Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1931, Page 8

kAL —A e THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. vve. June 19, 1881 — i e THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company st A Feniivivania Av SRR R Englan Rate by Carrier Within the City. i4;40¢ por month 0c per month 5¢ per month c ber copy tiie end of ‘euch jent In by m e Evening Star, "Sudare) d_Bunday Sia; u dflr menth ail or telephone Ational Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. iy and Sundar.... 176, $10.00: 1 mo.. 85¢ ily only us i 1y 38 mo. 80c nday only i o All Other States and Canada. Eny only ... nday only . Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Press s exclusively enuged the use for republicaiion of all news dis- 2 tehes esediied fo It of Rot ottierwise cred- ; 1S5 The Iocal news psushed ~hix of publication of Epecial d el a16 also reserved. — Canada’s New Envoy. Canada and the United States have had direct diplomatic relations for only two or three years, and today the second minister from the Dominion to present his credentials to the Presi- dent and Secretary of State officially becomes accredited to this country. | Washington, which will be the scene of his activities, offers a cordial welcome to Col. Willlam D. Herridge and wishes him abundant success in the task of cementing friendly relations between " the two great North American com- monwealths, It is not a bed of roses into which the new envoy from over the border " has come. About the time Col. Her- ridge was arriving on the Potomac yesterday, the Canadian House of Commons voted in approval of the Bennett government's revised tariff * program, embracing drastically higher | rates on a variety of American imports. To just what extent trade with our best foreign customer will eventually be affected remains to be seen. These matters sometimes have a habit of adjusting themselves without those dire results which the wprophets of " gloom foresee. i Canada does not buy heavily from the United States because of the color | of our American eyes. She has spent| . hundreds of millions a year for our , automobiles, our agricultural machin- ery, our manufactures of all sorts, even " for some of our farm produce, because % they were better and cheaper than 7could be had elsewhere. American purchases in Canada have been made on the same basis. There will always be a substantial commerce flowing across the far-flung, invisible line to the north, because it is a trade that . has its roots in mutual interest. Nor has any American the right to krcghtfl' displeasure with Canadians for invoking the protective principle % in their tariff policy. Nobody in the \ world sets a country so lofty an ex- * ample in that direction as the United States. If the new Dominion tariff hits American business, our cue is to grin and bear it. And we shall be setting the aggrieved countries beyond our own high tariff walls a laudable example if we do so unwhiningly. Should it fall to the lot of Minister Herridge, during his tour of duty in Washington, to bring about better " tariff relations between Canada and the United States, he will accomplish something that will evoke as much satisfaction here as there. Certainly there are few, if any, countries with which we crave economic peace and happiness so much as with the virile daughter nation of Britannia, which shares with us three thousand miles of undefended frontier. ——————————— Three Virginia churches were all struck by lightning the same night. Many will wonder how the old-time New England Puritans would have ex-| plained that. But on second thoughts | they will cease to wonder—the sacred i edifices would have been in another colony and, what is more to the point," of a different denomination. ——— Heads or Feet in Diplomacy? Recently Ambassador Charles G.| Dawes, at London, remarked to the ‘world at large that “diplomacy is easy on the brains but hard on the feet.”| ‘Which was acclaimed as a contribution | ! to the good feeling required in these trying times of business depression. ' Now Former Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher, at present serving in an ad- ministrative capacity, has, upon inquiry, | given the riposic: “It depends upon ‘whether you use your head or your | feet” And that scts things going | Let the records be observed of these | two distinguished contributors to cur- | rent literature, that is to say, their| records in diplomacy, to reach an under- i standing of their relative qualifications | for defining the exactions of diplomacy. | ‘Turn to page 825 of the current Who's ‘Who in America and there will be| found this summary of the foreign service of Henry P. Fletcher, abbrevia~ tions expanded: | Second Secretary American Legation to Cuba, 1902-3, to China 1903-5; Secretary American Legation to Portugal, 1905-7; First Secretary American Lega~- tion to China, April, 1907-9; charge | d'afTaires, October 1, 1907-April 15, 1908, and June 1, 1909-April 2, 1910; ap- inted Envoy Extraotdinary and Minis- r Plenipotentiary to Chile, December 21, 1909; appointed Ambassador Extraor- dinary and Plenipotentiary to Chile October 1, 1914; to Mexico, February 25, 1916; resigned February, 1920; Under- secretary of State, March 8, 1921-March 6, 1922; Ambassador Extravrdinary and Plenipotentiary to Belgium, March 6, 1922-24; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Italy, March 25, 1924~ June, 1929, when 1csigned. Chairman U. 8. delegation to Fifth Pan-American Conference, Santiago, Chilc, 1923; dcle- te to Sixth Pan-American Conference, abana, 1028. Turning now to page 654 of the same work, and there appears the name Charles Gates Dawes, followed by a long, compact list of activities in the political, business, financial and govern- mental flelds, climaxing in the position of Vice President of the United States. ©f record of diplomatic service there is merely the single word “ambassador,” following the name. This refers to the present post occupied so effectively and ¢ | Fletcher. presidential gavel in 1920. There are, in all, two years of diplomatic ex- perience in that carecr. The forelgn service of Mr. Flelcher covers & period of twenty-seven years, from second secretaryship to several successive am- bassadorships. If the matter were put to test it would surely seem that the present chairman of the Tariff Commission would be de- clared the more fully qualified to epitomize the requirements of diplomacy. He has had to use both head and feet in the course of the more than quarter of a century during which he has been “cookle pushing” and negotiating at foreign capltals. Yet the reply of Ambassador Dawes— for he will, of course, make rejoinder, unless greatly changed by his experi- ences abroad—will be awaited with keen interest. . For the present the honors of the exchange rest with Mr, But Gen. Dawes’ powers of definition are such as to warrant the bellef that he will have something worth saying when the time comes. ————— The President’s Trip. President Hoover is back in Wash- ington, heartcned by the reception given him in bis trip through the Middle West and particularly by the prospect of better times in that section of the country, which will materially affect the whole Nation. Big crops, even with low prices, are expected, the President was told, to give much wider employment in the West this Summer, and in the end to start the country on its upward journey from the valley of depression in which it has dragged for several months. ‘The Chief Executive, it is said at the White House, does not regard his trip as political, and is surprised at the wide- spread political interpretation placed on his visit to the Middle West and on his speech delivered to the Republican Editorial Assoclation of Indiana. Hé¢ traveled and spoke, it is insisted, as President of the whole United States and not as President of the Repub- lican party. That, of course, is true. But the President of the United States cannot disassociate himself from the leadership of his party or from his prospective candidacy for re-election unless he should issue, like his prede- cessor, an “I-do-not-choose-to-run” statement. There has been no indica- tion so far that the President plans such a statement. Nor should he. He has accomplished much for the coun- try, helping by his leadership to keep it on an even keel when the most severe depression in business and the greatest degree of unemployment for years had the whole Nation in its grip. The President'’s reception in the Middle West heartened not only him- self, but leaders of the Republican party. Many reports have come to Washington that the people have no feeling of resentment against Mr. Hoover because of the depression, and that they are coming more and more to realize that he has done a good job in the White House, has been a stabi- lizing influence, preventing much worse conditions. They like the stand taken by the Chief Executive sgainst the nostrums proposed by less responsible political leaders. It the President and his advisers are right and the upward turn in busi- ness and employment in this country is to happen soon, the whole people will rejoice, despite the fact that such a happening may crush the political hopes of the Democratic party. And if there is an improvement in economic conditions, the party which preaches depression and gloom is not likely to be looked upon with favor by a ma- jority of the voters. The constant re- iteration of gloomy prophecies leads finally to the thought that a political party which hopes to benefit by de- pression is wedded to depression, is hugging it to its bosom and nursing it until the country can stand no more of it and kicks everything overboard in its effort to escape. The President, according to all ac- counts, did receive a cordial reception in the States he visited. Whether he wishes this reception to be regarded from a political angle or not, it cannot be avoided. Had his reception been cold, that fact would have been interpreted from one end of the country to the other as signifying his early political demise. The President in his Indiana speech discussed at length the economic situation in the country and gave a picture of what the Federal Govern- ment is seeking to do to aid in this period of depression. He went further. He suggested a twenty-year plan of de- velopment in this country. The prin- ciples of government and the sugges- tions of legislation laid down in that speech have been hailed by Republican leaders as, in effect, a party platform for next year. President Hoover may rightly feel that in a time of emer- gency like the present the Chief Exec- utive and the country itself should lay aside politics and work for the better- ment of all the people. ——.——— It he keeps on at his present rate Admiral Byrd, still & young man, may | eventually Ppossess as many honorary degrees as he has covered degrees of latitude. The Pace Maker of the Air. Breakfast kippers in London, lunch- , eon spaghetti in Rome, and tea in L:cndon! Al in the same day, the day spent by that remarkable chap Hawks in a round-trip flight from capital to capital. IHe left London at half past five Wednesday morning, reached Rome at 10:15, spent two hours and forty minutes in the Eternal City and was back at Croydon, the London air- port, at 5:55. The flying time was nine hours and fertysfour minutes, a record by about half an hour. The distance was about 1,875 miles. Hawks has been winging his way about Europe recently in an extraordi- nary series of flights that have made new records. The London-Rome-Lon- don round has been his goal. He tried it in April, but after making & new speed reccrd to Rome was forced down by lack of fuel somewhere in France. Now that he has accomplished this ob- jective, he is planning to do a Tittle flying around England just to sce the country, and then, he says, will “jack up his tent” and head for home. Hawks has contributed materially to the commercial transport phase cf avi- ation by his remarkable flights. He has demonstrated that high speed is not inconsistent with safety. He has proved brilliantly and at times vocably by Charles THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1931 of perfcrmance for passenger planes. Meanwhile commercial fiying is de- veloping rapidly in this eountry. Ad- ditional