Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1930, Page 8

WASHINGTON, D. C FRIDAY..,...November 21, 1030 — THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor A bly will consider that all the anxieties generated by the Passfleld episode were worth while, because they resulted in & spect the Zion ideal in letter and spirit. solemn reaffirmation, with the world | T Evening Star per Company | listening in, of British intention to re- into towns and citles. | mpg e or l-lmm 1is excl ulerwias cred: WY Children of the Alleys. One of the conditions contributing to ehild delinquency and high mortality Tates among children was briefly sum- marized hy the President in his address the White House Conference on th and Protection, as follows: the last half century we have 50,000,000 more human _beings * '+ ¢ Perhaps range of difficulties with are dealing in the betterment ©f children grows out of this crowding cities. lems of sanitation and health loom in every direction. iquency increases with congestion. luces disease and con- . * * * Home life becomes more t. Cheerless homes produce mor- minds.” At e ited per one recognizes the problem. agree on the solution, for it is if there is any one practical now applicable to the préblein Washington is pecullarly in that densely overcroWded congested tenement districts éom- to many other cities are unkfiown The Capital is at the same time unfortunate in possessing & type of housing little known outside the limits of the District of Columbia. The “alley dwellings” of Washington are the ré- sult of soclal, political and geographical conditions peculiar to this city alshe. Everything the President said concen- ing the evils of overcrowding in cities could be applied specifically to the alley dwellings here. But if the Capital is unfortunate in having to contend with this problem, it is fortufiigte in that the problem and the solutioh dFe Mh' tangible and relatively easy to grasp. It is unnecessary to expand pon the evils attendant upon the isolated alley communities of Washington, and 32 E gfigsig i idents of the Distfiet not constituents of the Congress of the White House Con- la Health and Protection are as keenly alive to the in- are of chilldren in the Capital as y other American com- , and should they include in their program an item expressing a desire that Congress give serious attention to the Capital's alley dwellings, as they affect the well-being of children, such & petition would carry weight, would be of gratifying assistance to those in ‘Washington working toward the same ———— Talkles for wholesale instruction of the Army are being prepared for the next great emergency. The final sen< tence for the day will probably be, “No, Jou can't have no pass!” —————— Who would not wish to be in the ‘Winchester region, along about this time of year. to enjoy the sight of the | peaches in the apple trees? —————— The Crisis in Palestine. This week has seen the crisis in Palestine at least temporarily surmount- ed. The Jewish National Home is saved. ‘What is perhaps of even greater mo- ment in Britain itself is that the Labor | government is saved. Explanations by Prime Minister MacDonald and a spokesman of the colonial office put an entirely new light on the inept Pass- field memorandum, which so excited the Zionist world and international ‘While some of the government's critics, especially Mr. Lloyd OGeorge and his fellow Liberal, Sir Herbert Samuel, once high commissioner at Jerusalem, assafled the explanations as lame and inconclusive, the issue was not pressed to the point of a vote in the House of Commons. At one time there was dan- @#er this would be done. That is a throw which Labor would have risked 1ts peril. Conservatives and Liberals loud and bitter in denuncia- of the Passfield pronunciamente. Baldwin-Lloyd George bloc, which Ramsay MacDonald’s destiny in its hand, evidently decided not yet here for pitching to the discard. Cabinets have London for far less important case Fee it £i R R More than two and & half mil- lion pounds of British govern- ment money are now to be made avallable for land development in Palestine. Jew and Arab are to share equally in the benefits this grant in ald s expected to produce. The proposed immigration restrictions which gave rise to bitter protests are to be liber- ally enforced, with a view to permitting a fixed number and selective class of Zionists to enter Palestine under