Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1930, Page 8

XA * i : ot i o in Advance. Vi 5 mo.. o't mo.. 40c E e Je harmony with the simple dignity of the shaft. It would seem to the same average ‘Washingtonian, who is perfectly willing to admit that he knows nothing tech- nical about the matter, that no amount of gardens at jor mear the base will look quite as well as the present wide mound, which impresses the sightseer | with a sense of stability. He will “view with alarm” state- tleq | MENtS to the effect that “considerable ol Gis- cred- the ews ? s Wi A 5 iblication of ALl ot teauent! Speaking of ‘“‘Splits.” Recriminatory statements between ‘wet and dry Republicans are hailed as *“gplitting” the party on prohibition. As » matter of fact they merely em- phasize the splits, confined to no party or faction, already & chief characteristic of discussion over prohibition as a prin eiple and as a fact. There is already-a distinet split between the wet Republi- cans of the Atlantic seaboard and’the big cities and the dry Republicans of the Middle West. But it is no more marked than the rlit between the wet Democrats of the shoring” will be necessary to rest the shaft on immovable foundations before the gardens can be built. -Engineers exploring the subsoil near the Monu- ment recently struck bedrock at 115 feet 7 inches. The removal of earth for the gardens will demand solid foundations to prevent the shaft from toppling, it is belleved. & The history of the Washington Mon- ument is & great engineering epic. Probably few who visit it know that t one stage in its construction the en- tire foundations were removed and new {%udetions slipped beneath the huge construction then in place. It will be no new thing for engineers to experi- ment with the foundations o: the shaft. It has been done, and done suc- tration. Had there been a Democratic BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. 1d | for the President in the White House instead |* of & Republican at this time, and had the Republicans cut into the Demoeratic majority in House and Senate in the recent elections, the Republicans would have continued ‘hei: assaults upon the | lish Democratic administration's policies be- yond a doubt. President Hoover and his followers in Congress will be confronted with & de- termined Democratic opposition when the new Congress does assemble, it is | *° assured. If he Democrats can ob- |there ever was tain the aild of the insurgent Repub- licans in their efforts to embarrass the Republican President, the situation will be all the worse, temporarily at least, for the administration. There is every reason to belleve that the Republican insurgents will rush to the coalition standard as though to & happy reunion. ‘The country, it seems, is in for a period of battle between a Republican administration and a coalition opposj- | 5tro: tion, beginning with the advent of tfe new Congress. Political advantage will be sought on both sides. The Demo- crats will necessarily have to watch their step. It will not sit well with the country if the Democratic party turns out to be merely obstructive. The Demo- crats must put forward a constructive jorth and East and | cessfully, before, and few will question |program, in opposition to the program the dry Democtsis of the industrial | that it can be done again. The ques-[of the Republican administration. The and agrarian South. There is a split between the drys who might in com- tion will remain with the average ‘Washingtonian whether the proposed promise tolerate beer as non-intoxicat- | gardens will be as pleasing to the eye, ing and the drys who oppose any com- |8s satisfying to the eternal sense of the promise on principle or for expediency. [ fitting, as the present long, gentle But it is no more marked than the split | slope. ‘between the wets who denounce prohi- PR TR T ER bition as & violation of personal liberty Financing the Programs. and the wets who consign this particu-| The Board of Education is possibly a lar personal liberty issue to the limbo | wee bit suspicious by this time of build- of other bunk; between the wets who |ing programs in general. The school protest the theory of prohibition by con- | syste: experience with the much-dis- stitutional amendment, and the wets |cussed “five-year program,” which some change the form of | of the members of Congress concluded ent. should never have been g0 labeled in the factions could be pro- [first place, has not been encouraging. consid- | And the board’s reply to the District Nicholas Murray for Butler, | school-building program indicates there the repeal of the | will be no more commitals on its part the faction | to anything so far in advance. For the eighteenth | next five years the school officials believe not believe | that $3,000,000 annually may be ap- which would | propriated for capital expenditures act #nd | without any danger of excessive con- @o as it pleases. | struction. Purther than that they are contrasted With | not. willing to go. t MOrrow | The municipal government now has law enforcement; who would repeal the | the books or in the making. The Water t, would put | Department, by virtue of increased in its