Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1930, Page 8

THE EVENING.STAR .___With Sunda, Eition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY....October 30, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star N 11th fl.‘“. P Per Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening St : 5c ver month e Eveni; ) 4 L 49c per month i dagand Bu ol Sc per copy o3 BeSent in by ‘madl of Lelepnons Ational 5000. Rate n.mll—hylble in advance. ryland ia. 1l ‘Sund Bully sag, sinae lay only . All Other States Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news cic- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ted in'this paper and siso the ocal news published herein. Al rights of publicasion of #pecial dispatches herein are also 1eserved. —_— District Voters in Maryland. Several score otherwise voteless resi- dents of the District of Columbia, seek~ ing to exercise the voting privileges of other American citizens that would be taken for granted but for the fact that they live in the Capital of the United States, have apparently thrown Mary- land’s election law into confusion. As matters stand an important section of the law has been declared invalid by the lower courts. A decision by the Court of Appeals, uphelding the lower court, ‘would invalidate th- ;ection end require legislative remedic: The case developed in this fashion: Many Washington'ans, owning property in Maryland's attractive Summer col- onies on the bay, especially in Anne Arundel County, took advantage of the Tepeal of Maryland's declaration of in- tentions act by registering as voters in the forthcoming election. The old act required that a prospective voter, mov- ing into the State, give declaration of intention to become a resident a year before the election. This act was abol- ished, except in the Counties of Prince Georges and Baltimore, and a substi- tute adopted by the Legislature, wherein & new resident of the State has merely to appear before the election officials and make affidavit, supported by affidavits of two citizens, that he is in fact a resident of Maryland. This entitled him to vote. Political conditions, ascribed to the fact that many residents of the Dis- trict who planned to vote in Maryland ‘were Democrats, led to a challenge of their right to vote. The contention of those challenging this right was based on the fact that the citizens from the District were residents of the District and not of Maryland. The case went into the eourts, and a decision handed down in Annapolis Tuesday by the Circuit Court for Anne Arund:l County declared the new election law invalid on two counts. First, it was a violation of the State Constitution, in that it discriminated against Prince Georges and Baltimore County citizens. Second, ¢ was in violation of the fourteenth amendment to the Federal Consttution in that the Maryland law described the elitizens of “States” who might register @8 new voters, thus discriminating against the citizens of Federal districts or territories—these latter being citi- 2ens of the United States. The old law had applied specifically to citizens of the States as well as to the citizens of Pederal districts or territories. The court held that the new act set up a different procedure to govern the regis- tration of citizens of States and the citizens of the District of Columbia, for instance, or Federal territories, thus creating a difference in its treatment ©of American citizens. ‘The result of the lower court deci- sion is not expected to be serious in its effect upon voters in the forthcoming €lection. The case must be carried higher. This may not be possible be- fore the election, while the opinion of the lower court affects only those| specifically named in the challenges. Evéry effort, however, is being made to obtain an appeal degision before next ‘Tuesday. But we in the District have cause to be thankful that the Annapolis court recognizes the American citizenship of Capital residents; that it permits no “diserimination” in Maryland's treat- ment of these citizens. Their right to claim bona fide voting residence in Maryland on the basis of ownership of property and its occupation during| & period of the year is another matter, one for the State of Maryland to de- cide. If it is finally held that Whese Summer residents may vote, we ghall have the interesting spectacle of a por- tion of the American resicents of an American community permitted the rights of Americans because of their ability to own Summer cottages, while another portion of the community will be denied these rights because of the unfortunate circumstances that deny to them the privilege of owning proper- ty in neighborly Maryland. —_————— The police officials in Chicago, Who are constantly landing gangsters, hood- lums and other undesirables, not to menticn the members of the judiciary, must spend their Summer vacations fishing with barbless hooks. —————ra——— It is along about this time that cer- tain fond mothers with sons in senior classes begin to hope their offspring may be voted “handsomest man” and fathers hope to gosh they may not. ——— Investigating the R-101. Startling disclosures of defects in the fll-fated R-101 are being made to the British board investigating the tragic accident which took forty-eight lives a few weeks ago in Prance. Inability of the great thip to gain altitude has been generally admitted to be the funda- mental cause of the disaster. Now it appears, in testimony before the board, that the experimental oil engines evaned eight tons more than was orig- fnally calculated, a sufficient reason in itself for the sluggishness with which |2 the R-101 answered . the desperate efforts of its officers to get it high enough into the air to ride out the storm. Coupled with this unexpected burden of eight tons it was revealed that the worl biggest dirigible was | ticularly interested in picture taking, catastrophies could not have been dis- covered and corrected before the fatal flight was undertaken. Cer- tainly, a difference of eight tons in the weight of the engines was obvious before the start. The alleron and =ollmeter trouble, of course, were later developments and could not have been foreseen, but the additional weight, which may have been the de- ciding factor in the crash, should cer- tainly have been taken into account. It is to be hoped that the lessons learned from the R-101 will be utilized in the construction and operatiom of all lighter-than-air ships in the future, T L The Reign of Foot Ball. As November comes, foot ball enters into its annual own, with big games East and West, North and South, rais- ing the country's interest to the zenith. < | Nothing in the whole realm of Ameri- can sport, with the single exception of the