services are being established and the number of passengers carried is increasing. The flight lane between ‘Washington and New York is now the buslest in the world, and new ships are being put into service as the traffic increases. America, which brought the heavier-than-air machine into being and service and then lagged lamentably in the matter of practical utilization, is now setting the pace fcr the world. Frederick Lincoln Siddons. Bitting yesterday on the bench of the District Supreme Court, of which he has been a member for sixteen years, Frederick Lincoln Siddons is today the victim of a fatal attack which gave no warning. In his sixty-seventh year, Justice Siddons was regarded as assured of a much longer active serv- ice, and his death is a severe shock to the community, of which he was a member for the greater part of his !life and in which he had served use- Zilly and with distinguished merit. A native’ of England, Justice Siddons came to America at an early age, and soon he became a Washingtonian. He degrees from then Columbian, now George Washington University, he was admitted to the bar and there estab- lished himself as a competent, con- scientious exponent of the law and an advocate of unusual capacity. In 1913 he was named a District Commissioner, in which office he served capably until he was appointed to the bench of the District Supreme Court. Meanwhile he served on various adviscry and con- structive commissions, devoting much time and energy especially to the re- search into the needs of the District services. The present organization of this work at the Capital is largely due to his devoted endeavors to formulate the law co-ordinating the activities. Throughout his busy career Justice Siddons remained a student of litera- ture. A man of culture, a distinguished jurist, a charming companion and a faithful friend, Frederick Lincoln Sid- dons is mourned deeply by the com- munity of which he was for so many years a member. ———— A Chicago painter in his will offered twenty dollars aplece to relatives and lodge brothers if they would meet at his grave and mourn him. His ex- pressed hope was that they would “for- get their differences as they reflected on eternity.” Payments, however, have stopped now. One of the difficulties seems to have been that instead of meditating on eternity they meditated on twenty dollars. Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger declares that sometimes she is sorry she is so beau- tiful, especially when pondering on all the misfortunes her pulchritude have brought her. Yet there are about 20,- 000,00 brave women in the country willing to take a chance. ———— The King of Italy took an awful chance when he stepped in to help as- suage the difficulty between the Holy See and Signor Mussolini concerning the reopening of Catholic Clubs. Why, the man might have lost his job! o Pity poor young Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, who is on her first trip to Paris! Her royal mamma has taken here there “to see the museums.” - SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Criticism. I know a man with smile so prim ‘Who gives the closest heed To everything you say to him, And murmurs, “Yes, indeed!” I know another who will shout In contradiction strong, No matter what you talk about, And say, “Here’s where you're wrongl” 1 like the “yessing” man; and yet In candor I admit It's from the other that I get The greater benefit. - Pigeonholed. “I am afraid you have had to break some promises, now and then.” “I never broke ’em,” answered Sen- ator Sorghum. “I merely forgot ’em.” Jud Tunkins says the fact that doctors’ prescriptions are written in Latin is no decent reason for calling it a dead language. Why It Fell The tower of Babel insecure Was from the start unlawful. Materials were very poor And the building graft was awful. Resemblance. “The garden seeds our Congressman sends us remind me of his political opinions,” remarked Farmer Corntos- sel. “They're offered with the best possible intentions, but there is no tell- practical way.” Justifiable Aloofness. “Wasn't it Omar Khayyam who asked for & book of verses and & jug of wine?” “I don't know,” replied Miss Cay- enne. “I don’t read him. In view of ‘uu jazz poetry that now circulates and the bootlegging incident to alcoholics, I am convinced that Omar is not at all a proper person.” ‘Winged Terror. When a mosquito comes along With melody so light, I listen to the locust’s song. . I'm glad he doesn't bite. “Dar ain’ no sympathy at de race track,” sald Uncle Eben. “De man dat bets his money don’ deserve it an’ de bookmaker don’ need it.” ! Big-Hearted. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. ‘We read that a convicted criminal has “accepted” his prison sentence. That old fool notion of “honor among” them has been fairly definitely explod- ed, but it seems that there is such a thing as magnanimity in the profession. —_——————— Runaways. Prom the Flint Daily Journal. was educated here, and gaining his |said in the matter of the “public welfare” |tain. ing how they're going to turn out in a | weeks THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Real politeness is one thing, unnec- essary politeness quite another. ‘While peéyh.