Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1931, Page 8

F.A-8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY....,.....May 15, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The lvmhcllhr Newspaper Company o P e phorte Wdhe Rate by Carrier Within the City. nine Star Sc per month Ddars) #0c per month and Sunday Sar 1da 88¢ per month EercoRy d 5¢ ‘each mont ay be semt in by mail or telephone Rate by Maill—Payabie in Advance. Maryland and Virgini: ‘um. person’s rights? Was it impossible tor the police to go about their business of interviewing the young men, and confronting them with witnesses, with- out dragging them to a precinct station and holding them overnight for “in- vestigation™? ‘There is no excuse for the brutally slipshod methods of the police in this case, but it is significant that sueh occurrences are regarded merely s rou- tine—all in the day's work. The heads of the police department might find out who was responsible for locking these boys up and whether, by the exercise of a little tact and intelligence, such mistakes might not be prevented in future. A man's reputation and his good name are worth protecting, even at the expemse of some extra work on the part of a police detective. polhh avs et e Cutting the Estimates. The mechanical details of trimming the estimates are best left to the ex- g: perts and the responsible officials, but THE tail regardiess of cost, for off-stage me- cessories to create atmosphere for the inspiration of the performers, for au- thentic “properties,” sometimes made financial success impossible regardiess of the merits of the play. He was a strange ecombination of spender and sa indulging himself absurdly in some particulars of production and | denying himself real necessaries in others, his stars conform slavishly to his own ideas of presentation until they became as marionette representatives of his concept. Again it has been claimed for him that he did more for his actors’ fame and success than they themselves. | Controversy always rag:d regarding him and his works. He was constantly in litigation. Scarcely did he produce @ single play without being accused of plagiarism. It is now cited that he never lost & case of this character, He did not particularly resent legal at- tacks, but utilized them for exploita- EVENING H e the negative It has been said that Belasco made | 1on. TAR, WASHINGTON, . G, BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘The desire to take the opposite side of any question seems to be born in some persons. ‘Th te side,” of course, means to a popularly held opin- For instance, there was John Donne. who wrote an essay in favor of women using rou He did this in the seventeenth cen- tury, when the use of cosmetics was frowned Ign, If the 'an lived today, when every woman rouges, at least in moderation, perhaps he would take the other side. and earnestly inveigh against the prac- tice. * % x % This contrariness is part and parcel of the mind of many human beings. Without it in operation, many wrongs would never get righted. Such persons make every one really look at a proposition, which otherwise | the matter at issue is one in which we | may make some advanee. The truth otherwise is mere cruelty. Of courss, no one the truth, un- less it is favorable to one’s pride. one's aims, aspirations, hopes, drcams. By the truth was no man yet hurt, we arz told, in all solemnity; the hurt lies in the spirit of man, the real man, or self, | the ego, ths 1. The desire to take the opposite of any popularly held verdict is a good indica- tion in a man of a desire to get at the truth. Such a person jnstinctively sus- | pects the largely held opinion. He feels | that maybe the letter of the iaw, rather than the spirit, has gained the ascend. ency. He resents the air of superiority which ’ the holder of the FOD\III ly held opinfon takes unto himself by very reason of the mass opinion. ‘The mob, he knows, 15 not given such praise on other matters; why should it | Responsibilities of The Makers of Laws To the Bditor of The Star: ‘we have not been mindful of the para- mountness of law itself as a sacred D ety or udlously sustking & netion wisely or jue ly sustains a nation | but when misused can also de: ? Do we realize the sacred “{n of the act of lawmaking? Does the law- maker sufficlently understand the na- ture and the constitution of souls we carelessly speak of as men and women? Do we not read in an old American grammar the saying. “A soul is greater | than s state”? How many of us have | cared sufficiently to diagnose the causes uwrmm.utmumnut‘ for wrongs committed against innocen souls among us? Is there no in yet all-seeing Presence to restrain the unrighteous, be they men or nations? Some 75 years ago a New York judge stressed the importance of using utmost discretion in new laws. He realized fully how 'r;:uch of ’c.vfl is ‘::- rectly created by the very law origi- y A certain tions for rad! on?—J. K. ! Q. What is the largest gate for a wrestling match?—G. J. A. Jack Curley of Madison Square ht promoted by him at Comiskey ‘Ball Berkl ot - ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS | | BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN. ‘g:blherelmhelmm Which a player can call for & new if he is dealt a hand that does contain a sf face card?—G. H. : A. no such rule for & new deal. One of the famous hands occa- sionally held by suction Yarborough, which does card of higher value Q. In Madison’ Journey was it from lng;on.AD. ‘CI ::; B. O 5 ! was made o smz rmn x}"v'nu, who was en route only urs, icuy on December 12, 1910, and dis~ appeared completely. Q What is the Victoria period in furniture?