world series base ball games, rivets | the national gaze like the rivalries of the colleges and universities for stellar honors on the gridiron. Foot ball is Autumn’s king. | ‘The current season has been marked by a couple of episodes of a sort which carries within it elements capable of depopularizing foot ball: The abortive attempt of Georgé Washington Univer- sity freshmen literally to capitalize their playing abilities revives in ugly form the ancient question of profession- alism on college campuses. It is wholly to the credit of the George Washington authorities that they nipped the gro- tesque proposal in the bud. At New Haven last week, when Army played Yale to an even score, there were two unlovely incidents. The claim was made that the Bull Dog was tied by an “jllegal touchdown” and also that Alble Booth, star Yale back, who was carried from the Bowl on 2 stretcher early in the game, was “put on the spot"—i. e., deliberately hurt by West Point players. “Commercialism,” too, has been charged against varsity foot ball man- agers in all parts of the country. Every year witnesses the erection of vast new stadiums for the accommodation of the tens of thousands of cash custom- ers who pile through the turnstiles in ever-growing throngs. Yet when Notre Dame, for instance, as she has just done, opens a $750,000 arena, seating close to 60,000 people, there is & legiti- mate purpose behind it. That purpose, is to afford adequate facilities to a public which is becoming increasingly fond of the incomparable thrills which make foot ball, scientifically and skill- fully played, what it is. It is merely the law of supply and demand at work. Within the memory of living fans, good foot ball was the monopoly of “the Big Four,” Yale, Harvard, Prince- ton and Pennsylvania. When any other team beat one of that quartet it was an event. Those days are gone. They vanished more than ten years ago. Not only good, but great, foot ball is played regularly in these times in every quar- ter of the Union. Traditions of age and prestige still cling to the teams which wear the blue, the crimson and the orange and black, but in actual prowess on the playing field it is ex- tremely doubtful whether supremacy any longer rests in the East. Like the star of empire, foot ball's course is definitely Westward, with an oe- casional detour to the South. In whatever latitude or longitude it is played, and despite occasional lapses from the knightly code of gridiron ethics, foot ball remains the sport which develops the finest qualities of brain, brawn and heart in American youth. But its exponents need always to remember that the game's the thing, not victory at any cost. e Picture Pleasure. Many a man of mature years no doubt got a thrill of pleasure on reading in The Star of the photographs being taken by small boys of the Y. M. C. A. with homemade cameras using in pin- hole for a lens. All those who have been interested at any time in their lives in picture tak- ing have read of such primitive cam- eras, but perhaps few ever experimented with them. To those who have never been par- except to look at “snapshots” of friends, the fact that a real photo- graph may be taken without any lens at all may come as something of a sur- The elemental type of camera, as most great inventions, is comparatively simple. The theory of light and lines had been known for a long time before the first successful photos were taken. The invention of an emulsion sensi- tive to light was necessary before the modern photo could come into being. It was first applied to glass plates, still in wide use for formal portraits and for news work. ‘The growth of picture taking seems to have culminated today in the “lalkies,” wherein motion pictures take on new and interesting aspects. But it is encouraging to note that no boy need be deprived of the pleasure and instruction of photography because he cannot afford to own and maintain a motion picture camera. A small cardboard box, a pinhole, a sensitive plate—and a boy may take as excellent & picture as that of the Lin- coln Memorial which was printed in this paper. As a fundamental instruc- tion in art and architectural lines, per- haps nothing is better than pictyre taking, especially for children. ————————— From here, there and everywhere come cheerful little dispatches about in- creased orders, accelerated production and diminution of unemployment. There seems no doubt that there are faint flitterings at the drawn-down lip corners of our national doleful face. o - “Two Americans Will Chart the Wild Highlands of Abyssinia"—recent head- line S0 it has abysses, after all! et World Languages. “It is radbr for us to be heer dedi- | acted to the great taask remaening | or us; that from these onerd ded!| we taek inkreest devoeshon to that| kause for which they gaev the I ful mezhr of devoeshon; tha hiely resolv that these ded shal in vaen: that this naeshon under God shal have a nue burth and that guvernment of the peopl, for the peopl shal not perash from the urth.” The above is not the labored effort of a child or an illitcrate; it is the QGettysburg Address transiated into An- glic, & proposed international language, the reasons which appealed to the pho- netics experts. On the surface, the ef- fort seems too ridiculous to deserve any serious consideration. ‘There can be no doubt that a com- mon language, accepted by the world -and taught in all countries with the na- tive tongues, would be desirable. A large element in the misunderstandings of peoples is always the misunderstand- ing of languages. So there have been many efforts to invent such a common language—and all have been practically still-born. They never have appealed either to scholars or to the general pub- lic. Some of them have been rather repulsive—like Anglic. We are temipted to ask: Why all this wasted energy? Centuries ago a com- mon language was established for Eu- rope which admirably served its purpose. It was a dead language, so that its use aroused no national jealousies. It still remains the international language of sclence. This language is Latin. It seems to offer the nearest to an ideal solution of the problem that has yet been proposed. ‘The observance now in progress throughout the world of the two thou- sandth anniversary of the birthday of Vergil may afford an excellent oppor- tunity for a revival of interest in the precise, dignified and stately Roman tongue which for so many centuries was Europe’s other language, a reading knowledge of which was taught in the elementary schools. True enough, it will never express all the subtleties of na- tiona! thought. But it will do so much better than any invented tongue. —————— ‘The merry monarch of Rumania has created a new decoration to commem- | orate