Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1931, Page 8

dE EV INING STAR, WASHI JULY 2, 193 { i . THURSDAY, ' ; m‘ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ' BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. THE EVENING STAR | ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY........July 2, 1831 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11t st i Pensayivania Ave 3 : t 42nd, 8t. New York Offce: 110 East iznd 8t 0 Michigen D ohean Ofce: 15°Mrm'nz.. London, Englan Rate by Carrier Within the City. Evening Star. d_ St T4 Buhdays) and Sun foanian made s thie eid i ‘each menti. 0c per month 5 per montir Coll orders m Nhtional Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Bl unda = e All Other States and Canada. y only jly and Sunda: ily only ° nday only " Member of the Associated Press. d Press is exclusively entitled o the use for republication of all news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ted in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of #pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. - An Olive Branch to France. President Hoover's eagerness for en- actment of his debt-holiday plan is ex- emplified afresh by the “memorandum” submitted by the United States yester- day and undergoing consideration by the French cabinet today. The Ameri- can communication breathes the spirit of accommodation, though out of six points of disagreement between Wash- ington and Paris four are still left for negotiation. Notwithstanding that there has been nearly a week of discussion between Sccretary Mellon and Ambas- sador Edge and the French authorities, without settlement of major differences, nobody concerned in the fateful con- troversy is ready to abandon confidence in ultimate agreement. In diplomacy, while conversations continue hope en- dures. ‘The iatest message wafted across the Atlantic from the Potomac is concilia- tory, but is distinctly not lacking in sharp emphasis on those points which constitute the United States’ irreduci- ble minimum. We are willing that Germany should pay her unconditional repajation annuity into the Bank for International Settlements, as France proposes. We are not willing that such payment shall be immediately loanable both to Germany and other Central European states in need of financial aid. The United States on this score suggests that non-German countries might be accommodated by the Inter- national Bank and various central banks of issue as separate transactions. Washington dces not insist upon its original position that Germany should be granted a full twenty-five years to refund the suspended year's payments. It would be satisfied with a lesser period. Otherwise, by and large, Uncle Sam stands pat on the project President Hoover put before the world on June 20. There is no semblance of reces- sion from the basic principle that Ger- many should have the full benefit of a complete suspension of debts between the nations and ample time to refund the interrupted year’s annuities. Outstanding in the epistolary olive branch now held out almost as a last attempt to harmonize France's viewpoint with our own are the notes of warn- ing and reminder which distinguish it. “It must be remembered,” Washington pleads, “that Germany is in the most difficult economic situation of any country.” That being the case, France is adjured to bear in mind that the failure of the Hoover program will in- evitably cause the Germans to take advantage of the moratorium the Young plan permits her to declare on all con- ditional reparation payments. Our mes- sage to Paris is silent on the political consequences that might coincide in Germany with proclamation of a mora- torlum—the peril of a Communistic outbreak that no European country cares to contemplate. Figures talk, in the French language as well as in cthers. Perhaps the most telling argument in the American “memorandum” is the one that ex- plains how France would suffer if tie debt holiday collapses. Assuming that unconditional payments zre maintained, it says, and Germany exercises her right of a moratorium on postponable payments, France would receive $105,~ 000,000 through the unccnditional an- nuity. At the same time she would he obliged to pay into the Bank for In- ternational Settlements the guaranteed fund of $106,000,000 required under the Young plan and about $110,000,000 due to Great Britain and the United States during the year under the terms of the French war-debt funding settle- ments with those countries. France, in short, would be out of pocket for the moratorium year to the tune of $111,- 000,000 if she did not conform to the Hoover scheme. ‘The French people, including her statesmen, are charecterized by two admirable qualities—a capacity for logical thinking and a sense of thrift. It is not too much to expect that, in- voking these national traits, Premier Laval'and his essociates will sooner or later determine that the best interests of France are to be found along that path which the United States has just laid out. ————————— ‘The trouble with trashy food for chil- dren is that it does not digest well; with trashy reading and music, that it does. R A Sad Anniversary. This day is the fiftieth anniversary of a tragedy in Washingion. On Satur- day, Juiy 2, 1881, Prisident James A. Garfleld was shot and mortally wounded as he and Secretary Blaine entered the PBaltimore and Potomac Railroad sta- tion at Sixth and B strects, as they were about to board a train for the north. The President was taken at once to the White House, where he remained under carc of a group of physicians until September 6, when he was taken to E'beron, N. J, where he lingered for a short time longer, dying on the nineteehth of Septcmber. The shocting of the President caused intense excitement in Washington and, of course, elsewhere in America. Here at the Capital there was a feeling of i apprehension, as well as of dzep sorrow. It was only sixteen years and & few tfiu after the assassinationsgf Presi- 1 85¢ dent Lincoln. There was a bitter political fight in progress, between the “Stalwarts” of the Republican party in New York and the President, whose nominations had offended Senator Conkling. The President had won the first round of the fight in securing the confirmation of his appointments. The miserable man who shot him, and who later paid the penalty of death for his crime, was avowedly a partisan