Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1931, Page 8

{THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. 1081 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. and Vll’lllfl. 3 .00 Member of the Associated Press. ted Press is exclusive o the use for republication of il news dis- atches fed o it or Bot otharwise cred- EScia’ (715 paver and also the locel Hew ib] herein. All rights of publication sl dispatcheés herein are alfo roserved. Street Car Track Changes. ‘The street car companies have taken the commendable course in refusing to endanger the immediate reslization of the great Capitol plaza project by fighting against what amounts to a special assessment of $400,000 levied against them, this amount represent- ing the cost of changing the layout of tracks around the Capitol and Union Station. By notification that the improvement expense, as far as they are concerned, will be paid under protest in the belief that the matter will later be open to discussion and settlement, they do not prejudice an fssue that will become still more im- portant to them as other development sthemes involving trackage changes proceed. Plans for the new layout of tracks are designed to improve the appearance of that broad stretch of park area that will extend between the Union Station and the Capitol. Existing tracks on Delaware avenue, which now cuts through the heart of the future plaza, are to removed. The street cars from Union Station to the vicinity of the Capitol will move over First street east, instead of on Delaware avenue. Cress-town street cars from east to west will proceed along C street and, seaching the plaza, will “duck” under- ground benmeath s circle and fountain, emerging near First street zast. While these changes will undoubtedly improve the appearance of the whole development, the companies, in their § § Capitol less accessible to patrons. The changes will car lines negrest the g i !53? §ek be no eriticism of the plan of treatment &t the Capitol. If the street on its merits after Gathering Clouds. EE i No matter how the coalitionists in the Senate may feel about it, there is a special session of the Congress in the coming Spring: It is generally realized that with the political parties almost evenly divided in the Senate and House and the Progressive Republicans again holding the balance of power, and the veto at the other end of Pennsyl- vania avenue, there is no hope for con- structive legislation in such a session. Of what avail to have an ineffective Congress in session any longer than is absolutely necessary? The only answer is politics and more politics. The Demo- cratic leadership of the Senste should think a second time before it undertakes to force a special session on the country. Red Cross Funds. Any - organized charity or welfare work must expect to bear the cross that lies in criticism of how it spends its money. There are few exceptions. When everybody becomes, in effect, a supporter of relief or charity work,’ the administrative agency’s business be- comes everybody's business. While it may be patural that the American Red Cross has been attacked and criticized for some of its financial policies, this eriticism hinging on charges of “hoard- ing” its funds while logical beneficiaries ere starving, it is difficult te understand the motives of the critics. The Red Cross is the one national agency equip- ped for ‘the extension of relief in such emergencies as the present. Those who criticize its policies, and rather blindly, it seems, accomplish nothing, unless it is the planting of suspicion and doubt in the minds of those upon whom the Red Oross must rely for support. In this case Chairman John Barton Payne has been quick to answer charges that the Red Cross is hoard- ing money while it appesls to the Nation for an emergency contri- bution of $10,000,000. Judge Payne points out that there is nothing mys- terious or hidden regarding the ex- Tesources at present consist of an en- dowment fund and reserve of something flelds which engage the Red Cross, is $2,226,000, and the sum of $1,734,000 veteran in which a school house and its furni- e were used as a funeral pyre. The dastardly deed which the one Who was lynched committed had no extenuation, but neither did the summary taking of consideratipn of millions elsewhere will reprehensible. The use of its desks dedicated to the lving head of the house is carrying on in a way that lends effulgent dignity to Anglo-Saxon spirit. Mr. Baldwin says he preferred, in- stead of dumping