Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. . +June 18, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company fenserivania_Ave: S Bluline. u'n'-?:ns .. London, ‘Enaland. European Office: Rate by Carrler Within the City. g.;l":‘ .!lsl'.!u 45¢ per month s Bubdays) s0c per month AR "5c per month ber copy { ‘ench month r telephone Rate by Mail—Payabl Maryland and Virgin All Other States and Canada. flv and Sunday...lyr.$12.00: 1mo..§ aily only . 1yr. $8.00: 1 mo. ndey only . 1.00 | 5c | $5.00; L mo. ‘Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Precs is exclusively entitled to the se for republication of all news dis- atches credited to It or not otherwise cred- ted in this paper and also the ws published herein, " All ights of publl pecial dispatches herein are also r -— The Woman's Bureau. After thirteen years of up-hill fight- ing against a good many man-made odds, the Woman's Bureau of the Police Department has certainly justified its right to a definite status. But its life from year to year or from day to day, for that matter, is dependent upon | the Commissioners. By rescinding an order, the Commissioners could abolish the Woman's Bureau tomorrow. They will not do that. But if the Woman's Bureau has a right to continued ex- istence, it certainly has the right to the full and complete recognition that | legisiation would imply. « It should be | considered as much a part of the police organization as, say, the Detective Bureau, which has been duly estab- lished by law. One sympathizes, therefore, with Mrs. Van Winkle's expressed disappointment | in not finding the Woman's Bureau mentioned in the reorganization of the department which will be brought about on the first of the next fiscal ar. ‘The omission, of course, is no new story to her, or to those who have con- tended for the recognition she seeks. Congressional hearings have been held, | legislation has been prepared and or-| ganizations of citizens, including the Federation of Citizens’ Assoclations and its Advisory Council. have recommended the legislative creation of the Woman's Bureau and the full recognition of its officers and personnel. But the various efforts in this direction have repeatedly failed. ‘The Woman's Bureau here was the| forerunner of similar bureaus in many. other cities of the country, some of them modeled on the District organiza- tion. The “lady cop” was at first re- ceived with the usual jibes and ridicule that have been the traditional accom- paniments of new things and new schemes, but she has won a place in the modern police department that will | remain fixed. Experience has taught her to avold some exploits that gained | undue notoriety at the start and pro- vided a pretty sound talking point for the critics and avowed enemies. But each year has seen the Woman's Bu- reau progress in the perfection of a distinct branch of police work that can only be performed by women with sociological training. And it is not idle to hope that the Woman's Bureau may represent some of the advanced ideals of what all police work will eventually | come to mean—imore experts to deal with the problems of a complex social ' { butlding program. secrecy. It wove a net about him and his gang, sending men into the organi- zations to learn thelr practices and {dentities of the underlings. It ignored the State and county police and Jjudiciary and kept its campaign strictly within its own control. It “got its man,” just as the Canadian Northwest Mounted Police get theirs when they,set out in pursuit. Now it is understood that the same process is under way In New York. The success in the Capone case may have the effect of causing demoraliza- tion among the Manhattan gangsters, who will not be sure of the good faith of any of their associates. Meanwhile the Tammany-controlled police and prosecutors will be looking on, just as did the police and prosecutors in Chi- cago, wondering what is reslly going on, who is being trailed, who is being caught with the goods, who is going to be finally landed for the long “stretch” in prison. More power to these courageous oper- atives of the Federal Government who are digging in to find the crooks and to get the goods on them! They are taking their lives in their hands. Some of them may die in the line of duty. But ultimately the service will win and | | | *|the gang will be brought to court and sent to jail. And the more shame upon the local law-enforcing authorities and fgents who have let Uncle Sam do the work that they should be doing! —ree— Too Many Cooks. The movement inaugurated by Rep- resentative Will R. Wood of Indiana to block the final selection of the site for the Army-Navy group of buildings west of Seventeenth street is apparently gaining force. Mr. Wood's determina- tion to write letters to the members of | Cangress, seeking to obtain their sup- port in withholding appropriations for the land, is Indicative of the fight now looming in Congress over a matter that should have been, and to all intents and purposes was, settled long ago. Mr. Wood has already found an ally in Representative Collins of Mississippi, who has gone the chairman of the Appropriations Committee one better, and has assailed the proposal eventually to demolish the Municipal Building. One unfortunate part of the matter is the tardiness with which the protests are being made. And far more serious than the difference of opinion as to the choice of sites and the extent of the Federal bullding program is the injec- tion of personal views of members of Congress in cpposition to the plans carefully drawn by the experts who manifestly should be given free rein. Once the Federal bullding program be- comes entangled in controversy over locations, what bulldings