Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY........April 9, 183 . Editor 1 THEODORE W. NOYES.. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave n Office: 14 Regent M. London, Englanc Rate by Carrier Within the City. Evening Star.............45c per month and Sundi ar in 0c per month 5¢ per month y Star . = fon made at the €nd ¢ n mbo’ sent in by mail or telephone Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. d Sund. B . $10.00: 1 mo.. 85¢ iy ealy Sunte” 130 Y100 } mo Soc lunall only 1yr., $4.00: 1 mo. 40c All Other States and Canada. +5.00: 1 o *ise 3800 1 moss soc Meniber of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusivelv ertitled to the use for republication of all news dis- Atehes eredited to it of ot ofheruise cred- e 'ia fhis paper and aivo the local mews published herein. All richts of pubiication of becial ‘dispatchies hereln are also Teserved —_— = Two White Elephants. The abandoned Sixteenth Street Res- ervoir and the remains of tte old Aque- duct Bridge, in Georgetown, are &s- suming the characteristics of white ele- phants. Nobody seems to know what to do with either one of these relics. Or the trouble may be that so many | people know exactly what to do with them that unanimity of opinion is im- possible. In the case of the Sixteenth Street Reservoir the weather man dashed the Park and Planning Commission’s plan for using it as a skating rink last Winter, Steps were built and enough water was turned into the reservoir to provide an excellent place to skate. But the weather man declined to co- operate, and. the water refused to be- come ice at the right time. So there was no skating rink. Other plans have been discussed for developing & play- ground, a swimming pool or a sunken garden. The last proposal is at pres- ent in the ascendency, with the sunken garden school gaining many converts But the Park and Planning Commissfon | moves slowly, if surely, and the aban- doned reservoir remains an abandoned reservolr, only that and nothing more. | There is some deep mystery concern- ! ing the failure to dispose of the rem- nants of the Aqueduct Bridge. or the! last three years a bill has been intro- | duced in Congress to Taze the structure, sell the material and use the profits to | improve the approaches to Ké Bridge. ‘The passage of the bill has been urged on the ground that the remains.of the | bridge constitute something of & men- ace to Key Bridge. But the bill has never seen the light of day that dawns| with & report and is yet to emerge from committee. At one time some of the citizens of Georgetoyn yanted the District end of the old bridge retained as a recreation pler. Buy there are sev- | eral disadvantages in this plan. For one thing, the unsightly structure would | mar the appearance of Key Bridge. And | it s & question whether modern ideas | or recreation include sitting, standing or staring on an old piece of bridge. One of the interesting features of the | problems, if they may be called prob- lems, is that the solutions are under | separate jurisdictions. The municipality | apparently has little to do with either. The War Department is intrusted with | the fate of the Aqueduct Bridge, the | Park and Planning Commission must decide what to do with the old res- ervoir, and & busy Congress must i find time to ratify the final solution in | either case. But Rome was not bullt in | a day, and some of the ruins are still | standing. | | ———— The William Howard Taft Bridge. | Designation by the District Commis- | sioners of the bridge across Rock Creek | at Connecticut avenue as the William | Howard Taft Bridge, in honor of the late President and Chief Justice, ap- | propriately commemorates an associa- tion between one of the most beloved of the Capital's residents and one of | its most beautiful architectural fea- tures. Judge Taft was a keen admirer of the structure. He had been inter- ested in it from its inception. He | watched its construction closely, and | when it was completed he used it| frequently. He was often seen crossing | 1t on foot in the course of his rambles | sbout the Rock Creek Valley. | By some peculiar quirk of the. public | mind the structure was early dubbed | the “Millfon Dollar Bridge,” a name | that has always grated harshly on the | ear., To call a creation of this beauty | of design in terms of & sum of money | has been most incongruous and un- | pleasant. Such a popular- title is hard | to eradicate. Now that the bridge has | been formally and officially designated in honor of Willlam Howard Taft, it is the duty of all Washingtonians with regard for the proprieties of nomen- clature to hold strictly to that name | in all mention of it, for there was none who more strongly disapproved the calling of the bridge after its supposed cost in dollars than Judge Taft himself. E— — Opinions are expressed on the Chicago Board of Trade that the Government ought not to try to influence the market prices of grain by issuing edicts. After &ll, those who compose the Government are individually only human. No mortal wisdom has yet sufficed, after many experiment, to produce methods of absolute certainty in controlling the market - - . Secession in Australia. From Sydney, capital f New South Wales, the Ausiralian state which has yecently had some unenviable and world-wide publicity because of debt-repudiation policy of its govern- | ment, comes news cf an intercsting se- cession movement. The northern sec- tion of the state, with an area larger than that of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey combineu and six times auore than all of New England, is plan- ning to separate from the southern half. ‘The scheme, springing from the “na. tional disgrace and economic disaster” | consequent upon Premier Lang’s refusal to meet the state’s bonded-indebtedness interest on April 1, tcok formal shape this week. One hundred and fifty dele- @ates from the nporthern districts met 8t Maitland and decided to petition the Commonwealth Parliament st Canberra to approve the formation of these re- gicns into a new state. They would call 1 it “the State of New England.” It would add one more federal unit to the constellation now forming the Austra- llan commonwealth. Evidently the secessionists mean business, Under the leadership of the head of the Federal party, Dr. Earle Page, they had prepared a draft con- stitution modeled mainly on the fed- eral charters of Canada and the United | States. The commonwealth constitu- tion legalizes such a movement as the projectors of “the State of New Eng- land” have launched. Agitation to bring it about has long smoldered. It is the culminating disgust over the {Lang Socialist government's humiliat- !ing repudiation tactics