his shares while they still represented a profit, to “nail my colors to the mast of the ship of British industry.” He has done far more than entitiea | President Hoover again ready to exercise | that. He has -reminded a money- grubbing universe that big business, while capable of enriching men, can leave their souls untarnished. ———— Debating has become a form of pop- ular entertainment which resembles pugilism in affording possibilities for rough work and also possibilities of dis- creet restraint which will substitute spectacular effect for merciless attack. Between tko well seasoned debaters there is little apparent inclination to inflict real damage to the feelings or reputation of either contender. There is no genuine quarrel involved, not even over the division of the gate receipts. ———————— It may be a careless friend who is seeking to present Gov. Albert Ritchie with a presidential boom thus early in the electoral season. A presiflential prospect may suffer if allowed to linger and become familiar to a public that rather enjoys a slight element of drama in its polities. A motion picture actress weeps in court as she tells of dispute with her secretary. An enterprising director would have had a camera man at hand. Real tears of a genuine motion picture star when permitted to flow idly repre- sent a great waste of natural resources. ————— There is always a crowd for a par- ticularly horrifying session of the law. The morbid streak in human nature is still as conspicuous as it was when an execution in a public square attracted all who could manage to take a holi- day. ——— No matter how great the intellectual task suggested, there are always volun- ———— Responsible speakers do not hesitate Russia is a subject of especial curiosity on two points; how she got so much money and what she intends to do with it. T've heard it all before. Since wickedness in charm grows less And only can repeat The ancient scraps picked up from “No doubt you have had to consider some delicate questions.” “Many of them,” answered Senator ‘With only six weeks of its short. session | 56aTch for knowledge, for such an out- | Sorghum. “But they have never caused Jaft to go, Congress must move quickly to complete the legisiative program if & special session is to be avoided. Much rageous. purpose can have no excuse, in either theory or fact. Surely the chil- dren of any community should be pro- me the glightest embarrassment. It is always possible to meet one delicate Question with another still more delicate will depend upon the lengths to which | tected from such a destruction of a)and let the other fellow do the guess- the Democrats in the Senate and thetr | PUlAIng which they look upon a8 being | ing.” Republican allies are willing to go with their proposal for an appropriation to food for the farmers and thetr familles in the drought-stricken area Senate 1s in a position to force a special session of the new Congress during the dedicated to knowledge and ment. The deed of the mob would be PR - gy, % 1] 3?;! H L i % his 'y i ; g has told folks want a certain in- The snowbird has to ave his turn Before the mocking bird can sing. Literary Crime. “I don’t admit,” remarked Bill the burg, “that crime doesn't pay.” “Do you recall & case where it has has need of philosophers,” the sage of Chinatown. often misunderstood and But laughter is & precious i 3 B 8 1 E» g 1 It JANUARY 16, 1931 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Among the small offenses of there is none worse than the up in their ‘which Not long ago we were privileged to see a colored ‘whose white beyond. re- g:ér by interested persons who had n inyited to inspect it. No amount of rubbing with a gum eraser afterward would remove smudges placed on the edge. They had only wanted to see it, the owners of those smudgy fingers would have as- serted. They would have been tremendously offended, indeed, if the one who had colored the had intimated any displeasure at their close grasp. i, ‘Why is it that most seize in their fingers anvited to look at? That is why germs and other precious things are kept under glass cases in museums, and why stores keep most of their articles for sale beneath counters. ‘The hand helps the eye to see. We mdy be an eye-minded race, but we learned to use our hands before we did our eyes, and we still, as a race, want to help our vision with the sense of touch. Perhaps you recall the proud day when you first sallied out in the world wearing your college fraternity pin. ‘You wore it, according to