Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1930, Page 8

. With Sunday M Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY......December 26, 1630 —_— {THE EVENING STAR it Sundey Morning Editien. an {"THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company "'nu’l E Y oy ol S B sty e ook e d Sunday 8iar B e s e b ity T “6s¢ per montn Wfl.‘.fi' mads st the end of ench month, Be et tn b h month. §xiges my y mail or telephcné al . Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, .1yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 88¢c .1yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 50c 1yr., $4.00, 1 mo., 40¢c Other States ln;l Canada. Member of the Associated Press. o Associated Press is exclusively entitled e use for republication of all tehes credited to it or not other: in this paj 0 t Fublished herein. news dis- © s All_rights of publici special dispatcheés herein are also reserved. —— Dewey’s Third Party. The time has come, according to Prof. John Dewey of Columbia University, to put a little more philosophy into poli- ties. In a word, Prof. Dewey proposes the establishment of a third party, a new party, into which shall be gathered all the liberal thought in the country. "He proposes that Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, the Senate's leading insurgent, shall head the new party. Prof. Dewey, in addition to being a professor of philosophy at Columbia University, is the national chairman of the League for Independent Political Action. Such an organization does not, et first glance, appear to be fertile ground for the establishment of & poli- tital party, new, liberal or otherwise. A8 head of the league, Prof. Dewey has {been preaching disregard of party lines. knows but that, once the proposed party has been formed, Prof. Dewey d bis proposed party leader Senator Norris—will continue to be politically !tndependent? Political parties which succeed have been established by men who have definite ideas about govern- ment to which they stick, not by men who are likely to change their alle- giance, or who vote first with one side and then with another. It would be particularly distressing if, after the new party had been erected behind Senator Norris, the Nebraska Senator should exercise that independence of all party | 3oyalty for which he has become famous “@mnd leave the new party high and dry— or perhaps wet. For Prof. Dewey, in his demand for ® new party on liberal lines, has so far falled to indicate whether the new perty should favor the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution or op- pose it. With the proposal, coming as 4t does from a member of the faculty ' of & university presided over by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, the supposi- to the wet presidential candidate of the Democratic party, Alfred E. Smith. But Senator Norris and his friends advance the argument that Mr. Norris has always shown himself friendly to cause of prohibition. Prof. Dewey all means make it clear new party is to be liberal the liquor question. Per- politics of a philosopher such LG HHEN : years for a new political align- with all the liberal-minded on de of the fence and all the con- ve-minded on the other; with sheep separated from the goats, or versa, according to taste. It has impossible, however, for any one bring about such an alignment. There have been too many different degrees of liberalism, too many of con- servatism. There have been too many fasues, such as prohibition for example, HEHH It and Senator Norris—should the latter | mccept the proposal of the Columbia professor—will succeed any better than —or as well as—did the late Theodore Roosevelt or the late Robert M. La Follette in their _eflux‘u to head liberal parties. Prof. Dewey may be quite right when he says to Senator Norris that he has no place in the Republican party and should quit it. But that has not been the attitude to date of Senator Norris ‘when it comes to running for office. He has stayed consistently within the folds of the G. O. P. whenever these many gears he has sought public office. Never yet has he run for anything as a0 “Independent,” despite his constant demands for independence in politics. He has run as a Republican. When he himself is running, his Republican enemies ascribe his loyalty to the party % & fear that if he discarded the ©. O. P. designation he would fare not 90 well at the polls. This may be doing the Nebraska Senator an injustice. However, it 1s exceedingly doubtful that Prot. Dewey will be able to wean Sena- for Norris from his sexennial alleglance to the Republican party. ———ee— As between Mr. Lucas and Mr. Norris, # is regarded as a pretty fight as it stands, with no need of drawing in a third eminent official to make it more ot The Price of Health. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur gives a wel- ®ome holiday greeting to the country when he announces that the national #Committee on the Costs’ of Medical ©Care” is approaching the end of its task—a five-year survey of the field eomprehended by the committee’s title. September, 1931, the chairman ptates, the inquiry will have proceeded a point where full light can be on what most people today con- the inordinately high expense of or getting well. says that America’s an- for the eradication of il five billion dollars, or some- forty dollars per capita. If the L Ey i : B THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 19 ——eeerorrrornroo— bhow to bring down the fabulous cost|those that have as deposttors large num- of maintaining health or restoring it, once lost or impaired. If the objective can be reached, Dr. Wilbur is not going too far when he declares that the com- mittee “will have given to the peo- ple of the United States, and indeed to the people of the civilized