Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.......May 14, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star N¢ per Company i ivanis _Ave. g SRS, Rate by Carrier Within the City. e ng Ry westaai .5¢c_per copy end of ‘exch month. by mail or telephone oot madla NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payabl~ ') Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ily and Sunday. s:ux oaly junday only . All Other States and Canada. . .00 .. $1.00 E ..1yr., 31200 }mn ‘1‘6 Member of the Associated Press. 18 lusiveal: titled n‘?}.‘, Aot Sopuniication of All news dis patches s0¢ i t or not otherwise cred- nafi:‘n ShIS baper And. dlso the Iocal news publishe o Toechat 4 e Herein AL Tixhts of Bublication patches herein are also reserved. M. Briand in Eclipse. Defeated for the thirteenth presidency of France on the thirteenth of the month, Aristide Briand today may think there is something, after all, in the superstition attaching to a baker's dogen. His fallure to achicve the presidency of France yesterday at the Palace of Versailles, following his overwhelming vote of confidence in the Chamber only a few hours before, must have taken the twelve-times premier by surprise, as it appears to have bewildered the Parisian political prophets. M. Briand hardly survived the first ballot. His successful rival, Paul Doumer, President of the Senate, falled by only a few votes to obtain the necessary majority on the opening count. Doumer's victory and Briand's defeat thenceforward were a foregone conclusion. Perhaps the seasoned foreign minister will find consolation for the loss of the presidency in the fact that the world wcmld..ujnlu to s:e him remain at the Qual"d'Orsay. To be the head of the French republic would have crowned M. Briand’s long and bril- lMant career, but, to a considerable extent, the presidency would also have ended it. In the Elysee Palace, the Paris White House, the Chief Executive oceupies an honorable, but at best a decorative, post. At the foreign office, where he has presided for seven suc- cessive years, proving permanent and | indispensable amid recurring changes of ministers, Aristide Briand is im- mencsely more valuable to France and to Europe than he could ever be as President of the republic. An Old ‘World, still subjected to the psychology of - war, can {1 afford to spare a Strecemann and a Briand within a brief span. It does not appear to be certain that PBriand, under all the circumstances, “will consent, if asked, to remain as THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1931 T mmwumm-mmcymummmmw! man in South America: ‘When he wakes up in the morning he telephones and his service and im- lements are of North American make. e gets into his motor car and *drives to h': office, and ninety-nine times out of & hundred that motor car is of American make. His office equipment and everything he uses during the day are up o date efficient articles from the U'I:Ited States. When he has fin- ished his day's work his mind, if he tan affcrd it, will tend toward relaxation. His radio and gramophone come from North America. do the films he i sees in the movie theater, and not only do they foreshadow life and culture in the United States, but, to make it even easler for him, the captions are in his own age. And finally, if he moves around the city in which he lives in the dark he will find every type of manufactured goods attractively adver- tised and illuminated in every avail- able prominent position in that city. If the British manufacturers and 3%¢ | wholesalers and retailers have not learned the art of advertising they have indeed much to acquire, But glances at British newspapers and at the “hoardings” on which such wares are proclaimed in the United Kingdom do not suggest that there is any lack of understanding of either the need or the value of public pronouncements re- specting gcods. American manufactur- ers and exporters have always had the idea that the British competitors for foreign trade were rather smart in| their methods, but it would seem from the straightforward talk of the Prince of Wales that they must be smarter vet, even if they have to be vulgar in their publicity methods. Protecting the Diplomats. ‘The bold robbery of the Salvadorean legation, with a brutal attack on one of the resident diplomats, is, of course, regrettable and embarrassing. The Washington police, already smarting under criticism because the thing oc- curred, may be expected to use every available resource in apprehending the bandits. But the incident itscil becomes of relatively minor importance when compared to the broad question raised by Secretary Stimson's proposed investi- gation of the degree and the nature of police protection given all the embassies and the legations. It is extremely un- fortunate that the robbery was possible. But the question now is whether it could occur again. ‘The inquiry regarding police protec- tion for foreign property and dipio- mats will probably reveal that the police officials, by reason of limited personnel, have had to take a good deal for granted and put a lot of faith in the fact that such robberies are extremely rare. Under extraordinary conditions, ample police protection is afforded. But under normal conditions the scattered location of the embassies and legations has meant that patrolling policemen merely cover them as parts of their beats. Any one planning & robbery would take the matural precaution of watching for the patrolling cfficer's visit and, when he has departed on his round, proceed with rather definite knowledge that the policeman would not return for a given interval. That, of course, is inadequate profection. There should be no difference of opinion over what constitutes really foreign minister under Premier Laval, provided the latter retains office un- der the Doumer presidency. Briand was brought to book in the brief bal- bting at Versailles on Wednesday through the refusal of the Nationalists to support his candidacy. His peace policies have never been to their lik- ing. They have resented his concilia- tory attitude toward Germany, the tra- ditionally mistrusted, and. their wrath was fanned into fury by Briand's failure to nip the German-Austrian customs unicn in the bud. Having thwarted his presidential ambitions, Prance's saber-rattling politiclans