place, sub- | wgter taxes, has been able to embark on Butler's “cowardice |5 five-year program of modernization and hypocrisy” under Federal enforce- |and improvement. The Highway De- s naturally to be assumed | partment has outlined five years of work identical “cowardice and | on' the highways and ten years’ work State enforcement, | on prigge construction, which have not Federsl Government 1ending | peen approved. The Sewer Department is drafting a five-year program for the game the Wets | .yor system extension and improve- as united un- | ... mOSt SUDEr-| A of these programs, with others, how strange | ghouiq furnish & valusble and a neces- the ardent | sory index to the revenue needs of the the “right | pigtrict for the next few years. But it the Inva-| i far more important for the taxpayers lberty and his| of tne District to know how the revenue and where he | i going to be raised than to be told willing to spring with en-| noy it might be spent, The Water De- the front seat of Mr. MOr- | partment made a program and Congress wagon and applaud the| jncreased the water taxes to carry it Senator-elect’s declaration that the|ihrough The Highway Department has Tight of the majority to impose its Will | made a program and already there is upon the minority is unquestioned; that | foq)ish talk of increasing gasoline taxes the eighteenth amendment should be |ty finance it. repealed in favor of a substitute that “will restore to the States the power to determine the policy toward the liquor Test in the Federal Govern- to give all possible protec- and assistance to those States that prohibition against in- from the States that do not.” NiH Rk | i i “Do you favor aboli- congestion?” intelligent. Tefuse to answer it affirm- favoring the principle, assured that abolition of traffic congestion would not be attended by even more serious complications to convenience, speed and general busi- ness. Yet the voters in two of the State referenda in the last election voted for “repeal of the eighteenth amendment,” without the faintest knowledge of what, if anything, would be substituted for the eighteenth amendment, and with no great interest shown in this most serious aspect of the problem. The vote ‘was hailed, and rightly, as a “wet vic- tory.” But what, and where, are the fruits of such victory? The diversity of the splits and fre- quent exemplifications of & spirit of protest that is, at best, blind, confuse predictions concerning congressional action on any wet-dry issue. In amending the Voistead law there is @oubt concerning the number of drys who will for reasons of policy agree that beer can be classed as non-intoxi- cating under the eighteenth amend- “ment. For any drastic amendment or Tepeal or nullification of the Volstead law the wets must have not only a majority of both houses, but enough votes to overcome a possible veto by & President elected on a dry platform and pledged to law enforcement. ‘These splits render even more diffi- 1 I Hi ¢ If the Commissioners could know the proportionate shares of local ex- penses to be borne by the local tax- payers, the various construction pro- grams would be of more value than they can ever be under present condi- tions. As long as the Federal contri- bution depends upon the whims of Congress, and not upon the law or upon the amount or the iicportance of Capital City projects, 4 detailed plan showing for the next five or ten or fiftesn years may easily become the lever with which to increase local taxation. ‘The Commissioners should make all of their programs conditional. The school board, in this respect, wrote that ! should school needs ‘require an in- crease in the tax rate . . . the Board of Education will be ready to co-oper- ate with the Board of Commussioners to the end that the school estimates may be proportionately reduced to avold such increase,” and this should be the view adopted in connection with the other programs. —————— So many cities have had clues in the Mary Baker case that there is no reason why Schenectady, famous in so many other directions, should not have one or two of its own. There are always Mary Baker clues enough to go round. ——— e Battle. Co-operative government, visualized in some quarters following the row cele- brated statement of the “Big Seven,” has faded from the picture, even for those who appeared most enthusiastic about it. Coalition—the old coalition between the Democrats and the Repub- lican insurgents—which caused the ad- ministration grief in its dealings with the Senate during the last two years and which caused no end of delay in the enactment of legislation, looms again as the probable portion of the American people in the next Congress. The statement issued by Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, bristling with indig- nation at what he termed an “spology” by the “Big Seven" to the country for & Democratic victory at the polls, has clearly indicated the views of a consid- erable number of the Democrats in Sen- there is a silver Republican administration may yet be able to jockey the Democrats into & position, because of their declination to accept sound proposals of the Republi- cans, which will cause the Democratic party