the approved fashion of the dear brothers, on left side of the vest, over the heart, and all that sort of thing. Yet it was noticeable that you also permitted the coat to go unbuttoned— also after the fashion of the afore- mentioned brothers in the city. The entire chapter frowned upon the prac- tide of rival mémbers of Umpty Ump, who persisted on placing their pins at the extreme edge of the vest, near the buttons. You disliked such a_ display, but discovered that the unbuttoned coat got much the same result with less ostentation. * k% The great desire in regard to the ?ln, or badge, was to conceal it and o display it at one and the same time. Now you see it, now you don't. As you look back upon those days, from the je point of the years, you wonder at the innocent belief you then held that all men, whether colle- ans or not, were interested in your raternity “pin” and would recognize it the moment they saw it. You were glad for others to see it, but you did not fancy at all their uni- versal habit of pawing it. No sooner did some one glimpse the glittering bit of jewelry than they were eager to grasp it, to twist it, to turn it, and even to unpin #t, if possible. ‘You may be able to recall the posi- tive shrinking which you experienced as Old Timothy, who knew nothing of the meaning ag usages of a fraternity badge, took thé precious jewel between & grimy, horny thumb and forefinger. Would pearls and diamonds stand the strain? You did not know, but you feared for the worse. At the time you wondered why he could not look at your pin without touching it. But the | with a beautiful covering, there was no doubt in Old Tim’s mind that the hand helped the eye. the | should Sometimes to_another side of the room. . _There is, of course, nothing criminal about their action, but often it is quite perplexing to the hostess. We will never forget an occasion in which we, all innocently, were the offender. The lady had just had a sofa wvarmm.:‘d} was & peacock. When we insisted on sitting on this couch it never occurred to us that the offer of a more com- fortable chair was made to lure us away from the fresh covering. It was only after we had left that we were made to see the enormity of our offense in its true light. * X % % ‘Then there is the guest who Insists on poking the fire in the fireplace, and in_rocking on squeaky boards. ‘What shall be done about them? The answer is “Nothing,” of course, because their offenses, after all, are A)nlbe ly trivialities, which may or may not Aann . Oonslgzr the gent who lights a mateh for your cigarette, and holds it so that it burns the end of yeur nose, or threat- hair on fire. you would prefer that he listen to your new radio. ard you wonder if it was jealousy of your radio or indif- ference to all music. A prime offender is he who permits his faithful dog to leap and cavort upon your new sult or overcoat. Some guests have to fight off a dog with both hands, while pretending that they do not mind this diversion at all. Fido is so cute, and playful, surely he means no harm. But even the most faithful dog lover will admit that he can be a nuisance upon on. These are small matters, all, but of the type to annoy some temperaments very much, all temperaments some, ac- cording to individual likes and dislikes, to say nothing of idiosyncrasies. Every reader can think up his own|ing pets along these lines. We have pre- sented some of the more common ones, in the spirit of Lincoln’s “with malice toward none, with charity for all.” WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Something bearing a cousinly resem- blance to a Democratic presidential boom will be launched next week when Senator Robert J. Bulkley of Ohio makes his maiden speech in the Senate. | The occasion will be an attack on the Prohibition Bureau's request for 500 additional dry agents and an additional appropriation of more than $2,000,000. Bulkley rode into office on the crest of the wet wave that recently rolled over Ohio, 80 it accords with the ' eternal fitness of things that his oratorical debut should f‘“‘* up with the noble experiment. 