may make it impossible for him to continue at his present post. M. Briand is due in Geneva this week to discuss & variety of pending Eurcpean questions, especially his own schemes for Continental federation on tariff and kindred lines. His silver tongue has spellbound him out of many a tight hole in the French Chamber, at the League and in inter- naticnal conferences. Perhaps the old fox will elude misfortune after all and return to Paris, not as chief officer of the state, but with fresh laurels in the | fleld of international diplomacy. Briand’s complete disappearance from French public life would be a loss t0 the whole world. Europe could hardly fall to interpret it as a setback to the peace movement, tenuous as it is and needing more bitterly than ever & restraining hand like that of the co-author of the General Pact for the Renunciation ‘of War. - Indiana police took into custody s mewsboy who, whenever a prospective customer refused to purchase his wares, squirted dirty water over him with a toy water gun. Perhaps he got this idea from Soviet Russia. oy Trade and Vulgarity. Edward Albert, Prinee of Wales, heir | spparent to the British throne, has|inere gre “Big Indian,” if the Vicel just returned home after an extended visit to South America, where he served as & sort of “super-salesman” for British trade. Whether or not be actually took orders for goods, as some reports suggest, he certainly acted as promoter of British bysiness and since his return he has been reporting to the trade interests of England respecting the field below the Equator and west of the Atlantic. He addressed the Cham- ber of Commerce of Manchester the other day and tcld the members some important truths about the necessity of advertising their wares and pushing their goods in the South Ameriean market. “I have heard a great many English- men say that the American way of boosting goods, the American form of adequate protection, and there shculd be no quibbling over guaranteeing it. ‘The legations and embassies are pe- cullarly sacred and their protection is & responsibility that cannot be escaped. Such protection, however, meins fur- nishing the proper number of police- men and furnishing the proper number of policemen means increasing the po- lice force, which, in turn, means in- creasing the budgetary allotment for the police and that depends upon the Com- missioners, the Budgei Bureau, the Con- gressional Appropriztions Committees end the Congress. There are about fifty-four ns end embassies in Washington. Jf each one were guarded by the presence of & policeman twenty- four hours a day, and such protection does not seem altogethsr unnecessary, approximately 150 more policemen could be used without too much waste of man power. It might be simpler, in the end, to turn the job over to the Marines. Sl a0 et A0 Proper Names for Lures. If President Hoover's collection of angling lures is a large one, he should be able to select for use during prac- tically every one of the series of camp conferences scheduled to deal with the problems of the executive departments s well known trout fly appropriate either to the branch or to its cabinet hesd. The following are suggested: Post Office, “Brown Hackle”; Justice, “Mitchell”; Labor, “Dusty Miller”; Navy, “King of the Waters” or “Never: | sink”; Army, “Soldier Palmer"; ury, “8ilver Doctor,” and Interior, “Pro- fessor.” There appears to be none ap- Ppropriate to Agriculture and Commerce, while State is a difficult one, although there is a bass fly called “Premier,” { while “Hare's Ear” might be made to do for that branch alert to the slightest international whisper. It is regrettable that Mr. Davis is no longer on the list, for “Welshman's Bution” is & fa- vorite fiy. As compensation, however, President should drop in, and “Quaker” for the master angler himself. A troop of Boy Scouts has been formed in Florida composed entirely of Greek lads. This should be a shining organization. e ] Hawks Beats Electricity. This man Hawks is not only beating records in the air, but is beating even the electric current. Yesterday he flew from London to Berlin, arriving at the German capital ahead of a telegram anpouncing his departure. It was known in Berlin that he was coming and the authori.ics at the Tempelhof airport were anxiously waiting for tid- ings that he had taken off from Lon- publicity, is very wulgar,” said the Prince. “That is entirely & matter of opinion, but the fact remains that our friends in the United States get away with it. 1f ‘we wish to push our goods better we must take a leaf out of their book.” Walving the question of vulgarity, which is debatable and which sppar- ently Edward Albert does not consider as of any importance whatever, it mgy be said that his advice is sound and practical. The pushing of wares in any market is effected by ma*ing the market know the wares. This may be done in s number of ways, but it all falls in the category of advertising. Lest his hearers should fail to appre- clate the extent to which American metheds have captured the market, the Juince gave the following sccount of don when his plane swung over the Geld and landed. Captain Hawks had i berthed his plane and changed his garb { when the wire arrived stating that he was on his way. His time from London to Berlin was two hours and fifty seven minutes, the distance being approxi- mately six hundred miles. The ordinary passenger planes require six and a half hours of fiying time, Hawks has for nearly s year been en- {@aged in this business of beating the best past performances. In August last he flew from Los Angeles to New York by way of Albuquerque, Wichita and In- disnapolis, in twelve hours and twenty five minutes, lowering the Mr, and Mrs. Lindbergh record by more than two hours. In September he winged from Treas- | New York in twenty minutes. In No- vember he flew from New York to Havana, fourteen hundred miles, in nine hours and twenty-one minutes, re- turning two days later in eight hours and forty-four minutes. In December he hopped from Washington to New York, two hundred and twenty miles, in Afty-eight minutes. In March he sped from Beston to New York, two hundred and ten miles, in fifty-two minutes. ‘This sort of flying does as much for the development of commercial aviation as longer-distagce work, perbaps even more. It is a