Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor L1ty 8t."and Pennay nia_Ave. Rate by Carrier Within the @ity. 45¢ per month 60c per mon! th o ‘telephone Mail-—Pa; in Ad e S e 19r., $10.00; 1 mo., T, §6.00: 1 mo., 435 3008 1 men 468 All Other States and Canada. Dajly and Sunday...1yr. $12.00: 1 mo. 31,00 . 1mo., R B J5 3500 1mo. 80 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ted in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. = - “Gangdom” in Washington. There is something more than the mere accident of coincidence in the out- break of violent crime here that moves Commissioner Crosby to issue & formal statement denying the Capital City's capitulation to organized gangs and as- suring the peaceful citizens that gang- dom is not threatening to turn Wash- ington into a smaller edition of Chicago. Commissioner Crosby is dealing with 2 public state of mind that, for reasons too numerous and apparent to describe, has come to think of a revolver as a “rod” a girl as a “moll,” a few rowdies as a “mob,” an a as the act of putting a man “on the spot,” a betrayal to the police as & “squeal,” and perhaps has reached the conclusion that there is such a thing as “the ethics of gangdom” and sees in the cheap and ostentatious floral dis- plays at a bar fly's funeral “a solemn last tribute from the boys.” Naturally, every crime is therefore examined for what have been accepted as the orthodox manifestations of “gang ‘warfare.” And those who figure in the crimes, being humans who go to the movies and avidly read sensational literature, are only too willing to assume a role that has been surrounded with a gilded glamour. The danger t con~ fronts the police is that the actors may like their roles too well. As gangsters the - | Arst THURSDAY.......May 21, 1981 landed at making the hop. This young man, as phrase goes, thirty-three hours May, 1927, Charles Lindbergh Le Bourget Field, near Paris, the first to make a non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic. He made history. His performance thrilled the world. It vitaiized aviation enterprise. As Lindbergh slipped off in the murk of the damp morning, with his little THE ' EVENING 1 the Spanish-American War was met beat them to it. Some i promptly. When the United States later, on the twenty- ertered the World War it was in a posi- tion to ‘raise s much money as it needed, not alone to pay the expenses of #s armies and the Navy, but also to help finance its associates in that war. Mr. Ramseyer called attention also to the vast economy t> the American people in interest on the World War debt which had been saved to them packet of sandwiches, millions began |Smply by the expedient of wiping out to watch. They could not see him physically; they could only sense his progress. Hours elaped before there came the fitat sidings, and more hours /| passed, with conflicting reports and alternations of doubt and hope. The darkness came in France. It was still light over here, and then, after a long period of uncertainty—it seemed an eternity to those who were waiting— came the flash that the Lone Eagle| had arrived and the world exploded with joy. Four years! A little time, just a brief span. Ncthing at all in world Dbistory. And yet in that four years) 50 much has been done, great advance has been scored in aviation, and today thousands of Americans are fying about on business errands. Commercial air lines are maintaining regular safe services and out in the Middle West the air is dark with a great aerial armada, the country’s air defense, in maneuvers. « There will never be quite the same more than one-third of the huge $26,000,000,000 debt which the country owed at the clcse of the war. He sald <n | Was any report, and then from Ireland !hat proposals have been made to ex- tend the payment of the war debt over a period of sixty-two years instead of completing the payment in twenty or twenty-five years, as originally pro- posed. He pointed out that if $1,000,~ 000,000 is paid at the end cf twenty years the cost to the taxpayers of the country in principal and interest will total $1,850,000,000, but if the payment | is extended over sixty-two ycars the cost becomes the staggering amount of $3,635,000,000. In the coming Congress it is expected that proposals will be advanced seri- ously that the payment of the war debt be extended over a long perlod of years —as & means of meeting the present Treasury situation with a prospective deficit of almost a billion dollars. The country is to be congratulated, however, on having gone forward as rapidly as it has with the payment of the war debt. A fallure to pay the debt would thrill again as that which was felt| when