Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1931, Page 8

e R-8 k THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. -— A = WASHINGTON, P. C. ...July 17, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 1ith St and New Yorl Ohicago European Biee 1 e g Englan Rate by Carrler Within the City. %l EVen‘inl Slar:!.m.‘a'. . éllr‘k per month ehen 4 Bundazs) o .z .80c per month 88 per month T copy the end of ‘each month. in by mail or telephone sent. NAtional 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 88 1 me: 4ie Daily and Sunda aily only G Bindayony 1 mo.; 40c All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday.. 1yr.$1200: 1mo.. 3 : ¥ i 1 Daily only \$8.00; 1 mo., @inday only 35.00; 1 mo.. 1. il Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the vse for republication of all news dia- Dpatches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ited in this paper and siso the local news ublished herein. All rights of publieation of dispatehes herein are also reserved. The New Bus Order. The first orders dealing with the bus situation in downtown Washington, is- suing from the joint board set up “y the Commissioners and the Public Utilities Commission, indicate that the numerous and complicated problems are to be dealt with one by one. The board has first considered the interstate, or clty-to-city busses, giving them until next April to get out of :ae congested district entirely and forcing them to establish off-the-street terminals 1in what is defined as the “second con- gested zone.” The board is, presuma- bly, actuated by a desire to give the companies an abundance of time to select their new routes and to arrange for long-delayed terminal facilities. The order applies only to the Class A busses, or those carrying passengers between Washington and other eities outside of the metropolitan area. Nothing is said about the suburban busses, op- etating generally between Washington and the towns and villages within the metropolitan area; the busses that op- erate entirely within Washington: the busses that are chartered for occasional trips in and around the city or the sight-seeing busses that operate on regular schedule. These, apparently, will be covered in later orders aftér due consideration has been given to their Deeds. Tre Class A busses have probably caused more criticism than any others because of their constant utilization of extensive curb-stone space for separate | terminals in the congested zone. The beard has probably found that little inconvenience to passengers will result from banning these busses from the congested zone entirely and that the “second congested zone” will provide enough sites, near the shopping and business center, for adequate terminals. ‘The boundaries of the so-called first congested zone are, roughly, Pifteenth street, New York avenue and H street, Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue. The area surrounding this - relatively small portion of the crowded section of town will be avallable to the buases. They will lose no advantage by béing banned from the first congested szone. Many of their passengers, in the first place, are “through” passengers who will not even leave the busses except for a change of vehicles. As it is, the area available for terminals will be much nearer the shopping, hotel and business districts than is Union Station. The reaction of the bus companies to the order will be awaited with inter- est. The new regulations should serve to clear the atmosphere, for them, as much as for anybody else. With the definite understanding that within a period of eight months | they must establish either separate terminals or a union terminal within a specified area and that the only alternative is to quit doing business, there should be no further delay. The,authorities and the bus companies have both been juggling the terminal question long enough. e Though working hard in Paris, An- drew Mellon is reported as declaring that he is enjoying himself. Summer vacations are apparently chiefly for the benefit of youth that needs playtime for the development of capacity for hard work in which advancing years find the most pleasure. . ‘The theory “One big debt deserves another” has for some time threatened to become § feature of international finance. e — A Demonstration of Progress. Nothing can better attest the steady development of airplanes and piloting skill than the successful Atlantic flights of this Summer. From Post and Gatty, who were not content simply with the ocean crossing, but continued on around the world in the remarkable time of eight and one-half days, and the flight from New York to Copenhagen of Hillig and Hoirlis to the suecessful completion of the hop of Capt. George Endres and Capt. Alexander Magyar from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to ‘within four- teen miles of their objec'ive at Buda- pest. - Hungary. plane and man have demonstrated rapid improvement over the time when so many faflures were written on the ledger of Father Nep- tune's victims. While the captains who battled over the ocean in fog, storm and wind creat- ed no new world records for either dis- tance or endurance, they, like Kingsford- Smith, in his splendid fiights across the Atlantic and the Pacific, utilized the radio to the fullest degree, and by do- ing so would have hit their destination “on the nose” but for the fact that their last drop of fuel was gone. Thus two- ‘way communication in the air has again been bronght to the forefront in long- distance fiying, as these two fiyers not only were in communication with ships but their plane was equipped with & radio direction finder which materially assisted them in keeping their position. In both the round-the-world flight of Post and Gatty and the Newfoundland- Budapest expedition of Capts. Endres and Magyar the speed was far in ex- cess of the epochal trip of Col. Lind- bergh in 1927. The latter averaged about one hundred and seven miles an hour with a top speed of about one hundred and twenty-five. In