to Jose ground with the voters in | one 1932, The science of high-grade advertising steadily progresses; all of us are hope- fully anticipating the day when the printing of what should be initial capi- tal letters in lower-case type will be as extinct as the ads with the silhouettes of runaway slave boys. ———— et Einstein will visit America. Such a visit G. Bernard Shaw has vowed he will never undertake, Einstein will find & place over here where he will have no fear of a humorous explanation of his theories in an introductory speech by Mr. Shaw. ) When Great Britain indorses a man of distinction in commerce the result is always beneficial to his business. For some unexplained reason a poet laureate appears to derive little or no commer- cial advantage from his official indorse- ment. P Only about one man in ten thousand, when in full evening dress, succeeds in looking like the pictures in the adver- tisements of high-priced metropolitan custom tallors—and he looks even better. It is announced that the Republicans will have control of the House of Rep- resentatives. This statement does not end the excitement, as the test of control lies in how long it can be made to last. B ot T Socialism affords a valuable tempera- mental outlet for gentlemen who feel that it is the duty of every American citizen to make speeches and run for office at least once. ———r— John Barleycorn is resourceful in evading the law and is quite capable of disguising himself as an innocent bunch of grapes. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Enduring Drought. In the Autumn melancholy ‘We're supposed to breathe a sigh For the Summer days so folly That have brightly drifted by, how much money can be spent | gut that Summer season thrilling Leaves a message of regret, For the drought our hopes was killing And it isn’t ended yet. ‘When the Springtime blossoms faded In the unrelenting glare And the locusts were paraded Through the landscape everywhere, For the Autumn we were waiting And bellef was firmly set That the drought would be abating— And it isn’t ended yet. Natural Inclination. “Do you approve of women in pol- ties?” “Thoroughly,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “Even when they spend large sums of money in an election?” “You can't blame & woman for spend- ing plenty. It isn't a matter of po- litieal rules. It's just her natural ex- travagance.” Jud Tunkins says he thinks Solomon's proverbs would have been better if thay had been syndicated and started off in each case with the line “King Solomon The Gentle Voter. How sad the gentle voter who prepares A life that leaves him always to com- plain, As after each election he declares, “I must be wrong. I'll have to guess Gentle Domesticity. “I always let my wife have the last word,” sald Mr. Meekton. “Has she had it .today?” “Not yet. She was just starting on it when I left home.” “Riches,” said Hl Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “are a burden to those who have them, but a greater burden to Hymanly Immeasurable. ‘The Soviet has a cynic mirth Or yet 'mongst men is glummest. He is the smartest man on earth Or else he is the dumbest! 30 ain’ got nufin o " Eben, v Unecle Lional gifts ment without the slightest touch sentimentality, the same understanding mind and heart. All those who love “The Story of San Michele,” which contains the best Eng- prose written in many, many years, will want a copy of this new book. ht, 'xnaun' 'z to lumn“ an! from the book itself that it was written wmmnmmfltuflbymunx pre:;:uve public to lapse into urity. Here is a romance of publishing if e! Think of a man 70 years old, sud- denly pepping up with a world-wide “best seller,” which was such & combination of wit, kindliness, supreme common that it be- came almost instantly a sacred book with all who read it. ‘The publishers (Dutton) have indi- cated that they, more than any one, were amazed with the overwhelming de- mand for “The Story of San Michele, ‘which has carried it through 35 Amer- ican editions, and which is still going ng. It is no secret in the book trade that the first edition, published almost two years ago, was put out at $6 & copy &s a “travel book,” with the expectation that the 3,000 copies would not be sold. Not only were all 3,000 sold, buf d quickly, and there was an incessant call for more. So the $3.75 edition was put on the market, still without fanfare of advertising lrum&eu. ‘The book has drawn some of the most extravagantly favorable notices from crities ever received. of readers felt that here at last, amid the welter of books, was one addressed to them personally. Here at last was a book which dealt with the strong theme of death with- out a quaver, without an evasion, in words of honeyed sweetness reminding more of the grand sentences of “Ecclesiasticus” than of anything else in_literature. Yet the common note of everyda; the hundred and one small which most writers deign to put into words, found perfect expression in Eng- lish prose of an individualistic turn utterly unlike anything with which the reading public was acquainted. supreme - book, this “Story of San Michele,” which now has its ad- herents by the thousands, who swear it is the best