Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR . With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.........May 11, 1081 ... Rditor rfiononn W. NOYES. n-’fiwh';m'flxgp;pu c&-un_; 111 3 ADIS Al Rate by Carrier Within the City, ening Star 45c per month ©80¢ per month ~ie. .00 08¢ DEr mODth Sc rer copy < the end af ‘each ment in by mall or telephone jers may be Rhitonar So0o. ance. Maryland and Virginia. iy uf' Sunds 1 mo.. AN Otber States and Caos v and Sunda: .Hla’ {:s»flin ? suf, | tndas only . SR IR ke Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is excl to the use for republication of patches credited fo it or not ot ited in this paper and aiso the local news published herein. ~ All rights of publication of necis] dispatches herein are also reserved. 1 RES 1yr Economy. Economy in governmental operations, with a deficit ranging sbove $800,000,- MO0 facing the Tressury Department, is inot only common sense but imperative. ENING thet they should be, becsuse the winner of & place in the national finals, carry- ing with it & tour of Enurope snd & chance st s place in the International finals, should be sble to show mastery of himself and his subject when he stends up to spesk. It is, truly, one of the remarksble developments of & decade, this Inter- national Orstorical Contest, with its ramifications 1o twenty-four natioos, its nicely balanced emphssis on facility in the fire and ehthusiasm of youth with the sturdy loyalty snd insight of the mature mind. It swings along with a |sure, swift, strong stride, and it gets | somewhere! The Star is proud to be one of ihe newspapers connected with undertaking. It not only feels repaid ticipation of close to 20.000 students in its immediate territory, but it also feels. and wishes to give expression to, its debt of gratitude to the hundreds of teschers and principals whose patient, sympathetic and highly mltmge’m Jabors have made the movement this year, as in the past, an ouistanding success. ‘Washingbon itself has & right W be proud of the fact that this, the most widespread educational movement in the world, bas this city as its head- quarters and its mec Through it, under the guiding and organizing skill | of ita founder, Randolph Leigh, youthful | expreasion and grasp of basic principles | of government, its superb merging of | such an | for ite effort by the enthusiastic par- | It is one thing to spend monev wisely students on three continents have their In the matter of public construction | efforts directed toward & befter under- during times of depression in order to ' standing of the principles of good gov- provide as far as possible for taking up ernment and toward the opportunity to thé siack of nunemployment. other thing to waste money by useless | nationsl Finals, which have now bscome It is an- | voice that understanding in the Inter- | overhead charges in the sdministration of any branch of the Government. President Hoover not long ago made publie Agures which showed that. out of & total expenditure of about $4.000,000,- 000 a vear, the Government was spend- ing more than $2.500,000,000 on past wars and national defense. Tt in not sur- prising. under all the circumstances. that the sommander in chief of the Army and the Navy shonld wish to scrutinize the administration of military affairs, or that he should have called & confer- ence 4t his fishing camp over the week end to consider with the Secretary of War, the chief of staff of the Army snd other officials the possibility of making ings in the War Department. The Army of the United States hss been curtailed to the limit of national #afety. All the talk of srms limita- tion. In which the American Govern- ment and the American people have been greatly interested, has never con- templated cuts in the comparatively di- | minutive gArmy of this country. numbers now 118,000 officers and an- listed personnel. It is said upon high authority that President Hoover has not proposed a reduction in the per- sonnel of the Army in his economy pro- grem. But what he does insist upon is | the saving of unnecessary expeniitures, it such saving can be brought about. No one should quarrel with such & proposal, no matter how strongly that person may feel the need of maintam- ing sdequate national defeunse. Reorganimation of buresus, elimine- tion of ali kinds of dupliestion of work, fhe consolidation of Army posts Dow scettered throughout the country are possible avenues of attack upon the expenditures of the War Department. It | & World Forum for the youth of today. i | & — A Republic's Troubles. Provisional President Zamora and the rest of the republican regime at Madrid sre discovering that democracy hes its troubles, too, Yesterday the eapital of agitation, which shows thet while the | monarchists are out, they are not aito- | gether down. The exiled Alfonso still their royalist spleen snd crusade for the restoration of the Bourbons. Dispatches relate thpt the republican government is chagrined by the extent | end violence of the monarchist fare back. They had prided themselves on the ease with which the throne was toppled & monih sgo and the tranquil- lity that hes since reigned. The Madrid authorities were apparently taken by surprise by & Sunday parade whosé mili- tant participants Justily shouted: “Long live the King!” Tierce attagks by re publicans ensued. Monarchist head ‘quarters were invaded, the royalist newspaper, A B C, was sacked, snd & former minisier of the interior under Alfonso, Senor -Matos, only escaped Iynching through the personal interven- tion of Spains most eminent newly | baked republican, Sénor Sanches | Guerra. The premises of Ei Debate, | Catholic paper suspected of Bourbon leanings, was also stormed. When Zemors made his recent dra- | | | | | | assumed abroad that the April revoiu- | tion might be considered an accom- | fact. In s radio broadcast to the Untted States, Zamors indicated that Spain rocked with counter-revolutionary | | has friends st home, determined to vent | tion will Jead. Knowledge of the stellar ' spaces may not be rated st this moment , 88 of sssured benefit, vet there are In development even now measures of utility that bear close relation to the forces that Michelson has reduced to formulss snd has brought within tbe scope of tengible understanding. In one respect this man's life work hsa been of definite and profiounced benefit. He has by his own faitbful application to his problems supplied an inspiration to younger scientists, giving them an incentive through exampie to carry through with the jll-rewarded snd often disappointing labors of research. | To such as Michelson and those who | bave been fllumined by his spirit there {18 no such thing as “pay” in terms of | mopetary compensation. The true scien- ! 