Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1930, Page 34

| THE EVENING STAR | . With Sunday Moraing Ediion. - 157 WASHINGTON, D. C. ' SUNDAY......November 9, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The m.fin E"‘gfli"’ Company fiu::‘ : fi-‘hun‘l:-n n‘un%é. an -x':‘:!nern #8t.. Londen, Rate by Carrier Within the City. !;::F- -l'tlar.fin 4b¢ rer month ‘Star g . e e ng A Bundis Siar (when § days) per month Star . made ‘Y. th Sent i 80¢ oer month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. E‘}. %’lllnfll! 'y only’ Member of the Associated Press. Associated Press is exclusivels T, Aoted o b sy i 10 BB S g iod 2 et ial dispatenes heréin are also ieserved. ——— The Kindergarten Issue. The Board of Education, in special Meeting tomorrow, is expected to dis- Ppose of the kindergarten question, in 8 far as formal action by the board means disposing of it. The question before the board resolves itself to the issue whether any more kindergarten teachers will be transferred to the ele- mentary grades. The kindergarten staff in the white schools has already been Teduced, through transfer to the grades Or resignations, etc., by about one-fourth, ‘The ratio of pupils per teacher has al- ready been raised from a citytwide average of 19.3 pupils per teacher to 327 per teacher. Dr. Ballou, at the last meeting of the board, stated frank- ly that shorter staffs mean less ef- ficient education. Dr. Carusi gave it as his view that 4 the Board of Education returns to Congress without having done its best to carry out the intent of the kinder- garten reduction policy, “Congress will be likely to lose faith in us, and when that happens our usefulness to the public schools will be gone and the #chools themselves will be likely to suf- fer from any sudden mandatory sc- tion which the committees in Congress might elect to take.” ‘There is also the important question before the Board of Education of keep- ing the confidence of the public which supports the schools and not losing the faith of this public. The kinder- garten retrenchment policy has been partially based on the principle of rob- bing Peter to pay Paul. The kinder- gartens have suffered loss in teacher personnel to provide the elementary H s- f 3 i i E The Law and the Dog. Neither man nor dog can be tried twice for the same offense, according $0 8 decision just handed down in Police Court. ‘This ruling is well known for buman beings, but perhaps its statement for the benefit of dogs is necessary. The dog occupies & unique place in the modern city. Unlike the horse, which 18 seen less and less as the sutomobile 18 seen more and more, the dog has no mechanical competitor. His place in the affection of man, due to his loyalty and power of demonstrating friendship, 1s secure. Increased crowding, however, due to the growth of cities, has increased the strain of the relations between the dog and those who are annoyed by him. It is likely that as cities grow, and as the demand for quieter cities continues to #ain in power, the dog will need all his friends to fight for him. Nor must it be forgotten that the dog, even as man, his friend, often is a trespasser against the regulations. As long as the dog s #s human a creature as he is, he will find occasion, now and then, to bite, to annoy, to be found without a muszsle When he can work it off. Friends of animals will applaud the decision of the wise judge who refuses 10 try a dog twice for the same offense. The right of animals to decent treat- ment is being more and more recog- nized by civilized people; the law, which aims to be just, is not behind time in the matter. —————— Hunters in the Highlands of Scot- jand are sald to have come upon seve eral sleeping stags recently. So strict are the canons of British sport that it 88 assumed that the gunner in each ease set an alarm clock, placed it by the slumbering animal, and then stepped off a certain distance consistent with motions of fair play. ——— Such ridiculous things do they still teach at preparatory schools — the poetry, for instance, of Tennyson, Wordsworth and Kipling, which not only rhymes and scans perfectly, but sctually makes sense! — Crime and Children. The White House Conference on Child ‘Welfare presents some impressive 1g- ures. Orime, it announces, costs the United States sixteen billion dollars & year. There are approximately a million crim- . inals of one sort or another. ‘The total expended for the welfare of " ehildren—excluding, of course, the pub- Yo schools—is only five billions, There are Afty millions to be benefited. Few would claim seriously that