Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR * wWith Sundsy Morning Editien. Pkt M Frosmrroemn B .. WASHINGTON; D. C FHURSDAY........May 7, 1981 “ Rate by Carrier Within the City. jening Star B Bl i, n.':'-‘- 1da! e jonal o A Rate 60c per month 8¢ per month 8¢ _Les i 3 ‘sach men al o telephone and Sundsy. B sy only Member of 1 Associated Press is exclusively entitled o ‘use for republication of all news dis- “to it or not otherwise cred- pee= America’s Meeting-Ground. 1% 1s no mew experience for Washing- fon to be the mecea toward which many minds converge at this season of the vear, but the present season must mark almost the high tide. Presence of the International Chamber of Commerce, Twith its thousand delegates from thirty= five nations, stamps the American Na- tional Capital for the moment as the imeeting-ground of the world. ‘Washington long since became the focal point for activities assoclated purely with the life and affairs of the United States. This Spring has seen the ususl pligrimage to the Potomac’s ahores of hosts of mep and women Isagued for a wide diversification of pur- Doses. Advocates and opponents of pro- hibitien recently came and went. The Daughters of the American ‘Revolution ‘were in annual session and other patri- okle organisations met here.” The early days of May have been given over to meetings of eminent groups affiliated with the law—the American Zociety of International Law, the Execu- tive Committee of the American Bar Assoclation, anc the American Law In- atitute. Physicians and surgeons have | Been in conclave. Labor and agricul- ture have had their respective heads to- gether. Trade assoclations meet in the District of Columbia almost daily. Wocieties striving to co-ordinate the Motk of schools and colleges and the fational educational system counsel and highly resolve, in Washington, intermit- tently. ‘With Congress ordinarily in long re- cess, it 18 & nicely balanced arrange- ment that finds the Republic's unofficial bodies in successive conclaves at the seat of government while House and 3¢ 1ot 1086, valuation, agricultural land to be taxed only on the value it may have for pur- poses other than sgricultural. This ‘assessment, 1t is proposed, will stand for five years, the valuation to be repeated at the end of that period. ‘Thus, i the Snowden pisn is adopted and British land is to be assessed for taxation, & new “Doomsday Book” is to be written. Visitors to London have seen the great tomes in the Record Of- fice which were compiled in 1086, in the reign of King Alfred. They constitute the record of & survey of land made by commissioners named by the King, who collected the particulars regarding lJand titles, tenures, value, extent and staie of culture of all the land in the king- dom, securing this information from sworn juries consisting of sheriffs, lords of manors, presbyters, bailiffs, in short all classes interested. This book is the tasis of all titles, and is the most precious document in England. The new “Doomsday Book” will prob- ably not be compiled as easily as that There is no more land in England, of course, but it is in a much more complicated condition, what with improvements, subdivisions, urban growth and industrial developments. The problem of getiing back to actual land value regardless of buildings will not be an easy one to solve. Nor will the standard of valuations for agri- cultural Jand on the basis of uses other than agricultural be easy to establish. —rmen— A Tardy Protest. The unfortunate action of the District Medical Society in protesting against the site for the Children's Tuberculosis | Sanitarium, nine months after the site | had been bought and the purchase an- nounced, can have no effect now. The sponsors of the resolution, passed under suspension of the rules at a recent( meeting, might have realized that. The | interesting question is why the resolu- tion ever was passed. The move for a Children's Tubercu- THE EVENING around the world, but the way Mears does it, it 18 work and plenty of it both for himself and his pilot. Mears, although he has probably had more hours in the air than many pilots, cannot fly s ship. It, therefore, de- velops on his sssociate to spend long, weary and sleepless hours at the “stick,” There is hasard in such a fiight, too. The plane must be heavily loaded with fuel in order to carry them great distances non-stop, and & heavy plane cannot be maneuvered as easily as a light one. Besides that, the motor must function perfectly or else they will be forced down to earth or water; the earth in many cases being Just as fatal, as their trip carries them over impenetrable forests and inacces« sible mountain ranges. America’s perennial globe-circler, however, has taken all these things into consideration and wants to go again. He has tried to guard against mishap. His plane is adequate, his pilot s skilled and he is experienced in the art of fast travel. The entire civilized world will bid him voyage” when he begins his 1931 dash. e The DO-X Difficulties. ‘The DO-X, Germany’s mammoth fly- ing boat, s havifg a difficult time of it on its projected flight to America. Begun with great ballyhoo nearly two years ago, the ambitious attempt of the ship o span the Atiantic has met with one misfortune after another. First, a pontoon was crushed in Holland on the first Jap of its journey. Several days were Tequired to repeir the damage be- fore the ship was taken to England. On the English take-off for Lisbon, which was to be the starting point of the crossing, great difficulty was ex- perienced in getting the Nfty-six-ton craft into the air. Buffeted by head winds, the DO-X was forced down on the sea before the Portuguese capital was reached and was compelled to taxi | losis Sanitarium was begun actively in | 1922. There have been so many steps ! in fostering public sentiment to support this undertaking, so many commit- tees, 30 much discussion, that it would | be tiresome to Tepeat them now. At every stage in the movement physicians in private practice in the District have been consulted. The late Dr. George M. Kober, as every one knows, was one of the leaders in the effort to