Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1931, Page 8

A-8 THE EVENING STAR I With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. at stake. Another angle also enters “mlu(on. But as far as the press reports into the matter and that is the manner | show, it has served chiefly as a topic in which many-of these hackers operate | for humorous descriptions of its utter their cars through the cit; They are | futility. No one, apparently, has been STAR, WA THIS AND THAT SHING NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM skillful drivers, adinittedly, but some of | able {0 cope with the problem of quiet- S July 21, 19311}, om are reckless and inconsiderate of the rights of others. Certainly, it appears reasonable to be- lieve that there is room enough in & eity THEODORE W. NOYES. . Es. .. .Editori , ing fire engines, or ambulances, or police tr2ffic whistles, or the sirens that notify the workd in general that guardians of the law are proceeding on a “surprise” BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. 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The Ascociated Press is exclustvely entitled o the vse for repudlication of ail news ci patches credited to it or not otheiwise cred- ited in this paver and also the local news published herein. Al rights of publicatl The London Conference. Either Germany’s need for financial ald is not nearly so extreme or exten- sive as the world has been led to be- lleve, or France has made it impossible for assistance to be rendered on the required scale. One or the other of these conclusions is inescapable in light of the news that Chancellor Bruening “decided early this morning” to with- draw the Reich’s plea for a $325,000.- 000 loan, hitherto described as the irreducible minimum if Germany is to be “saved.” The chancellor, this sud- den announcement states, will for the ! present ask only for a continuance of existing short-term credits Approxi- mating $1,250,000,000. It is inconceivable have, at a flash, discovered that their economic rehabilitation plans, based on a huge new external loan, can be held | in abeyance. Only today the world learns from President Hindenburg's plea to President Hoover on June 20— eve of the moratorium proposal — of “the dire distress of the German peo- ple.” In opening the ministerial con- ference last evening, Prime Minister MacDonald said he wanted to stress the necessity of coming to decisions “with the greatest possible expedition.” London dispatches throw pretty def- fnite light on the kaleidoscopic crange in the situation. They set forth that the only country from which Germany can get a long-term credit is France The British and American money mar- kets, apparently, are not satisfied that they can at this time increase their already prodigious investment stake in the Reich. France, on the other hand, we are informed, “cannot make such a loan unless political and finan- cial guarantees are given by Germany such as the German chancellor, in view of the strained situation in his coun- try, cannot give” French Premier Laval says he “understands Chancellor Bruening's predic#ment,” but that Prench public opinion cannot and will not “let up” on the conditions it re-| quires from the Germans. Thus, reduced to essentials, it ap- pears to be a question of Germany | knuckling under on propositions which President Hindenburg has pronounced humiliating and unacceptable, or going without the help the Reich has been claiming so bitterly to need as the price of economic existence. cellor Bruening is reported to have ithdrawn” the plea for a $325,000.0C0 loan on the “advice” of Prime Minister MacDonald. If that canny Scot has tendered such counsel, it can only be that he has urged the Germans to make & virtue of necessity, and go without the money which they can only obtain at a politically usurlous rate of interest. On the face of things, the Berlin government seems doomed to have to content itself with further efforts to, put its house in order so that eventual- 4 lin the selection of the convention city, that the Germans Chan- | the size of Washington for both !"m{mcmg expedition of some sort or car service and taxicab service, but if { another, the District is not to turn over "“e& And until the city governments them- streets entirely to the taxi Interest-—at | seives show some disposition to find & the same time putiing the sireet €ar|gupctitute for noise as a safety device, companies out of business—1i must se%|.ng apandon sirens and shrieking a limit on the number of cabs, Which ! wpiones and horns, the private citizen are adequate In their fleld to take Care | ) yuen tngtruments as loud speakers of the needs