the “involuntary character of his three-year exile.” It consists of an enamel ring with & cross in the center, surmounted by a crown of thorns. Lit- tle Michael was the first recipient, but should not his have had a double cross? Furthermore, it will be a good laugh for Helen when she sees those thorns! r————— They learn racketeering early and practice it efficiently out Chicago way. Already merchants of the Lawndale district have been “persuaded” to pro- vide hot dogs, hamburgers and peanuts free for the neighborhood juveniles on Halloween as a guarantee against un- forunate “accidents” to their show win« dows, stocks and vehicles. B e It is stated that a Newport News public school boy has been granted a special dispensation relieving him from the customary salute to the American flag in view of his religious belief. There should be & special dispensation relieving that school, or any other, of his presence. e The declaration of Mrs. Garner that, if a Democratic landslide should by any possibility elevate her husband to the Speaker’s rostrum, right then and there would end the question of social prece- dence, is almost enough to make many G. O. P. adherents pause and consider. —_— The opening of the Chicago opera season demonstrated that soclety women of that windy town have assimilated one important plece of advice: Don't dis- tract the attention of the audience or attract the attention of keen-eyed stick- up men with genuine jewelry. ————. ‘The simultaneous retirement of Gal- lant Fox and Jockey Earl Sande, his weight-gaining star rider, marks the passing of two genuine credits to a sport which is, by no means, to be al- ways regarded as creditable. e “Bugs” Moran is arrested on Mon- days, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and let out on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur- days. ‘This is arranged so he can he home over Sunday. ———— Primo Carnera receives a tumultuous welcome on his arrival in Italy from the U. 8. A. Apparently everybody in Doth countries i now happy. o The old-time kidnaper is making good in a big way out in the Midwest by expert “banker-napping.” SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Professor’s Relaxation. A little nonsense now and then, We've frequently been told, Is relished by the best of men; The sayin's very old. . But other people’s nonsense makes ‘The sage with anguish groan. Unto his heart he only takes A product of his own. Nor does he always laugh with glee To hail his merry jest; He'll set it forth where all may see In solemn language dressed. ‘With syllogistic phrase he’ll strut, And curious words he’ll frame. It gives the wise man pleasure, but It's nonsense just the same. Discretion. “Were you ever a reformer?” “Oh, yes,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “But I found that being a re- former is like & great many other things. Success depends on knowing just when to quit.” Striving to Please. “1+ grieves me to find that you prefer saying disagreeable things about peo- ple,” said the considerate woman. “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne, “and it grieves me to find such a universal preterence for hearing disagreeable thirgs.” No Certainty. The dictionary is immense; ©Of words it holds a lot. Combined they frequently make sense, But often they do not. Jué “nkins says a cynic is just the same as a common fault-finder, except that he smiles and speaks grammat- fcally. “Children,” says Hi-Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “must be educated when young to respect their parents, and parents should so conduct themselves t| that the children, when they get older, won't feel tiat they have been im- posed on.” . Hopelelssly. These terms in golf my mind dismay; ‘The course I gayly walk it. E'en though the game I learn to play, Tl mever lewrn to talk it. operating with a broken siabilizing fin and s badly functiening altimeter. p 1 & pity that the factors ghich ! to one of lv\.hl‘“ sponsored by a group of British scholars. It is hard to see what possible advan- tages can be argued in its favor, and newspaper dispatches neglect to state “De man dat makes de bigges’ suc- cess in dis life,” said Uncle Eben, “is de one det manages to hongglly deserve de kind words on his * BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. One of the best things about a garden is that one may be a failure there with- out exciting the commiseration of one’s friends. You know how it is in the worka- day world. Your friends are always so extremely solicitous that you shall not fail, always giving advice, always in- sisting that you “better your best ‘They are hurt because you have not written the great American novel, or won the amateur golf championship. They insinuate that you are a trifle lazy or you long ago would have re- flected great credit upon them. As for themselves, they are willing to admit that they lack the divine fire, but you! You could do it if you wanted to! You are torn between a desire to be brutally frank and to disabuse their minds of such foolishness and a per- fectly human wish to believe them. Yes, all the time you have secretly believed that you could perhaps write that “great American novel,” or could win a championship, or could sell more soap than any other soap seller. It is hard to bring one’s self to tell all these dear friends who have such faith in you that this hero of their dreams is, after all, a very ordinary fellow, who is just plugging along, try- ing to earn a living, and whose secret dream and aspiration is to get to the You hate to do it. They have been so disgusted with your failure. They enjoy your failure.” All the time they are talking about how you have wasted your opportunities their minds have been turned away from contemplating their own deficiencies, Perhaps that is why they do it. o In the garden one may fail as largely as one pleases, without once bringing on your devoted head a word of blame from friends or relatives. In the gar- den one expects failure, and no one worries about it or pretends to worry about it. One of America's most famous gar- deners says that he is satisfled if he does not exceed 40 per cent of failure. Thus, if he raises slightly xxre than half of his crop, he is satisfitd. Yet many a raw amateur becomes terribly disgusted with gardening if he does not succeed, and in his very first season, in raising successfully 100 per cent of the things he plants. There are 5o many factors involved that even the expert cannot be sure. Sometimes the seed which one gets, even from some of the oldest houses, is not good. Petunias ordered of one va- riety turn out to be a mixture, and an unattractive mixture at that. Or,again, the resulting plants do not do very well for some obscure reason. Perhaps they lack vitality, maybe the soil is poor or the season is a difficujt one, or a new brand of insect begins to eat the leaves. There are so many factors involved in the gentle art of gardening that no one may be singled out as the one and only reason why failure comes. The moot _giving or wm\hcld.