Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1930, Page 8

] i RIS e .-I'.:'l‘ the Associated Press. btk il i £ ] ! ' i | i : E za ség i 8 i : g { : ! ; : f §F i gs b §g i i ig' tif i il 1 : E ! / | i ’ 154 g H 2 sinews to Germany's enemies was deniable. But clinching proof was Jacking that the Wilhelmstrasse or mmn ‘Washington embassy ted these felonies. It goes with- out saying that if Germany was to be § A Relic That Should Go. ‘The old Aqueduct Bridge, in George- town, replaced by the Key Bridge, re- mains standing pretty much as it al- ways was and provides an interesting P'm.lfl 'fl.f.ml the avowed beneficiary of such breaches | relic of the ancient and honorable pro- : e No Gas Tax Increase. 3¢ is not in the least surprising that the Federation of Oitizens’ Associations, &t s meeting on Saturday night, went unanimously on record as being op- posed to an increase in the gas tax from $wo to four cents and in the registration fee for motor cars from one dollar to W0 dollars. In fact, it would have been | Absolutely no good | Teason has been put forward to show the necessity for putting an additional burden on Washington motorists save the rather amusing statement that “it }. it i i i i g! §Efy H 3i§¥s 1Hi1 agfi | ! i i § : ;: i 2 i ¢ 8RE. il it fhi i iff!eE E gsgbi 50 L1 Ea 13 HE &553 E i g : 1 3 ssig ¥e ] 4 5 8 g 14 11 ; I [ | i § Hid 1 § | L4 | | 3 i i 1 | g i i I it Germany and Sabotage. Before the Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany, sitting at Hamburg, the German government has | been adjudged not guilty of sa- connection with which Amer- nts demanded an award of The claims concerned Tom fire and in J A of American neutrslfty, she would War passions and war psychology were responsible for disordered thinking all over the world. Innocents suffered everywhere along with the guilty. An[ the resultant damage cannot be re- paired, but the outcome of the Black Tom and Kingsland cases is & hearten- ing indication of a readiness to make, though tardily, such amends as are possible. BT PR ‘Tmpudence.” Senator Willlam E. Borah is aroused over the “impudence” of those who jmply that a coalition of Republican The Idaho Senator, one of the leaders of the Senate coalition in the last ses- sion, insists that the Republican Pro- gressives and Democrats have “just as keen a sense of responsibility and quite . | as intelligent & conception of their duty as the regulars,” referring to the ad- ministration Republicans. Senator Borah's statement, issued upon his arrival in Washington, seems to lay the ground for future claims by the Progressive Republicans that the administration, not the coalition, is forcing & special session of the new Congress in the Spring. “I am in favor of going ahead and' of business in an orderly and I trust an intelligent way; and I will pay mo attention to any cooked-up effort to stampede the Congress,” said the Idaho Senator. This might be in- as meaning that Mr. Borah right ahead to dispose of all business before Congress short session. The catch definition of “necessary i that Senator Borah is one insist upon the farm the passage of the Nor- looking to Gov- operation of the ; the anti-injunc- organized labor, impor- f Egi% E il h EaEEEEE g of the Republican ts and It the pro- n the admin- three propriation bills, must be limited if it is to be completed by March 4, 1931. The Progressives appear to resent the Platinum ingots of vast value, wrap- ped in brown paper, vanished from s van in London, notwithstanding the fact that the driver kept glancing at' the package. Possibly he glanced once too often, rather than not often enough, Symptoms of Spasm. ‘There is everything to be gained and nothing to be lost through the recess taken by the President’s Law Enforce- ment Commission until the latter part | of this month, when it will meet again, | presumably to complete the draft of its | fession of bridge bullding. But if it is not transplant it to the Smithsonian or to the National Museum and give it a home? After the Key Bridge was completed some of the citizens of Georgetown came forward with the suggestion that the District end of the bridge be pre- served as & recreation pler, extending out into the river and providing a de- lightful spot for catching cold in Win- ter and cool breezes in