should remain standing and which ones should be de- molished, the elements of delay and uncertainty will prove a formidable handicap. Congress has appropriated and au- thorized "money generously for the It has wisely left the details to & representative com- mission, which has had the benefit of had resulted in the formulation of an faction with the makeshift in both par- ties cauced it to be uncertain whether it could prevall against a solid Con- servative vote. In that stmosphere of tensity it was suddenly discovered and duly proclaimed that the Liberal amend- ment was out of order, automatically and ludicrously finishing the “crisis.” Labor was saved again, The government knows full well that it has received nothing but a repriev The sentence of death still hangs over it with the implacable certainty of a Damocletian sword. If the MacDon- aldites were In any doubt on that score, it should have been removed by Lloyd George's angry retort to Conservative jeers as the Liberal amendment passed into the parliamentary discard, “When the time comes (for renewed consideration of the 8nowden land-tax proposition),” the little Welshman ex- claimed, “I shall be perfectly prepared. But it will not be the time that the Conservative party demands it. It will be when I think it will sult the coun- try.” The Liberal leader is referring to the moment when he thinks the going will be good for a general election—good, that is, for the Liberals. It is not a moment which MacDonald and his mi- nority have any reason to contemplate Wwith joy, often as Lady Luck has smiled upon them during the past two years. . ———— Clara Bow, now a “platinum blonde,” declares she is going to write the “real story of my life,” and no ghost-writing, either. If she means what she says, this will undoubtedly be one of the best things since the publication of Buffalo Bill's several autoblographies. [ ‘There will be no holding Kentucky down now, since one of her daughters has been chosen as “Miss United States.” It is too bad that whatever colonel it was who originated the dictum about her women, her horses and her whisky could not have lived to see the day. ———— A small boy recently arrived in Wash- ington from three hundred miles away, the distance having been traversed on a “scooter.” His father hauled others of the family in a goat-cart. It is not thought that either accommodated many hitch-hikers. R British and Brazilian warships are racing to claim for their respective na- tions two tiny, newly discovered islands in the middle of the South Atlantic | Ocean. Uncle Sam might swap Guam for them if he wants them. R We are going back to old times in some respects. That portable speakeasy discovered in Chicago is reminiscent of the “high pitch” and “low pitch” artists and their highly harmful patent reme- dies. ——————————— expert advice. It has allotted money not only for the work now in progress, but by these allotments has indicated the extensive nature of the work to be undertaken in the future. Everything done now is designed with an eye to the plan as a whole, a plan that can- not be completed for many years. If individual members of Congress, or if Congress as a whole, succumb to an attack of cold feet over the expense, the program will suffer. If hard times lessen the money avail- able for the Federal works in Washing- ton and economy is made necessary, the wisest thing to do is to postpone some of the projects. It will be foolish and ' short-sighted to try to save a sin- gle penny by skimping on what has al- order and fewer beat-pounders with revolvers and nightsticks: & ‘There may be difficulty in reaching ready been planned. It must be borne in mind that the site of the Army-Navy any agreement on some of Mrs. Van'group is a relatively small, an even ‘Winkle's proposals as to relative rank trivial- matter, when considered as a and independence of the bureau which'part of the whole Washington that she heads. There should be no serious coming generations will build. Wash- difference of opinion over the right of 'ington today is full of the mistakes rep- the bureau to formal legislatiVe rec- resenting short-sightedness and nig- ognition and a definite status in the gardly saving in the past. The expense Metropolitan Police Department. | of the program today is increased by Ssinioond | these mistakes. And most of them re- Tt is possible to live a complete life- | time in Manhattan without ever n,ep-i ping into the street, according to an article dealing with its various subways snd subterranean places of business.| In fact, s Manhattanite stands a much ' better chance of living out a normal life- | time if he refrains entirely from stepping out into the street. e Now for New York! Indication is afforded that Federal agents are now at work upon gang | operations in New York in a manner, similar to that of the drive against the Capone activities in Chicago. The suc- cess of the Chicago campaign encour- sges the expectation that a similar | victory will be scored in this endeavor to round up the “malefactors of great wealth” who operate with guns in the eastern metropolis. ‘There is in fact little difference be- tween the Chicago and the New York | situations. The Capone racket in Chi- cago was more distinctly identifizd and better advertised. The New York rack- ets are somewhat more diverse, and less definitely concentrated in a single group. They may not be so compactly organized, or so closely co-ordinated, but ' they exist and flourish nevertheless and they: take enormous toll of business and cost: heavily in human life. | It is & grave reflection upon the honesty and the eficiency of municipal government that the United States| should have to step in to suppress the blackmailing