1 tist 18 remunerated by his own endeavor. Going to the Dogs. Capt. Charles Tockwood, surviving member of the Last Man's Club of Still- | water, Minnesota. and revisiting Wash- ington for the first time since he grate- i fully paused here after a hurried trip {from Bull Run in '61, has seen a lot! of things in the eighty-eight years of | his life. For one thing, he has probably seen {the country sbout to go to the dogs | more times than most men. He must I have been sure, ss millions of others were, that the country was sbout to| 180 to the dogs right after Bull Run, and later, after Predericks- burg and Spottsylvanis Court House |and during the second invasion of Maryland. captain’s political tenets or beliefs, | it would only be natural to conceive he was among thousands of ex-soldiers who were sure the country was going to the dogs when tragedy elevated An- | drew Johnson to the Presidency. And | while that was somehow escaped, the | panic end the credit mobilier scandals of 1873 brought him and the rest of | the country to the brink once more. ! Then thels were the Marine Bank! atlure in 1884, the silver crisis and the panic of 1893, the panle of 1907, the Bull Moose movement in 1912, the | pre-war depression in 1914, the post- war depression in 1930, the Ku Klux | Klsn, Teapot Domé, the channel swim- | mers, the tree-sitters and miniature golf. And now, with bootleggers and ' | gangsters and rackets snd a depies- | sion caused by & high tariff that is the only thing protecting us from utter economic ruin, Capt. Lockwood s about | | to see the country go to the dogs sgain. One wonders whether the Captain's experience has furnished him with any | comforting philosophy regarding the | business of going to the dogs and! whether he has not enjoyed every bit' as much pleasure from the frequently | presented prospect of going to the dogs 'as he has in seeing this old world | | escape esch time by the skin of its, | teeth. [ | Ly Marshal Pilsudski, who is rated as And without knowing the | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “Tulips have done particularly well. | This is a great satisfaction to every | Aower-loving person. Few flowers 0l a more distinet or sppesling role than | these superb Dutchmen. Other Spring-flowering bulbs are | fine, but the tlip, in ita various forms, is head and shoulders above them sll. | Not only has it a richer history in fact and legend, but its clear colors are unrivaled in flowerdom. It possesses, above everything else, an | intangible quality which endears it to | all those who like at once the appro- | printe and the beautiful. Surely there aive qualities, both in flowers and human , in dogs and books, in music and landscapes, which elude exact definition. One may speak of the "n‘mng. deli- cate fragrance of the lilac,” an Nlogicel statement, indeed. but flavored with | dishonesty only to the one who does not recognize the valie of attempting that which cannot be achieved. ¥ The matter-of-fact mind will ever shrink from the inexactitude of the striving, illogical, but honest mind, which does not mind the suspicion it creates, but goes right ahead atternpt- ing to put into words those things | which no man has yet succeeded in putting into word values. The atiempt, not the success or fail- ure thereof, 1s what counts, and the man who knows this is like the right- eous msn of the proverb, who is “as bold 8s an lion.” * ok oA ‘Tulips do, then, possess & glo something utterly beyond thought. By taking thought we may do a great many strange things. . But the modern tendency has been to exalt thought above emotions, when il the time the emotions of mankind | have remained fundamental, the stand- ard stuff of existence. | What has happened to the smotions, during the past 6.000 years or so, is that ious. | they have been refined, not by processes |of thought, as the world so often likes to think, but through the operation of gentleness and kinduess and certain other qualities of heart, as we are re- duced to expressing . We say “reduced,” but may it not be that we are, indeed. exalted when we, as sn individual or race, are forced to use inexactitude of expression, which there- by leaves every reader open to bring in. s if by magic, whatever of grace and worth and knowledge he 52 If any one believes in exactitude of expression as the all-in-all of writing, let him turn to legal writs and docu- ments, to indiciments and the like, where the altempt at exact phrasing and inclusiveness has been carried to the point of absurdity. | Todav there is afoot & movement in ' the legal profession itself to free the courts ©of the outworn phraseology which has made a laughing stock of legal documents in receifi years. Only the other day we iead an indictment which was thrown out in eourt which nevertheless seemed to the - age reader to contain almost every word which could be Jugged in relative to the matter at issue. The reader must not, of course, con- fuse inexactitude of expression with faulty expression, any more than he | should get mixed in his own mind the Darwin tulips with the so-called Cot- tage tulips. He will do both if he per- mits & sudden resentment to-take pos- session of him' as he reads. There is| entertainment and instruction which this publication nl‘n bring them. » * x It this has been s fine Spring for tu- lips, what are the conditions fimn ac- count for this perfection of growth and bloom? We may say, with what truth we do not know, that the drought was good for them. Surely they suffered none from the fine Summer bake which they received. By G. Gould Lincoln. Despite the drive made in many querters against the Republican pro- tective teriff and the Smoot-Hawley tariff act, Republican leaders in the East, the Middle West and the West are not lightly going to give up the tariff pow Dor are they going to sgree | that there must be a revision down- | ward. Representative Ramseyer of lows, & veteran of the House and & po- | i ANSWERS TO QUESTION BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Few their ‘smbu-m Government 3 Readers of The Evening Star cen neceasary to draw on all Government activities leaving s port, clearance through our free information service. The world's greatest 3 tories and experimental stations are at their command. Ask sny question of fact and it will be apswered, free, by mail direct to you. Inclose 3-cent mp for reply postage and address | The Evening Star. Information Bureau, | Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- tential candidate for the Repubiican It is sald that the German iris are | ination for Speaker, 15 & strong ton, D. C. pald all taxes. and country to which he Q. Are many saddie horsés keph in New York City?