the Summer. The suggestion apparently has taken 80 well that the whole bridge has been left standing, but in its present con- dition 15 good for nothing except as an eyesore, for which purpose it serves very well. ‘The bridge should either be repaired and part of it made into a recreation pler—a proposal that may not be prac- tical from an engineering standpoint— or else torn down. It was old and shaky when it went out of use. It now provides a mendce to the Key Bridge in time of flood or ice and, of course, serves no useful purpose. It does pro- vide, however, an opportunity for the employment of men who would be needed to raze it. Such opportunities are not everywhere. —_——— ‘The covers of many American maga- zines and pictorials are not much from an artistic standpoint. However, there is no art critic so severe that, having seen the sort fancied by the British, ‘would not rate ours above a solid pha- lanx of unconvincing advertisements printed in heavy type. ———— Experiments by two young Princeton professors which involve a sound am- plifier, a telephone recelver and the auditory nerve of an unconscious living cat. tend to confirm sn ancient theory that there are positively none so deaf a8 those who will not hear. 0 Geographers declare that New Guinea is really the paradise of the spolled child. Some envious persons are always trying to take credit away from the United States. i “A popular fur in London this season is moleskin dyed black”—fashion note. Why take the trouble to dye it black if it is to bé worn in Lopdon? led down, many a spioy murder case runs like this: First, a woman's heart i broken; finally her alibi is. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON ‘The Public. The public has' a modest way That sometimes seems obtuse; It likes to heary somebody say And puts up no defense When charged with morals wholly ‘wrong And scant intelligence. It likes to hear reformers shout, And with reproachful stress Arise to tell us all about Our hopeless wickedness. The public always lends an ear, And with a patient smile Walts for somebody to draw near With something that's worth while. From time to time a thought will rise Amid the mighty roar, The public straight that thought ap- plies ‘To use; and waits for miore. Fault-Ainding all in vain will seek ‘To make this old world grieve. The public seems to be most meek When laughing in its sigeve, It Has AN Been Said. “Are you getting ready to make a big speech when Congress convenes?” “No,” answered BSenator Sorghum: “pot unless & new topic develops. I think I have offered or listened to every possible observation on every con- celvable subject available up to this time.” . Tired Business Man. “Was this show gotten up to cheer up the tired business man?” t's playing to crowds. Before I got .| this hit I was getting to be one of the weariest business men in the busi- ness.” Speak Softly. Bpeak softly; it is better far That angry words be barred. Speak softly wheresoe'er you are— But keep on thinking hard. . Uninitiated. “The reason you don't like Wagnerian music is that you don't understand it.” “That’s one of my two objections to it,” replied Miss Cayenne. “I don't un- it and I don’t like the way it sounds. Miss in | Of enthusiasm from shel That once down in black and white a book desired is in a sense a book gained, and may never get any nearer w wtullly"_becam]n( the property of its There you have an economical method of buying books; for this system re- i ings hl& trace the * ok ok * 4 ‘The booklover who jots down names of the books he would like read they are announced will eferring his purchases to an- It is a trifle rough on the but remarkably easy on the Bsr B 5 duces the number bought by about 80P per cent. What it does, of course, is to give one 8 chance to mull over his prospective books, and to whittle down his enthu- ‘What is it which one does to enthu- siasm, whittle it down, or blow it out? Or does a book enthusiasm, like any other, suffer a like faté, or action and reaction? One reads a review, wonders if the writer of the review actually ever has read the book reviewed, likes the title, is intrigued by something or other, hard to define, but tangible, neverthe- Tess. One decides that one must have the bool If its title is not jotted down some- where, it will