that suddenly | fanned secession into lite. As was to be expected, the common- | wealth government lost no time in tak- ing over the obligations renounced ten s 2go by the New South Wales au- | thorities. Australian credit in London | and New York thus remains unim- ! paired. If “the State of New England” | |comes into existence its founders plan | {to assume its proportionate share of | | New South Wales' existing public debt. | That the secessionists have an eve to | their own financial necessities is indi- | cated by the chotce of a title for the | proposed state. Sydney cables point out | that “New England” is “expected to win the immediate sympathics of Britons | and enhance the chances of & loan in | London.” IR S e Fiction and Fact of Crime. There is nothing new in the failure | by the police to solve crimes, nor in | 'the sporadic waves of criticism that } tradition pictures as causing the “chief” | to summon the aces of the force, point {8 trembling finger at the headlines and deliver some such ultimatum as “Now, fellows, its either you or me. Get busy or get out. I wantan arrest in twenty- four hours.” But it is interesting to conjecture as to the proportion of this criticism re- sulting from the amazing flood of de- tective stories that has come to repre- sent a distinctive type of fiction writing. Everybody, more or less, reads detective storles, or goes to sce mystery plays on THE EVEN tically at a speed less than that of a man descending with a parachute, landing with small risk to its occupants. ‘The autogiro ¢an take off from spaces too small for the average airplane and can be landed with practically no for- ward motion at all in & space no larger than a city back yard. This makes for safety of a high degree. ‘Though the autogiro still has draw- backs in some respects, chiefly its lack of the speed of most of the modern planes, its unique advantages in- dicate that it will find a useful place in the scheme of aerial transportation. The award is thoroughly justified by the past performances and future promise of the autogiro, and Mr. Pit- cairn is to be congratulated for his de- velopment of the new craft. R More Byrd Medals. America rejoices that Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd is to be decorated by King George for his explorations at both Poles of the world. The “Patrons’ " | medal of the Royal Geographic Soclety 1s to be given for his expedition to |h(-‘ Antarctic and his flights over both | North and South Poles. Rewards of this nature are both pleasing and interesting, and since Admiral Byrd has received all that can e caonferred upon him by his native country, it is fitting that the British Empire present him with one. Few feats of contemporary history give more promis: of being deathless. Not only was Admiral Byrd the first explorer to achieve his particular feat in the way he achieved it, but he was the first to combine modern “efficiency” with the century-old work of discovery. A great deal has been said about efficiency in this age, much of it in a slightly contemptuous mood. There can | bz little doubt that efficiency, as & word, has been much overused. But efficlency, as & thing, has its uses. Efficlency is a way of doing some- thing. Usually it purports to be & better way than other ways, and often enough, and perhaps strangely enough, it is & better way. Few would dispute now that s modern, efficient tour of exploration, in which the explorers make every feasible use of modern in- NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Shrubs for the home grounds furnish about the easiest and cheapest method of planting & boundary or screen, and are so common that most people feel thoroughly at home with them. The APRIL 9, .931. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. While Jouett Shouse, chairman of ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. This newspaper puts at your disposal dark purple; President Grevy, double, |the Executive Committee of the Demo- | & corps of trained researchers in Washe blue; Marechal de Bassompierre, double, carmine-rose. It is interesting to note that the ing the Republicans in the West, Rob- ert H. Lucas, the executive director of lilacs and the Spireas and the Forsythias | technical name for lilac is Syringa, & |the Republican National Committee, are known to almost every one; are the commonplace of shrubdom. There yet remain many interesting and beautiful shrubs which few persons, except the specially interested, know at all, but which, nevertheless, ought to be found on the average home grounds, no matter how small. | Consider Calycanthus Floridus, or the | common sweet shrub. Every one knows of it, but how many can you place your | hands on? Few homeowners seem to | use 1t any more, yet there was a time in | this country when no yard was consid- ered complete without its “shrub.” | A measure of its popularity was that it ‘was singled out to be called by the common nam: “shrub.” In some sec- tions it is called the Strawberry Shrub, Almost. every one, as a child, has im- prisoned its curious chocolate-colored blossoms in handkerchiefs, in order to keep the happy fragrance. Calycanthus usuaily flowers in June, but is a rather slow grower, and may not bloom for several years. There is an old superstition which declares that if this shrub does well it shows that there is petticoat rule in the home. * K % % Clethra Alnifolia, or sweet pepper bush, is another one not so well known to the average gardener as it might be. In saying this it is perhaps necessary to state that if one happens to be famillar with a plant, he regards it as well known, whereas if he personally does not know it, he feels that no one else does, either. A round of gardens will reveal fz\a‘ 'of these Summer-sweet bushes, as tify are sometimes called, yet it sends forth a delightful honeylike perfume in June and sometimes as late as July. Its flow- ers are white, none too large, but in- teresting enough. Clethra grows to about 8 feet at ma- turity, but perhaps will not get that tall in the average home garden. It is almost impossible for home grounds to duplicate natural conditions, and most of these things are real children of Na- ture. | Calycanthus, for instance, usually grows to & height of 5 feet and some- times taller, but it will take several years they | for this, as the shrub is an even slower grower than the llac. Since that | | serves its boost. the stage or in the movies, and one of the most popular of recently games In polite society is known as “Mur- der,” in which the players exercisé their ingenuity and fiction-bred intuition to | “Indict” the murderer. introduced vention, is preferable to one in which | unnecessary chances are taken. The Byrd