'Stranger things have | happened than that the Democrats should turn to a Buckeye wet in 1932, after favorite sons from New York, Maryland and Arkansas turn the na- tional convention into a deadlock. Ohio, like New York, has one other possi- bility, for Newton D. Baker is by no means to be left out of account. Next When both Glass and Bulkley were the House years ago worked to- gether on the creation of the Reserve act. Now theyll co-operate on Senator Glass’ searching inquiry into the banking situation and its widespread woes. * x % % “We shall meet, but we shall him,” lamented Senator Moses, wise- cracking Republican of New Hampshire, yesterday at the end of “Tom” Heflin’s entertaining onslaught on Chairman “John Jacob Raskob” and “Tom's” re- cent trials and tribulations in Alabama. Moses spoke the literal truth. The Sen- ate will be a duller and drearier place to live in, after Heflin'’s yellow vest no longer {lluminates the landscape and his bellowing has ceased to shiver the .| of his If it gets noised around the “Tom” has broken loose, te doors swing inward, the galleries fill up, and the moths nest on the pre- siding officer’s gavel. Heflin is at his best when he plays to a capacity au- dience, and he seldom disap] its 1t. ‘The expiring statesman_ from com- monwealth of cotton hasn't disclosed his future activities, but the gayety of the Nation will suffer if means are not evolved for employing about the best story-telling m‘enfi u: t‘u country. Like the British Empire itself, it ap- mmtthesunmumon:ge lame of Eddie Savoy. Early in the year Secretary of State Stimson asked official authority to keep the courtly colored doorkeeper of the Secretary’s vate office on duty indefinitely, al- ugh Eddie reached retirement lfi years ago. Savoy has been at the Stal Department uninterruptedly since the. Grant administration—roundly 60 years. This week Edwin L. Neville, counselor of the American embassy in Tokio, ar- ever . itol that Sena b in Washington, reported tha he'd brought only one direct communi- cation to this Government from Baron Shidehara, Japanese foreign minister. The message was, “Give my kind re- ds to Eddie Savoy.” Shidehara knew im well during the Nipponese states- man’s three years at Washington as Ambassador be:we:n‘lfltls and 1922. Complete Federal control of Wash- ington, D. C., is just around the corer, 125,000 tele] added to the Bell System in 1930 was “much below nor- mal growth.” Nevertheless, the big wire combination spent tidy sum of $600,000,000 for new construction and betterments last year. * K k% Mere literary brilliancy has long been old stuff in Indiana. Now comes a daughter of the Hoosler land with mise arglf n.g:mml é’m in music. g‘empor ly she's a Washingtonian— Helen Corbin Heinl—and her husband, like a couple of hundred other Indi- anans domiciled in the District, 15 a newspaper man. She has been invited to be piano soloist with the United States Marine Band when Capt. Bran- d against Uncle Sam. Bonyn a Representative in from Colorado. Some day he ought to write a book about the colossal lg‘fvyun of the Claims Commission’s activity. ize for comic relief, he thinks, goes the ex-Yankee brewer, who asked the to him for loss business. His claim rested on the mmmfi that he was ruined by pro- tion, which wouldn't have come about except lo'r '.::e‘wx.t. (Copyright, 1931.) All-Night Auto Parking Held Bad as Billboards ‘To the Editor of The Star: boards” along into - than the stresis eve- ni’?:. lined with auto- - , wagons and huge vans, displaying their signs and treets for garages? -night parking were elimi- would be fewer cars parked downtown all day, as people with a it et 80 would rather walk. a bus or street car, than to bother getting a car out of a garage. ©O. M. BLUNDON. Uncalled-For Money. according to Frederick A. Fenning, for- | ¢all mer Commissioner of the District of | d Columbia. Writing in the January Na- tional Municipal Review, Fen: now a Washington lawyer, si the establishment of the ernment at Washington at 1878, no fewer than five changes were made by Congress in the method of administer- ing the municipality’s business affairs. ‘The present plan has served more than 50 years. New laws, new methods and other changes of time have wrought its obsolescence. The time is fast ap- for a change which will mark ‘ashington as representatives of whole country, and it spells Federal mana ent of the Federal City. Un- less clear signs fail, thé United States will take over the management of the #zy-mmummmmam ation.” the year, waiting to be ning, | claimed by drawers or payees of money orders more than one year old who had failed to demand the money dus them by virtue of owning a T order. ‘This money has been accur.ul:ting since July of 1894, when by an aci of Con- grmfire{lecuvn as &fd t.'r:c dn:g. ‘money was first appropriaf or money p:fi from the orders more than a date of drawing. P holders fail to mhhly because they have either been or stolen and the owners cannot provide sufficient identification or de- seription. ————— Pay Day in Spain, From the Cincinnati Times-Star. Efin“ lottery has just been drawn. Which explains why the rebellion ended S0 abruptly. Strictly in Order. Prom the Worcester Evening Gasette. In Paname they'e sich sticklers legality mtmm:m- tion by the t, if they have him in & cell to get. ity 4 for wve been exacted in_advance. I have put the savings of a lifetime mfiolhag‘el—jmclhomm Not a busi- d not an asset point of view but a liability as long one lives, and a constant expense. To the non-social a e is an incum- brance. 