—H. D, A. 1t extends from 1827 to 1900. Midvictorian is abouf { would be smothered in the gross opin- | be bowed down 1o in the mstiter of - | nally intended to prevent. t the time of the the Commissioners have done the wise | tion of his wares. Ao et anking, Mr. Baldwin, & fellow worker with Prof, | 80 on Labor day of 1811. Thirty | Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled atihes Fredited To- It of Mot GUNEEWISS red ? and aiso the Iocal new per and 3 publ eretn. Aur 1 publication ef svecial dispatches herein are mlso reserved. = e More Theorizing. The American Legion, having ob- tained the enactment into law of » soldiers’ bonus loan bill which takes & billion dollars in ome form or another from the Fec'cral Treasury at this time, is now esking a “non-political” econ- ference to solve the causes of economic depression. The demand for such s conference would have come with better grace before the passage of that Jaw, ‘which was in effect a political scp to the members of the Legion. However, the National Executive Committee of the Legion, meeting in Indianapolis, has instructed the mational commander to petition President Hoover to call a conference of representatives of labor, capital, industry and finance to discuss the causes of the present depression and to outline plans, if possible, to avold such periods of depression and unem- ployment n the future. Whether such a conference could accomplish any beneficial result is a question. Congress, supposedly & rep- resentative body, struggled for months with the problem presented by the depression and one of its achievements in this crisis, under the guidance of the Legion, was the bonus loan law, with the Treasury facing a deficit, as thing in s2curing the advice of repre- sentatives of the leading citizens' or- ganizations concerning the general principles to be followed in making the reductions. At the same time, with the help of Auditor Donovan's inielli- gent analysis of the District’s financial condition, the citizens’ representatives have obtained & good understanding of the municipality's problems. ‘There may be disagreement and de- bate over the size and the mecessity of the District'’s working eash fumd, or surplus, and the fairness and equity to the taxpayers involved in mctnhminll it. But there is complete unanimity of opinion among the ecitizens that the forthcoming reductions in the estimates should least affect those fundamental functions of the community govern- ment that take form in generous ex- penditures for publie health, public safety and public education. As far as possible, the appropriations under these headings should not be lowered The standards so far attained should not be reduced. Most of the citisens have pointed to the Municipal Center as one of the city's outstanding projects that cen stand a cut, and there is obvious merit in the suggestion. Thus far a total of $4,565,000 has been appropriated for the Municipal Center, and practically all of it has come out of the District's surplus revenues. The land has been bought or is being condemned, and there is money available to meet the remaining awards when made. The it was supposed then, of $500,000,000. appropriation for the fiscal year that Now it is feared that the deficit may begins in July is $1,500,000, designed Teach the billion-dollar mark. Then|for the first year's work on the new the “Progressives” Republican and |COUrs building. The estimates now Commissioners Democratic alike, held a two-day eon- | Defore the st ference in Washington and Tequest for $3,000,000 for the fiscal many resolutions and appointed anumber | 78T 1933. The completed estimates of committees to study and report to :‘J"’“N-M'-mtmlwmm erence remedies sum. :mr::; E’ot the enumry.h:rh: ‘There is already an understanding came the annual meeting of the United | tDat When the Federal Government so Btates Chamber of Commerce, and chooses it will compensate the Distriet finally and recently the meeting of | f°F its present municipal bullding, mak- the International Chamber of Com-|!B§ the purchase money, estimated in merce. They have all labored and have | the neighborhood of five and s half brought forth Mttle in the way of con- | Million dollars, available for expendi- crote plans. Theories there have been | ture On the new Municipal Center. Belasco was 0o emotional to be an ! idealist. He dramatised himself, per- haps sincerely, but there was always in | the public mind the feeling that he was throughout his manag:rial career play- ing & role upon a stage greater than his own, the role of America's foremost | producer, with stars and playwrights and artists as his supporting company. And while the show lasted it entortained it it did not actually inspire the Ameri- can theater public. ————— { It appears that the facial expression | embcdied in the celebrated Houdon statue of George Washington was one worn during an argument over a horse trade. It is highly probable, judging from results, that an aching tooth was bothering many another famous char- acter at the time his likeness was caught by painter or sculptor. And in similar works cf art today what might at first glance be taken for a deep grouch may be nothing but the close proximity of March 15, June 15, Sep- tember 15, or December 15 and 22 combined. —_— e ‘The Field Museum, Chicago, rejoices in possession of specimens of one of the rarest of antelcpes, the “Bongo.” Remember the time when Col. Roose- velt was globe-hunting and this ani- mal, like the man-eating fish of the | | River of Doubt, was considered imag- | | inary? Some explorer may yet send [in & “Whiffietit,” » creature that the newspaper comedians at that time coupled with the “Bongo. s Sweden must be a happy land for juveniles. Some one deliberately named one of its big oil tankers, recently burned at sea, “Castor.” Evidently they must use something else there, and whatever it be, it must be more pleas- ant. Y. It is a curious phenomenon in how | many revolutions one or more factions are intently bent on the destruction of church property only to come to their senses a few decades later and bitterly