—B. T. A. A late census disciosed the fact the _city. is 22,156, Practically all of the re- mainder are in commercial use. Coach | more to do with it. fond of & good dry spell, after their & nom! blooming season, but we have never been able to see that this is so. Iris do well in almost any Spring. wet. or dry, following any sort of Summer, | Fall and Winter. Most of the tulips which we grow to- day in America had their ancestry in the small land of Holland, below sea level, where there is more than & plenty of moisture. i If we can say anything about them. it is that they liked their long baking process of 1930, and especially liked their rains of the month of March. * xR X gl must have been those rains which it. We are coming more and more to the | conclusion that plenty of water, and not warmth, is what turns the very trick of Spring itself. The warmth is the meteorological factor which attracts the attention of mankind, next o the greening earth it- self. And man, with his liking for the ready and the easy explanation, said the green is due to the warmth, when all these centuries the rains have hed is our idea, and If an idea, we shall be That, at leas anybody else i glad to hear it. * oA % ‘Tastes in tulips differ as widely as preferences in other things, particularly How are jokes classified sa to 8nd carriage horses have almost dis- | tariff advocate, although he hails from | | a State where there is much unrest ! | because of farm conditions, a State | | which delights in re-electing Senator | | Smith W. Brookhart. who wears Do | man’s yoke. In a statement put out ! through_the Republican National Com- mittee Mr. Ramseyer says today that the Democratic opposition. now ralsing | its voice mgainst the sligned itaelf with the foreign competi- | tors of American farmers and Ameri can workers in the interest of forelg: farmers aud forelgn workers, | * K ok % | Look st it any way vou ilke, the | G. ©. P. has always had the sdvantage {0 tarifl debates with the Democrats | simply because the Republicans have been able to say that they are working | in the interest of Americans and the | Democrats have been on the side of | the forelgners. It is the old nationalist { argument against the argument of the | | internationalist, in one form. The Dem- | ocrats insist, it is true, that they have the 1eal interests of the American peo- | ple at heart when they oppose the | tariff; that they are seeking to aid the i i poor man sgainst the industrial giant ! and monopolist. But, somehow or an- | other, when the Republicans begin to | compare the wages of the workingman | in foreign countries to the wages paid | to the American workers, this argu- tariff law, has | T other flowers. | ment does not go down s0 well with Just s one man likes best the more | the American voters. delicate ‘tints of the gladiolus, such a8 | X or o % the lllac and pink, and another will pre- | Mr. Ra {6 HHe dabk red"haid e putplig WHISH| ot aio b e s TBes are almost biack, so the tullp fanclers | different angle. He has made & study er nations on ried s & s0-called black tulip of song and story. | rda that instead of Uncie Sam being There is a mass of shrubbery, & foun- | the horrid tariff man of the world, he | alnst which several | js gomewhat modest in his tariff duties | dation_planting, agains losen of these biack tulips sre growing. compared to those which have been The dark blossoms seem almost like | Jeyied, not just recently, but for many | shadows against the green of junipers. It is only when one stands & few feel from them and really looks pointedly st them that their beauty is appreciated. | Most people will prefer the lighter col- ors, the pinks, the reds, the two-toned. * x % a It is siways & question with tulip . whether (they look best in one color in a bed, or mixed. 'There 18 much to be said for orie culor. or variely, and this is the usual plantiog, whether in an old-fashioned round bed or the long border. Tulips, like most flowers, gain from mass planting, but it is not always realized that the effect of mass may be geined in a long row, if one's point of view is normally at the end of a row. If the row is slightly staggered, as it were, the tulips not being in a line, and seldom coming up so, st sny rate, the rnflnedcl of each is heightened by those be- 10 Perspective does the trick and enables | a few score tulips to make ss brave show as a hundred would do under years, by some of the nations with which this country does business. | “It may be a surprise to a great many people to Jearn that foreign na- | tions levy dutées on merchandise from the United States and have done so for | years,” says Mr. Ramseyer. “And no oue has ever heard a Democrat or an internationalist announce the fact that we admit more items duty-free than , most. of our customer nativns. “For instance, France levies a duty on 80 per cent of our goods while we |levy & duty on 28 per cent of theirs; | England levies a duty of 55 per cent of our merchandise while we tax 40 | per cent of theirs; Belgium levies a | duty of 74 per cent on United States | | products while we collect duty on 62 | per cent of Belgian products; Germany collects on 71 per cent of our goods | while we tax only 34 per cent of theirs. | “The Democrats have committed themselves to the foreign-born plan of | attempting to pull other nations out | of the depression by pushing the United | QL kinds?>—E. T. 8. A. Some authorities divide jokes into the following classes: Society joke (bright retort), child . bucolic, suburben, narrative snecdotal, 3 polftical and theatrical. Q. this eountry of a room T B A The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City nas a room from a house in Pompeii which was actually brought from the ruins of Pompeil and ! reconstructed in the gallery. What is the neme of the book | together Q. which Mrs. Herbert Hoover, with her husband, translated A. It was “De Re Metallica. Latin of Georg Agricola, 1556. A W. Where is there a reproduction in | in Pompet?