exploraticns were rars combinations of energy, determination, science and efficiency. The award of the English nation to this distinguished American will not only be filting in | persons, a peculiariy dear plant. the 'as long as the autogiro is in flight. Of the unhappy result of this popular inter>st &s far as the police are con- cerned, there can be no doubt. A large section of the reading public has become familiar with an established proc:dure —first, the crime; second, the fumbling sergeant of detectives; finally, the in- | troduction of the amateur detective who | overcomes * tremendous ' odds ‘and with the world of organized policemen ar- rayed solidly mgainst ‘him; solves the mystery and either hands the criminal over to the doubting’ detective sergeant ! or arrives as the muffied shot ¢f a re- volver ‘proclaims the crinrinal's sulcide. That, with variations, is what hap-| pens in “fiction. The ‘policeman’ must be a dolt to fit into the picture as fur- nishing ‘proper contrast “for- the con- noisseur in crime. In fiction the po- liceman ‘is g:nerously forgiven. All's well that ends well, and the reader has the comforting belief that the police will do better next time, having profited by lessons learned from the gentleman de- tective. But in real life the chief sources of such comfort are lacking. There is no gentleman detective to step in and solve the crime. The crimival too often goes free. And from the world of fiction we can only summon the fum- bling policeman t> cnact & given role. Popular sanxiety over an unsolved crime, with all it implies, is tinged with an extraordinary amount of bitter dis- appointment, naturally reflected in wholesale condemnation of the police | who h proved themselves guilty of! the crime of disillusionment. For such a crime there is no forgiveness. Such, at least, is a nice theory. The | only thing that blasts it full of holes | is the occasional work of a Department | of Justice agent, or one of the postal inspectors, who sometimes makes a | Sherlock Holmes resemble a police ser- geant. Not mueh more rain is expected for the near future. The farmer has been cheered by the arrfval of nPeded‘; moisture and should be content for a little while to give the tourist his chance for enjoyment. - — The Collier Trophy. Announcement of the awarding of the } Collier Trophy, one of the most coveted | of scronautical hongrs, to Harold F. Pitcairn and his assoclates for develop- ment and application of the autogiro, comes as a recognition of one of the world’s mdst revolutionary aviation de- | | velopments. The sutogiro represents a discarding | of the accepted aviation theories and is {the result of a daring and apparently | successful piece of aeronautical pioneer- | The award is based upon actual use of the autogiro during the past year, several of these unique craft having been flown by scores of pilots, and some | without special. training have made | notable cross-country flights. Many of | these pilots never had even seen an autogiro before they took over the con- trols, and yet not one of them recrh'edvi 50 much s a scratch because of acci- | | dents resulting from Inexperience. A | | woman fiier has just made an ascent of | #19,000 feet in one of these machines. Every airplane since the first flights | of the Wright brothers has depended | upon fixed or stationary wings for sup- port in the air. These are discarded {in the autogiro, which depends for its 1ift on four winglike surfaces revolving | { horizontally around a king post rising | above the body of the machine. Due to aerodynamical eflects, these wings | ! continue to rotate without engine power | onistic to the British Empire. Thomp- { mer?” itself, but will be one more handclasp of friendship between Great Britain and the United States. Sy A good laugh has its value in restoring health. King George is sald to have been amused by the defeat of Mayor Thompson, who has been highly antag- son is not an fll-natured man and will probably find no fault if his defeat has done something toward assisting the physiclans now sttending the King. e A seat in the U. S. Senate would please General Smedley Butler. Wherever there 1s discussion, there is the place that looks like “home, sweet home” to the general. It would be interesting to see how the Senate would handle 30 rigid and yet so resourceful a dis- ciplinatian. -t Chicago has hailed Anton Cermak as victor over “Big Bill” Thompson in Chicago. Cermak was once a coal miner and is admired as & man who knew how to begin at the bottom and work to the top. ——— = SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Lack of Preparation. In history yowll often read About a bright career ‘Whose owner did not feel the need With toil to persevere. Caligula found no applause. And' Nero made us sob At what he did; and all because He never learned his job. How often has the man of might In selfishness 50 gay, Disdainful of all sense of right, To shame pursued his way! He did not undertake to find The impulses that throb In every fellow mortal's mind. He never learned his job. Tmmense Task. “What do you intend to tell the folks | out_home?” “The plain truth,” answered szmmri Sorghum. | “What subject will you select first for your enlightening remarks?" “You have brought up the point of real difficulty. There are so many sub- jects calling for elucidation that it would be impossible during one lifetime to get the plain truth about all of them.” Jud Tunkins says folk ‘dances ought to be encouraged in early Spring; only the perfesser will have to show some | ingenuity to make overshoes and um- brellas fit into the graceful measures. | Extremes. The wets and drys an effort make To work the problem out, As they inquire, “Which will you take; A freshet or a drought?” Welcoming Instruction. “Are you going to Europe next Sum- | “No," answered Miss Cayenne. “I'm| staying home the year 'round now. I'm afraid I might miss some 8f the lec- tures Europeans are constantly coming over here to deliver.” Pleasurable Suspense. The cherry bloom will banish gloom And make cur joy the greater, Since a delay caused them to say, “Good friends, we'll see you later!” “Much that I read,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “I do not believe. glorious shrub has been mentioned, there | is perhaps no better time to consider it. The lilac remains, with a great m‘:y o doubt memory and its associations play the greatest part in this happy resuit, since there is no anchor of memory more firm than a fragrance. ‘The fresh odor of lilac is supreme among fragrances. It is literally too bad that no perfumer has been able to | capture exactly this strong yet delicate odor. When it is put in a bottle, in | most instances, it