of the New York opponents of the Executive, There were fears of a general assassina- tion plot. Those fears, though soon dispelled, caused a sense of horror to | from the White House indicated the grave nature of the President's wound. Examination of the files of The Star especially of the first few days, makes plain the statz of the public mind fol- lowing the shocking blow struck at the head of the state. Extra editions in 2 sequence never before khown in Wash- ington poured from the press. Fantastic rumors were bruited and dispelled to clear the atmosphere. The columns of n these rapidly printed and at:d iscues fully covered dy and the spectacle cf the public excilement and the provisions for maintaining order. ‘Within the first hour after the firing of the shot the Government depart- ments were emptied. Business was practically suspended throughout the city. It was a Saturday morning. The Monday following was Independence day and preparations had been made for an elaborate cbservance. For three days, Saturday the second, Sunday the third and Monday the fourth, Wash- ington was at a standstill. Soldiers were staticned at various positions throughout the city. Bulletin boards were placed here and there on which the reports of the President’s physicians were posted for the informaticn of the public. The city was hushed. In cbedience to the request of the District ! Commissioners there was no indulg>nce in fireworks of any kind. Tragedy reigned over the Capital. Such was Saturday, July 2, 1881, a day of sorrow. e Eight Days Around the World. For sheer skill, tenacity of purpose and endurance no airplane flight in his- tqry can compare with the accomplish- ment of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, who landed in New York yesterday after their startling trip “around the world” in eight and oneshalf days, only a little more than four of which were spent in the air. They worked as a perfect team, Gatty the unerring navigator, and called by no less a person than Col. Lindbergh “the best in the wofld,"l and Post, the one-eyed pilot, who kept the big, fast plane functioning to a grand average of about one hundred and forty-five miles an hour while he guided it over ocean, forest and moun- tains. Co-ordination such as this, plus fine equipment and careful preparation, could hardly help but accomplish great things. And that it did will be written |large in the annals of aviation. Originally scheduled as a ten-day flight around the globe, these two in- trepid fiyers exceeded even their own expectations, and it was undoubtedly the joyous realization of a great achieve- ment that Post, as he sighted the Roos2velt Field, marking the end of their journey, opened his motor wide and shot over the heads of the milling crowd at nearly two hundred miles an hour. “I just wanted to let them know that we were coming,” he naively explained as, weary and haggard, he climbed out of the trim monoplane that he had piloted over two vast oceans and three continents. Beside being a personal triumph for Post and Gatty their flight is a triumph for aviation, for no one can gainsay the fact that flying is coming into its own when an airplane can be built that will carry two persons around the world in just slightly more than four deys in actual time in the air. Nearly 16,000 miles were covered on the trip at a rate of more than two and one- third miles a minute. Both the frame- work of the plane and the engine stood up under this terrific strain and only cnce was a slight adjustment to the motor reeded. Just as Lindbergh’s flight to Paris four years ago gave impetus to air transportation, so will the epochal achievement of Post and Gatty in the Winnie Mae. The triple “We” is a great combination and the old Spirit of St. Louis, now resting in the Smith- sonian Institution, the other half of the Lindbergh “We,” must have stirred uneasily as its successor dropped out of the dusk at New York to make new airplane history. e Agricultural experts report a favor- | able outlook for crops this year. The farmer will again claim to be doing all he can to produce wealth, asking only the support of good business manage- | ment. ) Fred G. Coldren. By the recent death of Fred G. Coldren this District has suffered a iloss. By reason of his own modesty and disinclination to gain prominence, a great emount of work performed by him during a long period, for civic ad- vancement, was known to comparatively few. Under the chairmanship of the late Judge Bundy of the Washington Board of Trade Committee on Parks and Reservations he served faithfully and upon retirement of Judge Bundy Mr. Coldren became chairman. He drafied th2 legislation which es- tablished the National Capital Park Commission, and which, by amendment, later became the present National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission. ‘While others were his associates, it was due in large measure to the untiring efforts cf Mr. Coldren and to his ability to secure ccrdial co-cperation from many others that the community is now served by this commission, which has already accomplished much for the benefit of the Capital City, and whose plans will greatly affect its future. Giving up his own law practice in order to devota all his time and strength to the work which he loved, at a very modest selary, he became counsel for the commission and was later desig- nated as its secretary. While the names of Esnator McMillan of Michigan and Mr. Charles C. Glover and Mrs. Ann Archbold will long be remembered in connection with establishment of parks : for the District, that of the Senatcr for furthering the making of the “Mec- Millan plen,” that of Mr. Glover for his Park into being, and also for his own cdonation of lands for park purposes, and thei of Mrs. Archbzld for her gan- erous donation of lands; and while the name of Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, the| first executive officer of the commis- sion, has been given recognition by the naming of a drive in Rock Creek Park, it would be but fitting, and would evi- dence only proper appreciation of the services of Mr. Coldren, that some driveway or park be given his name. Such acuon would afford great pleas- are to the many friends and associ- ates of Mr. Coldren, who knew of his years of patient endeavor, wholly with- out thought of any return save that arising from & sense of public duty well 45c per month | seize