persist in gnawing at the memory, much as & worldly mouse will at a plece of cheese. ‘The human brain is & hunk of cheese, and curlosity is its rodent. The mouse of memory eats away at the cheese of a brain, and finally pro- pels that queer organ into flashing even queerer signals to the motors of human action. Finally, one goes and purchases the book, to discover that it is no better than it might be, and not half or one- tenth as fine as one’s enthusiasm said 1t would be. x k%% Let no book borrower say, “Ah, why did you buy it in the first place when 'you might have borrowed it from the brary or from me?” We have n'x% re.lilfiom" with Aug estioners. ey do not possess :‘)‘:fl ©of booklovers, and the true depths of booklove is forever beyond them. beon" - Wh. come one’s own. The point is that even the book- owner would willingly exercise some judgment in his ownership. This does not ‘mean, however, that he must sample & work first before he buys it for his own library. ~ He who will pot take a chance in books as in life must walk the old stodgy road wr&ch leldal only to the judgments of other people. 4 W“I’)‘y should one put up with the opinions of other people when he may just as easily and a great deal more satisfactorily make his own judgments? | he With books this self-opinion is peculiarly desirable. In a!.h’a matter of litics opinion often is deceptive. en it comes to questions %( ‘mucr:lflt. “x:u nbun- ness, traffic, what you will, no can .::s" on the Bible that his opinion is infallible. actual possession can & book | Us always better in practice) to the effect that no one should be sold anything which gen- uinely is not for his own In such impalpable rela a8 of the brain and the book, the and the book, the lnulllmu and the book, the heart and the hr' there is no hard-and-fast rule which shows doubt what is good for the purchaser. That is why one may well resent these young ladies who drift into the home on the heels of a brisk Autumn breeze and proceed to tell one just how to spend one's money, where to place it and with whom. They call them- selves canvassers, but really they are nuisances. Here we see, in our note book, the faded ink of two years gone by. It spells the title of & book which was is- sued just before Herbert Hoover was elected President. It is “The Sanctity No doubt it was & good book; it seemed to voice our beliefs: we thought we wanted it. After we jotted it down, somehow the enthusiasm wore off. We have never read “The Sanctity of Law.” Unless we run into it some- where, or some one presents it to us, we probably never will. A little further on we discover “Hell in Harness,” by Joseph Auslander, “the first Crime Club poem.” (Weé believe it was the last.) Well, we got over want- 3 ey had plenty of coples of it for sale over in nion Station. Tt appealed to travelers. We didn’t travel, so we lost our hanker- ing, evidently. “Uncle Sham” seemed o appeal, but the appeal wore off. BSeriously, we meant to get “The Building of a Book, but as far as we got was this nota- and “The Bitter Tea of Gen. The longer these titl in our lttle black book, the less likeli- 00d there will be of us ever reading the books. 1t we do, well and good; if we do not, the world will wag right along. We still insist that if one or more books are meant for us, as “The Story of San Michele” was meant for us, we them home at last to our an 5 WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Behind the scenes of the White House and the Wickersham Law Enforcemsnt Commission prohibition politics is being played with a vengeance these days. Drys and wets are waging a battle royal for their respective views in the hope of having them incorporated in the Wick- ersham report and eventually adopted by President Hoover. The story goes that up to within a few days ago the wets—or rather the moists—were head- ing frresistibly for a touchdown. The goal was beer of as high-powered volt- age as 3.75 per cent. Alarmed by the unexpected momentum of the wets, the drys organized an aggressive eleventh- hour defense which, some of them be- leve, has definitely checkmated the wets’ mad dash towkrd fermented liquor made from malt and hops. The Vol- red for & Wicker- report that will be ar from bone dry. Not only are the oover law enforcement fact-finders