there | 8 & perfect inverse relationship between | erime and the environment of vouth— _Shat every dollar expended in improving means & dollar less in the Both the causes of i from quiet residefitial streets and from alleys back of speakeasies. But it is encouraging that there has dawned on the world the realization that there is an inverse relationship of Some sort, even 1f it cannot be reduced to a neat, universally applicable formula. Few question today the conclusion that child welfare, wisely applied, will re- duce crime—that a great part of law- lessness is & product of the crucible of childhood. Year by year the concept of hereditary criminality, which can- not be altered by manipulation of the environment, loses ground as science gains a clearer understanding of the un- derlying mechanisms of personality. Some day the inverse relationship may approach perfection. The attack on crime through the child, however, is not alone a matter of | public appropriations. Character is not an article of merchandise, 20 much to be bought over the counter ef the wel- fare agency for a definite price. The sad fact is that nobody knows much about, the mechanics of character for- mation, that there is little standard ized precedure, and that the whole sub- ject is so complex that the Einstein theory is & matter of simple arithmetic in comparison. Present-day methods are largely empirical. But after all the important fact is the increasing acceptance of the gen- eral relationship—the broad vague cor- relation within which the more specific correlations must be determined by in- finite labor. ————— Arlington’s New (Government. Aside from the factional or party gains and losses in the communities adjacent to Washington, by far the most interesting result of the election is THE SUNDAY STAR, WASH Academy of Literature, which makes the award, and whose judgment has becn almost beyond question in the past, have selected him? 1Is he the best America has to offer? When we consider his possible com- petitors among American authors the answers to these questions begin to ap- pear. Dreiser probably would be elim- inated for his abominably sloppy Eng- lish style. His psychological penetra- tion is decidedly inferior to that of any of the writers to whom the award has been made hitherto. Hergesheimer catches now and then a note from the soul of the past, but what a pitiably pallid figure he is compared with Sig- rid Undet! So on through the list. It is difficult to find an American author who equals in any way some European in the same field. There is no original note. Lewis himself seems a dwarf in comparison to Thomas Mann, working in a very similar field. But he has his virtues. His photo- graphically detailed pictures of our times will be invaluable adjuncts to history. He has created in George F. Babbitt. Martin Arrowsmith, and, pos- sibly, the Rev. Elmer Gantry, charac- térs with the breath of life about them. He has rescued human types from the shifting scenes of the American epic. He revealed Babbittry to Babbitt and, to judge by the signs of the times, started that smug realtor on the way to reform. In Arrowsmith he struck s still higher note—approaching nearer to his European contemporaries—and accomplished much for sounder prin- ciples of evaluation in American life. Lewis never has gone to the soul of America. Neither has anybody else since Whitman. Bue he has exceeded his contemporaries in the accuracy and realism of his paintings of the surface Arlington County's substitution of the county manager form of government for its archaic and unwieldy system. The county manager plan won by about five to one, and Arlington County will now experiment with a sys- tem successfully adopted in a large number of progressive counties of the country. The reforms promised under the county manager plan lie in the pro- vision of a salaried executive and ad- ministrator, working under a legislative board of five members elected from the county at large, thus assuring a govern- mental organization that centralizes the power to act and bases its actions on the needs of the whole county instead of the three magisterial districts here- tofore represented by the three county supervisors. The complaints against the old supervisor form of government were based chiefly on the contention that the three commissioners paid more attention to the needs of their districts than to the county at large, that by common understanding each of the commissioners was privileged to formu- Iate policies for his own district, the Board of Supervisors approving the policies as a matter of