomplished more than the Republicans in their efforts to consolidate the gains made by the G. O. P. in Democratic territory two years ago. Deyspibe t?m prominence given in the newspapers of the re-entry of Gov. is noticable a lack of desire on the part of his admirers that he be called upon again to be & candidate for President. If there is any sugges- tion that Smith be their party stand- ard bearer in 1932 advanced in Massa- chusetts today, it is advanced quiet- ly. The truth of the matter is that Democrats of importance in New England believe that Gov. Smith does ot desire to be a candicate again. They do not expect him to issue an “I do not’| choose to run” statement at this stage of the game. Indeed, it is pretty early to be talking about presidential candi- But they are convinced that the former Governor is intent upon making his place in Greater New York’s great business world. His campaigning this year is not in behalf of his own can- didacy for any office. He is on the stump for other candidates of his party, a new experience for Gov. Smith, who has been a candidate for office himself on so many election days in the last quarter of & century. The reported breach between Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican nominee for the Senate, and Mayor “Big Bill” Thompson of Chicago, if it is to be relied upon, does not make the situation for Mrs. McCormick look any brighter. It is true that this evidence that Mrs. McCormick is not aligned with the city hall gang in Chicago may win her votes down-State, and even in Chi itself. But it may also mean that the vote rolled up in the city for her Democratic opponent, J. Hamflton Lewis, will reach greater proportions than have been expected. The Thompson city hall crowd, it appears, used Mrs. McCormick and her candidacy last April to smite Senator Charles 8. Deneen and his organization in Cook County. Having brought about the defeat of Senator Deneen in the Republican primary, the city hall out- fit is now, ready to discard the lady. It scarcely seems probable that the De- neen forces in Chicago, which certainly owe Mrs. McCormick no love, will now rally strongly to her in the general election. Unless the signs fail, Mrs. McCormick’s ambition to become the first woman Senator, through election, is not likely to be fulfilled. Should Mrs. McCormick be elected, however, she will have to run the gant- let of the Senate itself, where already lines are forming to keep her out on the charge that she expended too much money. Mrs. McCormick's ire against Senator Gerald P. Nye, chairman of the Senatorial Slush nd Investigating Committee, has been quite real. But if | she comes before the Senate for ap- | proval or disapproval of her right to | be seated, she and the youthful Sena- tor from North Dakota are likely to clash quite violently. Mrs. McCormick is said to have threatened to “run Sen- ator Nye out of the Senate,” which does not make for any better feeling. She would, under the circumstances, prob- ably find herself out of line with the essive bloc of Republicans and would have to rely upon Democrats, plus the regular Republicans, to get herself seated. In Connecticut this year the Demo- crats are putting on a real fight to elect a Governor. The Nutmeg State has not had a Democratic Governor for many, many years, Indeed, net since Judge Simeon E. Baldwin of the Yale Law School faculty was elected in 1910 and re-elected in 1912. This year the Demo- crats have again nominated for Gover- nor a Yale professor, Wilbur L. Cross, former dean of the Yale Graduate School. And the Democrats insist that they have an excellent chance of elect- ing him. This clatm the Republican leaders deride. J. Henry Rorabach, the Republican national committeeman and political boss of the State, insists that the party organization will continue to function this year as it has in the past and that Lieut. Gov. Ernest E. Rogers, a prominent business man of New Lon- don, will be elected chief executive of the ‘State. Dean Cross is making the Rorabach machine one of the principal points of his attack. Rorabach is head of the Connecticut ht & Power Co. and Dean Cross is insisting that it is time the blic utilities ll'fp be shaken off the State government. For he insists that, whoever the Republicans may make Governor, H.m'lbleqh will be the power behind the throne. There is no senatorial election in Connecticut this year. Senator Hi ham, who, by the way, Was also & professor at Yale, does not come up for re-election until 1932, But there is a brisk_fight not only for Governor, but also for seats in the House between the Demotrats ‘and the M};ubliun& The Democratic platform is frankly wet, de- cla for repeal of the eighteenth amendment. The Relr blican platform does not use the word “repeal” in con- nection with the eighteenth amend- ment, but it urges a return of the con- trol of the liquor traffic to the States, which amounts to the same thing in the end. Rogers, the candidate of the Re- publicans for Governor, is a personal dry, but he has declared he stands on the platform of his party. The liquor issue does not appear to be paramount in Connecticut, so far as the guber- natorial race is concerned. The Connecticut delegation in the House is at present solidly Republican. The Democrats are making desperate efforts to cut into the delegation and are hopeful of electing Augustine Loner- gan in the first congressional district. Lonergan "t:“: wglree terms m House in the g against Charles W. Se! ur, who is the lnmplnc;' it umuuv‘ Fenn, the incumben was the Democratic nominee for the Senate two years ago, but was defeated by Senator Wolcott. If the politiclans and observers are correct, ight W. Morrow is likely el .'1‘ mp‘;fl tremendous ity—the s y. Henchiicans say hall ‘& milion votes, If that is the case, it does not look as though the depression and unemploy- ment issue is 5o effective this year as the tic leaders i in New| it is ANSWERS TO BY FREDERIC Take advantage of this free service. If you are one of the thousands who have patronized the bureau, write us again. If you have never service, begin now. It is maintained for your benefit. Be sure to send your name and address with your question and inclose two cents in coin or stamps for return postage. ning Star Information Bureau, Fred- er(cc.L Haskin, director, Washington, Q. Who were the umpires in this yezr'a“v;vofld sen;n—-a. E. J.u . There were four—George Moriar- ity and Harry Geisel of the American League and J. E. Reardon and Charles | Rigler of the National League. Q How many radio _broadcasting | stations are there in the United States | y |8t the present time?