re- led as wets or semi-wets, but the s think 3’: ma:mmémmr:a been ected anti-pro) agita- tion lflfl!:ie recent elections. . . Apart from the purely alcoholic con- tent of the controversy, the politics of it is causing perturbation in the high- est Republican quarters. It is an open secret that the more the Democratic ship tends to list wetward the more the President is advised by many shrewd G. O. P. politicians to main- tain an uncompromising dry stand. Political history and philosophy, ac- cording to one of these Republican wiseacres who not long ago was at the elbow of a President, all teach that a great party seldom gets any- where by adopting in self-defense the s)osmon of the enemy. The authority ust quoted points to the late G, O. P. gubernatorial flasco in New York—a “Tuttle” loss, as he puts it. * K ok % Pressure has been put to bear upon the Wickershammers, from the Repub- liean dry side, not to be stampeded into stressing exclusively the unen- forceability of the liquor laws. This is exactly what the wets want em- phasized. Sweeping modification of the Volstead act would then ensue, they fancy, with the certainty that m;lht follows day. Dry strategy is also taking the direction of trying to induce Messrs. Wickersham & Co,, if they feel they must call attention to the weaknesses of enforcement, to paint in equally glowing colors the benefits of prohibition—how it promoted in- dustrial efficiency, etc.,, etc. Drys hope that the commission's report will also tabulate the many saf thrown by the liquor around personal libe: statutes, including the legality of home distilling and even, under liberal con- struetion, of h:me‘-brew‘lnx, Nobile Giacomo de Martine, who is completing his sixth successive year as I Ambassador to the United States, has taken & leaf out of Calvin Coolidge's home-exercise notebook. Mus- solini’s accomplished envoy has just in- stalled a row! machine in the em- bassy and works at the oars early every morning. In younger days M. de tino was a passionate oarsman on the Italian rivers. He still thinks the steady stroke is the most satisfactory form of muscle play. The Ambassador is | tide.” How sional . It appears that the major m the dough contributed to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was forthcoming from Ber- nard M. Baruch of New Yor Carolina. Senator Millard E. Tydl Maryland, chairman of the committee, distributed the funds among 14 States. In 10 of these, Democratic Benators: L ol Ten is apparently “I 's’ lucky number. It was just that total that went Democratic in the 1928 sena- torial campaign, which the Marylander directed. also EE ‘William Tyler Page, veteran clerk of the House of Representatives, whose . Creed” is recited ‘An ican dally by millions of school children all over the country, ought to be a weather fore- caster, least. some of his political predictions border on the uncanny. After the Maine election in September, according to his biennial practice, Tyler analyzed the result of the vote as it had affected Maine members of the House. He found a Republican loss of 10 and a fraction and a Democratic gain of the same percentage. Then he applied these ratios to congressional dis- tricts '.hrouf.hout the country, on & per- centage basis of gain and loss, with the result that it worked out at 318 Repub- licans, 215 Democrats and 2 ‘“third party” members as_the ible out~ come of the national vote in November. Ty'l:r missed it by only one Democratic vote. * ko x De Wolf Hopper, who will be 73 years old next March, is now on the lecture latform. He spoke in a town near ‘ashing the other night and got off to s start with an opening wise- crack. is {8 my own, my native land!” he sald, “and I don’t need to ke off my hat to any monkey.” 