test of both speed and dependability. The plane must be stout and the engine must be highly efficient. Hawks is using a “Travelair Mystery” ship, a monoplane with advanced streamlining. Its special feature is the cowling which houses the motor, which, 1 by cutting down the head resistance, is said to give it at least twenty miles an {hour more speed. Its engine has more than four hundred horsepower. Other special features add to the effectiveness of the craft. Speed with safety is the present ob- Jective of plane makers and plane’ users. Hawks has demonstrated that distance can be virtually annihilated without {adding to the risk. He has established wholly new standards of performance that will undoubtedly have a marked effect upon the technique of plane con- struction. o ‘The Amalgamated Beauty Perlor Employes’ Association of New York ordered a strike and about 1,200 work- ers are out. It is likely that many Goihamites these days are passing ac- quaintanccs on the street without recognizing them. —— e r———— “When a three-year-old asks for a second serving of spinach, you may be sure he is enjoying it,” declares a health article. You may also be sure that you either are witnessing a near miracle or should consult a good ear specialist. ————r——y Report of the disappearance of a woman from the family circle three months ago has just been turned in. Possibly relatives had thought all this time she was in the rumble seat. New York gives its speakeasies real protection, A single policeman routed four bandits who tried to hold up one in the immediate vicinity of Times Square, ——— Cherp money is seen by New York finc: ial experts as offering & remedy for ailing and listless business. A one per cent solution, eh? oy 2t Mrs. Minnie (“Ma”) Kennedy, mother of Evangelist Almee, is reported better. ‘There are probably & few brisk “rounds’* {left in the old lady yet, PRSI e Still another body of experts formed to “study the dry law | somebody prepared to recite y ol ST R i A San Quentin prison convict has de- vised and will patent a theftproof lock. The scab! s SR T SHOOTING STARS. s been Is not ? BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Toast. Oh, here's to the fool with the bauble and bells! The song that he sings and the story he tells Assume to be neither persuasive nor wise, But only the trifies that wit may devise. He asks your approval, but never your trust, he must. sage, As a vender of nonsense for youth and for age, Nor pose as & strictly self-qualified saint To indulge his own greed while he counsels restraint. Though his jest and his song we but scantily prize, | Here’s a toast to the fool who assumes | no disguise! Useless Eloquence. “What a wonderful flow of language | your fellow legislator has.” | “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. “But he doesn't use it for much except drowning ideas.” Jud Tunkins says whether a man has excusable or inexcusable faults de- | pends - almost entirely on whether you | happen to like him or not. Nature's Approval. Of self-approval let us sing Along life's blooming ways, For even Nature in the Spring 1 Doth throw herself bouquets. Jocose Rivalry. | who hears a joke always thinks he has a better one?” “Yes,” replled Miss Cayenne. *“Very few of us escape the temptation to as- sume that funnier than thou attitude.” A Condescension. “Does your wife share your ideals and aspirations?” | “To some extent., When we go to a | ball game together, she at least hopes | the home team will win.” A Sporting Propesition, | How often in a legal fight, Amid the verbal din, We pause to ask not who is right, But who Is going to win? “Suspicion,” said Uncle Eben, “mighty often consists in realizin' whut you'd be tempted to do if you had de other felier's chance.” e Give Them Jazz! From the Janesville Gazette. Maybe we would recognize Russia if ted a sense of humor and al- lowed tl saxophone to become eral. What America should contribute besides tractors and experts is a radio station jazz band. S emeee Domestic Wilderness. Prom the Columbus Ohlo State Journal. Between keeping dandelions, buck tain and fox grass from usurp! the lawn, chasing the wolf from the door and buying an occasional wildcat k, the average man has about all the wild life he can handle. ————————— Frail, Prom the San Prancisco Chronicle. It is hard to understand why alienated Detroit to New York in two hours and affections ere worth so much if they are forty-one minutes. In October he made 80 easily alienated. ‘While he babbles along as he may or | He does not appear in the garb of the' “Did you ever observe how a man| ing | James A. Urquhart, M. C., of THIS AND THAT tWh‘:;l.l'll'ol'll'fll‘lb!lllrlm‘l'.h! stree| ‘The answer is, there is nothing wrong with them. If there are beggars in ‘Washington, they should be on the streets, every last one of them. trouble with those who speak against the street fraternity is e old adage, “Out that they belleve in of sight, out of mind. h;rhe sight of a mendicant troubles m. ‘They do not want to contribute, and they do not lize the idea of hot con- tributing. Hence such pleasant to wal rsons find it more their favorite way freed from the sight of legless or sight- less men. They would have a thorcughfare traveled only by well dressed human beings with the full complement of legs, arms and eyos. Life has not treated every one as holiday material. Unfortunately there are injured, helpless, hopeless men and women in the world. Hospitals and saoclal noles can tell tales of these people. If some of them dare the winds of Winter, and the heat of Summer, to sit on pavements, in the sight of all men, the action has some aspects of bravery in it, has it nct? Certainly few of those who pass so thoughtlessly would be willing, in a like situation, to sit beneatn the glare of their own contempt. * ok x % The world-wide depressicn of recent months h:s been a red a large flag that all may see. The begga: small red flag which many have been willing to overlook, even 1f they see it. The mendicant stands or sits on the street corner as a_perpetual reminder that the world has by n> means reached perfection. Even in the perfect state, | of which men at times dream, it is ques- tionable if there would not be a place for be TS, For the fact that this erippled man is here on the corner, is proof both to passersby and to him that he is a bona- ;\“de brother of humanity, and they are s. 