(n? of water may be the chief cause of failure, but the more experienced a gardener one is the less likely he is to hold any one factor to blame. The beauty of gardening is that it make no real difference, after all. One is not in the boat of the farmer, whese very living depends upon success. With him, the failure of one crop may spell disaster. With the home garden- er, nothing much depends on the “crop.” Here are some tuberous-root- ed begonias, Well, suppose they do not do very well. What of i Over there are some of the prettiest lilies (Philadelphia) one would want\ to see. And every one knows that lilies are a great deal harder to raise. RISH INDEPENDEN' Dublin. In the United States and in Ger- many many thousands of univer- sity students count upon the tem- porary work they get during the holidays to meet the bill for the next season’s studies. Lord Derby has now jssued @ special appeal on behalf of the came classes in Great Britain. The Irish Independent has consistently pleaded focr an arrangement wherehy undergraduates could during the long vacation get some practical experience of the professions they expect to enter. The difficulties of giving such experi- ence to the students of engineering, commerce and science are admittedly more considerable than the difficulties of giving hospital practice to students of medicine and de: ry, but they are not insuperable. Efforts to solve this problem, in so far as it touches stu- dents of commerce, have been made with some success in a few colleges of the National University. We see no reasons why the principle could not be largely extended with the help of state and municipal undertakings, which now play such a large part in commerce, marufacturing and engineering. * k% ¥ Rugby Match Aids Good Feeling. Evening Post, Wellington.—No greater crowd than that which gained admis- sion to Athletic Park for the rugby match, Great Britain vs. Wellington, has ever been present at a game in Nlfiw Zealand. fully 32,000 and the game a clean, vig: orous exhibition of sport for sport’ sake. Each team toasted the other pefore the contest, and all the spec- tators concurred in the opinion of Dr. P. P. McEvedy, president of the Wel- Jington Rugby Union, who introduced the British team as “the finest that had ever visited the dominion,” both gentlemen and sportsmen on d off the field. The prime minister, the Hen. G. W. Forbes, said at a reccption t> the visiting team in the evening: “Sit- ting in the stand at the beginning of the match, five points went up that we were in for a beating, and I knew that I was to come along here tonight and would E:nhnbly be asked to say something. I gan to consider how I could speak gracefully of the result. I worked out the theory that for many years we have been send! home all the best of our butter and cheese and frozen meat, and that the British team on that account should be expectad to do well. But when New Zealand won, after all, I could only account for that pleasant reversal by saying that our men were closer to the source of supply.” * K % % Germans Friendly To French Il Treated. Le Matin, Paris—Not all Germans resented the French occupations of the Rhine region, terminated recently. There were many, particularly at Mayence (Maing), who were very friendly with the French troops. Needless to say, . thetic element were the objects of much | hostility upon the part of the pan- Germans, who made heavy reprisals upon such of their &ellow citizens as were willing to justify the occupation from economic and socialistic stand- points. Shops were , were invaded. We publish one photo- graph which shows most vividly the hevee sustained by one German who valued conscientious adherence to in- ternational principle above a nominal rty obligation. Such an act of rigandage, rather than showing any default in the one who suffered it, re- flects but black disgrace upon the “jus- tifiers” who were guilty of the outrage. * k% % ‘Women Forbidden To Ride Men’s Bicycles. Neues Wiener Abendblatt, . Vienna.— The_directors of the HuBigarian police in Budapest and in N@gykoios have p]oil'nt where he won't have to work at | al Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands The attendance was| j I thought as the first| this more understanding and sympa- | what es | { I If the lilacs do not do well, one may be sure that the altheas will thrive, and bloom to the complete astisfaction of the bumblebees. Lilacs have a queer way of blooming so much better some seasons than others. One cannot de- pend on them, but there is no question about the altheas. These old childhood favorites will bloom when nothing else will; after all, are there any flowers of more compelling simplicity and love- lines: Chil and bumblebess always approve of them. . The trees and the grass form the background for flowers. Even the flow- ering shrubs help make us this back- ground. Evergreens should be includ- ed. With these factors necessarily in the garden picture, failure of any one or a dozen flowers does not matter much, blanketed as they will be by the grass, the trees, the evergreens and the shrubs. A failure with these would be a more serious failure. But their very hardiness makes them mostly success- ful. Given ordinary care and watering, | they get along very well, in most cases, forming about 80 per cent of the garden picture. Ordinarily the home horticulturist fails to realize what a large part grass, trees, shrubs and evergreens play in the house composition. He has but to go to one of these trecless communities one sometimes sees, if he wants to note the difference just a few trees make. Then if he is fortunate enough, or unfortu- nate enough, to find a house with no grass, or shrubs, he will have a genuine | object lesson. The average failure of plants used in foundation plantings is of such a na- ture that it is nol largely noticed, one sees 80 many scraggly bushes around | porches, _along foundations, and at S . too, are y where the | plants are exposed to children and dogs Withered shrubs, including evergreens which are plainly dead, should be taken out. It is surprising how many home owners will cherish old withered bushes | as if they were things of beauty. House | foun: jons should not be planted solid "I'M.h shrubs, in most cases, | the foundation |to show. Thus the removal of a | withered shrub often helps the appear- ance of a house in this way alone. The failures in the garden tend to make