these two dourn: however, the speed of the .hm:&u close to two hundred"miles —— | cruising speed in Post and Oatty's case . |New York to Parls. THE EVENIN | 'an hour st top, seventy-five miles an [up. T Duce believes fn eatching them hour better than Lindbergh, with a|young and training them right. At some unstated future date, but of better than one hundred and forty- |evidently soon, the Pascist party pur- five miles an hour. The Budapest ex- | poses mobilising and maneuvering its pedition covered more than thirty-two |leg'ons in Northern Italy. The battle- hundred miles in twenty-six hours, not |fields of the Plave, which must arouse as fast as the globe-circling fiyers, but | mixed emotions, have been cliosen for —— |still much faster than Lindbergh, who |the flaunting of Black Shirt power in took thirty-tigee hours for the approxi- | the face of all “w! t." As the mately thirty-five hundred miles from |population of Italy is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, it will be interesting Sp 1t will not be at all surprising in {to observe Vatican reaction to a dem- the future, with the alresdy remarka- |onstration which necessarfly will em- ble development in aviation, to find |body thousands of members of the fiyers literally burning up the ocean |church, though as obviougly intended to trail. It will be a long time before |overawe the Papal state with the in- the five-hundred-mile-an-hour mark | vinetble prowess of militant Faselsm. is reached, but even at that it may ————— come sooner than the public generally realizes. Stimson and Mellon in London. Any lingering doubts that President 2 Hoover still has his shoulder to the Roosevelt's Fitnes: wheel of economic relief in Europe are A statement, signed by three medical | removed by his action in requesting specialists, holding that Gov. Franklin | Secretary of State Stimson and Secre- D. Roosevelt of New York is physically | tary of the Treasury Mellon to attend fit to “meet any demand of private and | next Monday's conference in London, public life,” is published in the current |1t is the “conference of minisfers” sum- issue of Liberty. Virtually this is a|moned by the British government to physician’s certificate to the effect that | consider further ways and means of Gov. Roosevelt is physically able to|ameliorating a situation ~which tiie meet the arduous work required of the | whole world long since recognized to be President of the United States—the {not merely a German, but an interna- first certificate of the kind issued in | tional, problem. connection with the presidential con-| The members of the United States test which takes place in 1932. Gov. |cabinet detailed for this special service Roosevelt has not announced his can- | will confer with the lcading ministers of didacy. But for months it has been|Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy perfectly plain that the New Yorker|and Germany and important repre- was a receptive candidate and that his | sentatives of Japan. They will be in friends have been ofganizing for him |session simultaneously with the assem- in all parts of the country. bly of the moratorium plan experts, Under the title, “Is Franklin D.|which the United States is repruem:‘ Roosevelt Physically Fit to Be Presi-|by the Hoover administration's handy dent?” Earle Looker has prepared the |man, Ambassador Hugh Gibson. article which appears in Liberty. Mr.| The White House anncuncement of Looker has undertaken to answer a|the assignment of Messrs. Stimson and question which has arisen probably in | Mellon to the London conference con- many minds and which has been on|tains two significant passages. The | many tongues since it became apparent | conference has been convened “to ton- that Gov. Roosevelt would be a strong |sider the present emergency problems contender for the Democrat!s presi- |in Central Europe,” it is stated. That dential nomination next year. he has|means that the econcmic plight of Ger- undertaken to answer it through Gov.|many is mot the only situation to be Roosevelt himself, and through exami- | confronted. The President adds that nations of Gov. Roosevelt’s condition | “It 18 our understanding that the con- by a group of physiclans selected, at|ference is limited entirely to questions Mr. Looker's Tequest, by Dr. Linsley R.|Of the present emergency.” Williams, director of the New York| This last declaration is notice to all Academy of Medicine. It is Mr. Looker's | concerned that Uncle Sam does nct opinion, based on his own observations | iPtend to be drawn into the vortex of and on the report of the medical spe- | European political discussions, such as | clalists, that there is no question that |the “guarantees” of which the French | Gov. Roosevelt is capable physically of | have been hinting as condition | hoding down the job, if he be elected | Precedent to their participation in Ger- | to the Whits House. man relief measures. The United States | Of the last four Presidents of the |seems minded to put its doliars to roji- | dats !of the major political parties to submit United States, including President Hoover, incumbent, one died in office and a second was seriously ill for the last year of his term of service. Per- haps it might be as well for all candi- for the presidential nominations themselves, as Gov. Roosevelt has done, to physical examination prior to the party nominating convetions. Gov. Roosevelt, it is true, has suffered obvi- ously from a serfous illness, an attack of “infantile paralysis” in 1921. His legs have been weakened greatly by the disease, but he is declared to 'be an athlete from his waist up. Other poten- tial candidates for the presidential nominations may suffer from maladies which are m#t so visible to the eye of the public. Gov. Roosevelt is serving his second term as chief executive of the Empire State; an office that requires much ac- tivity. He has gone through two cam- paigns within the last three years in |ing tn tbe “Central European emer- geney,” but will not be inveigled into & debate as