Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1931, Page 8

STAR Eaition. WASEINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY...........May 8, 1031 THE EVENING With Sunday Morning THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 1t 8t "ehe- P °'r.'.~,“ EICY, 2w o Rate by Carrler Within the City. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Yaryiand and Vi ¢ Member of the MM.‘M Pl-.l s The ted is exclusively en R L Congress and the Electors. Bishop James Cannon, jr, and his alde in the anti-Smith Democratic cam- paign of 1928, Miss Ada L. Burroughs, in their contention that the Nye sena- torial committee has no authority to inquire into the conduct of that cam- paign have raised a question of great nterest. They in effect challenge the right of Congress to seek in any way to regulate the election or appointment of presidential and vice presidential electors. These electors, Bishop Cannon and his aide assert, are State officers, not Federal, and under the Cunstitution Congress has nothing to do with them. In support of this contention, an opin- jon of the United States Su:eme Court in the case of Fitzgerald :ersus Gueen, gress to leglslate with regard to the “ap- pointment” or election, as it has be- il 3 — | ¢ ALg " THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ’ i ¢ | i tographed the event, developed the pic- printed them and had them back in Winchester, with the help of a fast airplane and stift tall wind, before the T Eégf & indicates an inherent OVer seeing the pictures of the corona- ty capable of development through ' tion in the paper before the queen The great orches- WAS ever crowned that measures were not born to fame overnight, ik} H E f -3 i H 3 ment have had the support of loyal; communities, If the National Sym- (!0’ get them later, when the quunl phony Orchestra plays its part, there Would graclously consent to a post- is little doubt that this community wm"‘"- Bome photographers did. All of enable it to meet what, for all of us,: are great expectations. oo All of which proves nothing in par- ticular, but raises the interesting qu tion whether Winchester has really reached that state of independence in thought and action which enables it to tell the world that it can take its pho- tographers or leave them alone. —— e, How strongly geographical location influences a citizen's attitude toward traffic problems has been artlessly evi- Healthy Discussions. When the American section of the: International Chamber of Commerce in- vited that important organization to meet in Washington this month, it was intimated that the freest, fullest and frankest discussion of all controversial issues would be welcomed. The sugges- tion was more than perfunctory, because the outside world lays a good many of its current trials and tribulations at the feet of the United States. Uncle Sam officially 1s blamed for his attitude on war debts, reparations and tariffs, and Uncle Bam privately is hcld responsible for teaching other countries the evil of mass production. ‘The International Chamber is bringing to a close tomorrow six days of uncom- monly fruitful discussion on these and variety of allied themes, such as silver, stock exchange practices and unemploy- ment conditions. The “keynote” struck by President Hoover on disarmament has not come under debate; except in the corridors of the biennial congress, but 1t is expected to be the subject of & resolution before the chamber adjourns. ‘That the business men the world will identify themselves Mr, Hoo- ver's anxiety over the mounting costli- ness of armaments can hardly be doubted, though they may not go the length of concurring in his theory that the:heavy burden of national defense les at the root of economic depression. Yesterday's striking remarks of Dr. Carl Bergmann, a former German finance minister, on reparations and war debts probabdly crystallizes the In- ternational Chambst of Commerce at- titude on those fundamental issues— issues which Europe holds to be inter- locking and which the United States denced reeently. On the same night that whose members live near the center of things, protest all-night parking, mem- bers of the Washington Highlands or- ganization, who must bring their cars into town for a considerable stay, go on record against parallel parking. —————— “Mayor Walker the other day welcomed the Lord Mayor of Liverpool to Man- shadowed by the sartorial splendor of the distinguished visitor. Now New Yorkers are wondering whether “Jimmy” will not apply for the appointment of & mace bearer and the construction of an official bat of gold. ) Just as the “Senators” thought