the successes all the more beau- tiful and pleasing. In the larger af- fairs of life, a real failure often causgs the mind to dwell upen it too long, thus taking away some of the enjoy- ment over the successes. In the garden no one ever bewails the tight peony blossoms, or the spoiled roses, when he looks at the glorious dahlies of early Autumn. Each garden thing is a success or a_ failure in its own right. It drags no binding chains of worry after it. Consider these chrysanthemums and snapdragons, still blooming despite the col nap. They have outdone the petunias this year. The chrysanthe- mums are expected to bloom now, but one would not ordinarily demand it of the snapdragons. Why they are doing it this year it is difficult to say. But there they are in the border, flauntin their yellow and pink to the cool breeze as if nothing were more natural to them. The petunia leaves and stalks are scalded. Even the zinnias, long bloomers, are through. Only the snap- ons remain a success. e garden is one place where fail- ure amounts to little. There one may fail completely, and happily, without being lectured about it. Failure amounts to something, in a garden, for one sees there that there is no occa- | sion for tears, since life itself fails at| last—is, as a matter of fact, per] ally failing all of the time. issued an order forbidding all women to | ride through the streets of these cities | | either on men's bicycles or motor ! cycles. The prohibition is founded on the official belief that the spectacles of women mounted upon these essentially | masculine vehicles leave a demoralizing impression upon the minds of all be- holders. Women who persist in usin | | this form of locomotion are threateneu | with 15 days’ imprisonment, | ook | Offenses Against | Law Blamed on Police. ' La Nacion, Buenos Aires-—The prev- alence of grave offenses against law | and order in the capital is due to the | failure of the police to exercise their | preventive functions. This department | of public protection was not organized, | as most of its constituents appear to | think, to search out criminals after the | commission of their misdeeds, but to |act as a bulwark against such perpe- trations. - In other words, it is the intended mission of the Police Depart- ment to dry up crime at its source and not attempt to dam a current of crime after it has been allowed to achieve a turbulent and vicious carcer. The epidemic of disorder and insecurity now | sweeping this unhappy city is entirely | | due to the inefficiency and lack of | ;rouxuht of the Police Department Known malefactors and potential law | breakers of all classifications are al- | lowed to follow their illicit activities un- isturbed - until some particularly fla- grant crime or misdemeanor brings down upon them the hand of the offi- cials appointed to maintain the public weal. But the injury has already been done. Apprehension and punishment of the gullty, no matter how severe the consequénces, do not restore the loss in life or property or allay the unea ness of a citizenry ever expecting new evils and jeopardies. The true pur- | pose of the police is to prevent crime, not to punish it. And crime can best be prevented by removing instanter from the city all those of known erim- inal proclivities, both those engaging |and those ready to engage in dubiou: | enterprises. That the police heretofort have appeared reluctant to take such obviating action has aroused the sus- picion in some minds that they are in- terested in protecting the very rogues they are paid to exterminate, % %% | Advertising Becoming More an Art. Le Soir, Brussels.—Advertising is be- coming more and more of an art. Pub- licity ufints are taxing their-ingenuity® in all directions to get the inter:st and attention of the world. How valuable some of the devices employed are is yet a matter of uneasy conjecture. Auto- mobilists, for instance, leave their cars standing along the curb or in a park- ing ground. A few minutes later they return and find upon the seat of the vehicle a visiting card! If you are! one of these motorists, you pick it up, look at it and read the name ? you imme ately proceed to take an inventory of your car and all its appurtenances, and, 0 your amazement, find it still there—and intact! You look at the calling card again—turn it over and read, “The Best Tires * *.* “Oh,” you sigh, “what a relief!” For really the cold chills had been running up and down your back since the mo- ment you saw the name, “Arsene Lu- a,ln!" But in all such cases it remains be seen er vou are disposed to be goyerned, and without rancor, by the modest claims of the Concern X ¢ * *!11 Example for Gas Stations. Prom the Chaileston, 8. C., Evening Post. It was the presence of a saloon on every good business corner that gave impetus to the prohibition movement, | which ought to be har*n mind gasoline companies. y the i The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. Party loyalty is strained to the break- ing point iA many of the States in the present campaign. How effective the plea to be “regular” will be only the election returns will tell. For example, down in Alabama John H. Bankhead, the regular nominee for Senator of the Democratic party, is asking the Demo- crats of that State to support him be- cause he is the party's choice and be- cause Senator “Tom” Heflin, now run- ning as an independent to succeed him- self, deserted the Al Smith ticket in 1928. In Pennsylvania Gifford Pinchot, Republican nominee for Governor of the Keystone State, is calling upon the Republicans to bear in mind the need of party rfirullrn y, while “Bill" Vare and his Philadelphia orgenization has gone over to the Democratic candidate for Governor, Hemphill. Illinois_Re- publican leaders, supporting Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick for Senator, are viewing with alarm the desertion of Re- publican drys to the standard of Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neil, Republican inde- pendent candidate, And New York is the field of another independent can- didacy that is causing the Republicans trouble. Prof. Carroll of Syracuse Uni- versity is an independent dry candi- date—the candidate of the new Law Preservation party—for Governor whom thousands of Republican drys are fol- lowing in this election. “Tom” Heflin, denied the right to enter the Democratic primary last Summer and seek Tenomination to the Senate, is the candidate of the new Jeffersonian party-——the only way he could get on the ballot—yet he an- nounces at every meeting and political rally, am a Democrat.” At the same time Heflin _is hoping to receive the aid of the Republican voters on elec- tion day. The Republicans have not put up a candidate for the Senate in Alabama