to whether Germany should bulld another “pocket battleship,” dis- band her militant ex-service men’s or- ganisations or shelve tariff union with Austria. et T Solemn prophecy is made to the ef- fect that stock market quotations will not go to & high figure and stay there. This should cause no surprise. They never do. Restoration of confidence is not expected to prevent fluctuations of price. Speculators are always at hand and the stock ticker is never out of & job. A reasonable security for the legitimate is all that conditions, how- ever favorable, should be expected to supply. (EEIP —— QGeneral prosperity is promised by Mussolini with only the condition laid down that he be supported in con- ducting the affairs of Italy sirictly and New York State, winning both. His friends insist that his state of health is no drawback to his candidacy for| Foets Who refer to wheat as golden the presidency. Whither it was so in- | §T8in offer no ideas of a way in which tended or not, the asticle in Liberty is | this particular kind of gold can be sat- calulated to set at test the whispering | STACtorfly utilized in public finances. campaign which has been in existence " o e for a long time regarding *he physical | All S0rts of nicknames are appiled to capacity of Gov, Roosevelt for the office Uncle Sun from “Shylock” to “Simple of President. Such a campaign has|S™oP” o e T been launched by opposing Democrats. and such a campaign may be launched SHOOTING STARS. by the Republicans, if Roosevelt be the selection of the Democratic national convention hext year. —————r— One of the features that appeared to simplify Sovietism was the level com- pensation of all classes of workmanship. The necessity of rearranging wage scales to provide degrees of reward corresponding to degrees of merit will bring up one-of the most serious prob- lems with which Dictator Stalin has been confronted. i When attention is called to the ex- travagant sums paid to radio enter- tainers for 90 minufes a week—ffteen minutes a night for six nights—re- quests from ordinary persons for a five- hour day and a five-day week seem, after all, modest enough. . Quick trips from Rapidan Camp to |the White House are necessary in the course of international debt discussion, |\ Paul Revere did his best in a historic emergency, but did not ride as fast as he could have gone in a modern motor | car. ! g L ey Fascists on Parade. Considerably more impressive than| “I tell you,” said Farmer Corntossel, the acrimonious feud now definitely | “bein’ & sherif around here is a mighty raging between Premier Mussolini and | hard job.” b the Vatitan is the announcement that | “You never arrest anybody.” ; Fascism plans a colossal demonstration | “No. But there's an awful lot o of its military might. Promulgated in |false alarms. Evéry tme one o these the same fulminating declaration that [Summer girls sees & caterpiliar you breathes fire and brimstone in the di- |think there’s & murder beln’ com- Tection of the Papal government, the | mitted.” e announcement has only one, and an un- Shameless Insect. mistakable, meaning. It denotes that|qme fiy his impudence repeats the Black Shirts intend to give an oc- | 1, yndisguised elation; ular manifestation of their power and | ge makes himself at home and eats determination to “defend the revolu-| without an invitation. tion * * * against whomsoever.” i ‘This belligerent purpose is set forth in Silent Communication. “Do you believe in telepathy?” a paragraph of the manifesto which says: “The Fascist party spurns the | “Well,” replied Miss Cayenne, “I am grave attempts by which it is sought to | convinced that thoughts are sometimes depreciate its faith already proven by |conveyed without words. For instance, sacrifices. The National Fascist party | when I step on a hotel plazsa full of 1s not a party like others, past and pres- | women who look startled and whose ent. It is an organization of combat, of | conversation suddenly ceases, I know nmmmzype.mtnuunwnuuuymmnumum‘ revolution and has the mperative duty | about.” of protecting it.” ‘Achk " Atter protesting the “les” And Ge- |y neighis by great men seaehed and nouncing the “affirmations” made in kept were not attained by sudden Vatican quarters against the flight"— Pascist youths' organization, Musso-| g, sings the poet old. linl's political organization outlines the |1mis was before the airplane swept plans for the % display of its across the sky both day and night. armed strength. It claims a member- | jy's different now, we're told. ship of 873,000 adults and 642,000 youths. Behind this “active force” is invariably according to his own idéas. b BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Good Ol Times. |on, bring me back the memory Of scenes now passed away, Of things which seem just now so dear— More dear than I can say. Bring forth the old newspaper file And let me read once more Of how the mercury went down As ne'er it did before; Of snowdrifts reaching to the neck, Of water pipes that froze, Of blizzards in procession ranged— ©Oh, let me read of those. Those bygone days—we met them then ‘With disapproving brow; But bying the old newspaper file, ‘We'll revel in them now. An Orator Antleipated. “The power of the press is very great,” remarked the ready-made philosopher. “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum.’ “It has interfered with my prospects con- siderably. All the good storles get into print before 1 have a chance to tell them to my constituents.” Shrieks. “Dis world would run easier,” said “if dar was some way of befo'/e trouble - l BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “To_grow roses in your must, first. That is rden yqu have roses in your irt.” is all very pretty, reverend sir, but it isn't wholly true. One of the crabbedest old fellows we ever knew grew the most beautiful roses we ever saw. H: was, of course, tremendously in- terested in his flowers, and in this very practical sense the beautiful gentiment hen one thinks of ‘“roses in the heart,” however, one is most likel think of beauty, sweetness and light, and that sort of thing. We have never bsen able to see that people who like roses particularly well are afy better people, any nicer people, any kinder or sweeter people than the vast bulk of human bzings who may or may mot love the queen of flowers. * xR R Indeed, one must be a little bit crabbed, it seems to me, to be able to ‘g:lw roses to perfection—they are such peramental besuties and so deg: i ent upon the vagaries of the weather. Last Summer there was not a spot of mildew in the land. Crimson rambler and other roses addicted to this vice remained as fresh as a newly washed dinner plete. Owing to the rains of this Spring and Summer, these same vines this year have been coated with the fungus. Roses ing last year, least in our garden. Let us put it that way, because maybe other gardeners spray more or have been more fortunate. For many years the writer here con. fortune in gardening, that chance had nothing to do with it. but that money, intelligence and work comprised the magic trio which made for success. It is an admirable thesis, but we are beginning to suspeet that there is just a little hokum in it, after all. * % x % The rose remains the queen of flowers, beloved of most people, and through the |genmmm, but a gardener honest with imaelf, especlally if he be of the pure amateur variety, may question whether it is worth the trouble it costs. For the rose is a troublesome flower to_grow, and even its enthusiasts will admit as much if you eatch them in an open frame of mind &nd they do not think they will be, quoted. Rosebushes l’n%u re three to four times as much attention as any other | flower almost, and for this time and {trouble repay the gardener with one, or at most two, good ‘mings a year. ‘This is, of coursé, one or two more bloomings than the iris, or the peony, or the dahlia, or the gladiolus, furnishes its devotees. And then there is the bloom itself. * ok ox ¥ Well, criticism fades in the face of a rose, nl’nmun be admitted. Something elemental, besutiful, there s about the rose which endears it to A1l peoples of all lands. It is not the fragrance, especially of the modern sorts, for this is cloying and often as- soclated with sadness. The charm of the rose lies not in its color, because the tull] and others have them “faded” in this respect. Rather it is the form of the rose, its interesting petal formation, which makes it what it is today and what it always has been. It is a blossom whose unfolded bud holds the mystery of life, whose opened form reveals beauty in its essence. One is silent except to praise in the face of a rose flower, P *xx ¥ ‘The trouble with the roses for many lies exactly there. When not in flower they tend to become a nuisance. They require more work than the average home gardener is likely to give them, and repay him poorly as a result. Probably the point at which most amateurs fall down in rose culture is in feeding. Many bushes of which owners complain have a starved, half-sick look, :‘h;g:dCIn be due to nothing except lack President Hoover's ~ dispatch of Secretaries Stimson and Mellon to the London conference on Germany is an expression of his determination to see things through—the things he set go- ing with the moratorium plan of June 20. In a way, the latest White House move called for even more “‘nerve” than the debt suspension did. When the two chief members of the Hoover cabinet sit in with the heads of the British, French, Italian, Belgian and German governmentss on July 20, Uncle Sam will be “intervining” in European affairs on full-dress lines. It's enough to make Henry Cabot Lodge, Frank Brandegee, Medill McCormick and other field marshals of the Batalion of Death turn in their graves. That it summon some of their surviving brethren—notably Hiram Johnson—to the battle front again can hardly be doubted. That noblest of all irrecon- cilable’ Romans, Senator Borah, has ‘maintained an ominous silence during the later developments of the German rellef pregram.g He is understood to harbor certal mental reservations about it, but is not unburdening self until all detalls are settled and known. * x % % ‘There are all the earmarks of a first- class row in the blast that emanates from the Lynchburg sanctum of Sena- tor Carter Glass. The Virginia editor- statesman, who disputes if he does not actually share, the authorship of the Federal Reserve law with former Sena- tor Robert L. Owen, brother Democrat. of Oklahoms, is steamed up over pro- spective participation of Federal Re- serve banks in big loans to Germany. Glass says, roundly, that there's no warrant under banks to do anything of the sort. As the peppery Southerner right now is chairman of the Senate Subcommittee cha with recommending changes in the eral Reserve system, he speaks with uncommon authority. “Utterly lawless,” “dishonor” and ‘discreditable” are some of the epithets the glum and glowering Glass hurls at projected ar- rangements to “thrust the Federal Re- serve into the maelstrom of this Eu- ropean financial panic.” Them is strong words, but probably only & mur- mur compared to the thunderbolts Dixie's little giant will unleash in the Senate as soon as he gets a chance. * ok ok X . ‘Two_ episodes—one Republican, the other Democratic—engage the attention of political X-ray specialists at Wash- ington this Ynk' One lla the sudden emergence of a pictorial campaign de- signed to keep Calvin Coolidge before of readers and general do not look as flourish- | the tended that there was no such thing as | the statutes for the | jected ‘There can be little question that the majority of would-be horticulturists are afraid of fertilizers. They lave listened 80 much to warni about “burning” their plants thi use substances containing the elements of plant growth |and nutrition with a. niggardly hand, zhe‘:nl ':onder why they get little, i any, esults. Roses come in the class of gross feed- ers, and will thrive on a great deal more food than most growers will give them. to | Feeding, however, is by no means all