Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1931, Page 8

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The Associated Press is exclusively ei e for republication of all news redited to it or not otherwise in this paper and aiso the local news published herein All rights of publication of Epecial clspatches herein are also reserved. — The Deterrent Cost of War. $4.00; 1 mo.. 40¢ | effort should be made in & careful appraisal of or unjust provision of the Blaine bills. In other words, Washington interests whose business will be affected by passage of the legis- lation should take the leadership in the next Congress in any movement de- signed to bring about its enaction. Their opposition to some sections of the Blaine bills is readily understood. But their espousal of the type of legis- lation considered most desirable should be emphasized over and above their opposition to legislation considered less desirable. The alternative will be to accept what Congress chooses to give. | And unless Congress is otherwise con- vinced by carefully drawn argument, it may give the community a form of protection against the crooks and the scoundrels that will work undue and unfair hardship on the business con- ducted by honest men. A plan of cam- paign should be drawn “Cassandra.” Senator Hiram Johnson e the latest Cassandra of the G. O. P. Whether the Republicans will belleve his prophecies of disaster to come any more than the Trojans put faith in those of the daugh- ter of King Priam is another matter. Some colossal figures, which dwarf |The California Senator, however, who even this month's returns of income describzs himself as a “philosophic on- tax, were recled off yesterday by Eugene | looker, who long ago marked his own Meyer, governor of the Federal Reserve | course, and prefers to follow it in his Board, in testimony before the War | own way,” looks darkly on the future Policles Commission now sitting in |of his party. He wams the G. O. P. this city. The figures deal with the |chieftains that they must not belittle cost of war and its effect, as a deter- |the conference of the Progressives, rent, upon nations and governments|which, by the way, Senator Johnson bent upon resort to force as an instru- | did not himself attend. ment of national policy The warning to the Republicans, how- Mr. Meyer, who speaks with special | ever, is given a practical twist by the Buthority as chairman of our War | California Senator. If, he says, the Re- Finance Corporation from 1917 to 1921, | publicans wish success at the polls in believes that the staggering cost of the coming national election, they waging modern war will henceforward | should give heed to the demands of have powerful influence upon would-be | thase who are troubled over the un- belligerents. But he does not hazard |employment situation, the power prob- the opinion that it will always restrain |lem, representative government. What- & country from rushing to arms. Sev-|ever the philosophy of Senator John- eral years before the World War, Nor- | son, he at least is one Who may warn man Angell, British economist, now a | the Republicans of possible division and | Labor member of the House of Com-|defeat with accurate knowledge of past mons, produced & widely read book, en- | history. The California Senator not titled “The Great Dlusion.” Its leit- | only was the running mate of the late motif was that war is such & Tuinously | President Theodore Roosevelt in the | expensive pastime that nowadays it'days of the Bull Moose party, but he | would be over almost before it had be- | glso is credited with having.given the | gun, to use an appropriate St. Patrick's | coup de grace to the candidacy of day idiom. | Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican Germany was destined to supply the | nominee for President in 1916. | most classic refutation of Mr. Angell's| <«Can any one imagine,” Mr. Johnson | theory. She fought for more than four | aeks, “the standpat wing of either party years practically on her own financial |__Republican or Democratic—meeting and economic resources. Hindenburg !together with earnest and able experts did not consent to an armistice and|and publicly discussing economic ques- eventual surrender because Germany's |tions?” purse was empty. It was mainly an| The Democratic leaders, it is true, empty stomach that brought her to held a meeting here not long ago and terms, coupled with the military cer- | listened to a discussion of economic tainty that America’s now fully mobi- | problems by Chairman John J. Raskob lized manpower and Pershing's su-|of the Democratic National Committes. perbly trained Army were ready to deal | Mr. Raskob did not overlock the tariff, successively crushing blows and able to | the five-day work week, big business and carry out an invasion of German terri- | the Sherman anti-trust law and social tory. But for the iron ring which the problems of all kinds. But Mr. Raskob's allied forces had drawn around the|discussion of these matters, it appears, fatherland by land and sea, the Ger- | did not run along the same lines as the mans presumebly could have gone on | discussion of similar topics at the Pro- fighting indefinitely with the aid of | gressive Conference—except, perhaps, imported sinews of war. On domestic|in so far as the five-day work week is | sinews alone they waged for fifty-two ter- | concerned. ‘That is one issue to which rible months—four and one-third years Mr. Raskob has clung firmly for a year —a combat that will forever challenge or so. In the Democratic meeting Mr. the astonished admiration of profes- Raskob was the only speaker who talk:d sional soldiers and sailors. }n length on,any economic subject—un- Pinance, Mr. Meyer says, is not “the |less, indeed, the question of national controlling factor” and nations will| prohibition be deemed an economic sub- embark upon and continue hostilities | ject. That question, thrown into the “as long as their manpower, mnlkrlulinemucfiflc meeting by Mr. Raskob and morale last.” But the accomplished | himselt, quite eclipsed every other sub- head of the Fedcral Reserve sy;(gm;jtcl brought forward by the chairman. gives some figures designed, as men re- It was in vain that he pleaded that the call the staggering dimensions of the Platform of the Democratic party modern Armageddon, to make them | should be more and better picnics. One think twice and thrice before unleash- | group seemed to consider that a picnic ing the dogs of wer. The 1914-1918 | without liquor was mo picnic, and the confiict, he testified, cost the world | other, that picnics with liquor would be $186,000,000,000. That equals the the ruination of the American people. entite wealth of the United States in| The Republican regulars, having cb- 1012. Uncle Sem’s World War bill | served the turmoil into which their slore was $23,000,000,000. | Democratic brethren were tirown when “I do mot say there will never be they sought to discuss the problems of another war,” Governor Meyer con-|the day, under the leadership of Mr.