this year. It is obvious that the Re- publicans would not have the ghost of a chance to elect a Senator in Ala- bama. Nevertheless, in one or two districts of Alabama the Republicans poll a very considerable vote. Should these votes be cast for Heflin, added to the votes of the supporters of the Sen- ator among the Democrats, they might mean his election over the Democratic nominee. Heflin, stumping the State from one end to the other, has en- deavored to raise the religious issue of 1928 again. He has charged that the Catholics were responsible for keeping him out of the Democratic primary. If Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neil rolls up a big vote in Illinois it means sure de- feat for Mrs. McCormick, it is said. The size of the vote which Prof. Car- roll obtains in the gubernatorial race in New York will have a definite effect upon the result there, although from all accounts Gov. Roosevelt, the wet Democratic nominee, might well de- feat Charles H. Tuttle, the Republjcaj candidate, if there were no independeft dry in the fleld. It is almost impossible to estimate with any degree of cer- tainty what vote an independent can- didate, put forward by drys or wets,as the case may be, will poll in an election today. In Tlinois four years ago an independent candidate for the Senate, Magill, put in the field by Republicans who were aroused over the slush fund revelations in the primary campaign won by Frank L. Smith, Republican, ran Il? & total of 157,000 on election day. It was not sufficient to cause the defeat of Smith, who ran ahead of the late George E. Brennan, Democrat, by considerably less than 100,000 votes. In the same year, however, an inde- pendent dry ° Republican ~ candidate, Cristman, polled 231,000 votes in the New York senatorial race, causing the ;‘(‘él_senat?r ilnmes ‘W. Wadsworth, Re- ublican, to lose to Senator Robert F. w;;_gner. Democrat, T ormer Senator Wadsworth and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, leading Re- publican wets in New York, played their part in bringing about the nomi- nation of Charles H. Tuttle for Gov- ernor after Tuttle had declared for repeal of the eighteenth smendment. But neither of these Republicans has so far had an important part in the campaign which is now waging. There is a very definite fear on the part of some of the Republican leaders in New York that to put these wringing wet gentlemen on the stump would be like waving a red rag in the face of a bull, the bull beirg the dry element of the Republican pa:.y, whose votes Tuttle must have in large numbers if he is to have any chance at all against his opponent, Gov. Roosevelt. The dry organizations in New York are out to punish the Republicans for daring to place in their platform a prcposal to repeal the eighteenth amendment. This was the last straw. Many_of the drys might have :tood for Tuttle even after he had an- nounced himself against the continu- ance of the eighteenth amendment, but when the State Convention went shead and placed a repeal plank in party platform they quit. Party loyalty could not hold them. ~But, although the drys may succeed in bringing about the defeat of the Republican State ticket this year, it does not_appear to be on the cards that the Republican party of New York will be forced back into the position of standing for national prohibition. It has gone over, and it is likely to stay wet, despite the defections of the bone- drys. Sentiment against prohibition in’ New York is not growing weaker, but stronger. The bone-dry Repub- licans this year are, in effect. the allies of wet Tammany, which is back- ing to the limit Gov. Roosevelt and the rest of the Democratic State ticket. But that makes no difference, appar- ently, to the drys. They are out to throw the fear of prohibition strength into the hearts of the G. O. P, which up until the present time the drys have been able to dominate in State con- ventions. A victory for a wet Re- publican on a wet Slate platform in New York would be a real blow to the cause of prohibition in this State. Massachusetts is another of the States in which the question of party oyalty is particularly strained this year. There, however, it is the wet Repub- licans who are threatening to hop to the Democratic candidates. They have taken & leaf from the book of the dry Republicans in New York and Illinois. William M. Butler, the Republican nominse for the Senate, is dry and supports the eighteenth amendment. His opponent, Marcus A. Coolidge. is a wet and a Democrat. The Republican wets are declaring in numbers they in- tend to vots for Cooli The Butler people are demanding party loyalty from these wets. But it does not ap- pear that the wet Republicans are likely to answer the call any more than the dry Republicans in New York and Iilnois. While it looks as though New York will go Democratic in the gubernatorial race, it does not appear that the Democyats are likely to win more than one He seat now held Republic- ans, if they win that. Mrs. Ruth Pratt, Republican nominee to succeed herself in the seventeenth congressional dis- trict, has @ real fight on her hands in 2 three-cornered race with Louis B. Brodsky, Democrat, and Heywood Broun of literary fame, Socialist. ~Just how many votes Broun will r?ce!ye is a matter of guesswork. The district has been rather strongly Republican and was formerly represented in the House by Ogden Mills, Undersecretary of the Treasury. Mrs. Pratt has been unfortunate in her present campaign. The district is shy about 12,000 in its registration and most of the loss is on the Republican side of the fence. Broun may take more votes away from the Democratic candidate than from Mrs. Pratt. But, even so, she is having her difficulties. Charles Dewey Hille:, Republican national committee- man for New York, lives in the district. After the Hoover election it looked as though Hilles, who had been lukewarm te the cause of the Hoover nomination in »fi;l;;:lcny.‘ '.1‘ ”‘30 hbll:mlnlrfln;s a y T, but, as things have turned out, Mr. Hilles continues to retain an important place in the B:{(y-—mm'e important, it is said, than ore, Representative La Guardia, Repub- in the twi district, has & - | facing a serious situation, although later | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ‘There is no other agency in the world that can answer as many legitimate Questions as our free Information Bureau in Washington, D. C. This highly or- ganized institution has been it up and is under the personal direction of Frederic J. Haskin. By keeping in con- stant touch with Federal bureaus and other educational enterprises it is in a| pesition to pass on to you lut.hoflu'.hei information of the highest order. Suh-‘ mit your queries to the staff of experts whose services are put at your free dis- posal. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return pos age. Address The Evening Star Inform tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, direc- tor, Washington, D. C. @. Were Willlam Howard Taft and ‘Theodere Roosevelt friends before Roose- velt was President and Taft was in his cabinet?—B, C. | A. The friendship between Taft and Roosevelt began when the former was solicitor general and the latter a Civil | Service commissioner under the Harri- son administration. Q. When are DuPont's Longwood Gardens open to the public?—E. McC. A. The Longwood Gardens on the Du- Pont estate in Pennsylvania are open to the public the first and third Sundays | of every month. On these days an ad- mission fee of 50 cents is charged, which is devoted to charity. admission charged on week days. They open at 11 am. Q. How should & broken grindstone | be mended?—J. A. A, The Bureau of Standards says,| due to the enormous internal stresses generated by centrifugal force in a grindstone running at full speed, it would be extnmelg dangerous to oper- ate such a stone which had been broken and mended by any known means. Q. What does the ball suspended in the National Academy of Sciences prove?—P. D. A. The suspended ball to which you refer is a Foucault pendulum. The ac- tion of this pendulum depends upon the fact that, according to the laws of mo- tion, a freely swinging pendulum tends constantly to move in the same plane. The experiment proves that the earth rotates eastward, and the rate of devia- tion of the pendulum proves that the relative motion of the earth with re- spect to the stars is due entirely to its rotation and not to the motion of the stars around it. Q. What is the name of the woman who was recently appointed head of the | Bureau of Crime Prevention in New York City?—F. B. A. Miss Henrietta Addinton is the| new director of the Bureau of Crime Prevention. She has had numerous re- sponsible positions under State and city governments. Among the offices she has held are those of executive secretary of the Big Sisters’ Association, director of woman's work of the United States Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board, director of juve- nile obation for the Philadelphia Juvenile Delinquency Board, lecturer at the Pennsylvania School for Social Work and at Bryn Mawr, and member of President Hoover's White House con- ference on courts. Q. What is the art of communicat- ing by means of the deaf and dumb alphabet called?>—S. N. S. A. It is termed dactylology. The one-hand manual alphabet was per- fected by the Abbe de I'Epee, who died in 1789, and the two-hand alphabet, probably based on that of George Dal- garno of Aberdeen, published in 1680. Q. What color is the robe worn by & Cistercian monk?—W. W. A. When the order was established, in 1098, habit was brown, but it was soon changed to white. ‘There is no | national, | J. HASKIN., . What will destroy yellow and 'ht‘.C.n.l!b worms which infest a lawn? A. One of the best means of de- stroying these pests is arsenate of lead powder. It 1s also suggested that treatment of the lawn with arsenate of lead powder before seeding will pre- vent a recurrence of the trouble. For lawns that are already infested use five pounds of arsenate of lead mixed with one cubic yard of topdressing for each 1,000 feet of lawn suziace, RQ ;ln' deep can a suomarine go?— . T. 8. A. The United States submarine V-5 |on October 21, 1930, submerged to a depth of 332 feet, which is sald to be a new deep-sea diving record. s3I Prot. Einstein a musician?— A. The great physicist is an excel- |lent violinist. Q. What word means “to pluck out by the roots"?—C. C. A. The word is “deracinate.”” It is rarely used. Q. When was the first Atlantic cable laid?>—R. H. W. A. The first one was completed in 1865, and extended from Heart's Cons tent Harbor, in Newfoundland, to Vs |lentia, Spain. Q. Is it true that some of the R ;hr(\: farms are of enormous size?—e A. Louis Fischer in a recent articw on Russia tells of the collectivizee farms. One of the largest of these ¥ known as the Gigant. An airplane i used by its director to get from one sector of the farm to another. It covers & surface of about 550.000 acres. Ho ever, this was not all cultivated this year. On this farm 3541 workers, 220 tractors, 230 combines and 450 tractor seeding drills were employed. The total population was 17,000. This means that it was necessary virtually to build & small town. Q. Are there more mutual savings banks in the Eastern part of the coun- try than in the Western?—W. G. T. A. Up to June, 1929, there were 611 mutual savings banks in the United States and 747 stock savings banks in the United States. In the New Eng- land States there we.e 384 mutual sav- ings banks, in the Eastern States there were 23 stock savings banks and 2f. mutual savings ks, Southern States there were 8 stock, in the Middle West there were 679 stock and 19 mu- tual, in the Western States there were 13 stock savings banks, and in the Pacific States there were 24 stock and 6 mutual savings banks. Q. Is there such a thing as unfer- mented wine?—A. M. A. Wine is a fermented beverage. Unfermented wine is a misnomer. Q. How many radio sets are there in this country at present?—H. J. A. It wes estimated that there were about 13,478,600 radios on July 1, 1930. New York accounted for 1,752,000, Cali- fornia for 1,470,000 and Illinois for 1,060,000. Q. What proportion of glucose is used in hard candies?—C. E. A. Usually the proportion is 85 per cent sugar and 15 per cent glucose, Q. Who edited the 'first edition of Shakespeare's plays?—C. M. A. The 1623 edition was edited by Henry Condell and John Fleming. Q. Was Peter Coo) ever nominated for the presidency?