regret the usually irreparable damage. et ‘, tellectual opinions? As a matter of fact, | he knows that one man may be right | and a milion wrong, ond that time has repeatedly proved it. | * X k% Therefore, the intelligent person who Majorities do not mean correctness. Psychological factors which are being investigated, but which have not been solved. enter in to make many & popu- lar opinion merely a landslide. “The voice of the people is the voice | of God.” it 15 sald, but it means little | believes in the rights of.the individual re than the current expression, | (and not all intelligent persons do) feels Fifty million Frenchmen can't be | that the greater the mass opinion, the WTOng.” | larger the necessity ‘or iis advocates to These are merely attempts to bolster | do something to support it besides ap: up the vogue of numbers. But God | peal to the very fact of lis widespread Himself was content, according to the | character. Bible, if there vet remained 5,000 Who | This latitude of opinion may mean did not bow the knee to Baal. nothing in itself, exceot that most m . ollow the leader, with sheeplike per- ‘The tendency of the average person. |sistency. He who speaks agminst it that great “man in the street” about | often does so for the sport of the thing. whom we read so much, is to resent him | There is a real battle in this field. who differs. Many of the grand fights of history in plenty. The American Legion's proposal of & national unemployment commission suggests that the financial and business though those signs appeared fully a year before the depression set in. With- out entering & defense of American business men, the Legion may be re- minded that hindsight is & compara- tively easy matter. Just what the Legion proposes to do in the event that these charges against the financial and business leaders of the eountry should be sustained is not clear. It is the job of American financial and business leaders today and also the Job of all the workers in the country to carry on in the face of the depres- sion. Recriminations are likely to lead to more trouble. As in all cases where & condition, not & theory, is presented, the tallors must cut the coat according | to the cloth at hand. The American financial and business leaders must be prepared 1o take their losses as well as the laborer. Any attempt on the part of the leaders to maintain earnings to which they became accustomed in the boom times at the expense of labor is Bound to react seriously upon these leaders and the entire system for which they stand. No one with common sense ‘wishes standards of living for any class | or group in the country to be reduced, except the standards set by some of the “idle rich.” And even they, through their expenditures, provide work and earnings for others. At the same time, standards of work should not be allowed to fall off. It is only by keeping their feet on the ground and strict attention to business, with regard for the needs of those who toll in factory and om farm, that the American people can come through the depression to more prosperous times. Theorizing is likely to get them nowhere. e — school houses of the National Capital @are %o be eliminated by 1932. H°nry Pord is hereby warned to get in his application for one to add to his col- Jection of quaint early Americana. —— s Sloppy Police Work. This, gentle reader, might happen to you: You answer the doorbell. Two Representative Simmons introduced legislation to that effect, but it was de- cided that the matter would be threshed out in conference between the District Commissioners and the Treasury De- partment. There is no good reason why the fiscal year 1933 should not see the first installment paid to the District, and there is no apparent reason why the Commissioners could not make the appropriation for the Municipal Center dependent upon the wishes of Con- gress, eliminating the item from the local budget and leaving it for a sup- plemental appropriation. It is certainly high time that something definite be put in writing eoncerning the finaneing of & semi-national undertaking that is ultimately to cost over $20,000,000. In 1929 Auditor Donovan prepared a five-year financial program for the Dis- trict, with the idea of Tevising it each year. The revisions have not been undertaken, as far as the public knows, and there have been s number of changes brought about by the viclssi- tudes of legislation. It is interesting to note, however, that Mr. Donovan's pro- posed budget for 1933, as prepared in 1929, called for a total of $45,830,000. The present figure set by the compu tations of avallable revenue is $45,618,- 140. Despite the additional fingneial burdens accumulated by the District since the program was prepared, the estimate of 1929 for 1933 was not far Wwrong. The District i not threatened with bankruptcy or with any alarming retrenchment. It does suffer the uncer- tainty and the inability to earry out a systematic program of development Which results from an unsatisfactory and unworkable policy of dividing expenses for the Pederal City between the politically impotent taxpayers and the controlling and all-powerful Federal Government. st Douglas Fairbanks is planning s | Bummer tour through Holland, Switzer- It 15 announced that the portable land and Italy. If he fails to throttle | himself cown, he is likely to jump clean out of one of the first two countries, — David Belasco. In all the history of the American theater there has besn no one man who 50 persistently and variously devoted himself to the stage as David Belasco, who died yesterday in New York at men in plainclothes flash detective |the age of seventy-six. He contributed badges and tell you to come along. ‘You are taken to & police station and Jodged in a cell and kept there all night to it as actor, as author and as pro- ducer. He was not much of an actor, never rising to major