Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1930, Page 8

{THE EVENING STAR 3 Edition. WABHINGTON, D. C ‘what unknown forces liz slumbering within mind and heart. It is possible that ambition might be spurrsd s'm- ply through standing before a great .December 5, 1930 | Painting. | wastiGle ety _THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor Of art is not an uninown thing in can hardly b> expected at this time of The lv-lu WI;“N.QK-?IM Company eellth 8t 338 Pennsvliania, A ve. 110 East 42nd St. ane mK ke Mychican Badiie: 8 'fl 4 Regent St.. Siand. rrier Within the City, e 'f 5¢ per menth *"80c per month 8¢ per month ‘The Sunoay 8 .8¢ per copy Collection mads at the end of each month ders mav be sent in by mail or telephone fAtional 5000. llh Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ily and B‘lnfll vr.. $10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ EIIJ only . ¥) ndny” only | only ndas " only 1800 1mes 30 Member of the Associated Press. e Associated Press s exclusively entitled | to the use for republication of all iews d Batches credited to it or not ohervise cre his paper snd. also the Incal nes Tanlisheq herota: Al sichic of Bubfication of pecial dispatches herein are also 1eserved. — The Burden of Private Property. Mr. Simmons of Nebraska and Mr. Cramtcn of Michigan have pointed out the tragic mistake of the foundinz fathers in laying out and otherwise of the United | planning the Capital States. The nature of this mistake is intimated by Mr. Simmons in his re- quest that the committee take into con- sideration the fact that property values | are high here because it is the Nation's Capital and his conclusion that “the presence of private property in the Dis- trict does nct add one dollar utilitarian purposes to the Federal Gov- ernment.” Mr. Cramton likewise points out that private property in the Dis- | trict has increased in such marked degree that it has placed an additional burden on the Federal Government, due .chiefly to the necessary increase in police and fire protection’ One might take issue with the speak- ers by pointing out that increasing value of private property is refiected in increased taxes; that the millions of dollars paid in Pederal and local taxes by this private property have hereto- fore been considered moct utilitarian by the Federal Government and its agent, the municipal government, in the development of Washington; that the growth in extent and value of pri. vate property, instead of increasing the burden of the Federal Government, has very naturally decreased the burden, as in the case of the water system, now supported entirely by private property and used without cost by the Federal Government; the streets, which are be- ing built and rebuilt almost wholly by private property, and the police and fire departments, seventy-five to eighty per cent of the cost of which is borne by private property in the District of Columbia. But the fundamental mistake on the part of the Federal Government was to permit any private property in the District of Columbia, for, according to the theories outlined to the committee, it is not utilitarian as far as the Fed- eral Government is concerned, and it ‘merely adds to the burdens of the Fed- eral Government. The Federal Govern- ment, instead of planning Washington on a grand scale in the beginning, sell- ing lots on the strength of false repre- sentations concerning the intentions of the Federal Government or otherwise fnudn. good people to come and settle on the erstwhile marshy banks of the Po- tomac, should have erected barracks to house the Federal employes, commis- | saries and mess halls to clothe and feed them and preyented all encroach- ments of private property by barbed wire entanglements and a detail of sol- diers, who, when otherwise not engaged, could have fulfilled the functions of firemen. Thus the controversy over the burdens to the Federal Government re- sulting from private property in the District could have been prevented at the outset. Private ' property, however, is here, and obviously the committee will not deport it or ban it. It is already pay- ing through Pederal taxes more to sup- port the Federal Government than any one of more than half the States and through local taxes is bearing by far the major cost of maintaining the fed- erally controlled United States Capital. | ‘Whether this is utilitarian depends upon & point of view that is unnecessary to discuss here because it is a fact, and | the committee is dealing with facts. The issue for it to settle is whether the Federal Government, in its exclu- sive responsibility of developing the American Capital, is paying a share that is representative of this responsi- bility or designed for adequate upkeen | and development of its own Capital. ' The relative extent of the burden it imposes upon private property in the District will be discussed, and the Dis- trict will be found to be paying its share, compared either on the basis of ‘what other cities who control their own affairs pay, or in support of the Capital City in which it has no representa- | tive voice. Beveral formulae for settling this is- | sue have been suggested. These will no | @oubt be studied thoroughly without the hecessity of pursuing such faneiful the- | ories as the extent of the “burden” im- | posed upon the struggling Pederal Gov- ernment by pi trict of Columbia. e sc | from noon until 4:30 o'clock, for | ivate property in the Dis- | Such an exposure to the influsnce Europe, where the poorest people | cagerly sick the opporlunuy of basking | in the rays of cultural work. The American youth, whle given perhaps to an outward indifference, is not much | different from his European cousin, after all. Given the chance to see worlhy art work exccllently displayed, under the id=al conditions of the Corcoran Gallery, many a young man will find himself this ancient ealling is for them. The old as well as the young, how- { which will be open to the public for a | six-we'k period ending January 11. The exhibition is open on Monda: and on other week