Evening Star Newspaper, June 11, 1931, Page 8

a8 THE EVENING {THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY . ...June 11, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office and. Pennsyivania Ave ; Offce: 110 Fast 4204 eo' Offics’ Lk Micoizan ll";’p‘;nnocu::ctw Reent. ., London, Ay Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star 45¢c per month The Evening (when 4 5u 1 The Evening Sunday ‘Star (when 5 Stndays) ..........65¢ per m: unday Star Sc_per cc ction made at the end of each month Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone NAtional 5000. Sunday ' 60c per month n Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia All Ot ates and Canada. aily aily Bunday her St to f atches cred ted in this p published her: Epecial dispa ‘What Has the Committee Found?| There have been er the tightly sealed doors of comnittee room to let the un taxpayers of this community tand that various methods of placing addi- tional taxation on them are being dis- cussed. A higher gas tax, a new inheritance tax, a new income tax, have thus far received attention. But ther has been no definite statement from the committee as to its p knows whether it now intends to confine its present sessions to a few mo cret conferences with pert, Mr. George Lerd, and quit work until next November or December, or whether it proposes now to devote tha time that would be necessary to careful c ation of all the pros and cons involve in & question of this sort, make its de- presented [ taxpay: may have prepare their cas: the committee or next mee! The only right the have in the matter is the right to pe- titlon for falr treatment. Thus far they have no idea of how the commi tee proposes to treat them. The com- mittee may be considering proposals eminently just and fafr to all con that they will receive the -diaf dorsement and support the payers. On the other hand, the mittee may be considering p to increase the loc tion, with that end and only that end in view. No s any way of kno ing now what are the committee's in- tentions. The committee Justly with t ever, if it adjourns its presen! without making known it date and its con action will be propose gress. It should be certalr committee will t candidly to outlin es in the fleld of fiscal re and its own opinjon of what should be done. The committee, of course, has no id: of executing a flank attack or other maneuver where secrecy s necessary for suecess. Its purpose is to arrive, by frank and full discussion, at a solution of the problem of equitably dividing financial responsibility f mainte- nance and adequate development of the Capital between the local v of taxpavers and the con- deral Government. ——— - Good for Tennessee! QB B LnewRs BN B otions and new-fangled ways it is downright refreshing to note that good old Ten- nessee refuses to be enticed, tempted or beguiled. The State House of Repre- sentatives has again declined wipe from the statute books “monkey law.” This fellow Darwin, whoever he is, will be kept out of the State with his boring - from - within notions that man evoluted. Of course man did noth- ing of the sort. And it is beside the point anyhow. As Representative Brown of Hickman said, in a statesmanlike way “I don't ow whether ma evoluted from a monkey, but I don't belleve it. What we need is to quit an o ss when it cal local taxpayers of will be local comm is to worrying about where we came from | and worry about where we're going.” So say we all. Good for Tennessee! And there is another thing to con- sider. California is known for its sun- shine, Florida for its real estate, Ari- zona for its canyon, Tex Towa for its corn, Maine for its rock- bound coast, Maryland for its terrapin, Kentucky for its colonels its Chicago, Washington for its public bufldings. What is Tennessee known for? Its anti-monkes of course Remove it from the statute books and what have you? One is constrained believe that there was something more than mere suspicion cf this evoluting business that moved Tennessee's statesmen in their vote. There is something, after all, in local pride, to At least wo are breaking even on art these For every masterp: branded as spurious by compotent ex perts, another hithorto undi=co: temporarily lost “old master covered in some out-of-the-way : o A new Swedish law has been passed | the Such Mr. to impose all fines according to capacity of the culprit to pay. legislation over here would jar Capone slightly, it is thought. The State of Catalonia. New Spanish history is bzing written in old Barcelona this we The Cat: lonian General Assembly, convened for the first time in four hundred years, is meeting for the purpose of drafting a| under which would set yropossd constitution Spain’s militant province itself up as a sovereign state. The Catalonians have not as yet de- termined to separate from the recently established republic of Spain. The charter of their independence, about to be adopted at Barcclona, will pro- vide for a referendum, which is to de- cide the future relationship of Catalonia to the central government at Madrid. The vote may be in favor of retaining Jocal independence and of union with the republic as a federal state. The opening speeches at the