course. The result was that Arlington, which is one of the smallest counties in area in the United States, but with a city popula- tion of some 35,000, in reality required the centralized form of government of & municipality, but received instead the loose and cumbersome administration of & county. ‘The new board of five members will have legislative power. The administra- tive functions will come under a county manager appointed by and responsible to the board. This manager will pos- sess all the administrative and execu- tive powers of the county government, with power of appointment and removal of the subordinate employes. No new governmental powers are conferred, the change being merely to put the county government on a more businesslike basis. Proponents of the plan believe it will enable the county to go forward toward the fine development of the ecounty promised by its proximity to the Na- tional Capital and the new plans for ‘Washington and its environs. The change is important, in so far as it affects the work of the Natlonal Capital Park and Planning Commission and allied bodies working for park and other development in the metropolitan district. Realization of these plans de- pends in great measure upon co-opera- tion between the Federal agencies in Washington and the governing bodies in the adjoining political subdivisions. The new plans of government for Ar- lington providing for centralized au- thority and establishing the power to act directly should go far to remove some of the obvious handicaps that have retarded the eounty's advance. et Michigan Boulevard, Chicago, has re- cently been full of turtles, whose num- bers succeeded in blocking traffic. Washington boulevards suffer often from the presence of motorists who ap- parently seek to emulate these animals. e A sociology class, asked recently the question “Why marry?” gave answers announcing such reasons As “compan- fonship,” “home,” “children,” and even “love.” No shotguns, however, were mentioned. .ot Sinclair Lewis. Award of the 1930 Nobel prize for Itterature to the American novelist and former Washingtonian, Sinclair Lewis, recelved scani notice yesterday in the press of election news, considering its far-reaching significance. The award comes to the United Btates for the first time. The reason for the long delay is apparent, if we are honest with ourselves. The level of American literature in the last two gen- erations has been low. It has subsisted | on borrowed ideas, originating nothing and improving nothing. The American mind has biossomed in other directions. It has been unequal to the severe dis- cipline of literature: Even the naming of Lewls may ap- pear to many as & courtesy award, The author of “Main Street” and “Babe bitt” seems & rather crude intrudgr in the company of Knut Mamsun, Stan- islaus Reymont, Gracia Deledda, Rud- yard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, Sigrid Undet and Thomas Mann. In his work there is barely an echo of the cosmic music of “The Peasants,” “Kristin Lavransdatter” or “The Magic Mountain.” There is barely & trace of that intimate and profound penetration of nature and the human heart, that of things. If any American was to re- ceive the Nobel prize there can be little dissatisfaction that it should have come to this former fellow townsman. ————— ‘The best break that foot ball of- ficlals can possibly get is to have their names set in agate type at the bottom of the line-up. There is no comment if the officiating is excellent, but plenty if one of them slips up on a decision or rule construction. And remember that they put in a real afternoon's work, both mentally and physically. Not a player on the field does as much running, or much faster running. A new queer animal, as yet unidenti~ fied, has been found in New Guinea. It has a bill like a bird, spines like a hedgehog, & pouch like a kangaroo's, lays eggs, nurses its young, lives un- derground and can change its own temperature. Whatever it may be, the manufacturers of black bass baits will soon be putting out an imitation of it. ‘The rustle and swish of taffeta petti- coats is coming back, according to those who follow and foretell the trends of fashion. Just think, there are mil- lions and millions of children, and not very young ones at that, who have never even heard it! R e T ‘Those goggle-eyed goldfish which are to come as a gift to Mr. and Mrs. Hoover at the White House will serve as continual reminders of the amaze- ment of the President’s party over how close it came to losing control of both houses of Congress. — ————— Spain has just shipped