| cluded, “but war is profitiess for all Raskob, hastened to announce that| concerned, winners as well as losers.” | there would be no Republican meeting, | TThere is a text for advocates of a war- but that everything would be 'left for less world far more convincing than the |the consideration of the Republican stereotyped pacifist plea for peace at National Convention, more than a year | eny price. It would have been inter-|in the future. It was left for the Pro- esting for the War Policies Commission | gressive wings of both the old partles, | to elicit Mr. Meyer's views on national | meeting last week, t0 talk for two days | defense as the sanest of prevent- |about public questions without discuss- ing another such human and economic | ing prohibition. That in itself is a cataclysm as the World War. | triumph. What other group of Amer- The United States now spends some | icans ever gathers nowadays without $800,000,000 a year on its Army and |getting to an expressi-n of views on Navy. It is the cheapest national life | home brew, bootlegging and whatnot? insurance imaginable. The Senator from California calis at- H tention of the Republican leaders to s were supposed 0 desire| the fact that in 1930 the G. O. P. lost Communists New York, Iilinois, Massachusetts, Ohio | have advanced beyond that idea and angq other States which are usually re- | admit that even @ precarious govern- garded as strongly Republican. His! ment is better than none. | contention is that unless the Republic- | = ans give sericus attention to public| problems of the day they are likely to Senator Brookhart's uncement lose these States and others in the elec- that he will move for a continuation in | tion next year. Senator Johnson main- | the next Congress of the Scnate’s in- | tains that it is not enough for the Re- vestigation of Washington eal estate| publicans to “resolute” in national con- conditions was forecast when the Bleine | vention once every four years, or for the bills failed in the last Congress. Sena- | Democrats to do the same. tor Brookhart, Senator Blaine and others o | are not go! ir perisdic| Gandhi weighs only 96 pounds. It is| nation of of proper the weight of his words that counts regulation here in real estate and se- with the extraordinary following he has s transactions until that regula- secured i is written in | r——— Fighting for Protective La et — | The Last of the Wendels | In these days of ostentation and| y deny the need such as those repre- sented in principle by the Blaine bills There is, however, a decided difference | exploitation, the carser of the last of of opinion over the wording of the 1aws, | the Wendel family, who was buried in the necessity for some of the provisions New York Sunday with the simplest written into the Blaire bjls and the of ceremonies, is worthy of attention type of blue sky or fraud laws best and consideration. Ella Wendel, the suited for Washington. The chief difi-| fina) survivor of a large family whose culty encountered by such proposed wealth has for the better part of & legislation here in the past has been' century ben great enough to mark it the failure of affected to #gree a5 one of New York’s richest, was among themselves, and to agree With' veritably a recluse. One by one her the legislators, on the wording of the gisters and her only brother had passed bills, The failure s0 to agree, With the on leaving no vold in Manhattan's' Tesultant lack of any concerted effort social life, for they had nev:r teken in behalf of the legislation, Probably ' any part in the activities of the accounts for its past failures. metropolis. To the end she found her With the understanding in advance sole companionship and perhaps her that the next Congress will undoubted- only friendship in a little dog, or Tather 1y enact legislation, and that the need g gory a repetition of spectacular sessions Of | That little dog, first and last, figured investigating committees, with more | somewhat in New York real estate dust thap dirt thrown in the air, local | history, for & richly valuable lot adja- interests might do well to prepare in | cent to th: family mansion on Fifth ndvance for a campaign in Congress | avenue was held unimproved, so it was mext Winter for the sort of laws they | formally declared by a representative want. A passive indorsement of one'of the family, as an exercise ground et of bills as against another set of for the pet poodle. bills ::ul not do. If the Capper legis- The Wendels'lived a rigid, old-fash- display, of social self advancement and of little dogs, one following the | for it will probebly be demonstrated by | other as canine nature took its toll.| THE EVENING foned life, eschewing all modern im- provements, such as the telephone and the electric light. At the very end of Miss Ella’s life, however, a telephone was installed for the use of the physi- cians and nurses attending ber in her fllness. Probably the spirit of John Gottlelb Wendel, whose austere char- acter dominated the lives of all of the family even after his death, was greatly grieved at this innovation. He had imposed upon his descendants a strict injunction to invest the family fortune in real estate and never to sell. This instruction proved profitable, for as a result of a consistent course of buying and holding the Wendel wealth is now estimated at a hundred millions at the | least. Now, with the last of the Wendels gone, with no descendants to share in the estate, the accumulation of virtually three generations will go to ‘“charity,” as the word is used on such occasions— | to institutions of welfare, or succor, or | instruction. The terms of the will of Miss Ella Wendel are not disclosed. When they