28w “Bob” Allen, youthful and red-headed chief of the Washington Bureau of the Christian Science Monitor, is just back from a tour of Russia. As to America, Me says that the Soviet's attitude is that of the late Phineas T. Barnum, vis, it would rather be abused than ignored. Allen found that what Moscow wants above all—barring our recognition—is to be kept on the front page over here, “It even likes such things as the Fish com- mission,” he reports. (Copyright, 1930.) Voters of Three States Rap Prohibition Law 14 From the Indianapolis News. were held on opponents of prohibition in some of its forms. At lu'fzo six “wet” Gover- in_Wisconsin, and Rolph in California. Delaware, on the other hand, supported dry candidate, as did Pennsylvania. Anti-prohibition Sena- tors were chosen in Massachusetts, T ai Eig §§ 2, dent Wilson, to hear his war message, and to declare war. Chdmp Clark, a Democral nominated by & Republican, the pres- t Senator “Tom” Schall of Minnesota, then a member of the House. Clark received 217 votes to 205 for James R. Mann, a scattering for other candidates and two voting “present.” “Doubtless,” Mr, Moore continued, “we atill ‘claim that ours is & two- party t, notwithstanding the fact that major parties have ap- peared and disaj conj result of the election the other points to a possible departure from the two-party system.” * ok Ao No one in the new House is likely to re- sign, Mr. Moore said, but some of them are very apt to die before the new Congress meets, or soon thereafter. He estimates an average death rate of 10 among members of Congress. There will be aen interest in by-elections, it deaths take e. sion of the members both in the Senate and House was between ‘“the adminis- tration” and the “opposition,” it was not close, Washington's influence being almost complete for a long time, although it waned toward the close of his second term of office. By the time the Fourth Congress had rolled round, however, 'ty lines were drawn pretty closely, with the Federal- ists havin, Senate and two in the House over their ents, the Republicans. The Re- publicans in days supported the views of Thomas Jefferson, whom the Democrats of today look upon as their POTIS Do seint. ‘The Federalists gradually lost ground and, as Mr. Moore said, practically faded out in the period that followed, and in the Eighteenth last during the administration of James Monroe, 1923-1825, they had only 4 members in the Senate and 28 in the House. During the next two Congresses, with Adams sonians, the former ha in the Nineteenth and tieth Congress. In the ty-first Congress, the names were Jack- sonlans and National Republicans. st Bgues In the” Witory of e greal of present Democratic which did e ‘Iolla'lh Co the flemt;u ing Congress, nty- second. It was then that the Anti- votes of only one State, Vermont. In the Twenty- Congress, there majority of Democrats. Ts were classed as States’ Rights, Nullifiers and National Repub- L mwmrnyhadmw\h.mm the Twenty-fourth Congress, with Van Buren Rresident, there were only Whigs and Democrats in the House and Sen- ate. The Democrats had a large ma- m’:‘ 2%" House, but only 2;b§ml- how wMXNLn been the m of the Republic, Mr. Moore calls atten- tion to the fact that in the following besides Democrats and Whigs Whigs, obtained Twenty-seventh Congress, there were a few members who called themselves Tylerites. In the next Con- gress the Democrats had the control of the House and the Whi control of the Senate. When Polk became controlled both houses. ‘The American or Know Nothing party made its appearance in the Thirtieth Congress, with six Americans in the House. In that Congress the Democrats had a majority in the House and the Whigs a majority in the Senate. Skip- ping ahead until 1854, with Plerce in |the White House, the Missouri Com- | ise controversy caused serious po- m disruption. In the Senate the Democrats %‘.‘: ‘s majority over the combined strength of the ublican and the American merhbers, while the Republicans and Americans had a ma- Jority over the Democrats in the House. KR ox x ‘While Buchanan was President, in the Thirty-fifth _and Thirty-sixth Con- , the Democrats had a clear ma- jority in the Senate, but in the House the combined strength of the Repub- , licans, the Americans and anti-Le | Compton Democrats exceeded the num- ber of Democrats. | After Buchanan went out of office {and Lincoln came in, the Republicans were in full control of Congress and | during the Civil War Period. But in the Forty-fourth Congress, 1875-1877, there began to a sharp divi- | sion along lines. The Senate was iluprubuun and the House Democratic and there were 14 members of Congress | classed as liberals, or independents. ! That was the last Congress of the Grant | administration. * * * * gress. in both branches, the Forty-sixth. The ‘mvm'”m Congress, with Arthur