takes on something which it does not possess on the twig. | It will not be long now before the | elusive odor is with us again. Some- | thing there is about it which recalls | youth and Springtime to older heads | and hands; it will forever be the one | flower of those delightful memories. The lilac does very well in the rather | heavy clay soil of the District of Co- lumbia, Some experts say that old | bones, shoes and similar debris should | be put at the bottom of the hole where | lilacs are planted, but perhaps this is the advice of perfection, something on | a par with the old-time instructions of | the Tose growers, now happily permitted by general consent, to go into the di card. i I Those familiar with the named varieties of lilac say that there is no comparison between them and the old- fashioned purple kind which most of us know. Perhaps that is true, but we, for one, refuse to give up the com- mon sort. It is the lilac of memory, | and as such must comtinue to occupy a peculiar niche of its own. Surely every homeowner would do well to go in more heavily for lilacs than most do. They are comparatively free from disease, although sometimes a plant will develop a scale. This peculiar form of bark infection may be controlled by painting with the proper remedy. Some of the best of the named varieties are Ludwig Spaeth, single, | scale. name which the average home gardener applies without thinking to the mock oranges, especially the Philadelphus Virginal, or Fragrant Syringa. Lilacs grow into strong, stout bushes, and make excellent hedges, especially along the rear and sides of properties. While they are not evergreen, in any sense, they bear their leaves as long as most shrubs, and have the happy abllity of keeping them green in the hottest Summer. P ‘The Spice Bush, Benzoin Aestivale, is enother common shrub far too little known. It is good for corner plantings in the rear, as it grows in time to a helght of some 15 feet, or perhaps a little more. It blooms ordinarily this month, a little later than the Forsythia. Its flowers, too, are yellow, sent forth in small bunches along the twigs. A feature of this bush is its red berries, borne in early Fall ‘The Japanese beauty bush, Callicarpa Japonica, is coming into its own, hav- ing been pushed extensively by nursery- men during the past five years. It de- By experts it is held 1o be that most desirable thing, a per- fect shrub. It is hardy, its foliage is good looking from one 'year's end to another, and it bears a profusion of flowers. The Cotoneasters are fine shrubs, but not well known to the average amateur gardener. Perhaps their name scares bim away. They come from China. It is interesting to consider how many of our shrubs come from foreign lands. What we now ca!l the “common bar- ber Berberis Thunbergi, comes to us from Japan. Three good forms of the Cotoneaster (it should be noted that the first two syllables are not “cotton,” but “coton”) are C. Dielsiana, C. Diva ricata and C. Foveolata, *oxox % If you want a small shrub, out of the ordinary, try the so-called Buttercup Winter Hazel. It grows about 2 to 3 feet, and bears pale yellow flowers in Spring, with a faint” but pleasant fragrance. It comes from Japan. Its technical name is Corylopsis paucifiora. The Deutzias thrive in almost any soll, and therefore are often planted. The most common is D. Scabra, “Pride of Rochester,” forming a tall bush 8 feet high. Its flowers, in June, are white, with a slight band of pink on the outside petals. There are four main forms of the favorite Forsythia, which some people regard as too droopy. This weeping form is F. Suspensa; the other common ones are F. Intermedia Densiflora, F. Suspensa Fortuei, and F. Verdissima. The Spireas and the Weigelias are well known to most gardeners; there is not much to say about them except that they are inimitable, in thelr way, and cannot be replaced by any other shrub. Spirea van Houttel is generally egreed to be the grandest of all shrubs. Its great masses of white flowers, borne on arching sprays to the ground, beautify many a hcme throughout America. By many it is thought to be the Bridal Wreath, but that is S. Prunifolia, with straight, upright twigs. There is no comparison between the two. If the bush you think is Bridal Wreath is superlative, the foliage fairly hidden by sweeping blooms, take off your hat, to Van Houttel. ‘The Viburnums ere hardy shrubs with good flowers and follage too little known to the great run cf average gar- deners on w may be called the small ‘The great timidity of the aver- age homeowner, in ordering shrubs strange to him, especially if bearing names which strike him as odd,"is well known. A great many yards which would be graced by the Viburnums lack them because of this strange antip- athy, which, however, is perhaps per- fectly natural, after all. When cne knows the lilac, and the beloved old althea, and a few such things, why should he experiment? And yet experi- mentation is one of the greatest joys of gardening. Every homeowner should try plants, especlally shrubs, new to him, even if he has to go back to such an old one as Cydonia Japonica, or Japanese Quince, whose flaming beauty once graced many a garden. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newsp L UNIVERSAL, Mexico City —Re- ports from Guatemala indicate that the government there is about to adopt the same policy with reference to Mexicans of the laboring class as has been put in force jn the United States—that is, the Guatéfalan authorities will require them to return to Mexico. There are 25,000 to 30,000 Mexican families living on the great coffee plantations in Los Altos Province, all alarmed at the prospect of deportation. Like other countries, Guatemala is disposed be- cause of economic conditions to expel foreigners. % o* Unemployed Lose Sympathy by Conduct. The Evening Post, Wellington—The conduct of a section of the unem- ployed—we hope it is a small section— is likely to forfeit public sympathy. Nolsy demonstrations, whether directed against the prime minister, the hospital board or representatives of organized labor, prove ncthing except that the leadership of some of the workless has been seized by men who are mainly bent on making trouble. The refusal to work in return for sustenance granted by the hospital board must have & sim- flar effect on public opinion. Public sympathy for the workless is based cn the belief that the men are really anxious to work—that they do not want something for nothing. The ma- jority, we believe, are of this way of thinking, and would have been per- fectly willing to perform the work a: signed to them had they not been coerced. We can understand the views of labor leaders who are fearful lest