days from 9 to 4:30 o'clock On Sundays and New Year day it may | be scen from 2 to 5 o'clock. be no showing on Christmas day. Those who cannot come in the day time will find that sp-cial exhibitio | have been arrang=d for their benefit, | those scheduled for the future beirg on {December 11 and 16 and January 9, | from 8 to 10:30 o'clock. e In Agzain, Out Again. M. Andre Tardieu threatens to be- |come as famous as the immortal Indi- | a reilroad engineer who rtad | 2t he was “off again, on again, gone | " in torse ep'tome of the lat st | mishap to overtake his freight train re; prime minister in November, 1929, left | |offics in February, 1930, only to be | recalled in March, -1l at Pais for the second time last n'ght. It was an adverse vote in the Senate, 147 to 139, which toppled his premies ship this time. Usually a Prench cabi- ‘takes the consequences” when it suffers a vote of mis-confidenes in the Chamber of Deputies. Tardien de- clded to resign. with his ministry, as the result of the Scnate's displ-asure. A minority of eght votes, on a ques- tion of financial s~tndals within the government, detrmined him to quit the Qual d'Orsay. Not many detalls of thess irregularities have seeped out jabroad. but they had resulted in the resignation of three members of the Tardieu cabin Under heavy fire in the Scnate on account of them, an attack in which M. Henri de Jouvenel the Borah of the French Upp-r House, had the lead. the government succumbed. General dissatisfaction with the cabinet's policy at a moment of national uneasiness, Paris dispatches narrate, also con- tributed to the adverse vote in the Sen- ate. Only recently M. Tardieu risked a trial of strength in the Chamber on his huge military budget and emerged handsomely supported. President Donmergue is in conference today with parliamentary and party leaders with reference to formation of a new government. Many authorities think Tardieu will eventuate as his own succeszor. At moments of cabinet crises in present-day Prance thought automatically turns to those veteran statesmen, Messrs. Poincare and Briand, as premiers. Each has held the office times innumerable—Briand, a dozen times. Poincare has just survived a serious illness. Briand 1s old and, though not enfeebled, is tired. Un- questionably he prefers the influence he has as foreign minister. He has almost become indispensable in that capacity. M. Tardieu, who has steered the Prench ship of state through tortuous times during his year of practically un- interrupted reign, may be playing cun- ning politics by resigning on a Senate vote. He may have better knowledge than anybody else of the difficulties of uniting a government under any | other leadership than his own. Presi- dent Doumergue may well decide that the debonair Frenchman, who was high commis:ioner to the United States during the World War, is still the man of the hour for La Belle France. If he comes back from Elba a second time his prestige is bound to be vastly fortified. —at e Russian conspirators who confessed | into the microphone are represented as doomed to the death penalty. Popular taste among the Soviets will hardly | prove so gruesome as to demand the harrowing details of the executicn by radio. | - An Atlantic Flight Canceled. The halting progress of the DO-X, largest seaplane in the world, toward America from its home port on Lake Constance, in Switzerland, has evidently been halted for quite some time. A few weeks ago the gigantic hoat which last year startled the aviation circles by carrying one hundred and sixty-nine persons aloft for an hour’s cruise started out from Lake Constance for the am- | bitious Atlantic attempt. With its twelve | motors aggregating seventy-two hundred Ihompower purring smoothly, the big craft covered the distance to Holland m good shape and the success of the | over= -ocean flight was freely predicted. | 1t was then, however, that the series of \m.shnpn began which have resulted in |a definite cancellation of tif% trip. | The first of these accidents was of & trividl character, but demonstrated thé difficulty of handling so large a sea- plane. A small boat, endeavoring to get alongside, smashed into one of the There will'| THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ]mp had to be oalled off, because the exploits of the ship had aroussd much interest on this gide of the ocean, But viewed from the broader angle it is {probably better for aviation tnat the Icanecnauun was made. Good weather the year, the hours of daylight are {short, and the nerformance of the sea- ‘punz since leavu.3 Lake Constance can thardly be termed satisfactory. Despite | the fact that new motors have been in- <L’nlcd of greater horsepower than those | formerly used, the calculated speed has not been reached. In fact, none of !me hops. have bren made at a pace much | hour. | greater than ninety miles unl A one-hundred-mile -hour | stirred, and a few will understand that cruising speed was estimated with 'h““ul 1 {new cquipment. So it is probably beiter that the flight is postponed until | ever, will be inspired by the exhibition, | the circumstances are more propitious | Hke?” !and the chances of success enhanced. |Next year will be time enough for| | Americans to view this mammoth Ger- | man creation. T SEEAAL Never “Negligence.” A Circuit Court jury in Arkansas has | just ma that a golfer's slice is not | negligance and has acquitted the de- fondant whose badly directed pellet | injured a fellow linksman. It is & verdiet with which all golfers will agree. A slice is never negiigence. | devotees of the fairways and greens it | -1» a trazedy, regardless of -whether it | | hits anybody or not ‘ Of course, there have been what are | sy called “trained” slices. The | r of this particular type | simply knocks his ball at leit angles to | where he intends to go and joyfully | watches it curve to the right and grace- | | To most | It is A tragedy to him if he does not | slice, but it can never be called negli- | gence if he should happen to hit the | ball straight. Undoubtedly, the victim of the