'T were & shame, indeed, if cities get so obsessed with the idea of beauty, as wcnderful as that is, that the in- habitants positively coyld not bear the sight of anything which tended to mar their ideas of exquisite harmony and completeness. No, the cities of men know incol letencgs, as every human being t, in one way or anoiner. We are all incomplete, in some way or another, | end it Is well for us ir we do not for- get it, and are not all-wed to forget it. A John Donne, dean of Bt. Paul's had & way with him, put it afte wise: “He that oppresses t! poor, digs in & dunghill for wormes; and hs departs from that posture which God in nature gave him, that is, erect, to lcok upward; for his eye is always down, upon them that liz in the dust, under his feet. “Certainly, he that seares up him- selfe and makes himselfe insensible to the cries, and curscs of the poor here in this world, dces but prepare him- selfe for the howlings, and gnashings of teeth, in the world to come. pent’s diet, ‘Duste shalt thou eate all th= days of thy life’; and he feeds but cn dust, that oppresses the pocr. o “And us there is evidently more in- ums: is Reproach, ‘He that oppresses poor, reproaches his Maker.'” flag of warning, | r has been, for centuries, a | “It is the Serpent's taste, the- Ser- | ity, more violation on nature, in | this oppression, than in emulation, so | open air, where many unfortunates dare may there well seem t> be more im- | not go. The beggar fits into the street piety, and more violation of God him- |scene today as he did hundreds and gelfe, by that word, which the holy | thousands of years ago. His presence | Ghost chooses in the next place, which | there now proves that we have not the | solved these certain BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. From the sublime to the ridiculous is a short transition surely. We are re- minded of what a [:I young man, in the flush of youth, said to & rin a distant city, who accosted with “I can't see you, brother.” . “I can't see you, eithter, brother,” slanged the young man, passing on with a smile, His experience hed been so limited that he did not recognize the cruelty of his words. If we cannot find it in our hearts to give to beggars, what we can do is to leave them alone in peace. Seneca, one of the grandest Romans of them all, wrote a series of essayson “Benefits,” in which hs brought out the often-testi- fled-to fact that it is easler to give gracefully than to receive in the same spirit. Many a person, however, does not find it easy, but extremely difficult, to confer benefits on the poor and the in- digent. Such work does, indeed, takea particular kind of man or woman. Not every one, by any means, is fitted for it. is has been 50 universally recognized today that a whole race of social workers, as they are called, have been trained to handle such work for the rest of us. Whether this relieves us of a moral obligation on our own part is something which every one must determine for himself. It would be as unwise, as use- less, to lay down laws and requirements upon & imatter which is so peculiarly personal. * % % ¥ ‘The sensitivity of human beings dif- fers vastly upon this matter. What ap- peals to the heart of one will leave that of another cold, yet no one would dare say that the latter is not as good & man. Hundreds of persons in Anglo-Saxon socleties are by their very natures con- stitutionally unable to stop and place a coin in a beggar's hat in the street, not because they might not desire to, but that a certain timidity arises to prevent them. It is awsort of shame, which somehow, and even in deflance of their minds, rises in them, which stops the hand that goes to the pocketbook or change pocket. Many think, perhaps, that such giving is unmanly; indeed, the larger propor- tion of women who give to street beg- gars would seem to bear out this idea. The English shame to be seen lem tos bg‘r-r may or may not be due, it is difficult to say, to the perhaps secret feeling of many that there ought to be no ars at all. No; but who is to change it? At any rate, who has? Begi are licenszd by the 'community. every one who gives to them, a thousand pass without seeing, or pretending not to see, it would be icult to say which. Maybe the 21 know, or maybe they do not care. The latter would be thelr surest defense. Burely any one might feel that if he were a beggar, he would prefer to believe that pass:rsby really falled to see him than that they saw and passed without 50 much @%; a smile, or & look of recog- nition, at least earnest and understand- ing. It cannot be easy to bz a beggar. “There, but for the grace of God, 10 the gallo iny s‘he idea is The phrase, the | grace of God, has besn much abused, over the centuries, but it contains mighty applications of truth. There is scarcely any one, even a beggar, who cannot find some one or somcthing poorer than himself. The street beggar often is able to spend his days in the gombleml although the world has been a long time at it. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands i { OLOGNE GAZETTE.—The civic theater at Bochum (Prussia) | has obtained an injunction 1 against the dramatic eritic | whose ccmpositions appear in the press under the name “Dannen- berger,” restraining him from attend- | ance at any performances given in that house. The name of this critic is Eric the offerings are invariably so un- friendly and polemical that the business his reviews. presided over by Circult Judge Hamm, the allegations of the playhouse were finally denled to Dannenberger. * ¥ ¥ ¥ Dictatorship Blamed | For Depression in Jugoslavia. Privredn! Pregled, Belgrade.