world, data that may well be termed priceless.” ‘The Secretary of the Interior is him- self a physician. He points out, with pardonable emphasis, that, contrary to popular belief, the doctor’s bill is by no means the principal item in the costs of medical care. The committee dis- covers that in many instances the doc- tor gets considerably less than half the total expenditure. Hospitals and nurses are well paid. The drug stores cash in substantially. In one typical county in the Midwest the cost of medicine was found to be more than one-third of the total medical expense and twenty per cent greater than the costs of { phystctans’ services. Next year, when the committee is ready to report, it will submit exclusive- ly facts and refrain from recommenda- tions. But its findings promise to be s0 thorough and so clear-cut that feasible remedial courses to cut down the price of health will stick out con- spicuously. Perhaps some scheme of public health #hsurance, National or State, will enter into the realm of en- suing discussion. R Time to Order Your Tags. Some good organization work at the District Bullding by those who have been able to profit from lessons learned last year should avoid much of the con- fusion in January over the issuance of automobile tags for 1931. Last year's initial experience with the new law requiring payment of personal taxes on automobiles at the same time that tag fees are paid was painful te the public and the administration at the District Building alike. Applicants for tags on January 2—and they were not made available before that date—were forced to stand in line for approximately two hours and a half, according to & carefal check made at the time. For several days thereafter the long waits and the lengthy queues brought de- served criticlsm of the unnecessary inconvenience thus added to the ordeal of taxpaying. This year the District Building authorities have sought to encourage applications for tags en bloc, with the Government departments, such organ- lzations as the American Automobile Association and others taking care of large batches of applications in ad- vance. The tags for these applicants have already been set aside, the assess- ments computed and the transactions reduced to the final stages. For the public in general, which must apply Individually for tags, additicnal clerks have been assigned and trained in the work, and there are hopes that on Jan- uary 2, when the rush begins, the inconvenient standing in line and the ping-pong journeys from window to window and back again will be reduced to & minimum. The time granted for tag application has been extended until January 17. According to a literal reading of the new law, these arrangements may not be strictly legal, as the law requires prop- erty valuations, etc., to be made in the year for which rtaxes are paid, and while there is provision for issuing new tags in advance, they are required to be on automobiles on the first of the year. But the steps taken this year have been based on the desire to make the enforcement of the law practical as well as possible and no challenges of the method are anticipated. The States, especially our neighbors, Maryland and Virginia, long ago adopt- ed the practice of making tags avail- able through the mails and delivering the majority of them in advance. While use of the mails to deliver tags has not been possible in the District, every ef- fort is obviously being made now to make the business as easy as possible for those who are willing to co-operate with the District Building. e Observance of Christmas has been generous and sincere. Much that is new in manners and strange in ideas has become conspicuous. Doubts are enter- tained as to the permanence of the social scheme which has long prevailed. The assurance comes every year that we go on thinking as our forefathers thought and cherishing the spirit of the home as they did in spite of the mar- velous strides invention has made and the improvements in industrial methods. ——— The Communist Campaign. Further disclosures in the inquiry under way in New York regarding the causes of the recent bank fallures there strengthen the belief that those and perhaps other financial troubles re- sulted in part at least from deliberate attempts by Communists to destroy pub- lic confidence in the institutions. Posi- tive evidence was obtained that one day last week, following a meeting at which an undermining campaign was planned, numbers of these radicals went about town, going into stores and talking about the weakness of a certain bank, which has not been publicly identified. This activity aroused depositors to start withdrawing their funds, until within two hours after the beginning of the “whispers” fully a thousand had pre- sented themselves at the bank with their passbooks. All these demands were met by the bank and, the day being Satur- day, the windows were closed at noon without any undue strain being felt by the imstitution. On the following Mon- day morning the bank was fortified against a run, but there were no further concentrated withdrawal demands. Furthermore, evidence, it is reported, has been obtained to show that there is a connection between the Bolshevik propaganda organization, which is op- erated in New York under the guise of a trade bureau, and certain brokerage concerns which have been engaged in systematic short operations in bank stocks. The suspicion, founded upon more than mere surmise, is expreflndjmpuuw iy by the investigators into this situation that recent short-sale operations have in fact been directly financed by Soviet funds. At meetings of the Communists held lately there is frank talk of the campaign against banks, with mention of names of those institutions upon which it is directed. Restaurants, tea houses and small shops are