book written in a hu dred years, a thousand years, some en- thusiasts say 2,000 years, this “San Michele” is a book of dreams, a story book for aduits. Men and women readers become as little children again when first they For a time they go around ‘They bore their friends praise. Then, later, in- variably comes a reaction, as reaction must come from deep enthusiasm. Perhaps they become a bit ashamed unusual, for the picturesque, for the genuinely touching, set down his impressions in & book called ories and Vagaries.” title; 1t is still & . No one, evidently, read it, because no one purchased it, and certainly no one it. Yet the prose in it was as then as it is now, good is & sorry state of affairs. ‘The back and sees that what was written by the young man was just as fine as that which is written by the old man. Our purpose here today is not to re- view either of these books. The first has been reviewed until readers are tired of reading such praises, The volume stands on its own merits for what it is, And“ t:;n:;lloflh mr:uah the ages will appe: men and women of good will who are not ashamed to admit_the possession of hearts. It will appeel to all those, likewise, who know good writing when they Tead it. It will appeal, furthermore, to those who ap- preciate the ability of infusing into words something of the glory of life, with its love, its stress, its humor. its sadness, its glorious moments of hap- piness which come from whence no man knows. The second book to become known to American readers (but in reality first published in England 32 years ago) should be read after “The Story of San Michele.” It will remain, not only as an admirable supplement, but as a sort of monument to the stupidity of readers and publishers. It was as fine then as now—but nobody knew it! The world always has had a suspicion that many & rose was born to blush unseen and waste its fragrance on the desert alr, as the poet said. FHere is & rfect mple. How few there must ve been who recognized the worth of the early book when it was put on the market. How many there will be today who will greet “more Munthe” with rapture! Yet mankind has ancther pet belief, , that merit will work its way to recognition at last, in some way or other, through some hook cr crook, by reason of innate ability, worth or what not. This, too, is exemplified by 'these “Memories.” Here is & book which no amount of non-recognition has been able to keep under. Submerged beneath the mighty and everlasting flow of ‘books, books the thousands, the millicns, good books, bad books, indifferent books, weighty books, frivolous books—— Kept prisoner on the stalls of second- hand_ dealers, hidden away waiting for the flash of recognition, the touch of an appreciative hand, “Memories” bided its time until a freak of publishin, T~ mitted it to find its audience dy waiting. Those who read ,“Memories” now. ter “The Story of Michele,” will have a strange feeling that they are meeting the young Dr. Munthe um-| they have met the elderly one. They will not be amazed to discover that they are one man. The old is young, and the young was then old. It is, m the mystery of human character, w] changes, but which never changes. The man who loves birds and dogs and little children, loved them all , forty, of their whole-hearted appreciation of | fift; & good book, an almost perfect book, and tend to stop tall ut it. Well, perhaps that is best. lere are some expe‘rre.neu. in reading as in life, xbout which one does not care to talk, be- cause the emotions aroused are too deep for m. E ‘When we were all saying “Remember the Maine,” & young European doctor with & flair for the interesting in life, mystery of death, wnnngmm it a deep note of pathos, yet of ite bravery, is the same young man who faced death in hospitals A many years ago, and wondered about it then. The man who until this year was unknown tb all except traveled Ameri- cans, today has entered into the hearts of thousands of us. This is a strange immortality. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. 1t begins to look as if the Woodrow Wilson old guard were leading the re- volt against the effort—as one of the anti-co-operationists puts it—to hand the Democratic party over tp the Hoo- ver administration. ~ At any' rate, it is thre: members of the last Wilson cab- inet who are in the forefront of the “harmony"” tion. The deadliest attacks on the seven self-appointed guarantors of Democratic good behavior on Capitol Hill have come from Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, Wilson's sec- ond Secretary of the Treasury; Jose- phus Daniels of North Carolina, Secre- tary of the Navy from 1913 to 1921, and Bainbridge Colby of New York, the last of Wilson's three Secretaries of State. It's now plain as a putestaff that the at- tempt to deliver a pwnmunutnnm\ Democratic bloc in Congress will be a tall order. ‘*Joe” Robinson, one of the signers of the declaration of depend- ence, and Pat Harrison are said to b> about the only Dixie Democrats ready to play ball’ along “coalition lines. George of Georgia registers emotion second in warmth only to that of Glass. ‘There are others. Congress will not be in session very long