—With | But he is no longer able to buy as freely as formerly, as the prices for his products have greatly declined. Under a similar state of affairs, industry, too, which had heretofore been developing really prosperous, has begun to feel ! the pinch of the economic crisis. | The timber industry was the first to suffer. ‘Work was stopped and workers dismissed in many large lumber enter- | prises in Bosnia, Slovenia, Gorski | Kotar and Lika. Five earriage-bull | concerns also suspended operations, ane | textile factories have reduced their staffs and_operations. The world economic crisis is generally indicated as the reason.for all these difficulties, and it is no doubt true that the general condition has affected Jugoslavia. Nevertheless the dictator- ship has shown itself powerless to com- bat this economic repercussion, Its unsound policies impede the basic’in- dustry, agriculture, with all sorts of restrictions, taxes and penalties, and at | that could be produced at home far in excess of our exports. These defects ! are the main cause of all our economic froubles. * ok x Protest of Demands On French School Children. readers calis attention to the weight of the school books which little children | often are obliged to carry. | “My little boy, who is 10 years old,” | this Jady tells us, “came home the other day with a lot of copy-manuals and text books wra] up in & towel, the (9 pounds). And we live on the sixth floor! For a child at such a criticz]l period of growth, is it ot senseless to require him to lug home such & ponderosity of books nearly every day? It is almost enough to give him curvature of the spinel” | whije it is true that elementary | scholastic life is filled with many little pnnoyances and infelicities not always possible to avoid, we do think that some really superfluous vexations should be abolished by those in charge of educational affairs. Small children who must endure hours of restraint and mental tension should not be fizther fatigued with the carrying of ks to and from their homes, most of which they never open! They say you must suffer if you wish to be beau- tiful. And if you want to learn, too! * * % % Arctic_Ph; lan Does Much Traveling. The Evening Post, Wellin n.—Dr., Aklavik, the Eskimo metropolis on the Arctic Ocean, who is the Farthest North doctor, is “out,” on furlough, on his way to see his superiors at wa. His territory covers 90,000 l&un miles, radiating from the mouth of the Mackenzie Rllv;:‘;:m ml‘nlln :trut ulD thoullart.h." past year, Dr. Urquhart traveled 3,000 miles by dog uu;: 1,800 a miles by vater, and 1300 mileq by ‘alr, The nearest medical man is miles {us the chief customer is the peasant. | | satisfactorily, and was in some instances | the same time upset the balance of | trade by permitting imports of goods | Le Matin, Paris.—One of our feminine | rggregate of which weighed 4 Kilos | | of the institution is seriously injured by | At a recent court hearing | sustained, and the right of admission | ;;gq1 props of the lands farther South Reeger, and it is said his discussions of | to be hunters. | of the police seize the babies &s soon away. He performs his major opera- tions, with the aid of a nurse, at the Aklavik Hospital, and looks after the bodily ills of the occupants of the mis- sion and the infants' home, the latter established by the Northwest Mounted Police to combat the practice of infan- ticide followed by Eskimo mothers, who destroy girl babies, as they do not grow Reliable Eskimo agents as they are born, and rush them to Aklavik. “In this region,” says Dr. Urquhart, “a man stands for what he is in Winter, Accessories don’t count in the Sum- mer. Background means nothing. The fall away. The worst you can say of & man in the North is that he can't take care of himself in Winter. He has to take care of himself or pull up his stakes ‘or pass on. Every man who stays must learn, and learn well, the Winter game. That done, he stands out like a single tree in a wide plain.” And when the midnight sun is in the | heavens: “People forget about sleep in the 24 hours of sunlight. nap. If I happen in at meal time, I never kmow whether it is breakfast, lunch or dinner.” Born in British Columbia, Dr. Urqu- hart started life as a telegraph oper- ator and train dispatcher for the Ca- nadian- Pacific Railway at Donald and Revelstoke, in the Rockies. After grad- uating at McGlll, he served for the duration of the war in the Army Med- ical Corps in France, and then prac- ticed for some years in Hongkong, but found he could not resist the lure of the White Silence, acquired in the Rockies, and two years ago he trekked North to the rim of the universe, * k% % Mexican President Wins Battle With Devilfish. La Noticia, Managua —President Ortiz Rublo of Mexico had a narrow escape from drowning at Acapulco, when, while fishing in the bay, he har- pooned an enormous devilfish. ‘This creature, as soon as it was wounded, attacked the lsunch, Merida, in which the President was cruising with sport- ing companions, and almost wrecked it. Mr. Rublo behaved very courageously, and attacked the devilfish with other harpoons, but without diminishing its ferocity or making it desist from its thrashing. Finally the marine monster made off, dragging the boat with it, as the President would not let his com- lons cut ghe lines. However, after he fish pulled the heavy boat more than a quarter of a mile, the party was able to attach a chain to the levia- than and tow it to shallow water where it took 20 men to pull it ashore. * ok k% U. 8. Considers Purchase of Islands as National Park. El Universo, Guayaquil—The United States again is considering the purchase of the Galapagos Islands and this time not as a naval base, but for a national park and pleasure resort for American tourists. These islands are prolific in many elsewhere unknown or rare speci- mens of animal, fish and plant life, and it would be the intention unde: American control to preserve as far as possible all these phenomena in the interests of science. - o Many Hands. Prom the Louisville Times. Solomon may now and then have had a little trouble with all of those wives, but no doubt they could alwal finish the Spring housecleaning in or 20 minutes. ‘They take a ] Only Natural. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. One thing the matter with marriage seems to be the lack of of humor, A divoree tion lists the complaint of a lady thet her husband “was always on the other side of all The Political Mill By G. Gould_Lincoln, Despite the fact that Congress has adjourned politics has not. The coun- try may be getting a rest from the legis- lative turmoil on Capitol Hill, but it's getting no rest from the politicians and their talk. With the national campaign still more than a year in the offing, | Republican and Democratic leaders are belaboring each other, issuing state- ments by the yard for publication in the newspapers and talking by the hour over the radio. Just how much attention the voters are paying to all this talk it is impossible to say. Probably more at- tention than if there was no business depression and relatively no unemploy- ment. The scramble for the Democratic nomination for President is becoming more and more active, And at the same time the Democrats are striving des- perately not to allow themsélves to be split over the liquor issue. They see the promised land within reach. At the same time they see the Josephus Danielses and the n Moodys of the party preaching against a wet platform and a wet candidate, while the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, of New York and others are proclaim- ing the need of a frank stand for pro- | hibition repeal or revision. * R ok ok Econcmic issues, the tariff, unem- ployment, old age pensions, anti- injunction legislation and the like are to be the paramount issues in the 1932 campaign if the dry De; ts can have their way. The wet Democrats are willing to admit that the economic issues should not be overlooked, but hibition must be a real issue. Jcuett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee, in an address to '.h‘e'1 ‘Texas Legislature the other night, tasa: “I do mnot consider prohibition the paramount issue of the coming cam- izn.” He added that he believed hat ascertainment of the sentiment of a majority of the party shculd be had on this as on every other importance within the party. He was defending the proposal cf Chairman Raskob, made at the meeting of the national committee here in March, that the national committee members consider the “advisability of a change in the present unsatisfactory econt tions of prohibition. * oK K % ‘Texas was one of the four States of the “solid South” which went for Hoo- ver and against Smith in the last na- tional election. The drys are strongly intrenched in the Lone Star State. Howaver, the fact that Mr. Shouse was invited by the Texas Legislature to address the body when it was known that Mr. Shouse has strongly o] d pussyfooting on the prohibition issue was regarded in some quarters as an indication that the Southern Democrats ate really as anxious to get harmony, if they can, within the party as are some jof the Democrats of the North and East and West. Mr. Shouse also in his talk to the Texas legislators: | “It would be deplorable if the selection of our Chief Magistrate and the di- rectors of legislation who must guide | the destinies of the United States!| Q. What are oyster sh!llluledlor?——‘: should hinge forever on the question of prohibition, however grave and far- reaching that question may be.” No one will quarrel with that suggestion, wet or dry. But the wets want the question settled once and for all their way, and the drys vice versa, * k% % 8o far the one man from the North and East to whom the Southern Demo- crats have cottoned is Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. . Roosevelt has amecng the of the Scuth a good deal in his effort for re- | covery from the attack of infantile | paralysis which aficted him & numb-r | of years ago. They like him. Further- | more, )‘!fivelt has c‘l:t lboudt ll:l.l:m‘el{ & mantle of progressivism, an in- clined. to the idea of the Scuthern dry prac- tical Democrats, admit privately that the next Democratic nominee for Pres- |ident must be in favor of some kind of revision of the prohibition laws if he is to win. The S>uthern Democratic {leaders are just as anxious to win as |are the leaders anywhere else. They think that they ean with Rcosevels, which is the answer largely to their support of the New York Governor. L Reports have been published to the effect that Senator Swanson of Virginia { has been asked to rally to Gov. Roose- velt the support of Southern Demo- crats; indeed, to head the Roosevelt drive for delegates in the South. The | Virginia Senator said today he never heard of such a proposition. added that he favored the nomination of former Gov. Harry Byrd of Virginia, provided Gov. Byrd is to be a candidate. | But Senator Swanson, when asked if he would consider a proposition that he work for Roosevelt among South- ern Democrats, declared, “I have noth- 'ing to say.” The Virginia Senator is a canny politician as well as am able | Senator. It's too early for any of the leaders to come out openly for a presi- dential nominee next year, and the Southern Democrats have a habit of putting forward favorite-son candidates from their States in order to hold the delegations in line to be used to the greatest purpose when the time comes |actually to nominate the presidential candidate. * ok kK ‘The name of Owen D. Young, widely hailed as the democracy’: nent private eitisen, 1 not down in connection with the presidential nomi- nsnma uWh;n convenm‘z: time rolls around Mr. Young may be very much in the picture or not at. .):ry He is not likely to halfway in and halfway out. ‘The Democrats do not wish to nominate a ‘“‘compromise” candidate if they can avoid it. Their last big com- promise, made at Madison Square Gar- den in 1924, got them nowhere, And the day of dark-horse candidates seel largely to have vanished. Mr. Youn name is advanced by many New York- ers, and he is reported to be favored over Gov. Roosevelt by Chairman Ras- kob. It has been said that even Gov. Smith may prefer Young to Roosevelt. If that is true, Gov. Smith has said nothing about it for publication. Furthermore, Gov. Smith would have to be pretty sure of his ground before he came out for Yqung over Roosevelt, unless he was prepared to be charged with lnlsr:mudc to the man who three times ced him in nomination for the presidency and who only accepted the nomination for Governor of New York in 1928 in order to aid his friend, Gov. Smith, in the race for the presidency, * %k k% Lut to get back to the South and Gov. Roosevelt. Former Gov. Harry Byrd of Vi is a vice chairman of the Democratic National Commit- tee and he was seriously at outs with the chalrman, Mr. Raskob, over the latter’s proposal to have the National Committee make recommendations to the next national convention regardi: prohibition. In his effort to preven action by the tee on the Ras- kob “haome rule” proposal . Byrd the New Yorkers was aided no little attending the committee meeting, who in turn followed the wishes of Gov. Roosevelt. In the end the National Raskod o 18 where 1 wapdob pro- Where on pro- v lews would ask for| take ‘when t ‘Winter the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘The resources of our free Informa- tion Bureeu are a your service. You are invited to call upon it as often as you pleasc. It is being maintained Solely to serve you. What question can ‘we answer for you? There is no charge at all except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address vour letter The g:nmg Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. , director, ‘Washington, D. C. . How much money is invested in golf clubs in the United States?