the outposts These people, in most cases ignorant of banking methods and principles, are quick to suspect danger and to act im- pulsively in defense, 8o tense is the situation, even now, that bank officials have instructed their employes to refrain from discussing either at home or in public the affairs of their banks or any other institutions. This is intended to cut off any supply of “inside information” that may have been heretofore reaching the radicals engaged in this campaign. ‘There is every reason to believe in the possibility that such a campaign is in progress. ‘Whether inspired directly from Moscow or acting upon their own impulses, the Communists in this country, aiming at the destruc- tion of the “capitalist” system, are known to be seeking to break down public faith in all’of the institutions of Government and finance and trade. Their public demonstrations are frankly destructive. Their proclamations de- clare for “revolution.” They openly avow their purpose to sweep away all the landmarks of American civiliza- tion to make way for a new order, based upon the Russian principles of state and soclety. So there is no rea- son to doubt the campaign to break the banks, and indeed every reason to believe that it is under way. With this knowledge the forces of law and order should be able to meet the menace and prevent disaster. ———————————— Use of wheat for fuel takes care of an emergency. It shows conclusively, how- ever, that an economic system which compels a family to burn what is meant for food to take the place of wood, coal or oil is working under a miscalculation, Einstein might be appealed to in an effort to have the matter straightened out. —— e Santa Claus is only a myth. Men have for ages devoted vast fortunes to the glorification of some crea- ture of imagination. After all, there is nothing in the world more expensive than a myth. ———— Occasionally Tammany is accused of playing games that make old-fashioned politics, with all the charges made against it, look like a comparatively in- nocent pastime. e California raises fine grapes iIn abundance. An unmerchantable bunch of grapes is more disappointing than a measure of wheat or an ear of corn. The grapes cannot even be used as fuel. —_————.—— Getting Senator Norris sidetracked may call for new political surveys to decide which is the side track and which is the main line. —e———— The next scheduled greeting is “Happy New Year.” The public can ask no more than that it will be as truly a success as “Merry Christmas.” e ————————— If there must be party strife, now is the time to have it. An election needs a preface of party harmony as an essen- tial detail. ——r————————— Discreet diners discount their good resolutions as to beverages for a few days and make them useful for Christ- mas as well as New Year. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. True Philosopher. A little boy will write a note To Santa Claus. He will devote Pages in telling his desires; ‘Then wait for what he so admires. Now Santa is a busy saint; Letters in memory may grow faint. But none the less, the gifts he'll ind The boy greets with a joyous mind. He thinks of benefits received. By what he missed he 1s not grieved. 1t men could be, they'd gain new joy, Philosophers, like the small boy. Honest Kindness. “Little children will one day mention your name with deepest respect.” “I hope,” answered Senator Sorghum, “they will let the children alone with their Aladdins and Jack tHe Giant Killer and not bother them with efforts to | understand my speeches.” Jud Tunkins says & genuinely merry Christmas is one that leaves no mis- givings that next day you will have to look over the menu card and send a letter of apology to Santa Claus. Easily the Chief. Business grew brisker, all men must agree, When Christmas came with loud and cheery call, And old friend Santa Claus again we see The highest high-power salesmen of them all. Drawing a Conclusion. “Are the Smithers children proper playmates for our little girl?” asked the careful mother. “I doubt it,” replied the vigilant father. “They laughed at her when she smoked s cigarette, thereby showing that her parents are taking no pains to educate her in the ways of the fash-| ionable world.” “He who takes no holidays,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “will find many ways of spending working days in idleness” Avoiding All Misunderstanding. They say we cannot comprehend what Einstein has to say; And maybe it is better far for things to be that way. Some mathematical remark folks might not understand And instead of an ovation we might have a row on hand. “I's g'ineter to turn over a new leaf,” sald Uncle Eben, “an’ try to keep out of leaves dat didn’t have nuffin’ on 'em but de same old story.” —r——— Missed Something? From the Janesville Gazette. About the only secret that has not been shown on the New York stage is life of a goldfis! Bob-White Unafraid. flan Antonio Evening News. bob-white whistles wn as if 't care a hang the open "THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘The day after Christmas is the su- preme let-down day of the year. Now something of the special spirit, built up so carefully through many days, vanishes almost overnight. We are back in the world of every day once more. 