gangsters, with the in-| eome tax law as the specific reason for investigation and basis for punishment. ‘While in large measure the opermonsl of the gangs are in violation of the prohibition law, which is a Federal of- fense, the operatives in these lawless organizations are constantly engaged in breaches of the State laws as well. Their offense is against the immediate com- | munity, rather than against the United ! States. In Chicago justice failed completely; in dealing with the Capone gang. The leader and his men enjoyed & veritable immunity, due with little doubt to their corruption of the police and the prose- cuting agencles. Now and again the farce of their arrest was enacted, but 1t never went further. Absurdly small| bonds were taken, later to be canceled and the charges dropped without pub- licity. Nobody regarded these spas- modic bursts of activity as more than face-saving gestures. ‘When the Pederal Government went after Ospone it did so with skill and ' the fate of the MacDonald cabinet has sulted from too many fingers in the pie. Chairman Wood, with his hold on the purse strings, has a duty to perform in watching the expenditure of every dollar. But his duty does not extend It is regrettable that horses cannot read so that they, too, might have been inspired by the stirring defense of Cav- Iry as & war.arm by Maj. Gen. James Parker. e ‘This can be said for the Starr Faith- full murder mystery: No victim or per- petrator hitherto has had such & classy —and also inappropriate—name 1f Senator Caraway does not let up on President Hoover, he may give the latter a severe inferiority complex. e “Horn Is Considering Tour of America” ran a recent headline. Not Trader, but Gunnar. v SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Mutation. When the storm is goin' strong, Darkenin! the day, . Streak o' sunshine comes along An’ chases it away. ‘When the sun is blazin' high, Makin' heat severe, Rain cloud sails across the sky An' cools the atmosphere. No occasion for dismay, ‘Whatever be your fate; It's sure to go the other way, to secking alterations in the vast Wash- ington plan for the sake of economy. Every detail of the program should be planned and financed with a thought to the future. The petty difficulties of a fow lean years must not be perpet- uated in stone. If we cannot build for the future, we might as well stop build- ing until we can. ] Physio] have just discovered that a “secorid déssert” taken an hour or so after lunch or dinner, or a few pieces of candy, are rot only pleasant after- maths to a meal, but also a most vi uable aid to digestion. Humph! Small boys have known that for ages and ages. b * — e Labor Survives—Again. “Much Ado About Nothing,” or per- haps “All's Well That Ends Well,” would be a good title for the parlia- mentery farce-comedy that has ended— for the dozenth time—in prolongation of the British Labor government's tenucus lease of office. On most pre- vious occasions the MacDonald ministry has survived threatened crisis after it came out of a snap division with a minority. The front bench alibl gen- erally wes that no metter of sufficient principle or policy was invclved to impel the government to resign. This week the stage seemed set for a real showdown. Ever since Chancellor of the Exchequer Snowden proposed his revolutionary new land-tax scheme, If you will only wait. Truly Expert. “Are you a tariff expert?” “I may say so,” replied Senator Sorghum. “I have managed for years to make speeches on the tariff with- out being defeatel in the next elec- tion.” Jud Tunkins says the law of aver- age asserts itself in the way a man with the smallest ideas uses the big- gest words. Merry Sunshine. Although I love the sunshine’s play| ‘Where Summer blossoming §rows, I wish 1t would not get so gay And burn my blooming nose. Relative Terms. “Any blue laws in Crimson Gulch?”. “Yep,” replied Cactus Joe. “The! sheriff has made a rule that no poker ame can run after midnight without seein’ him about the rake-off.” How It Worked Out. “I gent Josh to college,” said Farmer Corntossel, “so that he'd have the ad- vantage of a better education than I had.” “How did it work out?” “Josh overdoes his gratitude. He' all the time showin’ off his intellectual superiority so as to make me feel that I got my money's worth.” An Idealism. Conditions will by brains be made Instead of fists hurg in the balance. The Labor party was ! divided on the issue, as was the cabinet itself. When the Lloyd George Liberals breathed fire and brimstone against it, the government's fortunes tock on a truly perilous hue. The Liberals trot- ted out an amendment to the Snowden plan, designed to make it less distaste- ful to the large’ landowners. The chancellor of the exchequer rebelled. Premier MacDonald revealed an inclina- tion to compromise with Lloyd George. A double-edged political upheaval thus hove into view—a Labor cabinet mutiny and jmminent fall of the government threugh defection of those Liberal votes in the House of Commons by grace of which MacDonald alone retains power. The die was to have been cast od Tuesday, Behind-the-scenes maneuvers When teachers are as highly paid As pugilists. “Dere’s no man,” said Uncle Eben, “as uninterestin’ as de one dat kmows 50 much dat he dasn't talk foh fear he'll tell somethin’.” No Financial Legerdemain. Prom the Charlotte News. e WA ¢ ans a convention at Columbus, Ohio. Not anz of them, it was said, could make his hotel bill vanish at the proper time. Prom the Columbia (8. O.) State. ’ HE EVENING STAR. WA.SHINGTO\I D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1931 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. It was & rainy evening, the kind when you and I, dear reader, like to stay at