the distress should be used as a means Of reducing wages, but we do not think the arrangement between the hospital board and the City Councll is"open lo attack on this account. The work done by the unemployed is not essential. The council has no funds to pay for it, and would not do it in_the ordinary course. If the quantity of work demanded is too great, that is a different point which should be easily settled. We can- not see, however, that there is a great rinciple at stake, especially when the jabor leaders who supported the unem- ployed raised no protest against suste- nance being worked out on the hospital board property. Wellington City Coun- cil is the biggest contributor of hospital board funds (except the government), and the city is not really getting some- thing for nothing out of the arrange- ment. But the great harm done by the refusal and protest will be the impres- sion widely created that some of the apers of Other Lands magnificent address, with apparently the highest credentials, and with an adroit and seemingly perfect answer to every move made by Messrs. Waterlow to establish the bona fides of the trans- action. The crown of this man Ma- rang’s achievements was when he suc- ceeded in the most natural manner pos sible in providing his own courler for| the letter very properly addressed by Messrs. Waterlow to the governor of the Bank of Portugal. The result was that these bank notes were circulated on an enormous scale and that Messrs. Water- low are mulcted in heavy costs and in | damages running into hundreds of | thousands of pounds. It need scarcely | be added that not a breath of suspicion | falls on the honesty and probity of an | honored business name. £rew Depravity Must Socner or Later Meet Doom. North-China Herald, Shanghal —It is evidently quite a mistake to suppose that the Chicago authorities are power- less in the face of gangsters and their deeds—one of the Capone contingent | has just been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for avoiding the payment of income tax. That shows you that depravity must sooner or later meet its doom—and it is also a reminder of how a man goes from bad to worse, as was pointed out by De Quincey long ago in a well known passage from “Murder as @ Fine Art.” It begins, you see, with an innocent little assassination, “bumping-off” of some trivial, but in- convenient, person that was hardly thought of ‘at the time. But the bumper's character had nevertheless recelved a slight but permanent set- back; anl, so far from being able to dismiss it with the cheerful reflection, ‘And another little bump wouldn't do «us .any harm,” the process was insidi- ously continued with each successive assassination. Liltle by little the rot, |once started, would emerge in other ways; the gangster would become care- less about his expense accounts, and then not too punctilious in the payment of his telephone bill or dog license. Then, at last, it gets to avoiding the payment of income tax—and, sadly but sternly, the outraged law must sit up |and take some notice. It is all very distressing—but it only shows how easy it is to get started on the downward path. | - or e Wedding Guests Drink Polson Intended for Bride, |11 Popolo di Roma, Rome.—TIt 1s | has turned his guns on that Democratic stronghold, the South. Mr. Lucas is himself a native of Kentucky. He has seen his own State turn more and more to Republicanism and he believes that eventually the Southern States, as distinguished from the ‘“border” States, will incline toward the G. O. P. In an saddress broadcasted last night over the “Dixie Network” of the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System, Mr. Lucas described the Republican party as a real friend of the South and the Demo- cratic party as bereft of corstructive program. This is something of a new note in politics. The Southern poli- ticians—Democratic—have been so ac- customed to denounce the G. O. P. as the enemy of their section of the coun- try that this kind of talk from & Re- publican leader will be derided. x % ok x The first thing Mr. Lucas hit upon as a blessing to the South, brought by the Republican party, was the protec- tive tariff. This will be vig.rously denled by the Democrats, but Mr. Lucas made a pretty good argument that the protective tariff system has done a lot for Southern industries, He pointed out that the tariff cannot be discrimi- natory against the South, and that the same rate cf tariff duty which protects the steel mills of Pittsburgh also pro- tects the steel mills of Birmingham, a. the same tariff duty that protects New England textile mills protects those of North Carolina and Georgla, and that the duty on sugar nct only takes care of the sugar industry in Colorado and Michigan, but also of the sugar industry of Louisiana. Whenever an industry in the South has needed protection, Mr. Lucas said, the Republicans have given it protecticn, He mentioned as a South- ern industry which had received this protection the peanut industry of Vir- ginia. The Republican tariff on citrus fruits, he said, takes care of the oranges and lemons and grapefruit in Florida just as it does the frult produced in California, *ox % To cap his argument that the Repub- lican tariff is a benefit to the South, Mr. Lucas pointed out that during the consideration of the Smoot - Hawley tariff bill, now the law which is vio- lently attacked by the Democratic lead- iers as the rource of all evil in this country, a tctal of 526 Democratic votes were cast for increases in rates over the Republican tariff law of 1922, and 484 Democratic votes cast against decreases in rates of the 1922 law. Seven Demo- cratic Senators voted for the Smoot- Hawley tarift blll cn its final passage, four of whom were from Southern States. “Surely,” said Mr. Lucas, “no one questions the integrity of these Democratic Senators or contends that they wruld support tariff rates and a tariff bill which would discriminate against Southern interests and South- | ern people.” 