are made public, there will perhaps be some surprises, and maybe a contest will ensue. The immediate interest of New Yorkers, however, re- lates to the family home on Fifth ave- nue, with its “dog run” lot adjacent, which has been held out of the market for many years and which is rated as one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in the world. In one respect the sale of this mansion and its boarded-in side yard will be a disappointment, for it will remove a landmark that Man- hattanites never tire of showing to strangers with explanation of the pe- culiar circumstances of its retention for | residential use during decades of in- tensive commercial building. o Many New Yorkers who have been | reared to regard Al Smith with affec- tion and esteem continue to find diffi- culty in understanding why he should not be as great a hit the country over as he is in bis own home town. New York has been conspicuously successful in capitalizing local popularity in its theater, but political favorite sons in various parts of the country are not so easlly overwhelmed by metropolitan publicity. SehEITERv N The chaplain of Joliet Prison quit in protest against the loss of life during a riot among convicts. It would be cheering to find an improvement in prison morale, as the result of sincere and patlent effort toward reform that would permit a chaplain to assume the responsibility for good order. ——o—. Fishing boats took part in rum run- ning that caused battles off the New England Coast. Walton's Complete Angler showed the gentler side of fish- ing expeditions, but gave no hint of the extraordinary excitement they might involve. —————————— Determined attacks on Mayor Jimmy ‘Walker are causing apprehension that serious loss to the public may result through the destruction of one of the most charming dispositions known to this country's civic affairs. o Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands do not vote. President Hoover's con- templated trip will therefore leave little to be said by the statesmen who regard every move he makes as having some- thing to do with 1832, ——w——————— March combines characteristics ‘of both the lion and the lamb. Weather forecasters, like political prophets, are compelled to admit that they cannot be positive as to changes that may take place in the course of a day or so. ————— Even a man who has attained wealth and distinction may, after his death, find that he had more ability in making fron-clad contracts than in dictating an iron-clad will ————— SHOOTING S'ITAES. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Truth and Folly. Little bit o' foolishness, As time goes slipping by! A blizzard causes us distress, Or sunshine gilds the sky, , And many a passing glimpse of glee Or vanishing distress ‘Will, when you think it over, be A bit o' foolishness. Most of the things that haunt the mind With an emotion great Are but impressions of the kind ‘That we exaggerate. The joys or griefs that deeply lie, A few true friends may guess. ‘What lightly bids us smile or sigh Is only foolishness. Changes Deemed Essential. “What are your views on Government ownership?” “I shouldn't like to say offthand.” an- swered Senator Sorghum. “I should dislike to see the Government under- taking to run all kinds of business with the small wage scale it now insicts upon for its workers.” Jud Tunkins says even when a man has learned the saxophone he never succeeds in making it sound as if he really knew how to play it. Two Sides. Another party haunts our dreams. But politics proves like base ball. ‘Ws find that only just two teams Can play the great game, after all Treating All Alike. “Do you feel resentful toward ths policeman who arrested you for parking overtire?” | “No answered Mr. Chuggins. “He has within the past month arrested (every o'her citizen in our block. None | of us felt very guilty, but we think that, according to his lights, he was trying to be fair.” | Saluting Authority. In the great city is a row. | ‘Taxpayers seem to hold 2 grudge. Even scme of th® judges now Step up and say “Good morning, Judge!” | “What we believe,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “shows one of two | things; our wisdom or our credulity.” Improvements Unappreciated. We maks cur penitentiaries neat, ‘With ample grounds for play there. And yet the prisoners we meet Are disinclined to stay there. WASHINGT STAR, | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Lessons on how to walk down a coun- try road seem to be in order. The two men in the car so thought, at any rate The gentleman at the wheel pointed to a man walking along the road on the right side, The pedestrian’s back was to the car, which, of course, he could not see, but only hear coming. “That man will get bumped some day.” said the man at the wheel. “He ought to be walking on the other side of the road, in order to be facing oncoming cars. That is the only way to walk along a rgld‘ttleu‘ days.” Walking along & country road does call for a technique of its own. ‘What, used to be a joy to many people has baen rendered a somewhat dubious pleasure by the automobile. A country road, as every one knows, | has no sidewalk. Hence it most often | becomes necessary for the wayfarer to keep to the roadbed, although in some places he will be able to walk along a footpath to one side. Sometimes & concrete “shoulder” gives a_treacherous imitation of a side- walk. It looks enough like a pavement to lure the unwary, yet it gives none of the protection of one. T e On such a road one always should walk facing oncoming cars. This means that one takes to the one’s left-hand side, in either direction, and walks facing oncoming vehicles. On a north-and-south road, for stance, the country pedestrian walks along the west side, walking north, and the east side, walking south. Thus he faces oncoming cars, and | has the ones at his rear to the far side, | in either event. | This not only helps him, but also the | motorist. | By keeping his face towacd the cars, | he gives the motorist something white | to see, When a pedestrian has his back to | oncoming traffic, often he is almost in- visible, especiftily at dusk and at night. | The prevailing somber hue of men’s | clothing makes a walker invisible. £ Ak * Every one who drives a car has some | memory of brushing a man by the road- | side, whom he never saw, as it were, | until