the community, as the reports|performed. oy be sent in by mail or telephone | g5 ¢ne period of the assassination, and | mended for its decision to “lane” the ————— Lanes for Motorists. ‘The Traffic Bureau is to be com- William Howard Taft Bridge, work on which was completed yesterday. Traffic over this structure is heavy at all times, particularly so during morning and eve- ning rush hours. Four lanes are now plainly marked, two for each direction. ‘The Traffic Bureau has done its part of the job. Now it is up to the motorist to do his. Peculiarly enough, there are many drivers who do not seem to realize what markings on the street are for, be it crosswalks, turning directions or lanes for travel. These motorists, who are unfortunately prevalent in Washington, may “get away” with disregard of plain markings for a while, but the police should see to it that a strict enforcement campaign is inaugurated soon to curb the tendencies of this type of driver. Police in other communities have waged effective campaigns against the zigzagging motor car operator and woe be it unto one of this ilk to drive care- lessly on roads in New York, Connecti- cut, Massachusetts and other States. The lanes are meant to be used in the proper way—slow traffic next to the curb and fast traffic near the center. It is up to the motorists to do their part, and if they do not the police should step in to discipline offenders. No very clear conclusion has been at- tained in the recent productions of Mr. Wickersham. They give the impression of a mystery story without a sufficiently precise solution to command attention on the newsstands. A man of recog- nized ability, Mr. Wickersham will never be expected to evolve complications of narrative that will hold their own as ‘With no pretense of assuming to rival her remarkable daughter, “Ma” Ken- nedy proves that she is not Aimee's in- ferior in the arts of publicity, which ap- pear to develop with such easy distinc- tion in the glorious climate of Califor- nia. Eloguence has frequently impressed | the fact that motion pictures are not | absolutely necessary to fame on the Pacific slope. R T Schoolboys will enjoy the Sumner without going into calculations concern- ing carfares. It is the privilege of youth to give its mind intensively to the pres- ent. The schoolboys of today will be called upon soon enough to assume re- sponsibilities for molding schoolboys of the future into an intelligent and worthy citizenship, v—om—s Heat prostrations have been numerous. Alcohol has always been regarded as dangerous in hot weather. The boot- legger has been remorseless in circulat- ing beverage material that adds im- measurably to the terrors of the Summer climate. ——r———————— A fashion note announces that fem- inine beach clothes must be cf bright hue and bold design this Summer. Like its wearers? SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Fishing. Every one's gore fishin', Tryin’ for to hook Somethin’ from the ocean Or somethin’ from the brook; Fishin’ fur a fortune, In a rocky boat; Fishin’ for a dinner, Or fishin' fur a vote. Feller seems more hopeful Every time he fails. Some must fish fur minnows; Some kin fish fur whales, Fishin’ where it's muddy, Or fishin' where it's clear; Every one goes fishin’ At the preseni time o’ year. Uncertainties. “Aren’t you taking a chance on ex- pressing an opinion so freely?” “Perhaps,” replied Senator Sorghum. “But out my way politics is a good deal of a lottery, the same as love. You've got to be a lucky guesser to cash in on an opinion.” Reasonable Dismay. “The old-fashioned girl would have| been horrified by the clothes now worn.” “True,” replied Miss Cayenne. “But the principal reason for her horror would have been the fact that such | things were then wholly out of style.” As the Temperature Rises. With Summer skies now all aglow, I scorn enlightened rule. I'd like to be an Eskimo, Uncivilized, but cool. Enforcements. “Your town council has passed a lot of mighty stringent laws.” “We did it on purpose,” replied Cactus Joe. “But they will be very difficult to enforce.” “They will. Our sheriff has made himself fo promiscuously unpopular that we've decided to make life hard for him.” Heroism and the Valet. “No man is a hero to his valet,” re- markad the ready-made philosopher. “It’s not to be wondered at,” replied | Farmer Corntossel. “Anybody who wants to be considered a hero ought at least to be man enough to dress himself.” And He Never Tips Anybody. ‘The moth’s an epicure complete, The choizest cn this earth; For at a single meal he'll eat A hundred dollars’ worth. “Don’t put yoh trust in appearances,” efforts which brought the Rock Creek |szid Uncle Eben. “If yoh was jedgin’ by ears you might expect de rabbit to stan’ still an’ kick an’ de mule to run like lightnia's f‘ _ THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. of most birds escape written description. ‘There are a few, such as that of the bol white and the whip-poor-will, whose ordinary notation does very well. ‘There was a bob white outside our window the other morning. With this living llustration at hand, there was no escaping the name. ‘The whistle actually seemed those syllables. But what is one to think of the “interpretation” of the song of the woodthrush, which sometimes is printed “I love you; you love me"? One will have to be imaginative in- deed to be able to catch those words in the clear, flute-like call of this tamest of all birds. One will have to have love on the brain, as the saying is, to read the word in that second note of the triolet which lthl: thrush pipes so brightly all day long. ‘The words simply are not there. One might as well declares that what the thrush is saying is “Oh, my eye!” * K kX ‘Yet writers about birds still try man- fully to reduce their songs to human dimensions, as if there were any real reason for it, after all. The bird songs are notes, and often scarcely that, possessing an elusive, | quavering quality which makes them seem vastly inhuman. Some of the songs are not songs at all, but plainly disagreeable cackles, plaints, whistles, moans, gurgles and the like. There is nothing beautiful about many bird songs, but only some- thing rather absurd, to put it plainly. Even worse than putting such a song into human words, especially English words, is the attempt to describe them by a mere assortment of syllables. The man who writes them down may know what