obtain an adequate institution in the District for the care of child victims of tubercu- losls, and other physicians, outaide of | the health experts and medical men ' engaged in public health work, have given their time and their effort to service on various advisory committees. The selection of a site was not a hit-or-miss proposition. More than a hundred sites were suggested. Scores of them were inspected. An outstand- | ing authority on such institutions as| the proposed sanitarium was brought to | Washington to make suggestions, and specifications were drawn that had 1o more than fitty miles before making | haven. Shortly after that the ship | caught on fire and an entire wing | burned off. Repairs were not completed for several months, but finally the DO-X was again ready to point its nose westward. This time it got as far as the Canary Islands, but on an at- tempted take-off several days later a | big wave smashed into the wings and rendered it again hors de combat. Now, with the ship in Portuguese Gulana, Tevolutionists have seized a fort where gasoline was stored and converted the fuel to their own use, leaving the DO-X stranded. This series of misfortunes appears to demonstrate conclusively that the giant boat is unwieldy, cumbersome and ill- fitted Wwith its present power plant to make the long hops necessary to cross the Atlantic. Americans are much in- terested in viewing this mammoth of the air, but their interest has been lessened by the postponements for its showing, and its feat of crossing the At- lantic if it succeeds will not be par- “bon | N STAR, WASHINGTO N, D. C, THURSDAY. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Never explain things too ccmpletely. It is & mistake. “The honest soul who attempts to be fair to another by exhaustive explana- tions usually ends by getting hiraself in wrong. It takes half a lifetime or more for a great many people to learn that they have to do is to say “No” or “Yes. The danger the honest man runs is twofold. If he insists on being fair another, he is apt to make that oth: feel that there must be something still unexplained, so deep lles suspicion in the average human mind. Or else he causes anger. Anger, once aroused, makes a martyr out of any man. The commonest maneuver in oral bat- honest) one of the pair to goad the honest man into saying something which he may resent. This is exactly what the crafty one has been planning to bring about. Now he can substitute anger, which he likes, for humllity, which he does not like. The strange thing s that no sooner does a man become angry than he be- gins to think he is right. No matter how wrong he knew him- self to be a moment before, the moment he begins to get mad he achieves a transformation in personal righteous- ness. From the position of the accused, which humbled him, he jumps imme- diately into the role of the persecuted, and becomes accuser in his turn. This is the curious transformation which anger permits any man in con- versation, and the last one which the honest person should permit - versary. | * ok X K An excess of honesty, a desire to be fair down to the last degrce, is the real cause behind so many lost arguments. One fails to remain calm, and fails, in most instances, because one insists on being too meticulous in explanation. In the first place, the acversary does not deserve it. Complete ciplanation will do him no good, will only furnish him with fuel, steam for his engine, fire for his ire. He is incapable, as you well know, of entering into your state of mind. Fur- thermore, he would not, if he could. Why, then, be at such great pains to attempt to explain anything to him? Say “Yes” or “No" and ‘let it go at that. Suppose you sit in Judgment en some- thing or other. The applicant comes forward. He has an . exhibit which you know, from experience, is poor. Kindness of heart prompts you to tell the poor fellow, not that it is bad, in so many blunt wort quite as good as it might be. ‘You hope, alas, that he will catch on, take the hint, have enough common sense 1o see that rou do know a thing or two, and are making a decent, | honest, clean and above-board attempt to “let him down easy”! ‘ Alas, not he! Never has man yet admitted to him- | self, even though his mind tells him | the truth, that what his hands and mind have wrought is not excellent. | Try this superhonesty, if you will, | but confess afterward that it is more | or less a failure. It was doomed from | the beginning. The spirit of man is so constituted that it would rather hug a pleasant | delusion to its breast than shake the | | itles is for the clever (and often dis- | ds, but that it is not | fair often leads to their undoing. Many are truth-tellers, but few truth-takers. We had rather be let down easily than told the truth, if bitter, in all its bitterness. ‘The lucky man is he who has the born ability to tell others what Ghl‘ do not want to hear in such a fashion that neither offense nor danger is caused. “The best way for the average person to achieve this highly desirable effect is to refrain from too complete expla- nations, Every word you say gives the other a chance for difference of opin- fon, and every difference gives a loop- hole for anger. And anger, once 1t is aroused, justi- fles the man of his works. | The better way is to say “No,” if no | it must be, and to smile blandly, as if | there were no question in the world but that the question were settled now | and forever. The danger point is exactly here. | It he seems to be willing to accept the verdict, you will likely begin to feel sorry for him, and, if you do, you will think some details of explanation due hi m. The details are exactly what he | wishes, and once you give them to him fha will, in all likelihood, especially if Jhe possesses the legal mind, which de- lights in logical twistings and twinings, proceed either to become suspicious or angry. ‘Wisdom justifies herself of her chil- | dren, it is sald. So does anger, and | there is no telling, once ire is aroused, how much justification it will demand, | all of it unfairly. | * ok ko Perhaps the best method is that prac- ticed by & truly clever gentleman