of the Natloral Capital { iy continye to add his bit without As far as the bad driving hablts of iy, 4 noe g nos at least, the rather ome of the hackers are concerned $he | o g ocuse that o many and so in police could well take & hand and see i, . "\ “opo Giher nolses, that the | q ; t it that strict discipline was en- | forced. Maatinnton of course, wants | 9l Way to drown them out s to make Jow taxi rates, but to gain them 1t is ‘lnmlher—louder and more insistent Inot willing to have the city tumedilha“ the rest. over to a reckless milling mass of pub- | lic vehicle operators. S " Philadelphia’s Bid. Philadelphia has put in its plea for the next Republican National Conven- |tion. If fidelity to the G. O. P. counts | . A Rival for Hawks. 1t looks very much as if Capt. Frank Hawks had a formidable rival for air speed honors in James Goodwin Hall, ex-wartime fiyer, who mixes his old love, aviation, with his brokerage busi- ness in New York. Hawks in one of his numerous startling exploits in his red mystery plane had established a New York-Havana record of eight hours and forty-four minutes, quite a nice mark in view of the fact that the distance between the two points is some fourteen hundred miles. Hall, however, decided that Hawks should not be allowed a monopoly on all the speed records and despite the difficulty of the task announced that he in- tended to garner the Havana title. And he would have won it but for taking a few minutes too long in re- fueling in Miami, where he stopped for fitty-six and one-half minutes. With this stop he made the flight in eight hours and fifty-one minutes, seven minutes above the record, but in actual Mayor Harry Mackey of Philadelphis, | o e r:':;:_’";:‘":;": submiiting the invitaton of WAL|ue more gpeed could have been made to Chaiman Fess of the Repub- |y, ropyeling his plane there would be & {lican Nation#l Committee yeaterda)-,‘xn“ champion of the New York-Havana | pointed to the fact that cities have been 1, oqqy. . seiected on the theory that the holding | Hawks should and undoubtedly does lof the convention would strengthen the | yelcome the competition. Certainly, the | party in that par ticular city and State. | puplic does. Speed achievements in the {The mayor was inclined to doubt the |air make for faster commercial trans- | efilcacy of such a move, but he added | port aviation, and quicker travel is what jthat if help could be given to the Re- |the public desires. Already the effects | publican party in that way, Philadel- of Hawks' pioneering and the phia and Pennsylvania might be glad demand for speed are being felt |of a little help next y He may commercial lines and they are acting have had his tongue in his cheek when | accordingly, speeding up their schedules | he made this statement. At any rate.|and in general cuiting down the time not even the most optimistic Democrat— between cities. It is & healthy and and there are millions of them today— | typically American type of progress. { really hopes to be able to carry the City | - B " of Brotherly Love or the Keystone State| A true statesman seeks o earn the | for a Democratic nominee for President | enduring praise of his countrymen, but | next year. is lable to find, that his career has |1t rumors be true, at least one Penn- | been unsympathetically used by pub- | sylvanian has the presidential bee in | lishers to promote a series of best sellers. | his bonnet—no less a person than Gov. | - 1(;, ord Pinchot. The delegation head- | Government aid is to be sought in Philadelphia should have as good & {claim as any other city in the country. {In season and out, Philadelphia has voted the Republican ticket. Not since | the fateful year 1900 when Willlam Mc- Kinley was renominated for President !and Theodore Roosevelt was selected as !his running mate has the city held a | Republican national convention. In {recent years the Republicans have \gone to the Middle West for their | quadrennial gatherings. In 1928 it was | Kansas City; in 1924, Cleveland, and in 1920, Chicago. The East, like the | far West, is clamoring now for the cor vention which is to be held next year. | Auantic City, with its hotels and beaches, is another eastern contestant for the honor. i city by the od by Mayor Mackey which came to|connection with the unprofitable | Washington vesterday was probably not | Leviathan. Versatile Uncle Sam is ex- acting in the interest of tue Pennsyl-|Pected to be everything from ‘world | Philadelphia Repub- | banker to captain of a ship. {licans do not cotton to Gov. Pinchot, - |eiio! s been ttwice lelected idespite the | 0 erder tosserve HLS ounbry fwell, | eftorts of the Philadelphia organization | Statesman