he is doing, but since he is not there in the book to give the reader the exact pronunciation and shading, the Jatter will never in the world be able to make head nor tail out of a bird song 50 described. ‘The birds, we suspect, are not Eng- lish. That is why our common attempts to put their “language” into our well known syllable formations is not very successful. Perhaps Italn would be better, be- ing more liquid, the language of univer- sal music and of all singers. Even the Hawalian, with its liquid assortment of vowels, many and often repeated, would furnish a better basic medium for bird song descriptive. * ok % % Many of the bird writers refrain, therefore, from any attempt at giving a bird’s song, and this, we think, almost a greater failure than presenting them improperly or foolishly. After all, what is more interesting to the average home lover than the song of the birds? bright or plain, as it may be, is any more interest compelling than the as- soriment of sounds which issue con tinuously from the throats of the feath- ered creatures. You may not see a bird, but you al- ways hear him. He is chirping away in the trees, or in the thickets cr hedgzs, or singing from a bush, almost the entire time he is awake. For their size birds are the noisiest things in the world. The “hot bugs” of | Summer nights are about the only living | things which can be heard farther, con- | sidering their smallness. ‘There is a world of power behind the sounds which the thrush, for instance, sends forth. As he nods on ths branch he is a veritable steam calliope of the old-time circus brand. Let no one be ashamed of a liking for calliope music. Pronounce it with the HE EVENING POST, Wellington. solute rubbish; moonshine is the can apply to it” was a remark made by Dr. P. Marshall, government petrologist, when addressing members of the Rotary Club on earthquakes. To say when a severe earthquake was likely to occur it was needful to know the tension and how much stress the earth’s crust would stand. But neither of these was known, hence predictions could not be made. Dr. Marshall de- scribed some features of the Hawkes Bay earthquake, adding that from the evidence of the coastline it would ap- pear that it was a long time since a similar earthquake had affected Napier; and from geological evidence, although definite prophecies could not be made, it would probably be a long time before there was another big shake in that lo- cality. 5 o o Don’t Know What Stars Are Talking About. Emparcia, Montevideo.—Since the coming of the talking picture, Spaniards and Spanish-Americans have been ex- periencing great difficulty understand- ing the various dialects used. There has been no uniformity of pronunci- ation among artists, and no effort made to forget the peculiarities of their own vernacular and to speak the pure Castilian. The confusion would be really pa- thetic, if it were not often so very amusing, for when pictures filmed by Hispano-Americans arrive in Spain the natives fr:&\fimly never know whether stars are ng about beer or cherries, housekeeping or hunting, boiling or sewing, or a stag or a slave. ‘The same uncertainties extend to the careful exclusion from the supposedly cultured talk of South Americans of the aspirated “S” and “J,” the con- fusion between the “R” and the “L” and the suppression or loss of certain other consonants, and other discrep- ancies more noticeable in colloquial speech. Only in the secondary schools of Puerto Rico do they observe with any regularity the distinctions between the “S” and the “Z,” and the “L1” and the “Y,” but even there they do not make the discriminations found in Castilian between aspirated and non- aspirated “S” and “J,” and normal and elided consonants. Nor, moreover, does any Latin American dialect preserve the same nice distinctions between long and short vowels. * K ok ok Spanish Republic Faces Problem on Constitution. ‘The Statesman and Nation, London.— It is clearly. in Spain itself that the Republican government will be put to the severest test. A constitution to bz hammered out, and means & tussle between the unitary and the federal principles. Catalonia is already assured of as large a measure of inde- pendence as she ought to want; pos- sibly the Basque provinces and others will also press their claims. If tism can be kept within reasonable bounds, all may be' well. The finance minister has the formidable task of bringing the peseta to heel, and those who are responsible for the social serv- ices, for education, housing and in- dustrial affairs, will have immense de- mands to meet. Reformers will be faced, too, by some of the old obstacles— party differences and faction, obscuran- tism, the secular apathy of the Span- ferds. The army may change its mind, and the church may refuse to change hers, Nevertheless, there is ample {ground for hope. Spain has moved. She has learned lessons, and has made some material advance, under the dic- tatorship. . It may, , out that Primo de Rivera and Gen. Berenguer and King Alfcnso have un- Not even the appearance of a bird, | raost complimentary word one | —"Earthquake prediction is ab- | de | separa- | With | dogs, with cats, with hogs, | | | | if you erican- what | the Republican National Committee | tion in W and a certain a well tuned steam | that “it looks as though” he would con- | your address played by a man who music and steam en- From the white-frin, pipes issues a world of melody, which even grandpap has no difficulty hearing. T ‘The thrush's song has plenty of “steam” behind it, too. 'Tis a wild wood strain, shaming the feeble pipings of the domestic canary. When a thrush nelighborhood, as he will if you have some trees, every one knows he is aroun ‘!