parts, being tem- and your name is given to the news- | Peramentally unsuited to the subordina- papers as a “suspect” in such and such & case. A witness, acting on the sin- cere belief that you resemble closely some bandit or murderer, has foliowed you to your door and given the police the clues which led to your arrest. After prolonged examination you are tion to direction that is requir:d In the ranks cf the theater. He was not greatly gfted as an author, as far as his own unaided efforts went, his outstanding successes in drama creation being those of collaboration. It was as producer, however, that he particularly shone, and patted on the back and told that you are innocent. For some time afterward those who remember your name will think of you as the “suspect” and those who harbor suspicion will believe that there was something very shady about your release. ‘That, in effect, was the experience of five young men, students at Georgetown University, picked up by the police on ® tip that they, or some of them, resem- bled or were the persons acting suspi- elously on or about the day that a tes shop was held up and the cashier was murdered. It s disgraceful that such s thing his success In that direction was ex- ceptionally sustained. In all roles, as actor, as author and as producer, Be- 1asco’s career coversd more than half a century. ‘Whether any of his work will live to make theater history is not immediately to be determined. He made sensational successes with unmistakably mediocre material, winning patronage and ap- plause by sheer showmanship, by lavish production, by shrewd exploitation of stars and by remarkably effective ad- vertising. Not all of his material, how- ever, was of this character. He wrote and found and developed much that should occur. Granting the fact that|was highly meritorious. In all, it is the police must never pass up any clue, ' estimated, he produced no less than one is there any excuse under the sun for hundred and Afty plays. His passion LW—MMJMM for elaborate staging, for meticulous de- ‘The Navy s preparing for the use of the President a boat so small in com- parison with the departed Mayflower that it might well be classed as a “yachtlet.” A good name for such & modest craft would be “Violet.” — Transpacific dispatches announce turn of prosperity this year. folks thought that perhaps that was where it had been for the past couple of years. A chicken born with four legs was put to death by its own mates. Can it be that they, too, realise that what most menaces the popularity ef poultry is overproduction of drumsticks? — e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Retrospection. O Pather Time, O Father Time, I wish that you would stay Or turn yourself about and climb Awhile the other way, And take us back Along the track Into the long ago, When ail our race Pursued the pace ‘Which we consider slow! O Pather Time, O Father Time, ‘We long to hear again The gay or sentimental rhyme In innocent refrain, When gruesome truth For eager youth ‘Was net considered best. We know too mueh. Reverse the clutch And give our minds a rest! Making History. “That man is one of those who make history. “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum; “but he insists on trying to make it to suit himself.” l Jud Tunkins says the theater would be uplifted in three or four weeks if everybody stayed away from the kind of shows he says he doesn't approve of. On Duty Again. Once more the optimist we'll greet ‘Who, when the rain in torrents drops And you come dripping from the street, Remarks, “This weather's fine for crops.” ‘War Paint and Feathers. “The Indlans don't use war paint and feathers any more."” “The men don't,” Teplied Miss Cay- enne, “but I understand the lady Indians are becoming quite modern in their ideas as to cosmetics and millinery.” Subtieties of Expression. “Music expresses more than language can convey,” remarked the enthusiast. “That's right,” responded the ordinary person. “I can whistle & lot of tunes whose names I couldn’t possibly learn to pronounce.” L Abundant Suggest ‘Those citizens are never few ‘Who ardently go to it And tell folks what they ought to do Instead of how to do it. “Peace,” sald Uncle Eben, “consists largely in knowin’ dat you's licked befo’ you start or convincin' de other feller dat be " 1 - “Those who are mnot for me are against me” seems to be his root idea. And this idea, like most ides may be questioned, in all sincerity and truth. Often enough those who are against one do one the most service. ‘This is most clearly seen, perhaps, in the case of the strugg] author, espe- clally the writer of , either the short storv or the novel. Consider the teller of tales, the ama- teur teller of tales. He bears down upon one with his manuscript. “Give me your honest opinion of this,” he says. % You shrink inwardly. ‘You know, as every one knows, that e does not want a frank opinion at all. Praise is what he desires, and if you do not give it to him, he will go away to_some one else who will. ‘The worst critic the aspiring writer can select is not some uncouth person who will tell him the truth, but the nice, kind fellow who will feed him plesauce.” The curious part of the matter is thal the young author realizes himself, in the depth of his heart and brain, that his production is not very good, He knows what he wants to achieve, or thinks he does, but there is a wide gulf between desire and ement. His ‘.hlne: nnnhtfiu;‘mm that the thing 1s not good: against hope that he is mistaken; ll‘%:mw easy is it to regard one’s self at fault in such cases! The amateur short story writer's heart ex) , 83 he listens to the sweet words of praise from som: one who, he knews, is not capable of distinguishing good work from bad. * ok ok Most of us are done the best service in this euriously shifting world by the men and women who el us the iruth: whether we like it or