who possesses both tact and brains. They |do mnot necessarily go together, but | sometimes they do. This man has & suavity in public relations which is at once the joy and |envy of all who are privileged to watch | him in action. Surely he practices deceit, to some extent, but it is never malicious and is utilized solely to save the user from the effects of anger and" the other from himself. This astute handler of human beings is able to take a very angry man, upon entry, and transform him witifin a few minutes into & calm individual, who ends by apologi2ing for his anger and | goes out. apologizing for himself. Now this ability is a gift, but it ean |be learned, to some extent, at least. | Perhaps most of us know the essen- | tials already. In human relations most men are |unable to carry their intentions into effect. In refusing another wmet.hlfi which he asks, their very desire to Let them smile, maybe they say, “I will' give this every consideration and let you know later.” This line of conduct sends the other away smiling, too. | " He is pleased because he is not told too much. But if you sit lown with him, brother to brother, and try to tell him why you reject the thing, and how it could be improved, and how you feel sure he can do better, he begins to wonder if you know your business, after all. He is partly right. If you knew your business best for yourself, you would never for an instant give him any material for doubt. Hence the justi- fication for much of the hocus-pocus of business offices, with the never- ending refrain, “Mr. Jones is in con- | i) , MAY 1931. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Towa, e 1 relates to in free. Failure to make use of it deprives | provided President himself. The Iowa Senator asserts, however, that if the G. O. P. will place in nomination Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska or Senator Willlam E. Borah of Idaho for President the situation will be vastly different. Either of those gentlemen, according to Senator Brookhart, could | be elected. “New York is as Progressive as Iowa ;qnd Pennsylvania s as Progressive as ebraska,” says the Iowa Senator, “I know, for T have been in Pittsburgh and N . his to answer the suggestion that, it President Hoover cunna{'be Te~ ps, | Inquiry for direct reply. Evening Star Information Bureau, FredericJ. Haskin, director, Wash. ington, D, Q. At what do the most auto- mobiles enter ada from the United | States?>—I. 8. 8. | A. At Windsor, Ontarlo. At city, 1,430,554 anada in 1930. ) | | elected next year, no Republican can win the election as President. Brook- hart wants the Progressives to get into the primary fights in all the States where they have presidential preferen- tial primaries next year and chaliénge President Hoover. “I want to fight this thing out in the Republican primaries and in the Re- Ci 1,224,248 entered to remain 24 hours or less. Situated across the river from Detroit, many people go over for this short period. | enry’s immortal “Give me liberty or give me death”?—M. P. P. A. The second revolutionary eonven- tion of Virginia was held in Bt. John's Episcopal Church at Richmond in 1775. for a settlement had been s ly advocated. On the third 23, 1775, Patrick Henry, 5 e ended, "nuuwm,un.een' sweet, as to be at prica of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Al- Q. I heard & m over the radio | mighty God. I know not what course about 8 o'clock Wednesday morning |Others may take, but as for me, give me which was partly in Wash- ["bmy or give me death!™ broadeast ington and partly in Japan. What time was it in Japan?—T. C. A. The Washington broadcast was | from 8:15 to 8:30 and the Jmnm! from 8:30 to 8:45 am., lnnm‘ Standand time. Since Japanese r,loeu‘ are 14 ‘hours and 14 minutes later, it was 10:29 to 10:59 o'clock Wednesday evening there. Q. How many short stories are pub- lh:edAh\ & year in the United States? A. No compilation is made. O'Brien indexed 98 magasines for 11 months between June 1, 1929, and April 30, 1930, and had about 2,200 stories. In book form he listed about 1,400 more. Q. What is the low flowering ‘plant which forms the beautiful border inside the hedge at the Pan-American Bulld- ing in Washington, D. C.?>—R. J. sublata. When in the lovellest sights publican national convention,” he says. But the Senator from Iowa, in addi- tion to making his demand for a Pro- gressive Republican presidential nomi- nee, is 1:.I4lll¢:l’hlk’n¥l out upon a course of argument which regular Republican leaders dub ‘“‘defeatist talk,”™ .nzuwhlch makes the regulars very sore. Senator Brookhart is asserting that regular Re- fub].lun leaders have told him private- ly that the G. O. P. cannot possibly win with Mr. Hoover as the party nomi- nee next year. Some of these regu- lars, he insists, would like very much to find another candidate. On the other hand, however, Repub- lican leaders, when questioned about the Brookhart anti-Hoover talk, insist that the lowa Senator is all wrong. They say that if the Republicans cannot re- elect President Hoover, they cannot elect any candidate. They say that Mr. Hoover would be the strongest can- didate the G. O. P. could put forward, and one of the most prominent of the Republican leaders asserts with vehemence that Mr. Hoover will be able to defeat with one hand tied behind him any Progressive Republican who enters State primaries against him next year. | | bloom, it is one of in Washington. | Q. Why is the French horn played . with the left hand?—B. J. A. Capt. Branson of the Marine Band | says that when the horn was originally | transferred in Germany from the hunt- ing field to the orchestra it was suggest- ed to introduce s mute or damper into the bell for the purpose of soften! player LY This does not mean that the Re- publican leaders are not worried. They are. But their fear, they say, is not that Mr. Hoover will be the party nomi- nee, but that no Republican, Mr. Hoovet.