‘W"hlt is ;hr.t Mrd?l”‘.sl?me one ukam R song 50] , and e bird writers unflzefn praising it. As a matter of fact, it is almost the only bird we have heard this Summer with any real musical pattern to his SRt birds busy clucking and 05! are 50 busy cluc an chirping and mixing up mlu‘wflh their songs that it is difficult to deter- m‘ne oj‘:uc Wwhat they are attempting to you. With the thrush it is different. He clucks & bit, too, but his main theme is };u main concern, and he never forgets comes into “His notes would be blasts were it not for a certain native sweetness which his ancestors caught thousands of years 2go. They handed those notes down un- changed until today you hear them Just as Adam must have in the Garden of Eden. Birds are conservative little beggars. * ok ok x ‘We believe that some musician, who also would have to be a bird fancler, should make a serious attempt to put down the bird songs in musical notation. It would be a task, no doubt of that; but it might be done, at least to some extent. Of course, no instrument made by hands would' give the exact coloring of a bird’s throat. Perhaps a flute would come the near- est to doing this, and few bird lovers possess flutes. They may have pianos, or violins, or mandolins, ‘or guitars, or banjoes, but that is as far as they go. Now, the song of the thrush on a plano is not exsct.liy the song of the thrust. Even the violin is not exactly thrush-like. The mandolin would be an approximation merely, and the banjo would be even less exact. The bird lover, however, even if his instrament were vety poor for the par- ticular purpose, would have this satis- faction—that he was perpetrating no cutrage on the birds by attributing to them word, and thus thoughts and sen- timents, which they by no means pos- sess. That is the real crime of the attempt to put bird songs into the words of any | language. With a few exceptions, some | of which have been noted, the attempt is werse than futile. If there is any created thing which | is less like humanity than a bird—any | bird—we do not know what it is, We see our kinship with monkeys, with wolves, , foxes, but never with eagles, condors, mockingbirds, thrushes, sparrows, car- dinals, bluebirds. (And, by the way, who has seen a bluebird this year?) Birds have quick little eyes: they eat, as man has always donc; they fly, as he is beginning to do well; but there the Tesemblance ends, except 'that they live and become ill or injured and die the Al et all else they are alien to us, and ! it will do little good to pretend that | their ;voofl M;f’ wild make words or | sense in any linguistic way. Happily | for the birds, their songs are .uen.si}l’esi in our little definitions of sens>, They nrc“beautg’u], no doéxbz to the birds as | well as us, and perha; enough. ameabs Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands wittingly laid the foundations of a sound lemocracy. * ok ox % Petitions Court ing Liquor Ruling. El Tiempo, Bogota.—Dr. Jose Arturo Andrade has petitioned the Supreme Court of Justice with reference to a ruling upon the validity of article 22 of Law No. 83, ratified in 1928 with the design of gradually obsoleting the traffic in alcoholics. By means of the particular article cited, extraordinary powers were granted the government, after the expiration of six months, to put in effect penalties on both the sale and consumption of all liquors, in- cluding beer, either at the date thus sanctioned by the law, or at any later date deemed more suitable to permit of the exhaustion of existing stocks lawfully procured. Dr. Andrade, how- ever, considers that this article No. 22 is in violation of article No. 69 of the legislative act No. 3, in the year 1910, giving the right to sell, under appro- priate license, unspecified supplies of alcoholics .bearing the government stamp and seal. After a study of all the legal aspects of the subject, the Supreme Court de- clared that the later law supersedes the earlier on every point wherein they are in_conflict, and that therefore it re- affirms the validity of the section cited. it America Possesses ‘World’s Highest Rate Hotel. Cologne Gazette—America, whose pride it is to possess the greatest, best and dearest of everything on earth, must naturally possess, also, the high- est-priced hotel in the world. This fond desire has been realized in the Sherry-Netherland, a skyscraper tow- ering up upon famous Pifith avenue at Central Park, with its 35 stories. ' Nevertheless, the stranger standing before this hostelry of million- aires for the first time l? scarcely able to belleve that he is looking at the tavern chary the most stupen- ' the woman vote in the next presidential | U el It huuno ! campaign. She admitted that for one| showy | Teason or another the woman vote had | dous rates on the globe. stately reception halls; no entrances nor exits; no marble stair- | ways; no bronze-bedecked walls nor | ceilings. Even as the modest adornment of | the jewelry house of Tiffany, situated in the same thoroughfare, has nothing more to indicate the luxuries which lie within than the name and designa- tion of the firm in its show-windows, so likewise this vast hotel of the mil- | lionaire’s exhibits nothing of its regal | luxury to the casual observer. Only a narrow canopied passageway leads from the street to the interior. One has merely the impression that he is entering a very large and perhaps well ‘managed apartment house. Tt is only when one learns the prices of the accommodation that one is mor- tified to find that he has unwittingly | stumbled into the wrong establishment. For in the Sherry-Netherland there are no “single” rooms, in the ordinary sense; even the smallest unit has a. bedroom and bathroom, g d l?omen;s ’(C%')‘ ht aroun ‘mar} i g’;uonee-z?“rudfly see that it well be. hooves one to be & e, if con- templating any protracted stay. Yearly mmodat range all ‘way from 120,000 to 250,000 marks, ($28,~ 560 to $39,500), and the only comment to make lnuthl-l ec'r:ne::ax: assessment are e gnlq”\‘l‘et ?:tun of the establishment. Diogenes could be, and doul was, as comfortable in his barrel. Hails Wisconsin Graft. Prom Janesville Gazette. mv::: failed to pass the bill, we can have about 8s many corrupt practices in Wisconsin a8 ever, 2 | self. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. For some time it has been apparent that the Republican leaders were averse to making further changes in ership and now Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, the chairman, has said tinue on as cl an until the Repub- lican naticnal convention next June. Senator Fess' reluctance to remain as tips of the | chairman of the National Committee | ton, D. C. while he continued to be a member of the United States Senate has been the only visible stumbling block in the way of this arrangement for some time. And apparently, Senator Fess has waived his objections and will go right ashead as national chairman until the convention. President Hoover, if he is renominated, as now seems certain to be the case, will defermine then who is to be the chairman of the National Com- mittee during the active campaign which is to follow, ok ok K K ‘The Ohio Senator was made chair- man of the National Committee after Claudius H. Huston retired from that office about & year ago. At first it was reported that Senator Fess would hold cn until about the time the Senate re- assembled last December; that his selection to head the committee was only a temporary matter. But when some of thc wets turned loose an attack upon the Ohio Senator, following his expression of an cpinion that the Dem- ocrats would take the wet side of the prohibition issue in the next national campaign and the G. O. P. would have to support the dry end of the question, it became certain he would not retire under fire. The time for his retirement frcm the chairmanship was postponed from time to time. There seemed no particular reason for his getting out, except his own desires. He repeatedly expressed his willingness to step out to those in authority, but the concensus of opinion has been that he should remain and he has held on. * ok x % ‘The Republican National Committee organization is functioning under the direction of Robert H. Lueas, executive director. This takes much of the work off the shoulders of the national chair- man. Mr. Lucas had his troubles with some of the Progressive members of the Republican_party, particularly Senator Norrls of Nebraska, whose defeat Mr. Lucas sought to accomplish on the ground that Norris, who supported Al Smith in the last presidential campaign, was no asset to the Republican party in the Senate. The G. O. P. leaders, however, have clearly indicated that Mr. Lucas is not to be set aside and that he is to continue right along on the job as executive director of the Na- tional Commitee. about a “National Conference of Young Republicans” in Washington, with dele- with much success and and showed the Repub- of fight for the coming “went ove! wide publi licans still campaign. * Kk x % ‘The Democratic national chairman, | John J. Raskoh, sccording to all reports, will continue to function, too, until the Democratic national convention has | been held. His successor will be select- ed by the presidential nominee of his party. It is possible that Mr. Raskob {might be retained by that nominee, | unless he should seck retirement him- If the Democratic party should { nominate Al Smith again, which it is | not_expected to do, then what more | natural than that the former New York Governor shou'ld ask Mr. Raskob to continue as chairman. Mr. Raskob's political scalp has been sought fre- quently during the last three years by dry Democrats from the South, who have insisted he was more interested in doing away with national prohibition and a return of the control of liquor traffic to the States than he was in electing a Demccratic President. As gs now shape up, however, Mr. Raskob's desire to put a wet candidate in for President and his desire to elect |a Democrat to that office are likely to {go hand in hand. Unless there should | b big changes in the situation, the Democrats are to nominate a candidate who is opposed to national prohibition | 2nd who favors return of the control of the traffic in liquor to the States. e i 3 Perhaps the way in which prohibition is cutting ccross both the major political perties is iliustrated better inan in any other way by the attitudes of factions in the two parties toward the two national chairmen. Scnator Fess is attacked and prodded to retire by the wets in the Republican party. Mr. Raskob, on the other hand, is attacked and told to get out by the drys in the Demo- | cratic party. The fact that Senator | Fess holds on so strongly is an indica- tion that the dry sentiment strongly prevails in the G. O. P., and Mr. Ras- { kob’s hold on the Democratic chairman- ship is no less to be attributed to the strong element in the Democratic party which favors the abolition of national prohibition as it now exists. v Ao Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, former Gov- ernor of Wyoming and now a vice chair- man of the Democratic National Com- mittee, made the principal address be- fore the Indiana Democratic Editorial Asscciation at Gary, Ind., last week Her address was in a measure a reply livered to the Republican Editorial As- scciation at Indianapolis, which was jhailed by many Republicans as a kind {of platform on which the G. O. P. would wage its campaign next year. Mrs. Ross attacked the tariff policy of the Republicans and scored Mr. Hoover for having signed the Smoot-Hawley bill, which, she said, has been the cause of many of the economic ills in this and other countries, because it has pre- vented cther countries from trading to the full with us and has prevented our trading to the full with them. Nor did Mrs. Ross think highly of the “twenty-year plan” put forward by Mr. Hoover at Iniianapoiis as a way out of the economic difficulties in this country, declaring ~ that the President had brought forward no practical sugges- tion for improving conditions right now. * ok ok % Mrs. Ross forecast a great fight on the part of the Democrats to line up gone Republican to a very large extent in the 1928 election. She said this was a n the Democrats should take to heart in preparing for next year, and she added: “Conditions have changed 1928, and, if I mistake not, with them has changed the mood of women—but not their interests, let me emphasize. The heart of woman does not change. The home and the family, the value and security of which Mr. Hoover ex- tolled so feelingly and appealingly in his campaign speeches in 1928, consti- tute now as they did then the para- mount concerr of women. While in- terested in idealism, women, withal, are exceedingly practical. They are, s a rule, the custodians of the family purse. Disillusioned in the last two :n% a half n‘:.r;‘ mlllln::* of them arg 0 cing pangs of poverty, an the not less poignant distress of seeing ‘t;heh' :Alu;b&gds and ;n-onma come ome nightly, broken of spirit, to re- port fruitless search for work. 1a un- d ds of instances they see their children hungry and the develop- ment of those children impaired for lack of nourishing food, and no ' means forthcoming to supply the needs of an- other Winter f:n approachin 3 * Tk k Mrs, Ross insisted that the Demo- cratic party has a great advantage in ap) the weman vote because of its truistic principles.” She sald that if had this advantage were pressed she no doubt the woman vote would make the Democratic party perma- nently the dominant power in the Gov- ernment. All of which indicates the great struggle that is coming between the two majc over this so- called woman vote. As a matter of fact, unless there is something wrong He recently brought ! gates here from all the States, which | to the address of President Hoover de-| since | This is & to the at your department, devoted an ashington to serve you in any capacity that relates to information. Write your question, your name and clearly, and inclose 2 cents in coin cr stamps for reply. Send to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. , director, Washing- Q. Who won first and second prizes in the spelling contest held in Washing- ton, D. C., in May?