favor- able conditions, Jew and non-Jew who are aware of the brilliant and effective leadersMip the Zionist cause has had from Br. Ohaim Weirmann will hope that he may now feel at liberty to rescind his resignation as president of the World Zionist Organization. It was submitted as a vehement protest against the Pass- fleld memorandum. For all practical purposes that blundering statement of policy has been disavowed. The status quo ante is essentially restored. Zion's future seems once again unobstructed. ————r——————— Industrial Prosperity. Industrial prosperity measures in large part the prosperity of the United States. It was industrial prosperity rather than agricultural prosperity which placed this country in the forefront of the world's race for wealth, until the stock market crash came in 1929. The farmers of the country were complaining bitterly because they did not have a greater share in the prosperity of the country. All kinds of panaceas were put forward to make the farmer's dollar go as far as the dollar of the industrialist. With the disappearance of the prosperity of the industrislist, the lot of the farmer becafhe 116 better, since his market was further Surtalled. Bit at least the farmer, with & roof over his head and food to piit in his mouth, has been able to visualize his lot as something not quite so0 evil as he had supposed. Industrial prosperity must be brought back. That is as clear as the nose on thé fagé. The great endeavor during a Fear has been to place salt on the tail of this illusive prosperity. All kinds of propbsals have been advaniced. For solid common séfise, howéver, the speech delivered by Gov. Allen of Massachusetts yesterday at a meeting cf New England Governors with Willlam Phillips, regional be puzzled and in doubt to some extent. | key in However, it is not improbable that he would scratch all newfangled entries and probably he would not be far wrong. cross-strains have been. Certainly the natives of Northern Alaska hope 80 sin- | oy cerely. The new carideer may prove far more successful than the average unnatural War Against Gangsters. Attorney General Mitchell's an- nouncement yesterday of a declaration of war by the Federal Government against the gangsters of big cities, es- pecially in Capone-ridden Chicago, is the best piece of news that has come out of the Department of Justice in many & day. Reports from Chicago are likewise encouraging, relating as they do the work of citizens, proceeding on their own hook to fill a war chest of $5,000,000 for fighting gangster ac- tivities. ‘The work of the Federal Government would necessarily be confined to prose- cutions for violations of Federal laws. Common reports of gangster operations indicate that they have never paid par- ticular attentlon to the source or to the nature of any law. There should be plenty of game for Federal agents from the Department of Justice, the secret service and the Bureaus of Pro- hibition, Narcotics; Internal Revenue and Immigration, which have been gradually strengthened over a period of months in the areas of war and are apparently to show the results of their preliminary work. It is doubtful if the Federal Govern- ment could take any steps that would bring greater public support or result in thore Somplete festoration of faith in $he foftes of government than by embarking upon & vigorous, ed and succes$ful eédmpaign against gang- stef activities in the big centers of pop- ulation. To make the war successful there must bé local co-operation. This seems to be taking tangible form now. Outraged citizens, disgusted with the obvibus ifmpotente of théir constituted authorities, are beginning to take mat- ters into their bwn hinds. Such fev- olutiéns are nét bori overnight, but ofice underway they Sweep all before them—and never move backward. It is high time for a Nation-wide revolution difeetsr for New England of the Presi- dent’s Emetgency Committee for Bm- ployfent, commends itself to public atténtion. Said Gev. Allen: nd| probdingnagian. their opera- 8 loyes and Steady returns fhor of Massachisetts Bas stated auccinetly, however, the imeasure of success, those new midget autos will not need to undergo. They have no room for them. oo o Ohatles A. Levine seems to have an engagement of indefinite length in Vienna entertaining the Austrian police With funfiy stories, o The Newest in Hybrids. Another interesting example of how mankind from tiime to