must know how to speak into to. defeat. his momination, 'What the|the microphone ‘and also ‘when ‘Dot | Governor has to say about Philadelphia | %0 do 0. Republicans is vitriolic. But should' e Philadelphia be selected and should the | Governor obtain an apprectable number {12 PO Sl of the Pennsylvania delegation to the | EEE B TRL | Republican National Convention. the i e L | et mIRI:l(_dm L E——— {son" candidate. | Philadelphia, however, faces a con- | {test with Cleveland. Chicago. Detroit, | Los Angeles and San Francisco for the G. O. P. convention, not to men- | {tion Indianapolis. On the whole, it | considered the part of wisdom b: Republican leaders to pick cities cen- | trally located, in the interest of tbe ! iraveling delegates and the hordes of | | visitors who attend these conventions. The location. as well as the facilities | provided, will be given careful consid- leration by the national committee when it meets here in December to | pick the convention city. Philadelphia’s | [vania Governor. to be drift- Bulifighting appears inconventence. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Precedence. The prisons need reform, they say. The cells are not convenient And discipline from day to day Is not politely lenient. The men are forced to wear their hair In crude and curious fashions. Their garments are not pressed with care | i And homely are their rations. the causation of colds | " The man who has received actual Maybe water in the alr has some- |and uhdoubted benent from the ae af thing to do With it. | ultra-violet rays, as applied in the home, This observation results from sound- | and who has found his colds decreased ings made in those rolling wells of from half a dozen “pippins” every year human nature, the street cars and |to one or two mild_affairs will busses. | laugh quiely to himself at the array of There are more people sneezing on | learned writers who later pop up in the public vehicles this Summer, by per- magazines to declare that man-made haps 1,000 per cent, than last Summer. | ultra-violet is of little, if any, practical And this season is just about that'use in the fight against the common many times as wet as last Summer. | cold, or coryza, * * X% % * X * x | The air of Washington and suburbs | Such a man will pay little attention, public | into second place as a matter of popular | National politics is ' poverty is no disgrace, only a serlous ! 1y, if not now, the world's money POWers | early plea for consideration, however, will be minded to put up required cash | emphasizes the fact ttat the national regardless of French political guaran- ) campaign is just around the corner. tees. If the London Conference, elab- .- orately staged and opened amid world-| Dictators usually admit finally that ‘wide hopes that statesmanship, at long a monarchy has one advantage in the Jast. would give a creditable account of | idea of strict cbedience it is able to stself, breaks up with no more achieved | impress on the masses as & habit of ‘When honest Hezekiah Bings Sets out to go a-touring. | He puts up with a lot of things That do not seem alluring. The food he gets is not at all Like what his home provided. He sleeps in rooms that are so small He has to walk one-sided. that that, it will pass into history as | thought. snother sad case of “Much Ado About | Nothing.” S P Men of great responsibility continue to step forward from the ranks of ob- scurity. The accepted “wise crack” to the effect that names make news is not invariably true. News continues Taxicab Rates. It these taxt wars keep up Washing- tonians will soon be riding alm cheaply as they can in Paris, where, with the difference between A n and French money and low rates in the daytime, cabs have been notoriously inexpensive. When the first “thirty five cent city proper” taxis made their appearance on the stree's the public was very much pleased about the mat- ter. although in a good many cases it viewed with trepidation the fact that the District authorities were unable to control the business in so far zs finan- cial responsibility was concerned. nevertheless it took to tne thirty-five cent cabs like a duck to water and business for the hackers boomed ac- | cordingly. Lately, twenty-five cent cabs have ap- peared and the portion of the public that considered the thirty-five cent rate too high began using these vehicles and also those which charged five cents for the first quarter of a mile and five cents for each quarter thereafter. Now, & company with approximately two hundred taxis has announced that its cars will carry passengers to any point within the city proper for twenty cents and that if other companies meet that rate it will go still lower. Ot course, there are other aspects to the question beside the gratification of But | - .