—E. B. A. Ward Wilson Randall of White Hall, 1ll, won the first prize of $1,000. Charles L. Michel of Bellaire, Ohio, won the second prize of $500. Q. What is the name of the town in Alabama which is not going to collect taxes in 1931?—A. C. A. By order of the City Council, no municipal taxes will be collected Gainesville, Ala., during 1931. Q. How large is Hearst's ranch at San Simeon, Calif.?>—N. A. R. A. It is said to comprise 240,000 acres. Q. Please give some facts about the Paris exhibition now going on—W. H. A. A. The International Colonial and Overseas Exposition opened in Paris in May. The United States is represented by six buildings, each housing exhibits from this country, the Philippines, Vir- gin Islands, Hawali, Alaska, Samoa, Guam and Porto Rico. The site of the exposition is around Lake Daumesnil, 250 acres havfir here been set aside. Outstanding buildings include the Co- lonia]l Museum and the International Hall of Knowledge. Madagascar and Indo-China aj> among the outstanding places well A!!uented. There is an exact reproduction of the wonderful ‘Temple of Angkor-Vat, and the cele- brated Taj Mahal also is reproduced. An exact reproduction of Mount Vernon has been built to scale. Most of the | furnishings have been reproduced, many | of them have been “aged” to the extent | | that they have the exact appearance of the originals at Mount Vernon.' A great- niece of George Washington is the offi- ;;:al hostess. Her living quarters are ere. Q. Who composed “The Merry Wives of Windsor”'?—L. C. A. Otto Nicolal is noted for this opera. QM What is a kangaroo apple?—K. A. 1t is a plant closely related to the Ppotato, native to Peru, New Zealand and Australia. The mealy, slightly acid fruit, which is eaten either raw or cooked, is used for food by the native peoples. Q. When was geography first taught | in schools?>—D. G. A. In the Renaissance period geog- raphy was taught chiefly as an aid to the understanding of Greek and Roman writers. The study was confined, there- fore, to the world as known in the classical period. The first modern geog- raphy in English written explicitly for : use in schools appeared in 1746. It was called “Introduction to Geography,” and was published in England, by J. Cowley, geographer to his majesty. The first professor of geography in an American university was Arnold Henry Guyot, who | was appointed to a chair at Princeton University in 1854, Q. Why is Rev. Thomas Starr King famous in California Mitery?—B. D. M. A. Rev. Thomas Starr King was an American Unitarian clergyman and lec- | i | in |dry. The oats are turer. He became of the first }!'%lourhn Soclety of San bryunmeo in , was among the newspaper article and lecture to call attention to Yosemite Valley, and when in the presi- Gential campaign of 1860 the idea of the establishment of California as an inde- ture platform and to the Union. Q. How does Washington, D. C., ral among American cities according to last census?—H. C. A. 1t is the fourteenth city. Qé How are rolled oats made?—G, A. In making rolled oats the oats are first cleaned and graded as to size, elim= inating small and extra large oats. They are tken put into a large vat and heated by then ot clippers, which clip both ends, leav- ing only the central Since the The ed, leaving cleaned oat groats. These are steamed until softened and then passed through hot rollers. Q. How does an encyclical issued by véhewrope differ from a papal bull?—J. A. An encyclical is simply a pa) letter of advise or sdmanition, mu‘:‘-" with the statement of opinions sent out to all the bishops of the world and to the faithful, and is not necessarily of the importance or having the authority of a bull, which has the force of a command. Q. What is a telephone operator called in Paris?—H. G. A is addressed as “mademoi- selle.” Telephone service has never reached the point of efficiency in France which is common in this country. The delays in getting connections have made the advent of the dial phone very popu- lar, and this type of phone is rapidly | replacing the operator system. Q. How many tourist camps are there in the United States>—J. T. A. There are many which are not counted, but the Motor Tourist Camp Manual lists 15,000 in the United States and Canada. It also includes dude ranches, camps for boys, girls and adults, and fishing and hunting camps. Some 2,000 airports and plane landin; | are listed. ¥ 5 Q. What is the white cotton cloth used extensively in India which is very fine but does not wrinkle?—V. P, A. The white cotton cloth used largely by the upper class of India i known as “khadi.” It is of native man- ufacture, and only the finest of long staple cotton is used. It is excesdingly fine, does not wrinkle and wears a very long time. Q. Can a tank be destro; y fire>—C. M. i A. Tanks were during the World Q. Can anything be done for flowers which render the water in vases foul in a short time?