Generad A: gembly indicated no hostility to con- ¥ | dustrial reglon of Spai ¢ | amputation from her-own national body he Mapes | for its steers, | Tilinos for | tinued partnership in Spanish national- tsm. “Our principal work,” said Senor | Lerra Clara, the temporary presiding officer, “Is to restore Catalonia’s right- {ful frecdom, of which she has been robbed for a long time"—a reference to the time, four centuries ago, when the free feudal State of Catalonia was taken over by the Spanish monarchy. Senor Madariaga, the gifted historian who is shortly to become Spanish Am- bassador at Washington, concedes in his 'sundu.:d work on Spain that Catalonia ! nas definite claims to naticnalism of its jown. He describes the Catalan a {Spaniard who llves on the Mediter !ranean.” But the most important in- with a popu- | {lation of 3,500,000, can hardly contem- | plate a prosperous existence as a wholl | detached area at the tip of the Iberian | Pel la. On the other hand, Spain could not view without anxlety the | of & sixth of her population, her prin- | cipal port and her leading manufact ing center. be stopped altogether. But the routine of classes and study 1is surely not so precious that it may not be interrupted once a day for an exercise that is a re- freshment as well as an inspiration. It would seem that rigid measures were far better applied to acts of rcal mis- conduct rather than to an act of devo- tion to the emblem of the American people. The ruling of the State author- ities cn the matter should be prompt and emphatic, in favor of the child whose on petty discipline of the sclool room. — e Life Imprisonment. self compelled under the Baumes laws to sentence a man to life imprison- ment for the theft of an automobile, and who remarked to the prisoner that “it hurts me to send you to the State prison,” evidently lost sight of the real reason for the enactment of stringent lJaws to rid society of habitual criminals. Inlightened self-interest, t which £0 often serves a t of clashing is sure to lead both Ma and clona to tread warily. Zamora provisional government at the | capital and Col. Macia, the head of the al regime in Barcelona, of devotion and a few hours aft dethroned, in Apri for 3 an fe guess is that a will emerge as a te of the Spanitn that lic pose & | aspirations the conce | compromise, ¢ | sovereign C: loyal and federal st public. A National Fire-Fighting Show. Weshington's rade, started means of attracting attentic | Tocal defense organization and p larly to induce attendance at ing event that supplies police and fir developed into an oc | significance. From as annual fireme! some years 8go as of to men iate Maryland irbs joined the i Fir: and Virginia s |Labor day. Then f tances came represct | mg units. Now it is pla clud> delegati f South Carolina Ohis and ter | fire-fight- nned to in- dis- is otective efficiency fire-fightin t of its ssing of th storized mack an impressive show ss azainst the most ds equi pict pre enemy Ev ¥ | sufferer frcm the d foe. There is no f relessness and ne dmonition abate the evil ays remains fucible min: thought- s and risk community good fire depa in p teer me extraord. g without a ut it is in' every hour | town wi volun needs cqu can establishment t as well as the lary p- | A par serve the duiy of e to the last ainst conf If the W ton demonstration s broadencd to r | tional size in representat Capital heretofore, in a further reduction h result in fire I annually. Coney Island concessionaires ounce that the de n has cause the elite of the me ple plea: 2 suburban amusem of what has b: York pe at best, the parks. = . | For a demonstration in honor of the return to New York of Texas Guinan land h gang,” barred from both Er {land and France, there has been sug- gested a pha of broker: outter-and-egg men lining Lower Br: !'way and ch “Hello Your Sucker!” nt What is poor little Guam, to be dropped as a naval ba: | with herself now? Perhaps the Virgin | Isiands will adopt her. | o o - School Discipline in Maryland. Maryland State school authorities are confronted with one of those little uestions that ought to be easily set- | t1éd, but that raise considerable rumpus !in the first stage of discussion. A fif-) | teen-year-old girl of Edmonston roce to her feet and stood while a class in {another room of the school house were |singing “The Star Spangled Banner.” This she did in obedience to the in-| struction of her father, who told her| | to rise whenever she heard the natfonal anthem. For this breach of discipline | she was sent home by the teacher.