not, s0 long as have begun on the mental plane, and | thence spread to the physical. Men who pride themselves on their brains nevertheless often come to feel that there in the last analysis, but one true way to settle soms questions, and that is with the fists or thelr equiva- lents, The sport of crossing mental rapiers | is known to every one, but it reaches its | peak when one of the fencers takes his stand on the side of the unpopular. It | is then only that one must think. both quickly and deeply. Ths assault upon him will be immediate and caustio. ‘He | must be prepared to feint and guard with exceptional W, while at the | same time plerce versary’s guard |at the few vantage points which he | shows. He will show few, heing bul- | warked by the gross opinion of his fellows. | * * % The danger one runs, in taking the opposite opinion, is to be calied & eynic. A cynic, as far as the popuiar definition defines him, is any one who does not agree with all the standard opinions of one's friends, one's State, one's party, | one’s eountry. | Question anything, and one becomes & cynic with all the non-cynics. It is am . Every man is a cynic at | times. There is nothing else to be. | And many a person is cynical in his own mind when he would not admit it to the world for words, cr fear of what words might do to him. Let us add that our questioner need by no means ke a quarrslsome person, although sometimes he may take the “opposite side” just for the fun of the t?\l‘n[ Debating socletis know how | that is. ‘There always are enough people to take the popular side of any question. Let us be glad for the man who dares to stand on his own. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC Seeing that the Republic in 1932 is invited to concentrate as much thought 23 it can divert from the “p'resgdenthl campaign upon Gecrge Washington, Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur has fense. The “War Departm: liant young chief of staff told the War Policles Commissicn on Wednesday, has adopted Gen. Washington's precept, we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.” Gen. MacArthur belleves, heart and soul, in that other Washingtonian counsel, contained in the Farewell Ad- dress, that the Unlted States would al- ways do well “to remain on a respecta- ble defensive posture.” Nobody who knows Douglas MacArthur imagines that his plan for an emergency draft Army of 4,000,000 men is an expression of militarist Just for battle. A lifelong professional soldier, who knows war at first hand, he shares Gen. Shermsn's apinion of Before he himself experi- enced war's horrors in Prance, Gen. MacArthur learned from his own father, Lieut, Gen. Arthur MacArthur, just why Old Tecumseh branded war as “hell.” The chief of staff believes there's cnly one thing worse than war, and that is for a country to go into war unprepared. * ok ox % Although Commander in Chief Hoo- ver has given orders that War Depart- ment expenditure is to be cut to the bone, it can be sald on authority that he has no idea of proposing any reduc- tion of the Army below present strength. By act of Congress making appropria- tions for the current fiscal year the strength in enlisted men is 118,750, ex- clusive of 6,445 Philippine Scouts. Nei- ther President Hoover nor Secretary of ‘War Hurley is disj d to consider any curtaliment of total. Mr. Hoover on numerous occasions has proclaimed that the United States Army is already down to skeletonic tions. “We have many more n than sol- diers” is one of his graphic ways of de- picting it. Before the economy wave has spent its force there may be some impaortant transfers of troops now doing duty on certain soll far remote from home shores of this country. These de- tachments for some time have been esrmarked at Washington as unneces- sary in the serviee they've long been ok ox % ‘The Unlon League of Philadelphia, which glories in the fact that it was born during Lincoln's administration and was founded especially to hold up his hands, will keep up a record when it entertains Herbert Hoover on May 29. The stanch Penn G.O.P. organization is proud of having been host to every Republican President since 1865. Mr. Hoover is not to speak at the league's dinner on_ the eve of Memorial day, reserving his remarks for the com- memoration at Valley Forge the next morning. His business in Philadelphia is to unveil his own portrait which the league commiasioned for its famous old club house on Broad street. There's been & bit of & hubbub over the picture because an English painter was en- roduce it. gaged to prodi i At Geneva two weeks hence the United States will resume its ancient efforts to have the powers do something t oplum, especially . Shairman of the American delegation at the conference on limitation of the ‘manufacture of narcotic drugs is Consul General John K. Caldwell of the State Department. Mr. Caldwell has had long experience in the Far East and knows opjum—as an issue—from one end of the pipe to the other. His associates at Geneva will be Harry J. Anslinger, commissioner of narcotics; Dr. W. ‘Treadway, assistant surgeon general of the Public Health Service and head of the Bureau of Mental Hygicne, and State Senator Sanborn Young of Cali- fornia. 'S oplum monop- oly threatens to throw a monkey: wrench into the international machinery for suppression of the traffic in that particular dope. The Chinese prohibit oplum smoking by law just as we pro- hibit liquor drinking, with about the same results. i One of the documents brought to light in connection with next week's goiden jubilee of the American Red L.