he was well past. | In every such case, the man was | walking along the side of the road in| the same direction as the car was going and thus presented no flag or signal to the driver. To walk along the wrong side of the | road, from this standpoint, at night, | with cars whizzing past in both direc- | tions, accompanied by glaring lights, is to_seek an involuntary deatn. | Yet hundreds of persons still do it. | ® R Probably they do so from a confused | belief that they should obey general traffic regulations, which call for cars -——not human beings afoot—to keep to | the right. ‘Then they are divided in their own mind as to which stream of traffic is | the more dangerous, the one from be- hind or the one from in frent. The truth is that each is equally dan- | gerous Af the drivers cannot see the pe- destrian. The advantage, from the pedestrian’s standpoint, of facing against automo- bile traffic, in a sense, is that this per- mits the drivers of these nearest cars to see him and give him, in his turn, a better opportunity to jump. ‘There is no breasting a moving auto- mobile. In jumping as well as one may, if the necessity arises, lies the pedestrian’s only salvation. ‘We have heard persons foolishly say, “Why, if I suddenly found a car bear- ing down on me, I would leap for the hood and hang on!” Do not do {t! Jump to the right, or jump to the left, if you can, but never for the on- coming car. The impact between moving car and moving pedestrian would be too much for human flesh to stand. A few trained athletes might “get away” with such a maneuver, but 999 persons out of 1,000 simply would be crushed by it. * . ‘The cautious pedestrian, when walk- ing some beautiful stretch of country road, will look ahead as he goes along and see that he has ample means for escape if some reckless driver should press him too close to the side of the highway. Especially will he watch out that no car can push him into a sort of pocket out of which there is no means of ready escape. Many Ly{)en of pedestrian trap will be found along a road. Some- times the roadbed skirts close to the foot of a high rock, up which there is no climbing. Or the winding way comes close to a hog-tight, bull-high fence, over which there is little chance of escape. The wise pedestrian will take his eyes away from the beauties of the countryside long enough to seek such traps in advance, and to so time his approaches that will not be in them when a car is passing. The man whq walks along a country road these days mostly does it for the joy of the thing. The fact that he is doing it at all shows, or ought to show, that he has plenty of time at his dis- posal. This will permit him to make a leisurely approach to such pedestrian traps as we have described and to wait, if he sees a car approaching, in order that he may give it as wide a berth as possible. i If one objects that such caution takes | something away from the freedom of the road, we readily admit it. It takes away from more than the freedom, it cuts down on the sheer pleasure of such hiking. Not for every one, evidently, because the man who can walk care- Iessly along a thronged road Is still very much in evidence, as we have pointed out. Careful motorists curse him and even pray for his safety. Careless mo- torists, one may suspect, come as near to running over him as they dare, just to give him a lesson. Nine-tenths of country road walkers will_recognize the menace of modern traffic. They will take the necessary steps to minimize it. Most of these steps, except in emergencies, are mental. And this means that the road is on one's mind all the time. This means, of course, that a great deal of the old- time. carefree attitude is gone. Much happiness yet remains. By showing a proper rugect for the power and might embodied in a couple of thousand of pounds of steel, wood and glass and 15 gallons of gas, the pedes- trian yet may get much real joy out of such ramblings. still rings true, although lessons in how | to walk along country lanes sometimes | seem very much in order. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newsp: AILY MAIL, London—A case under the new Road Traffic | act, which makes third-party insurance compulsory for mo- | torists, '".i heard at Hamp- tead, N. W., recently. y A.]b!n Arthur East, 18, of Palmerston | road, Kilburn, was charged with taking | away a motor car without the consent of the owner and with driving a car without an_insurance policy. A constable said that after a col- lision on Fitzjohn's avenue, Hampstead East admitted that he had taken his employer’s car out without permission. East was fined $10 on the first charge and $5 on the other. The chairman said that the convic- | tion for not having an insurance po]lcy‘ autcmatically suspended East's license for 12 months. e Validity of Hebrew Law Upheld by Judge's Decision. Mundo Israelita, Buenos Aires (Jew- ish weekly paper, published every Saturday, in Spanish).—A judge at Y.AJ lata has recently decided a case which is of the utmost importance for us, apers of Other Lands device. A pessimistic friend of mine, who been bitten once or twice, de- cided to take no risks when he had to leave his car in_the street during a lodge meeting. He took off a back | wheel and trundled it into the hall with him—and not wholly as a joke either. ‘When he came out his car was gone, the necessary wheel having been pinched from another car nearby! ‘Jeames.”—Social values in Australia ,are a standing source of astonishment | to non-Australians. Take the case of | our recent visitor, Earl Beauchamp. He is in all respects one of Britain’s most important people; leader in the Lords of one of the historic parties, a former lord president of the council, an ecclesi- astical commissioner, lord warden of the Cinque Ports; rich, highly respectable, and the brother-in-law of a millionaire duke. Incidentally, as a young man, he was governor of N. S. Wales, and filled jthe job as creditably as many older | exes. Yet. socially speaking. he was | ignored, both in Sydney and Melbourne. | No great club, for example, gave a din- ner in his honor. Let us suppose Sir Dudley De Chair rad returned instead of Lord Beauchamp. It is as certain since tn his decision he established the | as anything can be that the clubs validity of the Hebrew matrimonial contract (the “Ketuba"), ! proved and legal ratification of the| conjugal state. The following preliminary incidents Jed up to this crucial finding. It seems that a coreligionist of ours, a citizen of La Plata, and a widower, contracted | a second marriage with a young woman who had recently come from Europe. | The union was solemnized with all the stipulated Jewish rites, but was not re- corded in the civil register. A few months afterward, the man, taking ad- vantage, who knows, of the weaknesses of the procedure, under the law, cast aside hl;1 wife.