| lanation did not effect a sat- {isfactory settlement and the parents are taking the case before the State| cfficials | It 15 hard to see how there should be | any question in the case. There is noth- ing disorderly in the simple act of ris-| ling in respect to the rendering of the lanthem. It does not particularly matter | whether the strains of the song come| {from the immediate room or another| {one. The cause of education is not| greatly affected by the momentary in- | terruption caused by the rising of the| | children—for, of course, if ome rises, others may and all really should. Per- haps there would be a solution of the matter in an arrangement whercby the singing is synchronized throughout the | school building—at ten o'clock, or | |at two o'clock, precisely, each room en- geging in this patriotic exercice. Butin| any case a child should not be humil- iated by being sent home from school for obeying an impulse that is laudable in all circumstances. ox- | er | to weep tears cf anguish fo IR [tell all his business to his wife. was being sent to jail for 1i [ theft of en automobile. It was, how- ever, the fact that three previous con- victicns for felonies and a fourth for | the stealing of an automobile placed the youth in the category of an habitual offender and cne who through his own acts had labeled himsclf a enace to society. 1t takes only a casual examination -by-day news to discover how v criminals go straight after their first or second brush with the law [ The number is pitifully small. For ti | reason, there 15 logic in the belief that a person convicted four times of felonies intends to adhere to a path of crime. And by the same token it | scems logical to believe that if allc to “get away with it” the characte {of the crime he commits will become reasingly menacing. Just as in the ase of a pickpock land from th bandit e for the i starts on a career of <0 do many of the criminals | ga ¥ otion in the ranks of the | underworld | S0 it is not for the comparative } offense of stealing an automobi! | was s | this man | 11 G e a type d com- vast army of who prey on or- It is a futile gesture the plight Far better y in that zens 1en and defen who have had the mis- into the path of some of the under- automobile ——— swayed by strange senti 1tions when it comes I notwithstand m all his n Yet Lord Nel perly, depicted with an em eve and a patch over one eve. seties of stories d up in cement or and emerging alive and wel be completed ght on the same s County froy about toads ving 1 d: = v this archery craze the pa will too. much looking goes be - [ SHOOTING STARS. BY P NDER JOHNSON. Men Who Count. need the man of mi To help the world a We need the folk who are inclined To laughter and to song- And be the talents great cr s ‘With which you may be blest, You're only needed, after all, As one who does his best. Although the d That falls ty may be slight o your lot, If you fulfill task aright You will not be forgot. Though ambitions shun repose Resplendent 'mid unrest. The men who really count are those Who simply do their best. A Consistent Attitude, “What are your opinions on momentous question?" “I haven't changed my mind," re- this | plied Senator Sorghum “But I don't know what your opinions | were.” “I mean that T haven't changed my mind about refusing to g0 on record on the subject until my constituents make it absolutely necessary.” Jud Tunkins s to It it out a man ought saves time, because she’ll find anyhow. A Requirement. The man who speaks plain truth may pause In vain to win the public's cheer, For he who sceks insured applause Must tell 'em what they want to hear. A Discouraged Joiner. “I have joined quite a number of organizations,” remarked Farmer Corn- tossel, “but I haven't yet found one thatll enable an agriculturist like myself to make payin' dues and list- enin’ to speeches take the place of reg- ular work.” Opinions. “Every man is entitled to his own opinicn,” remarked the assertive per- son. Of course,” replied Miss Cayenne. “There is no objection to anybody's opinfon so long as he cherishes it as his own. The annoyance consists in a too generous inclination to pass it around.” Application of Energy. We exercise in work or play, But no one has quite understood Why one man should play golf all day And let ancther chop the wood. “De volce of conscience ain’ loud cnough foh most men,” said Uncle Eben. Dey needs an alarm clock.” ———— Steels the Nerve, Too. rom the Minneapolis Star. s Some travel broadens the mind, but offense was against the | ‘The New York judge who found him- | It is not at all that this| young man, as the judge termed him, | enses, | If the singing of thc anthem I8 & hitch-hiking scems to enlagge nothing d 201 work, it should kut the gall. STAR, WASHI GTON D. €, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1931. ! Mention of our old friend Templeton Jones in this column recently led to several inquirics about him. We are glad to state that Mr. Jones |1s alive and well and still tremendously |interested in his mental adventures. T. Jones, esq., is one of the millions of human beings whose roamings are confined to the mind. Born to high adventure, he is re- stricted to living in a world of intelli- gence. This does not mean, of course—and the whimsical Jones would be the last to claim it—that he is any more intelli- gent than other men. * n Ak Sometimes, in a moment of clear vision, our friend Jones sees clearly enough that he perhaps is less intelli- fgent Then he longs, for a brief space, to earth with Byrd or Wilkins, or some- body. He wants to be out at sea, his eyes fixed on the limitless horizon, broken |of smoke, as a great steamer, to him | then no bigger than a finger, passes on |its way to Europe. | Or he scnses what an adventure it {would be, deed, to get aboard one of |these German rocket ships which |shortly will be sent into