—B. R. A. While formal figures are not ob- tainable, the following estimates have ven: Investment, club houses and rw.r'—y. $2,000,000,000; yearly ex- nditures, club members, $840,000.000; E:m. yearly cost, $20,000,000; clubs, yearly cost, $11,000,000. Q. Please give a biography of Ja ‘Whiting, who played in “Americ: Sweetheart.”—R. T. A. He studied medicine at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, intending to become & doctor like his father. But e preferred amateur theatricels to studles and soon joined a Littie i+ Theater ‘group in Philadelphia. When he finished college Ziegfeld gave him a John J. Raskob; former Gov. Al Smith | ol in the current “Follies.” This only | sel to show him that he needed to show business from the ground up, so he went into the chorus. ‘This apprenticeship led to his being Hal Skelly’s understudy and subsequently to & role with Cyril Maude. “Top Speed” and “College Lovers” are two of his pictures. e is 6 feet tall, red-haired and is married to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.'s, mother. Q. What is the average consumption of gasoline per automobile for a year? they insist at the same time that pro-|—C. T. A. The average consumption per vehicle in 1930 was 556 gallons. Q. What is the length, width srd thickness of the average airplane pro- peller>—H. F. A. The average airplane propeller is 9 feet long and tapered in plane form. The maximum width is approximately 6l inches. The propeller is also of | tapered in profile or thickness and the approximate width is 1}, inches. Q. Why was Blowing Rock, N. C., 80 named?—G. H. A. The town is named from a cliff where the wind blows upward. Q. How was_ Sir Francis Drake buried?—W. T. K. A. “A Full Relation of Another Voyage Into the West Indies Made by 8ir Francis Drake,” printed at London in 1652, say: ‘HXII.LI lnten;ei:\lt fllrl‘sda‘!ler manner: corps aid {0 & Cophin of Lead, he was let downe into the Sea, the Trumpets in doleful manner echoing cut this lamentation for so great a losse, and all the Cannons in the Fleet were discharged, according to th’lcluwme of all Sea Funeral obse- quies.” . Q. Which is further west—Reno or Los Angeles?—P. M. A, Reno, together with the other cities of the five western counties of Nevada, is Jocated in longitude 119 de- nesles 1o o Jongivude 118 egrees gel in longitude 118 d 30 minutes west. A. Shells are used for five purposes— “shelling,” chicken shell, fertilizer, lime {and road building, Ly far the most important use is shelling. By this is meant the planting of them in oyster beds in order that the spat may fasten on them. Q. How much rent can retail stores afford to pay?—T. H. ‘The Department of Commerce says that percentages of gross sales which mercantile establishments can afford to pay as rent in aeccordance with sound business practice include the followi Stationery and office supplies, 3.8 to while Los| automobile tirés, 48 0 5.7; ent stores, 3.6 to 5.1; all drug stores, 3,65 to 4.55; furniture, 4.1; grocery stores, chain, 1.1 to 2; hard« | ware stores, 1.13 to 2.68; all jewelry | stores, 42 to 5.5; men's clothing, 3. | to 4.03; all shoe stores, 28 to 48. A acted. Q. Are there some paved stieets in Venice, Italy?—A. M. S. A. The city is bullt on a group of is- lands at the head of the Adriatic Sea. Some of the streets are paved streets such as exist in other cities, but the | majority are canals with the houses | built right at the water edge, so that the gondolas or other boats can pull up right at the doors. Q. What tree has the nickname of “Hop-hornbeam”?—B. A. A. This is the nickname given to the ironwood tree because of the dried hop bells which cling to its branches. Q. Where is the highest lake in the United States?—P. McG. A. The highest lake having an area greater than 0.1 square mile is Tula inyo, 1%; miles noriheast of Mount ‘Whitney, Calif. The elevalion is 12,- “fie“fl and the area ebout 0.2 square mi Q Why do moth balls disappear if left among clothes for some time?—8. H. A. The; ‘The chemicals from which they are made evaporate directly from the solid state without passing through a liquid state. Q. Where was “Premetheus Unbound” written?—F. M. A. Shelley himself sald: “This poem, |begun in the Autumn of i818, was chiefly written in the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla.” Q. Why is water carried, in the In- dian Army, in leather bags made of | goatskin?—E. K. A. This variety of leather is used to accommodate the Mohammedans, who could not drink from a bag made of pigskin, and the Hindus, who would be le to drink from one of calfskin. Q. What did Thomas Edison say | concerning the advantages of being hard of hearing?—O. C. A. He sald: “This deafness has been |of great advantage to me in various ways. When in a telegraph office I could only hear the instrument directly on the tabie at which I sat, and, unlike ihe other operators, I was not bothered by the other instruments. Again, in experimenting on the telephone, I had to improve the transmitter so I could hear. This made the telephone com- mercial, as the magneto telephone re- ceiver of Bell was too weak to be used as a transmitter commercially. It was the same with the phonograpb. The great defect of that instrument was the rendering of the overtones in music, and the hissing consonants in_speech. 1 worked over one year, 20 hours id;y,dsmzdl{ and all, ‘:ed“:n':. Wi ‘specie’ perfectly Tecor ,ducld on the t‘l‘rimmwrlph. ‘When was done, I knew that everything else | could be done—which was a fact. . Q. Why _xysée entertainments called Q. How many porters does the Pull- man Co. employ?