- - 1 Futility of Noise Abatement. | A petition is being circulated in Bal- | timore proposing to make the contin- ! uous playing of a radio, so as to cause | unreasonable annoyance, a misdemean- | or. Those viplating the proposed ordi- | nance would be liable to a maximum fine of ten dollars. A number of prom- inent citizens have already signed the} paper and the regulation may be en- | zcted by the City Council and beceme | {iaw. But one doubts its efficacy. In! | the first place, those persons who keep eir radios running at full blast, | throughout the day and night are not | to be stopped by & ten-dollar fine. { They belong in a class by themselves. | No one. as yet, has devised & practical , | way of stopping them. i Baltimore, with the majority of other : cities, already has a regulation against | “loud and unseemly moise.” and a rau- | cous radio 15 certainly guilty under both | specifications. But the regulation mu‘i not work. The business of making | complaints, of appearing in court, of | Mathematical Proof, arousing the ermity of neighbors and | “You think you ar> twice as great an perhaps of staiting a feud are too com- | actor as your riva'l” | plicated and the average citizen bows| “I am sure of it. I have a contract down before the weight of such pos-|which stipulates that my name shall be sible complications and suffers in si- | double the size of his on the elect ience. merely chcosing the less painful | light signs.” of two alternatives. Here in Washington there are regu- lations against unseemly noise. There are also regulations against fireworks, but with & few exceptions there are no efforts to enforce them. And the sim- | plest explanation of such faflure s that the police do not know where to begin. | The roar of the modern city has be-! come a bediam. Eliminating such! | trifles as loud radios would hardly be! | noticed. i A few years ago a number of ecities Oh. let's reform the stateroom tight In which we cross the briny; The flat in which a ray of light Creeps tremulous and tiny; The factories vast, where burdens great Upon the weak are shifted— Reform them! But by all means wait Tili prisons are uplifted. A Subscriber. “Was that man of much assistance in our great polisieal movement?” “No,” repli:d Senator Sorzhum. “He is one of those people who will subscribe to your opinions, but not to your cam- paign fund.” ~buchadnezzar went out, and te grass, maybe he was tircd of finding canned veg:tables on the table a1l Sum- mer long. Reminder From the Zos. Lives of the giraffes remind us ‘We would siartle every eve, If in swel! tozs thev should find us Wearing coilars f~ur feet high. Roses all a-% s Butterfliss has 1t De robin sir 3 But he say he gineter quit. Dey keeps a-sayin’ melbe A brecze is gineter blow— ©Oh, Mistch Weather Men, Why can't you mention snow? You might as well be sayin” Of kind wcrds j»s’ a few. Dey makes us kind o' cheerful, has been saturated all during July. | | During that time the number of | sneezes per carload, as one might say, | ! has increased to & noticeable extent. Noticeable, let it be admitted, oniy to those who are interested in such matters. A sneeze, to many a person, Is 8 thing of no interest whatsoever. It is passed off without comment, being put in the same classification with winking, looking out the window and listening. | Another class of persons, however, | possesses a most healthy respect for this sad habit. which seems to them | both reptehensible and dangerous and, | in_most instances, unnecessary. | ‘The members of this latter class | usually are persons who have been | forced by their own susceptibility to the so-called common cold to take extra | precautions. Among these precautions they in- | clude refraining from inhaling the sneezes of other people. | Surely_their action is only common sense, and a sanitary measure at the | least. Yet to listen to some of the com- | ments of members of the other group, one might think that inhaling the ‘water vapor from another’s lungs, throat and mouth, in the form of a “good healthy sneeze.” was at once the | most innocent and pleasing recreation in the world. One’s own sneeze, in the privacy of one’s own home, may be, and often is, & very healthy performance—at least, that is the way it appeals to the per- former. But somebody else’s sneeze is not so | healthy—for still somebody else. oo ox The person who has been forced to {take every precaution against taking |colds usually comes to have a well ! merited fear of the promiscuous sneezer. Hence he is the only person whose {word may be taken in