they had the “Yankees” permanently cowed, the New York sluggers went on & rampage with an eight-run inning that proved for' the hundred thousandth time that base ball is just about the most uncertain thing in human experi- ence. Far-famed “June week” is approach- ing at Annapolis. It is thought that if this year any young lady visitors feel that they just must sample Naval Acad- emy food, their blue-clad swains will institute curb service. ———————— - Presidential elections loom in Prance. Tt would be but simple justice to give in- again-out-again Aristide Briand, twelve and the same locker for a period of some years. ‘That catch phrase of the “mauve decade,” “How would you like to be the iceman?” takes on & gloomy tinge in these days of ever-increasing re- frigerating machinery. B e “Married on a Dare,” that all-too- headline, is overfrequently common followed by either annulment or divorce hattan and for once was eompletely | mill. D. C., FRIDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “Don't put all yous eggs in one basket.” . ‘There is no more time-honored say- ing, but it is open to question whether it applies to much else les eggs. Marriage, home, work, church, friends, even Paradise, are excellent examples of ]pum'n( nlltyour eg@s in one basket with great profit. ‘When the proverb which was meant for eggs is transferred to cover a mul- titude of human activities, it begins to get into difficulties. Certainly a measurable amount of ;| innate shrewdness is shown by diversifi- cation, especially in money matters, but it is questionable whether loyalty and faith are not far better virtues. I Joyalty and faith, as practiced in the use of one basket, are abused by others, it is neither a reflection upon the one nor the other, but of the bas- ket itself and upon him who drops it I Suspicion of the basket, therefore, i the root of the old aphorism. Wisdom is justified of her children, and no doubt the penny-wise knowledge of mankind has done well to evolve such a saying, as far as it goes. ‘Ths :ranble w;’th it is that it does not go far enough. Faith and trust would be back num- bers if we forever listened to such advice. Man would crawl throug:iothe world worse than the serpent through Eden, if he felt that no basket was bl1 enough and strong enough to take all the Dupont Circle Citizens' Association, | he had. * ok k% Persistently comes the reply, “Yes, but experience has shown!” Well, let it. Experience has shown almost every- thing, for that metter. There is no great thing, no small thing, no good thing, no bad thing, no honest thing, no dishonest thing, no beautiful nor no ugly thing which experience has not at some time or other produced from her ever-grinding The flow of the years and the desires of human beings, the one working on the other, have brought forth about every single thing and eventuality which mankind seems able to achieve, either in goodness or rottenness. Thousands of years ago & great man sat at his palace window and wrote down the thought, “There is no new thing under the sun.” Everything was old then, it is older now; what never changes is desire, loy- alty, faith, fraud, deceit, honesty, pu- rity, crookedness. * kK K The human emotions stand sure. ‘What grows out of them is what life is. Bathe we never so much beneath our electric sun lamps, amazing invention of this age, we have no more a sense of sunshine than did the simple she) herd on the hills of Judea 2,000 yea ago. It is questionable whether the re- sponse to a mighty oration today is any greater, if as great, than the reply of the people to Moses, when he arose in his mfiny and might and said, “This day 1 set before you life and X The wind blows from the west and goes around to the north, and comes bask to the west again, as the Preacher sald 50 many, many years ago. Facets change, but life changes lit- tle. The right-thinking person still stands firmly by faith and loyaity, as opposed to a crawling caution. * ok * % Caution sgain sticks up its head, however. “Watch out, watch out,” it whispers. “Better be suspicious than sorry. “Sentiments are pretty things, but the school of hard knocks knows a thing or two about eggs. “Do not put them all in one basket.” ‘What sball one say to caution? 