— | appeared from the streets. Q. Since Baltimore is not in & county, how is it represented in affairs which concern the countles of Maryland? K. J. | A. The city of Baltimore js s unit, as Is each of the 23 counties com) the government of the State of Mary- iand. Therefore citizens of Baltimore do not_ participate in voting in any county local Of course. in any county matters that come before the Maryland Legislature, Baltimore par- ticipates through the reépresentatives |duly elected from Baitimore City. Q. How are icebergs formed?— T. B B. A. Whén a glacier reaches the sea e | e end of it flows slowly info the water. | From time to tima pieces break cff and Q. Which welghs more and has a ! float away. These are called icebergs. greater wing spread, the condor or the albatross?—E. S. A. The condor. spread of from 8’ to 11 feet. 18 pounds and a wing spread of from 10 to 12 feet. | ot { Q. How many Chippewa Indians are | there now?—P. H. A. There are 13,220 on the roll, many of whom are of mixed biood. | Q. What is the Spingarn Medal for? K. A. Tt was instituled by-J. E. Spingarn, the Advancement of Colored People, for the Negro meaking the highest or noblest achievement during c;d:nl year. It was inaugurated in 1914. Q. Why are so many Charleston, S. C.. built with a porch at the side with an outside door porch?—M. B. A. This is done for both comfort and privacy. 1In practically all cases the porches are built on the side of the house and face either south or west in order to take advantage of the prevail- ing southwest winds in Summer. The houses of this type are usually only one Toom wide and are large, with high ceilings, allowing ample ventilation. The porches usually overlook a side garden and there are two front doors, one placed in the porch inclosure on the street and the other in the center of the house, entering into a hallway. Q. Is it true that thousands of sol- diers deserted from the American Army while in Prance?—J. H. 8. A. Among more than 2.000,000 men | who went overseas there were but ap. proximately 1,200 deserters. 1t attains & weight | D of from 20 to 35 pounds and & wing | The al- | batross attains a weight of from 16 to director of the National Association Im’ pre- | houses in to the | Q. What was the origin of the Horus eaddress for Egyptian women?—J. D. A. It came into use in the ml]’elnllfl of Egypt. it was customary to have his statue modeled with a hawk back of him showing the protection of the god Horus. Later, Isis, the wife of the god Osiris, was sometimes shown with wings of a hawk. a sacred bird of Egypt. A large figure of the goddess would have the wings like long arms protecting & small mortal standing in front of her. As time passed was ebbreviated into a headdress worn by | women of the royal family. Q. What are shards>—R. 8 A. They are thin, brittle fragmenta of earthenware or pottery. | Q. What caused the fall of Rome?— . W. A. The downfall of the Roman Em- ire came about gradually. The em- had become so far-flung that the to guard the | ' p people. Taxation was extraordinarily heavy in order to maintain the numerous cials and to keep up the luxurious spien- dor of the court. Other symptoms ef economic ruin were the decrease of populstion, thereby diminishing the | number of taxpayers and the number of soldiers for legions, the spread of | infanticide, the increase of waste lands | and the constantly recurring riots and m‘nmm caused by these condi- Q. Does the earth grow ter or heavier>—G. C. G. B | _A. The weight of the earth does mot change in any material degree. It has been thought that the vast quantities of oal and other minerals taken from the earth would affect its weight, but it Q. How long has the Federal Peni- d0es not, because such materials are tentiary been in Atlanta?—J. V. A. It began operation in 1902. | merely changed in form anld are even- | tually returned to the earth’ . In order to affect the weight of the earth it will be necessary for such ma- The consolidation of Army posts might | with the Ostsloniens pacified and con- | well not only result in eliminating costs | cjjjated republican Spain's future was but also add to the eficlency of the ! gefinitely sssured. Well, yesterday's Army ftself, by making it possible for | eyents, while not catestrophic in them- Jargér units of the combatant forces 10| selves, are symbolical. They indicate | be trained together. With tbe Tapid | that the course of young republics, like | dictator of Poland, shows thsi he | nows his political onions when he per- | | soually intervenes in & budget economy move by orderiug that the pay of the | army -shall not be cut. s—ams 2 | Charlie. Cbaplin declines & royal | “commend” invitation to appear on the English vaudeville stage. OCan it be that George Bernard Shaw has gone | to bis head? . ———— A former president of the Interna- tional Chamber of Commerce makes 2 | stirring defense of the Americsn tariff. Any fence aiways looks best from “our” side. e —ves ordinary conditions. Often there is some favorite window, probably living or dining room, from which such a view may be obtained. ) one magasine published today, for in- | stance, which specializes in offending | ie readers! ‘I'iose readers wbo insist on becoming offended mise entirely the WASHINGTON OBSERVATION BY YREVKRIC W ILLIAM WILE, Now that the Internationsl Chamber meree last week was to have been filled captains and kings have departed and by Thomas W. Lamont, the Morgan | States farther in. They have a plan Q. What formalities must a captain ' .|curtain can be lifted om the batlie the tumuit and the shouting died, the | banking house's “foreign minister.” It was snnounced that Mr. Lamont is in ior prosperity. but’ the joker In it is | that it is a scheme for Europewn pros- perity Lo be achleved ai the expense of the United States, whereby every Ameri- can farmer, merchant, industrialist and | workingmau will be forced w pay the bill. “‘fhe Democrals bave also given s willing ear to the pian for solving Bu- ropean unemployment—which is much worse than ours—by throwing Ameri- can workers out of their jobs in order that the wheels of industry may turn | at & faster rate in European countries.” | * ox % [ There is another Republican member Of & vessel observe upon entering & terials o pass out into space beyond harbor?