stratosphere {and sail away faster than a streak of {light to unknown spaces What glory it would be, he thinks- |he is always thinking—if the rocket hould become fixed in the strato- | sphere, pulled one way by the urge of {the earth, pulled another by the moon. | He hears the shouting below, sees the oys running forth with their ex- papers, reads the great headlines, ocket Held Frisoner in Space.” * o owx | with a s down to ea turing in He is one th. He does not go edven- rplanes, much less rockets oi the millions who must more exciting than read who turns burglar f( right up to cared 10 teil to put it or not he plorey. would hé ‘did not Jones knows his mind. for g it for many years overed something I with promy Temp! < been explor s always he and there, * We have beer biography of 1h In prese * d to give a brief U interesting man following facts pe we do not i<, after all, in- ause he So well refiects ids of his fellow hu h ! tere ) many {man bei ing only thou 40 we do not a strar rs to . ust ho se he disinclination the past {about birthd: Probing few ye iation, by Wi tiing he s a n sail away to the farthest reaches of the | only now and then by a distant trail | 1 Templeton Jones comes | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEW. LL. He still recalls the cards showing the Mainc. You lit a fuse at one end, a the trail of fire crept nearer and nearer to the picture of the warship, and then —bang! Up blew the Maine. Every one was positive about it, then, but history is | not._quite so sure about it now. Well, anyway, it is long gone. Templeton Jones went to the Adams School, on R street. Whenever he to look at the old building. It was there that he had his last real adven- ture. He got in a fight with a boy larger than he was, and succceded in bloodying. his nose. It was a highl tisfactory | performance, and he has never for- | gotten it. P He next went a-venturing at the Cen- tral High School, from which he was | not graduated. on account of a lack | of French credits. The hard-working teacher must be amazed, in hcaven, to know that this young person who could not or would not conjugate French verbs then is to- | day one of the most ardent admirers of French literature in the world. No one knowing what to do with Jones, ieast of all Templeton himself, he | went to Wabash Colleg>, out in Craw- fordsville, Indiana, where he became | | never be overtaken. passes along that way, he always tWIns | op e o0’y ety | dark horse in the pre: | The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. The Roosevelt boom for the Demo- cratic presidential nomination is mov- ng so fast that some of the friends of the New York Governor are wonder- ing 1f it would not be as well to put the brakes on for & time. They fear that if their candidate gets so far out in front of the rest of the candidates he mzy become the targe; for all kind$ of shafts. There fs, of course, another school of thought which holds that if he gets far enough out in front he will That, after all, st_course of action The days of the sidential race may have passed, with the greater facilitics of communication, which makes a can- didate familiar to the people of Cali- ornia as well as to the people of Maine and Florida, and the presidential preferential primary in an appre- ciable number of the States. KA A Senator Dill of Washington, who has just returned from Europe, is sure that the West will be strongly for the re- nomination of the New York Governor. There are Tumors that Senator Dill for any candidate. j would like very much to be the run- {ning mate of t : New York Governor. But, whether he would or not, Senator Dill i5 only one of the Westexn Demo- crats who would like to see the nomi- tion of Roos-velt for President, be- lieving he dd run strongly in the something of a leader in class activities editing the Wabash, the oldest c | monthly in the I was edited by Lyman Abbott | Templeton Jones was graduated from | Wabash College with the class of 1913, | i not with Lionors, at least with the degree of A. B. <kin {r: Jones has the shee med in his home today, valuin it chiefly for the firm signature of a ! at men, George L. Mackintosh, pres- | |id-nt of Wabash at that time. * Jones returned to V gton, he in- rms us, and became a reporter on the t, the Biggest and Best. Today he writes a_column, now and then setting s hand to an editorial 1l these years Templeton Jon-s has | en going on ment adve ures. H with all-ceeing eve of Wa soul of Wordsworth, the lexander Pope, the romance looks inchingly at life, and in littl things as much pleasure s others do in great things. For this | he is by some held in scorn, but the scorn he finds refreshing, and a subject | for interest, too. Ther Iy men, at ol always busy at w ends choose to call nothing Jo That interest is a his back y t o'clock to eat the grass seed which has | just been put | Or is it & cow Jones isn't a bit which is a ringer for this a do may be e ve him in rest; ing a very Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands icts upon the ho ences where they rightfu all know that every un creature behind the bars of a ers. Society ubles and his You may but prisoners 1an heroes and differently, 1t is een the