1t, too, is old and has passed the test of experience with fiyinr colors. Caution is a_way of life which one elther has or has not by nature, but which any one may learn in part, eitber freely or b{.!nru. Cautlon Is to be viewed with suspicion when it becomes o'ercautious, when it tends to push out of alignment the bet- ter virtues, such as truth, faith, loyalty. * kK X Let one say what he will in favor of on one's guard, it is & sorry way of life, after all. The whole effort, of clvilization is to reduce the hours during which mankind must be on the oul ‘Watchman, what of the night, in- deed? Better is it to be a bit craven, per- haps, than to spend one's entire time fending with elemental principles. It were better to put all one's eggs in one basket, and let it go at that, than exhibit a lack of faith which may turn out to be the grea ‘When the et 8 3 driven back irresistibly upon the great- est thoughts and sublimest statements in our common heritage of words. These words were written for such times, let us never forget that. In hours of ease forgetfulness may domi- nate the scene of man, but when the sound of eggs comes crashing down the street old habits are unrooted and fun- damental things fly back into their proper places. X k% This business of eggs and their bas- kets is, after all, a very perplexing one, and no one can be blamed who decides that there is much to be said against it in the end. Those who have experienced the fra- Euty of eggs and the treachery of bas- are inclined to turn to those more intangible things which the sages of all nations praise. ‘These, such as faith and loyalty, are the truth of being, and in them the seeker finds justification for his acts. In this mood, sitting among his broken eggs, he may read aright that majestic poem of George Herbert: The Pulley. ‘When God at first made man, Having & glass of blessings standing by. “Let sald He, “pour on him all we can; Let the world’s riches, which dispersed Contract inte a span.” So strength first made a way, Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, hon- or, pleasure; ‘When almost all was out, God made a stay, Percelving that, alone of all His treas- ure, Rest in the bottom lay. “For if I should,” said He, “Bestow this jewel also on My creature, He would e My gifts instead of Me, And_rest in Nature, not the God of Nature; So both should losers be. “Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restless- ness; !c‘tc‘g:m be rich and weary, that at 1t goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to My breast.” WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. on the people’s time and largely at|honor their expense. “The tranquility of Veneszuela,” states one of her cabinet ministers, “cannot be disturbed by adventurers.” Just where will have the place of honor at the speaker’s table of the American Law Institute banquet in Washington tomor- .| row night. Her subject is not an- nounced, but the expectation is that she will deal primarily with prohibition. She is the woman member of the of | Wickersham Ccmmission and distin- has he been the past forty or fitty years? | oz vy, Normandy may be all right for its chmes and its draft-horses, but when it comes to apple blossoms, give Ameri- cans the Valley of Virginia every time. —————————— SHOOTING STARS. One way in which the late George F. Baker’s plainly equipped bank keeps down overhead is by having only two vice presidents. Such, coupled with a lot of Circasslan walnut and monster murals, are apt to run into big money. ——————— Queens and Photographers. ‘The thriving little city of Winchester has made a fete of the bursting into bloom of the millions of apple blossoms that adorn the Shenandoah Valley and established it as an annual attraction that beckons thousands of tourists. And, like many other American institu- tions, the pretty custom has become s fine advertising medium for that sec- R EEZ Bl is two years ‘em learns to in’ 4o by de ‘ashington has just been the scene of a town anniversary, the belns the unvelling of a memorial to Admiral de Grasse. The monument commemo- rates the battle on ber 5, 1781, in which the Prench defeated the British fleet and assured the capitulation at ‘Yorktown on the 19th of October. Marshal Petain, the hero of Verdun, has never visited the United States. He is France's greatest living soldier, now that Joffre and Foch a filnktnvlloro\udumo(mleoun- try’s unified air defenses. The Ameri- can people would accord a tumultuous welcome to the man who rallied the dispirited French army before the Ger- mans at Verdun with his immortal slogan, “They shall not pass!” * k% Tmany is Russia’s most important thbor and a_corre- port insurance arrangement ‘we have just entered. But we are con- scious that the Russian system menaces cultural ideal we hold dear.” PR to the United States tomorrow night as the newly elected president of Internationsl Chaml of Com- merce, is a descendant of the famous German composer, Felix Mendelssohn. The Mendelssohns, the