slice | who was ruled against in court felt| | aggrieved at being striick with a golf | ball. That is only natural. Even the | | “soft” balls—the kind that can be easi] cut in half by almest any sort of a| | topped niblick shot—are not so “soft” that any particular pleasure can be de- rived from coming in contact with them in full fiight. However, no golfer who owns a “trained” slice is golng to be happy if he hits the ball straight, and neither is the golfer who suddenly finds himself the possessor of one of the big- gest slices in captivity likely to whoop with happiness. The victim of the ball may be in physical distress, but the | tearing. agonizing, heart-breaking, men- tal distress of the golfer can almost match it. N s ke S Street car companies are beginning to wonder whether the public does not miss the jingle of the small copper coins as they dropped into the fare box. A slight consideration sometimes makes a difference and when a habit is establish- ed it may create a hold hard to ex- plain. A ten-cent fare is a gain in con- venience, but it sacrifices a certain ele- ment of ceremony which had come to be a part of daily experience. e People are warned not to hold on too closely to their money. A decision not to reduce the income tax will assist in conquering this occasionally undesirable tendency in human nature. S —"—— Motion picture players who are on the warpath may yet introduce enough drama into trust smashing to make it material for a scenario, e California grape growers claim that their product is perfectly innocent until after it has traveled East and fallen under iniquitous influences. R ) Fading in radio is caused by weather conditions. It may also be caused by the visit of the installment men. R SHOOTING STARS, i BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Self-Reliance, As for knowledge we are seeking We have heard a lot of speaking. By present company or radio We admire the erudition As one man takes a position And another says his teachings are not so. We may sometimes grow regretful And perhaps a little. fretful As they read and offer wisdom at a glance. Mere advice in an oration ‘Will not solve your situation. You must use your common sense and take your chance. Processions. “Why don't you have a grand torch- light procession like some of those our great-grandfathers held?” “Political processions don't - help much,” said Senator Sorghum. “The best we could do would seem compara- tively small and leave a lot of people disappointed because there wasn't any circus attached to it.” Jud Tunkins says too many of us take life so seriously that we forget about the other fellow whose life is entitled to be taken seriously, too. Cash in Circulation. ‘We may be free from discontent ‘When the observer notes ‘That money is as fully spent For labor as for votes. Unidentified Retributions. “Do you believe that our sins are A new private yacht is ready for de- | stabilizing pontoons as the DO-X swung | punished on this earth?” Mvery to Edsel Ford. Motoring is good 48 demanded in methods of getting over the surface of the globe. £'Real Opportunity. Often one will hear a young man suddenly around while at anchor. The | damage was repaired in a few hous, but the second stage of the flight to England had to be postponed for sev- eral days on account of inclement weather, Reaching Southampton finally, the big ship's motors began to give trouble and it was only with much difficulty that the take-off was made for Bordeaux. Due to the engine trou- ble, this short hop was not completed before dark and the DO-X passengers and crew had the unique expe:ience of “taxiing” for some fifty-eight miles on the water and spending the night aboard. Temporary repairs were made on the balky engines and a week or so but thousands more ' later the craft settied on the waters off Lisbon, which was to be the start- opportunity for | Ing point on the transatiantic flight, " the ambitious young man or woman, | Here the final and most damaging mis- motion pictures and the dance hall | hap occurred. Fire broke out in one “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne. “I don't doubt that we deserve all our boredom and annoyances. But it would be more satisfactory if we were allowed to know Jjust what delinquency of conduct each penalty is intended to fit."” Financial Literature. ‘They went and hid the books away In which big deals were dated. Perhaps they’ll be brought out some day When they've been expurgated. “Decoration is what appeals to many men,” said Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, “We invent monsters which are gaudily painted and a dragon is es- teemed beautiful.” As Dreams Go Up in Smoke. ‘We envy one whose lucky star Permits a fifty-cent cigar, And yet & cautious man may get More comfort from a cigarette. "x{ywhummmmn-. said Un- “don’t be W It's M-mt.hmmun They were discussing cosmic rays. “The darn things go in every direc- ton!"” said the first schoolboy. These acquainted with the temper of the young of the land will not impute irreverence to the youngster. The use of the adjective “darn” was simply a gesture, so that the other might hot think he took the cosmic rays too seri- ously, but was able to put even such | things in their places. “What do they, look like?” scked the ! second bey. don’t know.” replied the first. know is that they go in every direction.” “Don’t _you know what they look The tone was one of suspicion, combined with accusation. “Oh, yes!” blurted the other, with ne disregard for consistency. “You can't see ‘em!” R And there we had to le We suspect. however, that the boys kaew mors about them than mosi of us do. We could not help wondering, how- ever, if this is a {air sample of Educa- ticn As It Is Taught. As learneis we dabble with so many things. Cne may suspect that the talk e the cosm | 0f men many years the senior of those boys wonld contain little more real in- foermatten. Education is rather an exposure of a | pupil to knowledge than an absorption of anything It all drp-‘nd‘ upon the child, whersas | most children have the idea