latest pictures. because vou crime and p: g * lington —White onable again in Londen. we No longer do the middle-aged » first_signs of gray that ap- t temples The untess of Airlie. the Queen’s la . has lovely white hair, her look very like the Old World ¢s of the French Marquise. Mrs Frank Braham, who organizes many o the Mayfair functions, has white hair, and is said to lock like the pictures of George Washington. There are two omen inEnglish ety who have of white i otherwise dark Lady Mitchell-Themson has a | band of white across one temple amid | her raven black hair. and Miss Marger: nce, the novelist, has a similal k in hers. Lady Chalmers has ed white hair and Mrs. George kard has a head of silver shingled | hair in which, with evening dresses, she | wears a posy of flower * % % Mexico Considers More Drastic Billboard Code Gl Tiempo, Monterey.—The munici- pal council is considering a measure to compel in whatever cases are considered advisable the repairing or repainting of the facades of houses fronting on city streets where the appearance of, the structures suffers in comparison 'with the well kept and presentable aspects of the adjacent buildings. This meas- ure will requirc the maintenance of property on a higher plane than when some buildings are allowed to deteriorate | both in their physical state and in their esthetic semblance. Provision in regard to the erection of billboards and posting of advertisements { will also in ail likelihood be made more drastic that the natural beauty of the city may be conserved as far as possible. * K Kk Married Teacher Sacrifices 100 Children. The Bulletin, Sydney (Letter from contributor): “Dominie: The reten- tion of marricd-women teachers is not the unmixed advantage they would have | us believe. Last yvear I taught beside a married teacher, a graduatc whose hus- band, also a teacher, drew a very fair She had four children and was | an excellent mother; so good, in fact, that when any of the children was off color she never hesitated to stay at heme and_ shepherd her child back to | health. many absences I had to take on her class as well as my own, and found the task of adequately teaching 100 children quite impossible.” Therefore for many weeks during the year 100 children were sacrificed in order that our married- woman teacher might play her proper role as mother to cne of her own brood. “At another school wkere I taught there was a married-woman _teacher whose husband carned a good salary. there she gave birth to three children. She attended fairly up to within a week or so of the birth of each child, but subsequently her absences were always frequent as the babies developed infan- tile troubles. “Yet there are 500 trained students able to find positions in the New South Wales States schools!™ R Dons Chaplin Garb In Hope of Meeting Actor. NEUES WIENER ABENDBLATT, Vienna.—About 11 o'clock in the fore- noon a man garbed in the well known Charley Chaplin costume was driven in All very fine; but during these | During the five years this woman taught | who, under present conditions, are un- | an autotaxi along t to the Steph otel Im abl e H, was cond ucted m by the ger Noticin at he 1 n costu Zwerggasse 1 nned the costume in agasse 44, and then b to drive along the He hgd much en-| jotion ardd excitement ected appear: tion latte: 10 g upor anticipated arrival at the Hotel | Imperial, in the name of Vien: He had had quite a vo; he said, as an imitator of the inim Charlie on a of oth r occasions. He thought. 7 would be a good opportunit o m he acquaintance of the ¢ nal and to g ty to his ow ability in imp a comic vaga- bond. ok ow ok Alr Line Patterned After Washington Route. | NEUES WIENER TAGBLATT, Vi- enpa—The Lufthansa has just pub- lished its new Spring and Summer | schedulss for the operation of its air- | craft in the Rhine Valley. Much more | frequent service will be inaugurated with the beginning of the season for | air travel. Flying busses will be pro- | vided for pass-nger traffic between all | the principal cities in this region, and | between Cologne and Frankfort a spe- | cial service has been arranged. ships leaving in each direction hourly ever day. Eight aircraft will be operated on th: line alone. The fare will be 20 marl per passenger each way. The prototype | of this aerial service is only to be found | in the American aireraft service tween New York and W i Owing to the constant increase in this | mode of travel, the kilometer rate has | been reduced between most German | | airports to 13 pfennigs, and from Ger- | man to exterior airports 15 pfennigs | | (6 to 8 cents a mile). The great Junk- ers machines G-38 and D-2000, to use | their license permit designation, will during the Summer be used first on excursions which will take in all the principal cities of tho Reich, and then later will be placed on the international | air route between Berlin and London. | | This year also the Lufthansa will con- | duct “extensive experiments with the | Junker crude-ofl motor, using this fuel, | Fowever, only in mail and freight planes 1at firs Air travel will be established this Summer, too, betwcen Rome and Mu- rich, in co-operation with Italian flying enterprises. Those desiring