Rothschilds and the Bleichroeders have dominated the German financial world for more than a century. Hardly any European trans- action of magnitude can take place without the participation of one or all three of th:&e' houses. Aax‘x I&lu’mluo&l‘l Chamber speak! e incom! president, said: “The Mendelssohns of MI“I{. true to their musical ancestor, are dealing in notes.” * ok ok K t Hoover to his - | prompt f produced Befend himselt t | in search of jobs.” herself last January by submit- guished 'ting the shortest report turned in by any of the commissioners. It was only 131 words long and was wet. Miss Comstock held that “the conditions which exist today in respect to enforce- ment, and which, In my opinion, can be modified only slightly by improve- ments in administraticn, tend to under- mine not only respect for law but-more fundamental conceptions of p ersonal integrity and decency.” she favors “an immediate attempt at change.” * x kX On Central Park West, New York City, the entire block between Eighty- sixth and Eighty-seventh streets is now by a skyscraper apartment buil which is being widely adver- tised under the name of “the White House.” The publicity says: “You don't have to be President of the United States to live ll; the ‘White House!’ " * % * h gratification exists in Wash- luded by the prospects of employment at Las Vegas and tfir:zdm site. Don Cameron, a representative of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, recently made a personal investigation of conditions in the dam there from all sections of the country On arrival, lured by ST o S e et en at a minimum of $5 day, they learned that there were ‘fxf ready many more laborers on hand than will ever be needed. He says Las Vegas is crowded with the hungry and the poor. * X x % Possibly Nick Longworth had som portents of his early demise, for, unux: most ers had his the Capitol about two years ago. paintings of him were done, Baron Doblhoff of Austria and Clark Tidden, young Wash- ington now domiciled in New York. ‘The Doblhoff picture was ac- cepted and a $2,000 appropriation made for its purchase by Congress. It now hangs over Nick's vacant chair in the spnk;:‘shmm 1‘: 3‘:: Capitol lmll ot;’l;l soon Speaker’s g The Tidden portrait, which now rests in the office of the architect of the 52 only oiner of) painking of oe Joved e ofl painting e lovi Longworth extant. nt. (Copyright, 1931.) ey Slander of Public Men. From the Pasadena Star-News. Reckless, ruthless assailing of men in public 1ife is a pernicious thing, essen-, tally cowardly unless it be backed and convincing 80 that the accused may det and so that the public mnl know the nature of the charges and the nature of the proof, if any, in su] of charges. The Btal the . United Constitution and laws t.g‘eteunda s She added that 8T MAY 8, 1931 Auto Storage at Curb Held Disgrace to City o the Editor of The Star: It is amazing that the Capital of the Natlon, where much money is spent an- nually for sanitation, fire prevention and civic beautification, should set the bad example of permitting commercial vehicles filled with inflammable rub- bish to park overtime in its streets. The practice of using the streets for the storage of trucks has resulted from the custom of all-night parking of other motor vehicles and is indicative of a low order of municipal housckeeping. Some of the side streets of Washing- ton, and even certain thoroughfares through which much up-and-down town trafic passes, are eyesores, having ac- quired a slumlike appcarance because they have been allowed to become havens for a nondescript collection of motor vehicles, ranging from huge, dirty bulding trucks and wrecking cars to dilapidated delivery wagons and abandoned automobiles chalked with “For sale” signs. ‘These neighborhoods are, for the most part, residential, with no commercial activities other than a few neighborhood shops and perhaps a public garage. The parking of such vehicles in the street is wholly out of keeping with the char- acter of the neighborhood. The com- munities are injured by occasional truckmen, who conduct their busincss along somewhat primitive lines, using| g j the curb in front of their homes or those of neighbors for parking vans when not in use. If there is a lack of furniture-moving jobs or a lull in the “quick transfer” business, trash collection is resorted to, and the uncovered vehicles are left in the street until accumulation of a full load, sometimes for days and weeks, un- til the load can be moved to the rubbish cump or junk yard. Public garages under careless man- agement also contribute to the collec- | tion of unsightly