—F. L. H. the atmosphere, and this is not possi- A. He must first obtain a harbor ble. The only ble manner in i possil pilot, then pass quarantine inspection, which the weight of the earth could and then enter at the customs house be affected, even in the slightest de- and present his certificate of registry. gree, would be in the acquisition of If a foreign vessel. the captain presents ' meteorites, which occasionally fall his certificate to the consul of his coun- | upon it. Chesterton, Critic, Stirs Defenders of Villages Here waged and won by the American m-‘min, ‘The report forthwith: ran tion to keep the chamber from runoing | through chamber corridors that he and wild on debts and reparatiops. Inside | the new republican government at history of the struggle will give chief Madrid have their heads together on credit to the generalissimo of the | matters of high finance, generally American forces, Silas H. Strawn of | known as loans. Perbaps Lamont has Chicago, new president of the Chamber sn unofficial mission to straighten out of the House who is not only a potential candidate for the Republican nomina- | tion for Speaker but who is an actual ' Americans resent comments on the grance upon the hopes of mankind. and sctive candidate, Representative less attractive communities that may Give us time.” Bertrand H. Snell of New York. Mr.|be found in the United States, ut-| “Of course, no American pretends” Snell in an address delivered in New | tered by Gilbert K. Chesterton, after remarks the Sioux City Journal, “that York not long ago said in effect that we | his return to Engiand from an Amer- | this country is not different. But other ican tour. Nevertheless, means of transportation, the vanishing of “frontiers” in thia country, the need | for many widely scattered Army DOsts | in the centuries, is not torn up, trunk,' doctor st some future time wants & hes been eliminated. Talk of the elimi- nation of Army posts, however, has invariably raised loud protests from tbe | manifestly must reckon with Alfonso, | loealities in which the posts are Jo- cated. Members of Congress represent- ing these districts have been insistent thet the posta shall remain. ‘The expenditures annuslly today for | forthcoming popular elections will not | past and future wars when snalyzed are found to be very largely for past wars, war debts and the payment of milions upon millions in pensions, | true love, seldom runs smooth. | A dynasty like the Bourbons, rooted overnight. The successors quite stem and branch, Zamorss and their {only momentarily abdicated, s he { mvers, and the plotting loyalists he left | bebind him in Spain. Even the pro- | pective republican landslide st the mean thst the monarchial spirit is | utterly crushed, though it may carry | further the process of flattening it out. | . bonuses and hospitalisation. However, The two young Spanish exiled prin- the serntiny of the expenditures for the | cesses are studving shorthand. It prob- Army by the Chief Exeeutivé can @0 DO | abiy runs in the blood: their parents harm and mey possibly result in worth- | 1ok plenty of dictation from Primo while ssvings. Nor is the Executive |de Rivera and others, likely to stop with the Army snd the | Navy In his efforta toward economy. | All other branches of the Government and their expenditures may be n.m-! insd with good result. The time for | wasteful expenditures, If it ever existed. | saster certainly 18 not today. The money used . by the Government comes from one Brief history of DO-X fo da aource slone, the pockets of the Amer- | off !—shucks, here she comes back. dcan people. E | A A Harvard professor has compiained | to the Boston police of “poison pen” letters, However, the fact that they were grammatical made them a liitle to bear. te: She's | | 2 PSS, | Surveyor of the Universe. Recits] of the schievements, discov- ertes and inventions of Albert A. Michel- | son, who died Saturday st Pasadena. | would cover a large area of the field of scientific advancement during the past half century. It Is not possible fully to determine the value of this cne man’'s | services %o science, for his work con- tibues sfter the failure of his vitality in the use sud spplication of the formulas | snd the sppllances which he perfected. It was characteristic of the greai solentist that literally on his deathibed and in his final conscious hours he dic- | tated the introduction to & report that | will ehortly be presented covering his | gieatest endeavor iu sstrophysics, 8 | atterminotion of the speed of light on the basis of & mile-long vacuum tube. | two finalista, One of Western's finaliats, | With almost hit Jast breath he gave the | Gullion, in 1930 won the national and | ¥orld bis conclusions that may, end | International champlonships, however, | MenY belicve will, effect & revolution in | the first time that such an honor has knowiedge of the infinities that consui- | come 1o thix city. This year, ss last tute the univeise. vear. The Btar's spokesman is a native | 1 Wes fortunate that Prof. Michel- of Kentucky. If Western and Kentucky | %on's affiictions were not effective to and The Star area csn do 8a well this | Prevent his meeting wich Albert Ein- year, snd the showing of Moore justifies 1#In Upou the visit of that renowred high hopés, the Nationsl Capital will | scientist-philosopher to this country. have another reason to be proud of the , Their 1sbors have lain aloug some- | products of its schools, | what diffeving but generally harmonious | But whatever the result in the next | lines. Einstein's pronouncements and | round in this great competitiop, all of | theoties have aitracted considerably the participants in the contest Priday K more attention throughout the world deserve high praise for their showing | then Michelson's quicter studies. The in the test to which they were put.|two men worked differently, Einstein "The sleven prepared sddresses delivered chiefly as a mathematician and Michel- in this competition were well thought- son s & physicist. Millions knew out and effectively presented. The most | somewhat of Einsteins theory of “rela- severe test of all, of course, came in the | tivity"—little more indeed than “some- extemporaneous talks for which each what’—while compzratively few outside speaker is given only forty-five minutes of scientific circles knew of Michelson's in which to collect his thoughts upon & actual achievements. new tople. It Is not positively assured that It is this extemporaneous lnmnl Michelson's experiments and discoveries which so greatly intensifies the matie | will redound immediately to practical cuality of the contest. The are advantage. Yet no man can tell to Bazd) and designedly so. It i 'right what ends such marvels of investiga- v mas “The old joke in which the man lug- ®ing a grandfather's clock i asked if he would not find it more