Lindbergh landed. It is well to| remember the days when that historic flight began and ended. — e The Red Cross Jubilee. ‘Washington is entitled to take mcre interest in the Golden Jubilee of the American Red Crcss than any other was within the Capitol's shadow that the Nation's great league of mercy was born. Fifty years ago this day, on May 21, 1881, at the home cf Clara Barton, in neighboring Glen Echo, & meeting of Washington citizens was held for the purpose of organizing an American branch of the International Red Cross Soclety. Six weeks later, on July 1, 1881, “The American Association of the Red Cross” was duly incorporated un- der District of Columbia laws. Nine months afterward, the emer- gency of a flood in the Mississippi Val- ley gave the young organization its first chance to clear for action in its chosen field of humanitarianism. The American Red Cross’ first appeal for in no wise have prevented or postponed the depression in business which is world-wide today. That depression ariss from economic causes, growing out ef the war, it s true. But in this country overexpansion and overproduc- tian have been largely responsible for the situation which now confronts the Nation, not to nfention a period of frenzied speculation. Had the war debt | ration | community in the country because it |not been reduced as it has the interest charges upon billions of dollars would{ now be added to the burden alrcady #sting upon the shoulders of the tax- payers. e A member of the pheasant family new to these regions and called “Melanistic Mutant” will ®e available to Maryland gunners next Autumn, according to the State game warden. It is hoped that these will be easier to hit than to spell. —_—t——————— Now that fifty-three Army stations have been named for abandonment it will be learned from highly suthorita- tive sources that each of them is posi- tively essential to the national se- curity. iy Nobody has yet come forward seri- do not live on the business of shooting | funds on behalf cf flood relief was dated | ously to propose that the surplus wheat each other, the duty of the Washington | at Washington on March 23, 1882, ex- | be minted into dollars as a means of police is to break up the real oppor-|actly one week after President Chester { relieving depression. But there is still tunities for their livelihood here before | A. Arthur and the United States Senate | time for such an echo of the nineties. & state of mind becomes a state of fact. In this connection, three of the recent had jointly taken action clothing the soclety with high Federal sanction. e r—— Chairman Raskob’s late attempt to shootings at least bring up a matter | The rest is history. And what a|write the Democratic platform a year that always comes as a puzziing after- | glorious chapter of histury! In war and |and a quarter ahead of the convention math to crime. The descriptions of one | peace, in pestilence and famine, in dis- | has resulted in a state of torpor in po- of the victims have been notably candid. | aster and catastrophe of almost every |litical literary circles. He made his living as a guard at a gambling establishment and he met his description, at home and abroad, the American Red Cross has spread its ——— Some of the so-called gang opera- death in a speakeasy. The gambling |merciful wings promptly, effectively |tions in Washington are so crude that establishment and the speakeasy have |and unreservedly. It has become defi- it 15 quite unflattering to Al Capone ‘been maintained in defiance of the law. nitely established as America’s almoner. to attribute the local “crime wave” ‘The gambling establishment is beyond | Deriving its resources exclusively from | here to him. the geographical limits of the District of Columbia, but its patrons and its employes and its reputed owners live in the Distriét. The place may be out- side the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan police. But has there ever been any complaint to the Maryland authorities? Has any effort ever been made by the the pockets of the people, and adhering consistently to the principle of volun- tary contributions,’ the Red Cross has unfailingly vindicated the purpose of its founders that it should at all times be the expression of the Nation's innate philanthropic impulse. Events of the past year, in connection ‘The contractors for the great Hoover Dam at Boulder Canyon have some twenty-six hundred and thirty-five days in which to fnish the job. The Ari- zona climate promises & minimum of time out for rain. e —e—————— Local lawnmakers are convinced that Federal authorities in Washington to | with the blight of drought in many |, . grought ef 1930 was just a myth, seek the permanent closing of .sm-otmvnm-flwadmmmw, when they gaze upon their notorious breeding place for “rackets” |Cross a classic oppertunity once again dandelion-infested turf. and crime in the Capital? to demonstrate that an appeal to the The speakeasy where the fellow met { American heart is more efficacious than | pjgger and better murders must be ’his death has been padlocked—after the (& draft upon the American Treasury.