| or any- one else, will be elected Presi- dent next year. And their fear is based on the conditions of depression in busi- ness and agriculture and of unemploy- ment. If there is an improvement in conditions, the Republican leaders say, Mr. Hoover will be elected hands down. If ‘there is no improvement, then there is pllg to be a real battle with the G. O. P. trying to show the voters they the tone. A celébrated horn h;‘: ts bell of the horn. Consequently, when valves were introduced, the placing of :hn right db.l';id g\nflu bell was not dis- - | turbed an: e do the left hand. T Q._How fast does the crack train, the Plying Scotsman, travel>—G. H. E. Q. When and where was coal first used?—C. G. C. A. Coal has beep known to man and used for fuel for several thousand years. What is probably the earliest recorded reference to it occurs in a treatise “On Stones.” by Theophrastus. a pupil of Aristotle, which was dated 371 B.C. Q. How many exclusively Jewish col- lege fraternities are there in the United States?—G. H. Z. A. The last compllation shows 17 for men and § for women. Possibly others have been formed or are in process of organization at the present time. Q. How wide is the entrance to New York Harbor?—V. R. A. The entrance from the ocean 7 miles wide, from Sandy Hook to Rock- away Point. Q. How does an earthquake change or affect the surface of the earth?- A. It is variously affected by an earthquake. In some of the greatest earthquakes, there are no features more remnnbl_r:u than the dislocation of the |3 P would be foolish to turn to the Demo- cratic party in this storm. * k& Senator Brookhart not only has s few Prcgressive Republican candidates up his sleeve for the presidential nomi- nation, but he also has ideas about what the RepubMcan national platform should contafn next year. He says, in | the first place, that it must contain a | plank possessing & farm Faucy which | hall be & “relief to agriculture in fact.” |He says that merely by adopting the |plan on which Julius H. Barnes, now chairman of the board of the United States Chamber of Commerce, operated A. This train from London to Edin- burgh is one of the fastest in the world. | It has covered part of its run making 89 miles an hour. Q. Who introduced the use .of an anti-typhold serum?—J. W. G. A. Ferdinand Widal, & native of Al- giers and professor {n the Paris !leul;l‘. collaborated with Chautemesse in early work on preventive vaccinations id fever and made his m: discovery of bacterial ag- glutination in 1895, and its application t produ vived it in 1748 and Keene in 18327. Q. Where was the Valley of Baca?— in the diagnosis of typhoid. Sir Alm- roth Edward professor Wright, be met in the final selection of any site. To make = long story short, the ticularly spectacular considering the amount of time-invoived from the start the Government’s Wheat Corporation | hands of an unpleasant truth. Man | ference.” Mr. Jones is a wise baby who at the time of the World War would | stands firmly for the truth, when the | has learned just a little about handling truth ‘ men. Senate gre at rest. Without exception the Jepders of these organimations say they find here an Inspiration and stimulus for constructive endeavor that exist nowhere else In the United States. Surprisingly large numbers of Ameil- @sns, drawn to Washington by con- greases, conferences and conventions of every comcelvable character, visit the Federal city for the first time. Invari- ‘bly they succumb to its unique charm. next time, and & reslisation of why it is that men and ‘Women sent hers to serve their country soon eapitulate to the Jure of Wash- ington and contemplate with sorrow the ‘Dossibility that some day they may be- €pme lame ducks. —_—r—————— ‘There s on record an anclent court trder in North Carolina forever re- straining the grandfather of Jack ' Dempsey from hitting any man with his fists, so powerful and dangerous ‘Were the blows he struck. Some of the Present crop of reluctant gladiators weem to labor under the delusion that they also are aimilarly enjoined.. st Bandits out in Urbana, Il took all the money in & restaurant cash register except & two-dollar ‘bill. Perhaps they | were influenced by superstition, and perhaps they decided to leave it there &3 a nest-egg. | oo i The trend in battleships appears to | be awsy from the marine tank and distinctly toward a sort of sea-gping Austin. e Land Taxes in England. Yesterday the House of Commons Wdopted, by & vote of 289 o 230, the | resolution of Philip Bnowden, chancel- Jor of the exchequer of the Labor min- iatry, suthorizing the imposition of & isx of & penry in the pound on land, starting in 1933. ‘The Liberals voted with the government on the proposition the Conservatives in opposition. The measure must pass the House of Lords, | which undoubtedly will balk, but even- f{uslly wiil approve, under the operation of the “veto” rule, which makes the upper chamber of the British Parlia- ment helpless of effective opposition o measures adopted by the lower. This proposal is revolutionary. It is| Sogarded as the beginning of & system ! of taxation that has been resisted and | avolded in England from “ume imme- morial” The Jand has never been taxed for general revenue purposes. The ex- | Danses of the realm have been met by other means, notably in later years| by intome taxes, estale taxes, customns| snd excise taxes. The revenue of ihe current budget, for 1930-31, was at the outset of the period estimaled at £789.