vehicles, wrecking cars and other gerage eguipment being parked by the operators day and night in front of the garages or nearby dwellings. Laborers taxi home in rumbling trucks and leave them in the street overnight and during week ends. ‘Tradesmen located on prominent thor- oughfares also avail themselves of un- restricted parking privileges and stand delivery wagons on side streets over- night and on Sundays. The writer has observed a truck, with three of its four wheels tireless and displaying out-of-date license plates, standing at the curb for several weeks. The vehicle was overloaded with ashes, broken furniture, glass, a dis- carded holiday tree, a dead cat, straw hats, bottles and other rubbish. The Enprletor of a private garage main- ins a sort of motorized waste basket in the street, placing sweepings from the garage in an uncovered vehicle which has no license plates, unbeliev- able as it seems. The vehicle, containing an accumu- lation of oily rags and other inflam. mable waste, is parked at the curb in front of the garage or the adjoining wooden houses. Nestled close against a frame house which faces a street, but which sides on an alley, a rubbish- collecting truck has long been immune to molestation because of overtime parking, notwithstanding the fire haz- ard. Before car repairing in the street was banned, the observer might have noticed cars with dismantled engines or precarious “tin lizzies,” minus wheels, jacked up on soap boxes at the curb for an indefinite period. On a street where the sidewalks are:! very narrow and the houses barely six| or seven feet from the cutb there was parked for, several.weeks & truck loaded with such. weste building material as wooden shivings, broken laths and ex: celsior. The dwellings were of frams construction, some of them ancient tinder boxes, unoccupied and withouty window frames. § A fire that might easily have spread ‘o the row could have been ignited by a match or cigarette carelessly into the truck by a passerby. The con< dition of some streets is similar to a stable or truck yard, where such activi-/ ties as painting, w and repairing of vehicles carried on without let or hindran Adjoining a well known cafeteria is a repair shop specializing in auto tops. Recovering operations are formed at the curb. of the shop an the eating place. ‘There are regulations prohibiting commercial vehicles from standing in front of dwellings, except when load- ing or unloading, regulations limiting parking to a maximum of 18 hours, and regulations forbidding the repairing of cars and throwing or depositing of rub- | bish in the street, which, if enforced, would much improve the appearance of the thoroughfares and lessen the from fire. Why are these regula- tions not enforced? That is a question every citizen with a spark of civic inter- est is apt to ask himself when con- fronted by such conditions. Unsightly truck parking should be prohibited, especially in residential sec- tions. The habits and occupations of the residents of some neighborhoods are & guarantee against the development of an cbnoxious environment. In sections where less affluent classes make their homes there is likely to be an element which is indifferent to its surroundings and which has little regard for law, order or decency. It is in such neigh- borhoods that the authorities should exercise special vigilance and maintain !ll:_: required standard of cleanliness and order. ‘There is something anomalous about municipal housekeeping which is per- formed after the manner of a house- keeper who sweeps and garnishes only the rooms of the main flcor and neglects to give the upper rooms of the house such attention. Municipal management, to be efficient, should be capable of making Lowbrow street as clean and orderly as Highbrow street. are relics of medievalism and have no oc- casion for existence in progressive com- munities where modern building, hous- ing, sanitation, fire and traffic ordi- naaces obtain and where interest in clvic betterment is fostered. Motorists who oppose a ban on un- limited parking because of the expense of keeping vehicles in deprive themselves and others of the maximum service and enjoyment to be derived from motor transportation. Double park- ing has increased to an extent which makes it imperative that the at curbs be used for moving , de- livery of passengers and merchandise and short-time . Because vehi- cles are left all night in front of resi- dences, it is becoming increasingly diffi- cult to find parking space not only downtown, but uj , when visiting homes or shops of an evening or when attending the nelghborhood theater