2 e ‘The South, Mr. Lucas insisted, has in reality been built up under Republican | Tule. No one will deny, he said, that { the South has developed tremendously, both industrially and agriculturally, along with the rest of the country. The G. O. P, he argued, has been a friend. not a foe, of the South. He pictured | President Hoover as a real friend of | the Southern States and the Southern | people. The Democratic party, he said, has turned away from the old stand- ard of individual initiative and enter- | prise and is attempting to force the | Federal Government to take over the | activities of private industry and the | functions of State and local govern- }mems. The Republican party has pro- i vided all the legislation for immigration restriction, which Mr. Lucas insisted should have the support of the South. And he took a crack at Tammany, its | strong position in the Democratic party | and its opposition to immigration re- striction, in this connection. His final indictment of the Democratic Jeaders, | however, was that they have promised a constructive program in each suc- ceeding campaign and continue to make the sam> promise, without pro- ducing anything. He asked why the people of the South should continue an “alliance with a party so bankrupt and s0 disorganized that it cannot present to the American people a concrete state- ment as to what it will do in the event |it is given control of the Federal Government.” e Rogd Chairman John J. Raskob of the | Democratic National Committez, how- | €ver, has made a number of sugges- tions to the members of his committee and to the party at large in his address |to the committee at its meeting here March 5 and more rec<ntly in his let- ! | ter to the individual members of the National Committee. But other Demo- cratic_leaders fell upon these sugges- | tions “like a ton of brick.” The favor- |ite form of criticism leveled against | the Raskob suggestions, outside of the | suggestion for handling the liquor traffic by the “home rule” method, is | that Mr. Raskob is reactionary and | republican. _If the chairman of the Democratic National Organization can {get no further than this with & pro- gram for his party, who can? the Re- publican _critics are asking. Mr. Ras- kob, in his recent letter to the com- miticemen, called attention to the chasm which is dividing the Northern and Southern wings of the Democracy | today. This, he said, must be bridged. | It is his contention that his home rule plan for handling the prohibition ques. tion is the solution of the difficulty So far the Southern lcaders have de- rided the plan. * x ok Senator George W. Norris of Ne- | braska has taken sides with the South- | ern Democrats against Mr. Raskob and | his recommendations. The Nebraska | Senator is, it seems, looking to the Democratic party for his candidate for President in 1932 since he apparently expeets the renomination of President Hoover and has declared that a third party is not feasible now. He is un- dertaking to offt Mr. Raskob's plan to place home rule” plank in the Democratic national plat- form and also to prevent Mr. Raskob from nominating a Democrat who, Senator Norris insists, stands with Mr. Hoover on water power and other eco- nomic questions. Senator Norris does not name this Democratic candidate, but it is understood he has reference to Owen D. Young, whom Mr. Raskob 1s reported to be favoring for the presi- dent nomination. Mr. kob in- sists, however, that he is not advancing the interest of any candidate at this time, e ‘The Democrats must make up their minds whether they wish to go along with the Progressive Republicans, like Senator Norris, in the coming cam- paign. If they do, they will have to keep away from Young, Gov. Ritchie of Maryland and other potential candi- He went further and showed that ; reported from ' San Bartolomeo, in| dates for the presidential nomination Galdo, Province of Benevento, that a| whom the Progressives consider reac- One of the gravest dangers with the | sonventional airplane is the loss of fly ing speed through ‘stalling.” When the airflow past the wings falis below a | certain speed, known as the “stalling speed,” they lose their lift and can no longer support the weight of the plane A spin usually results, and this, at low { altitudes, often is disastrous. The autogiro wings always are in mo- tion and constantly provide their own lift, regardless of the forward speed of the machine. Therefore the autogiro I read with the more pleasure because it gives me a sense of superior in- telligence.” Where Genius Stopped. @h, Edison, the light you showed Would be a greater hit It rcgues who terrorize the road Were barred from using it! ©h, Henry Ford, the auto neat Would be less feared today Were it not waiting in the street, To aid a “get-away"! may be brought to a virtual standstill in the air and may “hover.” Best of all, however, is the fact that the auto- @iro, with its engine dead and no hands on the controls, will descend almost ver- “1 don’t know,” said Uncle Eben. ‘whether Jonah were de bes’ fisherman in history; but dar ain’ no doubt 'bout his tellin’ de biggest fish story.” leaders of the unemployed are ‘keener on finding grievances than finding so- lutions. This impression does an in- justice to many. Thelr cause is injured by their leadership. * ook Famous Note Printers Victimized by Swindler. News-Chronicle, London.—Very great sympathy will be felt in all business circles for Messrs. Waterlow & Sons, & bank note printing firm of unimpeach able prestige and world-wide repute, who have been victimized by one of the most audacious swindles of recent times. It is easy to be wic> after the event. Most of us could now tJl Messrs. | Waterlow how they might have un-| masked the conspiracy. ut the arch- conspirator, who. obtained nc rly 600~ 000 notes from the firm by a serles of highly ingenious tricks, was a person of woman who, in spite of all her efforts, was unable to prevent the marriage of her son to & young lady against whom | she had formed a prejudice resolved to avenge herself for her failure and dis- appointment. She mixed some poison | with the win ved at the bridal | feast, and as a_result some 20 ns | were affected. The condition of several | ['is still rather serious. of the deed has been arrested. It is clear now, even to the most obtuse, that this woman objected exceedingly to the marriage. Strangely enough, the bride was one of the few who did not partake of the wine. r———— tionary. Again, the Democrats must de- cide whether they prefer to cement & union between the South and the West or between the South and the North and East. Senator Norris, by his state- ments, has clearly pointed that out. If the Democrats are not willing to take Gev. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York for their candidate, who seems to fill the bill so far as Senator Norris and other ives are concerned, then they might turn to Senator Norris him- self for their candidate. Senator Brook- hart of Iowa once cn the floor of the Senate made the suggestion to the Dem- ocrats that he would be willing to join with them if they would nominate the Education in Air. From the 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. It is sald that one-tenth of radio broadcasting time educa- l“ievmed to tion. Which calls & definition, Nebraska Senator. * ok x % Bennett C. Clark, son of the lat Speaker Champ Clark, may get into the race for the Democratic senatorial Mme. Lemoine, double, white; |cratic National Committee, is out beat- | ington who will answer questions for you. They have access to the Govern- ment departments,. the libraries, mu- seums, galleries and public buiidings, and 'to the numerous associations which maintain headquarters in the Nation's Capital. If they can be of assistance to you, write your question plainly and send with 2 cents in coin or stamps to The Evening Star Infor- mation Bureau, Prederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. bia chain at 7 o'clock? How old is he? —N. N. A. This popular singer is Irish-Amer- fcan and is 29 years of age. Q. What jockey has won the most money?