-p- nontlwod . m:! u:m agree exactly upon the divi e, surely there are plgme relics of the Vic- torlan age which might as well be abol- Hats off in elevators, for ‘What on earth is the point of a man standing by a woman’s side in front of an elevator with his hat on, then solemnly taking it off while aboar jthe “lift" then putting it back on his head the moment he steps out in an upper corridor? Elevators in most buildings, r- ticularly stores, are crowded, and hats are quite -sized. To remove a hat | instance. the crowded condition of the vehicle. ‘The woman for whose benefit the gesture is made often has her back to the gentleman, and never sees whether he has his hat on or off. Some one will say that it makes no difference, that he does what he does out of a theoretical respect for wom- anhood. Now, of course, this is quite true, and constitutes the only genuine reason for the removal of a hat in an ele- vator. There is a certain theoretical respect in the action, it cannot be gain- He who believes in the theory of life, rather than the actual practice of it, may continue to remove his hat in an elevator, no matter how essentially silly and unnecessary the removal strikes him. If he does so, however, he should be consistent. He should not take it off for one woman and refuse to do it for another, no matter who she is, or what her color, race or previous condi- tion of servitude. It is exactly here that many an accomplished hat-flour- isher falls down. P Then there is the matter of the ex- aggerated standing back to let another person drink first at a drinking foun- Sometimes a couple of men, meeting at a drinking fountaln in a 1, will do a regular Alphonso and Gaston act together. For the benefit of some of our younger readers we will explain that Alphonso and Gaston were two early comic characters who were per- pg‘uauy bowing and scraping to each other. ‘What they did was so human, and so generally practiced by polite human be- ings under civilization, that the names are known to millions of people today as the very exemplars of politeness car- ried to the point of absurdity. “After you, my dear Gaston,” came to be a catch-phrase with many old- timers when we were young-timers, It seems that politeness, no less than life itself, has a certain amount of whgc has come to be known as bunk in it. That is, many persons go throu the ordinary forms of politeness with- out at the same time having the pre- cepts in their hearts and minds. Often the most impolite fellow in the world can speak a resounding “I beg your pardon!” In fact, sometimes the readler he is with his forms of away. In the matter of drinking fountains, a very good rule is first come, first serve. If one is about to bow his head to take a drink, perhaps it is just as well, and just as polite, for him to continue drinking, as for him to stop and offer the other a first opportu- nity. It might be an interesting task BY FREDERIC Senator Joe Robinson sends this ob- server word from Arkansas that agri- cultural prospects in that region, so sorely stricken by drought last year, are now “above normal.” The morale of the people is good. Farming activi- ties are well advanced. Weather condi- tions have been favorable, and, finally, as a result of the lessons learned frcm 1930 experiences, food and feed crops have been planted more widely than ever before. “Just what the result of the year’s operation in the Southwest will be,” says the Democratic minority leader, “cannot be determined at this time, but the cost of production will be less than for several years past. Unfor- tunately, it can hardly be expected that the reduction in cost of production will quite offset the anticipated prices. Un- certainty in the outlook is due mainly to ignorance as to the prices which the ‘money crops,’ like cotton, will bring.” Under the provisions for emergency loans to farmers by the Federal Gov- ernment, mora than $9,000,000 has been sent into Arkansas. * kX * Senator Brookhart, Republican Pro- gressive, of Jowa has gone radio. He is now duietly making the rounds of his State and arranging for the people to listen-in on his appeals for re-election in 1932. Not many Iowa newspapers look with favor upon Brookhart and his politics. A powerful station at Water- loo—the name of which city evidently is not looked upon as ominous by the Senator-will be the focal point of his air activities. Through it Brookhart will be able to broadcast his bellowings not only up and down Iowa, but throughout the corn belt. With agri- culture in distress and’ the State’s busi- ness generally in depression, as else- where, the rifleman-statesman_ expects whelming majority of Hawkeye counties next year. The alleged faflure of the Pederal Farm Board® to relieve the farmer will probably be the burden of Brookhart's static over the wave lengths. * X X X No official confirmation is likely to be forthcoming, but the circumstance that Senor m&r-n. .mgbmadd woi.o :t Argentina, en - don within seven months of his re- appointment to Washington suggests that there’s more than meets the eye in the sudden transfer. It will be re- membered that it was only two or three ago when Malbran unburdened himself about the Hawley-Smoot tariff in a trade convention address at New York. His remarks did not set well on the chests of certain protection high priests. The genial, burly lo- mat from Buenos Aires got himself into hot water with his own government early in 1928, He resented the failure of President Irigoyen to invite Presi- dent-elect Hoover to visit Argentina during the impending good-will tour of Latin America, ‘The result was Mal- bran’s precipitate retirement from the ‘Washin, embassy after a career one now here almost as brief.as thée about to be terminated. * ok ok k Secretary of State Stimson, who'll be on the high seas bound for Europe within 10 days or thereabouts, has sent word to our embassies in London, Paris, Rome and Berlip that he wants to perambulate “over therc” - incognito as possible. He especlally hies requested that there be no official series of func- tons in his hnnao;. 'rh: Mrlacl;mll:th&ral; have already sent wol af il the colonel'’s whheé. ‘The the lous y is -t juestion. The program of | Uncle s-m';uorelm minister calls for | winding up ooting i grouse-sh rumors filling One ful jthe air in col of the Wash scramb! . i Many criminal careers begin in school o is the view expressed from one of the Dawes, to which he was named flights at swift rates of spced and thus some of our young truants as trying to the possibility of remarkably ‘long ! Wickersham surveys. Which vindicates good and hold it in the hand simply adds to | the; politeness, the sooner he gives himself | to repeat his irick of carrying the over- o for some one with a statistical mind to figure out how much time is lost in the United Stdtes dally by exaggerations of politeness. : Similarly in public much time fis wasted in the procedure of stepping back to permit another to get into an elevator first, or into a public convey- ance. It is questionable whether such marks of politeness, stranger