that all depends upon the teacher. Teachers are in error when they per- mit children, especially oldef ones, to {get this idea. and the youngsters l\n’ wrong in holding it. 1f something could be done to “play The French Netionalist who became | | fully settle into the middie of the course. jup” education as it is, and not as many believe it is or shculd be, we would have no one going around saying, as some do, that college is a place to send | young men between the ages of 18 and | 25 years when the world at large has no place for them. w % Wi One of the troubles with education is that the topics are in part too old for the pupils, This belief of ours is based. not on n assumption of superknowledge by the aged. but exactly on its opposite. ‘We believe that many facets of knowl- edge are too “decp” for the great mass of mankind, or for varying tempera- ments. There are some of us who might study mathematics until we were a thousand years old, without ever know- ing any more about mathematical processes than we do now. To others stocks and bonds and “high finance” in general are subjects as strange as if they were written in Greek. The classical Greek. itself, to thou- sands of students, is as difficuit as if it were a language broadcast from Mars. On the other hand, many a man by nature adapted to chemistry, physics | or kindred subjects can make neither heads nor tails of art, literature or musie. e e B Any more than a casual exposure of & pupil to & subject for which he is not fitted in nature is a mistake, accord- to our way of looking at such thirgs: And 1t is just here that formal educa- D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER ticn falls down. Scholars at their vari- ous ages are herded into the educational processes and expossd alike to a mass :{;pp‘c‘:gift::) {ln .f.ll] of which they are unction at mental dexterity, e We claim that a great future mathe- matician might be a perfect ““dub” at music and yet revolutionize sosiety and il::d‘:lorld when he finally gets into his ‘The master violinist of 1960 will shed few veara. then, becauss he cannot; “work" erithms now. So wiy should he be ried with them now? b g Exceptional cases such as these, it may b> admitted, speak for thomssives, {but what about the average person, child er man, who is by no means a genius? He, too. is the victim of much mis- applied exposure to differing forms of Enowledge, but this will not be admitted of him as readily as it is of the person with some outstanding gift The boy of plain or mediocre talents, if he docs not “learn” a subject dis- | tastefu! to him, is likely to be called lazy or_shirking. H> b comes a “problem” to his elders, when all the time h= is a problem to | himeelf, but for a different reason. To the serious-browed educators, ereakingly trying to do their plain duty, he2 is a canary who won't sing and must b> made to sing. To his parents he is likely to be a horse who has boen led to the water but | who can't be made to drink. | To himself he is a failure—but he ten't! | * AW “I do not likz your tunes,” cunn) ‘There is somcthing the matter with | your water.” neighs the horse. Oftentimes the canary and the horse are right, and the hard-headed singing master and the driver entirely in the | wrong And 1t is interesting to note that mod- ern education is trying the best it can to get away from the slavedriver (but it is for your good, my child!) methods, and is getting back to the simplicity of education as fast as if mav. The University of Chicago, under the leadership of its young President, is inaugurating a system of educational division and responsibility which wil place more responsibility on the scholar and less on the educator. . This is correct in theory, we believe, however it may turn out in practice with ‘the average American. The song is to | the singer and comes back most to him, once wrote Walt Whitman. ‘The book is to the writer and comes back most to him. ‘Teaching is to the teacher and comes | back most to him. Learning is like- | wise to the learner, and comes back | most to him. It is only when the learner puts him- | self into what he is learning and gives back to it something of himself that education amounts to any more than a mere keeping of a child under super- vision, and out of a busy commercialism which has no place for his raw and un- | developed talents. Only the boy who by natural gift is | able to look upon cosmic rays in their | true light will be able to speak of them without a qualifying adjective of covered disrespect. har- | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC It is none other than.the Machiavel- lian hand of “Uncle Joe” Grundy that Senator Jim Davis' friends see behind the plot to chall his nght to re. main in the seat conquered _ pred came the Nye committee's belated in- formation about unrmmd Pennsyl- vania slush funds. re is a chain of circumstantial suggestions which, Davis partisans say, support them in their conviction that “Tariff Joe” is inspiring the eleventh-hour drive on the former Secretary of Labor. Grundy has never ceased to grumble and grieve over his smashing defeat in the sena- torial primary last May. Violating all Penn political tradition, he failed to telegraph the winner congratuiations. Throughout the election campaign, the Davis r!ogle felt they were always hav- |n' w reckon with Grundy knives ready into the candidate's cluncle whmver possible. * K X ¥ Senator Grundy had the right and | rivilege—some authorities say it was is duty—to be in his place when the Senate convened on December 1, and stay there until Davis' credentials were presented. The claim is even made that Grundy had a chance to vote in favor of seating his successor. Until Davis was actually sworn in, all the emoluments and perquisites of the job belonged to Grundy, so, as mmea out, he bagged an extra per ry through Davis' cbmpulsion m s'.ln ide 24 hours. Thereby hangs a tale. Report has it that “Uncle Joe,” oy raising the anti-Davis cam| ‘Ei‘n funds issue, hoped to hang onto seat in- definitely, or at least till the Senate decided