there is to the growin, good 5 Much depends on getting good bushes | to begin with, and here the average planter is at the mercy of others. He will be confused by the dispute between the advocates of “own root” and “':rlll;la" l’t&cl. Ind‘ v'l‘l‘l: in time come wonder if any of m knot hi they are talking about. e * x ok ¥ Many roses have a disagreeable habit of suffering severely in e bud when rain strikes them. The flowers open poorly, often “bullnosed,” as it is called, and sometimes show black in the centers, These habits prevent this flower from being_trouble-free, and thereby endear it, no®doubt, to thoss particular persons who have the time to cavote to watch- ing their charges, or who possess the money to hire other people to watch | of roses. em. ‘Those who merély want a nice gar- den, as it is called, with some roses, will probably not bs willing to go to the extended trouble which godd rose grow- ing requires of all except the extremely fortunate. 4 We would 8d“ise all new home own- ers in particu/ar to go slowly in the | making of a rose garden. No doubt | roses are the very first things you want to grow, but they should be the very last. Get good grass, start your shrubs, grow plenty of anbuals, begin on the crennial border, and see to it that you “:ve plenty of irls and gladioli and the e. Then, and not till then. think about roses on a large scale. There will be plenty of time to grow them when the other things are attended to and the amount of garden space has been ad- Justed to the demands of the remainder of the garden. o oo | To all but the born rose culturist | there are other parts of the garden, ! after all. ‘The most important of these is the ass. The lawn remains the primary eature of every good garden, except those show places where flower beds usurp all except narrow spaces for walkways. One would say nothing against such gardening. It is interest- ing and has its place. Its place, however, is scarcely in the | average home grounds. There nothing can take the place of lawn, for it is at once the background and frame of the entire home picture, to say nothing of being a beautiful thing in itself. The lover of the seashore finds him- self homesick for the roar of the break- ers. That low, monotonous music, even more than the fragrance of salt atr. calls him home again. At the shore e 15 able to look for hours upon the rolling ;:'l;“;lldtlt the white-crested break- out ever once growing tired of the eternal picture. = # nearest approach the city home lover has to this fine enthusmrryl is his ability to find solace and beauty in a | 80od green sward. He may not be aware ;7{ lt,hl:.ut he ’l.sh let:m: more pleasure rom his grass than from all his flows pu;u together. i s eyes can watch the 1 minutes at a time, not only :‘i:;. vlglt- :hyalcll benefit, but also with good to is immortal soul. The steady monotony of the green plain is akin to the rolling main in essential characteristics. Sometimes after a thunder shower the home owner even gets into his nostrils the fragrance of the everlasting seas as the fresh odor arises from the wet fl’l?flb-l:d shrubbery. A rose is beauti- , but a green lawn has somethi above and beyond beauty in it. . WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. East Side, where the former Governor got his political start and still main- tains a voting domicile. If Smith is shorn of Tammany influence, the cause of Franklin D. Roosevelt should be the gainer. Roovevelt, at any rate, is credited with the complex that Tammany, under Al's spur, has sworn to block the pres- ent Governor’s path to glory in 1932. *xox % Unless the diplomatic blue book is going to be cluttered up with Davilas the State Department may have to de- clare a moratorium on any more for- eign envoys of that name being sent to ‘Washi, . _Now comes Davila No. 3— Senor n Celeo Davila, who has just presented his credentials as Minister of Honduras. Davila No. 1, in point of time seniority, is Senor Don Carlos G. Davila, Ambassador of Chile, who ar- rived in October, 1927. Davila No. 2 is Charles A. Davila, Minister of Rumania, who dates from October, 1920. The Chilean diplomat accents the “a” in his surname as & 1 mark of distine- tion. * ok k% Only 24 hours before speeches re- dedicating the tomb of Abraham Lin- coln recently laimed to the world his high IdnE of emancipation, the Illinols Legislature refused for the fourth time to give women the right to serve on jurles. Reports received by the National League of Women Voters tell once again “the story of the fail- ure of a governing body to act in ac- cordance with what is ap] will of the governed.” Lej viding for women’s jury been advocated in Illinois si Enabling bills were successively re- by the Legislature in that year, in 1925 and in 1927. In 1829 the necessary measures were gnud. but with a provision for a popular referen- dum. In 1930 the voters of the State approved the bills by 700,000 majority. But last Spring the Illinois Supreme Court declared the law unconstitu- tional, In June there was a despera effort to repass the legislation, but parliamentary maneuvers blocked it. . x o kK No doubt any longer exists that merry debates about the Philippines will fea- ture the next session of the Senate. Sen- ators Hawes of Missouri and Pittman of Nevada, Democrats, who've just reviewed ) 0,000 Filipinos demon- of 3 Ciete and immediate focireecn ot are expected independence” at Manila, to upt. the fireworks off. Senator Van- Republican, of Michigan, who s Al e o . ihe leader ot o Indiana and oddlem o'!i 'l'le- ns—I ng g m"thc once-over, to be in the ng with Vanden- doesn’t appreciably cramp m?muun‘l canlvemumm style—at least over the teleph! a'r.rmmwmmmlmmc the number of long-distance calls handled for the fi six months of 1931 was only about 3 per cent less the same 1930 on January 1, 1931 (Copyright, 1931) o Perhaps Campaigners Prom the Charleston (W. Va.) Da Now that & is being {lons in this great granie structure to k\’STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1931 THIS AND