time attempts to imiprove on nature, or at least better adapt her handiwork to his own uses, is found in a fecent hiews item from Seward, Alaska. This dispatch informs the American public that two thousand “earideer,” said to be a cfoss between a latge woodland caribou and & rein- deef, are to be distributed among the existifig relndéer herds of Alaska. The erd, it is stated, has been built up through several years of expefiments on Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea, the intéfbreeding having produced an animal some fifty pounds heavier than either of Its parents. It is seif-evident that this new apimal differs from the mule and most hybrids which, accord- ing to a famous congressional speech of long ago, “has no pride of aneestry or hope of posterity.” In order thus to bulld up a herd in such a short time the offspring of the two strains has probably been found to be fertile, while certainly any animal would be proud of descent from either reindeer or caribou. A curious angle of the thing is that the woodland caribou was used, while the barren-ground caribou, an animal differing considerably, is al- most identical with the European rein- deer in size and appearance. It was probably the question of weight which was the decisive factor. History is full of these hybrids, most of which have turned out fallures: Onee one heard a good deal about a “zebrule,” combination of a zebra and a horse, but evidently it did not live up to the hopes entertained for it. The “cattalo,” off- spring of domestic cattle and the Amer- ican bison, usually styled buffalo, exists in limited quantities, but it is author- against gangster and hoodlum rule. o Advertisements afe off on a hew track—ehormous faees and glafing eyés. When one turhs & page quiekly to & view of some indorser of this or that, he is apt to feel as Gulliver did when held up in the hand of a ————— A British colonial newspaper declares [that $he popping of a motor eycle is the iost obhokious of all noises. Especially when one is coming after you, and gaining. 5 — et The $hird party has béen char- acterized as the “fulcrum® of Cohgress. If & mechanical metaphor must be usedl, why not “eccentric"? Biir s SHOOTING STA!B. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Complicating the Problem. umorous . bler cannot have rous aspects for the bird, and certainly it has none for the senti- mentalist. Let us get the designation straight. e we woman who, although he may eat the turkey, willingly would refrain from adding insult to that last injury. ‘The extreme type is the strict vege- tarian, who, for reasons of heart, would never touch meat in any form. “dlelam it deal of reason on his it, but his a world where so many do eat and enjoy meats of all kinds. e will never forget a scene we saw once near Center Market. A sincere but misguided K ‘was_ protesting mightily against the cruelty, as she called it, of keeping chickens herded into narrow . Yet she bought one to eat for her dinner. Similarly, sweet women who would shrink at the killing of a rabbit or squirrel will wear coats made up of hundreds of their skins. ‘The world and his wife is just a little a te, after all. Inconsistency is natural to most hu beings. * K ok ok Because it is human to be inconsis- tent, we believe that the position of the sentimentalist, in the matter of so- called humorous pictures, this present- ing of mock-heroics in relation to the national bird, as the turkey has been called, is perfectly tenable. The sentimentalist realizes that this is a practical world, after all, and that no amount of preaching his own be- Hefs would change others much. For himself, he has lamented silently the outrages perpetrs on innocent ca- W‘n%n fi'fim made to erawl Wi WS, Phe ate of Foldnsh woud draw a tear from him, did not his common sense tell him that the stern side of lfe, no matter how well disguised by civilization, 1i in back- ition seems untenable in def col ntrol. to contfol, gentlefiess tends to the ohe whé blight, both to harbors mx espetially to others, many of wi will not understand, and hence will misinterpret. The world, to such a person, be- comes a veritable vale of tears, in whieh hlhlfi.l only the cruel, the harsh, the terrible. * % % % Yet the world has & greal the seritimentalist Who keeps his tefi- lm“hm of mind and heaft well e . ‘Without him and her, much that we call great, exalted, inspiring, even di- vine, would never