once for all whether “Jim the Puddler” was inadmissible. In the event Davis were finally declared ineligible and the seat automatically detlared va- cant, the story goes that Gov. Pinchot would have deferred appointing any one for a long time. Meanwhile “Tariff Jpe” would still be Senator Grundy. Incidentally, Davis’ people back home are reminding Bemr.on who voted against seating him that Grundy spent tons rflnlodre money in the primary than “Jim" . e Speaking of campaign funds, it's just become known on Capitol Hill what really hl?pzmd to Henry J. Allen in last month. It wasn't the undm hostility of organized labor. It wasn't anti-Hooverism. It wasn't business depression. It wasn't the farm grouch. It was Henry's little but lucra- tive list of angels, He flled it himself, soon “after his suceessful primary c: th the secretary of siate at ‘opeka. It showed that Lewis L. Strauss, Kuhn-Loeb banking partner, of New York, and one-time Hoover private sec- retary, was down for $5,000, and that Silas H. Strawn, Chicago corporation lawyer and packers’ counsel, had dis- the same amourit. The list also disclosed that Oleveland and Kansas City utility and tion minions had come to Allen’s aid. The sum total 'u me?.hl.n: over $22,500. The Demo- ts mimeographed the telltale tabula- Lhn and circulated it all over the State by thousands. What hurt Allen most was the revelation that practically all his financial sinews come from outside of Kansas. EE J. Butler Wright, American Minister Wu‘:unanmm” 18 lpendl:fl a rm:n:h in X recent trans- fer from A wlwra he distin- guuhed h.lmlel for three years at the ld of our lm'.bn in B t. @ fluent Spanish nhallr. reasons for lend the 21 Americans may be mentous of all the six or seven that to that date will have been held. rent events in will fill the Montevideo cantmnee with vital and far-reaching importance. Minister Wright once was a rancher in ‘Wyoming. * ok ok X ‘omen proud to be called wets are o SRR things | = Though. shat be | the thought that ai WILLIAM WILE. avowed purpose of letting Congress know what the deadlier of the species thinks about the noble experiment. The meeting, which will be held in the Ma- sonic Auditorium, is sponsored by the " | District Council of the Women's Organi- zation for Naticnal Prohibition Reform ‘The vivacious ex-Republican National Committeewoman' from New York, Mrs, Charles H. Sabin, is national chairman. Miss Bell Gurnee of Washington is chairman of the District Council. One of. the leading spirits—somehow that time-tattered idiom has a meaning of its own in connecticn with prohibition— is Mrs. James F. Curtis, ardent Hooverite, who presides over one of Washington's most popular political salons. Other women of name who have declared war on Volsteadism in- clude Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mrs. Joseph Leiter, Mrs. John F. Dryden, Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke and Mrs. Wil- liam B. Mason. Tonight's shindig will be addressed by Senator Tydings of Maryland, Democrat and bachelor; Representative Mary T. Norton, Demo- crat, of New Jersey, and Mrs. Carroll Miller, Democratic National Committee- woman from Pennsylvania. * oK % ox A devotee of these Observations, who saw the writer's account of the demise of “Washington,” late G. O. P. weekly, deposes and says, “It was ‘Bills’ that put the paper on the blink—Bill Irwin, Bill Allen White, Bill Hinshaw and bills that couldn’t continuously be met owing to shrinkage of the circulation list.” e Meet Raymond Benjamin, San Fran- cisco lawyer and close friend of Presi- dent Hoover, of whom Washington and the Republican p-rt{ soon may hear more.” He is scheduled to arrive here shortly after January 1, take a desk at National Committee headquarters in a capacity not yet identified, and gen- erally browse about. Mr. Benjamin is expected to blossom out, with the rest of the Spring flowers, as Senator Simeon D. Pess’ successor in the na- tional chairmanship. Benjamin was active in the 1924 Coolld;e campaign and more so in the 1928 fight for Hoover. From 1918 to 1022, he was chairman of the Republican State Com- mittee in California. (i o A shi light of the Young Wom- en's Christian Association, Miss Eliza. beth Eastman, is Wuhlnlwns new woman lobbyist in chief. That, of course, isn't her official designation, but it typifies her job, for she has just become chairman of the Women's Joint Congressional Committee. This is the busy body which acts as a clearing house for the legisiative interests of 18 national women's organizations. It has just celebrated its tenth anni- versary at a banquet, which was amused no end by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt's personal account of her “contacts” with members of Congress, years ago, when women were & new, unknown and un- influential factor in polities. Them days is gone. Miss Eastman has rep- resented the Y. W. C. A. National Board on the W. J. C. C. since 1923, 80 she's not an amateur in the game that's played on Capitol Hill. (Copyrisht,’ 1930 . Correct, Brother! From the Eureka Humboldt Times. A Eureka man, when asked if he had ever been held up by outlaws, answered 1o, but said he had been held down by in-law e Worry Days Never End. Prom the cnumum (8. C.) Evening Post. ready worrying over fter the next period D! prosperity there will be another slump. —————— e m Nearer Bedrock. From the Hamilton Spectator. Disarmament of the nations would be easy if the league could first disarm suspicion. >—on Not a Dead Loss. From the Oakland Tribune. An old-fashioned merry g ven an Eastern gn It will come w‘.: ) his problems in algebra or log-‘ chirps the | i The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. | | | Unqualified indorsement of the re- electicn of Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas for Democratic leader of the Eenate in the next Congress was volced yesterday by Senator Morris Sheppard of Texhs. He took as text for his pronouncement a published re Tt that tnere had been discord in t. ‘mocratic Steering Committee of the Senate when it met the other day and