|ine siogan of the Capital gunmen if crime. Why was it not padiocked be- | The ideals of neighborliness have not | they are to put Washington on the fore the crime? - speakeasies are running in Washington and waiting to be padlocked after some amateur gangster has been shot .in a drunken brawl? Another victim of a mysterious shooting has been as candidly described ours, despite the evidences of crass materialism that surround us on every side. It will be in that sense that Presi- dent Hoover and Chief Justice Hughes at tonight's Golden Jubilee feast in How many other |taken wings from this altruistic land of | crime map. 2 ————— e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Old Arithmetic. as a police informer who also seems to | Washington will acclaim the past and |1 paq a ot of trouble have been known as a hi-jacker. Did present and rededicate the future of ‘With that old erithmetic. his work as a police informer give|the American Red Cross. The organi- |y kept me bending double him a privileged status in other fields? zation was fortunate in the caliber of Over problems long and thick. Did the police not learn of his alleged | the far-visioned men and women, like | aqqition and subtraction hi-jacking operations until after he was slain? A few weeks ago & public horse whipping, so well arranged in advance that the photographers and reporters were present, occurred as the out- growth of & labor union feyd. The principals were arrested. Horsewhip- ping, at least, is not recognized as a form of recreation that can go uncon- trolled. But a young assistant United States attorney, assuming for the mo- ament the role of judge and jury, threw the case out and refused to prosecute on the grounds that the whole thing was deliberately arranged for the pur- pose of airing a labor row. According to the theory here advanced, a per- son may shoot a neighbor in hope that by that act he may “alr” in wourt his complaint against the other's dog, but the prosecutor will refuse to be inveigled into the trap thus pre- pared. That may have actuated the shooting yesterday, which seems to involve a “labor row” in the same munion. Commissioner Crosby is right and in- telligent citizens agree with him that the nasty record of recent crime here, if studied, shows an unhappy sequence of otherwise unrelated events, and does not portray the work of organized gangs. But Commissioner Crosby and his police force have a far more difi- cult task before them than the mere wiping from the books of unsolved murders by the arrest of the murderers. ‘That task is to fight the complacency which fosters the development of breed- ing places for crime and criminals, to remove the cause of gang organization before the results of gang warfare can show themselves. oo Some Washingtonians manage to re- member when a single fugitive from Justice, like Dorsey Foultz, was cause of a profound sensation. Four Years of Aviation, Four years ago yesterday & silver gray Btreak went through the air from Roosevelt Pleld in the early morning. A monsplane was on its way to Paris. In the cockpit sat & young man prac- tically unknown, & quiet fellow with some modest achlevements in aviation to his eredit and without any press agentry of announcement to attract at- thered of t-ntion to him, Oth:rs had nt Field for the Clara Barton and her assoclates, who gave it birth. It is no less favored in the character of leaders lke John Bar- ton Payne, who today are holding aloft, despite the snipings of politicians, the old standards under which the Red Cross marches from year to year, and from decade to decade, to ever more fruitful victorles in the campaign against human misery. —————t——— All this talk of international disar- mament is somewhat beside the point in view of the need of a rigid limitation of personal armament in American mur- der circles, e Democratic prophets are reported to be much amused at the daisy-pluck- ing performance of the presiding officer of the Senate to determine the office to which he will be elected in 1932, War Debts. Prompt payment of war debts, not alone as & matter of economy, but also as a necessity of national defense, was urged by Representative C. W. Ram- Iseyer of Towa before the War Policies Commission