|can do when the WILLIAM WILE. | Cross is & letter from Clara Barton, the innl president of the organization. It | was written frcm the Ohio River at | Evansville, Ind., on May 24, 1884, to A. | S. Solomons of Washington, one of the that North Manchuris expects the re-|struck a useful note in quoting the |two original vice presidents of the Red Many | Pather of His Country on military de- | Cross, at the end of the society's first ent, the bril- | great relief expedition—to the - | sippi flood sufferers. Miss Barton said: | “This expedition has settled the status f | of the Red Cross both with the people and the Government. We know now what we can do and that we can do what any other body of relief can do; that we can manage both our work and our finances, and neither beg nor go bankrupt, nor embezzle, nor in any way disgrace oursclves. I am not ashamed to take my little corps back to Wash- ington, not afraid to be questioned. In- deed, I ought to be questioned, and that, seriously, by those who administer public relief and vote upon it. *x koA This year's Institute of Politics, at | Williamstown, Mass., marks the begin- ning of its second decade of existence. With keen recognition of ' growing interest in those questions, the institute's opening program, on July 30, will deal with “The Economics of Fas- cism.” “The Economies of Commu- nism” and “The Economics of Capital- {1sm.” Dr. Alberto de Stefani of Rome will discuss Fascism. The lecturer on |Communism has not yet been an- | mounced. One of the forelgn speakers on capitalism is Dr. Gustav Stolper of Berlin. There is also to be a special ‘flrsrenee on “India and National- | * ok ok % A distinguished British military of- cer_was recently invited, during a visit in Washington, to run down to the Mid. dleburg, Va., hunting country for a day’s sport. He was in such a hurry to reach his host on time that he was picked up by a vigilant Virginia motor | cop for speeding. The Britisher pleaded gullty on the spot, agreed without quib- ble to pay the fine and then proceeded to get chummy with his captor. Hav- ing identified himself as a British war veteran, the cop asked him 1f he be- longed to the American Legion. *No, | be replied, “but I'd like to!” ‘There- | upon the policeman took his applicatio for membership in the local post. (Copyright, 1931.) . Cleveland Takes Steps To End Crime Epidemic Prom the Port Worth Record-Telegram. Cleveland, Ohio, is making an effort to rid itself of the crime wave by tak- |ing drastic measures against the car- Tying of concealed weapons. The au- thorities are attempting to increase the police force the while the prosecuting attorney's office is delivering to the | rand jury every case where the prin- | eipal participant was in possession of & pistol, either on his person or in his automobile. declared that son at large carrying a | weapon is potential murderer.” that hypothesis the plan for cleaning the city of “gangsters” and their meth- ods is erected. They say, confidently, that all “pistol toters” will be given prison sentences, ‘“particularly those armed persons caught in criminal acts.” Ohio does not have a State la: ing “robbery with firearms” a capita offense. ‘Texas has. It only goes to show what authorities ressure from a tired public becomes sufficiently heavy. They are tired of criminal activity in Cleve- land. If the State had a weapon as heavy and as keen as the Texas statute they would’ be happy to use it in Cleveland. “Any person at large carrying a con- cealed weapon is a.potential murderer’ is the only sane definition of the act. Pistols were made for the sole purpose of providing a handy method by which one human hel:f can kill another. ‘That oft-quoted old e, m of “a pis- tol makes all men same size” is utterly fallacious. It.makes Coue, explained this paradox as “the law of reversed effort.” Thus doctors do unwittingly help diseases, minis! to produce more ters more atheists, and lawmakers create lawbreakers, It is simple, after all, when we stop to notice that the human mind is like the key- board of an organ or plano and will respond to every tune played on it. 'Thus, when the doctors discourse on disease, they unwittingly increase i when criminologists harp on their sul ject, the universal keyboard of sensi- tives responds and plays their music— you know what that means. Now, re. versing the process, turning from nomena, legislators making laws with humane motives to ist the people in their endeavors to be useful and happy. every soul is touched as by & | magic finger, plays to the tune of help- fulness. Every one assists every other one. We all want to do more buying, ‘more trusting and be more law-abiding. . CALPAKIAN, Proud l“(_)‘Be Optimist, Says Charles Schwab From the Indianapolis Bt Charles M. Schwab, s dinner of the Bureau of the N American ewapape Association in New at & itation by -!ll'lf never in his life was he more optimistic than at present. He urged the need for a hopeful outlodk at this time and less talk about depression. Mr. Schwab, who is chairman of the Board of the Bethlehem Bteel Corporation, has been through eras of slack business before and knows how to take advantage of them to get ready for the reaction that 1s bound to come. . Schwab’s company, which is the second in importance in the steel in- dustry, along with the United States Steel Corporation and some other in- poriads as" oppartuntice toe it o as opportun! for Te- construction and expansion. com my is less than 30 years old, it diadly o Keep pate with the pace Tibiities of Amerlan progress ‘and velopment. The ingot production of the country was a little more, than 18,000,000 when his company was or- ganized and in 1929 it was more than 54 000 tons. The captains of industry like Mr. Schwab have reached sitions because of their optimism. would have hr“lefl far behind B bor_t Cruises Bolster Revenues of Ship Lines From the New York Herald Tribune. ‘The sudden appearance of the “week end cruise” is a new and odd phe- nomenon in the shipping trade, though onc in which it is not difficult to trace cause and effect. On the day that a first-class North Atlantic liner like the Majestic arrives with what is said to be her smallest fi-en(er