to travel {via this route out of Germany must | journey to Munich by rail in time to | make connections with the flying ve- hicle for Rome early in the morning. On flights over this line from Rome to Munich the craft will continue on to | Berlin, so that to reach the capital a transfer to the rail route will not be necessary. Another line is being con- t-mplated between Munich and Venice. A new Balkan airmail service, as well | as direct mail and passenger communi- | cation with Constantinople, are other | betterments promised for this Summer. | Heretofore thes: Turkish planes flew lonly to Vienna. Now a line will fiy direct to Breslau. Hard Boiled. lege | River id, which at one time | | Hoover | which States the other side of the Mississippi es well as in the Middle West Senator Caraway of Arkansas, after qualifying his remarks by saying that of course he would support Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader of the Senate his ¢ 1e from Arkan , declared 1 strongly for the New York Governor if Robinson should be out of the rul g in the national convention. e It appears to be cnly a question of t e most important D rk get on the Ro It is kno thal many who have so far not come forward with open support of the Governor's nomination, are merely biding their time and will take their om the Governor himself as to proper time to announce sclves. At there is talk Owen D, ng_some of the Demoerats York City. But most of their com: is along the line of v nt he would make if on nominated. They do not expect, in other words, that he will be the choice of t s continue to Y v of the of does that up r such cii doubt that Ro y choice on [ m- Se= the es there is li would be the 15t ballot. * % % % The drys in ready for u : this Summ and Senato! He was a b campa 0 if Mr. Hi th in the Wh will do ., the t of the Republic it is tru ation over other more and istration indeed, f the the and South pproval regard to nd American inter- There is reason to be- Borah and the at the t the reparations ntion_the debts of pean nations to the United States, through much the same glasses. e Central America ference there lieve t The Democ proper to say many of the Democrats, having made up their minds to nomi- » at- for President less intent upon getting into the port tform “take prohibition out cf ich a thing were really possible. wator Robert J. Bulkley Ohio. 2 scrious opponent of the eighteenth amendment, and_elec| uch in the campaign of 1930, has ad- vanced a plan which ms to think | would be sitisfactcry to the drys and the wets alike. In a recent speech in St. Louis, he said ckest way to dispose of this question would be through the submission by Congress of an amendment to restore to the States their proper authority cver the regula- tion of intoxicating beverages, the 11 fication of such an amendment to be voted on by c 1 the several State legislatures. The question would thus be made a strictly ncn-partisan matter, since the proposed conventions would deal with only the single question of ratifying or refusing to ratify. The election of the delegates to the conven. tions would be a naticnal referendum on'the eighteenth amendment.” In the opinion of Senator Bulkley, unless some such plan is adopted, there is grave danger that when the voters g0 to the polls next year, they will be influenced by considerations of whether the candidates are wet or dry and will lose sight of scme of the important economic_questions of the day. But if Senator Bulkley believes that the drys will be satisfied to have his suggestion embodied in the Democratic national platform he has another guess coming. The drys are agajnst referendums and the resubmission of the eighteenth amendment. Any political party that advocates resubmission in any form will be regarded as “wet” by the militant drys. are nevert, g somethir all politics,” as if * ok ko E. Smith of the State Senate, long a power in the Republican nization of the State, is out with a statement urging the Republicans to get together in"a pre-primary convention to select a candidate to run for Governor next year against Gov. Floyd B. Olson, the Farmer-Labor Governor, who was elect- ed last year. Mr. Smith, who has never bcen one to fool himself abous a political situation, does not mince words now, declaring that the Repub- licans must. face the facts. “The Republicans in this State have {80t to start out by facing facts,” was Senator Smith's first assertion. “Right now we are not the domi- nant pelitical party in Minnesota. “We were beaten, and beaten severe- to_get back into power. “I do not mean the Republicans should be discouraged at the outset of From the Ann Arbor Daily News. |King Carol. The Rumanians, it ap- pears, go in for cruel-phd unusual pun- ishment. = fact squarely in the face that Gov. Floyd difficult candidate to beat. “I am confident that Minnesota ia still a Republican State. I am confi- them- | from | kel | L Thouss nds of Government experts are working constantly for the benefit of all citizens of the United States. They will work directly for you if you will call for the fruits of their labors through our Washington bureau. State your in- Guiry briefly, write clearly, and, inclo: ing 2-cent stamp for a personal letter in reply, address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. How many dealers in automobiles are there in the United States?