convenient o earrv a watch must be revised since zome herculesn marsuder pinched a four-hundred-pound gun-dial from a 1oca) stonevard, R The Oratorical Contest. Western High School, whose repre- sentative, James A. Moore, on Pridzy won The &tar srea champlonship and a piace in the finals of the National Oratorical Contest, has established an enviable record. This fa the second time that Western hss won a place in the national finals— A record equaled only by Central and Eastern, each of which has a's0 supplied Il | ought to talk a little dial | Maj. Gen. Smediey Butler's physician | has ordered him to rest a bit. If the| favor from the Department of State, | he might get it, at that. PO, SHOOTING STARS. ‘ s | | BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Study in Birds. ‘The parrot is & gentle bird Whose life is free from care. The languege which from him is bheard | He picks up here and there. As he sends forth on every hand His gems of vocal art, His auditors admiring stand And say: “Is be not smart?” The Dove of Peace, that noble bird, Her duty will pursue. Her thoughts are worthy to be heard, “ But she can only coo, And all uncertain is the way She travels unprepared. The parrot’s life 1 smooth and gay; The Dove s always scared. A Moment of Candor. “Do you believe everything you see in print?” S “No,” replied Senator Sorgham. “Not even your own speeches?” “Well, speeches don't always repre- sent what & man belleves himself s much as what he wants the other fel- | lows to believe.” Jud Tunkins says some men are so | confident in discussing other people’s chances of Joining the heavenly choir | thet you might think they were on the membership commitiee. Tmprovements. No plage that Nature builds is quite complete Man has to fix it up and maeke il peat. No spot 50 restful ever yet was found That somé one did not bring a hammer ‘round. No sylvan haunt with perfumes sweetly quaint Bscepes {he annual odor of fresh paint. Consclentious Effort. “Mother thinks I ct to amuse the Summer boarders who will soon be on their way.” Farmer Corntossel. Many a man has vastly improved his character by trying to live up to what his press sgent says about him. The Uplift. The uplift will be fraught with doubt Until men learn with tactful care To uplift fellow men without Aseuming a superior air, : Burope and Hoover. | outright of Commerce of the United States. The ublic discussions on debts, reparations, lariffs, silver snd other controversial is- | sues were smoke-screens. The real fighting wes in the secret sessions of the council which was to formulate res- olutions. There the Americans, led by Strawn, hed it out for a week in more or less friendly feshion with the spokesmen of France, Germuny, Great ritain and _Ttaly. The Europeans marched on Washington in s practi- cally upited front on the broad ques- | tion of revising both war debts and | German reparations. They differed ebout details. As to the necessity of revision (ie. reduction or cancellation) of “international obligations.” Franco- German-British-1talian sentiment was | solid. P President Hoover and Secretary Mel- lon having sounded keynotes to the effect—implied, if not expressed—tbat the United States opposes revision, it | was up to our people to see that the | American viewpoint was vindicated. | Otherwise, the Hoover administration would be publicly bumiliated and re- buffed in its own house, as it were, Silus Strawn is no mean negotiaior. He has been practicing corporation law in Chicago for 40 years. He learned the wily ways of Oriental diplomacy in China. Just what magical powers he | invoked to induce the European breth- | ren to recede {fom their demands for & hell-benl-for-leather declaration on | debts and reparsiions has not yet been disclosed. But the evidence of bis tri- umph i= the magnificently nou-commit- tal resolution finally sdopled. As drawn and passed, the resolution was | Strawn's_handiwork. It “saves face’— Strawn found out what thal means when he was i Peking—for both Europe gels in ex- pression of opinion that & study of Te- | vision would Dot be “incousistent, i warranted by chauged economic con- ditions.” The President's objections to revision are sustsined, along with the stubborn American conlen- tion. ouce aptly phrased by Calvin | Coolidge, thai “debis are made Lo be paid, not canceled.” Tt was Strawn's |strategy that kept all mention of war | debts and reparations out of the reso- | lution and got them described as “in- ternational obligations.” * x % Weshington bas been wallowing in & welter of speechmaking due to national | end internstional cunferences. Now and then a witlicism brightened dis- cussion for the most pait drab and| heavy. Sir Arthur ' Balfour, B, | Biitain’s Charles M. Schwab, was asked | 10 address a private gathering on the | understanding that he would not be quoted, but merely supply “background.” ‘Quoth the buily Scot, a physical coun- | terfeit of “Teddy” Roosevelt’and Conan | Doyle: “Your plan reminds me of the | girl In a catechism cluss who com- | plained that ‘the Ten Commandments | don’t tell you anything: they just put | ideas into your hevd.' " Ada L. Com- | stock, president of Radcliffe College, re- minding the American Law Institute | that she wus the oniy woman member | of the “eleven” that constituted the | Wickersham Commission, told about & mother of a Harvard foot ball player who, when asked what position her son | had on the team, said ‘I think he's the | draw-back.’ Often I thought I was| the Wickersham Commission’s draw- k. Former Vice Gov. Gilmore of the Philippire Islands, raszing the Law | Institute for ing _bim only 15| minutes to slucidate the Filipino judicial | system, compared himself to the Iowsa | farmer who sold a cow. “When prodded | to tell how much milk the cow gave,” | “When s man keeps complainin’ dat he ain’ had no opportunity in life,” said Uncle Ebcn, “you kind o' wonder whethar he ain’ too busy kickin' to no- tice an opportunity if it éomes along.” sald Dean Gilmore, “the farmer re- plied: ‘Well, she’s a good-natured cow, and she’ll give all she ean.’ ” *x Oue of the important vacant chairs at the International Ghamber of % | representative st a foreign our tariff row with Spain. Madrid has made the most vigorous diplomatic pro- tests against the Hawley-Smoot act and taken comprehensive measures re- prisal. R The first American to be designated as & papal nuncio—a Vatican diplomatic capital—has just taken up his duties in Japan. is Mgr. Edward A. Mooney. Previous to that appointment he served succes- sively as professor of theology in the seminary of the diocese of Cleveland Ohio; as president of the Cathedral Latin School in the same city and as pastor of St Patricks Church in Youngstown, Ohlo. In 1923 Mgr. Mooney wes called to Rome as spiritual head of the North American College |and three years later was named apos- tolic delegate tw India, whence he was transferred to Tokio. His predecessor | in Nippon wus ao Italisn. * %% Dr. John C. Merriam, the Carnegie Institution at Washington has had a mountain named after him. Nobody but & very deep-sea diver can | see it, because Mount Merriam's peak | is 10,000 feet under the surface of the Western Pacific. Dr. Merriam is one of the world’s eminent paleontologists, Lhe brainy fellows who deal with that branch of biology concerned with the tossil age. £ oo Washington from the ancient Eoglish town of Kid- dermiuster, Wourcestershire. & calling card indicating that he is a pariner in the firm of Doolittle & Dully, lawyers. & member of our Congress.” remarked the American w whom the curd was presented. e ‘Ihis observer has just seen oue of the original frst sppeuls issued by thw | American Red Cross, on Murch 28, 2, exaclly & week after President s and was signed by ® committee consisting of Clara Barton. Bancroft Davis, rederick Douglass, Alexander Y. P. Garpett, Mrs. Omar D. | S, Conger, A. S. Solomons, Mrs. S. A. Martha Canfield and R. D. Mussey. Funds were to be sent to Secretary of the Treasury Charles J. Folger, Secre- tary of War Robert T. Lincoln or Com- missioner of Agriculture Geurge B. Loving. (Copyrisht, 1931) r———— Search Without End. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. That was good advice, to learn the Einstein theory by looking up the words in the dictionary. But the trouble comes from having to look up the words in the definitions. N Aud Bonus Discounts. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. About all the profits have now been squeezed out of the late war except royalties and movie rights. - White House Parley! From the Louisville Courier-Journal. It's always Child Health day for the tariff-boosting Infant industries. Too. Loves 10 Beef, From the Cincinnati Times-Star. Whether to celebrate the fall of the Bastille or to welcome & deposed king, the Parisian public loves to cheer, e o Debaters Weigh ln.- Prom the Seattls Daily Time Seventy-five-pound boy is this coun- trv's best elocutionist, according to a headline. They mugt be deciding that contest by weight season. He | president of | recently had s visitor| He cairied | “That sounds as if you were | have “gone the limit” in the matter of | high protective duties. Immediately thls remark was seized upon by Demociats and interpreted as testimony from a high Republican source that the tariff was & mistake and that the Dem- ocrats after all were right sbout it. The wide publicity that the Snell re- mark on the tariff received, coupled with a statement by Gen. W. W. At- terbury, president of the Peonnsylvania Rallroad Co. and formerly Republican national committeeman from the Key- stone State, to the effect that tarifis were t00 high, gave some of the regular | Republican leaders a distinct pain. Some | of them admitted their disgust with | Mu. Snell and his speech. i Mr. Snell found to his dismay that | while his speech may have helped him in the West, it hurt him with many of the regulars. It is not surprising, there fore, to find Mr. Snell undertaking to stralghten out the interpretation of his earlier speech with & statement he has just issued denouncing the efforts of foreigners sttending the Intcrnational | Chember of Commerce meeting in Washington, which closed Saturday, to tear down American tariffs. In his statement we find the old Mr. Suell, chairman of the Rules Committee. who | stocd valiantly by the tariff while in the making. He denounces the demands of Euro- pean nations and the Democrats for & reduction of our tarills. And so Mr. Snell sets himself right sgain in Re- publican eyes. There seems to be life in tie old tariff issue yet. R Of the five members of the Senate with the longest records of continuous ! service, four are up for re-election next ye The fifth of these veterans, Sen- | tor Borah of Idaho, who ranks secon | in length of service, was re-elected last year. Seuator Reed Smoot of Utah, | who stands ai the top of the list for service, enteriug the Senate March 4, 194 Senator Duncau U. Fletcher of Fi . the third in ravk of service; Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washinglon, | fourth, and Senator Ellison D, Smith |of South Caroling, fifth, sre all ex-| pected to seek renominstion sud re- Smoot and Jones are Re- Fletcher and Smith, Demo- ‘The (wo Democrats have merely nominations i thelr States. | election. publicans, | crats. to win Smoot and Jones. Bolh are seasoned cumpaigners and both stand high with their _constituencies. Notwithstanding {the depression and notwithstanding tariff act, of which Senator Smoot is co-author, it does not appear that the | Democrats have bright prospects of defeating Smoot. * % x Senator Jones is an ardent dry. He | makes 1o bones ubout the matter. In | his State last year the wels got the | upper hand at least temporarily in the Republican State Convention and they also dominated the Democratic State Convention. But Senator Jones has tought the wet and dry battle in his Stale successfully before and is likely to do so again. He is chairman of the important Committee on Appropria- tions, while Senator Smoot is head of the Commitiee on Finance, which deals with all revenue legisiation. Together these two veteran Republicans bave a great deal to do with the governmental expenditures, * K x % Senator Fletcher came to the Senate from Florida March 4, 1909, and will have served 24 years in the Senate at the expiration of his present term. He is to be a candidate for re-election. His friends insist that because of his Jong record of admirable service to his State in the Senate he not only should not be opposed, but also that he will | Once they have been uominaled, their; the attacks upon the “Smoot-Hawley” ! the. press countries are different, too. In England voices the thought that the hope of | visitors accustomed to warm homes al- direction cf communities. It is America is young, and tbat its vitality and growth are likely to have a pbysi- cal background that has mot reached perfection. There are suggestions that is ideal in such maiters is medieval in scme- respects and does not appeal to this country. “Because