determinea not t6 oppose the seating of Senator James J. Davis of Pennsyl- vania merely because the cheirman pf the Slush ¥und Committee asked the former Secretary of Labor to “stand aside” until that committee had further opportunity to inquire into the expendi- tures mace for the Davis-Brown ticket in the Pennsylvania primary. Sheppard, a member of the Steering Committee, was quoted as saying that he had op- posed Robinson’s leadership in this matter at the Steering Committee meet- ing. The Texas Senator denied this flatly, although when the vote was taken in the Senate he voted with Chairman Nye of the Investigating Committee against allowing Davis to be scated immeglately. P e “I want to take this occa-ion,” said Senatcr Sheppard, in a formal’ state- ment, “to say that in my judgment Senator Robinson possesses the sup- port and confilence of the Democratic side to an extent unsurpissed by any | previous Democratic leader. I want to | say further that I am unqualifiedly Ior i | as a sport about 1860 in the Norwegian | his re-election as leader, znd so Senator Harrls, another member of the | in popularity over all the Scandivanian (D Democratic Steering Commiitce, who | | was present at the meeting 2bove re- ferred to and who voled, as I did, regard to the seating of Davis.” P Senator Sheppard, in his statement, ' was shooting at criticlsms, more cr less | veiled, that have been aimed at the leadership of Senator Robinson by | some of his colleagues in the Senate, | since the opening of the session. In- | deed, the criticisms go back farther, o | the time when Senator Robinson, along | with other leaders of his party, signed a statement indicating that the party should not be considered merely ob- structionist, but that it would go ahead and co-operate with the Republican administration in the passage of meas- ures to meet thi® unemployment and drought situations in this ‘country, it the Democrats believed these measures wise. Probably, for the sake of party harmony, it would have been wise for the seven Democratic leaders who signed this statement, including Alfred E. Smith, John W. Davis, James Cox, Chairman Raskob cf the Democratic National Committee, Senator Robinson, the party leader in the Senate, and Representative Garner of Texas, the party leader in the House, to discuss the matter with other members of the House and Senate. At any rate, it did not take a dozen hours for some of those who had not been consulted to get into action with statements criticiz- ing this leadership. * X * % There is every reason to believe that Senator Robinson will, as Senator Sheppard predicts, be re-elected Dem- ocratic leader of the Senate. On the other hand, it is true that the snip- ing at his leadership comes from mem- bers of his own party today. It has not come into the open, and it may not. But there are those Democratic Sen- ators who hope that the criticisms in the press of the course adopted by their lepder. may cause him to modify his position and become more actively an- tagonistic to the administration. * X X X Senator Robinson and those members of his party who stand with him—and they are most of those in places of re- | sponsibility—believe that they can do more for the Democratic party by seek- ing to show the country that it is con- structive, rather than destructive, even if it means that it is willing to go ahead with rellef measures that are advocated by the administration. It sounds like common sense. But there are plenty of Democrats who take a dif- ferent view. They see no reason why the party should not continue to flay the Republican administration at every turn. They intend to do so, apparently, even if they have to flay some of their own party members into the Qargain. ERE A report was put forward in some Democratic quarters yesterday that Senator David I. Walsh of Massachu- setts was being groomed as a possible successor to Senator Robinson as Dem- ocratic leader of the Senate. Senator Walsh took a crack at this suggestion as soon as it was called to his attention today. . . lmgwslllvely and emphatically not a candidate for the office of Demo- cratic leader of the Senate,” said Sena- tor Walsh. “I would not take the job if it* were offered me, which it is not. To become leader of the party in the Senate would restrict my work for the State of Massachusetts. My personal relations with Senator Robinson are very friendly.” * Wiyt Whether the criticism of Senator Robinson by some of his Democratic colleagues will assume such proportions as to bring into the fleld another candi- date for the Democratic leadership still lies on !hc lap of the future. To whom the Democrats opposing Senator Rob- inson’s course could or would tura is in doubt. The South and Southwest and the so-called border States have in the next Congress the great bulk of the | with’ Democratic vote in the Senate, as com- pared to_the North, the East and the West. Indeed, the count is almost two to one in favor of the South and Southwest and the border States, many of which have the same political ten- dencies as the “solid South.” It is not likely that these States of the Squth and Southwest would undertake' to unhorse Senator Robinson in favor of a leader from the North and East, or even for a leader from the West. * K K X Furthermore, Robinson, as Senator Sheppard has pointed out, has been a strong and dominant leader on the Democratic side of the Senate chamber. The Democrats have united behind him in the past to a greater extent than in the cases of many other party leaders in that body. He is personally popular with his colleagues. He has the trick of getting things done. As a matter of fact, the Democrats have worked to- ether in the Senate during the Robin- son leadership better than publicans with- their conflicts between |- regulars and insurgents. Senator Shep- pard has issued a challenge, in effect, to the opponents of Robinson to hrln' forward a candidate for the leadership against the Arkansas Senator. * kK X In the next Congress the Democrats will hold almost even numbers with the Republicans in