home. Bome folks there are who delight in an outing, the moment they see & rain coming up. - Others there are who prefer to stay indoors n un{ see flashes of light- ning to south, and hear distant rumbles of thunder, This evening the air was sticky, as we say, with a “feel” cf rain in the alr, 50 that the rumble to the south was no surprise. ‘We hoped that the electrical display would be brief, or even would not get out our way at all. Lightning is one of the ordinary man- ifestations of Nature which many per- sons could get along very well without. Here again mankind is split into two great groups, those who do not mind thunderstorms and those who do. Per- haps the first grouping should in turn 1 be split into those who honestly do not fear lightning and those who stoutly ntain that they do not. As for us, we admit to a solid and abiding dislike for thunderstorms and we do not much mind who knows it. @ Thunder we rather liké, but the ac- companying lightning is a bit too much. In this we differ from many persons, who loudly assert that they are not afraid of lightning flashes at all, but :Int the roll of thunder makes them jump. Thus they admit to & jump, now and then, but never to fear. Perhaps they are right. Undoubtedly there is & cer- tain native shrewdness in the mass of mankind which tells them, all uncon- | sciously, just how much they ought to admit and how much not to admit. * ok k% ‘This evening there lightning display. It was safely to the south, where timid mortals shrank back from w! dows, or pretended that they didn't mind in the least and so bravely stood their ground in open doors. ‘To the south human beings spoke to one another, “Put that knife away, it may draw the lightning,” and even scissors and cther small objects were shut up for the night. Such is the power of an early educa- tion. Today there is some dispute as to the “drawing” power of lightning, but the safe and ne rules of antiquity, even if they have a little fear complex in_them, are not 55 bad, after all. ‘There is little point in standing in an open door during an electrical storm, or even in sitting by an open window. There is some possibility that a draft through a house, created by a fresh breeze acccmpanying a thunderstorm, might cause a path for electrical cur- Tents. * ok ok ¥ Out our way there was no storm, but only a gentle rain, which did not even blow into the window: It was pleasant to sit on the sun porch, and look out at the tall trees waving their branches to greet the falling water. o Greenery to all sides—what greater decoration is there in the world? Here at home, on a rainy evening, just at dusk, you possessed one of the most beautiful color combinations in the world, After all, what touches, for genuine beauty, the faint blue of the sky, the green of grass and trees, the brown blackness of tree trunks? ‘There you have Nature's best effort toward a modest combination of colors. In certain places, such as the Grand Canyon, she has fairly outdone herself. . There colors glow. Such pictures do very well for a visit, but not for steady consumption. They are too great to be called flashy, but however, no | mfl;fl 1) some of the things are rather overdone, judged by the plain standards of the everyday, e i Green, Tuo blue, brown—these are colors to live with, and are the sort, and in this combination, which are to be found most places where human u“m- live under civilization. me writers . describe the sky as green, and maybe it is, if not in itself, then by way of reflection of the vast amount, o;gnnery below. For all ordinary usages, however, the wlor-uumg;lv: word blue is good enough. 8ky-blue perhaps is & better descriptive. Sometimes you will see ambitious housepainters who paint the underside of porch roofs a pale blue, and once we saw a particularly ambitious' fellow try his hand at a few silver stars sprinkled around, with a silver moon by way of variety. But within a year a hornet, ambitious in another way, had built a big nest all over the moon, and completely obliterated it from view. ‘Whether this was a deliberative effort to blot out the work of a brother artist we leave to the reader to judge. Oertainly there is no pleaganter color combination than this of dee) een, deepest brown to the point of almost, and blue. It vantageously be used in interior decora- tion. Surely upon a rainy evening, just at dusk, it takes on & magic ufi:‘l?fty which home-loving persons find repayment enough for staying home. * % % % The streets out our way, thank heaven, are macadam, not concrete or asphalt! We recognize the use of harder surfaces, but declare and assert | that for daily living there are no streets 50 good &s these gray-black ones, which | blend so rarmoniously with trees, grass, flowers, houses. Indeed, there are various communi- | ties near Washington where a certain cherm resides; and if you try to analyze this, and to point out the factors which cause this happy result, you will find yourself giving the lack of white road- ways as one of the main factors. The darker-hued roadbeds blend with the remainder of the settings, under the influence of falling rain be- come quite black. In the gloaming they become a veri- table part of the lawns, 50 that the entire expanse ben:ath the eye seems to be | but part of a great estate. I * x x % “The stormy evening bloweth now in in,” says the poem of Robert Louis (who pronounced his name Lewis) Stevenson. ‘There is & famous musical setting for that poem, one which has been sung by succeeding generations of Washing- ton school children. It is a good song, with a rushing ; way with it highly in keeping with the character of the words. Stevenson was not a great poet, but occasionally be wrote something which the world took to its heart. His requiem, “Under the wide and open sky,” and several of his children's poems, contained in the “Child's Gar- den of Verses,” are beloved the world around. Perhaps this nln{nevenln', while the drops strike soundingly on the thick leaves of the rhododendrons, is as good a time as sny, and hetter than most, for renewing an acquaintance with the verse of one of the greatest of the minor poets. But before we turn on the light let us linger here in the dark. and watch for ss'long as we can the feathery tops of the.tall locusts waving in the rain. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands opaaion t toe publie sepvice tion to. the public service salary cuts is being worked up with” catch phrases. Some of these have a specious appear- ance, but are in truth misleading. One of the most. eading is the statement that the public servants, who are one- ninth of the workers of the Dominion, are being asked to find one-third of the deficiency. This appears correct— to those whose reasoning is limited to a sum in simple arithmetic, that £1,500,- 000 is a third of £4,500,000. It is mis- leading because £4,500,000 is not the whole national loss. It is merely the prospective rtage In the government budget. The national loss of income has not been calculated. - Mr. Coates said the prices realized by primary pro- ducers were down by £20,000,000 this loss does not stop there (it in- volves further losses by all who supply oods and services for the producers ?t may be assumed that ths loss of tional income is between £30,000,000 and £40,000,000. The people of the country as & whole must bear this. The reduc- tion in national income is reflected in a fall of government revenue, and the public servants are asked to take their share in meeting that part of the As has been shown, it is not th loss. Other parts of the national loss e being borne by private businesses, and the employers and proprietors of these businesses are carrying the load. In many instances the private employes are in & worse position than thé public servants. ‘They have not alternative of a 10 per cent cut. They have lost their employment, because pri- vate employers cannot do as the gov- ernment and recoup one-third from employes and two-thirds from the gene! b{t‘: Private employers have no mngl‘: m{ubllc on whom they may place almost two-thirds of their de- ficiency. * % % x Worker, Expecting Ald From Employer, Scored. The Bulletin, Sydney—One of the dull men of one of the duller cabi- nets told a at East Sydney the other day that workingman who expected any help from the employer was dead from the chin up. Probably the man didn't believe a word of it; in olitical life sincerity has been so abitually sacrificed that it hardly ex- ists any more. Still, whether the man belleved it or not is of little conse- quence; what are the facts? The condition of the worker has been enormously improved during the past 100 years; and the improvement has been progressive. During this period the workers' unions have come into being nd have been increasingly militant; the easy conclusion has been drawn that the improvement has been due to the arrival of labor unions and the pro- e.lslveul‘naprovmm to their increas- militancy. an: en still living can recall the condif of 50 years ago. The Aus- tralian agricultural laborer at that time recelved 75 cents & awmq times, and a dollar at The hours were from 7 till 6 and as often from 6 till 7. And the farmer, the em- ployer, was, as a rule, so poor that it for him to the | far as im| came poor ores, with the terror always ahead of the inhabitants that some day the zinc in the bottom would make smelting impossible. The company brought men from all parts of the earth to wrestle with the problem. They pro- vided capital for experiment. Plant after plant was built—and scrapped. A dozen deaths the Hill should have died; and there are still 25,000 people at Broken H111—20,000 or 50 of them look- ing to the employer and his chemist and his engineer to make such other changés in the processes of extraction that 12 per cent of lead and 5.ounces of silver will pay at prices less than one-half of what they were when operations be- 8 Looking back over a century's history of mining in England, the author of the monumental work “Coal and Its Con- flicts"— a man entirely sympathetic with the miners—makes the astonish- ing confession of his belief that they have not got gh their unions a single thing they would not have got | without them. We need not go that The unions have done work of the utmost value for their members and the world; but in almost every case it has been through forcing the em- ers to get busy and make technical provements and improvements in ‘management. Without the employer the trade union and the Parliamentary Labor party, being unable to create any wealth whatever for any purpose what- ever, would be poor, helpless things so vements in wage and indus- trial conditions are concerned. At one time, it is true, the world be- lieved it could do without this employer. It believed that public ownership would give us ail the advantages an employer could bring, without any of the - fects and disadvant It is not the l&llmthe sins of the Labor polit! rllt ation that faith in doctrine has been com- pletely shattered. *» ok % Seek to Make Mexico City Capital of Very First Rank. El Universal, Mexico City.