most of our highways avoid the residential sections of our towns and afford the tcurist no glimpse of lawns, tree-arched side sireets and pleasant cottages,” says the Newark Evening News, “the Chestertonian criticism is not quite fair, but, so far 8s it goes, it is accurate” The News emphasizes “the resentment a large proportion ¢f our population bhas to these conditions,” and the “patient but necessarily siow labor many are en- | gaged in to keep matters from getting | The Hartford Times-remarks | “it is alm:st only yesterday tbat | | America was & wilderness and that . “it takes time to make village or the civic leaders in this country is in the most freeze to death, and in France one improved settings for |is lucky if one gets a bath even on xolnufl out that Saturday night. And, finally, Americans t are willing to reach this conclusion— | that others may have their own coun- | tries with their differences, and well | keep this one!” | “Mr, Chesterton is sincerely worried— |30 much anguish certainly can come | only from sincerity,” comments the Cin- | cinnéti Enquirer, “about his American third and fourth cousins. We have no | villages: our towns are eyesores; we | hang tin signs and build "“""'flf shacks along our rosdways. All in all, | according to Mr, Chesterton, Ameriea is about to go to pot, and probably & | good thing, too. Sooner or later we | may contaminate Europe and make away with those remaining traces of medievalism which are the very eore of | Mr. Chesterton’s sentithental heart. In | this respect it is interesting that Eng- lishmen quite willingly sell their eval relics to Americans, who seem to | prize them more highly.” * Pnie |a tame, refined countryside.” That | paper adds that “our industry has run | ahead of our "culture” bui declares | | that “while flitting from one place to | another in fiy-by-night fashin. he did | not see as much as he might and | goined general impressions which as | | to many particulurs are quite false.” | “If Europe snd America were alike thinks the San Francisco Chronicle. “there would be less reason for visiting back and forth, and this country might have missed the Chesterton presence.” | The Chronicle feels that “Americans are conscious of most of the things | Chesterton is quoted as deploring,” but | assumes thut “like nearly everv one| ! with the gift of verbal caricature, he | expects his exaggerations to be taken | a8 such and properly discounted.” The | Cincinnati_ Times-Star suspects that in | speaking before the Society for the Preservation of Rural England “per-| haps he was only telling the society what it wanted to hear " us the organi- | satlon “is dedicated ®o the hard task | of discouraging Englishmen from selling | the natioy's historic shrines to rich Awmericaus.’ | * oxox oW “Mr. Chesterton’s admiration for the | Middle Ages is well known,” according | to the Roanoke Times, “but by compari- | son modern America has nothing for which to apologize, we imagine.” The | Times concedes that “a good deal” of what he said “is true” and “all of it| has been said by some of our own lead- ing citizens at one time or another.”| Detroit Free - Press states that | | and ues: “Ame | | test for Chesterlon’s medieval mind. A | lot of things over hi went right past | him, without registering. We have our | ‘pockets’ of medievalism, 00, where the | instincts of the jungle crop out; but we | also have our gardens, where the fairest blossoms of civilization unfold their fra- not be opposed. During that period he has done much to help build up the American merchant marine, which bad a renaissance at the time of the World War when Senator Fletcher was chair- | man of the Senate Committee on Com- merce. In some quarters, there has been talk of the po#Sibility of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, now a member of the House, | isted that this is not likely to hap- u. Mrs. Owen's father, the late Col. illiam Jennings Bryan, was suggested prominently eight years ago as & pos- sible contender for the Senate nomina- tion against Senator Fletcher. Col. Bryan died, however, befare the cam- paign time’ rolled round. Mrs. Owen has wmp!em her first term in she House and been re-elected. “It would be wiser and more sophic,” contends the Columbia (8. C.) State, “for such critics, who may very easlly break their shins on the crudity of our civilisation, which has still not reached adolescence or even puberty, to consider our age. It would also be pru- « | dent for Britons to remember that our villages are at least vital and growing, while theirs are admittedly in a stage of inertia and slow decay. Chesterton might profitably devote some minutes to & rereading of the accepted best por- waiture of a British village in this process of decay, once so full of such charm ss: * “The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, ‘The never-failing brook, the busy mill, ‘The decent church that topped the neighboring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath \ the shade, For talking age snd whispering lovers made!’ But Cheslerton knows, as well as Gold- smith, that these are signs of mossy age, and are impossible in any new coun- try.” Giving special attention to a later explanation made by Mr. Chesterton, (he Chicago Daily News states: “From Gilbert K. Chesterton come apologetic explanations of his recent comments on the externals of American small town and village life. No offense was taken, however, because of those comments. Such community aspécts as were the subject of his remarks are familiar to and are regretted ‘by many Americans. . they are incidental to & rapidly developing country, & country which has not become static and stratj- fled, but still counts on change as the one absolute certainty.” Similarly the Chattanooga Times of- fers the judgment: “After reading his slatement of explanation and amplifica- tion, even the most sensitive of Ameri- ans are not likely to harbor any grudge against the distinguished ecritic, and some may benefit from his criticism. Newspaper folk will admire him for fearing ‘a rather wrong im jon’ was received ‘from what I said,’ instead of saying ‘I didn't say it.’” ——— Einstein Check-Up Slow. Prom the Hamilton ' (Ohio) Evenine Journal It will take Mr. Einstein a long time to educate & world that must wait for 8 solar eclipse to check up on each e . Slogan for Candid. PFrom the Raleith News and Observer. Every candidaté for a municipal of- fice ought to follow the lead of one who says: “IN:l>cted I will cl*an up or clean out.”