in the te House, a Republican, there were an equal number of Republicans and Democrats in the Senate and one independent and one “readjuster.” The House was strongly Democratic in the following Congress and the division in the Senate was close. The Democrats controlled during the first Cleveland administration, but the Republicans took command in both houses when Cleveland went out and Harrison came in. Mid-term in the Harrison adminis- Ohlo, New Jersey, Iliinois and Rhode trol Island. Montana returned BSenator Walsh, who is & “dry.” There will be considerabls and House. of which is interesting, g‘”fim u\::‘t .nym‘lcdu mwnde or A as a 3 what the jubilant antis call n%lnl Ve raah enough” 1o predict. Tt =ly be ;mh [ u:.-' ‘a8 ‘nalmpmf:l seems Setta; Connectiout, Rhode Tuand, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Illi- nois, and Californis in addi- not as the mneer | the Republicans. a majority of six in the. Congress, the o loyment aggregate wages show & falling off of about 20 per cent. Q. :!owfllonx did the Big Bertha sheil Paris? How many shots were fired into Paris?—E, E.D. A. The Big Bertha commenced s | on Parls March 23, 1918, and conf over 140 days, at intervals of about were fired into Paris, the number limited because the accuracy life the gun was only 600 to 700 rounds. Q. Can a_gas heater form ecarbon m:no:}de.?’—fl. A, A i . r passages of & heater become clogged, or air nm to burner is cut off for any reason, monoxide will be generated. . What is m_«?ngn‘ of “doubling” ln%wknmmunr—w& . Y A. Grosvenor Nicholas says that it is in sald to have originated in connection with the game of A 3 % ‘Why is beryllium so valuable?— A. Beryllium is almost a third lighter than aluminum, so hard that it will scratch glass, acld-resisting e: to hydrofiuoric acid, it has powers of alloying, and its production is at present prohibitively expensive. Q. In what year did Geraldine Farrar first appear grand opera in this country?—J. A. Farrar made her American debut in 1906. Q. How many Sweden last year?—H. D. A. In 1920, 29 large vessels were unched. Q. What was the Precieux movement P AT term. “Prsciez” . ¥ was to the affected style which m in France during the seventeenth cen- cleuxes Ridicules,” wI death blow to the school. Roosevelt Gains in Support 5 34 b of For Presidential Nomination party movements since the early days De York does not assure similar support in ¢ | other States. Voleing its enthusiastic approval, Oklahoma City Oklahoman (l.!!dlpvlld"“S ent) says: “He is the outsf Gov- dent two years later the Whigs | gul caught the popular E:ople to talking and thinking every precinct in America. There no American alive today whose polif future carries with it more pro; 4 “His vietory means his nomination for President in 1932 by the National Convention, probab first ballot,” in the opinion of sey City Journal (independent can), while the Huron Herald (Ind is, to many, “pract nomination,” as “certainly he mocratic on Express t:flllenubl.\mn) bellenld “re- n &5 An open and avowed advocate of repeal of the eight- eenth amendment practically insures his nomination for President on the Demo- cratic ticket.” The Yakima public (in “unless the judicial offices in Tamman York Democracy as & W e pute, Franklin D. Roosevelt's name will appear at the head of the ticket.” “Will the election of Roosevelt with such a tremendous majority of all the votes cast be received by the Democrats of the country as notice that he must be nominated as the party candidate for the presidency?” asks the Utlca Observer-Dispatch (independent), offer- ing as its own answer: “We believe that it will; although nothing is certain as to the political line-up at the end of the npext 18 months.” The Atlanta Journak (Democratic) calls his victory, unpnfllhle&n mafority, nothing short of ~mAar] 8. ‘That he is the leading contender is the verdict of the Providence Journal (independent), ipolis Star (independent), the Jackson Citisen Patriot (Independent), the San Fran- cisco Chronicle (ind dent), and the Memphis Comme: Appeal cratic). 'The Asheville Citizen-’ (independent Democratic) calls “far and away the party’s most power- ful vote-getter,” and adds that “a can- didate who can be reasonably sure of , “by an [ Rock Arkansas Democra , Bt il S?E J ] f i 4 ‘3958