from stranger, do any real service toward the goal of genuine courtesy. * ok kK ‘There is here, of course, & stumbling block, and as it is a very well con- cealed one, and one which it behooves each human being to discover for him- self, no one can bg too dogmatic about se matters. The stumbling block is simply that no one can look into another’s mind. None of us wears his heart on his sleeve, and none can afford ‘to judge of the actions of others, at least openly, with- out bef in fuli possession of the facts. And since most of us have no human way of knowing all, or even a portion, of the facts, in any given situation, we scarce can set up rules for others. Perhaps the most genuirme politeness is the unstudied action of certain na- tures, often those bordering on what a comic artist has labelod the “timid soul.” Often such timidity is nothing but goodness, and does not offend oth- ers because it is too kind to hurt. One of the most beautiful instances of true courtesy which this writer ever saw occurred one hot Summer day in ;V small town railroad station in the est. A woman had been bereft of her hus- band, and, accompanied by her sons, was going to another city for the cere- mony. As she went through the sta- tion a rough-looking man in his shirt sleeves passed. The small party had their back to this man. No>vertheless, with an instinctive movement of genu- ine sympathy, he removed his hat as the widow went on to the train. That man was s gentleman. Another small matter in which there |is a great deal of bunk ocours among | smokers, and that is in holding a | match or lighter for a comrade to light | his _cigarette by. re is no smoker in the world who would not prefer to light his own smoke, but somehow an idea has got around among smokers that they must indulge in this exag- gerated form of courtesy.. The truth is | that another cannot hold a light in a | position to making lighting easy, Usu- | ally !he simply burns the end of your nose Smokers have another bit of innocent hokum. They make a terribly polite how-dee-do about taking the “last cigarette.” One would think it some sort of crime, or something, this thing of taking the last cigarette. Now, the last one is usually rather dry, and true courtesy in little things would require h that a man take it, to prevent his friend, the kind donor, from getting it. But what does this extremely polite person do? He protests with vehe- mence, if necessary, that he cannot, that he will not, take any man's last cigarette. If it were the man's very soul which were offered him, he could protest no more. He doth, indeed, as Shakespeare said, in regard to another matter, protest too much. “Oh, I don't want to take your last cigarette!” you have heard sald a thou- sand times if you have heard it once. We hope some day to meet the genu- inely polite man, who will, without hesitation, take the last cigarette, and then buy his friend a nice fresh one. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. tonians, who were at one time in the running for acquisition of the McLean paper, were yet to walk off with the bacon, Michelson is almost sure to fig- ure in such a set-up. He's a great crony of Baruch, who has just sweet- ened the Democratic kitty to the tune of another $2,000. * Rk X President Hoover, back from the most extensive speechmaking trip he's ever made sinc: taking office, is now settled in these parts for the duration of the Summer. There's said to be little likeli- hood that he will make the long-pro- Jected tour of the national parks, con- cluding with a sojourn at his home in Palo Alto. Week ends on the Rapidan are to be the order of the day. As in the past, presidential “vacations” at the Virginia White House will be a ccmbination of rest and business, with the accent on business. Now and then Mr. and Mrs. Hoover plan to stretch their Rn_g:iln week ends from Thurs- days to Tuesdays,or something of that sort. * kX X ‘They're throwing out their chests at the Navy Department this week with more than accustomed gusto, and there's & reason. It's because the Annapolis midshipmen won the boat race at Poughkeepsie this week in one of the classic upsets of the aquatic sport. The middies were not at all in the winning calculations. Through constant shifts in the shell during the weeks preceding the race the eight's morale was sup- posed to be sunk without trace. Yet the huskies from the Severn came from behind, overtook the giants from Wash- ington State, beat off the desperate spurt of Cornell, 1930 champion, and rowed to victory with irresistible dash. Becretary Adams, Assistant Secre Jahncke and other heads of the Navy ‘Washington have deluged the An- ;‘x:fim crew with proud congratula- * Kk ko Mrs. John Hays Hammond for more than a quarter of a century was one of the great ladies of Washington and her passing removes from national life a distinguished and potent figure. Com- panion of her husband in mining en- terprises all over the world, Mrs. Ham- mond knew her London and Paris, her St. Petersburg and Peking, her Mel- bourne and Mexico City, as well as her Washington. Her last activities were devoted to the creation of the Titanic x;.{ern;?m recently erected in Potomac (Copyright, 1931.) What Stimson Will Find. Prom the Providence Evening Bulletin, If it's news Secretary of State Stim- son is going to Europe after, he will find plenty of what city editors call red-hot spot news. He will find the Franco-Italian deadlock still unbroken. He vnnn'n‘;-“d statesmen openly pessimistic over the prospects of a successful disarmament conference. He will find a general cynical attitude toward international conferences for peace and ordel;. ‘when, find Germany in find the Dmumlfim in m'xxg of bewfldnng:ns'flolm their & tal hegemony. e eariand . Augus in n 3 to_bring of tariff ramparts. He will everybody shouting to lower the tariff T will fnd & virolent, pationatisss - tensified and tary | servation eff ¢ Thomas Johnson, Who Nominated Washington To the Editor of The Star: In an article in The Star of the 15th instant the statement is made that “John Adams, delegate from Massachu- setts, later to succeed Washfngton as President, was