regard to the | prevalence of sneezes this year as | checked against those of last season. He knows. Nor is he in the least afraid of the word “fear.” There has arisen, in recent years, hoist astride the broad back of psychol- cgy, the greatest fear of all—the fear ! of fear America is becoming so afraid of fear that parents are told their children should never be made afraid of any- thing. Hence we continue to witness a slaughter of the innocents at the wheels of automobtles. o ox o | | There is such a thing as good fear | and bad fear. | Fear may be sanitary or inimical. Pear is necessary, cifl it what you will. If one does not like the word itself, it is possible to fool one’s self to the extent of lengthening it out to “common sense.” 1f one catches cold easily, it is only common sense to attempt to figure out for one’s self the possible causes. Thus one will be led into a homemade study AZIONE. Florence. — Benito | Mussolini, in a glowing oration, addressed 10,000 university youth of Rome in a gathering which overfiiwed the Piazza Venezia. He spoke from a window of the Palace, and became especially eloquent when he cried. at the same time gesticulating excitedly with his hands: “The students of Italy are ever ready to defend the revolutionary and evolutionary regime, and to defend Fascism against the stupid calumnies_of the anti-Fascist: The werds of 11 Ducs were received with & delirious demonstration that re-echoed through all the adjoining streets and gave unmistakable proof that the ut- terances of the premier are most ac- ceptable to all the pecple. The meeting was planned as a counter to subtle anti-Fascist propa- ganda now being disseminated by tor- eign interests. Il Duce made no spe- cific references, but it is believed tiat the presence of some Belgian sociolo- gsts in Italy, as well as a few politicil Cbservers from other ccunitries. has been viewed with a distrustful eye by the government. After the discourse, numbers of the student audience announced their in- tention of visiting the foreign embas- stes in protest against such tendencies, but were dissuaded by the leader, who said the government was well able to cope with such pernicious develop- ments before they githered momentum. His plea for discipline and order was heard favorably by the majority of the students, though here and there arose shouts of “Down with the traitors!” “Down with the exiles!” There is a “rowing impression through the country that those who have been banished by their activities against the prevailing system have been the insti- gators of attacks on 1l Duce and Fascism from the extericr. Brussels, Paris and Ghent seem at the present to I be the centers of subversive agencies | against the F.scist regime, though so i far largely without the comsent or ! knowledge of their recpective govern- ' ments. | * K X % Shecked to Jearn of Scotland ‘ Yard Press Burcau. ’ The S'atesman and Nation, London. —In fining two newspapers for con- ,tempt of court, the lord chiaf, justice | "made some strong comments upon the | 2iment of crime in the press. He was particularly shocked to hear that a 'nr < bureau existed at Scotland Yard fand expressed the hope that he would | never hear of it again. But many }tnings may egist without the knowledge | for consent o a lord chief justice, and | 1as long as the press is permitied to fe2d the public appetite with the detatls | of crime cases, toe kind of connection | between newspapers and Scotland Yard | agamnct which Lord Hewart protested is | {1uzelv to con:inue, whether there is an lcilicial press bureau or not. Nor would | all the ¢ effects of this marketing of | {erime siot be ended if Lord Hewart | | suceeeds fn making it impossivle for the | | press to prejudice the course of justice | |y discovering and publishing details | labout the lives of persons who may | later be invoived when the case reaches | the courts. The only solution would | apdear to be that suggested by & cor-| irespondent who asks why a law should | {not ke pessed regulating the reporting jof erime on the model of the very suc- icessful legislation which dealt with di- {voree reporting. LY More Honesty Needed In Business. Cologrna Gazctte—It has long been | felt that more horor cr, at least, more | honesty is sorely needed In business. Trade is sick, and lack of confidenee is L i ' Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands | pay much |been an | cisms, .offered in a spirit of good will, | takes the same line in regard to censor- {ship of films as the Saorstat, and we, {the cinema has on our people, form an |opticlans may benefit. but automobile the public at such low rates for taxi-| i cab transportation. They