{ ;‘r;he good omc:: ;‘;(E many others of his race were avail in persuading him to amend his cruel delinquency. The recalcitrant husband was only willing to compromise the matter by giving his wife a small sum of money with which she was to return to her own country. In view of this repre hensible behavior, the poor woman, act- ing upon the advice and under the protection of a learned Jew in the Buenos Aires capital, instituted legal action against her faithless spouse. As can readily be ed, the court found itself in a sort of dilemma. On the one side, the marriage was null and voild in Argentine law be- cause it had never been recorded in the civil register. On the other side, there was the consideration, just as vital, that here was a DOOr woman robbed of her rights in a pact. into which she had entered with all hono: and sincerity, and her child deprived of a legitimate paternity. The judge. we rejoice to say, decided the guestion rictly on its inherent merits. The verdict was one conceived, not in law, but in human equity. The marriage was pronounced a valid one according to the Jewish law, and was thereupon duly entered and re- corded in tgfil civil register. The com- pact thus officially confirmed, the per- fidious husband was compelled to sume full responsibility both for his wife and for his child. As a result, the young woman is no longer distressed and destitute, and her child will not be nameless. The decision of the judge at La Plata is highly to be praised. It evidences the pure spirit of justice, and a wisdom and discretion worthy of all emulation. The verdict rendered in this case reflects the innate fairness and impartiality of the law, refuting, as far too infrequently has been the case, a strict adherence to the cruel letter of the code. ‘What is needed in this country, as in many others, is less abstract law an more of the ethics of simple justice. d e Takes Wheel Into Hall, But Thieves Steal Ayto. The Bulletin, Sydney (Excorpi from readers' letters and contributions) “I likes flowers as well as anybody,” said Uncle Eben, “but ccnsiderin’ de hard work I sees ahead, I can't git up no congeniality wif city folks dat tells me ‘'bout de beauty of dandelions an’ daisies an’ sech like.” / ‘The car thief is getting so bold as wel! resourceful that it is little use ueering” the old bus nowadays. The professional always carries & supply of tools, insulated wire, and even a few sparking-plugs, in order to effect qul repairs and so defeat any anti-. as an ap-, would have competed to entertain him as a representative Englishman. Yet in his own country De Chair s as obscure #s Beauchamp is eminznt. Nine Britons {out of 10 know all about Beauchamp: | not one in 10,000 has ever heard of De | Chair Apropos, when the Duke of Rox- | burgh was out here with the present King 30 years ago, a lady at Government | House was heard to say to another, “ | do hope Mrs. Blan] nent solicitor's wife approves of him. | It will make all the difference to him socially.’ That would seem prepos- | terous to a Londoner. To a Sydneyite | of the period it was perfectly reason- able. It is a relevant phenomenon that while a considerable fuss was made ove: | Bir Otto Niemeyer, Sydney society didn't | even know when Somerset Maugham, | Gilbert Frankau, Alec Waugh and D. H. | Lawrence were out here. ———- Farm Board Criticism y Borah Is Scored | To the Editor of The Star | We read in your paper that Senator Borah declares the Farm Board a flllu’re. We ask, Who is making suc- cess? ‘The board is charged with carrying |into effect the policy of Congress as | expressed in the agriculture marketing | act. If they execute the power Vested | in them, then there can be no faflure on their part. T | The Senandoah Valley Co-operative Marketing Association, Inc., Lacey Spring, Va, have before the board at this very | time a request that producers in our 300-mile valley be encouraged to organ- ize into effective co-operative or market- ing units producers controlled and pro-: mote the establishment and financing of a farm-to-market system, also prod- uce owned and produce controlled. |, If they do the things required of them by Congress and the things asked of | them by the producer, then they should be free of condemnafion. Anyway, we shall soon know the whole truth, as they are sending us a representative to meet | our Marketing Association on March 24 {in response to our appeal. | The board seems to be functioning equal to any other department. FHENANDCAH VALLEY CO-OP- 1 ERATIVE MARKETING ASSO. CTATION, Inc., Lacey Spring. . By P. E. RHINEHART. | [ W —— | Neighbors Take Note. Frem the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator. A man of over 80 claims to have | : a gramophone that can be heard | @ ofly at a distance of a mile. All | we can say is that he ought to know be_.2r at his time of life | s s | Mechanized Culture. From the New York Sun. | It is strange that many of those | alzrmists who foresee the destruction 5 all culture by machinery use radio to broadcast their fears, read their spezches from typewritten manuscript ard then ride home in a taxi. Walt Whitman's “Song of the Road” | NEW BOOKS . AT RANDOM L. G M. MR. JUSTICE HOLMES. Felix Frankfurter, New York: Cow- ard-McCann, Inc. A week ago last Sunday, on March 8, a general and spontaneous birthday celebration paid tribute to the achieve- ments and character of Justice Holmes of the Supreme Court of the United States. Stepping out promptly to meet that occasion, to take part in it, came “Mr, Justice Holmes” from the house of Coward-McCann. An act of partaking calculated to add the permanency of book form to the swifter passing of oral eulogy or daily press report. Assembled in this volume are a dozen addresses, or thereabout, gathered out of the past 10 years when, upon one {occasion or another, the work of Jus- tice Oliver Wendell Holmes took on a deep