—H. N. A. There are about 50,400. Q. In cribbage, how is it possible to score two games won, when only one gameis played?—S. H. A. In a 61-point game of cribbage, if a player reaches 61 before his opponent scores 31, or in a 121-point game before his opponent scores 91, it is a lurch and scores as two games won, making old-fashioned drinks?—A. O. N. A. It was an iron tool having a long handle ending in a ball or bulb. It was heated and thrust into the pre- pared drink to heat it. Lowell said: “The loggerhead, whose hissing dip, Timed by wise instinct, creamed the bowl of flip." Q. What kinds of tcbacco are used in the cigarettes manufactured in this country?—T. C. C. A. There are four types of cigarette tobacco used In American They are flue-cured, grow North Carolina, South Southern Virginia; burle; grown in Kentucky; Maryland, grcwn in Mary- land; Turkish, grown in Greece, Bul- garia and Turkey, which is imported Of these types, about 700,000,000 pounds of the first e grown 1nually, 300,- 000,000 pounds of the second (the first two tog ther comprising 1,000,000,000 pounds). 25,000,000 pounds cf Maryland and 30,000,000 pounds of Turkish im- ported. Q. Which one of the characters of frontier days sidered the best shot?—L, F A. Some writers of the <ld West state that James Butler Hickok, better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was the fastest gunman known. He held various offic: 2nd was at one time pony express rider with Buffalo Bill. He also a scout and spy in the Union Army. Hickck was shot and killed in a saloon in Dead- > \?Crlmk o0 August 2, 1876, by k McCall. He was on 2 of age at the time. PSS Aener Q. Wher in Georgia, Carolina and well known was con- a“d’u th: barn swallows Win- Q. How hig is tin Paris?>—L. K. J. | A- The Bois includes 2.308 acres | Q. How many | Wesley write?— A. He wrate Q. How does Alois Lang pror s given nams?—T. S. It is accented on the le—Ahl-o-is. | Q Where did the csardas or | A This hymns 1. C. ver 6.000 hy did Ch ing en- where ling act may be s from ongress to permit a con ution to be framed and statehood conferred. Q. Is the word “contents ral?—W. R. A. It is plural tngular or Press Freedom Both past and present day conditions o found by th> public t force d importance to the decision of the ed States Supreme Court that the Minnesota law subjectd udicial censorship is It is held that if such laws tained, liberty would r and litical tyranny would be upheld. Th sure under discussion was oked against a paper which was { with being a “scandal sheet” attacks on public officials “What the Minx Legisl {1925 attempted to s Paul Pjoneer Press, s to institute | a censorship of the press, for the pur- pose of putting the so-called scandal | sheets out of business. With t tive few persons have seriously were, ta d the St quar- or perhaps it fs more Tcled, but the real test of great and |on the plea fundamental principle arises. not in Tespect to the obvious cases. but when | the time comes for their application in defense of the most unsatisfactor: | clalmants of right. If the plain lan ! guage of the Constitution does not mea; |anything “even for the _evil-tongued scandal sheets. then freedom of and opinion in America is non-e and there is not a newspaper or organ | of public information in the country that is safe from the interference o unworthy, se:f-interested public official | “While the reactionari:s devised and | enacted the gag law,” according to the | Chicago Dafly Tribune, “it was the rad- icals, come in! power, that use | suppress the Saturday Press for ing the corruption of the police ur | radical rule and forcing the dis: {of the chief of police. Had not | support2d it, it could not have been sold, intelligent community. No inkling of this background of the gag law will be found in the dissenting opinion. On the contrary, its implication is, as we have said, that there was involved only he suppression of an abuse of press frerdom. But the Saturday Press was not suppressed for not telling the truth. 1t suppressed because it was telling altogether too much of it. It was not suppressed because it was scurrilous, recklessly d-famatory, abusive and in- | cendiary, but because, whatever the character or _motives of its editor, it was giving @publicity to conditions which political profiteers and corrup- tionists could not afford to permit the public to realize.” . * ok i “Arbitrary official power to suppress publication,” states the San Antonio Express, “is unquestionably foreign to free government. A ‘scandal sheet’ may be a nuisance: mud-slinging and char- acter-assassination may work great | harm—but in such_circumstances the lib:l laws offer redress. It is better | | In Minnesota former Scnator Edward | even to folerate those abuses than fo | in the cou risk the far greater evils inherent in governmental control over the press, for in that direction lics eventual en- cment.” An important declaration of consti- tutional principle” is seen by the Phil- adelphia_Inquirer, while the St. Louis Post-Dispatch maintains that “the Ybel