next month before the lid, in both Houses, will be blown off with a bang that :fll rock the dome. * K K % ‘What Democrats are saying in Wash- ington just mow boils down to this. They have been in the wilderness for | nearly 10 years. They have just won | the first national elections to go their | way since 1916, Having faith in the | habit of history to repeat itself, they believe that 1932, following events of November 4, 1930, is to be their year of destiny. They envisage the position of President Hoover. They consider that he has probably only one sure-fire chance of suce g himself. That chance, Democrats contend, is based upon a successful program of construc- tive legislation during the next two years, coupled, as nearly everybody ex- pects that it would be, with a revival of good times before the next presiden- tial ele:ltlcn. All this b‘e‘m‘ S0, :lk:e coldly calculating Democrats argue, why shouid they put their broad shoulders to the Hoover-wheel and help to propel the Californian’s now somewhat stalled chariot out of the mud and onto the smooth, hard surface leading toward another Republican victory? * % % % All the shrewd heads in politics are not confined to the Democratic part: Would “Jim” Watson, at the end of ‘White House conference called to con- sider the Siren Song of the Seven, have succuml to its seductive strains if| there wasn't a catch in it somewhere— ask the Doubting Democratic Thomases? Be all these thing b:‘x chey" '3,'3.. t.t:_: thoughts nbefore sef those whlch are flitting thromnv.he\ minds of Democrats unsympal B, e e necks to ican 3 2 of epi ng the emotions Danielses, Colbys et al. is t> say that from their standpoint politics is mlm*u :nd' n:'. pollyanna. One of Americe’s diplomatic repre- sentatives in a foreign cdpital now home on leave is telling & good story on him- self. He's bzen at his post about a year. Just before leaving it last month the envoy remarked to a lady at dinner in that he I'll‘ proud :: E'.v'-h‘!‘l conquered at least four wor e of her country. He proeoed" whe;dt it | Re-Election of Representative Yates | to| commission, and his I!cution can be Count votardt Misursta, former Italian minister of finance, who will be in Washington next week, is well and agreeably remembered here as the head of the Itallan mission which ne- tiated the debt settlement witn our fieuury in 1925. His right-hand man at that time was Signor Dino Graadi, now Mussolini’s foreign minister. Count Volpi is no longer in public office, though still high in Il Duce’s graces. One of the rich men of Italy, Count Volpi is conspicuously identified with the development of water power and other guh utilities in the Fascist land. Italy, having no coal, has em- barked upon a comprehensive scheme of hydro-electric development. amounts of American capital are in- vested in companies of which Count Volpi is the directing head. Italian engineers are among the foremost in the world in the fieids engrossing the attention of the Volpi interests. * % ok % ‘Well, even bridge has been affected by business depression, or apparently 50, for Secretary Mellon’s receipts from internal revenue taxes on playing cards have fallen off heavily. In the fiscal year 1929 the Treasury collected the tidy sum of $5375804.20 from taxes on cards. In the year 1930 revenue from that quarter was only $4819- 292.50. The figures for the third qu ter of this year (July, August and Sep- tember) show that the slump contin- ues. Playing card taxes fell in that period by about $115,000 as compared with 1929. Ohio makes more playing cards than all the rest of the country | put together. * ok ok X Many messages of sympathy have been cabled to Tokio from high quar- ters in Washington apropos the de- struction by fire of the property of the Japan Advertiser. That long-established and influential American daily news- paper, founded and still owned by B. W. Fleisher of Philadelphia, has suc- cumbed to the elements twice in seven years. It was wiped out in the Jap- anese earthquake of 1923, entirely re- built, and on November 4 was burned to the ground just after its morning edition had gone to press and the bullding was entirely empty. Mr. Fleisher, his friends in the Washington official and diplomatic world are con- vinced, will not be deterred from ris- ing, Phoenix-like, from the ashes & second itme. (Copyright. 1930.) ——— From the Hiinois State Journsl. From the drift of Democratic ballots | which on last Tuesday covered the Re-| publicans of Illinois emerges the cour-| ageous figure of Richard Yates, Con- gressman at large. Apparently he has ‘weathered the storm. The" election is a personal tribute to the veteran color | bearer of the Republican party. It was brought about by voters who, bent on punishing the Republican party for real or fancied shortcomings, remembered that here was a servant who had no chastisement csming to him. The folks who couldn't forget the name of Yates and what it has meant to Republican- ism in Illinois quit scratching when they reached that name on the ballot. A militant and uncompromising dry, Yates was under condemnation of the | wet majority from the opening of the | camps In Chicago especially he was marked for