significance by virtue of its judi- cial acumen and integrity applied to public concerns, virtue also of its scope and point of vision, of its.vigor and spirit, of the immediately current quality of its analysis and interpreta- tion and decision. These addresses are drawn, in_ the main, from periodicals all of high standing. “The New Republic,” “Har- vard Law Review” and other publica- tions of comparable excellence. They represent the opinions of profes- sional men of the law, of students and investigators, of writers notable in the field of public affairs. John Dewey, Walter Lippmann, Felix Frankfurter rep- resent the general rank of these con- tributors to the study of Justice Holmes. The book, in sum, is of biographic ef- fect. Twenty years on the Supreme Judiclal Court "of Massachusetts and 30 years in Washington cover a half | century of vigorous living for this man, living in the ways of public service throughout. r “In the &pirit and energy of his mind he is the youngest member of the Su- preme Court,” says one. And the mod- ern philosopher, John Dewey, says: “I do not doubt that the day will come when the principles set forth by Jus- t Holmes, even in minority dissent, 1l be accepted commonplaces, and when the result of his own teachings will afford an illustration of the justice of his faith in the power of ideas. When that day comes, the spirit of Justice Holmes will be the first to remind us that life is still going on, is still an experiment, and that then, as now, to repose on any formula is to invite death.”—The conclusion of John Dewey's study of “Justice Holmes and the Lib- eral Mind.” “It is fitting,” says Coward-McCann, “that on his ninetieth birthday some special mark of respect should be paid him, and we take pleasure in publishing “Mr. Justice Holmes.'” “Son of a fa- mous father, he has achieved his own world fame, although austerely abjur- ing all the worldly ways by which fame is sought”"—and 80 let us gather him in to ourselves at this beautiful pause. * K oK * | GEORGE WASHINGTON ALMANACK. 1732 - 1932. Bicentennial Edition. ‘Washington: Columbia Printing Co., Inc. 1In no time now boys and girls all over the country will be spending a lct of time in the ccmpany of George Wash- ington. For next year the big birthday cele- bration is to come off, the 200th birth- day anniversary of that great man. And, being good Americans, the young folks want to take part in the affairs, now planning, to do him honor. Out of the zeal of a host of good teachers and out of the fair intent of many a writer, the boys and girls already know much about Washington. Even so, he is still a shade off, a little unreal, not quite Mke themselves. It is impcrtant to bring the great man nearer while we are young, and soft—like wet clay, workable, and receiving of beauty and | worth and high outlook and fine actions. Just now I can think of nothing bet- ter fitted to suit that next-year event | than “George ‘Washington Almanack.” Better suited to the school children, T mean, in their getting ready to have | part in it. First, this is a little book— cheap, too—ready to the hand of every student of the matter on foot. Easy to carry about, maybe on Saturday, when Vernon.” It is a beautifully pictured | booklet. Some artist did that work, the | six points that here surround George ‘Washington with things he really did or with dreams of his that have since come true. And the reading is of the best, inti- mate talks and simple_ topics in which all have an interest. Washington was, obviousl: concerned about boys, in | what they were to do a little later and }in how they were to get ready for that | doin, He, himself, liked farming, | really, He told a lot of things about how fo make farm stuff grow. He had a way of keeping his accounts, a way | for any boy to follow in good humor, learning a useful business habit along the way. He had clear ideas about education and they sound very much alive, as if he were telling about it right now. A very attractive little book, made by | knowing people. It rounds up about all that one needs to know of Washington, at the start anyway. From it we come upon a real pcrson, one interested in the things about which we have con- cern today. Keen to the well-being of the country just as we, big and little, old and young, are toda: Not so big a country in his time, but just as dear, | just as well worth the best that every one has in him. Toward the end of the book are permanently useful items —a time table of Washington's life, covering every important event in it, his farewell address. Some of his | sound and sensible sayings as well. Let us hurry up to get one of these “Almanacks” and get to the interest- | ing business of coming upon George Washington in a way that is both de- pendable and enjoyable. Then, next yeer, when the big celebration is on we shall be all ready to go along taking a real part in it. Weiaion Just a word: I wonder if we quite realize our debt to the “leagues” and “guilds” set up for the use of readers who, but for these organizations, would bs buried under books with no prospect of deliverance. It is the business of these organized groups to dig out from the overgrowth of books. and books, be worth the while of readers. move of good business, but, somehow, there is a subtle reluctance on the part of the reading public to have a book choice mads for them. Except when “everybody's reading it,” then the rush becomes tremendous, regard- less of the competency—gencrally the ncompetency—of this “everybody” to pass judgment upon any sort of print. One would like to say a word here about book titles—fiction titles. But this is not the place to urge commis- sions for them, committees to sit upon them, exclusions to be instituted, and other formal measures to be taken against the sheer asininity of the bulk of them—but this is no time to touch upon so big a matter. It is the fine work of—say “The Book " League of America” or “The Literary Guild,” to either of which we are in monthly debt for a relatively good book, usually fiction. Having lived long enough and having served so compe- tently, the public is coming to turn to these first aids in reading as a prime dependence, as a present help in time of need. There came to the book reom table of The Star only a few days ago a fresh announcement by the Book League of America, running like this: “Re2d- ing Course