or church. Conditions in a city whers all-night parking is permitted are as unpleasant as in a house having no closets, where trunks, packing boxes and other accu- mulations are stacked against the walls of the halls and rooms. Garages, like closets, are a necessity. Washington is exceptionally fortunate in possessing a system of alleys which permits garages being placed on the rear of lots. Resi- dents of other clties where there are few or no alleys and where all-night ing is not coun ha roof, with the | rages, able rentals should be provided to fore- stall any profiteering from a on all-night parking. Highway construction } and traffic control gmcrlmx Apmn one- sided. Not only should good highways and effective traffic restrictions be pro- vided, but provision should be made for the sto? of vehicles when not in use. Unless all-night parking of vehicles of every description is prohibited entirely, t, | there is little hope for improvement in appearance of the streets and relief the from traffic congestion. LEWIS L. YOUNG. Loud Voices. in | Prom the Springfield (Mass.) Union. houses emplo; A professor has perfected a device to measure the udience ;penl up & vast new fleld for ent to hog callers soap-hox orators, ‘which sometimes in front of k- vdumlo(&whunmm of ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Washington is the world's greatest storehouse of all kinds of knowledge. You can draw on it free of charge through our bureau there. Any ques- tion of fact you may ask will be an- in & personal letter to you. Be careful wmm cml{n ve your full name apd Iress, C] 2-cent stamp for reply postage. Send your lnuuhx“to The Evening Star In- formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Wi , D. C. Q. In muction bri T bid & spade, holding the king. My partner put down the other four honors. How much do they count?—J. O. R. A. Honors in auction’ bridge are counted by the side which holds them. Since you had one and ypur partner four, they counted 90. Q. Who was the English artist who came to this countryr about 25 or 30 years ago and attracted atten- tion with the There Was I Wlll-‘ in’ at the Church”?—S. A. It was Vesta Tilly. Q. How long is the count of 10 in & prize fight supposed to take?—S. 8. 8\ | A. According to the Marquis oX| Queensberry rules, & man knocked down must rise in 10 seconds or the contest | os Q. What is “Botticino marble”?—L. . R A. The Bureau of Mines informs us that Botticino marble is a cream-col- | ored variety of Italian marble with | brown markings. This marble is popu- lar in this country for interior decorat- ing because of its beautiful coloring and markings. The outstanding example of | interfor construction in this marble is | the interior of the Grand Central Sta- | tion in New York City, which is consid- ered one of the most beautiful stations in the country. Q. What is the record number of persons carried across the ocean by one ship?—T. B. F. | A. When the Leviathan carried her | record-breaking conf t of soldlers | she also carried the officers and crew, to the number of 2,076, making a grand total of 13,558 souls on board, the great- est number carried across any ocean by any ship on any trip. Q. Why is the plimsoll line marked on the outside of ships?—C. F. 8. A. It indicates the limit of sub- | mergence allowed by law. Q. When was Sixteenth street in ‘Washington, D. C., called the Avenue of the Presidents?—C. C. O. A. It bore this designation from March 4, 1913, to July 23, 1914, Q. Why do we write from left to right?>—J. H. G. A. There has been considerable va- riation from time to time in the direc- tion of 'flung. ‘The Greeks at first wrote from right to left, and afterward adopted the method called boustrophe- don, from the motion of the ox plow- ing—that is, alternately frcm right to left and from left to right. Writing from left to right is believed to have been introduced in the time of Homer by Pronapides of Athens. Q. How high is the Pitt Cathedral of Learning?—W. E. B. ‘A. The Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh is 38 storles, 500 feet high. Q. Please tell something of the life of Comdr. Danenhower, who is going with the Wilkins exposition to the North Pole.—R. H. A. Lieut. Comdr. Sloan Danenhower is an Annapolis graduate of 1907. He is a veteran submarine technician, son of Lieut. Danenhower, Who was navi- ic hall | entirely different. | rotating: gating officer for the DeLong-Jeanette Aretic expedition. Lieut. Comdr. Dan- enhower is to command the Nautilus on its transpolar expedition. Q. Are the helicopter and autogiro the same?