- 445000. Of this tolal £63.000000 wus 10 come from estate duties, £122,710,000 from customs, £129,860,000 from excise imposts and £200.000.000 from income taxes, with £64,500000 from surtaxes. Thus of the total budget Tevenue for the gurrent period of £659,570,000, or very nearly eighty-four per cent, came from these items alobe. Land taxes, together with “house duties” and mineral rights duty, sccount for an estimated income of '£300,000, the direct land taxes being 6nly & small percentage of this total, or sn infinitesimal fraction of the reve- Bue. " Chancellor Snowden's proposal is (hat “Ihe land taxes are 1o g0 into effect in 3933, with provision for & two-year sur- Yoy of assessment. Many belleve that this period is not suficient for & valua- | ploneering work as the inspection and Jand on the Defense Highway fulfilled the qualifications and was bought at a price, $57,000, considered reasonable. The detailed information regarding the selection of & site would, of course, have been avallable to any committee or member representing the District Medical Soclety at any time. Sugges- tions would have been cheerfully re- celved. One might presume to believe that the District Medical Society, an organization devoted to safeguarding the health of the community, as well not have been content merely to keep abreast of developments in the cam- paign for the sanitarfum, but would have interested itself actively in such final cholce of & site. | For the society to wake up nine months after the site has been bought and the purchase announced and 0| | pass a resolution full of stinging erit- icism does not place the Medical Soclety in & favorable light, and, without taking into consideration or discussing the va- sious problems encountered by those who selected and bought the site, be- comes rather unwarranted. B Mayor Walker of New York confides to the Lord Mayor of Liverpool that in Gotham “his honor” s only three-six- teenths of the city government. “In our country,” the visitor Teplies, “the lord mayor i3 not even & vulgar frac- | tion.” Now, just what did he mean by that? ST SO A Chicago racketeer works hard for years and saves up $150,000. Then he has to pay it all out as ransom to rival envious gangsters. As De Morgan aptly | put it, “Great fleas have little fleas upon | their backs o bite ‘em.” S | Pive new motor cars have just been | taken to Windsor for the use of the King and Queen. Now Cousin Alfonso can bum & ride, anyhow. & .- Mears Will Try Again. Jobn Henry Mears is a persisient and determined person. He hates to | have his records taken away from him | by any means whatsoever. 1t caused | him grest concern, therefore, when the | Graf Zeppelin made its fast trip around the world in twenty-one days. Now these globe-circling records are Mears’ specialties, and he does not care to have them tampered with. In 1913, for instance, by train and boat, he went around in thirty-five days. In 1928 he improved on that, and with the late Capt. C. B. D. Collyer did it in twenty-eight days by plane and boat. Last year, after the Zeppelin had made its remarkable voyage, the old ain made itself manifest to the former record holder and he decided to ry again. This time he barely es- caped with his life. Taking off from Newfoundland with Lieut. Henry Brown in his fast specially constructed plane, the heavily londed ship refused to leave the ground, crashed into a gully and was & total loss. Brown and Mears, however, escaped with only bruises, as did their mascot, Tall Wind, 2d, Mears’ round-the-world dog. And now comes the announcement from Los Angeles that & new plane has been bullt, and with Vance Breese, & well known pilos, Mears will start sgaln from Newfoundland sometime in June to “do things to the twenty-one day record of the Graf Zeppelin.” The itinerary has been set a3 New York as the interests of its members, would | [to the finish, oo The Maryland crab season has just opened, with every prospect for a goodly take. This may not affect Old Man Depression much, but it ought to make him considerably easier to bear with. No true crab-lover, while engaged with | & properly cooked crustacean, can think anything but happy thoughts. ‘The wish is expressed by male mis- | anthropes that girls would use those Summer fur neckpleces as a sort of bandeau to cover the dazsling expanse | of forehead exposed by the latest in | feminine bats. 1 | 1 | ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Off the Key. There was & man of earthly mood, Who chilled enthusiastic giee By asking questions rather rude, All practical, but off the key. ‘We warbled of the blossoms bright That love the sunshine and the shower. Said he, “The roses are all right, But how about the caulifiower?” Of the melodious birds of Spring ‘We caroled lightly now and then Till he inquired, “Why don't you sing About a rooster or a hen?” Unto a picture he drew near. He almost made the artist faint. | He sald, * "T'would take you long, I fear, | To give & house a coat of paint.” Thou man of practical design! In wisdom's way your footsteps run! | a crate containing a turkey. pleases him, but not otherwise. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newsp. HE CHRISTCHURCH PRE!S.A" Keas (large dull green parrots native ‘to the South Island of New Zealand) are the most comical of our birds. A party of them were recently sitting up at the Hermitage watching the unwrapping of ‘When the majestic turkey stalked out, determined to show the country fellows how they did it in town, the keas began to screech “He-ha” most derisively. The turkey gobbled back at them. but so persistent was their squawking and ridicule that soon he could gobble no more. The keas came back day after day to tease him, until he bacame thor- oughly submissive and secustomed to thelr jokes. * ok x % Four-Story “Skyscraper” Depicts Progress in Managua. La Noticla, Managua.—The first “sky- scraper” in Managua is nearing com- pletion. This building is known locally as the “Edificio Pellas,” and will tower ito the unprecedented height of four stories, with & central tower no less than six stories. This structure is built of reinforced concrete and is & spectacu- lar example of the progress of Managua. Its modern construction makes it more serviceable, and does away with all lost space. With its elevator equipment, it has no rival in Central America, and only in Buenos Alres, in South America, | are there any better examples of con- | structions for commercial purposes. Thirty thousand days' work in all { were required to erect this marvel | which contains 34800 square feet of floor space. The height of th> tower |15 64 feet, and the height of th~ main | portion 40 feet. The freight clevator | has & capacity of 10,000 pounds and And yet, O honored friend of mine, You surely miss & lot of fun! | thus can accommodate even a’ loaded | automobile or truck. * K K K | attention Guarded Expression. “What are your views on these im- portant questions? “Never mind my views,” Senator Sorghum. “As one of my con- stituents, you are not supposed to pay to anything but my