THAT Washington’s Needs For the Bicentennial To_the Editor of The Bta ‘Washington is looking forward to vast numbers of visitors during 1932, but, in far as the general public is aware, little preparation has been made for their comfort or convenlence. Most these hundreds of thousands will ar- rive by automobile, and doubtless will be both chagrined and disgusted to find that even on very wide thoroughfares the most inconvenient and space-wast- ing method of parking known to per- verse mfanuuy is required—parallel. They will perhaps be astonished to find that, while the voteless citizens pay for street paving by direct taxation, those in authoriiy appear determined to make the use of streets by its citizens, nearly)| all of whom ride in machines, as diffi- cult and unsatisfactory as possible, ‘These visitors will be primarily in- terested in the great Government build- ings, museums and libraries, which are grouped at magnificent distances from each other. They will have to pay taxi bills from morning to night, or walk, as their own machines will have to be parked out in Maryland or Virginia. During the Summer these people will become converts to the mistaken theory | that. Weshington has 4 tropical climate. ‘This could be largely dissipated by the installation of numerous outdoor drink- ing fountains at regular intervals along Pennsylvania avenue and at prominent corners on Fourteenth street and other points. It would be an act of pitality for a number of these fountains to be equipped with water-cooling ap- paratus, which may be accomplished at moderate cost. and thirsty visitors re- suled with delightful ice water on sultry ays. Two of the buslest entrances to the Capital are Highway B and the Seventh street wherves. e Abomi- nable paving from Highway Bridge to | the Bureau of Engraving gives a very undesirable impression to the visitors arriving from the South, it having a slovenly and downrin-the-heel appear- ance. Those who come and go by boat may bump over the same rough Belgian blocks which have remained undisturbed for many years, some say for a genera- tion. along Water street. I Visitors from the North and East will no doubt wonder why the gloomy viaducts on H sireet and Rhode Island avenue are not made safe and sensible by two or three coats of white paint, which will reflect the daylfght and the searchligh's of the macl 3 while on the subject of pain liness, some property owners have shown the right spirit by steam-eleaning their buildings. One of the most prominent, most finely designed, and filthiest build- ings on the exterior is the United Siates Treasury. Cannot The Star or some other in- fluential agency wheedle the proper authorities into spending sufficlent of the small change housed with the bil- steam-clean it to its pristine whiteness and beauty? Surely Uncle 8am does not need to keep his wealth in a dirty pocketbook. A few new and attractive commercial structures have been recen'ly erected in Washington, but the business district as a whole is a_conglomeration of sooty, red brick bulldings of uncertain age and nondescript architecture. Owners and tenants wishing to make marked improvement in the appearance of these old facades should take a cue from the ladies and investigate the appear- ance possibllities of paint; not red, how- ever, but white! It is remarkable how ugly old bufldings may be made to look almost new and attractive by painting the brickwork. As a final touch to this salmagundi of suggestions, why not attire the lonn- suffering policemen and traffic officers, next Summer, in cool, light uniforms, preferably white? This would be an act of humanity to the men and also dem- onstrate that Washingion has an up- to-date idea at least once in a bicen- tennial. ROSSEL EDWARD MITCHELL. High Speeds “E'm;; Hours Not an Offénse To_the Editor of The Star: | I believe many other readers of The Star share with me my indignation over the account of how Policeman Ray- mond Sinclair “broke all his own rec- ords” by arresting 32 motorists, or an avercge of one every 10 minutes between 1 and 6 o'clock on the morning of July 8, all of them “driving at least 30 miles an hour.” Why thouldn’t motorists at 1 a.m. drive 30 miles an hour, and why should they be arrested for it? I was not arrested mysdlf, do not know any of those who were, and have no interest in the matter save as a citizen. But the whole thing strikes me as an incredible performance, made worse by the commendation given the officer by Judge Gus Schuldt who fined the unfortunate drivers from $5 to $35. Tens of thousands of Washifigtonians every Summer make en early start through the city streets on their vaca- tions by cer; they know how absurd a 20 or 25 mile speed limit through empty, des:rted streets is. In the past week end I came through lower Manhattan at 4 am. at 40 miles an hour, and every other car I saw was traveling the :;n:.! sp;em ln is :oll:‘\:mmovledge 2t such early morning s obtain in Philadelphia and Baltimore. On the face of the news story it is obvious that to make an arrest “every 10 min- utes” this officer must simply have ar- rested every driver in sight. It is the same kind of ridiculous official beau- reaucrat outlook that keeps Washington policemen wearing coats when the tem- perature is 100 degrees; that keeps ‘Washington with an antiquated method of traffic street-corner turns that every other city in the Nation has abap- doned. It harks back to the time when an English law provided that every motor vehicle must be preceded by a man on foot carrying a red flag! 1 think I speak for many other drivers who believe that to arrest a motorist at 1 a.m. for driving “at least 30 miles an hour” is an outrage. RICHARD LEE STROUT. e ! “Rogues’ Gallery” of Dead Beats Proposed To the Editor of The Star: From the number of people in the Municipal Court daily for non-pay- ment of debts, it wculd appear that we are overstocked with those rightly termed as “dead beats.” Unemploy- ment may have something to do with this condition and force people to do things they