have come into need a néw definition of the word “séntimen ," 16 Would seem. The ofdinary definition, as given by the dlmnary, cohveys the idea of one who berately furses otions, Who 18 swayed 3{ feeling ral reason, who is given to maw] derness or the display of it. ‘Well, there it 1s. What it leaves out ten- ‘The Pregident this week of his message to e t need fer | thousands will not admit | this “‘nervous get into the hospitals, the d]nlll. ‘The emotional life should be consistent with decency life. Just what this good 1 differ with the N by this date in the march of the ages there would seem no very wide dive: *The gnodml'(t is the good 1if e . It needs no elaboration, for the moment ‘wg attempt to embroider the theme, it escapes us, so compelling is honesty. * ok ok % ‘The honest sentjmentalist is one who the demands of the emotions. eeps them under the best control ble, always considering himself as It is this native honesty which pre- vents him from being & hypocrite. He shrinks from the annual jokes about the fate of the turkey, but he yet xy. He will, however, eat a “hot dog” without remorse. On the active side of his sentimental glfxmey through life, he is responsible o g st 8 5 for of , and for cofisideration of cats &8 the friends of man. out for animals, and resents instinctively any cruelty to them—even in pictures. He kn &: the worl tality for him to say disrespectful about it. He knows, however, that when his heart p 0 do a deed of | drop & colf in a blind man's ha will feel far better afterward he n ""?mh: Vted B Femtot the m an the Ways of the heart, and knows that in his own case the rule of the latter is by far the better. of these He 3‘ - \I(eu petsons, for, m 3 ] Ruonl’ are Unable %0 speak for thém- selves. He is not unique, he knows; what holds for him holds for them. mmnwflh-mwmnflnmm tion for session, so far as he has an control of the situation, to ne mrovn-uon bills .1‘( o on-oontmv;r- # mr“!ncy reilef measures, He has reluctantly cofné to the conelusion that continuance of the 1 per cent tem- tax is i ble. He fetain in g e There's a strain rather sad which per- | ge sistently sounds ‘Through songs of rejoicing so clear. When generous melody sweetly abounds | SbeTation A @lseord rings harsh on the ear. Some voiée will intrude as the patriot's song I8 rising 80 buoyantly and free, With the question, in tories elementally strong, “Oh, what is there in it for me?” ‘The theories fair that seek gold in the oy Instead of in caverns below, - Or value the treasures of wisdom ‘Which lle In voliimes stood up in a row, Are shattered too often by that single eall ‘That ethoes away off the key And makes one crude yuestion the fore- most of all, “Now, what is there in it for me?” Unappreciated Embellishment. “What we need,” said the idealist, “is o introdiée more of thé artistic spirlt into our daily lives.” “I ean't see it that way,” replied Parmer Corntossel. “There's too mueh art now. I never could see the sense of usih’ up so much red Ik tryin' o make & moftgage look attractive” Real Physical Effort, “What I8 four favorite sport?” “Pighting my way thfough a crowd to get & good seat at a foot ball game.” Difference of Opinion. The world’s a fleeting show, ’tis true, And no one eares to miss i ‘The optimist applauds all $hrough, ‘The cynic Whhits to hiss it. Artistie Enthusiasm, “I always have stage fright,” apolo- gized Mr. Stofinington Batnes, “when I assume a fiew role.” “Don’t get netvous,” replied the maf= ager of the Crimson Gulch Opera House. “Only don't play dnything but com- edy. The last time tragedy was tried here the boys got excited and took Sides in the fight.” Claiming Too Much. “I met a man who insists that he never made a mistake.” Holiday Hint, From a disposition surly Let us carefully desist. You must do your shopping early To remain an optimist. “De moral of de fable 'bout de hare and de tortoise,” sald Uncle Eben, “is @at 1t ain’ never safe to bet on no kind of a hoss race.” ————y Friendly Fish Don’t Bite. From the Duluth Herald. Perhaps the scientist who says fis. are friendly got the idea the day they wouldn't bite. S But Gold Fish Are Busy. Prom the Sioux Palls Daily pi’ ‘The life of & seeker, “The assertion proves that he is not | tu one of those men who never told a lie.” | ‘etmld:d‘hze:wo'sm“ 0 Government nof lon Ve ent “:E: Shoals. B&!