yesterday. Mr. Ramseyer declared 1t to be fllogical and bordering on the ridiculous to take the position that in the next war in which the United States is involved all the ma- terial resources of the country should be drafted and the war fought without debt and at the same time to urge that | Used to fob me of repose, And when I hit a fraction, 1 was rendered comatose. When at last T quit my schooling, Sweet relief I hoped to see. I would shout for Golden Ruling And I'd quit the Rule of Three. But my hopes proved sadly futile, For the numbers wore a look Even more abruptly brutal Than the figures in the book. With offensive ostentation Figures dominate each plan From the latest legislation To the wheeze, “How Old Is Ann?” They will roar and romp and rattle Till your soul grows sore and sick, And your life seems one long battle ‘With that old arithmetic. An Observation. “Perhaps you may succed in being loved for the enemies you have made.” “Perhaps,” replled Senator Sorghum, “put I have noticed that style of af- fection is mighty fickle.” More Legislation Requested. “Cupid is always represented as car- rying & bow and arrow.” “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne, “and, unfortunately, there are no game laws to protect people from his careless marksmanship.” Lack of Acquaintance. Our enemies we are inclined the debt growing out of the World War should not be paild by the generation that made that war. “To say that the last war was fought for future generations and that they should help pay the war debt ignores the fact that future generations will have obligations of their own, possibly war nbtiigations included, to pay off,” sald Mr. Ramseyer. “The obligations we contracted by the late war should not be heaped upon their shoulders as an additional burden.” Prom the point of view of mational defense it seems impossible to find fauit with the argument advanced by the Towa Representative. It is obvious that & country heavily in debt from an old WAr cannot finence s new war as readtly #s it could if the country were debt free. ‘The United States had wiped out the debt growing out of the Civil War long before it entered the World War— indeed within twenty-three years after the earlier conflict ended. The cost of | To picture as inhuman elves. Could we but know them, we might find ‘They're simple tollers like ourselves. Dyspeptic Utterance. “So you dislike cynicism?” “I don't set much store by it,” re- plied Farmer Corntossel. “A cynic often gits credit for bein’ smart when he’s merely unhealthy.” An Indispensable Quantity. In every household there is found The self-denial all complete ‘That carves and passes things around And watches all the others eat. “Many & man,” sald Uncle Eben, “thinks other folks is ongrateful when he’s merely holdin’ a ‘zaggerated idea of de importance of his services.” o Many Families Represented. From the Toledo Biade. Reno would seem to bwq place for family reunions. | STAR, WASHINGTO THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. . TRACEWELL. 'The Political Mill 8 C. Geuld, Lincos. ‘The cost of campalgning for seats The Diamond chicken began life as|even of one of these curious human |in the House szems in a way to go very a yellow ball of fluff. Coming into this great round world shortly before Easter, it soon found it- self dyed a light blue. “How .cunning!” spectators declared. But it was absurd. Tts new colora- tion bzcame it not half so well as that with which 4t had been born. Some of its sisters glistened in red dye, some in green, while others shone as sunflower yellow. * X ok % Any honest chicken fancier would have preferred them as plain baby chicks (or chix, as some spell it), with their natural light yellow feathers. Nature knows a thing or two about color schemes. The grand panorama of forest, sky and sea ought to convince any one that Nature does know a thing or two, or maybe several things. | But they go ight on dyeing baby chicks every Easter, just the same. Some communities, with a higher faith in natural law, expressly forbid the practice by statute. . e Perhaps there is no cruelty in it. | The Diamond chicken looks healthy enough, Heaven knows! Now that it is a gawky fellow, with | the blue practically faded out, it can run as fast as any fowl. And this is well. For Master Smudge, youngster, is on its trail. * Kok ¥ Master Smudge, except with chickens, birds, rabbits and such “small deer,” is the gentlest creature alive. He is the son of Boggs, who did not | scratch or bite. He posssses the same | wide-set, kindly eyes, and benignant expression. Where his sire, however, was black and white, with face marked a great daal like a typical fox terrier