laws already provide punishment for untruthful, malicious and scandal- ous charges, and thcy constitute a suf- ficient curb on journalistic freedom.” | The Cleveland News points out that the decision is “a blow to censorship, ad- vocated with more or less insistence | dent that the Republican organization | ly. in the last State election, and we|in this State contains a hundred men be making money. are facing a most tremendous struggle | as well or better qualified to be Gover- band wishes they'd get rich enough to nor than our present Farmer-Labor executive. “But the task of Minnesota Repub- the campaign, but we must look the|licans is to find and concentrate upon | just one of those hundred men. The Queen Helen'’s portra’ts will no longer | B. Olson, if he runs for re-election, as he !only way I believe that such a man | |be permitted to hang beside those of | probably will do, is going to be & very | can be certainly selected and the vari- | ous factional groups of the party united behind him jg through the machinery of a State-wile party convegtion.” Q. How was a loggerhead used in | If a container holds | & Fundamental Right of ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. |but one thing, one should say, “The content is”; if more than one, “The contents are. Q. Could Washington's mother read and write? —M. M A. William E. Barton in “The Women Lincoin Loved” says tnat Mary Ball Washington could read snd writ a lit- tle, but not much, and in this she was | exceptional. | Q@ When may a President of the United States suspend jmmigration?- H. H. | "A. He may entirely suspend immigra- tion only in cases where there are cer- tain contagious diseases prevalent certain countries. This is in accord- ance with the act passed February 1893, 27 Stat., 449, Q. How far apart should peach and apple_trees be planted?—C. N. G. A. The Eu ¢ Plant Industry says that peach trees shoud be planted nst less than 20 feet apart; apple trees not less than 35 feet apart. Q. How long has the Russell Sage Foundation been in existence?—P. G A. For 24 years. John M. Glenn who has been general director_sinc its inception, has just resigned. Sh M. Harrison will succeed him Septem- ber 1. Q. How many cemeteries has the Wi Department abroad?—L. J. A. The cemeteries ad. under the War Department, are six in France, two in Belgium and one in England. Q. What was art?—P. K A. “Verdad no p! painting.” Q. What is the date of the next b: game between Washington and the At leti Velasquez's device “Truth n “There’s a 2s A war s g is called the name capacity of ing. Brothers ircus?—A. M. 10,000 pecple. - was Max Schme- Luckow 1905. Ger- as John Jones, me such c be used after c Some use the Q. What d card to be scnt to Jap:n or C! -R. J. R onal 2 cen Antioch Col- 1eW progres. part work? was ton. planted 1 a straight line? It has been found to be more ef- to plant the trees in groups or gered. Is Declared ation since the World War. “will go down in documen the press “With and fcels that it history as a great in defense of freedom and of such a law in New the Sa; v > the question. per depended ge and his I If the life e was adop the mercy which Mu Milwau s press would become t picce of the politica as servile a t scist press n, the ut that ged in “con ical corrup Pittsburgt the press of t stant oday warfare against pol titutional conventions | we are confident, to the people of Min- | tion, official grafting and racketeering ther than by the | nesota or that of any other frce and | The Ral h and Observer holds that “the press has no valid caim to freedom unless it is vigilant for clean and righteous government.” the roc the Al | happ of the United Stat’s, in its decision against the so-called Minnesota ‘gag law.’ The right of the peo of the press, to express themsel preblems of public policy preserved intact. The one great means permitting men and women to criticize their government and their officials, constructively or destructively as the conditions merit, and allowing public- | spirited newspapers or magazines to ex- pose actual or allezed malfeasance in office, is thus successfully championed.” Th> Buffalo Evening News is ccn- vinced that “the 12w would be a sword hanging over tho heads of editors,” while the Worc--ter Telegram holds that “frcedom of the press is equiva- lent to freedom of speech.” The Charleston (S. C.) News and Couri-r, of a discussion of t effct of the decicion, adds that “ar unpleasant condition remains unreme- died.” and argues: “That the ‘nuisanc® | press’ cennot be abated bv law does not preclude th> finding of lezislati ways through which the appearance of the nuisances may be made difficult The decision does not say that pre- | vention is impossib'e, however it stands in the way of abatement. The licensing of newsrapers and newspaper men mas be practicable. It is required for law- | vers and doctors.” ] i The Spinach Menace. rom the Albany Evening News. Farmers raising spinach are said to Nearly every hus- retire. - A Betting Parson. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. However the event turns out, the Wis- | consin pastor who has offered $5 to anv | person who can sleep while the sermons proceed should have a raise in salary.