“m antl-trust to ig may defer recommendations along that line at present. As for hibition, with the certainty that e Wickersham prohibition stage ., The present prospect 1s for 1 y dealing with expan- sion of the public works, upbuilding of the merchant marine and foreign trade and social welfare proposals. * x * Presidential appointments which the will b‘“uued upon to confirm and over which warm cohtroversy thnltell’u‘m'fll Mt?p&onlgt numer- ous and importan! jon droinm-m Prominent in mfl'u appointments already made, but not yet confirmed, are the members of the re- jm'l’hd Tariff Commission. At the top of the list of new appointiments to come shortly is the new Federal Power Comm! . It seems scafeely coh- ceivable t Mf. Hoover's choices the Power Commission will be of the rt t0 commend themselves to Ses 3 the stamp of Norris and Bi Shipstead and La Follette, not to men- tion the Demoerats. The President must shottly announge his new Beere- tary of Labor, and if Postmaster Wal- ter Brown replaces “Dr.” Fess as chair: man of the Republican National Com- mittee, there must be a new Postmaster General. Senatorial confirmation with- out much fuss, of whatever figure the rahks of organized labor the mantle of the labor portfolio finally descends upoh, would seem to be & reasonable expectancy, but after the experience last Winter with respect to the con- firmation of Chief Justice Hughes any- thing may happen. * k% % Harking back to the late conj sional eleetions, the eold figures hardly Justify frequently heard appellation of “Demoeratic landslide.” Thus it & pears that 30 States out of the 48 made no change whatevet in the political wmplexr:n of their congressional repe resentation. In the entite Eastern sector, With 124 seats in the House at stake, the Republicah# lost only six, of which tWe were in hecticut, one New Jef#ey and three in Pennsylvan! This compares with Democratic pre- election claims based on “impartial sur- " which listed a gain of seven seats in six New England States and a gaih of 15 in the New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland area. In Ohlo, Indiana and Illinois the Demo- crats gained 18 seats and picked up six more in Missouri and six in Ken- . These five States furnished sub- stantially three-Afths of the entire Democratic gains. The fact is that the Democratic high command is concealing real disappointment that the results, as far as the House is concerned, fell so far short of th:lr advance hopes. * % % ‘This has been a year of “close shaves"” for resentative Charles L. Underhill, Republican, of Massachusetts, who suc- Ten Teady | o 1913 m’r: b in |8 director of publicity for the Repul Natlonal Committee. * k k% widows of veterans of the War are still on the United States pensioh rolls. Mexican War widow ers number more than six hun- dred; Indian war widow pensioners n five thousand, Civil War widowe more than 160,000 and so on Slor, Bureau Just. issed: e n Bureau distel than eight billlon dollars fl:ld ou: ents on account of World lion @ellars annually, is especially in- teres ugurated by the last Con- resented on that score. Requests for lon ed compensation” certificates ant Fn- wtlfi more two mijlions dollars in pen- sons d\nm‘the last year, and showing ih pensions, since the estab- 3 of our Republic, exclusive of Wn * relief, which latter are now run; at the rate of half a reading, in the light of the World War veterans' disability pensions oy gress, and the new demands now ediate payment in cash of the dellars of -outstanding “adjust- sions for all World War veterans’ wm dents are to be proffered to gress. uale picturetaking this m’ ot'lm .g:ndem with the embers o the White House Newspaper Corre lents’ Association and their iates .im . the Washington reporting fleld brought to Mr. Hoover’s offices the largest galaxy of newspaper men and femen o there for many a day. The ess of making the picture was dis- patched in quick order and occupled something less than sixty seconds. The President declined the suj tion of the sound picture men, that in order that they, too, might record evegt Walte Ho speak a few words of r!e'. will to the President of the éfie House Assoclation and the hssembled multi- tude of reporters. (Copyris ———— 2 ? Denies ““In Terrorem” Is Newly Coined Word To the Editor of The Sta: It 1s & pleasure education to read The Mnl.ng whose writers, both news and editorial, are Addisonian in Btyle and diction. Hence, I'm not a little arprl" to read in the news columns today that Judge Hitz coined a new word ahd that that word 18 | rror-em.” I presume the judge used “in terrorem,” meaning “as in phrase is as old as may be found in any old or ne W dictionary. I have no doubt that Judge Hitz is a man of pro- found learning and erudition, and a “wizard” in legal , but T'in sure hell not claim i Llor the alleged new coinage. IXON. B Look Before Leap Sometime. From the Lowell Evening Leader. leap may be as as compeliet i Jusas Forh. b AiFplAne we eteran | should be strongly tempted to .