one million pounds of gold to England, the ship- ment, of course, being heavily guarded. She used to send a great deal of the same metal to that country about 250 years ago, via the Drake-Hawkins route. [ S — Reports from Bucharest announce that King Carol's coronation, already postponed several times, has been defi- nitely abandoned. A little business trip to Paris, perhaps? Yes? No? ——— o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. An Authoritative 0. K. T've oft heard Wagner rendered By the most expensive bands; I've seen ovations tendered While the public clapped its hands. Them chords—when some one strikes ‘em— Seem to jar the neighborhood; But wife, she says she likes 'em, So I guess they're purty good. Ot Browning I'm suspicious, For Byron I don’t care; 1 don't like foreign dishes Upon my bill o’ fare. Chrysanthemums look woolly An’ fraszled to my sight, But wife approves 'em fully, 80 I reckon they're all right. A Wavering Faith. “You still have faith in the wisdom of the plain people?” “I have,” replied Senator Sorghum, “but I must admit my faith wavered a little when the returns looked as if the plain people had decided to put an- other man in my place.” Jud Tunkins says a politician is the only man who has the nerve to adver- tise for a job that hasn't much real work attached to it. The Terrible Spree. This Old World has been on the loose, It squandered and would not produce. It ought to take a bath and shave And make an effort to behave. ‘The Difference. “I made up my mind our boy Josh Farmer Corntossel. “And now he shows his superior knowledge?" “No. Josh doesn’t know much more than I do. The only difference is that he uses longer words.” Areheology. “I can't quite make up my mind as to the style of architecture of the old brewery. “Well,” replied Uncle Bill Bottletop, “if T was compelled to make a guess, I'd say mebbe it was what you might call ‘Boosentin The Succeasful Candidate. ‘The promise he made ere the battle was won ‘With some apprehension he'll view it. inner realism which goes beneath the masks of sights and sounds, which places 8igrid Undet and Thomas Mann among the immortals. To this group Lewis comes not as a seer and into the company of his peers, but repotter for the morning paper note paper and camers. then, should the Bwedish poet asa with 'Tis easy to tell just what ought to be done, But diffieult, very, to do it. “Dar's dis trouble 'bout Thanks- should have a fine education,” remarked | Dem¢ PEACE AND WAR BY; THE RIGHT REV. JAMES “War_as & method of’settling inter- national disputes is incompatible with the Jesus ‘This from the deliberations of the Lambeth Conference, which met in London last July, and it _represents the unanimous #:mm of 307 bishops there assembled ym all parts of the world. Probably no subject before this notable confer- ence was more carefully considered or more fully discussed than that which has to do with the subject of world peace. It was not the expression of the pacifist mind on the one hand, or the expression of the extreme idealist on the other. Many of the men assem- bled at this conference had been chap- Jains in active service during the Worl War. They were not discussing the subject from the standpoint of those who were unfamiliar with the horrors of war, nor were they unmindful of the need of maintaining lice force on sea terests of world order. privileg2 to sit in with the committee that considered this whole subject, and we have never witn-ssed the exercise of frnur or more careful, discriminating judgment than was disclosed by this return of another Armistice day necessarily directs our attention to those lessons that were so dearly bought in the great struggle of 1914. It is how soon we seem to forget gneu huo;u and how u::'i“"’ ‘we turn ‘ways and practices Wi nmn.’. ‘The church in m Christian believers generally, if they accept the teachings of the great Master, must of necessity be advocates of peace. They must employ every legitimat: means and agency to this end. They cannot look upon the great principles given to men by the Prince | PO} of Peace as being matters that are i Bishop of Wash t | wars and rumors of wars, must witness merely counsels of perfection. Jesus dealt with present world con- cerns, that His teachings relate to man's happiness “':’nd uc:m{ c}urlnad hl: ly pi image clearly evident. He laid down fundamental les that have to do_with the cerns of life. He was prophets as “The of Peace. a significant utterance that fell from E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, ington. His lips on the night of His betrayal He declared: “They that take the sword shall perish with the sword.” He con- celved of a world order that had as its ultimate end universal brotherhood. His teachings did not preclude a reasonable and consistent practice that conserves the orderly conduct of human pursuits. Repeatedly He refused to be entangled in disputes involving the adjustment of human relationships. He' did not deal with methods of procedure but rather with the principles that govern them. It has n reserved for our age to recognize more fully the indispensable- ness of promoting such right. relations between nations and races of the world that the problems and controversies that lead to war shall be submitted to the dispassionate consideration of courts | tion, of arbitration. That the Kellogg-Briand ct is a sincere effort in this direction clearly obvious. The Lambeth Con- ference of Bishops accepts this pact on its face value and without questioning tory to it gives its une yflnclplu an forth, The bishops well say, “ tions have solemnly bound themselves by treaty, covenant or pact for the cific settlement of international - tes, the conference holds that the gflhdln church in every should refuse to countenance any War in re- the ent of its afirms that from the viewpoint which the church must necessarily take, the nouncement is consistent. This latest Armistice day, in spite of to a fresh advance on the part Christian peoples throughout the world looking to world peace and order. A properly Hoover Faces Special Session, Coalition and Dry Questions BY WILLIAM HARD. ‘The prospects gro out of last Tuesday's mualur polif slaughter and extending straight the years to the presiden inau- guration day of 1933 are now the ob- jects of intense consideration and cal- culation by all true, devoted Washing- tonians. The National Capital rings with the cries of officeholding and non- officeholding _political essi b who all have large maps and weather forecasts whel their favorite fac- tions can take into the air from mud and muddle of the presen the impending future. Faces Special Session Question. ‘The first problem is whether or not there will be next Spring a special ses- sion of the mcang:n which emerged last Tuesday from national electo- ral struggle. There are insurgents in the Senate who would like to see such a special session. It is within their zower to force it. begins on the first Monday of next month and which comes to its termination aumuu.lg and unavoidably st noon on the ake the drink problem and the Hoover Law Enforcement Commission while the bill is on the floor, they can easily 1 on the floor till the Senate clock strikes 12 on March 4 next. Then the Presi- dent, in order to have money with which to maintain the Navy during the fiscal year from July 1, 1931, to July 1, 1932, will be obliged, no matter w much he may regret and resent it, to summon the Seventy-second Congress into a special session, which will him all next Summer. Progressives Want Action. The arguments in favor of such a course by the insurgents have to do with the whole general strategy of th so-called ;;:?reumu of both parties for the whole period intervening be- tween now and the coming 1932 of the two major party national conventions. As the “progressives” look 4t 1t, the Hoover administration and the Republican organization of Minnesota seems to "T and doddering and wholly unable to Kkeep abreast of new necessary for the economic improvement of the coun- . Beneficial ition, accordingly, in the “progressive” view, is in arrears. Much such legislation, of a ‘“progres- sive” mold, has long inhabited mittee rooms of the Senate and the House. The “progressive” ides is that this legislation, in numerous bills, d out of its - broug] gress which would be willing freely to debate it and possibly pass it. Continuous Program Purposed. Some “progressives” calculate that if the Seventy-second 88, with & Republican Democratic_and insurgent completely d begin to coalition abundantly and controlling both houses, shoul hipstead | to choose between the IHM{ 7! enact “‘progressive” legislation in & spe- clal session next Summer and keep on enacting it in various successive forms straight through the regular session of the succeeding Winter right into the Spring immediately ing the ni tional conventions of 1932, there woul then be in the minds of the electorate of the whole counu"kn 3 ve' legislative am which might go far toward coloring both national party platforms and also far toward affecting the outcome of the presidential election of the ensuing November in a “progres- sive” sense. That President Hoover might veto a great mlnf. features of such “progres- pul or the It would, in J‘ ocrats. act, sim o mern:ol; of the r s of Wall Street” and so on the remainder of such special session is | forced into existence next Bpnng or not, there is not the slightest doubt that l.n[ the regular session of December of next year a program of eml “p1 i e o , indeed, on the dnar:tep of the v’ng:r:lgm n m‘:: course of a necesary ¢ prove the country that if it wants “wmfi" it must get rid of Mr. Hoover. 