3 ) anarchist doesn’t want a home. It in- terferes with his aim in life. Place the emph: on ahead in the strug- gle and we must admit one fights more efficiently single-handed whether ] or racketeering. On the other hand, while useless as capital for the individual go-getter, a home as 8 substantial stake in the community, in my judgment, is the most valuable cons tribution of the citizen to soclety and, so far from meriting the discrediting snub of a ceive the glad hand of a bonus. as W mind, body, a credit to.the neighborhood, & pleasure to passersby. The street on which it abuts had been paved before I acquired possession and was, I thought, in fairly good condition—far better, I am sure, than some others in the same vicinity. But along came the traffic expert, the engineers, th: motor- ists and doubtless the base ball fans, who visioned the great convenience and exhilaration of smooth motoring on & ready highway to the Griffith Stadium at American League Park. To the tune of just about five hundred dollars and the accompaniment of an 8 per cent delinquency tax in case I should not come to time, I actually had to increase the mortgage on my property by that lmtfium later borrow “t’n.x meebmtzxg really oppressive regular , W latter it would seem to my limited vision should adequately cover all the “bene- fits” enjoyed as a ‘dweller near paved streets. If this is not being taxed to death, it certainly is being taxed but of a house and home, or at least thrust relentlessly into the bread line to be subsequently pulled out, perhaps, by the “doleful dole” or solaced by charity weepily bestowed an some one else who looks like me. . What I want to ask is why, if the Borland law is unjust for one, it is not unjust for all of use, and why my hard- earned cash must be held up till some | ti substitute can be devised that will en- gulf it whether or no. Cannot all necessary street paving be provided for in the general taxes plus the special from trucks, busses and automobiles directly using and require surface improvement and the real beneficiaries therefrom, instead of from abutting homes which use them only as imperiled ped: 2 ANNA J. COOPER. Unemployed Musicians’ Orchestra Is Praised To the Editor of The Star: Radio announcement over station WMAL on Sunday afternoon that the ‘Was program rendered by unem; musicians of the District is deed phony Orchestra, able leadership of Leon Dashoff gave the radio audience a most interesting and well rendered concert. of musicians have dis- talent and therel mrhm ubt as to what may be accomplished a longer period. t Washington, for a long time, has in need of a symphany orchestra quite well known. The Little iphony has shown that Washington ve its own symphony orchestra assume its position in thé musical equal to that of other cities and Capital City. tion needs the support overs and the general public ‘ashington. It has proven itself thereof. Let us therefore help to put a Wash- symphony orchestra in its right- place by helping those who, in the face of financial depression and ad- versity, have helped themselves. H. B. ECKMAN. g Al Railways Deserve Respite. 10 | 45 the Jackson Citizen 8 £ ¢ undoubtedly are en- more considerate treatment gEs passage of the Esch-Cum- following war, it o pr nmléng prosper terms of that law are of any that had . ‘The outlook was as railways were con- but new complications have de- T i 3 g §s§§§ decade ago, automobile, bus and truck ‘Waterway development, , had its effect on railway traffis. he roads, furthermore, have been called on to submit to several revi- sions of tariff rates, generally downward. Cuts have been made in some instances to meet emergency conditions, as the lower rate on wheat to the seaboard in order to stimulate export and the more recent cut in rates on hay and other fodder to help live stock raisers in the dr icken areas. that the railways have been up as well as they have to in