list since the war, another liner, the Belgenland, is withdrawn frém the North Atlantic al- together and put into the short cruise service to Halifax. As the chairman of {he Cunard dryly informed his stock- holders a few days ago, revenues from the established services are bad, but the company is devising new forms of travel which would appeal especially to “millions of Americans who have never been at sea.” Cunard is announcing its week end ciuises in the star ships of its North Atlantic service; Amq ship owners have been stirred to s not unnatural protest over this invasion of a fleld which might seem to be peculiarly their own and they are themselves hurrying to exploit it. Clyde-Mallory has just srrounced a three-day cruise to Hali- fax under the American 3 a m:::m ]tlil::” ;lll::yubu-c equal In| ive, ug! are handicapped by their lack of the large, high-speed which is necessary if on r to combine a “week end cruise” schedule with & lar North Atlantic run—the M&nc;uo cunl‘l":‘A innovation. e have so often spoken of the lary modern liner as a “floating hotel” th:: it seems a little surprising that the dis- covery awas not made sooner that they could be operated as such. The modern liers combine romance with comfort, change and sea air with safety, and a note of exotic adventure with all the amusement facilities and civilised di- versions of Broadway. For years people have been traveling in them ‘much for the sake of the traveling as for the rurpose of getting anywhere, as the onger cruises have already amply prcved. It is mot strange that in time: *hen plans for round-the-world tours or European trips have had to be can- celed, passengers will appear in crowds fer & briefer costing compara- tively little. Shipping companies seem to be just learning modern industry's lesson that when old markets fall new ones can be developed b y FOBAIFGR: loped by ingenuity and ) Human Feline, From the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat. A QGerman court pronounced nine death sentences on the same fellow. But We suppose they will run concurrently. —_— ————— Giving and Needing. Prom the Charlotte News. This country contributed to charity in 1929 & sum estimated at two and a half billion dollars. And that's a fine record, but , thi needin, that much! e ¥ ey But Why Hot Dogs? Prom the Florence (Ala.) Herald, Base ball umpires were introduced in 1879, and shortly thereafter necessity mothered the invention of pop bottles. —_———te—— Spencerian Spins. Prom the Altoona Mirror, & bigger man than law-abiding citizens. writing. thousand fans paid admission, and the receipts were $94,000. Where was Edward Bok inter- red?—R. C. - A. Mr. Bok was buried in & erypt in front of the north door of the Sanc- tuary in Mountain Lake, Fla. Q. What is the present title of the former King of Spain?—P. L. T. A. King Alfonso is now known as the Duque de Toledo. Q. What are the things I should take into consideration in purchasing a house for my own use?—J. K. A. Authcrities suggest you should ana- lyze the house for these elements of Location, appearance, materials, workma h?. floor plan, structural features and mechanical installations. Q. Has there been a President of the United States who had black eyes?— L. A.C. juestion of the color of the A. The stated definitely. however, one definite state- ‘The Age of Hate,” Andrew from authentic for the ‘There ment of & t. In Fort Milton, describing son, Mr. Milton cites the reward off the two apprentices. He had William of dark complexion, black hair and eyes, and Andrew, very fleshy, freckle-faced, light hair and fair com- plexion. The reverse is known to be Q. What is a book machine? ATt Is a typ typing may be Q. Is Wheeler Army_post?—M. C. A. It is an Air Corps reservation un- der the Army. It is not garrisoned at the present time. Q. What is the Wwhich gave rise to_lt.hennumme. ' ‘Too” Platt?— : T. R. In about 1881 President L. G. ewriter so arranged that done in a book. leld in Honolulu an ling pro- d fought against this appoint- nator Platt merely agreed with John- | J¢ Civil War, and is usually the time asso- | clated with phush-covered atrocities and | poorly designed machine-made furni- ture. | Q. 'Who named the city of Providence, |R. 1.2—8. B, | A It was the first settiement and | mother town of Rhode Island. Founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, he named it | gr;‘vmenu “in gratitude to his Supreme verer.” Q. What is meant ‘bootle line?—O. L. i g A. There are two kinds. One fs gasoline smuggled into a state and sold tax-free to a dealer. The second Is gasoline unlawfully substituted in dis- pensing devices bearing the trade-mark mdbhnnd name of established com- panies. Q. Who said, In part, “My tongue cleave to the i00f of my mouth and rélyHflgvl"A,l. hané lose its cunning"?— ‘A It is in the Bible. The 137th Psalm, fifth and sixth verses, are: E gett ington, Past and Present,” 2 was donated for Rock Creek Church in 1720, and there was sufficient ground around the church for the ‘which has received the dead 200 yvears. Richard Queen vided land for » Romsn chapel near Langdon, and burials no doubt made thereat in due These two places are, therefore, earliest places of interment in trict of Columbia, and the wfl&" ;lu- ufno;d graves was s and conf around early churches of the Federal Olt."m Q What were hair shirts made of? Eeiiioks R that a halr shirt was & garment = rough cloth made from it's hair and mnin'gnturnglafl:lw‘“ around the loins by way of mortifica~ tion and punishment. Q. Was the Isthmus of Darien gmse as the Isthmus of hnm?