—B. H. o A. There are 615 broadcasting sta- tions Q. 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The number of the regicides was British Tariff Uncertainty Impressive to This Coumtry Protection and free trade, debated at the British Empire conference, appear in American comment to mark a cross- roads in English commercial The spirited controversy is believed indicate that the future policy may: be definitely linked with the fate of parties valmmlth iven & monopoly of the ess fild wheat and perhaps wool, cotton, mea! certain raw materials.” Doubt as . |and to “any definite immediate action” is expressed by the Post-Dispatch, with the comment, “The whole temper, of and with the relations between the | the pi British Isles and the several domin- fons. A compromisé, in the nature of a plan similar to that of the Farm Board in this country, is considered as a factor. A Observing that the people of that country “have been dreaming hazily of abandoning their historic policy of free trade and promoting an empire customs union, a plan hitherto referred to as empire free trade,” the Des Moines Register voices the view that the fplnn “has not had undivided support from any cne of the three parties,” and offers the conclusion as to the uncertainties : “Some believe that the re- party to ve & tax on food will lead to the all of the MacDonald cabinet, but this is unlikely, since the Conservative party is itself divided on this problem and since most of the Conservative leaders know that there is no quick cure-all for England's economic malady and would just as soon let some one else do doctoring at present. They know that the British Empire—and practically the whole world, for that matter—is suffer- ing from agricultural and tndul'.r]lli overproduction, and that until this overproduction is curbed there will still be poor trade and much unemploy- ment.” ) A factor which is emphasized by the Elmira Star-Gazette is that “Soviet Russia is taking advantage of the British policy of free trade to dump heavy supplies of products into the English market at prices which, it is admitted, are below the possibility of competition on the part of British Isles farmers,” while the Kalama: Gazette says on the subject of “retalia- tion,” which is considered by the gov- ernment’s spokesman: “They fear that if the empire were to raise its tariffs far above their present average level and allow systematic concessions among its own units, non-British nations would be quick to reply in kind. It is their contention that the economic gains thus effeeted within the empire would be more than offset by the loss of world markets, For the most part the Conservative elements in Great Britain do not subscribe to this view, but lean strongly toward the ‘preferen- tial' program.” * ok % x Emphasis upon the desire for empire | Al unity is placed by the Hamilton On- tario Spectator, which holds that “the effort to discover a workable basis for co-operation, for the benefit of the em- pire as a whole and all its separate parts, is & proof of the strength of the imperial tie.” The Spectator concludes: “If the desired result cannot be secured by the adoption of any particular plan of economic unity, other and more ef- fective plans would be tried. termination of the British people to make the most of their heritage will find the right path to the fulfiliment of their great vision; it is to be discovered by free discussion, by submission of all the viewpoints, and & careful considera- tion of a common policy.” s “Sharp division on the tariff issue” in the next English elections is fore- seen by the St. Louis Post-Dispatchy “with the Liberals and Labor opposing the Conservative move toward protec- tionism.” That paper says that “Labor is- willing to make concessions to the Dominion demands.” and describes the “proposal for the creation of state pur- claiming. New Jersey has had its share of both. If Calvin Coolidge, the former Presi- b1 dent, makes a speech for the Republican he in2 ticket in Massachusetts, as is bel urged to do by the G. O. P. leaders, what is_he going to say about prohibi- tion? That is one of the things the voters in Massachusetts and out of 1f are anxious to kmow. Iu is pessible that Mr. Coolidge will be able to speak for the dry candidates for Senator and Governor without saying anything about the wet. dry issue. Indeed, it would pol even ‘The de- |to be ciple implies & of interimperial preference that hamper the de- velopment of the industries of the several dominions. How mich actual economic benefit would such preference confer upon Great Britain? Statis- g;:h';n: assert gmt the net benefit 'wz o h‘:he d “’.m country. ‘secon - sible statesmen must able reaction of British consumers to & “if espoused by the Labor , would leave only the Liberals stan true the traditional policy of free trade.” Muncle opposition to pre- o | sufficient political and economic self- sufficiency to demand adequaté pro- tection for their own trade. Canada, ‘wall the empire, but it insists on a sufficient barrier for its own benefit. The recent election was won under a ‘Canada first’ slogan and Premier Bennett is frankly concerned with the primary imj ce of protecting domestic ind . He has no mcre intention of allowing the market to be flooded with British goods than of permitting such an invasion from the United States.” “England proposes,” as ted out by the Newark Evening p({'i:l"' “to switch her trade from us and the ntine to her Cominions, if they will foll suit. ip: ‘why the dcminions cannot adopt England's proposal is that a change in the mother country’s government is not impropable. If the Conservatives, who have adopted protection, should displace the free- trade Laborites, the whole machinery of state-controlled purchasing agencies necessary to Labor's plan would be scrapped, and tariffs would again have considered, balanced, " “If Philip Snowden, of the exchequer, was of the United States when he ‘attacked the ive tariff as a destroyer of political hm!y.wl'nd as a ‘sl 8l L a serve, with which z{ha ‘world stifling its trade. And, af is certain that it would no:x sweeht..,h re-d| ling. and prol not. tobe vainly, A new factor in British affairs is seen by the St. Louis Times, which | so fa: EZRE