slaughter. Precedent demanded that the wets put him out of ‘escape from to the suspect that a large Yates votes were cast by courage to of a fl‘ha‘:'tvho ing ema- stood by his guns and refused S P i e Hair on Watch Crystal. ‘From the Los Angeles Evening Express. British scientists may have suceeeded, nuhcldmed.lng hair on | wesh erystal . but his watch crystal? R i | P China’s Plan To Borrow Silver;in U. S. Analyzed rnished minted silver dollars at a dollar an ounce for the silver, when the open market ce at. the time in New York City (of silver) was as high as $1.28 per ounce? And this was done before the United States had entered the Great War, England, France, Italy and Japan have no silver to loan to China. These coun tries—none of them—are producers of silver. The United States is. There are many prospectors and miners in the ‘West—mines that could be opened and worked to produce the 1,000,000,000 ounces of silver China- asks for. Thou=~ sands of miners, prospectors and smelters would be put to work at once. U. S. Trade Discouraged. ‘The United States opened Japan's door to trade with the world. e United States promul door” doctrine for 3 that Judge Linebarger is on his mission to the United States, not to an inter- national pool, for a loan of 1,000,000,- 000 ounces of silver, some tell us we must have England, France and Japan Join us in the loan (all non-producers | it of sllver), or these nations would be offended if China were give the United States more trade than they re- celved. Why this solicitation on_our about trade with China, for Eng- France and Japan? Can any in- formed American mention any one oc- casion, since the Declaration of Inde- K:ndence, when these nations were so- itous about dividing trade with us? On the contrary, England has dis- couraged, even ihrottled in her own ports, since the Great War, our mer- chant marine trade; in E; bottoms. So by this lish-French-Japanese pooling with the United States we would pull the silver chestnuts out of our hand them over in a three- quarter patt, free, gratis gifts, that Eng: 1 . Prance and Japan may Ik China what they do not possess loan of 1,000,000,000 if needed, of silver to American trade with Chi the loan! He does not come for an “international pool,” but for the United States alone to make China the silver ‘loan. And why not? We have the_silver—bar silver—as & commodity to_loan China. Not stlver dollars of 412 grains, when the Chinese tael has Have we forgotten our Geold Scarcity Now Exists. ‘England—its Labor party—has come out for free coinage of gold and silver. The League of Nations’ Committee states, “There will be a scarcity of gold by 1931.” There is now. Mexico has just held a convention to stabilize the value of the peso, and “bar silver” is now at the lowest price per ounce in the world’s history. We have had $65,000,- 000,000 of bank credits in a single year —credit money at 6, 8, 10 per cent for 30, 60, 90 days without one dollar of gold, silver, or paper-note currency, coined or printed in circulation repre- senting this $65,000,000,000 of bank . _Why not? We have turned over to France $62,000,000 in gold since January 1, 1930. Our 122,000,000 of people have not $5 each in actual money, notwithstanding our boasted en masse per capita, so called, circulation of $48. It our tors take up the con- sideration of a silver loan to China let them consider the millions of their fel- low citizens unemployed, underfed. The United States needs more legal tender to start the plows, reapers, the wheels of industry, to stabilize prices. With ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. or financial 'y answered without cost to you, and ‘will receive the reply in a personal ter. Write your question clearly Jane? . A. “Salomy Jane” was written by Paul Armstrong and was based, in at least, upon Bret Harte's story, “Salomy Jane's Kiss.” Q. Did Great Britain send felons to as 5 ‘dangerous rogues” might be ban- ished by justices, but no system of tation of criminals can be said to have arisen until the time of Charles I, n justices were em) 2] send stead of inflicting the ‘death In 1717, transportation was aut as & substitute for other punishments hanging, and the contract systen) port convicts in rmm.:‘;or their labor | handle during the period of sentence, was es- tatlished. Protests from America were frequent, but unavalling. Most of the leownih es received some of these crim nal Q. Please describe the school system at the Lawrenceville School—D. W. A. It is an American college prepara- tory school at Lawrenceville, N. J, It was ly founded in 1810, but re- foun: in 1882, when th lish fleation of the passions through arousing of fear and pity." o What was the first card game flgfll'-—l.l. H Ezigii King was made to stand for in_ the snow while doing A. The dignitary who was made to perform & penance of standing in the snow while peuu:nm for absolution Q. What ee days part [ penance?—S. C. Q. Do all paints and varnishes?—P, T. 8. A. Of the 37211 retall hardware dealers In the United States, 25,550 paints and Q. What is a definition of a cloud- b\l;!l?