—A com- mittee of the National Revolutionary block of the Chamber has formulated a resolution to be submitted to the Depu- ties with reference to extending the municipal radius of Mexico City, to make the metropolis a capital of the very first rank and order, with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants. The mem- bers of the committee have had con- partment "of statistics, with the result that thelr joint opinion confirms the probability this dignity could be easily achieved without taking in very much additional I:fr;lem &Mh on the measure Wi permitted the extraordinary sessions. . . , Easy Money. From the Flint Daily Journal P. G. Wodehouse, the noted Eng- lish humorist, got $104,000 a for what he says was doing in ‘The: diffe lerence between is frank, A By-Product. From the Charleston (8. C.) News and Gourier. In the prosecution of Capone for Gnid Biatcs. s expanding the. heory once held by. the “Sam Randall” Dem- ocrats, of & tariff for revenue with in- cidental protection. Not Regular Yet. Prom the Indianapolis New: might ad- |4 and | H ferences with the director of the de-|The Fa The Political Mill l ‘The Democrats, taking President Hoover's address at the dedication of the Harding Memorial in Marion, Ohio, as o text, are seeking to make the adminis- ‘Thomas. - ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. of Montans, who was the ! mand chief senatorial investigator of these| @il scandals, through Democratic National Committee, thinks that Presi- dent Hoover made an “injudicious” dis- ipecch that. reslsation by Prestdent real it mln( of his -betrayal by a few of the men he trusted had been a con- tributing cause of his death. The Mon- tana Benator also believes that it was oF“ihe Repumicen Hatomi Commmie fee mot. o have insiste Cfurther Cises. It may be that the Democrats will be able to arouse public interest in such an issue almost a decade after the death of the late President Hard- ing and after the interval in which two. Pretidents have served. It will be remembered, however, that not in 1924, when the issue was new, could there be aroused very much interest among the voters in the matter, since the principals in the oil scandals had been turned out of office. * % % x Undoubtedly President Hoover's state- ment attacking President Harding's be- ..by Y |few men w'?_hom he trusted” widely quoted. The Republicans insists, however, that these men have long since been out of office. The critics of the Harding administration have urged in the past that it was im- possible for the ofl leases to have been “put over” without the knowledge of former President Coolidge, then Vice President, and a constant attendant upon cabinet meetings; the then Sec- retary of State, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; President Hoover, then | Secretary of Commerce, and other mem- bers of the cabinet not directly involved. But will the Democrats be able to con- vince the voters that Coolidge, Hughes or Hoover was cognizant of and ac- quiesced in the bribing of the then Secretary of the Interior Fall in con- nection with the oil leases? Even the Democrats themselves have no real hope of such an outcome. Senator Walsh wants to know who Q. What types of accidenty cause the most deaths?—E. H. A. Dr. Louis Dublin says that the fatal accident experience of the United States is made up of factors. Autcmobile accidents come first with 28 per cent of the accident by burns with 7 'rr cent, and by raliroad accidents with 6 per cent of the accident total. excluding tHat owed to our Govern- ment?—F. H. A. Thé Division of Foreign and Domestic Commerce says that it is estimated that Europesn governments owe private citizens the United States approximately $7,000,000,f Q. What is the difference between r‘h dry and extra dry ginger ale? A. Pale dry has less sugsr than regular and extra dry the least sugar of any ginger ale. Q'Wanhmeorklnolmymf A. The Military Order of the World ‘War sponsored the founding of Army day. It was celebrated this year on April 6. The observance of Army day was started three years ago. Q. What is & sneeze?—C. P. L. A. A sneeze is a sudden, violent and spasmodic exhalation of breath, wholly or partly through the nose. A snesze p is caused by irritation of the nasal branches of the fifth pair of cranial nerves. Q. When did the Siamese twins live? told President Hoover that President | g had a “dim realization” he had { been betrayed by “Fall, 24 Forbes or Miller”, whether it was Mr. Harding himself. Perhaps the Mon- tana Senator has in mind some future resolution to be offered in the SBenate calling ur‘on the President to give that body such information. - x x ¥ The Republicans and Democrats of the first Ohio congressional district, which for s0o many years was repre- sented in the House by the Jate Speaker Nicholas Longworth, have settled upon their candidates to succeed Mr. Long- wt . The Republicans are going to the bat behind John B. Hcllister, a law partner of Robert A. Taft, son of the late President and Chief Justice Taft. The Democrats have indorsed David Lorbach, a practicing attorney in Cin- cinnati and a State Senator. mary takes place August 12, law provides that all those who wish to run for nomination must give notice sixty days in advance, the whole affair seems definitely settled, with Hollister and Lorbach to make the race against each other next November. Hollister is & graduate of Yale Ccllege and the Har- vard Law School. He is 40 years old, a son of Judge Hollister. His Demo- cratic opponent is also a graduate of s: Harvard Law School and is 49 years age. * x k% Both the candidates are widely known. Lorbach {s holding his first public office, that of State Senator, to which he was elected last year. He made a remarkable run in that cam- ngx, it is said. Under ordinary con-| ditions, the first Ohio district is a| pretty strong Republican district. But: 1t is recognized that conditions are not ordinary today. However, the Repub- licans aresgoing to do their best to win this by-election because of the psycho- logical effect. Furthermore, if