one of the strongest ad- vocates of the “gentleman from Vir- ginla.” ‘This reference to Mr. Adams makes it ell the more surprising ‘ashingto! was nominated by Thomas Johnson, one of the ablest men in the old Congress, & member of the Provincial Convention, from which he was elected a deputy to the First Continental Congress at Phila- delphia, 1774 to 1777, from Maryland. Volume 1II, Continental Congress, records the fact that on June 15, 1775, Washington was nominated by Johnson to command all the Continental forces raised or to be raised for the defense of liberty. Hampton L. Carson asserted at that time: “That the nomination of & Virginian by a Marylander to com- mand local patriotic forces at Cam- bridge forced forward unity of action and identity of grievances, and was & bold conception and national in its character.” Further, Thomas Johnson was ap- pointed by Washington, with David Stewart and Daniel Carroll, as what was termed “the Commissioners of the Federal District” to lay off the Federal City on the Potomac, the City of Wash- ington, to select sites for the Capitol, President’s house and public hwllllél;fl Johnson was chairman of this it~ tee, and rendered able service. A reading of Page 6, Part 5, The Sun- | day Star, Washington, D. C., April 3, 1927, gives a most interesti history cf this man, whose uc:mkiflhmznm. considering the age in wnich he lived, were most certainly noteworthy. Atten- tion is called to the fact that in line 2 of paragraph 2, column 8, of the write- up of April 3, ycur typesetter evidently made an error, referring to “Thomas JefTerson,” instead of “Thomas John- son.” As a great-great-granddaughter of this patriot I cannot but feel a personal interest that this great character, as cvidenced by his accomplishment, be given honor where honor is due. Your article of April 3 stated “No one man played a more impcrtant part in mold- ing the destinies of this great country.” s “One of standing res Days of American Revolution Has Been Neglected in History.” For this reason this matter is brought to your attention, as you may wish to keep it in mind in connection with the coming Bicenten- nial. JESSIE ELIOT PEREZ. Protest Against Public Declaimers To the Editor of The Star: Won't somebody start a movement to check up on some of the habits of our writers and speakers? It seems to the writer that too many of the evils of the day are being attributed either to the war or prohibition. It is not fair. Evils are as old as the human race, They are speeded up along the way, | Fren sometimes slowly, at other times rapidly, but they have been here from time immemorial. They change their styles a little occasionally and thereby make themselves more attractive as the women someti do, but, at heart, they are just the ne. Do some women smoke and drink now? Yes, but some women drank and smoked even before the Civil War. Do men gamble and practice burglary and banditry? So they did in ancient times. i ‘These kiddish writers and speakers who do not know anything except about the things that have come from the World War and prohibition should be sent to Summer school and given a course of instruction in the simple ele- ments of history for at least a half century. Try to have a reel made and put upon the screen. ‘WM. BRADFORD WITHERSPOON. e Supreme Court Upholds Federal Oil Policy From the Flint Daily Journal A significant decision of the United States Supreme Court was the uphold- ing of the Interior Department’s order closing all Federal lands to prospecting for oil and gas as a means for making the administration's conservation policy effective. It was perfectly natural that a case would be brought up to test the legality of the issue. Now that it is settled, an obstacle to oil conservation is removed. ‘The future of the oil industry in the United States remains one of our seri- ous economic problems. The industry itself, through its trade associations, is trying to bring order out of chaos. But it has met with slow progress, at best. The situation offers an outstanding ex- ample of the effects of destructive competition. Unable to police its own activities properly because of the anti- trust law, the various elements within the industry have been warring for several years. Those interests which have the wel- fare of the industry as a whole at heart have been trying to bring about a pro- gram of curtailed production which would stabilize the market, for crude oil. The smaller units, known as independ- ents, have been battling against prora- tion, unit operation of flelds, and other conservation measures. It is very much to be regretted that an industry, through intense competition, can be- come so divided. Several mergers are under considera- tion, pending court decision, and con= ts have not been relaxed. Oil probably 1 pull itself out of its alimcumeam time, but the process slow. Suppressed. #rom the Richmoné Times-Dispatch. It will come as a shock to many people to learn that Lewis Carroll’s im- mortal “Alice in Wonderland” has been banned in the Chinese province of Hu- nan, The order that Chinese children are to be protected from this dangerous book was issued by no less a dignitary than Gen. Ho Chien, censor for the province. The general's chief objection to the book lies in the fact that animal char- acters are made to talk. Says the war lord: “Bears, lions and other beasts cannot use 2 human language, and to attribute to them such a power is an insult to the human race.” Since this guardian of young morals fears that Alice would teach the Celestials to re- d human beings and animals as simi- and that “this would be disastrous,” he has forthwith suppressed the book. ‘The censoring of a Lewis Carroll book is a strange commentary on the cen- sor’s mind. Perhaps the general does not know that in fairy tales not only animals but also trees and stones are made to speak. Rivers sing, clouds weep tears and mountains converse amicably with mice. Can it be true that Chinese bables enjoy some of the stories in which our infants take such delight? MADY | of the Volstead marvelous_things. e to sternly decorous thing adults bave ! imnn‘nnlon gives ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, close 2-cent stamp for reply postage. Send to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has- kin, director, Washington, D. C. 2., H;vpmnny fights has Stribling A. Since he started boxing, Stribling has had approximately 400 fights, Q. How can the edelweiss thrive in the cold of the Alps?