18 mef by the considerable success on ‘Taft and it inevitably now the t Republican ipon, however, Mr. Hoover will be found, according to all} our best ealculators here, to be r, 'S 3 el is piohibition. givin',” said Uncle Bben. “Some men |as can't feel thankful unless dey's done #0t de bes’ o' somebody else an' lef’ ‘em no ‘casion foh gratitude whillsoever.” tial wet deluge. For them the proposed bill to of | account of Yorktown in his "wO. Capital Sidelights BY WILL P, KENNEDY. After extensive research it has been definitely establishéd as an historical fact that an ancestor of George Wash- ington owned the land on which York- town was bullt, and which was occupled by Lord Cornwallis while he was being bombarded by Washington's command. It is almost as certain that this same ancestor had owned the land on which Cornwallis surrendered to Washington, which site is soon to baproperly marked for the celebration neéxt year of the uicentennial of that epochal event which gave the world a new nation. It will be one of the most important sta- tions on the patriotic pilgrimage in 1932 when the entire Nation celebrates the bicentennial of Washington's birth. Dr. H. J. Eckenrode, a historian of note, author of “Virginia in the Revolu- and who is chairman of a Vir- ginia State commission on archeology and history, has just confirmed these findings in replying to inquiries made by Representative R. Walton Moore of l!;;lrfll. Vl;«.v'l:nlil. himself Indlul-hol'- on ear! history and a very ) adviser as a member of the United States Commission which is ar- x"-:,m for the bicentennial celebra- : “It is true that 's ancestors owned This was Capt. a ‘Walloon, who came to Virginia in 1621. His hter Elizabeth married Col. George , secretary of state, in 1641. In 1691 Reade's son, Benjamin Reade, sold 50 acres for a town, and in the county seat of York County was O::ond there. ried a Warner of Warner Hall. Law- rence Wasl n, George's grand- father, married Mildred Warner. In that way Nicholas Martian became George Washington's ancestor.” Clflnfln(urmer authority, Dr. Ecken- rode points out that Tyler gives a brief historical work on Willlamsburg. In the Virginia Magazine of History and Blography, volume 6, page 409, can be found the line of from Martian to Mil- Reade's daughter mar- | AMUSEMENT BY FREDERIC The amount of time the rank and file of the people spend upon amuse- and the volume o‘: Soaay ey god an index to K:Ir economic well- ing as any which could be found. In these times, when the entire world is getting over a dispiriting period of busi- ness depression, Americans can find considerable satisfaction in that they are, relatively, very well off. Of the amusements which attract modern people all over the world the radio and the motion far above any others. e United States is so far ahead in both of these flelds that scarcely any other nation can be called & second. Add together all of the radio receiv- ing sets in all the other countries of the world and the total will not be so great as the number owned by Ameri- cans. The 122,000,000 peo) of this Nation have more of these ices than all the rest of the world’s 2,000,000,000 population combined. ‘The most recently complled statistics show that there are 24,132,561 radio recelving sets in the world. Of this total 13,478,600 sets are to be found in Amer- ican homes—more than half of the world aggregate. Radio recelving sets obviously are of little value unless there is something to be heard. So, keeping pace with the volume of receiving sets rlmd in use, the broadcasting companies have pro- vided an adequate number of broad- casting stations. Of the world total of 1,242 the United States has 614. Turning now to the motion picture fleld, we find that there are 51,744 movie heaters throughout the world. —Of these, 22,700—somewhat less than half, but a goodly proportion—are located in American cities. World figures are not available on seating capacity, but it is & fair conjecturc that if the figures were able they would show more than half of the motion picture seating ca- pacity In this country. The world list includes