inter- views.” Golng the Limit, “You're going to church right regular now.” want 1o learn as much about heaven as possible. I'm getting up a prospectus for the Bummer hotel we're going to start and I want as many attractive ideas as I can get.” Specimens, Sometimes" this specimen you'll find, Undoubtedly a sad one— The man who never changed his mind, Because he never had one. Inconsistent. “My husband has no sense of humor!” she exclaimed. “What makes you think so?” “He says the prices I pay for clothes are ridiculous and then refuses to laugh!” A Matter of Motive. “Its a sign of superior intelligence for & boy to ask questions.” “It sll depends,” replied the patient person, “on whether he asks them for information or merely because he likes to watch his father perform.” “ Unrewarded Effort. Some poetry is not sublime That goes the modern rounds. tion of sl the Jand wilhin the United | to Harbor Grace, across to Dublin, | The more you try to make it rhyme, ‘The foolisher it sounds. replied | “Yes,” replied Parmer Corntossel, “I| Mexican's Ability “ As Criminologist Recognized. | El Universal, Mexico City.—The In- ternational Association for the Identi- fication of Criminals, the main bureau of which Is in Detroit, has appointed Prof. Benjamin Martinez, chief of the | department of public investigation in | Mexico, vice president of the interna- tional sssoclation. This was due to the recognized ability of Martinez in this | branch of eriminal detection and crime | suppression. * ¥ % | Tmmigration Ban | Deserves Heartiest Applause. El Tiempo, Bogota.—Our contempo- rary, La Presna, commenting editorially upon the campaign which has lately with the object of restricting Colombian immigration to the United States, de- been inaugurated in New York City, | apers of Other Lands in the country, however, is disposed of | for local consumption. One good feature of local manufac- tures and industries is that native cap- ital predominates, though Spanish, Ger- man, Italian, Danish, British and Co- lombian money also is invested to some extent. American Interests are very limited. ‘The largest article of export is the Panama hat. Though this article of headgear is eminently suitable for use in Ecuador, the native population, for some reason, have very little predtlec- tlon for it. In normal times, almost the whole production of Ecuador, both agricul- tural and manafactured, is consumed at |home. Of late, surplus goods have | sought foreign markets. | * ko % Protest Against Serbs Addressed To League of Nations. La Macedoine, Geneva (Exterritorial publication) —The appeal addressed to the international conscience by Mme. Ghena Veleva and revealing such ter- rifying facts concerning the regime es- tablished by the Serbs in our country has stirred profoundly the whole of Macedonian _emigration. In Bulgaria alone more than half & million Mace- donian_emigrants have held over 300 meetings, at which resolutions were passed addressed to the League of Na- tions on the subject of the situation in Macedonia—meetings which would not have been tolerated by the authorities in that country. The resolutions are protests against the acts of the Jugoslavian authorities tending toward the forced assimilation of Macedonian Bulgars; petitions to the League of Nations to protect the Bul- garian population of Macedonia and to impose upon the Jugoslavian govern- ment the execution of the engagements assumed under the treaty for the pro- | tection of the minorities, which remains a dead lelurvdu far as the Macedonians are concerned, and an a 1 to the public opinion of smmrflpn?, llo Tep- resenting the political expression of a free and impartial country, to raise its | voice in behalf of a European and Christian people who are being prose- cuted simply because they desire to re- main faithful to their traditions and their inspiration. ——— Competition Is Keen For Seaboard Trade From the Baltimore Bun. Competition between Atlantic ports for business, always keen, promises to | become more intense in the future. | Though New York largely dominates | export and import trade, it is dissatis- | | | | be sufficient. With regard to the tariff, Senator Brockhart says: “I think there will have to be & new tarifft policy. There are 500,000 items | in the tariff law. No Congress, no com- | mission can scientifically consider 500.- | 000 items and the tariff which should be imposed on them in a lifetime. We should, therefore, adopt a plan of con- | trolling the profits of those industrics which are benefited by the tariff, the protected industries. Tt would be easy to regulate such profits by the power of taxation.” Adoption of piecework as the basis of payment for labor in Russia is viewed by Americans a3 evidence of the failure |of & fundamental principle of Com- * x % %' Other planks of major importance. Senator Brookrart insists. should deal with water power, prohibition, labor and unemployment. The people, he says, are | arcused .over the waterpower issue and are demanding Government and mu- nicipal operation of waterpower and electrical _plants. “They have had |in, enough of being exploited by watered mber to this country, and as to the ehhn‘rawwr of the labo: 1o ul | r in- Significance in the announcement of “a radical capital,” he says. On the prohibition issue, he says, the Republican platform should call for law enforcement o the strictest kind. While the Departmen™of Justice has been doing better with the matter of enforcing prohibition than the Treasury Department did in the past, Mr. Brookhart thinks there is still Toom for improvement. Further, he does not like leaving under the control of Secretary Mellon the industrial al- cohol plants. The labor plank in the platform should declare for a law pro- hibiting injunctions in labor disputes and should call for old-age pensions and for unemployment insurance. With such & platform, Senator Brookhart feels, the G. O. P. might yet go to the country and win, particularly if it had a candidate like Borah or Norris. B The Tows Senator is not hankering for & Democratic President, he says. He wants a Republican of the right kind. The Democrat who is most prominently