| - In that the ——————— e Hard Times in the Cidef. From the Terre Haute Star. a number of instances it seems e hard times have affected the T, Watching Meek Strut. the Blade. A1l be amusing to nul:‘ m lurnln‘: wi to strut, { that too much prestige hinges on men- | ot ‘words rompts kindhess, to unflmflwm to the sick; t‘: 9 break: - ha misspent lives which yearly city with traffic which Wi to seem and with streets that m of the District look like rerouting their cars and unnecessa: ry nwr have average speed of their éal 10.46 miles per hour. fact that they have ently substi- tuted one-man for two-man cars! , the city of Our sentimentalist is he who watches | jory miles per hour. lflh & 12smile-per-hour base te 88 e rail their _troubles because istrict Il::yfl.l:lr fil‘: ly dense. DO JOHNSON. Says Embroldery Ta Will Cause Starvation To the Editor of The Btar: Knowing_the feelings of the Ame! ma lor the people \ustria, love ‘tlrplly.my I vol itter cfy which is going out X men in My fenné. Know, then, wé are kers at our art - trade - mAking = embroldefed work in Vienna. We make the repfo- ductions of ancient tapestries and the Indeed, more severe, cities of the 0] ($28.50) tales, at el work a day, about taree mon! must be taken off about State Erects Statue ‘ashingten. Ty bably | mi‘mumn n¥ up th bayonet. The lst of Provincials Lexington on the of the 19th of April is as fol- lows: Jonas Parker, Robert Munroe, Samuel M’;‘n Isaac Muzzy, Caleb Harrington, John Brown and Jonathan Harr! , Jr.” At Concord Bridge first_man t. Isaac Davis who fell at the 3 are necessary for one who wishes to become a land- IOIAD! architect?—0. 8. u-umm:‘tk uses N’wu as his first text book. general college course, with literature, art, history, economics, etc., tion |18 considered the best foundation for A. There are species cact! in 124 nner‘:‘m o . Q. What was the name of the first dteamboat that went down Mis- U1 Lo §vne e e New . It went Pittsburgh to New Orleans and was then placed in service Orleans and Natches. Q. How many children Of Jefferson Davis| tne Prom the Houston Po#l By placing the Davis in the ateh. of Jefferon e 0 s ,, that gervice will be bl of the efidicating of $he of the lonalism that @i- the country ifito the North and South more than 60 years l’o ippl is to be congratulated for ving a share % éncouraging a spirit The Nortn's. judgment of Davis has e 'S ju been softening perceptibly in recent the passions engendered by the war and reconstruction days hive subsided, and as newer generations ha viewed the great conflict of the si; & clearer perspective, the form of J¢ ‘- son Davis has loomed higher and of more noble proportions. Justice to Jefferson Davis was long delayed, but it has been coming, and the placi l'&h the Nation's Capitol of other great servants o Wil hasten the day when Jost cause will place in the e first importént the Nofth to Jetfer- n&l President of Year harbored very bitter foels vei eel- the nmmtr’oz the Con- the count and of the Sec- ;‘vury of War under whose supervision was constructed were engraved. In 1862 Caled of the Ine terior in Lincoln's cabinet, or name of Davis eliminated 1 mh,-‘m vhdu:t Eoouevelt, when he- becas in response o fequests from esped! wvis s rom the SEacE R f R B dered the the | the of | on League bus! o CELETRT) 32;5:5 Y % i i Eusgi i L ase !t'.o In addition and spends much Tepresentation (’Jgurs is an -dju‘:::;e jons the League of it time It is perfectly well P{g:’“a h;t get, the i o urt. comes Dnited States in the Loag eur® the e, and- be- i they e.:n 'fizmmlfly’ get it in, once ce it the court is primari]; el ather than e "gudicial Body Yarious national mupgm;,n e“mm"“n' iness, Fecognized that the United s ot tates into 1931 with » 3 wit] Minus hundreds compared with 1927 and 1928; with millions of Ameri- ©oans unem) January 1, 1930. Great Britain! t War debt Prance 00 Lifers Made Happ;. #rom the Omaha Evening World-Herald. SRR B P