the Democrats should win, it would give the two old parties each 217 members of the House, taking away the majority of one now held by the Republicans. The congressional camraign in Ohio's first this Fall is likely to be a hum- er. * ¥ ok ok Senator Willilam E. Borah is back in Idaho. If Idaho had its way, Mr. | Borah would bs President of the United ‘States. He is as solid with the pecple of his State as any man in public life oan well be. . In some of the Republicans could have their way, Senator Borah would be a candida 'for’ the presidential nomination in a lct of the States next year. But Senator Borah in the past, has turned a deaf ear to the buzzing of the presidential bee. He is likely to be as deaf to it next year as he has been in other years. He was . re-elected to the Senate for| another six-year term last Fall, and ap- | parently he can lcok forward to spend- | ing the rest of his life in the Upper House if he so desires. He declined to| become Calvin Coolidge's running mate | in 1924, when he cpuld have gone into; the vice presidency with ease. To be a | Senator of the United States is entirely | satisfactory to many public men. It is proud office, and in the case of Sen- tor Borah, a powerful and influential office. His colleague in the Senate, Mr. ‘Thomas, is up for re-election next year and there has been talk of cpposition cropping up, though none has been an- nounced so far. Idaho has cha its election laws again and the - | mary for senatorial nominations is in vogue ncw instead of the nominating party convention. Both the Idaho members of the House, Burton Prench and Addison T. Smith, seem to have a strangle hold on their offices and will have no trouble being renominated next year. * x ok % Republicans out in Minnesota are scenting plot on the part of the Democrats and the Farmer-Labor party in that State. What they believe may happen is that the Farmer-Labor party will not put a presidential elector ticket in the fleld next year, but will agree to support the Democratic presidential electors, support_ for State offices. and give them part, if not all, the Federal patronage. In- seems assured that thel| party will not offer a ticket of présidential electors in 1932. rmer-<Labor party, which has a ‘Republ consin, only{the La Follette Republi-t5 the the name of old party. under whatever tes for Prum ident | more & j ways. —J. A, A. Eng and Chang, the Siamese twins, were born in 1811 and lived until 1874. g, How wide is the River Jordan? —H. H. The width of the River Jordan varies with the seasons .of the year. During the short rainy season it be- comes a rushing torrent. In many parts it is at times a narrow, stream which may be stepped over. Q. May & money order be issued for $250?—G. B. A. The maximum amount for which a single money order may be issued is $100. When a larger sum is to be sent, additional orders must be ob- tained. Aay number of orders may be drawn tn any money order office on any one day. Q Did any of Mrs. Abraham Lin- coln's family serve with the Confed- erates during the Civil War?—N. D. A. Half-brothers of Mrs. Lincoln served in the Confederate Army. Q. What kind of fruit is plantain? -~C. K. Plantain (Muss paradisiaca) is a species of banana, the fruit of which is a staple rticle of food in the tropics. It is larger than the crdinary banana. greenish yellow in color, less sweet and It is cooked in various Q _Who invented the pendulum? -—T. W. 3 A. Huygens, & Dutchman, born in 1629, was the first practical exponent of the pendulum, employing it in the mechanism of the clock. However, he was not the original discoverer of its properties. Leonardo da Vinci (1452- 1520) left notes as to his study of the pendulum, and GCalileo (1564-! mflmmmm‘.‘ e .53' vwnn does Hohenzollern means A. The name ‘Hohenzollern rived from Castle Zollern, the llt.u“ home of the family. The name i 5 interpreted, therefcre, means High Q. Did Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall die in prison?—P. R. F. A. William Tweed, former leader of Tammany Hall, died in Ludlow Strect Jail, April 12, 187 Q. What magazine runs a column ralied .LhQ Port of .Missing Men?— G. V. 8. A, The Red Cross Courier ru:.s this ecolumn, devoted to advertisements for missing pecple. Q. What is meant by absolute pitch? —A. G. B. A. Absolute pitch is the gift of being able to pitch a musical tone ex- sctly without having an instrument with which to compare it. This gift is rare. Many people may scss the talent of relative pitch —that is, be able to calculate the pitch cf any tone having heard a note, A for instance, sounded on an instrument. Q. With what church is Roger Bab- son, the economist and statistician, l%hi:‘d; ‘What is his political party? A. Mr. Roger Babsoi us thst he is an tics and & member of Congregaticnal Church. Q. In what pictures_did the late appear?—H. I. W. ictures that Olive Thomas are as follows: “A Girl adcap Madge,” “An Even Chaste,” “Betty dent in poli- | the Protestant . Who is the highest pald Trst buqemn in the National League?— F. ‘A, Bill Terry of the Giants is sald to receive the highest salary of a Na- tional League first baseman. . How many republics comprise Boekt Russia ’lnd what are their original | names?—B. L. H. A. There are six republics in Union of Sovist Socialist Republics as follows: Russian Socialist Pederl!n? Soviet Republic, capital, Moscow; White Russian Soviet Socialist Re- public, capital, Minsk; Ukrainian Soviet S et Federted casian Soc! Sovist T capital, Tiflis; Turko- omous, having their own local soviets. Any member ‘nfl the union may with- draw at will. . What per cent of automoblle scgdenu happen on Sunday?—J. W. A. Eighteen out of every 100 motor vehicle accidents last year occurred on Sunday. . Why does a ceiling show the n!:dov nt'uw laths above 1t?