would never_ think of if they had employment. But a fellow who buys things he knows he cannot B, for because he gets them on credit not doing what an honest person would do uni tances. Those merchants who extend credit to those who do not deserve it, by fail-: ing to pay their bills, should be better protected, because a judgment against such people is often uncollectable. Years ago a creditor could put a debtor “behind the bars.” Think of the size our jails would have to be if this cus- tom was resorted to toda Bt the to, and “fin sition coul uns! one. The A, T. Dog'.Wnn‘t Write Book. From the Hamilton (Ontario) .:-;w. ‘ One about that dog w] wenf over th:m:‘figmn Falls and survived— he will not write & book about it. Neighbors’ Radios Enough. From the Albany Evening News. One doesn't need a radio in the Summer. He can hear all stations on BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘The answers to questions printed here each day are specimens picked from"the mass of inquiries handled by our great Information _Bureau, maintained in wuh!n&w? D.C. is valuable service is for the free use of the public. Ask any question of fact you may want to know and you will get ai ate reply. Write plainly, inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage, and ddress The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. When playing auction bridge, if the score of the side which did not win two games is the higher, which side is creglwd with winning the rubber?—N. P.C. A. The side which has won two games acds a bonus of 250 to its honor scoré. The side then having the greater total of points wins the rubber. Q. Did Max Schmeling fight Jack Dempsey in Europe?—M. B. L A. Jack Dempsey boxed some exhibi- tion rounds with Max Schmeling in Europe. Q. Will a bull charge a black flag as readily as a red one?—C. M. A. It is the object and not the color which attracts the animal. He will charge either with equal anger. Q. What is the origin of the expres- ston “8o long”?—G. G. P. A. It is an English provincielism which was introduced into the United States. J. Redding Warein his “Pass- ing of the English of the Victorian Era” speaks of the custom in England of adopting the words of foreigners resi- dent there and Anglicizing them, and mentfons as an instance the expression | “So long.” which he believes originated in the White Chapel district of London being a corruption of the Jewish “selah,” a phrase which spread all over England. Q. What is the word which exrrefie.t & morbid fear of death and of dead bodies?—C. D. A. It is called “necrophobia.” Q. When Yellowstone National Park {18 closed for the season is it possible for tourists to go in?—J. H. A. Yellowstone National Park is offi- cially closed on September 20. This means that the large hotels are no longer open, but there are limited ac- commodations until the middle of Octo- ber. After this date the superintendent of the park uses his own judgment as to whether the roads are in too bad a condition to allow tourists to pass over them. Tourists would not be allowed to use roadways that are dangerous. Q. Is there a kangaroo rat?>—W. J. A. There is. It is the size of an ordi- nary rat, but has short forelegs and long hindlegs. Q. When the president or chairman of an organization leaves the chair to take part in the debate of a question under consideration should he resume the chair when he has finished his re- marks?—T H. G. A. To safeguard his reputation for | impartiality he should not return to the | chair untii the question under debate | has been disposed of and the result an- | nounced by the chairman pro tem. Q. How far back does Greek history | go?—C. E. W. | A The oldest documentary evidence | in Grzek goes back no farther than the | eighth century B.C. The earliest his- | torical date is that of the Olympian | games, 776 B.C. Q. If the Arlington Bridge is an arc of a circle, what is the diameter of the circle?—D. A. A. The Arlington Memorial Bridge | special sul ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ‘4 gommusbn says that the Arnnf: emorial ‘Bridge, connecting Wash! ton with the Virginia shore, in plan is tangent and in section the surface of paving is a- compound parabolic curve, which rises 11 feet in the center above the elevation at the lons. The arches themselves are of different lengths, and are cambered arcs of cir- cles approximating ellipses. Q. How is the name of the Cuban game “pelota” pronounced?—C. B. A. It sounds as though spelled “pay- low-tah,” accent on second syllable. Q. What was the date of the balioon ?—J. 8. G. A t Piccard and Charles Kipi eir journey into the stratosphere May 27, 1931. Q. How did the\United States finance the Civil War?—S. C. R. A. The United States Government met the expenses of the Civil War by laying an income tax of 3 per cent on all incomes over $800, by tariff duties, | by internal revenue and by issuing in- terest-bearing bonds to the extent of $1,199,000,000 and non-interest-bearing notes to the extent of $450,00,000. Q. Who invented the telephone?— G.H. ‘A. The Supreme Court has definitely settled the question of the invention of the telephone. This is credited to Alex- ander Graham Bell. Italians, however, are equally confident that the honor should be given to Meuect. Q. If fish will not bite, is it a sign that no fish are present in that par- ticular place at that particular time?— K. T. A. It may often mean that the water | 1s ideal for fish, in that it contains & variety of desirable foods, and that the bait 1S lost among so many other objects at which the fish may bite. At Juch. times the angler’s skill will be taxed ts find some unusually attractive lure. Q. What teams in the major leagues | have not participated in a world series? | —J. H. K. o | A, Every team has at one time or | another played in a world series except |that of St. Louis of the American League. Q. Does the United States get a m share of pupils who are studying out | their own countries?