'The stars still shine on the Christmas trees, but Santa Claus has gone back to the North Pole! We are left with a lot of ties we don't like, and some that we do. The fact that we do not care for the ones with great green and red spots alternating really has nothing to do with the case, after all. They were given with the best spirit in the world, and it was that spirit which counted on Christmas day. It was because of that spirit that the Christmas of 1930 was just as great a success as the Christmas of 1929. Have you ever stopped to think of the success of Christmas? * It is a never-failing success, because it is built on and around that which never faileth. o ‘The day after Christmas, too, comes but once a year. Tk 2 ‘We come down the staircase in the morning, half expecting things to be the same, somehow, as they were the day before. But they are not. The furnace needs attending to and the milk has to be taken in from the back porch. ‘The hundred and one. homely chores of the everyday begin at once, and one kniows instinctively that they will not cease for another year or thereabouts. One of the glories of Christmas is that it gets into your blood. Old Scrooge learned that many years ago, in Charles Dickens’ “Carol,” but the remainder of us learn it anew every year, No matter how much we said, before Christmas, “Oh, Christmas means noth- ing to me!” we discovered by Christmas eve that it did. Even if we looked at some of our gifts beforehand, in deflance of tradition, we discovered that no harm was done, es- pecially if we were careful to put the wrapping paper back the way we found llt, k.ead to pretend that we had not 0ol * x x % Christmas demanded a special spirit, and now we let it get away from us. It is really too bad. If we could only keep it, how much better off the world would be! But it is too good for us. It is better than humanity is, we suppose, and we cannot stand the strain. We must relapse into niggardliness. and suspicion, and selfishness, and hate and worse, largely because those things seem more natural to human beings It is too bad. It takes a Christmas to shake us out of them, and we relapse pretty quickly. But the hope is, although it is a very old one now, that some time the world of men will wake up to itself and make on its specialized ideas and thoughts. When that time arrives there will be no Christmas day, perhaps, be- cause all the days will be Christmas. ek o ‘The day after Christmas leaves most of us with a stuffy feeling of having eaten too much. Will humanity never get over its animal heritage? We began on Thanksgiving a shameless gorging with most folks. Every one you met on the day after Thanksgiving admitted, with a mixture of shame and pride, that he had eaten too much. WASHINGTON On Christmas the fault lies with candy. It would be interesting to know how many million pounds of candy are eaten on Christmas day throughout the United States. Surely the total would stagger the imagination, as it already has the bodily economy. Manking nz:: d _ insists, however, on taking its rites too seriously, even most serious of them, and in this hu- manity asserts its old-time common sense, There is something queer about man, there is no doubt of that, and one ‘of the s facets of this queerness is his inability to be totally | By, severe without something rising in him to jest. Shall we place the blame on the poor animals again? We think not. The creatures have enough to suffer from without that. * ok x % The day after Christmas finds the first needles falling from the Christmas trees. The dogs and cats of the house- hold. have chewed the choicest tips off the finest branches, and perhaps even wr_t‘a‘;ked }?1 whole string of tinsel. le white star at the very tiptop is tlited to an extreme angle. e{‘{xe wreaths in the window show the first signs of wilting. They are beginning to turn brown at the edges in just the slightest degree. Next year we will attempt to exercise foresight and place all holly outside in the fresh air. But why should one have exercised s0 mundane a quality as discretion at Christmastide? ‘Those are the happlest today who spend foolishly, who gave recklessly, who did not stint them- !%lxves or others, in so far as they were able. Yet splurging is not the essence of Christmas, after all. Any child can tell you as much. Take a good look at the little ones today and you will find in nine cases out of ten that it is not the expensive toys they get the most pleas- ure out of, but almost without excep- tion the smaller and less costly ones. Often the grand dolls are left by the tree for some old affair stuffed with sawdust. As likely as not, the elaborate engine of some description is given the 80-hy for & wooden one which cost ex- actly 10 cents. No, the joy we got out of Christmas was not measured money, although that had something to do with it, espe- clally if we are oldsters, so sunk in the sins of this world are we. But even with us it was the gift well placed, the glft well intended, which struck home. The man who liked outdoor sports appreciated his new rod and reel, or his golf clubs, or his tennis racket, or his rifle; he who cares most for books liked !’;lls splendid copy of Admiral Byrd's Little America,” even if he did feel that within six months it will be selling at a dollar a copy. The woman who thinks most of dress cared most, of course, for her new fur cloak, and her sets of filmy underthings and the like. She who fancies the arts of the household rejoiced in some labor- saving device which promised better hog.se’htuld management. 