concern chief- | Instituted careful research into the Iy the problem of just how many pri- | problem of roise, but, unfortunatel H vate taxicab companies should be al- | attacked at the wrong end. The result lowed to use the city streets to the | of the research was merely to show the exclusion and inconvenience of the |materal harm that results. There were ‘Washington motorists, and the effect | few practical suggestions for getting at of a large number of cabs upon the the root of the cause and exterminat- t car companies, have big ing it. New York went so far as to set e ts in trackage it up an official Noise Abatement Come at_the root of its ma'ady. Buying and 'selling no longer shouid be debased to a sort of contest In which one party to the trapsactions maies every efiort to Jes' be as gencrous as you kin gain improper advantag» of the other. An’ prophecy some snow. When an'absolute integrity is the foun- sk dation of every sale and eiery purchase, “If folks was descended fum mon- |business again will enioy good health Even if dey don’t com~ true. Dar’s no use bein’ half way Wif comforts you bestow. Keys.” sald Uncle Eben, ‘de hand organ a0d every one will profit. Such honesty should extend not only to the actual ought to be & heap x : popular dan procseding. But to il preliminarie 1 & e DUty Snd sdvertiing, No individval 100, to those persons who, even though they wear M. D" “behind _thelr name, assert that there is no ible harm o be received from the broadeast sneezes of other people. He wil! centinue to fight shy of them. If any one says fie upon him, he is afraid of a cold, he will admit it with a cherubic smile. The way to dispel the fear of fear is to be afraid with a smile. That ought to take the curse off it for even the most psychological-minded person. (We £top to commend ourselves for that juw- breaker, “psychological-minded.” above. Every one has seen “air-minded” apd the like, but we are the first, as far as we know, to bring the thing home to psychology, where it belongs.) * o ox ow Now that we have fully established, we hope, the expertness of this, our non- expert, we will permit him o continue his deductions as to the question of common colds and relative humidity. Lowered temperatures, especially in connection with wet, has long been held responsible by many unscientific average persons for colds and coughs. It has done little good to point out to them | that it is not the coolness or the wet- | ness, but the “inner congestion” which | actually causes the cold. “What's the difference?” they want to know. “What | difference does it make what you call it?” The best way to answer such a com- pletely unscientific person is to let him.! alone in his ignorance. What does he | know about colds, anyway? Has he any degree, and how dare he think for him- self? One is reminded of the s French wit: “This is a wi when attacked. it defends i The man who bas been attacked Winter colds, and forced to do a little deducting on his own hook, will defend | himself as vigorously as he may The phenomenon of the Summer cold will intrigue him. too. And the fact that he believes there are many times | more people sneezing in public this Sum- mer than last also will continue to excite his curiosity. o ox Last Summer, when almost no ra fell in this vicinity, there were com- | paratively few sneezes to be heard in | public vehicles, those sounding boards >f community health i Dryness and freedom from colds and other respirational diseases always have | gone together. It is not anything new, ! th fore, to connect moisture with cold: All that is interesting is that during this season, with & suiplus of rainfall at least during July. although not for the year, the number of sncezes and, | therefore colds, in all probability, has | increased many fold i It any one wants to know who says s0. we refer him to our friend Temple- | ton Jones. who is fast becoming a con- | firmed street car addict Jones now leates his big car at home, and takes | the public roliing stock. He may go| back to his own car, though, if this pub- lic sneezing dors not abate. Jones is a thoroughly timid soul, we suspect. | | | or firm can long enjoy prosperity un- less the claims for its services or prod- ucts are fulfilicd completely. And along th “more honesty” in_ business we need “more foresight.” Business men und Industrialists must strive to find out what trends will sway the future and prepare to meet developments. But, first of all. no seller should feign quali- ties which ne is not supplying, nor should the buyer make bombastic pro- fessions of his ability to discharge his debt. Until these reciprocal defects of business are corrected