—C. B. A. The lines on the ceiling are caused by dust-laden air passing up through the plaster and leaving & deposit over the spaces between the laths. Q. Can fish swim backward?—J. B. A It is le for fish to swim backward. y occasionally back up when swimming, but as a rule do not go far swimming backward. qd‘.rzl?’“: ge meaning of the name Mil —. L A. The name Mildred is of Teutonle origin, and came into English h Anglo-Saxon. The meaning of name is “mild threatener.” Q. When did Gelett Burgess write “The Purple Cow’?—A. M. A. It appeared in the Lark, an amae teur magazine, in May, 1895. \Wickersham Charge Conceded But Means of Cure Elusive The general verdict is that the latest report from the Wickersham Commis. sion, charging that there is too much politics in the selection of prosecuting attorneys for criminal cases, is all too true, but the American press doubts that much can or will be done to cor- rect present system. Patronage, through the Senate. the President and the United States Attorney General, is blamed for the situation that now exists and cures through an aroused and or- ganized public opinion, conj onal action and co-operation with the mem- bers of the bar are suggested. “The cure would be beneficial if it were not impossible,” contends the Bos- ton Transcript, which recognizes that “the chance of selecting some good men already exists under our present sys- tem.” The New York Sun suggests: “When political considerations do not influence election and appointment of district attorneys, Federal and State, it will be in-an age when politics is not politics.” The Jersey City Journal con- cludes: “Ome solution proposed by the Wickersham Committee is as sound as it is ideal—and quite as likely to be too Utopian for immediate help: let the prosecutor .be appointed without re- spect to tics. The commission evi- dently inks that longer terms of office. and some sort of civil service organization with a central control in ‘Washington might help to free Federal prosecutors throughout the country from 'the baneful influence of politico- criminal control. This will per- haps evoke more results than the report on prohibition. On the oiher hand, the Seattle Daily Times is convinced that recommended by the Wickersham Com- mission for the practices which have brought the administration of justice into unfavorable notice have the merit of common sénse.” * kK x x “The curse of American criminal justice, both State and Federal,” asserts the San Jose Mercury Herald, “is poli- tics. It can never be efficient until it is taken out of politics. The Senate has a splendid opportunity to render an invaluable service to the country by taking Federal law enforcement out of politics.. All that is needed is to forego patronage that does not belong 1o it, and ‘that cannot be taken with- ::‘l:l violatirig the intent of the Consti- jon . s Many papers feel, however, that there is little hope of rellef through action kel ] mgm! “t0 be & time when all honorable mem- bers of the bar should seriously turn their attention to correcting conditions that are fast causing loss of respect for their profession and for the judicial system.” The San Antonio Express thinks that “the bar should be called ulpuu to propose members whom it con- siders qualified for judgeships or the United States attorney's post.” observ- ing that “this system has worked suc- cessfully in numerous States and doubt- less would prove as helpful to the Fed- eral courts.” The Chattanooga Times concludes: “For obvious reasons it is not likely that the commission’s report will receive much attention from the public. But it should be of great con- cern to lawyers and others interested in the machinery for enforcing criminal law, and it is to be hoped that these will not permit the results of the com- mission’s inquiry to be cast aside and forgotten.” * k% % In the course of a vigorous attack on the finding of the commission, the Lynchburg News states: “The plain in- ference is that a virtuous President in- tent upon naming the best officers, re- gardless of politics, is blocked in his splendid efforts by politicians in the Senate. The Senate, of course, knows better. Nearly everybody knows better. When has a President appointed a stanch member of the opposition party as district attorney? When has he ap- pointed even a member of his party Unlees, Bedty Saviect or b hote of arn ess or of - ning him over? Politics is played by Senators in recommending and confirm- ing appointments, and politics is played by the President in making appoint: ments. Is Mr. Hoover going to fill va- cancies between now and clection time with Democrats or with® Republicans who may use the office to oppose his renomination? He is not; he is going to appoint his friends and supporters.™ Emphasizing the importance of rec- ommendatons by the Attorney General, of the United States, the Houston Chronicle states: “In a large sense, these appointments are Federal patronage oft- entimes dependent upon the political favors of Senators and of national com- mittgemen of the party in power. It would be expecting too much to sup- pose that would not at times re- sult in the appointment of men who sre better politicians than prosecutors. Very likely some very plain instances | ot such appointments have, during its investigation, confronted the commis- There is, however, another side P |to it. ~The appointment of Federal! prosecuting attorneys is a matter inf which the recommendation of the At-. General of the United States is Most of the men who Merely a Teacher. Prom the Indianapolis Star. From the protests over the release of te one would that Ohio Sta A assume he was the foot ball coach.