—H. 8. A. The plant has narrow, white, woolly leaves and flower heads envel- oped in woolly bracts. This covering enables it to thrive in exposed situa- tions by protecting it from drying up through excessive loss of molsture. Q. Is it true that former President Coolidge is going to stop writing for newspapers?—J, J. F, A. His present contract expires July 1, and he has announced that he wiil take a vacation for a while and decide later about resuming the work. Q. How much paint is used by lary ships in a year?—W. 8. L. bt A. Large liners use about 15,000 gal- lons of paint yearly. Smaller ones of 30,000 tons displacement use approxi- mately 10,000 gallons. Q. Please describe the New Orleans storm of 1915 or ’16.—A. M. D. A. On September 29, 1915, a hurri- cane came from the Gulf of Mexico | and struck New Orleans about 8 a.m. The wind increased in velocity all day until between 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. was blowing from 80 to 120 miles per | hour. The barometer fell to 28.11, said to be the lowest ever recorded in the United States. In 21 hours 8.36 inches of rain fell. The storm subsided at | about 9 in the evening. There was, Heavy rainfall from succeeding storms. In 15 days 22.24 inches of rain fell. Q. How many of Shakespeare's plays | are there in which he was not author?—S. B. - A. Five plays in which Shakespeare was not sole author are:. of the Shrew,” “Troilus and Cressida,” “Pericles,” “Timon of Athens” and “Henry VIIL” “Titus Andronicus” | and “Henry-VI” (in three parts), which are usually ascribed to , are both plays of doubtful origin, Q. What is Stalin’s real name?— | and America as well was de- signed and constructed at the same time, 50 the era is thus designat Q. Give the origin of the word “ba- “S;E,"'r?] fine material.—L. C. ! . The name is derived either fr |the Indian material bastas or m;': one of the early manufacturers of it, Baptiste Chambray, who lived in the thirteenth century, and from whom it was also called the cloth of Chambray, or Cambtay; hence the Engli ambri he English word Q. What will act as anti-freeze for | automobile radiators and also keep tthmAclml lfi Summer?—F. W, . A small quantify of natural honey, | dissolved in the radiator water, Wls{l have this effect. Its freezing point is lower than water and its boiling point higher. Joints must be especially tight, bowever, es honey will pass through | openings too small for water. | Q. How many American aces of the | World War are now living?—J. H. A. With the death in April, 1931, of Lieut. Frederick E. Luff of Cleveland, Ohio, the number of surviving aces was reduced to 54. Q. What is the Rol Cooper Megru Prize?—E. R. = v A. This award of $500 is presented annually by the Dramatists Guild for the Broadway play which “makes the | audience a little brighter and a little more cheered up when it leaves the theater than when it came in.” Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, authors of “Once in a Lifetime,” are the re- cipients of the latest award. Q. Did Lina Cavalieri, the opera singer, ever act in the movies?—F. H. A. Miss Cavalieri appeared in the following pictures: “The Temptress, “The Two Brides” and “Mad Love. Q. How many incandescent electric light bulbs were sold in the United States in 1930?—H. B. A. The approximate number sold in the United States during 1930 was 575,163,000, Q. Who is the new president of the Izaak Walton League?—H. E. L. A. Dr. Preston Bradley, pastor of the People’s Church, Chicago, Ill., and one of the original 54 organizers of the league. It was he who suggested the name. "A.'It 15 Joseph Vissario i It s Josep movit Dt n % Whst s dephlogisticated atr?— | to‘:‘tr’}‘r::tn hwgehn&me formerly given | ich the gx | fly gXygen has been Q. What was the name of the| chman who made an attempt on | the life of Louis XV and was sentenced | to be trampled by horses?—E. W. A. Robert Francois Damiens on Jan- | uary 5, 1757, stabbed the King with a knife as ht was entering the royal car- :vt::e‘.”lilxafllc!mg a slight wound. Hel lemned as a regicide ai - tenced to be torn in n?‘e%es byndho;.e:s’ in the Place de Greve. Before being ?::e ;o death, he was barbarously tor- Q. Did Dr. Samuel Johnson smoke?— M. G. hufi' Eomm?g says that while Johnson 0] lon of sm , D himself did nccpamoke. el Q. How long will it take Sir Hubert Wilkins to make his submarine expedi- tion?—M. A. E. A. Wilkins believes that with ordl- nary luck, traveling 16 hours per day and using 8 hours to charge batteries, |He will average 50 miles a day and cover the Arctic Ocean in six weeks. Q. How many men are injured in coal mines each year?>—R. C. A. The Bureau of Mines estimates that more than 100,000 men are injured by accidents in coal mines each year. ismt 2,000 of these injuries result al y. \Capone Viewed as Helpless In F ace of Federal Action Action against Al Capone by the Fed- eral Government is dramatic in its ef- fect on the people of the United States, and public expressions uphold the theory that in spite of local conditions the power of the central Government is sufficient to cope with crganized crime. “It should help to rub off some_ of the glamour with which publicity has daubed that cold-eyed superbandit,” | K: asserts the Chicago Daily News, ex- pressing satisfaction at the fate of “the world’s premier hoodlum.” The Des Moines Tribune-Capital sees “indica- tions that the close-knit underworld or- E:Ininflon of the Chicago supercrim- 1 is bey to disintegrate,” and holds that “he needs to be shown up in his real character as an anti-social prowler, worl in the dark.” The Hartford Daily Times siates that “ad- missions frequently made by the gang- ster reveal him as probably the least desirable of all our undesirables.” “When it comes to ‘big shots’ the biggest of all is Uncle Sam,” remarks