dog, Smudge is gray and white, with a mask of gray. over,the upper portion of his ace. This gives him the expression of a benevolent gargoyle. P The Diamond chicken, finds him no philanthropist. As =oon as it sees Smudge creeping up through the shrubbery, it lets out a terrific squawk. It runs for life—why say dear life? We have never been able to convince curself that Master Smudge has any taste for chicken, in itself. ‘The excitement of the chase—yes, that is it. Maybe it is the realization of some abnormality in the fowl. No chicken, perheps Smudge thinks, should have any tinge of blue in its exterior covering. * cat, also a however, * * A peculiarity of this grotesque-look- ing cat, with his long legs and lng back, is that he is impossible to hold. If you pick him up, he begins to squirm, and, without either scratching or biting, shortly extracts himself from the arms which would confine him. He is of purest alley breed, and wvalues his freedom above anything else, even chicken, * X k¥ ‘The most pleased creature in the world was Smudge, the first time he caught tbe Diamcnd chicken. It would have done the heart good, | without Off beings who “hates cats,” as such , to have seen the gleam in the cat's eyes, as bhe dnh?d home bearing a chicken almost a3 himself. He had it by the wing; and that it was not hurt, in any material sense, the fowl gave ample evidence at every stride. Squawk! You never heard such a squawking in all your life. 4 P “Lcok at me,” Master Smudge seemed to say, 2s he ran up with his prize. “Let go, let go!” roared the Diamond chicken. The appeal of the biped led to hu- man ald, which extracted the fowl from the jaws of the cat. Chickens are silly things, at best. No sooner was this one released than it gave such a flutter that it flow away, or_attempted to’fly away. Master Smudge was on it at a | bound. Prom all the squawking and flutter- ing a & tor mights have thought that nothing but fried ehicken would | ever have come ou of the gathering. * ok Kk ¥ We have sald, however, and we re- peat it, that Smudge is an innocent creature, an automaton, as it were, conscious realizaticn of hurt or ense. Surely nothing on four legs could handle a frightened chicken with neater dispatch or less harm! from the jaws a second time the chicken was restored unhurt to its owner, and the exeitment of the day | was over. * K * x But there were more days, of course. In the country districts the ques- | tion of cats vs. chickens often becomes acute. One of the best ways to break cats | of chicken stealing is to take a baby chick, place it cn the back of the cat and ot the same time jab & pin in the latter. This somewhat drastic treatment is said to do the work, for the cat thinks the chick gave him the vicious jab. * k kK A day or so later a great hubbub arose. :‘sflmudge h:‘l 'ihz chlck’::dnifln!" ure enough, Smudge 3 Here he came, his%ng legs loping over the ground, his head raised high, his large wide-set eyes shining. “Look what I got!” thcse eyes sald. or seemed to say, any rate (permit us an extravagance, now and then). This time Master Smudge was He made for the sun porch and his legs & trifie in order to casry his prize beneath it, where the lattice came a bit high, R It was at this point that the chicken, squawking bloody murder, which was an exaggeration, of course, but you ;;cuun’t biame it, menaged to gel loose. Under the porch it {mueh higher. For example, up in Pennsylvania the State Legislature has so far wrestled in vain with a bill for redistricting the Keystone State, and there have been hints that Gov. Pin- chot might veto the bill, anyway. Penn- sylvania loses two seats in the House under the new apportionment, which goes into effect with the S:venty-third Congress. If Pennsylvania falls to re- district, then members of the House from that State will he elected * large"—will be erected in a State-wide contest. 1In 1926, the candidates for £enal 1 nom:nations and election, on th> Republican side, for there is no other in Pennsylvania, expended and had expended tor tiiem huge sums of money. Vare, the successful candidet?. was denied a seat in the Senate. Las year it was shown that very large sums ! of money had been expended by candi- dates ing the Republican nomination for Senptor in Pennsylvania, with for- mer Senator “Joe” Grundy putting up $200,000 of his own money in his own campaign. * Kk ¥ In Pennsylvanie, under the new ap- gomanmenr. of the House seats to the tates, . 