0 it went down the line, the Christ- mas that is past. And it will continue to go down the line. No, the special spirit does not vanish entirely. Some of it lingers, and it lingers best, per- haps, when it is unknown and unrecog- nized. For humanity is, as we have sald, rather queer, and when it thinks it is doing good it is inclined to get self-conscious. But when it does good in:dd*%oem'z realize it, then it does good, the OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Not a third party, but two brand-new parties to take the places of the Re- publican and Democratic parties, is the logical demand of the political future, according to a good many unbiased surveyors of the latest G. O. P. un- pleasantness. Their respective policies and ideals would be comprehended by the titles of “Conservatives” and “Liberals.” The stalwart standpatters in both exist- ing parties would naturally coalesce in the Conservative ranks and the pro- gressives who now call themselves either Republicans or Democrats would rally around the Liberal flag. High protec- tionists, whether they hailed from Massachusetts or Louistana, would probably be Conservatives. advocates and free traders as likely would be Liberals. So would apostles of public ownership of, power and other utilities. In international affairs, if the League of Nations and the World Court are still issues at that time, our isola- tionists and irreconcilables would pre- sumably don Conservative colors. o ‘Where to catalogue wets and drys in Conservative and Liberal parties-to-be is a harder nut to crack. At present repealers ‘and modificationists are classi- fled as Liberals, but to imagine wet Nicholas Murray Butler lining up in the same party camp as dry George W. Norris, for instance, is to toy with the unthinkable. Equally bafling would be the placing of Southern Democratic dry “Torles” of the type of Carter Glass alongside otherwise similar Conserv- ative ainded Republicans like, let us say, wet “Dave” Reed of Pennsylvania. ‘The sam and substance of it all—and the Republican-Progressive set-to turns the searchlight on it in full glare—is that existing national party labels have come to be nearly meaningless. As to the big “P's” of politics—protection, pro- hibition, power, prosperity, even preju- dice—party lines are broken into un- recognizability. If there were a Nobel prize for the man who could give a specific, truthful definition of the dif- ference between a Republican and a Democrat, the committee on awards would have its work cut out in trying to pick the winner. ] Most of Mr. Lucas' ammunition about the Republican disloyalty of Senator Norris been fired at the Nebraskan's desertion of Coolidge in 1924 and sup- port of Smith in 1928. There was also an off-year defection by the Progres- sive leader in 1926, when Norris went into Pennsylvania to take the stump for “Uncle Billy” Wilson, Democratic candidate for the United States Sen- ate, against “Boss” Vare. The West- erner’s State-wide efforts were a ma- terial factor in -Wilson's feat in cut- ting down Vare’s majority to 175,000 and taking 55 out of Penn's 67 coun- tles into the Democratic column. Dem- ocratic Senator “Bert” Wheeler's inde- pendent vice presidential candidacy on the La Follette ticket in 1924 has al- most been lost in the shuffle during the current disloyalty discussion. Like Nor- ris, Wheeler afterward had no diffi- culty in being re-elected on his regular party ticket, despite his little affair with the enemy. L Representative ‘Bert” Vestal, Repub- licln?ot Indiana, who'll be back in the House next year on his recently ob- tained re-election majority of nine pre- clous votes, tells a good yarn about a recent visit of his and Mrs. Vestal in London. They were standing in Tra- falgar Square, surveying the fascinat- ing traffic threads ceaselessly, but in orderly fashion, through that center of the universe. Presently a man strode up to them, unmistakably bent on a “touch.” He recognized the Vestals to be Americans and ldzntmedrh!mu’ Forad ‘was “Know my friend—-?" ejaculated the stranger, mentioning the name of Anderson's leading lawyer. ‘You're all ht, old scout,” grinned Vestal, as he dug up a crisp 10-shilling o * ok % % Karl von Lewinski, well known in Washington_as chief counsel for Ger- many on the Mixed Claims Commis. Low tariff | slon, has just returned to the C: to close up his official affairs before going back to Berlin to live. He retires from the German consuate-general- ship at New York in order to resume private law practice in the Fatherland. Herr Lewinski is the reciplent of sporting congratulations from a host of American friends, especially in the diplomatic and legal fraternity, for his victory in the recent $40,000,000 Black Tom and Kingsland sabotage cases. Mainly because of his able de- fense, Germany was acquitted before the Claims Commission of responsibility for those explosive affairs in 1916 and 1917. The Reich treasury saves a tidy 160,000,000 perfectly good gold marks as a result. American, formerly Miss Pomeroy of Colorado, and a long-time favorite in ‘Washington society. * K ok X A certain highly distinguished mem- ber of Congress has just taken posses- sion of a beautiful new home in the swagger residential section of the Capi- tal. The property’s rear slopes down into a sylvan grove so situated as to cut the place completely from view on that side. The gentleman from — was being complimented on his picturesque establishment. “Yes, we like it,” was the retort. “It's about the only place in Washington where you can serve cock- tails outdoors.” * K ok K ‘William N. Doak—everybody soon will be calling him “Billy” Doak—the new Secretary of Labor, was recently re- ferred to on the radio by this broad- caster as hailing from West Virginia. That brought forth a sharp protest from Roanoke, which claimed Doak as a Virginian. asked to clear up the facts once for all, and writes: “I was born in Wythe County, Va. I left there when I was about 18 years of age, going to Blue- field, W. Va., where I resided for nearly 10 years, and then moved to Roanoke, Va. I lived In Roanoke until a few years ago. when I moved to Arlington County, Va. I voted in West Virginia for several years, but have been voting in the old Commonwealth for nearly 18 years. I hold my membership in the Brotherhood of Rallroad Trainmen at Bluefield, because I worked on the Poca- hontas division of the Norfolk & West- ern. Therefore. the West Virginia claim that T am a West Virginian in reality. However, I am a native Virginian and a voter in Virginia.” (Copyright. 