—S. H. A. Earl Sande holds the record. From 1918 to 1930. inclusive, he won $3,034,- 858. He also holds the season record. In 1930 he won $327,375. Q. How many feet of lumber does it take to bulld a five or six room house? | . T. | A. It is estimated at about 15,000 feet. Q. How is the king of the Mardi | Gras chosen?—N. 8. A. He is selected by a secret com- mittes from among the dukes of the | Rex organization. His name is not | generally known until Mardi Gras day. | He 18 chosen on a basis of personal | popularity and standing in $he com- | munity. | Q. How should old-fashioned pewter | ware be cleaned?—R. J. K. | A. Pewter is a soft metal and only | very fine scourers, such as fine whit- | ing, rouge or fine rottenstone mixed with ofl, should be used for cleaning it. | Q. What percentage of the women wl:z v;‘ork are engaged in housework? A. The number of women gainfully | employed in the United States is esti- | mated at 8,600,000. Of these abcut 25 | per cent are engaged in domestic serv- ice, 22 per cent in manufacturing, 17 per cent in clerical occupations and 12 per cent in sgriculture. Professional srvice, trade, transportation and pub- lic service account for the remainder. Q. Wh from the White House?—H. W. A. It was Washington's personal de- sire that the congressional buildings should be at least a mile from the Executive Mansion. He felt that the y was the Capitol built so far | Congress creating this award, but it did not pass. The proposai is to give not more than three medals annually to civilian employes of the Government for distinguished service to science. An award of $1,000 would accompany the medal. Q How far can a spitting cobra shoot its venom?—C. H. A. About 6 feet. If it reaches the | eves of a person, the result would be serious but not ovherwise unless it en- | tered the blood stream through an open | wouna, X Q. What causes sun dogs and halos around the moon?—E. R. A. Sun dogs are technically known as parhelia and appear when sunlight shines through a thin cloud composed of ice crystals floating in the atmos- phere. Like numerous other halos, they are the result of the refraction of the sun’s rays by these crystals. Rings or halos around the moon are caused by the action of ice particles or of cloud or mist on the moon's rays. Q. What does bicameral nwean? W. V. M. two-chambered, of two A. it means clally consisting braniches. espe- legislative Q. Was Lloyd George's father's name also Lloyd George?—B 5 A. His father’s nam° was William George. His mother’s brother, Richard Lloyd, was the man who helped him to start in his career as a solicitor. He therefore adopted the name Lloyd and became known as David Lloyd George. Q. Is Pyt. John Allen of Mississippt still living?—M. P. A. Pvt. John Allen was a Confed- erate soldier. After the Civil War he was a member of Congress from Mis sippl. He served from March 4, 188 to March 3, 1901. He died at Tupelo, Miss,, on October 30, 1917. Q. What is process cheese>—H. W. A. Emulsified cheese, process cheese, is the modified cheese made by commi- | nuting and mixing one or more lots of cheese into a homogeneous, plastic mass, with the aid of heat, with or without the addition of water and with the incorporation of not more than 3 per cent of a suitable emulsifying agent. The name “emulsified cheese,” “process cheese,” ungualified, is understood to | mean emulsified Cheddar cheese, process | Cheddar cheese, and anplies to a product | which contains not more than 40 per | cent of water and, in the water-free substance, not less than 50 per cent of legislatfve and executive branches time, Q. Is the maternity death rate high in the United States?>—V. H. A. It is higher than in any other civilized country. Per 1,000 live births, 6.5 mothers are lost. It is believed that with adequate maternity care two- mu&s of the lives thus lost might be saved. Q. Can the wife of an enlisted man be buried by his side in a national cemetery?—L. 8. A. It is possible to make arrange- ments to be buried in the same grave, but not side by side. The soldier, sailor jor marine may be buried deeply | enough, so that the grave can be opencd jand the additional casket interred. It is also permissible to bury the wife of a living ex-servic2 man who has should not encroach upon each other's | milk fat. Emulsified cheese, process cheese, qualified by a varictal name, is made from checse of the variety indi- cated by the name and conforms to the limits for fat and moistufe for cheese of that variety. ‘E QN Has Dornier a new flying boat?— |E.N. A. He designed the DO-S, which is being demonstrated before several Euro- pean governments. It has a cruising speed of 110 miles an hour and is of | characteristic Dornier design. It will |seat 27 passengers and the motive power is derived from four 600-horse- | pewer Hispano-Suiza engines arranged in tandem. The model is much smaller | than the DO-X and is intended for long-range coastal operations. ‘Tests | have proved it seaworthy and easily | handled in the ai | Q. Which cathedral in Prance resem- reached the age of 70. ! Q. Who awards the Thomas Jeffer- | son medal for distinguished service to ‘sclflncfl?