3¢ Representatives will be elected. If these 34 members of the House must be chosen in a State-wide election, instead of in the congressicnal districts, what will be the cost of the nominations and elections to the House in Pennsylvania in 1932? how much ‘it costs to nominate elect one Senator in that State, the cutlook for the congressional election next year seems to promise a lot of money to the workers. P-rh':r the House will feel compelled to up & Cam) Inves ing Committce, as the Senate done in recent elections. Pennsylvai is not the only State in which redistricting bills have so far failed to be enacted into law. Massa- chusetts is another example. * k kX One thing seems certain. If Penn- sylvania fails to redistrict and the House delegation is chosen at large, Democrats need not apply. Not in Pennsylvania. That is, not unless there is a political unheaval that will send the Keystone to the Democratic column, which does not seem pcssible, conditions of business and unem| 4 ment. In the present House, elected 1930, there are three Democratic ise. sunk | Rej three seats they will hold in the pics- ent Congress., ‘There are lots of possibilities of con- ‘cern to the if_Pennsylvania dashed. It started to preen its ruffied feath- | districts. ers, then it saw Smudge advancing. With a t roar, it ran into waiting arms. ide from outraged dignity, it was little the worse for its second ex- Smudge, the cat, seemed mightily pleased with himself, somehow. After all, this was being a cat. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands Daily Herald, London: Ronald Pert- wee, the novemt-drm% is finding Hollywood an place. “I started three of my stories to stars,” he writes, “and they would not let me finish them, but demanded my terms half-way through. I suppose that is flattering.” One of his storles deserves dissemi- nation. “Don't take no motice of them guys | ish in the big offices,” some one advised hi) im. “They was all tailors five years back. |8 ‘Why, if you hang your coat up for 10 minutes they start sewing buttons on it sort of automatic.” * ok k ¥ Princess Asks Bismarck’s Head on Charger. ‘The Evening Post, Wellington: Many years ago, when Princess Beatrice, youngest of Queen Victoria's daughters, was a child, and Benjamin Disraell was prime minister of England, he asked her what she would like as a birthday present. After a red conference with her sister-in-law, the Princess of Wales, afterward Queen Alexandra, the little princess astonished the assembly by replying demurely, “Please give me Bismarck's head on a charger.” * K x X Believes Demogracy Is Best Form of Government. Central European Observer, Prague: President T. G. Masaryk, who was 81 March 7, is still one of the hardest workers in the public life of his coun- try. Under his leadership Czechoslo- vakia hes remained true to the demo- cratic ideals in the name of which it came into existence. It was due not only to the deep democratic instincts inborn to the Czechoslovak people, but, to a great extent, also to the unceasing efforts of their President to develop philosophically and practically the pro- gram of democracy that the country has never wavered in the clash of extremes in the ideas of left and right. Today, as 12 years ago, President Masaryk belleves that a democracy formed much after the Anglo-Saxon model is the best form of government for his country. In a message sent on the occaslons of the Lincoln celebra- tions in the United States to the Lin- coln Memorial University he restates his faith in republicanism in the fol- lowing words: “A university bearing the name of Lincoln must be a teacher, nay, a prophet, of democracy. Democracy means to take care of one's self, but also to think of others and work for them. Democracy is the exact and practical fulfillment of Jesus’ second commandment. “Lincoln’s life and death are a proof of what I have tried to express, and | so T wish ail success to Lincoln Me- | morial University, to its professors and o its girls and boys. 1 have always loved Lincoln and learnt from him. He is one of the eternal lights of free- dom in the darkness of egotism, senti- mentality and political superstition.” According to President Masaryk’s doctrines, the mission of Czechoslovakia does not consist only in serving the idea of the self-determination of the Cgech- oslovaks. This country has a larger 1 to arrive at. It is destined by its ition to serve the ideals of human- ity. In the light of this mission all the interwoven nationalities of the republic are free and equal and ready to work hand in hand for their common state and for the loo;l of all humanity. Wi High Prices in Russia Work to Advantage of Lord. Dalily Sketch, London: The compli- cations about money in Russia are immense. However many rubles you have, you cannot spend them unml you have a receipt for the amount showing that you have chang from English money. you make is mas *Bin gs are very expensive, which can, however, be an advantage in an em’e"r:ency. the | United States; economieally we than $10 when new, but they fetched $25, on which he was able to live until he get away in 'a British ship. * ¥ % ¥ F: Situation in Foria ‘Hies Almest Desperate. 