1930.) ——— Silver Loan to China. From the Oakland Tribune. ‘There is talk of an American loan of silver to China in the hope it would bolster the silver market, increase the purchasing power of silver currency there, and enable China to buy more merchandise from the United States. Nevada and other Western States, of course, are interested, for with the price of silver at 36 cents a fine ounce, & record low, a great industry has been adversely affected. A year ago, in No- vember, silver’s price was 69 cents: in 1925 it was $1.01. Many will recall that in 1918 the United States even melted down silver dollars and sold them at one dollar an ounce to Great Britain, who needed silver for India. India and China today are the two great silver-using countries of the world. China is on a silver currency basis and huge supplies are there kept as orna- ments or hoarded wealth. It is pecul- lar of silver that the production keeps up regardless of low prices, and the p!r‘:a the ;mm is .Ilmd it ednfl.relm! 2 by-] luct of copper, lead an ic. If the production of these last-named continues unchanged, there must also be_a continuous production of silver, Exports to China in the last year have fallen below those of a year previous and bz)ao per_cent, with the chaotic conditions in China responsible. Ad- vocates of the silver loan argue it aid Amerl:dm exports as welémuneh‘: Chinese and would bring up s &ce. Thnpmfoulhnbnnmldem hearings the Subcommittee of Foreign Relations, of which Senator Pittman of Nevada is chairman, and, it likely, will be put forward in of a bill. that a loan of the , as it would thus eventually Mme. von Lewinski is an| “Jim” Davis’ successor was | big; be of 0. Tenth Amendment Held Safeguard of Rights To the Editor of The Star: ? As I understand the decision of ‘Judge Clark, though I have had no time to study it, he holds, in substance, that amendments to the Federal Constitution pursuant to the authority contained in article 5, to be valid, must be to alter some provision of the Constitution in & manner pertinent thereto, or if it be new and additional matter, such matter must be germane to the Constitution as it is, and not matter that is new and wholly unrelated to any provision there- of. This view is predicated upon the tenth amendment, viding that “the wers not delegal to the United tates by the Constitution nor prohib- ited by it to the States are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” being a limitation upon the power of amendment granted by article 5, or, in | other words, that it forbids any amend- ment to the Constitution that would take from a State without its consent the powers reserved by it in sald amend- ment. There can be little question that the reservations of this amendment are to the States individually and not to them collectively. For example, there was left to the States a vast reservoir of rights and powers, known as police powers, which the Supreme Court of the United States sald in Butchers’ Union Co. vs. Crescent City Co. (111 U. 8., 746), commonly re- ferred to as the Slaughterhouse Case, are essential to their local self-govern- ment and the successful working of our federative system, and which were un- affected by the thirteenth and four- teenth amendments, which grew out of the Civil War, ‘To give but a single {llustration, the Southern States have laws forbidding miscegenation, which they regard, and properly s0, as vital to their racial and social integrity, and to their civilization. Would any one be so and reckless as to assert that three-fourths of the States can, by ratifying an amendment to the Federal Constitution, take from the Southern States without their consent and against their will the right to enact such laws? This is one of the rights they reserved to themselves in the tenth amendment, and which existed, it was claimed, under the Constitution as origi- nally ordained, but which was put yond question by the tenth out of caution born of the fear and and it may be that one, among other causes, was the proviso in article 5 “that no State, without its consent, shall bé deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.” This express mention and ex- ception of a single right of the State of which 1t could not be deprived without its consent raised a serious question re- specting its other rights it had not ex- pressly or by necessary implication dele- gated to the Federal Government, under the well known rule of construction that the expression of one thing in a law ex- cludes all other things. To give a homely illustration of the issue involved, suppose A, B and C give to D, as their agent, certain definite powers to repre- sent them in a given matter, with the understandmfmthnt any two of them might authorize a ch: in D's powers either in extension or in tation there- of. Would any lawyer of even the most superficial knowledge contend that under such an agreement A and B alone could extend the powers of D to subjects not within or contemplated by the original agreement so as to bind C without his consent and against his will? ‘That is exactly what the eighteenth amendment did. It took from Rhode Island, for example, which refused to ratify the amendment, without its con- sent and against its will, the right to regulate the liquor traffic, which was one of its rights reserved in the tenth amendment. Many {llustrations could be given to show that if the power to amend is without limitation, as asserted ‘apital | by the proponents of the eighteenth amendment, the concerted action be- tween three-fourths of the States could strip the.others of every vestige of thelir rights and reduce them to the status of mere geographical expressions. For the perpetuation of our irfstitu- tions, and consistent with the best in- terests of the people and of the States, there is but one way by which new and additional matter involving further sur- render of the reserved rights of the States can properly be made a part of the Federal Constitution, and that is by a constitutional convention, called for the express purpose, in which all the States are represented and are parties to the proposed change, for otherwise, and by any other method, a State may | inf be deprived of its reserved rights and powers without its consent, of which they were so jealous in the past, but now appear to be, unfortunately, so in- different. 