many small houses in faraway lands along witl. the mammoth theaters seating thousands found in the United . dless size, each is . There are, of course, large motion picture theaters in :uropun countries, but not so many a8 ere, " World Distribution. In world distribution of radio receiv- sets, it is shown that the British he trenches as they were in October, 1791. nard Replying to further inquiries from tative Moore as to whether Temple Farm, on which stands the Moore house, where the articles of sur- render were drawn up, was also part of the estate of Washington's ancestor, Dr. Eckenrode writes that “Martian was an ancestor of Gen. Thomas Nelson through his father. Apparently he was not the ancestor of Mrs. Moore, owner of the Moore house. 8o far as I can the | tell, the whole area of the siege of gTess, the d bill for driving the “gam- blers” the commodity exchanges, the bill for improving and en- 1a; the Federal Em change Bervice, down wil assu: n eighteenth amendment and of companying enforcement laws. Yorktown was not owned by Martian. The Temple Farm on which the Moore house stood was a different estate and does not seem to have been included in the lands patented by Martian. However, the town of York itself and the adjacent to it on the south, where the coun club now is, belongs to Martian.” is 1is the land over which Gen. O'Hara led Cornwallis’ forces to surrender 149 years ago. Representative Moore emphasizes that Dr. Eckenrode verifies 3 his own findings that the home Gen. Thomas Nelson, who owned the principal h Yorktown — the house at recelving sets. sets. Not another country has so many as 1,000,000 sets. Japan, a country which until less than a century ago was wholly ignorant of modern mechanics as applied in the Occident, takes fourth place in this newest device and has 641,000 radio re- celving sets. Fifth place is shared, so far as it is possible to obtain statistics, by one of the most ancient and conser~ vative les of Europe and the new- est and most revolutionary—Spain and Soviet Russia. Each nation is credited with 500,000 sets. Pigures would va: _g‘c:tly if reduced to ¥er capita terms. United States is far ahead of every other nation on 000 sets, stands second. The motion picture is & much older British Government Held Near Collapse BY A. G. GARDINER, England's Greatest Liberal Editor. Premier President Hoovers 88 being occurred. itative Moore also refers to | the turmoil Represen 4 book by Miss Lowther on Mount Ver- te | 00D, Who correctly speaks of Martian as view, remain bone-dry. The last Tuesday have not in the legree divorced the dry leaders bone-dry position. They will e than two-thirds of the House as dry. For a bone-dry presidential candidate they will subordinate all other issues and all party allegiance. They will not tolerate in him, however, any deviation from bone-dry policies. ‘The whole political outlook therefore is in the end dominated today by the report presently e from the President’s Law Enforcement Commis- in | sion headed by George W. Wickersham. If it is bone-dry, the President can go al with it and get the dry slv.?) rt which he has to have in 1932. it 1s moist, the President will be in the almost intolerable situation of )E_nvln ual” report of his own commission and the undivided enthusiastic political as- sistance of the element which is vital to his fortunes. (Copyright, 1930.) e Business Is Picking Up; Dollar Now Buys More BY HARDEN COLFAX. Business activity, behind the field in the last dash for the 1930 wire, is be- Its posi- to pick uj ound. - dllgmfiflnz than many tion is far less think. persons 4 It 1s admitted that America’s for- eign trade has suffered more severely than its domestic commerce, yet S. R. March of the industrial machinery division of the Department of Com- merce asserts that machinery ship- ments h!.or the first nine months of this year than those for the corresponding period of 1029. Industrial machinery is the me active line in foreign trade just now and the one most likely to be af- | p: fected by depression. In 1929 shipments were 25 per cent above 1928. u“.t ove t hich cent over two years ago, which was re- garded as a most prosperous period. No line of retail trade, with the pos- sible exception of automobiles, has shown extraordinary drops. Recessions of 5 to 156 per cent are common in in- dividual busin are advantageous It .