both Senate and House. It is more important for them to act with unity of purpose, so far as the next presidential election is con- cerned, than it has been for years. So often in the rut the Democrats have ruined themselves and their chances for success at the polls by intra-party strife that the course they pursue in the next Congress will be watched witk extreme care, particularly by the Re- publicans. Deep division among the Democrats might give the Republicans a political -dv-nun ‘whicn they would not be slow to grasp. Ways of Achieving Fame. From the Duluth Herald. Some men are born famous, some achieve fame and others edge into a |« group photograph with the President. e [ o o U. S. Treasury Makes “Threat.” From the Savannah Morning News. . Now the United States Treasury ave the Re- | con ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI Take advantage of this free service. If you are one of the thousands who| have patronized the bureau, write us again. If you have never used the service, begin now. It is maintained for your benefit. Be sure to send your name and address with your question and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Addre hg.fhr Information Bureau, Frederic kin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. When is St. Nicholas Day?—V. G. A. It is December 6. It is a chil- dren's festival in Holland, Belgium and r-m of Germany, and serves as A pra- iminary to Christmas. It is on the night of the 5th that St. Nicholas comes with gifts. Christmas day is ob- served as a holy day rather than as a holiday. Q. Does the son of & naturalized Clfl- zen who himself (the son) was born | abroad have to be naturalized before he can vote?—F. 8, A. Courts have held that if a father| becomes a naturalized citizen before his son shall have attained his majority, the son, although alien born, becomes| a citizen and need not undergo the far- mality of naturalization if residing within the United States. Q. When did akunl become a recog- i nized sport?>—D. W. A. A. Skiing began to be looked upon | district of Telewark, and rapidly spread peninsula. The climax of the racing | seascn is now the great international | in [Ski tournament, held annually in Feb- | | the Senate for the Nye' resolution in |Inary at Holmenkollen, 6 miles from | | Oslo. Q. How many grown in the United States?—C. S. A. There are estimated to be 3,000 species of orchids under cultivation and more than 75 different varieties of wild orchids in the United States and Alaska. Q. How much did the income from fe .ns_décrease in 1930?—D. 8. A. Secretary Hyde says that the| gross farm income for 1930 will be about $9,950,000,000, or 16 per cent less than in 1929. Q. Who composed the melody of the song popularly known as “Hal Haill The Gang's All Here"?—J. B, A. The melody was taken from the marching song of “Pirates of Penzance,” which was composed by Sir Arthur Sul- livan of the famous English light opera team of Gilbert and Sullivan. Q. Who was called the Painter”?—FP. 8. A. Andrea del Sarto was so called. He lived from 1488 to 1530. Q. What is done with the money pllv3 for rhummg and fishing licenses? A. In practically every State it is turned over to the State Game Com- mission and the Department of Con- servation. Q. Please tell something about the school that Owen D. Young gave to Vanhornesville, N. Y.—R. M. A Mr. Young's object n hullding the new school in his home town was to give the boys and girls advantages| is not formerly to be had and to teach them to live tuucudully and ‘The bullding is of Georgian colonial style. None but native labor was em- ployed in the construction. On a bronze jablet in the entrance hall are the| names of all the men whohndlvun “Faultless ess The Eve- | kinds of orchids are| C J. HASKIN. in the bullding, “-b-l of the School of the furnishin antiques in Mr. Ymmrg home. school is to be a center of | life, the hall is ltulgwl | moving picture screen An e shown twice \:eekly. con- veniences are afforced, mclucm two | S s s ly equi and e ;"l‘l‘d ‘ol ncmuc‘:m fim“ & school uilding. Q What shape 1s the spinal cord?~= A It 18 nearly cylindrical in farm and runs through the hollow verubg.l column. Nerve cells are found on inside of the cord and nerve fibers are |found on the outside. Q nat is “pasteurization’?—M. O. A._ Pasteurization, simply defined, is the heating of raw milk to & tempera- ture of 142 to 145 degrees Fahrenheit, | holding at that temperature for 30 min- utes, following_which period it is rap- 1dly cocled to 38 or 40 degrees. | ,Q How can biack be removed from golf balls?—F. A Toate s sot B SN tablespoonfuls of lye to a pint of cold | water, which will loosen the outside paint. Remove, scrape off paint and | repaint with golf ball paint. Be sure sclution is coid. - | Q. What is the purpose of the Inter- aticnal ~Conference on Bituminous Coal?—M. R. A. The third conference will be held in November, 1931. Its purpose is to improve the condition of the coal in- | dustry. The economics of new methods and processes will be studied, as well as 'lhe conditioh of the industry as a | whole. Q. Where is Patrick Henry of Revo- lutionary fame buried?—G. E. A. He is buried at Red Hill, his es- tate, which is located about 30 miles south of Appomattox, Va. Q. Please de&cnbe the medal sent by the Popé to Edi . The mtdll is ali[h(ly largér than a half-dollar coin. The obverse side, which bears the Pope's profile in bas- relief, contains the Latin inscription “Plus XI, Pont. An. IX.” On the re- verse side of the medal is shown the Vatican City, and above it the papal coat of arms is supported by two chcl‘r;l‘ bim. _The inscription reads: tate Vaticana Condita, Anno 1,” which is translated as “From the foundation of the Vatican State, the first 3 The gift of the medal follow the presentation to the Pope by Mr. of a specially made mphme. Q. Where is Mount, Lefroy?—E. B. A. It is in the Canadian Rockies near Lake Louise. It is crowned with » glacier. Q. How much nicotine is there in tobacco?