—‘ D. & St g an accepted’ term meteorol and gen: connotes or more inches of rainfall at the rate of 10 or more inches per hour. Q. What was the origin of “Ain't il awful, Mabel?" that was heard so ago?—8. D. was the ‘house system' dopted. elmmpn r " was a . In corresponds lish schools Q. When was traffic on River at its height?—I. ht and travel b’nfiem-kmumunm Q. Who was the last of the figh Indian leaders?—T. F. e A. Geronimo. Selections for Hall of Fame Classed With Some Rejected ‘While the four names that have been “should have united in issuing & new A48 $5the WAL of Fama 219 Mooty :?‘&m 'll_&'lfl'fl?fl-fl time told & _how they subject of comment. It is also a mat- anhm’ “‘ l-end!uflndyma ,m"' _‘h the ter of surprise to some Americans that vision.” ‘The Herald admits that “more tmdtw&.mua of the for more than two centuries, e e a rising value of gold standard money, | prices “will continue to fall credits, credit money (pseudo money), cannot stem falling prices or restore to stability agriculture or industry. Bi- { metallism is the world's remedy today; in the Orient, in the Occident! 'America lead, the rest of the world will follow. World unemployment, underconsump- tion, starvation, will then soon end. W. E. RYAN, Urges Greater Speed For D. C. Street Cars To_the Editor of The Star: In Monday's issue of The Star there appeared a good editorial about the street rallways of Washington, which did not, however, touch upon the true crux of the situation—that is, their speed, or rather lack of it. The prob- lem which now confronts the District car companies is neither new nor one peculiar to this locality. Since World War it has arisen to trouble nearly every street rallway company in the United States, whether urban or rural. Moreover, it is a problem which can and must be solved promptly, or else the car line sooner or later changes ownership or th‘rhe;e is n of the street rail industry in the District of Co]umbh'l:’hd. t{'z me it seems that the officials of both com- panies have been more or less shutting their eyes to facts and consolings them- selves with the thought that “it can't last; the 35-cent taxis are losing money; everything will be O.K. soon.” But it ap~ pears that the 35-cent cabs are not los- ing money; quite the contrary. And this factor, together with the increasing cheapness of automobiles and the poor- ness of the car service here, is going to cause a great deal of trouble. Unless the car companies wake up are going to find themselves in & very seri- ous mess in Now, some people may say that in- creased speed of street cars will cause more accidents. Statistics prove the contrary. To cite a specific example, the St. Louis Public Service Co. since 1927 has increased the ave: its cars from 9.7 to 11.33 miles per hour, with & consequent increase in passengers One company advertises. car to the show, for safety, certain comfort and convenience.” ington street car has two common with the ho o 15 a'g‘fi L * ok ¥ ¥ Pointing out that,“our Hall of Fame is to honor those to whom such honor is due” the Manchester Union feels that “it may never fully discharge that function,” stating as to the results, “Even though there might be those who would be inclined to discount election to the Hall of Fame, still the fact re- mains that it is & national shrine and that we have had in this country plenty of men and women whose names might well be added to the lists. Some of them will be in time; some of them probably will never achieve election. And this is no reflection on the Board another board with an accepted certain other names and re- jected still others. Human beings de- fter all, upon other human beings nition of their attainments y sense. And we may not be any blinder than most na it comes to the matter of recognizing the truly great. There are not so many such at the best.” “Looking over the list of candidates umng‘:t election in the 1930 poll,” ?yl Francisco Chronicle, “oné is reminded that H:nry Thoreau Sidney Lanier appeal to their own select followings as figures in the American literary Valhalla. Then there is Noah Webster, who, despite his disregard for plot, wrote a book which made his name a household word for & hundred years, In another fleld we find {he names of Stonewall Jackson and $hilip Sheridan far down in the , although high military suthority sustains the popular lmlmnt&v: in D{uln‘ sthese two men among great - American captains. However, fame is neither dependent on election to the Hall as_possible.” “The eléctors who registered their choice,” declares the Syracyse Herald. tion if you let them e] h. cen! "Nl agree that local street cars comfortable and convenient. 1y are 3 e | worshipers in the college, the Gray Poet received at the reccnt elec- not one single vote more than the mains outside of the exclusive list of immortals. Among the nominees voted on just now, that magnificent firebrand and intellectual, whose service for America in her struggle for from British tyranny was not unlike the Service rendered by Jean Ji Rousseau in creating a French republic, Teceived only 36 votes.” i _As viewed by the Providence Journal, Whitman “may have been looking down from Elysium in some disgust at the and | varied “To readers not they studied p! cording to i period by thr standards of o his mu-y(w )