—N. G. | A It has more foreign students than any other country. Last year about | 15,000 foreigners were enrolled in Amer- ican cblleges and preparatory . About 5000 Americans are enrolled In universities abroad. Q. 1s the population of Brazil dis- | tributed evenly over the entire country? —R. D. | A. Nearly the entire population of | Brazil is found on a comparatively nar- | row strip of land, extending southward along the Atlantic Coast and on the banks of the Amazon. Q. Were there secret socleties among the Indians?—D. N. * A. There were many. On the plains the larger numbers of these were war societies. Some dealt with healing, some with reilgious mysteries. others with jects interesting to their de- gree of civilization. Q. Please give recipe for tomato juice cocktail —C. H. M. A. A simple one follows: One cupful tomato juice, one tablespognful mild vine- gar, two teaspoonfuls sugar, one bay leaf, one teaspoonful minced or crushed onjon, one tablespoonful lemon juice, one bruised celery stalk. Mix ingredi- ents and allow to stand for 15 minutes. Strain through cheesecloth and chill. Hope of Disarmament Gains As Result While events in Germany have been serious enough to cause much specula- tion as to future financial developments, the public looks upon the moratorium agreement as having definite importance, chiefly because it reveals a possibility of achieving co-operation in the disarma- This is generally accepted as the goal of President Hoover. “The administration is entirely within logical bounds to expect that a definite advance toward further international disarmament easily can and should be made,” declares the Rochester Times- Union. The Daily Capital holds that “if the same skill and firmness are in evidence in putting forward the American m of disarmament which the ident has shown in car- rying through the moratorium proposal, the prospects of the February confer- ence have undoubtedly brightened.” “With reduction in armament,” says the Indianapolis Star, “would come real- ization of the waste and folly of exces- sive armies and navies. There al would be greater confidence in neigh- bors who are not armed to the teeth. | International good will and trust would | bring a sense of security without arma- ment, just as there is between this coun- try and Canada or Mexico. It is gen- erally recognized that there would have bzen no World War in 1914 if Europe had not been prepared for one.” The Providence Bulletin feels that “it will be a further ten-strike for American diplomacy and moral leadership if the major stumbling block to success at the next disarmament conference can be removed.” “Mr, Mellon,” thinks the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, “has been in the ex- tremely fortunate position of being in full command of financial and other relefant facts which are at best diffi- zult to force through involved diplomatic obliquities.” Observing the “unprece- dented speed” of the negotiations, Lincoln State Journal feels that “muti- 1ation of the plan was avolded through the te ways stood, conservative and takes her place,” as- ta Journal, “in the neral t to President Hoover's ,” in the judgment of the Fort W Star-Telegram, “should show conclusively the ease with which gov- ernments can be brought into practical g | ral want, and we are gfiagégfi it lso | are able of Moratorium finds satisfaction in the fact that Ger- many pledges that “the amount released {from immediate &-yment will be utilized only for promoting economic recovery.” The Seattle Daily Times states: “We are demonstrating our unselfish desire to heln the world to an economic re- covery.” The Roanoke World-News of- fers the judgment: _“Acceptance by France of President Hoover's proposal for postponement of intergovernmental debts for one year seems to assure suc- cess of a plan on which all other inter- ested nations have already expressed warm aj al. What that year will bring forth no man can now say, though many predict that postponement for an- sther year wjll then be necessary. What seems more apparent is that within that year there must be a new consideration of the debt and reparations question, coupled directly with the question of disarmament. Nations that are able to maintain standing armies and expensive fleets and to build immense fortifications pay their debts.”. oo “Rents” Should Supply Needs of Social Growth To the Editor of The Star: We have habits in thought as in other things, and it is very difficult for educated and influential people to an opinion they have flattered with their confidence when confronted ‘with a new idea that conflicts with it, so the utmost that any reform has to contend with is the good: people who are wrong. As Mr. Wilson expressed it, “In pub- lc affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery because it is harder to fight and dislodge.” All educated people believe that death and taxes are inevitable. is a the | blend of knowledge and education, and 1t occurs to but few that knowledge and education are not one and the same thing. Education ascured us, at one time, that the world was flat, and the educated stand today, as they have al- squsze across the path of progress until aside by some radical endeavor dem- onstrating the truth. We refer to our milk bill and our water tax, but if we get what we pay for in cases, there seems to be no reason for using the word tax. As a matter of fact, there seems to be no good reason ‘we should be taxed. ‘We should pay for what we get and, by the same tokem, get what we pay for. to insure our right to liberty and the pursuit of happi- ness,” but that is a natural right for which we should not pay ransoms, trib- ute or tax. Man is driven: by his instincts and his needs to form soclety. Society thus formed has certain needs and func- tions for which a revenue is required. These needs and functions increase with the social development, requiring la and larger- revenue. ‘There is a natural way of satisfying every natu- justified in look- ing for a natural way to meet the natural juirement of society. Inas- much as val ueleg.lmfl. of which Nature n e