{and quality is uestionabl. dmm?anm. s Competition Keener in Slumps. Competition is keener in years of de- fl-eulon and as a result manufacturers ke far more care that their goods shall | buving not suffer com) . Workers, facing the pnnlh’ Ibili mno- o?rmk are Census Bureau says that as a re- sult the modity will get more for his money than in normal times. Observa- ton and instruction, says the bureau, of Belgium, a Walloon, and he the ancestor of Representative Moore's | tends information is that when this Walloon came to this country the name was spelled “Marteau” ane later came to be spelled “Martian. * k%% Probably the first legislation which created an agency to operate at the Great Falls on the May 1, 1852, according to & study made at the Library of Congress by sentative R. Walton Moore, who stum bled across an act of the Legislature of Virginia of that date incorporating the Great Falls Manufacturing Co. named as incorporators Thomas Ap. C. Jones, William A. Bradley, Paul Neilson, Patterson Jones, John R. Love and Spencer M. Ball and set forth that the company was chartered “for the pur- pose of manufacturing cotton, hemp, flax, wool, silk, paper, iron, copper, brass, lumber and wood and for im- proving the water at or near the Great Falls of the Potomac River in the County of Fairfax.” —on— Ways of Wages.of Man. Prom the Jackson Citizen-Patriot. Some wives insist on being pald wages and others are content just to take their husband’s wages. pomiEiii s N What Coffee Can Do. Prom the S8an Bernardino Sun. Braszil shows how much ng, black coffee can jangle & person's nerves. obtain another job he guards his ;:t ‘e.mploymene to the uu‘nnul‘tl.h knowln"wmt mh;‘rrloaa of hard times it is naf thing for the em- ployer to lay off the least efficient and careful workmen and loyer prefers to cut nd profits in periods of depres. sion rather than lower quality of prod- | 82 hus fr"' for he is e is afraid, and rightly, that he fails to satisty his customers dur- a depressed period, they will seek r sources of supply in periods of ‘There is no doubt whatever—and this is proved b{ actual figures Government de| condition. ‘The effect of knowledge of the values wm;.-.h‘r can be now rchaser of almost any com- | retail have taught the American people that | SPace in they have greater purchasing for each dollar during times of Wm depression than when things are thriv- and production is being pushed to the limit. When demand for commodi- supply, the main effort is to mass production so this demand met. Consequently, the 1t | storing & L £:8 Bails 3 po trade unionist is introduced, but this will probably be delayed until the reassembly of Parliament after Christ- mas, when it is hoped that the Indian conference will have reached & solu- hist returned on Friday, from the Labor party. Imperial Conference Flickering Out. Mr. MacDonald is not only prejudiced by his failure to stem the tide of un- employment, but by the general lack of administrative capacity of the Labor | Do government. The imperial conference is flickering out without & prospect of , and is tives of frittering away a great oppor- tunity to consolidate the em; 3 ‘Whether the fault the govern- of dis- results of the conference and the un- of certain incidents, | lican victo: by R. B. Benne . in which he al- oy eoxinat tne Bt n dustry s justifying the new Canadian t | tariff’ against the competition of British the | poin cheap labor. ‘The effect of all this is to bring conference to a gloomy close and per- hlnl“unjull-ly to discredit the govern- men Alrship Disaster Hurts. FACILITIES J. HASKIN, icture stand out | adop! One reason—probably the chief reason —for such pre-eminence in these flelds in this country is that both the radio and - the motion picture have been developed by American inventive genius. Neither radio nor the principle of the motion picture was invented by an Ameriean, but the refinements and large-scale ex- ploitation are due to Ameris - tive. All the rest of mn:e cxm.hm:( the world together h:v:m invested but In its issue of November 1, 1880, the lection the | day before the presidential in wl Elections of 1880. g O “As to_the presidential election fo- , both parties are on d, to a certain extent, vis, will be licans in with its 138 electoral i3 for ‘The . are advices indicate the fight is so close in the Pacific States to render it not improbable that and possibly Nevada vote for Hancock. howeyer, him, com- State of litical levy on | TeSul i e 2u3E i Vermont Maine, and verse to 4 £ iy Sio, now to have the may T feverish contest of 1876." “‘ On November 3, 1880, the day afte the election, The Star commented s follows on the overwhelming Repub Ty “Among the causes for the sweeping Republioan victory yesterday, two were , Was a Among other causes operating against | I t are at the disclosures