no permanent amelioration of commercial conditions will appear. TR Urges Universal Censorship of Films. Irish Independent. Dublin—The an- nual report of the Australian film censor, Cresswell O'Reilly, shows that that country Is faced with exactly the same problem as that which confronts the Saorstat. “Australia” says Mr. O'Reilly, “is oo small a portion of the world's market to induce producers to tention to our censorship requirements.” The figures of elimina- tions and refections in the last few | years, he states, do not afford much | ground for asserting that there has) improvement in the .moral | standard of films submitted. and criti- of British films have led to a charge of anti-British bias being made. Australia too, despite the remarkable hold which almost negligible part of the world mar- ket for films. It cannot be that Ireland and Australia stand alone in this mat- ter, and there is growing evidence that thinking people in many countries are becoming restive at the license of the cinema. Every country, no matter how small, which tightens up its censorship | regulations is doing valuable work for the world as a whole, for, although pro- ducers can afford to ignore the require ments of individual small units, a sim- flar standard enforced by many units would compel & change of heart. e Color Tried to En Glare on Pavements From the Des Moines Tribune-Capital. ‘The reflected glare from white cement pavements is said to have become a cause of eye trouble. Optometrists and drivers are beginning to long for pave- ments that will absorb more light in- stead of reflecting it. Mixing of coloring matter in cement has already been experimented with. There is assuredly no reason why it cannot be done, practically and cheaply. Eventually—who knows?—our through | roads may have distinctive colors and thus lessen the need for markers. Per- haps some day we can drive across the eontinent on the Blue Streak, turning off to camp in Lavender lane or Ever- green trail. high & asl At any rate, way engincers to give some attention to eliminating the pavement glare. ‘That part of it is serious. It is more than & mere fad. oot ——— Commons Aptly,Named. From the Cleveland News. Briiish House of Lords probably looked down its nose and decided that the House of Commons was well named when the latter body went into a fist fight the other day. PRS- Hoover Plan in Russia. Prom the Cincinnati Times-Star. Moscow got into the debt holiday business ahead of everybody else by forgiving itself every dollar it owed to other nations. Airman and Good WilL Prom "’2..‘3"‘"”‘ Tribune. ES L | L G. M. LIBERALISM IN MEXICO. Wilfrid glrdy Callcott. Stanford University ess. ‘War. Conquest. A new despotism set up over which rules, according to period ;nlnd place, tyrant, autocrat, emperor or 5. Underneath, the mass of the pecple, oppressed and discontent. Inarticulate, inchoate, futile. Jostling one another for breathing space, reaching toward & little of personal freedom. Gradually gaining a faint sense of mass power. And in the slow course of time, re- bellion and revolution. In this event, whether the action from below result in seeming complete failure or M some slight modicum of compromise and con- cession from above, it counts, never- theless, as a forward step in the long and vicissitous advance of the body of the people toward that poiitical liberal- ism which, tcday, is the stamp of pro- gressive governments. Such the road through history, both ancient and mod- ern, toward the high goal of & world- wide democracy. ‘This march toward free governments has not been a solid and orderly move- ment. Ragged, erratic, instead. For centuries held static or in an equiv- alent suspension. Then the wild drive forward, more often than otherwise the short shrift of defeat and bitter re- prisal. Climate, race, historic back- grounds, have been potent factors in the issue. Here prcmoting the cause of free- dom, there delaying or defeating it. To- day, even, the issue is not a wholly tri- umphant one. More than one nation is at this moment struggling to escape from old political tyranntes. Russia is working Yts way out in the most spec- tacular experiment of all time. China, points in South America, in Central America, in Mexico—even the Philip- ines under our own “benevolent rule” —are still fighting for wider latitudes among the people. For political, eco- nomic, social expansions and distribu- tions of responsibility and power. Each of these represents, ccneretely, some stagz of the transit from political servi. tude to political independence. Each embodies seme aspect of the historic £pirit of the long struggle toward pcpu- | lar government. ok ox X A