'Any view of this question other than the foregoing would nullify the tenth amendment and it would be meaningless. ER SIDNEY LANIER. e e English Sports and Ours. From the Worcester Evening Gazette. Information designed to shatter the complacency of any patriotic American is contained in the annual report of the Harvard Athletics Committee recently submitted to President Lowell. Here we are, if our critics are to be believed, a Nation devoted to bi devoted to quantity rather than quality. We want our Eopuhuon‘.bla: we want our buildings big; we want our college enrollments big; we want our territory ; we want our stage spectacles big; we want our crowds big. And in our sports, our critics aver, we are mad, simply mad about size. Par- ticularly gone are we as regards college foot ball. College foot ball teams are given nicknames suggesting magnitude, stupendousness, irresistibility. We have the Big Pink team, the Big Ecru team, the Big Vermillion team, the Wildcats, the Tin Tornado. And the big teams play in big stadiums before big ',hronm‘fia of mad enthusiasts. The deplored it is overemphasis, Our critics are forceful, convincing. ‘They c:}e the :{]wlem, Gree’ll.(hmctw of moderation in things. ey praise the sane restraint which characterizes other countries. lly popular with them is the gen anly dabbling in sports which they attribute to England and the English universities. And now come the Harvard delvers into facts and spread before us the startling discovery that the athletic teams of the English universities play through schedules far bigger than the schedules attempted by the athletic teams of our universities. But utterly flabbergasting is the intelligence that at Tinchenham, where championship rugby matches are played, the amphi- theater has a spectator capacity of over 100,000. The Yale bowl cannot accom- modate three-quarters of that, and the Harvard stadium scarcely one-half. To match that in this country one has to take the stadium in Chicago where Notre Dame and the Army struggled a few weeks back. Decrease in Forest Loss. From the Jackson Citizen Patriot. Statistics on practically everything show lower totals for this year than for last, and in most cases these low- red totals are disquieting. But one e case has just come to light where the|of decrease is very gratifying. That is in the figures on the loss from forest fires. ‘The Forest Service at Washington announces that fire dlmn’: to national goreat lands this year was held to $237,- figures high This great reduction is which we can rejoice mightily. e - Busy Congress. Proc tha Woroester Defy Teesres. Congress 1s to use up most ‘hether not, mgs ds‘-;hn an wl or extra session by for he will S 2 ¢ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ‘Washington, D. C. Q. What should an airport have in the way of first-aid equipment?—S. W. A. First-ald equipment at a landing fleld should include an ambulance, or ters, and the following supplies should be available: Twelve assorted bandages, 12 sterile 2 tourniquets, and first-aid dressings for burns, either tincture of jodine or mercurochroie, aromatic spirits of ammonia, and paper or glass cups. Q. How many photographers are there in the United States?—H. G. F. A. There are about 15,000 profes- sional photographers in the. United States, while the number of amateurs runs into the millions. . When will the play, “In the Meantime,” which was recently at the National Theater in Washington, D. C., be in New York?—F. R. ‘ork on ever, will be changed to “Midnight.” Q. What country is the leader in furs?—H. W. P. A. The United States has displaced London as the fur center of the world, lccordl_xll% to the latest Government re- ports. ere are no accurate figures 16r the domestic fur catch in the United States, but its annual value is at from $45,000,000 to $70,000,000, and Misaissippl Q. How many men did it take to build the Great Pyramid?—Q. A. Herodotus estimated that 100,000 Ee‘n’:ere engaged for 20 years in bulld- Q. How much money does the Bureau f Engraving and Printing put out per of day?—M. O. 8. A. The d-u; average of notes made at the bureau is 3,360,000 pieces, the money value of which is $13,370,000. A gasoline and water mix?— immiscible that neither will dissolve more than a few hundredths of a per cent of the T. The solubllity is so light that the liquids are usually said to be insoluble in one another. How_many children has Knute Rodimei g A A. The Rocknes have four children— Wililam, Knute, Maryjean and John. Q. Where is Mary, Quee: buried?—E. W. C. . A. The body of Mary, Queen of Scots, estimated | day "A. Gasoline and water are so nearly | is, J. HASKIN. . Can a How many United States?—W. well roducing oil P! mfl"u‘ . H. an of time without injury to the well’s pro- ducing ca) ties. There are wgml- mately :iédzon producing ofl wells in the tes. United Q. Where did Hampton Roads get its name?—M. C. B. & A. The towns of mm‘?wn and Hamp- Q. Please inform me of the signifi- cance of long narrow boards painted red, or striped red and white, suspended overhead at the ends of the platforms of the subway and elevated stations in New York and Brooklyn.