—L. C. H. A. A bill was prescnted to the last Ranked Wit Completeness of the destruction of Managua, capital of Nicaragua, by earthquake reminds Americans of some have been overwhelmed by acts of Na- ture. The choice of a new capital is Marines from this country is believed to have been instrumental in creating greater bonds of friendship with Latin America, coming as & sequel to con- troversles of recent years. “It is well that speed has been used | in sending American aid to the thou- sands who are suffering from earth- quake and fire in Nicaragua,” declares i the Des Moines Tribune-Capital. “Such | efforts, besides accomplishing their primary purpose of emergency relief, | should help to convince Latin Ameri- | cans that the Nation which they call the ‘Colossus of the North' is less self- ish and heartless than they sometimes have belleved.” The Rochester Times- Union remarks that “the Marines’ service is reported as nothing less than | heroic,” while that paper records * pitiful story of suffering and heroic performance of duty—a desolate gray | scene of human misery.” The St. Paul | Dispatch hclds that “this is one in- stance where the words ‘The Marines take charge' has a welcome sound to| the world.” The Detroit Free Préss concludes, “We have an idea that the| Nicaraguans are jolly glad that when thelr capital was razed a regiment of Leathernecks was tenting in its| purlieus.” * Kk ok K “All that can be seen is smoking | embers and ruins and desolate places,” | quotes the Atlanta Journal, adding “Thus the President of Nicaragua de- scribes the fate of his country’s capi- tal. So complete is the destruction of the erewhile beautiful city that its| abandonment is being coritemplated. Troy, Carthage, Pompeii and Hercu- laneum—only in those anclent seats of | disaster does the tale of Managua find a parallel.” “Cities which have suffered from earthquakes immediately labor to re- store their homes and resume their vo- cations and indulge in their custom- ary activities as if nothing had hap- pened,” according to the Charleston (W. Va) Daily Mail. “It is evidence | of courage, of determination, of refus- ing to be defeated. And yet, there may be times when such rebullding would be fclly. This seems to be the condition with respect to Managua, which had been developed into Nicaragua’s best | city, having been modernized in many respects.” Calling an earthquake “the most sudden and destructive of all natural catastrophes” and recalling the greater cities that have at times been built on the ruins of older ones, the Cincinnati Times-Star comments: ‘“Here is one consolation for the stricken Nicaragu- ans. If it is true that Managua has been virtually destroyed, there is a good chance that the ital will be moved to a new and better site. Many Nicaraguans, including President Mon- cada, have long urged the change. Ma- nagua is a compromise capital, having been chosen as the seat of the gov- ernment to end a long and bloody rivalry between two more important cities. The town is built on the edge of a great lake, and the atmosphere is extremely damp and malarial. Six months of the year the streets are a sea of mud; during the other six the dust-laden air nearly stifies the inhab- itants. Although no“?lrt of Nicaragua could qualify as a health resort. the up- lands are comparatively@alubrious. and they might supply a capital site fit for ination out in Missouri if Senator Harry Hawes persists in his declination to run agsin for S g there next year. Mr. Cl has been sted actively cs for years out 3 in pol St. Louis, where he is a practicing a LS is lar with the Ameri and would have the warm agua as Victim of er;;ke of the dead cities of the past which | discussed, and the timely aid of the | bles architecturally Notre Dame de | Paris?—J. 8. A. The cathedral at Bourges. These two are the only French cathedrals plagned with double aisles to nave, choir and apse. h Ancient Cities human habitation. In view of the pro- posed _ billion-dollar canal, ang . the greater importance of the capital in Case it is completed, Managua may be allowed to lie in ruins.” * ok ok % “The disaster has engendered a feel- ing of solidarity among the American peoples; national distinctions and po- | litical differences are forgotten, and all | efforts are concentrated upon succor,” it is pointed out by the San Antonio Express, while the Rockford Morning Star, considering the possible effect of the canal plans of this country on the choice of a new capital, says: “In case the canal is built, the natural commer- clal swing of the Nicaraguan republic will be toward the south, and Leon is well toward the north. Granada is on Lake Nicaraguaj but toward the north- ern tip of the lake. Leon is a city of about 75,000, the largest city in the republic, while Granada has about 25 000. Managua was & city of about 35.- 000 people. There seems little question but that the proposed canal would bring to Nicaragua a vast amount of commer- clal prestige, perhaps surpassing that of Panama, and if the new Atlantic-Pa- cific waterway is built the Nicaraguans would undoubtedly be influenced in placing their capital near the commer- cial zone of the republic.” “The mcst deplorable aspect of the tragedy,” in the opinion of the Colum- bia (S. C.) State, “is the awful slaugh- ter of hundreds of persons in rotting, infested prisons or in insane asylums, helpless victims of this blind fury or freak of Nature.” The Altoona Mirror declares that “the cruelties of Nature are oftentimes more terrible than any- thing cruel men are able to invent.” et |Undernourished Books Face Initial Handicap From the Atlanta Journal. With the somewhat abortive ex- periment of dollar books abandoned, as a mafor editorial policy, by most pub- lishers, new experiments calculated to introduce mnovelty and popular appeal into literary ventures are making a tentative Spring appearance. A Brit- ish publisher has announced he will bid for patronage by printing new novels of only half the normal thick- ness. This introduces the quaint idea that size can govern a potential reader’s attitude toward a book. These are unpredictable times as re- gards public taste, but we trust that a book's thickness will never become its salient characteristic. In a poor book, we can imagine that slenderness would recommend itself and that a grateful reader, coming suddenly upon the final page, would find himself ad- miring the cleverness of the publisher. But a really good sbook is never long enough. Character? which engage the fancy, then win the affection of the reader, are parted with reluctantly whether this farewell takes place on page three hundred and fifty or page one thousand. Mr. Pickwick never had half enough pages. Alice left her won- derland deplorably unexplored. Fal- staff might have roared his way through several dozen more volumes without becoming, at worst, more than a lov- able nuisance. Aladdin, Ivanhoe, An- clent Pistol, Becky Sharp, Tom Sawyer, Br'er Rabbit, Lemuel Gulliver and Friar Tuck, to mention only a few regretted celebrities, might have left us a thousand volumes to supplement the familiar and meager records which ‘we have. A good book shoutd be long. That truth is so patent that we fear the publishers of undernourished volumes are goii to send them out into the world vll‘:g an insuperable initial handicap. ———————— And Turn Green Around Gills. From the 8t. Louls Post-Dispsich. "The blue potato has arrived in Paris. Now if theyll bring on the red celery and the white beets the American col- many of his father’s old friend magde the race. ony can est up the Star Spangled Banner.