mentioned now for the residential nomination is Gov. Frank- in D. Roosevelt of New York. So far as Senator Brookhart is concerned, Gov. Roosevelt. does not fill the bill at all, ho matter what Senator Norris may think of Roosevelt. In the first place, Senator Brookhart cannot forget that chan; | and attitude with reference to remuner- ation for workers in the industrial | g’hnu of Russia” is seen by the Char- | lotte Observer, with emphasis on the {fact that “the managements of indi- vidual factories, mines, railroads and farms will be shouldered with greater responsibility and will be given free rein in the matter of adjusting wages and rewards of workers.” The Observer concludes as to the effect of the in methods: “It is sald that | elements in Soviet Russia view with | considerable regret this compromise with capitalistic ideas and ideals, but | governmental leaders are confident that tion, eliminate waste and fix bility for mshagements and workers. Where production slumps, wages will be reduced: where output increases, wages | and bonuses will be proportionately | raised. Thus, even Soviet Russia, | where the most advanced and radical of Communistic theories have had full sway, has decided that after all, per- haps, it is better to reward individuals acc to their capacity and useful- ness to the community, rather than to | attempt to keep them all on the same | | plane and give to the sluggard the | same remuneration that is received by | the industrious and capable.” the new system will speed up produc- | The responsi- Gov. Roosevelt is . wet, even though | ek the Southern Democrats seem inclined | A interpreted by the Ch: Dally | o’ overlook that fact and 10 Support | Tribune, -this is :brmuonk:ffl one of | Roosevelt. Then he does not think | ihe central principles of Socialism that Roosevelt’s attitude toward the | from every one according to his ability: | be subject to variation as the worl clares very truly that such & campaign fied with its share and is making s deserves only our heartiest applause ane ensomitias, Tor 16 will sasuresthat| Hard drive o imbruve ite postiion. At no more of our compatriots will be per- mitted to land in the American me- tropolis, there to walk the streets in | hunger and poverty along with thou- | sands of the native citizenry. We have no desire to see any more Colombians in | such lamentable circumstances. There | are enough of them suffering in the United States already. They say in that country that the | duction. There was plenty of employ- ment during the manufacture of many surplus articles. Now that there is no demand for the goods, the problem of those out of work is more serious in America than in any other country. * k% % Ecuador Consumes Most | of Goods Produced. Comercio Internaclonal, Guayaquil— Most Latin American countries are only in the first stages of industrial devel- opment, and Ecuador is no exception. Our Industries are progressing, but they have not reached one lota of their pos- sibilities. Most of what is manufactured or produced in the country could be nominally disposed of at home, if the native population had the money to buy | center. cause of all their troubles is overpro- | Pa the same time New Jersey is fighting to eliminate advantages which New York enjoys so that its side of the ‘Hudson will come into its own. And now Philadelphia seeks % create a port authority, similar to that which con- trols the New York situation, and to make the Delaware a greater shipping Gov. Pinchot, promising State | d, says that “co-operation on the rt of Pennsylvania at large will bring to Philadelphia a change as astonishing and as beneficial as has occurred in Baltimore.” ‘The struggle has been intensified by the slump in water-borne commerce, and & port which expects to retain its falr proportion of shipping business must gird up its loins and prepare for | stiffer opposition than has been hitherto encountered. It is a tribute to Balti- more's many natural sdvantages, both in its water front and in its location in reference to the Midwest, that it has managed to hold its own thus far without such help from the State as a number of other ports are given. ——— = Prom the Toronto Dally Star. Kingdom. Between ten and twelve|then to Berlin, Moscow and through “million pareels of land are to be valued, | Siberia, crossing the Pacific to Chignik, the basis of valuation to be the price ' Alaska, and the final dash to Seattls’ “I likes a good loafer,” sald Uncle which & purchaser would pay for the and back to New York. Eben, “bettern I does & man dat tires :}f,fir:f","d’bz‘,‘;‘,'Q:,_”';,.'p'f”g;‘;,‘_’_:f‘&:;‘fi 450 without bulldings st the date of It is all w’ pleasant to travel hisse’f out gitéin’ in other folks' way,” ture, flour, coffee and meal produced x J —_— it. Lacking it, exports of wool, cotton and hemp fabrics are extensive, as are water wer question is much better than that of President Hoover, even though Senator Norris has declared himself & bellever in Roosevelt on wa- ter power. Suppose the Republicans also suppose the Democrats nomina Gov. Roosevelt. Whom will Senator Brookhart follow? There are those who are willing to wager that the Iowa Republican National ticket under those circumstances. now to which camp he would finally go. if to either. At present he sees no prospect of a third party candidate, * ok ok % Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, Republican leader, asked about the Brookhart talk, says that he him- self_has no doubt of the renomination of - President Hoover. This country is Republican, Watson says, comes to issues. He admits that con- ditions in the country will have an ef- fect on the next election, and insists it would be folly to make predictions regarding an election a year and a half in the future, when it would be impossible to say definitely what con- ditions will be at that time. By the way, Senator Brookhart, when asked how he would look upon the drafting of former President Coolldge to run next year, in this G. O. P. “emer- gency,” replies without hesitation, “That would make bad matters worse.” * Kk ok One of the most ambitious plans for arousing public sentiment among