—‘-‘i.. A. The Isthmus of Darien did not cover the entire territory of what is now the Isthmus of Panama. Isthmus of Darien is properly portion between the Gulfs of miles in mintmum 1513, and San Miguel, 35 in width, It was named by the ummduwnryry'g.m, While the country has been im- by the charge of the Wicker- Commission that data concerning S N(unnw.hy tate) ts by incomplete, further statemen chairman of the law investigating “ihe e £t i i Judicial system. Gen- in laws dealing with improvement in statis- as a neces- the future. the statement by Mr. Wick- Jitice throughout the Daited ce out the Un States, very largely, is still carried on with judicial machinery similar to that employed in the eighteenth century,” the Rochester Times-Union declares: “Mr. Wickersham says that such im~ provements as have been effected in the United States still leave the old methods brought here two centuries 8go substantially in force, especially in the fleld of criminal justice. That is a serjous indictment. If there is one Americans pride themselves upon, it s keeping up with the times. Yet if Mr. Wickersham is right, we have woefully failed to do this in a fleld where we are experiencing more trouble than any other civilized nation.” “There are in continental United States,” according to the Louisville Courier-Journal, “49 independent juris- dictions with their different laws and practices, hundreds of independent mu- nicipal police departments, thousands & | é L1 ) Iy of counties with their independent law |PY enforcement agencies, two or three thousand judicial districts, and there is little co-ordination of their efforts against crime, no uniformity of data on which even to exchange experiences and so arrive at an agreed understand- ing of their common problem, This is one reason why criminal jurisprudence in the United States is not as methodi- cally successful as it is in centralized governments. If health and agricul- tural authorities co-operated no more closely than law enforcement agencies do, this country would be devastated by diseases of animals and plants.” * K ok ok An address before the American Law Institute by Chairman Wickersham is mentioned by the Providence Journal, especially his statement that “wide- spread disrespect for Jaw” is the great- est menace to civilization. The Journal agrees that “nobody questions that it is a very great menace,” and adds as to the general situation: “Supplementing Mr. Wickersham's statement comes an interesting remark by Chief Justice Hughes of the United States Supreme the same audience y. Mr. Hughes says: ‘Even legislative inefficlency may re- ceive attention, not simply in the re- crimination of political campaigns, or in futile harangues on the multiplicity of laws, but in the intelligent devising of improved methods.’ This brings us again to the important truth that there are many laws that ought never to have been enacted—laws that do mot accord with any substantial majority sentiment and are correspondingly dif- ficult to enforce.” The address before the law institute is a subject for comment by the Charleston (8. C.) Evening Post, which notes the appeal by Mr. Wickersham for that body “to enlist its scholarship and muklrc: h; {.lhz fight onkcflme and undertake the follow-up work necessary “if the labors of the National Commis- sion are to frucitfy into the most use- ful results’” The lvenlniwl::n criti- cizes the position of the of the commission with the statement: “The commission’s vague, inconclusive pro- nouncement on liquor laws and the situation arising under their influence is the sole result by which the public knows its work, and, that being the case, it is hardly to be expected that the lawy f the institute or anybody else will otional over the ap- 1 to carry commission numerous are inaccurate | being of even wider | f that nationally we have no dependable system of gathering information on the criminal and his acts. Present records are ‘unsystematic, often inaccurate and more often incomplete.” Thére is ex- cellent opportunity for favor- ites and genieral in the Department of Justice set- There is no central agency at Washe ington to collect, interpret and dissem- inate crime could do for the partment of Commerce would be ing less than an immortal hero, formity and completeness of tistics are vital if we are to learn causes and the probable cures of an palling crime situation. The mendations of the commission for as- ltmzl’l:'ccf Nltlnnl;r'lh crime statistics ensus eau should be lowed in the near future.” s It is believed by the San Sun that “some of the public inability ‘:m with this problem of- and courts arises from the very Jack of understanding and authorita- tive information.” The Memphis mercial Appeal feels that "‘ucunu and to prepare needed information, holds that “it should at least be able to ply statistical information of value Tespect cf a few things in place of un- dependable tabulations that clutter up 50 many books and essays discussing c""’fix and criminals.” “The used by the States in meeting their own problems of law enforcement and, st the same time, transmitted to Wash- ington for inclusion in an annual re- port which will give complete and ac~ curate information on crime, criminals, Ppolice, prosecutions, courts and priscns, Such a report would afford the country full and continuous knowledge con- cerning the enforcement of the crim- inal law. Fortunately, the adoption of this policy is not dependent upon con- gressional action. Under the authority of legislation passed at the last session, the Bureau of the Census can gradually extend the scope of its statistical work znnl it tl:c'r:es to emrler the entire fleld. complete natio) system of crime m.lmmlumg:-un,ummu achieved in a day. But, at least, the policy enunciated by the Law Enforce- ment Commission and the authority given to the Census Bureau by Con- gress have now brought us bly jne:‘ur“w the attainment of this ob- jective. ———— General Practice. From the Minneapolls’ Star. A general practitioner is one who can lance a boil without sending you to an- other fellow to have it dressed. —————— Clogging Names. Prom the Seattle Daily Tiines. Imay what would have happened to Rer':’:?: d:vore." record Peve