—P. E. B. A. In 1876 he was nominated by the Independent party end received about 100,000 votes. In 1854 he had estab- g.?!hefl the Cooper Union in New York y. Coming Change Are_ Discus Political prognosticators seerh to be| in agreement that there will be Demo- cratic gains in Congress at the coming elections in November, the only differ- ence in the predictions being as to the extent of the Republican losses. News- papers of both parties throughout the country analyze the predictions for the benefit of their readers. “Democrats always make claims like this two weeks before election day,” says the Cincinnati Times-Star (Republi- can), which concedes, however, that “there is more substance than usual to the Democratic_claim this yea! and says further, “Republican leaders ad- | mit the likelihood of losing 30 to 35| seats.” The Atlanta Journal (Demo-| cratic), claiming that “bad government | finds its counterpart in bad times,”| notes that “the walloping, long due, comes on apace.” The Duluth Herald (independent Republican) thinks it “virtually certain that the present large Republican majorit” in the House will be reduced, and it is possible that it| will be overturned. The off-year corf- gressional elections have gone against the party in power far oftener than they have gone for it,” this paper asserts. “It seems well nigh incredible,” ac- cording to the Roanoke World-News (independent Democratic), “that the| present top-hcavy Republican majority should be wiped out altogether, but the | drift toward the Democratic party has| set in definitely, and its mcmentum is increasing so rapidly that it is not alto- gether surprising to find Mr. Shouse advancing with such entire confidence the claim that the Republicans will lose the House in the coming election.” “With Democratic Chairman Shouse predicting loss of Republican control in the House, and Republican Leader Nich- olas Longworth incautiously admitting that it will be considerably reduced,” in the opinion of the Rutland Herald (Re- publican), “it seems clear enough that| things are happening in Republican dis- tricts of Congress that may mean modi- | fied revolution.” * K Kk ok “If the revolt against the Hoover ad- ministration is anywhere near as gen- eral and pronounced as it is reported to be, Shouse's prediction of a Democratic House will be fulfilled,” says the Bir- mingham News (Democratic), which points out as significant that “the Re- publicans are conceding a large gain by the Democrats,” which is in direct con-| trast to what has always been the “policy of the Republicans to cln)mi everything before election.” As to the Senate, this paper beileves that even| there “the Democratic-Republican in-| surgent coalition, which has already | proven strong enough to defeat the ad- | ministration at times, will be consider- | ably strengthened.” The Lynchburg Advance (Democratic) notes that “even Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House, admitted in a moment of weakness that his party was on he attempted~to smooth over the| gloomy picture he painted,” and this paper wonders if the various G. O. P. admissions are not evidence * result in the November election may be as much a swing away from the present | administration as was the 1928 swing >ndulum in favor of the Repub- “The evonomic and political situa- tion being what it is, Republicans ex- pect losses and Democrats expect gains, bout the last place to get pointers say ent: cans are more discouraged than they will admit ‘for publication,’ but the Democrats are less optimistic than they profess to be In similar vei Terre Hauté Star (ind pdent Republi- can) characterizes “the™“tpreat of a hot fight on his hands, too, agaifist Vin- cent H. Aulota, Democrat, end,#rank Paree, Socialist La Guardia d§ not add #0 his preghige by his campaidl for r of N York against pmy | ve abou in the | s in Congress sed by Country Democratic House” as a “Republican campaign scarecrow instead of a Demo- cratic hope.” The Chattanooga Times (independent Democratic) declares that “as a matter of fact, if the campaigns this year run true to form, they will consist very largely of claims and coun- terclaims.” The Seattle Dally Times (independent Republican) in its study of the situation finds that “the elec- tions nowhere in the country are sub- Ject to the influence of any one great issue, but will be determined by con- siderations which in the main are es- sentially personal.” ‘This is not the viewpoint .f some other journals. The Champaign News- Gazette (independent) thinks “the most important cause for campaign disin- terest seems couched in puablic confu- sion. Voters, convinced that public offi- cials must have something to do with the dull economic situation of the day, with the general wave of continued la: lessness and with the innumerable po- litical misachievement: of the past ?eow are undecided on what to do t it—and, being undecided, are de- termined to do no more than is neces- | sary.” * e On the other hand, the Newark Eve- ning News (independent) says: ‘“‘Since 1928 economic distress has spread from the farms to all parts of the country, and a vote of discontent and protest is to be expected. HoW much punishment the Republicans will have to take for the current depression will not be known until election day,” continues the New: The Morgantown Dominion-News (in- dependent Democratic) declares: “There is no secret among large bodies of the middle class of people and small busi- ness men about their dissatisfaction with the distressing economic econdi- | tions and their readiness to attach the blame to a Republican administration which specifically promised them in 1928 that it was the only party that could prevent such a business debacle. There seems little dodbt but that West Virginia will contribute substantially to the Democratic gains,” this paper pre- dicts. And the Davenport Democrat (Democratic), speaking of the Middle West, says: ‘“Here and there through- out the West there is danger of some ood Republicans being left at home. * * Out here in the Middle West |they learn that the farmers refuse to accept the explanation that they have been given parity with industry. Eas ern residents are also distinctively un- grateful,” notes the Democrat, and it feels sure the Republicans “don’t like the news that comes in from the country.” The New Qrleans Item (Democratic) is sure that “if the Democrats come within a few votes of controlling the House of resentatives they will find no difficulty in obtaining the co-cpera- tion of enough Republican Proj ves to insure their control of the House if they desire to oust Speaker Longworth or the present Republican organization.” | But paper sees a “delicate question | of political strategy” entering here, and |adds: “A good many Democrats main- | tain that the party would be better off in the next presidential election if it |did not assume control of the House. {PFor if it tock the House, along with a Democratic Speaker and Democratic fusion o:rganization, the country would then leok to the party to initiate legis- lation,” declares the Item. ‘What would be the effect on Presi- dent Hoover of a lessening of the Re- publican majority? Among the papers discussing this questién is the Milwau- ke: Journal (independent), which re- ks: “Loss of the House, or even loss of a substantial majority, would be no huckleberry picnic for the President. | With the subservient House majority he |has commanded Mr. Hoover has bcen able to trade with the Senate for things he W;nwd and '1:‘ stifie Senate meas- ures he op) thout having to dis- play the -mmguun'u Rand pa's: big stick. smaller House majority he has the harder and more outspokenly |he must work for what he wants cr ag what he wants > 4