—J. J. C. A. The New York Rapid Transit Cor- poration says that the long narrow white, located at the ends of platforms of subway and elevated stations, indi- cate to trainmen that certain car doors should not be ‘This sary because longer than the station platforms and at times motormen are required to stop trains with certain cars outside the limits of the station plstforms. Q. When was Washington’s birthday first celebrated?—T. V. A. The first recorded mention of the celebration of Wi 's - is said to be one in the of Richmond, Va., the day being Febru 8. ary 11, 1783, the old in the calen- dar not having then and for every purpose Q.mthm—nzbynzn‘m about coming into court clean hands?—S. D. V. A. There is a legal Handbook ry Law, meargs that “a plaintif who has been guilty of inequitable conduct in the ‘hich he agks table conduct will be. An {llustration cited is that who sues to from infr be denied relief where the trade mark is itself untruthful and misleading to the public. A somewhat similar maxim u;‘yfla who seeks equity must do equity.” Q What does the word “Eurel mtin?—R. S. A. is Greek, more correctly “Heureka,” meaning “I have found it.” It is an exclamation of delight, appro- ite when a discovery has been made. is the motto of California, in the gold discovered there. Anti-Prohibition Decision Classed as Purely Academic Some Americans hold Judge Willlam ersey by ruling that the prohibition amendment was not legally ado) his interpretation of . Others his argument in favor of approval conventions in the States as a brilliant and logical discussion of a fundamental question, but belleve that the United States Supreme Court would rule st him, because of the possi- ble effect on the Constitution in other respects. A third class, assuming that the point raised is new, await the deci- slon of the highest court with terest. Critics of Judge Clark view the discussion as purely academic in its revival of ideas held some framers of the Constitution. “His decision is the opinion of one Judge only, and it will come before the highest court,” says the Albany Evening News, pointing out that “the Supreme Court has already passed on the consti- tutionality of the amendment, although perhlmat on this precise t, and it is lly likely that it ind its decision.” The St. Paul Press advises that after the higher courts have reviewed resc] Pioneer L3 on & point of muumnmnm ou.m’nmm of consl that ought to have most careful and serious _consideration.” paj ‘That per agrees that “the opportunity for effec- great | tive argument will come before Congress d the people in support of a more satisfactory submission of amendments in the future.” “If Judge Clark is wrong in his con- tention that the amendment has never been properly ratified,” asks the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, “then why did the Constitution stipulate two w\g: by which Constitution could amended? Rai tures, we “the total results|to the Federal the decision in all likelthood will be that | as the an interesting discussion was started.” Testimony to the interesting nature the point raised is given also by Duluth Herald and the New York Times, the latter describing it as “somewhat amazing.” “Prohibitionists are not seriously con- cerned and anti-prohibitionists are not seriously elated over the decision,” con- tends the Charleston (8. C.) Evening Post, with the conclusion that “the Constitution is construed with great liberality by the Supreme Court when questions of a political character are involved, and this prohibition - ness is most decidedly political in its character, and is to be determined by public opinion and not by juridical de- cree.” Arguing that the “wets, while not. abandoning the hope of support in the higher tribunals, await the verdict with- out much enthusiasm,” the t Lake Deseret, News states that “the legal issue will be carried forward by the drys with all speed and e:n;ut.m:s." “The decision must be of academic Interest,” thinks the Milwaukee Journal. “It is not strange, with vast numbers of people dissatisfied with prohibition, that an attempt should be made to under- mine the foundations of the law or that & judge should be found to give the attempt momentary and effect. When a law is unpopular, but not un- ular enough to insure direct repeal, its opponents may be expected to ex- plore the bypaths for possible relief. Such a bypath has now opened. who are walking it with Judge doubtless see rosy visions, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide whether traffic may be resumed. Even the most sanguine may well doubt the Supreme Court’s approval.” “Article V of Constitution,” ac- cording to the Houston Chronicle, 'igsy ratified by the people more than a - dred years ago, is a part of the Consti- tution, and to hold that the power there given to Congress to determine the mode of ratification does not in organic law.” o(m ‘Wadsworth-Garrett addition of a pro- of the Constitution e the election of at constitutional amendments which might s} from Sk“p“l;‘elocw" mzl):m:e of Ju Clark’s opinion, we can = ltlndd‘;\l rather transparent lack of gn¢ ously cloud the validity of other opera tive :mendmu mdy might develof endless c ations.” mfl‘x’tucopinlm that “the eight- es- Star concedes that Judge Clark “has|decided th ralsed and brilliantly argued an inter- that “the tion; it merely raises one.” Mad: son Wisconsin State Journal records unanim that | amendment light of what should have been done.” “The whole idea may be academic. The amendment still lives and operates at the same old stand, ‘despite Judge Clark’s technicality,” Savan nah Dally News comments: “It‘remains the Si e Court to decide whetHes. , the tenth it to the Constitution mu"Mw suthority Congress method of effe ratification Siatione) amendmmente: in the tenth amendment the contention that convi contemplated in its reference to people’'? Has any Federal court H fe H i ! have t is not the fisd rendered a decision that Sflé