management. They ve increased efficiency and reduced expenses. The service is better at small- er cost than ever before, but there is a %gnnhoemwmlu vested pretty fine fu- ed marble has ‘That the last to Yunmve tax, might well re- | de ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS average a little less than 400, bridge contract rubbers average fully 900. % He wrote the novel in Ital it was not published until of {'l:l. six months after at Q. Does the United States sion for the celebration of the anniversary of the birth of Washington vide any information about gouhtnm for the use of the The juvenile department of the lon issues playlets, ma) stories of the Revolutionary have been transcribed into the. use of the 14,600 sightless under 20 years of age. The service is being expanded to include adult publications. Q. What percentage of women have children wif ug first two years of rriage?—S. E. G. : T Ohe compllation which reviews 4. 1 500 marriages shows the following fig- ures: Of women married at m: u‘i&l 18 the percentage within two years is 12:9, age centage, 30; 18, gemnwn. age 19, percentage, 57.8; ages, percentage, 90.51; ages 25-29, age, 75.8; ages 30-34, percentage, ages 35-39, percentage, 44, percentage, 15.4; ages 45-49, per- centage, 4.3. T Q. Did Ireland ifuu to enter the scription, and this was not he Irish Free State.. Q How Jarge was London when Jamestown Colony was founded?—W. N. A. About 300,000 inhabitants. Please tell how postage stamps ‘nq, perforated for tearing apart.—E. D. K. A. After being removed from the led through mmgt‘-'dn'm marlt f 3 mchmewhuhcuuthmhwltgx the stamps lengthe ‘wise, in one operation, means of & series of orating wht and knives. The sheets are likewise fed through another machine which cuts them in half and ates between the stamps cross the sheet. i RE E i Ba % § ] BFEE § & § | § i ; ¢ E E g e F] W pE™ o -2 B i g E g 2 § i ¥ : | ] j e 1% 1 ] B 1 1 S 22F . | : ] 2 : Q. Howhananmmc!hnnmmw three tons hard coal?—S. W. A. Hard white ash Pennsylvania anthracite, egg size, occupies about 38.6 cuble feet per ton of 2,240 pounds. © What is Gen. Pershing's rell- glon?—H. W. A. He is an Episcopalian. Q. In what metér is “Enoch Arden” written?—R. W. A. It is written in lambic penta- meter. . Why does a circle contain a greater area than a square that has a perimeter equal to the circumference of the cite cle?—J. M. A. In the circle every part of the eltw cumference is extended to its farthest t from the center, thereby inclosing greatest area. Q. How many shorthand there for the House of Re; and the Senate in W , A There are six reporters in md Representatives and six in the . How much money did George Pea- devote to benefactions?—E. A. ‘This eminent philanthropist gave between $8,000,000 and $6,000,000 to community benefactions of one kind or another. Most of it was devoted to educational advancement. Whuh’h the darkest hour of the These twe operations reduce the sheets | no -quarter the size of the original w““ h sheet containing 100 , eac] stamps, perforated both ways. These zon and g those none that is regularly the darkest. "To Avoid the country through'elimination of spe- cial-session plans by Congress are em- phasized in the comment that has ap- failure to halt legislation at the end of mental to the business recovery. The desired result, however, it is held, can- not be achieved without care in avoid- ing unnecessary debate. It would be discouraging, in the opin- ion of the Duluth special session, “with its E{gt‘%fl'x‘h‘:‘g put advises the members to be uecmmx‘”fi in conversation” and ?h:ubsflwu “action for 3 quence of the Senate. within his rights if he ate’s attention to the need g:n ;dcg.'mnu o the essential “There is ample ground,” according Patriot, “for the belief that the President will be vir- tually compelled to summon a special business in B | session. The members of Congress who favor such a move are able to enforce have received in recent years. | Weak indeed “At this time litical uncertainty,” d Journal, such highly loaded. It might do much to to exucln&u\mc:mlnty. if it ran true to record of legislative functioning out of the order, would accomplish_little good to the country.” The San Antonio Country Advises Congress Special Session near] ll’:;ggpomw ‘There confidence in ‘a Congress like that; nor tations of anything tur- peared in the press of the Nation. Un- | eXpect certainty which might accompany & | e the regular session is declared detri- assistin through Charleston (8. C.) cludes: “The chances Y 84 |