the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, observing that “in many instances the United States Government may appear pon- derous and slow, but once it undertakes to demonstrate its authority against some implied challenger, there never is a ‘;;neman of the outcome.” The Wichita Beacon gives assurance that “there will be no nation-wide protest” over the punishment of the gangster, and the Oakland Tribune points out that “defying Chicago's ordinances, and getting away with his business there, may be something different from defy- ing Uncle Sam.” “These developments,” according to the Danville Bee, “have Leen enough to impress the whole tribe with the thought that gangsters’ supremacy and wholesale law violation, hitherto made possible by the vast monetary resources at their command, can be successfully is | challenged when legal authority has the courage to_proceed.” The Harrisburg ‘Telegraph finds satisfaction in the fact that “Chicago is finally to be freed from the worst menace that can come to any city,” and declares that “it is a heartening_occurrence and notification to one and all that the day of the racketeer is nearing its end.” * ok ok X “In the Federal courts there is a dif- ferent atmosphere,” remarks the Rich- mond News Leader, with the suggestion that “United States marshals and pro- hibition operatives look to Washington for the retention of their jobs, not to the City Hall.” The Green Bay Press- Gazette avers that “Capone and his licutenants have discovered that there is one establishment they can neither ‘wheedle nor corrupt—-that of -the - eral Government.” “Well,~there isn’t much to be said,” according to the Little Mbek Arkansas Democrat, “save that it's a lovely state of affairs in th> land, when a State is helpless before ({12 power of an indi- vidual mgsuh and the only way he can be landed in jail where he belongs is through intervention of the United States Government.” “Now, at long last,” comments the Omaha World-Herald, “it is not the City of Chicago, not the State of Illi- nois, that comes forward to defend. so- ciety and enforce law. The Federal Governmen: moves in, under authority mernmm& l‘ie"t‘:l\’xu txl:len Sover;lg!zllJShw. proved su] and “helpless. is not & Nire. 0 It contem- plate. It affords no ure to those of us who have contended :lti x are entitled to govern '.hem.sel;;u. in act, because local self- | .4 seems as though the end of the gang- ster’s reign may be in sight. We say ‘may’ because it has appeared in sight two or. three times in the past. But at any rate let us hope that it will be safe eventually for citizens of Illinois to live in l‘)}glr ;:1\ State.” “The deral Government, through its prohibition forces,” declares t!ze ansas City Star, “promises to meet the challenge of Al Capone and his ring. The indictment by the Chicago grand jury of Capone and 68 others on charges of liquor violations, the enumerated offenses numbering 5,000, is merely a culmination of the new, more comprehensive and more deter- mined policy of the Government. These indictments, together with those re- turned the other day in Joplin and numerous others affecting local rings, are the results of a concerted drive on the sources and main channels of the illicit liquor business. Collectively, they give hope of such improvement under the new policy as to make the merits of prohibition more obvious as the scouting of the law becomes more dan- gerous and consequently less extensive.” “Some years ago,” recalls the Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail, “he was quoted as speaking boastfully of his success and rather contemptuously of this thing called Government, and fir:b.bly‘ under the circumstances of is environment, he was justified in doing so. Now there are several adages about the impropriety, certainly about the policy of being too boastful. Words are dangerous things at times and, like chickens, come home to roost—often at most inconvenient times.” But the Chi- | cago Daily Tribune fears that “the con- | ditions that produced Capone can pro- duce another like him.” It’s Up to the People. From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. ‘While there will be much difference of opinion with regard to the Wicker- sham Commission’s most recent conclu~ sions, the findings embody some state- ments and suggestions that merit care- ful perusal. The report criticizes the “intrenched custom” of Senators in choosing men for appointment as United States dis- trict attorneys, and emphasis is given to the thought that such custom “opens wide the door for political appoint- ments,” with little consideration given to the experience and ability of the men picked to administer the Republic's criminal laws. However, it is not clear what can be done by way of remedy. Somebody has to recommend the men for_appointment. On the other hand, if States want stronger administration of their crimi- nal laws, the commission observes, they may hgve it by electing stronger and more experienced men as pi Hiore adenvate Taciiies for Sescoomton ore ate fac or against violators. e The Wickersham Commission renders a valuable service in emphasizing that the cure for weak prosecution is in the hands of the voters. It speaks a good word for the work of jurors, holding that juries are more dépendable than prosecutors. Having in mind what hap- 1 pened in the Kirkland case, Hoosiers may r:ol::‘ Mt,hat th:o ctommloners had say aboul Jury system’s abuses. But the real point of the re- port, and one that cannot be too strongly stressed, is that the blame for ugly conditions in the agencies of law enforcement rests on the people at home and that they have the cure in their hands. The report was scarcely needed to make that fact clar, but it is never an effort amiss to call atten- tion to the virtue of thinking before t | going back of the employment among ews- | always pays. that shade the voting machine. + A Diplomatic Impasse. From the San Antonio Express. Senator Bingham poses >4 debt collections be o ndedm::r'go years. But would that help relieve un- diplomats? . Reward. From the Flint Daily Jou-nal. A Kansas youth got a '$500 scholar- ship for finding a planet. Honesi§