175 Tty R Seritoiaral Country an coun B and unequivocal Span- d, despite the fact that bound up with the and the iticism, especiall hen 1 32 xfi.’fiufi er , ly w by prejudice or any spirit of racial suj of the 8 ‘vassal colony of America. If this status is objectionable in certain respects, /it is compensated for in part by American tariff ':A-"xiy we are 8 by various privileges extended by Con- gress in the local retention of our cus- toms duties, income taxes, internal revenues, etc., which together amount to nearly half the sum needed to bal- ance our budget. Agriculture is practically our only source of wealth, and our typical jibaro (pack bearer), though a lover of romance and music, is pre-eminently a tiller of the soil. The success of agricultural ente: is the" very backbone of our economic health, but in recent years coffee, sugar and to- bacco prices have declined and pro- longed droughts have brought an un- precedented crisis upon these industries. Our farming situation at the present time is only a little less than des; . Efforts are being dire the present administration of Gov. Roose- velt to alleviate conditions ugar cane is nmow our basic crop; under the § h regime coffee was the chief cultivation. In recent years, however, 90 per cent of our best land, 100,000 hectares (247,100 acres), has been um% :unr, tobacco bejn: our erop, with the fruit industry being the next la: t de- velopment for export under the Stars and Stripes. Nevada’s Divorce Law Is Assailed From the Charleston (8. C.) Evening Post. Even the most liberal-minded must find something indecent in the spectacle which Nevada is making of itself in its mad rush to keep its principal in- dustry, the divorce business, from going to more conveniently situated States that have recently made easier divorce laws for the of getting the business: Even those who believe the State should not in any way attempt to curb the private living habits of citizens must be a sovereign State deliberately encourag- ing and out, ities for vice and viclousness as a lure to tour- ists and settlers. The Nevada divorce business has al- ways been a disreputable sort of in- dlh.l:u!' but in order to hold it Nevada | Also, It is a sorry spectacle and a shabby . It will be watched with curlosity by the rutn‘o( the equnfiry, b:nntm 1: kind public policy permanent prosperity and welfare , it will be a contradiction "‘w that a vast majority of - l". on this wblocti Sfim vada ex) nf 3 mlnmn x;mn from ‘reformers, might have i i) forth their Call- | tions great wet ticket Pennsylvania State dele- the Hous: if there were no Perhaps Gov. Gifford Pinchot ture will solve the wall”; and | him. ticularly wltph;n the Progressives in m Hoover -dmlnh{ntmn. K old Gov. Roo 1t tennis 7 binet, gm:::-w: sevelt tennis cabinet, a from the heels up or the head down. He has twice been able to win the Re- Tbite s Gryness ena the ors o spi ness e of many factions, especally mol Mr. Vare. In each case Pinchot came through a winner because of divisions in the ranks of the Republicans, with three candidates in the fleld. If re- ports be true, the Governor is ready to lead a revolt against the usual order in the G. O. P, which would be the ;‘e.mmnum;d o{h.l;n;‘wmt Hoover. It s been se! considering going into presidential p‘r’e:mnunl pri- 10| maries in & number of States. But the Governor has given no confirmation to these reports. He does not wear his read who wish. Last year he made no candidacy Governor until the last minyte and after Vere and Grundy had fallen out and the wets were sure to have g ticket in the fleld. Last year it was thought for a time that Pinchot had senatorial aspirations. But if he had he switched at the last moment. His mind may turn to the Senate again next year, where Senator James J. Davis must come up for re-el 5 * Kk X By the way, Senator Davis insists that he is to be a candidate to succeed him- self next year and that all the reports which were published to the effect that he was through wif the Senate and might go into the movies were unfounded. He does not seem likely to have been scared off by the suj tion that Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, United States Marine Corps, may get into the race. Also, there is every reason to belleve that Gen. Butler is to be a candidate for the Senate no matter what Senator Davis may do. Pennsylvania, from a political point of view, seems