—E. R. A. A helicopter and an autogiro are The au is & ving airplane, and the wings are not geared to the motor. The heli- copter is a form of aircraft whose sole support in the air is derived directly from the vertical component of the thrust produced by rotating airfoil. The blades of the helicopter are geared to the moior. Q. Do men and boys buy as many shoes as women and girls>—J. F. A. Judging from the number made, they do not. In 1929 there were 361, 402,000 pairs of shoes manufactured in the United States. Of this number 94,770,000 were men’s, 22,993,000 boys and youths’, 131,303,000 women's, 39,- 927,000 misses’ and children’s, 23,750~ 000 infants’ and 48,859,000 miscellane- ous. This last group includes such shoes assathletic and sport shoes. Q. What license fee is charged for a radio in Canada, and what service is ryendered in return?—F. B. A. Every owner of a radio recelving sé\"r in Canada in required to pay a licanse fee of $1 to the Canadian gov- ernivent. For this fee certain benefits ervices of advantage to the radio 1 "¢ given. One branch of this service is 1o detect and check causes | of interfyrence that prevent satisfactory reception. Motor cars with special equipmentf' are maintained by the gov- ernment in several centers to cruise around in ocder to find the cause of trouble. Whan_located, experts apply the remedy. The Canadian govern- ment has a diryctor of radio attachee to the departmen{ of marine. Q. Please give some information about the convict ship Buccess—W. L. G. A. It was built by the British gov- ernment in 1790 at Moulmain, East Indies. Wheg the con¥ict system was abolished, the vessel was scuttled and sunk in Sydney Harbor, Australia, and lay there for five years. It was subse- quently raised to serve as an object lesson in prison reform. Since that time the vessel has been traveling from port to port as an exhibit. It first came to New York May 17, 1913. Q. When does the Red Cross stamp go on sale?’—R. E. A. On May 21, 1931, the date of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding ol the American Red Cross, the stamp will g0 on sale. It will first be available in ‘Washington, D. C., the city which eon- tains the national headquarters of the Red Cross, and at Dansville, N. Y., the city in which the first chapter was or- ganized. Q. Where is the boundary between the Baltimore Harbor and Chesapeake Bay and the high seas?>—V. A. A. It is a line drawn from Cape Charles Lighthouse 1791, degrees (S. 12 W.), 103 miles, to Cape Henry Gas and Whistling Buoy, 2; thence 257 degrees (W. 8% S), 5 miles, to Cape Henry Lighthouse. Q. Why did fla Egyptians mummify their dead?—R. B. A. The belleved that after the soul departed from the body it was }ufl(ed in the Hall of ble Truth be- lore Osiris, the j of the dead. After it had undergone all its transformations it would return and again enter the body in the tomb. If by any chance the heart was destroyed, it wot not be possible for the dead to enjoy life in the world to come. i Butler Entertains Country With Many Forms of Activity controversy or a diplomatic tilt with %mvoy of a country in the West les. As to_the Congressional Medal of Honor that he_received, the question raised by the Haitian Minister as to the existence of the fort that was the scene of his bravery, the San Francisco Chronicle suggests that the envoy “may be under the influence of the American school of debunking historians who any day may produce a book to prove there never was a battle of Bunker Hill or that the Alamo is the invention of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce.” The Chronicle concludes: “Whether Butler is spoofing or takes a superseri- ous. vuw‘ of h!msellhl: xumtfr;e:Mg blem for the psycholo 3 su- per itive are r}:t’ likely to have much of a funny bone. And yet—well, one g!u:la]u;afoodumomeron‘mn. medley Butler. Referring to both the ruling of the general off the radio for use of pro- hibited words and the diplomatic inci- dent, the Ann Arbor Daily News re- marks: “We must admit a certain dis- such a fuss. He ought to be bl ‘el::f)uzh to laugh off both incidents and call it a day. His patience has been somewhat tried of late, particularly by the Mussolini affair, but he ought to get 2 grip on himself and rise above such picayunish business. We had al- ways supposed that when the Marines were landing on some tropical island v‘.,!txg‘ could overlook a few mosquito * * Kk Suggesting that the general “drama- tizes himself as a_hard-bitten leather- neck, a devil-dog Marine in the story-| pal book manner,” the Worcester Telegram says: “It is inevitable that a gentleman faithfully pla; such a romantic role should t into trouble with tive, y