—E. M. ’.?, It has about 10,000 on its pay roll. Eulogies of George F. Baker, world- famous financier, ar> found throughout the American press, following his recent death. The man's character as well as his achievements, his philanthropies as well as his amassing of wealth, are sub- Jects approving comment. “In_the death of Mr. Baker, First National Bank of New York has lost the chairman of its board and 40 ar more other corporations and organ- izations have lost a director. Also t| world has lost its third richest ma cording to estimates. And America has lost & large philanthropist, its grand old man of finance, whose genius, labors and influences have contributed much to its upbuilding.” This is the tribute of the Chattanooga Times. And the Wor- cester Evening Gazette, speaking for New England, says: “Ncw England may gaze upon the career of George F. Ba- ker, just end-d, with something of the same sensations it fecls in gazing upon its own rugged hills of home. Stead- fastness and integrity are the outstand- ing features of both, and the character of the ‘Sphinx of Wall Street’ seems to have been molded by the ssme silent forces that set the Berkshires solidly in their place. Granitic was this man of unbounded financial vision, and lifted above the levels of ordinary life: but the firmness and vigor of his mind were softened by a generous opulence of char- ity, a nobl: patriotism, as the Berk- shires are softened by the forests of pines and maples and white birches, that, in Autumn, paint on the landscape a second and more intimate suns:t. Ba. ker, too, stemmed from New England stock that traced to Boston in 1625, ‘Though identified with New York City, he was part of our inheritance.” Impressed by the length of Mr. Baker's active participation in affairs, the New York Sun say: “The span f George Fisher Baker's active career was one of the most remarkable in the whole history of business and finance. That & man should aid Sec- retary Chase in the sale of securities in the Civil War and, nearly 70 years later, rule & great bank like the First National is almost incredible. He was one of the most modest of men,” con- tinues the Sun, “yet he must have been ar:ud, with the finest kind of prid t he never wronged a rival or de- serted & friend in need.” * ok k% ‘The Kansas City Times calls him “one of the real builders of the Amer- fea of t: the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: r. Baker's career embraced practically the whole of mod- ern American industrial and financial history. In the various panics and money stringencies which afflicted commerce in the latter half of the eighteenth century it was to Mr. Baker that many of the empire builders of the country turned for support. James J. Hill was one of these and he testi- fled in later years that Mr. Bake saved his Narthwest Railroad. Providence Bulletin says, eorge Baker was one of the Fou,p of Ame: icans who, in the bustling period after the Civil War, applied their energy and brains to transforming a virtually country into the greatest indus- trial Nation the world has ever seen.” Length of service did the | o | toona Mirror says: Baker Called Potent Factor In Financial Life of America I‘eleglph calls him “a Horatio Alger boy in real life, multiplied several hun- The creator of these myths of heroic molds never dared in his wildest fii take one of his | the lowly position of a $2-a-week er- rand boy to the possession of a half- billion dollars,” asserts this paper. e gt Al Concerning his generosity, the Al- “It is reported of George Baker—many times a million- aire—that he enjoyed life and leisure BCurse ot ine. splendid. priviles. pre- ause of the splen pre- sented him by way of doing good to his less fortunate brothers and sisters.” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, numer- ating some of his philan says o—. Noiahie 1e ‘kt.luoi\mm in re notable, were_no! be aggregate into many millions. them, to Harvard for the of the School of Business, was $5,000,~ 000. To each of Red Cross nuv'u $1,- times over. the J!-t drives in the World War he 000,000. To Columbia he gave 30 acres on the upper end of Manhattan for an athletic field, and he made large gifts and contributions to art itutions.” “He will be remembered,” according to the Cleveland News, “as a man who made substantial use of those advanced years in which his effectiveness seemed enhanced rather than " The ‘Walla Walla Daily Bulletin uw tribute: “In speaking of Mr. 3 Andrew Mellon once said that his bank had subscribed $3,364,000,000 in Gov- ernment securities. ‘We know in Wash- ington that on every issue on the day the boaks are opened we will receive & subscription for $25,000,000 from Farst National Bank of New York. It is eomforting to feel that we always have one friend who backs the Treas- ury, whatever its judgment of market conditions. It gives us col nee.” Mr. Baker will be missed in United States financial circles. His confidence in the country - was based on long experience. His was one of the guiding hands of financial affairs which must be re- placed.” “He represented much which reflect- ing Americans,” declares the Detroit Pree Press, “like to feel is of business profes- was about him none flam| t egotism and self- advertisement so often found .in men too emall for the jobs fortune has brought them. re was treme efficiency in his brain and a deep J of charity in his heart. The same in- telligence he displayed in accumulating the wealth that enabled him to die the third richest man in the country was G?‘Ill“! shown in the direction Which hi benefactions took. They , were largely to universities and hospitals. American individualism is ornamented and mellowed by the qualities that made George F. Baker, at one and the sumttln_'u,nnnmclfl'-ndlphm- peteSEESIRRE v SIS0 Empirical Method? Prom the Indianspolis Star. Two movie stars have done the un- usual by changing their minds before not mean antiquated methods or outlook for Mr. Baker. He “marched with the times, without ever for a moment allowing either the excitement of Jmmperltrur the discouragement of depression to ton of his mind,” says the Wal ch further re- 1f easily to the soclal con- s unusually Jong, active career, but it u) his simple di- " ‘The Rochester suc- of. A elopment 4 sell in the wedding. e They Were After Him. a horror of war na&%—g--n’:?: . e . No Flying Potentate Record. From the Toledo Blade, i held & watch when the kaiser - TAan away b, King left , 80 een dying the »” r