to present vivid possibilities right now. What Mr. Vare will do is a matter of considerable interest. He seems to be in much better health and to be ready to take of the G. O. P. in Philadelphia as he in the past. , Gen. W. W. Atterbury of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who has played with the Vi something to say about what happens. Much will depend as always upon what the Philadelphia or- ganization does next year. * ko “Republican Alibis” i3 to be the sub- ject of an address by Jouett chairman of the Democratic announcement of his for tic headquarters i5e o e SveR more Gniind, {ha eual World depi hmnxflno.o.l". h&m Shouse may to The new mayor Republ! dented ves to ex| te { Which all political plans on his sleeve for all to oo few weeks lzg P ANSWERS, TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, Q. Are there as many base ball rules since they were revised’—A. H. A, latest revision is dated De- 132, :30 Changes were mit, g changes were made in to plays. The total number of mufiucedhtlmmldct:n‘wd:; some rules and by mergi others. Q‘i‘m moth millers eat clothing?— "A."Moths eat only whan in the laryal or worm stage. ‘The winged moth never eats, for its mouth s not made for eat- ing. One winged or adult moth in an experiment lived for 77 days without eating. The male moth lives nearly twice as long as the female. Tk e extremely se; ive of the sun?—J. é 8. . A. They are called heliophobes. Q. When will the Canadian census be ukAeI\?—P. Y. P . Arrangement ve been eom- pleted for the taking of its seventh de- cennial cepsus. The enumeration will begin on June 1, 1931. Qv., Are there many Jews In Spain?— A. The Jewish Year Book says that there are 4,000 Jews in Spain. All Jews were expelled from Spain in the middie centuries and the law of expulsion was not repealed until 1858, Q. When was the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor ecreated?-- F.P. A. The Women in Industry Service was established in July, 19 war measure. In June, 1920, the buresu was given a permanent status by the passage of the creative act under which it now functions. Q. Did Prance months t a calendar in 30 days?— A. The French revolutionary calen- on October 5, 1798, re- h'weouvuly as from September 22, 1792, was in force in Prance until Jan- 1, 1806. It consisted of 12 months flu“" each, with 5 intercalary days ’ of at Q. How many sets of four-of-a-kind with the excep- in the cen- ’ofihm R was born in 1340 and in 1893. His symphonies are espe- e 3 3 lfi"ll Sniekers Gep formed?— F. G. A. This gap is famous because it was through it the Civil War that the Army of the Shenandoah marched on Richmond. The gap marks the Q. How lapg is the wall around the cflx of Plfl‘l.?—-H.hT. R. - Paris is no longer a walled the fortifications having been they measured about 22 or 23 miles in circumference and inclosed an area of about 30 square miles. Q. Does the now stay on the Rocky Mountains all S\lmmenl—l(. S. A. is snow en the Rocky Moun=~ tains all the year aronnd. Somef if the Summer has been ex hot, 1t will only be found in crevices and shadowed places which the sun seldom Q. Did Nellie Custis marry Robert E. Lee?—K. MeK. A. Nellle wug was the - ter of 5 E. married Mary h Custls, the daughter of George Washington Parke cun‘l': who was & brother of Nellis . How many banks failed in the United States in 1930?7—A. 8. A. During the calendar year tem- W‘u 345, T?lehm‘ te de. 194D aggTegal o posits of these closed institutis amounted to $865,000,000. Q. Who first gave the name “the un- speakable Turk” to the Burkish Em- pire?—A. 8. D. A. Its first use is credited t9 Thomas Carlyle in a public letter in 1877. Q. What size shoe is worn by the average American woman?—M. C. A. The average size of women's shoes is now placed at 6':. Q. How deep is the Gulf Stream where it meets the ocean’—G. O. B. A. It is a little over 400 fathoms deep. Q. In what country is the city known as Troppau, Austria?—S. G. A. It s now known as Opava and is in Czechoslovakia. New Stand on Latin Amerieca Receives General Approval “Critics of the newly stated pelicy inllltfllll’:m in Latin .) Republican, g retary Olney's spurious dictum that the United States is 'meng‘-n this continent,’” but contending it “is still too large an order, and tration is wise not to increase hostility of all Latin Amer- ica by Mptl:ll‘to:u:‘u " H o R i =k s Dt the military of :. Entown ominion-Nows Siaies. Grost statesmen ha Pan- this Marine, accus- in terms of cer- to know just i i g ! ;E g I 5% § | i £ i Ei | ;s ! ; E k | g | ; i | i g i é %B i | 2 Ba g i g | ] i i [ ] % : 1 R Ik B Li 3 % 5 : 1 ! i o8 : gs 9288 £ ¢ £ il Gotham Census Notes Happy Days for Horses An New York