—A. M. O. A. The quantity of nicotine eon- tained in tobacco varies from 2 to 8 pe. cent, the coarser kinds containing the larger qummy. while the best Ha- vana cigars seldom contain more than 2 per cent, and often less. Nicotine dou not appear in-tobacco smoke, It split into zynmne and cellodine. Of 'h | these the lal is said to be the less | find of whlcro and with the distric in which it is grown. 'Keen Interest in New Plan At the University of Chicago Three differing attitudes are taken by observers of the experiment undertaken, by President Hutehins of the Uni- versity of Chies which involves the obliteration of the classes ml.klfll the time of attendance conform per- sonal achievement, and a dlvflm of the work among several general groups. Some comments emphasize the im- portance of quality in education and call this a commendable attempt in that direction Others are favorable to the plan, but await results. A third position is based on a demand for fixed standards. “As we see it,” remarks the ulueuo Daily Tribune, “the movement is to- ward the elasticity and variety of life, and away from the rigidity of conven- tional forms. In the higher education this seems to us an emphatic need and, without speculating upon details of ap- plication, cmmn of study, classifica- tion of work, readjustments of depart- ments and administration for more ef- fective eo.opentlon. etc., there is every- thing to be hoped from such a move- ment. It re‘newn the of educational leadership anc ens our confidence in the futfire of University of Chicago among the wnrld‘: greatest institutions of learn- With a tribute to President Hutchins’ “grasp of educational and trative problems,” the Providence Jour- nal says of his new plan: “Of course such a change aims a blow -c class. solidarity. It also emphasizes serious work at the expense of leisurely fellowship. It suggests the gradual velopment of a Iaborious institution of traditional college life. That these have a place in our educational and social scheme is not to be doubted, b\lt can mized in at least one important s..hw- lastic establishment like that the Chicago Midway.” * K K K “A revival of the earlier universi- ties' system” is seen by the San An- tonio Evening News, which points out that “the student who aspires to be- come a scholar or a professional nan, after he has laid a proper foundation of general knowledge, may enter the university’s ‘scholarly or pro!euhnll atmosphere’ for the time necessary to equip himself—which will depend en. tirely upon his own ability.” Tha Lin: coln State Journal also recognizes tha in this change there is evidence of “the hope that the university can be brought back to its ariginal purpose, thn ol educating nudenu rather than tinuing as a degree factory.” “If it succeeds,” declares the Kansas City Times, “as the idea behind it gains currency through other channels, & transformation of higher educal in America may be at hand.” That paper also comments: “It is said that, under the sy: '‘a genius may get ug: in um mnnm.', a brilliant stu- dem a year! That, while desirable in theory and doubtless in practice in general, might have its obvious handi- caps. The big difficulty in some cases would be discovering the genius in two months. There have besn notorious instances in which geniuses were not discovered in the whole perind of school and college training. Few of them’ e to or me world xm})erly college, under any &em. is w uur- tain ability as ol e develop the mind lond. let us lny, character.” ‘The is described ‘Terre muu Star as one which 33 de- signed to give greater freedom to ca. pacity in the student, and a larger of the instrue threatens to make a hole in one—year. e aot—e— Provocation Not Sufficient. ~;und was | Prom the San Bernardino Sun. le as Awndm Yes. we Mwmbufidm'tm udon in elections in spit + ) ] ite of the provo- Arl to m‘fl’m liquor “students Who ' know _their subjects should Mc he nhraeg by -rblmry n- e ewl-lenunn t.h.nka that t:ur‘ is the proposed re- forms over the dry old courses which still have too wide a following in the American educational system—the dry old courses alternated with a ridiculous excess of dif extracurricular ac- tivities and fever-heat interest in the gladiatorial contests attending foot ball championship endeavors.” “This scheme,” concludes the n.m more Sun, “calls for an un department from which the student vul graduate, not when he has a a fixed number of credits, but when- ever he is able to pass ‘comprehensive xaminations’ ” The Sun continues: t years have tempts to reform the and to awak hest type | M 3: mmxmmur ation of of the reo! n of one try’s largest and finest universities should, however, prove of immense in- terest and value.” the preacat. novation” e nova e the Manchester Union, to of §o0d | basts i is less of the ‘frills’ and amenities |, Wants Law to Require Clean-Up of Vacant Lots To_the Editor of The Sta: I was interested in reading about Senator c-ppeu bill to compel prop- erty owners to clean up vacant lots. Possibly all doctors would agree that an attractive environment is desirable for ill human beings. I think that the Senate, the District Commissioners, or whoever is responsible, should be fined for the eondmon of o&mmdl sur- rounding ‘Tuberculs ‘rhereu.nvlneandllun lruof covered with trees facing on ith street for a block thlt could be transformed into a scene of beauty. At rteunt it is an unsightly dump. If I were a patient in that houuhl, I think it would hasten my death to Jook at those grounds. I think the Dh- trict government, or whoever is res) sible for those example _for cf 1If the Senators - > interested in elvic conditions in the National Capital, let them take a Fourteenth street car ride to look at those unsightly grounds. Eplshed by (raustorming. this unat comp! o3 upat- mn:p‘flm';s&nt.o.gn' f' R ve enjoy. [CHE C. HOWLETT. On the Bench Watching Game. From the Charleston (W. Va.) Datly Soon we shall have one of our another gresses at work and Congress A | sitting on the bench watching the game. Judge Didn't Say. From the Cleveland News. Pederal ) orida “says & ‘ln )\im ro- thonim‘tmtnnehmr S8 A Fiction Cheap, Truth at Par.