the yeung voters is that recently announced by Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the Republican National Committee. The plan contemplates having in ‘Washington on June 11 and 12 one young man and one young woman from each of the States, designated by the ‘Republican National Committee mem- bers of the States, for a general two- day conference to discuss organization. Here would be an opportunity for the Republican leaders to obtain a pretty good cross-section of the views of the youth of the country regarding certain jssues which are likely to crop up in the com! Prohibition, for ‘when It is cruel to ask a boy to dig up the garden at this time of year when at every stroke of the spade he digs up some of the finest looking fish worms he ever saw, ’ example. It does not seem likely, how- ever, that the conference will spend a great dal of its time on such contro- versial matters, Al rominate Mr. Hoover next year and | te Senator will cast in his lot with the | He himself will not say | it | to every one accord to his needs.” The Tribune declares that “this dogms | is dear to the sentimentalist,” and con- tinues: “It represents what we believe | is called the higher justice, though to many of us the justice is not as clear as it might be, Its main weakness is I'that it doesn’t work. This is denied, | of course, by the theoretical Socialist, | but_experience does not support him. Stalin, although he purports to be a Communist of the strictest orthodoxy, | probably did not expect it to work, and | now he has reached a point in his experimentation when the demonstra- tion of its unworkability has become 50 | conclusive and results so critical that he can afford to act in accordance | with it. So the Soviet rule throws | overboard the most sacred principle of Soclalism and adopts openly what is the mainspring of the capitalist system. The economic equality which Com- munism is guaranteed to establish goes glimnering and the proletarian will get what he works for rather than what New Russian Wage Policies Appraised as Soviet Failure ge in the Soviet policy |to the effect of the . ny directions the five-year plan has fallen schedule, while ahead in others. But railroads, mining and many factories have failed to maintain the pace. Here- the Com unistic mn fixed schedule the other hand, if the ceeded, the workers will receive bonuses. Communist government, however, has frequently demonstrated that it cares less for names and forms then for n;ul‘g‘ It is b:;lw carrying e program con- m:: and will borrow eapitalistic ‘methods when necessary.” * ok x x Commenting on the Soviet activities in other lines, particularly the eliminat- ing of the kulaks, who have been dis- possessed of their small properties. the Buffalo Evening News declares: “The {mcen of reducing the membership of he party in power, which is repeated about once a year, is again under way. The published figures, though they may pro- resses, say that no less than 1,273,000 ommunists have been listed for ex- pulsion from the party, but the number actually dropped had reached somewhat less than 100,000. To any person hold- ing the opinion that government should rest on the will of the people, as ex- pressed by their votes, a political party which closely restricts its membership and frequently revises and reduces the number of its adherents is Inconceh; ple and representative of their will is absurd if the fact is recognized that the ruling group maintains this close limitation of its numbers. * * * Ap- propriately associated with the restric~ tion of the privileged few who may rank as Communists is a new drive for the eiimination of kulaks. According to the official estimates, there still are some 3,000,000 kulaks in the Russian popu- lation. That, by the way, would make them several times more numerous than the Communists, whom the outside world is expected to look uj as con- stituting ‘the people.’ e estimate probably means only that the official definition of ‘kulaks' has been extended to include some 3,000.000 more of those peasants who still cling to their petty individual homes and maintain on little plots of land the wretched horse and cow necessary to peasant life. ‘This has been the status of most of the rural population of Russia.” & shipment he is supposed to need. This will, of course, be justified by the party di- | rectors as merely a temporary resort, | another strategic retreat, but it is in fact a surrender .of the essential principles of Communism, adoption of the essential principle of indi- | vidualism. The whole controversy be- tween the two orders of society de- pends upon this issue.” “Soviet Russia pays still snother tribute to the hated capitalistic plan,” says the Atlanta Journal, | that it sets up “a wage system on actual productivity instead of the- | oretical equality.” The Journal com- | ments on the new development in the | country governed by the ‘Communists: | “This is not the first concession of its Repeatedly it has been pointed | out skilled Russian me- chanics earned 10 to 20 times the average stipend in thelr field of labor, and twice within the Jast three months the government has bhad recourse to differential wages in particular indus- tries as a means of quickening output. ::.one c;l: hum-’: were offered. The nge, however, signifi- cant in that it has wm produc- tion in the . * * ¢ The adven- ‘While the admissiog of of Russian lumber to United States is viewed with curiosity by the presy generally, the Oregon Journai makes the protest: “Meantime, in t” ) West, thousands upon thousands lumber workers are mnot em Lumber mill after lumber mill is el down. Those lumber mills and Jumba | employes are mot making purchaseq 1 | That means that other American in | kind. | dustries and businesses are not selli; iumuchumuu-ouumhnh‘: | industry were operating at even some normal capacity. That Mflum interests thing like that the ture that set out to abolish the in- equaliti-s of _capitalism, g to countenance (Individual s=lf-interest, is now seen appealing to same in- mes, particularly at & time when men are out of work and ‘when firms throughout the | need in countzy of business.