wights with ‘That h: speaks lines appropriate to ter which he is playing, the groundlings misunderstand him. They are not ac- customed to theater on this side of the footlights and they are ed and confounded. And it is too bad. Re- garded as an actor taking an heroic, swashbuckling part, the general is a highly interesting and even entertain- person who may be forgiven if he “evident persecution” is raised by the Raleigh News and Observer, with declaration that the radio director to have instructions in the “needs way to treat a gentleman whose 5 £ the | through mil- army of half a million, or even a the NI le lion—could scour icaraguan clean, but Smedley Butler cot by himself and brace of Sandinos in his tetth. could have ful and uncensored latitude as to epithets, no bar to cussing, and the whole wide landscape for speech- making and a third Congressional Medal at the end of the road, if any.” R Passing judgment on the requisition made for the services of Gen. Butler at the head of Pollce affairs in Oregon, the Seattle Dally Times remarks: “That he can give Oregon the kind of service it is seeking is not necessarily to be doubted, because of Gen. Butler's con- versational proclivities. There is an- other angle to the matter, however, t0 which Oregon may not yet have given thougit, but which inspires some ap- prehension among friendly neighbors. has not been known as a par- ticularly obstreperous commonwealth. Quite to the contrary, its people have been regarded as more than or ly peaceable and law-abiding. The need of a State police force to maintain order has not been generally apparent, much less the need of calling upon the high- est and most variously advertised talent in the country to organize the force. Bringing Gen. Butler to Oregon invites national attention and involves the chance of adverse as well as of desir- able publicity.” “Gen. Butler has been dee'p:{l inter- ested in police work,” records the Eve- I2 | ping Bulletin in Philadelphia, “since his experience as director of public safety here. He learned in Philadelphia some- thing about the conditions, absent in & mumg’ establishment, which compli- cate handling of a civilian force, and about the obstacles politics throws in the way of efficient and conscientious performance of police duty. He has come to the conclusion that the ulti- mate solution of the law enforcement problem in this country is the substitu- tion of a mobile State force, whose units could constantly be shifted, for munici- police. He may be too sanguine about the certainty of elimination of politics under this system, and in any case his ideas are probably too radical for wholesale acceptance anywhere at this time. But any organization or re- organization of State police forces any- where will interest him immensely.” Georgia Sets Record In Reducing Illiteracy Prom the Savannah Morning News. Georgia is getting some mighty good publicity out of the report of the Na- tional Advisory Committee on Illiteracy, the opening sentence of which is this: “Georgia should be proud of her notable reduction in nnum{ during the past decade.” -The report goes on to say that of the 20 States for which figures are now available, Georgia heads the list in progress in reducing the number of its citizens who cannot read and write. ‘That the task is not complete in this State every one knows, but such prog- ress has been made, and such momen- tum in the good work acquired, that G’neo:gm ought to make a similar record e revealed for the last decade in the cen- next decade to that which is sus_figures. Tilite: is an economic disease; 1t Tacy ‘ongress | bites into the fabric_of modern life, town “Gen. Butler has kowtowed in the in- terest of amicable relations, when he has been in the wrong,” and “it is only right that he should be accorded his little inning now.” The Memphis Com- mercial-Appeal sees force in his protest. “The proposal of Representative Fish that Gen. Butler be sent to the work in the ar] n . C., 'ost g 's further proposal that takes daily toll of efficiency, helps to cut down all of the indices which tell of progress. An illiterate people will have smaller per capita earnings, smaller per capita savings, smaller per capita wealth, less ambition to succeed, less opportunity for success. So, when Georgia shows that it is doing the best work so far reported in the whole coun- try it has a right to feel that it is do- ing something for not only those whom it teaches to read and write, but for its whole people. b 5 S SRERRES Needs a Suit First. From the Roanoke Times. 5 Gandhi draws stiff shirt. This us there must be much good in his S