in Contemporary and Cl sic_Literature, conducted by Dr. Rich- ard Burton of Columbia University.” Accompanying this was the _initial lecture of -that course, by Dr. Burton himself, on the joys and values of read- ing, of readiny as habit early acquired and persistently pursued along the best of its highways. The sum of this wis® and simple and scholarly lecture re- called what an old woman once said to me, “Well, you know, if you love Edited by | & “saeing Washington” or “going to Mount | Pul and books certain ones that promise to | It is a | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ashington, D. C. fer applies strictly to information. The bureau cannot give advice on l?ll. medical and financial It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, or undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write your question plain- ly and briefly. Give full name and ad- dress and inclose 2 cents in coin or How many times has a favorite won the Kentucky 'by?— HTH A. Twenty-seven times the favorite has won. Fifty-six Kentucky Derbys have been run. Q. How much candy does the United sr.:‘.w import?—W. 8. fectionery was imported in 1930. Q. Which roses are superior, own- ;ooc roses or budded or grafted roses?— . G. A. Many florists think own-root roses are best. They are not so_ susceptible to disease as the others are likely to be. Q. What is the oldest continuously inhabited community in the United States?—C. A. A. Dr. Neil M. Judd has made in- vestigations which lead him to believe that Oralbi, Ariz, is. This is an Indian village north of Winslow, and has been in existence since 1370, Q. How much time should a child of 12 sleep, study and &l:y’.'-—d. MCcP. A. According to White House Conference about 6 hours should be given to school work, and a child 12 years of age should have 11 hours’ sleep. The dividing of the remaining hours of the day would depend on the individual case. Q. Who founded Sauk Center, Minn,, the home of Sinclair Lewis, author of “Main Street”?—M. C. A. Mrs. Rachel Moore, & ploneer woman of Minnesota, founded the town and opened the first store. Q. What was the name of the Pull- man_ which was the first real “palace car"?—T. W. A. For the trip from Chicago to Springfield, the oneg1 ‘was placed at the disposal of the Lincoln family when the body of the President was taken home for burial. This was the “maiden” trip of the car, Q. How can a forest fire be located by tri tion?—A. J. T. A. The principle of locating a fire by triangulation is used in locating forest fires by the Forest Service and is as follows: At every lookout station on mountain peaks, there is & map which srovs the true North. A pin is stuck into the map at the exact spot indi- cating the lookout station. A circle is drawn around the pin and the 360 de- gree marked. An instrument called an “alidade,” which consists of two up- | rights, is pressed close against the pin. The smoke of the fire is then sighted and a re taken off the circumfer- ence of the circle. This gives the direc- tion. A similar reading is taken from | another lookout station; lines are drawn About 6,000,000 pounds of con- | BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. phia, opu-.a"up:e'g:nm blic? o ul Who de- signed it?—S. A, . 74 A. It is opened dally to the public from 9 am. to 4 pm, including Sun- days. The historical collection includes furniture, manuseripts, musical ments, water colors, missiles, maps, coins, mu-r.epncy. :enwn: metals, prints, wearing re) The hufldmrwll ot ang designed and erected 1l;y Andrew Hamilton, a Philadelphia Q. Has the price of hotel rooms in- creased in the past ten years?’—cC. H. |, A The price level has shown prac ’gg;lly no increase since the 1921 infla- Q. How many people have kS 31% n:‘? of the Washington Morf:;eml:‘ A. Aimost 10,000, ve lem' 000 have made the Q. What State was lu‘xonl\qobue‘s{?—b. G. I o . New York State was the first to license motor vehicles, tm&u: 1901 and collecting $934 that year. Q. Is the little fellow pla: of Mickey's brother in ti mlflck‘ ?:lr:l:f GIfll’eng:le comedy a dwarf or a child? A )ielilchfldnmed!mym. Q. With what exactness can the po- sition of a ship at sea be determined by nautical astronomy?—C. G. A. The Nautical Almanac says that it can be determined within 1 mile, Q. When was the Bertillon system of flnxalx]nnllnl invented?—J. F. C. A honse Bertillon invented m- system of mensuration in March, 187¢ for which he was made chevaller of the Legion of Honor. . Who invented the gun for use in an airplane which could be fired through the propeller blades?—H. F. A. A. H. G. Fokker invented the synchronized machine gun which, fir- ing through the revolving propeller blades, completely revolutionized aerial combat. Fokker, then 24 years old, had never before handled machine gun, but he invented the synchronized gun l:nd put it to practical test within 45 ours. Q. Is it true that Revolutionary War pensioners are still being ?—G. . P A. Daniel C. Dakeman was the last pensioner of the Revolutionary War. He died 86 years the close of the war, at the age of 109 years, 8 months and 8 days, on April 5, 1869. The last Revolutionary War widow receiving a pension was Esther Damon, widow of Noah Damon. She died November 11, 1906, at Plymouth, Vt. Q What is the area of Bermuda?— A, 'It'is about 19 square miles. Q. How many legs has the common house fiy?—E. M. E. A. Tt has six. Q. Who was known as the proudest prelate that ever lived?—U. R. Y. . A. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. Comment on the meeting of the Dem- ocratic Executive Committee in Wash- ington indicates much satisfaction that the prohibition issue was avoided, but fear that it may be revived later. Chairman Raskob is considered still to be an issue and some feel that his policies affect mcre than the dry issue alone. At the same time attention is given to predictions that the eighteenth amendment is likely to trouble the Re- blican party. “Spirited debate upon the vexing question of prohibition,” in the opin‘on of the Atlanta Journal, “cleared the at- mosphere, as any perscnal opinion will, and left the at- titude of the party upon this subject to be determined by the people through their delegates to the national conven- tion some 15 months hence. This out- come was wise and desirable, and sig- nalized a strategic victory for the South- ern members of the delegation, who went to the meeting determined to up- hold the principle that determination of party policy on dominant issues is outside the National Committee’s prov- ince.” The Journal commends the “prudent_counsel of leaders like Senator Cordell Hull and former Gov. Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia as & valuable and, quoting Senator Ellison Smith of South Carolina on “economic distress,” concludes, “There is no dearth of issues potent enough to carry the party to triumph next year, and these are now only the more clear-cut.” “Since the greatest need of the Dem- ocratic party in preparation for the 1932 campaign,” thinks the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “is reunion and har- many, and since disunion and dishar- mony were produced by the prohibi- tion question in the last campaign. it would seem that all efforts should be devoted to taming the prohibition issue 80 it could no longer play the wrecker. But how is this to be done? Mr. Ras- kob apparently thinks that the best way is to talk the matter over and produce, if possible, a compromise between the extreme wets and the extreme drys in the party. Supporting the logic of his position is the small likelthood that the prohibition issue can be entirely elim- inated. And other than complete elim- ination, which seems utterly unlikely, there is little chance other than that of lteenn! s0 neatly between the two extrémes that none may be so vitally affronted that they will desert the party in 1932 as they did in 1928. Whether or not this can be done is doubtful. But it must be done if the party is to im- prove in 1932 its greatest opportunity since 1912 to elect a President and Con- gress. And it can't be done without an approach, which is exactly what | Raskob's course constitutes.” o “When Chairman Raskob, despite every consideration of party interest,” according to the Nashville Banner, “projected the prohibition issue into its councils, Judge Hull promptly and vig- orously repeated the protest which he had made by way of anticipation of the .indefensible course of Mr. Raskob. A man who had been a lifelong Demo- crat. rock-ribbed in the faith, eminent in its service and who, once occupying the same position of distinction and re- sponsibility that Mr. Raskob now holds, had discharged its duties without ques- tion from any source of either his abil- ity or fidelity, was facing * * * one who was deliberatelv turning his back upon every suggestion of the Demo- cratic interest, and, in his appeal for an ‘immunity bath’ for trusts, combines and special privilege, upon the founda- tion principles of the Democratic perty. * * * The Poles are not farther apart than are these men” The Chat- tanooga News agrees with the ment of the Banner and states that it “expresses the view of a rapidly grow- ing section of the Democratic press.” “Mr. Raskob did wrong,” according to the Roanoke Times, “to insist on dis- regarding the advice he received in ad- ance of the meeting. He did the party reading, nothing can ever happen to you.” pot in complete accord so placid adventuring upon i She was right,\gompletely and umequivocally right. I'M sure Democratic Parley Linked With Raskob Debate Results comfort to the Republicans in a way Sentmen: and _ disguss - expiessed ‘57 meet ™ ‘Times holds that, “uwuwntedou: by Senator Hull, issues on which Dem can agree and wage & winning fight next year.” free expression of | regal warfare against prohibition as more im- portant than warfare against hunger, unemployment, privilege and greed. We do not know. We cannot read his heart. But, gi him full credit for sincerity and candor, the fact remains that his is not the kind of democracy that Jefferson dreamed, that Jackson fought for and that Bryan and Wilson taught us in our own day. Nor is it the kind of democracy the present crisis demands. In such an emergency as this it would be preposterous folly to make g‘(t?lufliln;nllor wfl':;! Wimn{murvlm e industrial autocracy. The people, t00, need a champion.” * x x % Declaring that “the argume: with the opponents of Raskob’ tempt to suggest planks for the Democratic platform,” the Raleigh News and Ob- server adds: “One sentence in the able speech of Senator Robinson shows he senses the real situation in America: g:mmg A%wm'wofin’s votes! you e t if tl National Committee raises al of stitution of a new plan by which the Government to the liquor business—do you think the women of this Nation will rally with enthusiasm to the Democratic party?’ " ” Quoting statements that Chairman Raskob will bring up the dry question at a later meeting, the Charleston (8. C.) Evening Post comments: “The dry leaders who are arraying themselves to prevent a vote by the committee in favor of a wet plank in the Democratic platform are in the right, not because they are against a wet declaration, but because they are against a declaration. It would be just as much out of order for the committee to declare for a dry plank as for a wet plank. The commit- tee is not engaged to build a platform for the party, but to administer its af- fairs during the interim between con- ventions. e platform adopted at the convention of 1928 stands as the party’s nt was all 's atf ‘Mr, | doctrine until a new platform is adopted at the convention of 1932.” “We grant all wet ac.erents full free- dom of expression and full right to air their views, but for us and our house we stand by our beliefs. We propose neither compromise nor surrender of high individual and party principles,” states the Meridia. Star, while the San Bernardino Sun “would not be sur- prised if the party holds its tongue on prohibition,” though cxpressing the r-ference for “a declaration for repeal the Democrats” as “‘one way of get- ting a referendum on the subject.” Similar conflict in the Republican pt y_to .natch the controversy among the Democrats is pointed out by the Lynchburg News, the Charlotte Observer, :.)he] nx_‘rrxknmmfimne and the New rleans Times-Picayune. The Memphis Commercial Appeal feels that “about the only credit that can be. Chairman Raskob ’r:r offering more than & year before anything can really be done with it is that he has given warning to other Democratic com- | ¢ a signal disservice and gave aid and °g“ it | othe: will be a lusty undertaking to long with the lectures offered us T. Richard Burton through “The League of y.merlca. Let's go!