>—G. E. A. Asters, calendulas, chrysanthe. mums, forget-me-nots, hollyhocks, hya. cinths, marigolds, mignonette, snap- dragons, stocks, wallflowers and zinnias have this disadvantage. Many of the common disinfectants are recommended to be added to the water in which such flowers are kept. A daily change of ;nl:e; fi;:sv k?nlfl ttg‘llmmwhnh comes a e shoul T for it hastens deca; ke destroyed by gun fire Check on Drug Traffic Seen In Geneva Narcotic Program The recent session of the Interna- { tional Conference for Limitation of Nar- cotic Drugs at Geneva has served again to focus attention on the untold degra- dation and suffering caused by use of heroin, morphine, opium, cocaine and other habit-forming drugs for other than medicinal purposes and on the widespread sale of these and many other alkaloids. *‘A plan for limiting commerce in nar- cotics received 14 out of 16 votes in the Limitation Committee at Geneva, and the plan so approved and to be em- bodied in a treaty will mark an impor- tant step toward effective control of the international drug traffic,” says Worcester Evening Gazette, which is of the opinion that “the fight for more effective narcotic control has been so long drawn out that even a partial ad- vance must be profoundly welcome to those who know what ravage the youth of our country has suffered from ad- diction to narcotic poisons.” Th> plan adopted was the Franco- Japanese for the open market, and con- cerning it the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin states: “The United States delegates frankly regard the open mar- ket plan as inadequate. They agreed to it because, in lack of anything better, it aflords prospect of some immediate con- certed action by the nations based on | the agreement by each country to limit its domestic manufacture.” Continuing its analysis, the Bulletin remarks: “There is no illusion in the United States as to the serfousness of the men- ace and of the inadequacy of all meas- ures heretofore proposed. It also is recognized that when legitimate manu- facture is controlled the bootleg menace myust be coped with. But this country is ‘ready to éoln in co-operating in the best obtainable plan that promi real, | even if imperfect, results.” As to the drug evil, the Lexington Leader declares: “I\ is one of the great problems of the modern world. The crime and misery which are to be traced to the widespread use of narcotics can- not be even estimated. It is a menace to civilization that smugglers and boot- leggers of habit-forming drugs should | be able to carry on their nefarious trade. j The Government is exerting itself as never before to stamp it out.” * ok ok % Commenting upon the hold that this trade has on even the great nations of the world, the Columbia South Carolina State observes: “It is rather amazing that so little has been done by reformers in this country to curb or end the traffic {in narcotics—far more insidious and | dead]y than liquor. We hear and read | now and then of some slender efforts to | eradicate the drug traffic, but nothing is really accomplished. Even the pow- erful League of Nations approaches this problem very gingerly, feeling out every |inch of advance.” The State describes the League’s treatment of the problem as resting its “authority upon the public cpinions of the nations—and we know | what broken reeds thesg lences and public opinions are.” | . Taking the position that "h.lrpuy the drug evil is not one that fects the United States as closely as it does some countries,” the ord Daily es still agrees that “it is a matter for pride that America has again been in the vanguard of a humanitarian move- ment,” and the Oakland Tribune, while somewhat disappointed in the results | of the conference, since “too many na- | tions and people are economically bound to the production of narcotics,” con- cedes that “in the meanwhile the edu- cational campaign against narcotics is | making progress.” s with statistics, the women as a vote pretty much as the men do in | tions, and not as women. If there been no woman vote in 1928 it is the election would have gone much as it did go. Nevertheless, contest for the vote of the wome: goon. And why not? The contest | Tor the vote of the men in ' paign. Neither of the to overlook the fact that women ond the men are pes vote in thtcflnlnl’ election. i g3 & g 3 : i § g 2k LE g S i the | the program should prove a ent since: of the desire to eliminate the illicit traffic and to effect a genuine limitation” is the the Indianapolis Star, which scores some earlier efforts as having “bordered on the hypocritical, consisting of paper resolutions which imposed few restric- tions on the illicit trade.” Star declares that “with America, Japan and Prance taking the lead, other coun- tries, while less earnest, perhaps, have been compelled to co-operate in the creation of an international mesh so fine that only governmental bad faith can provide a loophole,” and that “ef- fective co-operation in enforcement of at boon le curse.” of these in ridding the world of a te; That the medicinal uses drugs must not be overlooked is the con- tention in_some quarters. _Speaking along this line, the Chicago Daily Tri- bune states: “Narcotics are an impor- tant aid to modern medical science and a blessing in proper use to man- No scheme for surrendering our independence of judgment and action with regard to them ought to be adopted without thorough examination and dis- cussion, nor without adequate safe- guards against the improper restrictions for which zealots will constantly be working,” warning that “we know what gg:r‘l'ments of noble motive can pro- The drug heroin finds few friends at court. Condemning it, the Wheeling Intelligencer says: “Medical science is agreed that there is no use of heroin, but that morphine or codeine makes & better and safer substitute. Yet the nations in which its manufacture is still permitted, instead of being ashamed of this condition, stubbornly insist upon the right to make as much as they Please, although they know that nine tenths of it is destined for criminal profits, violation of the law of other coungries and world-wide human misery too great to be calculated. It would be difficult to find, or even to imagine, 8 T phase of commercialism.” = America Demands More Speed, but Why ? From the Columbus, Ohio, State Journal, The Society of Automotive Engineers, meeting at White Sulphur Springs, were told that the answer to public demand for higher-speed automobiles will be found in a new “tear-dropped” designy where the motor is in the rear of the car and the streamlines of the body are more pronounced. Thus does sclence move to give the public what it asks. No blame can be attached to the manufacturer; but why, in a world already whirling along concrete and macadam highways, are requests for still more speed made? Consulting the Jaws of the Nation, it would seem that the craze for auto- mobile speed has gone far enough and that people ought to be satisfied with the presen;“gucde. Hldtgendmte-ml;ne lemand and elim: ts. In Colora = 3 LK @ 3 5 55 gs i , then, ig| V:l‘ly n?t be nggh , at Eu‘ill: of super-] W2, it es, arrivea? . iz