competent. urrent study of cer- tain nations sii struggling towsrd a | higher degree of political liberalism is | ol distinct value to students. to general intelligence turned upon matters of clear consequence. Such & study marks the stage on the long road at which the nstion under con- sideration has arrived. IL measures to some extent the co-operative efect of that country upon the general po- litical progress. It forecasts, within reasonable limits, its ultimate service to the promotion of a world democracy. And here, at hand, is a study of just such promising substance. A study of the growth of liberalism in Mexico. Its author, professor of history in the University’ of South Carolina, profects 60_years of Mexican political record— 1857 to 1929—-for the sake of tracing the growih of that country toward such democratic ideals as were stirring modern governments elsewhere. The sole purpose of the study, to make svailable to students and general read- ers an authentic chronicle, substanti- ated at every point. of this progression and its offsels in the changing political vision of Mexican leaders. The author makes specific claim against definitive conclusions in a situation that has so far in great measure been a subject of trial. inconclusion, a kind of stagger Of value primarily program toward a goal that was clearer | to the eye of wisdom than it proved | 1o be negotiable for the stumbling feet of mixed races, for the impatient ard-rs of the excitable temperament The constitution of 1857 sets the story on its way. Then follows war and thereafter comes intervention, or interference, from outside nations and inside leaders in a succession cf changes Tising to the long dictatorship of Diaz—upon the whole a benevolent period of progress if not one of clear and demonstrable “liberalism.” Ractal obstacles in Mexico. Indians at the bottom. Spaniard, French and other licn leflovers of ‘earlier days of ed- venture and exploftation. these, pro- duced & melange of political theory, of temperamental unwisdom in leadership, of ready revolutionary expedient that, upon the whole, served to obscure at times, to delay st many a point, the march of this natin toward its own true political fulfillment. Madero, Huerta, C: another “new constitution” following upon the heels of Carranza—such the sum of this admirably illuminating body of rese tory of Mexico from the middle of the last century on up to the present. A sketch of church influence in po- litical matters and a glimpse into the future bring to an end an outstanding piece of historical research. “The following study of liberalism in Mexico since 1857, says Prof. Callcott, “is simply an. attempt to trace its course in such fashion that later worl be able to complete the picture.” Mod- est in statement, this author has. ho ever, produced a book of such interest as to enlist the enthusiastic attention of of any reader whose mind turns to- ward this single phase of the long. long road a-winding for the advance of po- iitical history out of individual despot- ism into a fair measure of democratic control of peoples by themselves, by their own intelligent partaking in self- rule. * ok x % Thousands of Government experts| was in fashion sbout 1870. It wes are working constantly for the benefit | named from a character in Dickens' of all citizens of the United States. They | “Barnaby Rudge.” Of ‘decp interest as well | anza, Obregon. Calles, with | arch into the political his- | Q. What is the size and weight of the new golf ball>—M. R. T. A. The new ball has a diameter of i cld ball was 162 inches in diameter and weighed 1.62 ounces. Q. What is the name of the observa- tory at Harvard?—C. 8. A. Its official title is the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. The college, of course, long’ ago became a university. Q. What Is parent education?— P.E.N. makes a parent a better parent.” An- other is that “parent education is any type of education which promotes a better understanding of parent-child and parent-to-parent relationships.” Q. What is an albino?—S. C. A. An albino is defined as a person kaving a congenital deficiency of pig- ments of the skin, hair and eyes. Al- binos occur among all races of men In extreme cases they have a skin of a milky color. extremely light hair and eves with a deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The lack of dark pigment in the eves admits light in excessive amount, and through other parts beside the pupil, and the vision is. conse- | quently, poor. especially in strong light ‘here may be #n albino type in any ind of an animal Q. Can arrows with metal shafts be |shot with as great accuracy as arrows | with wooden shafts>—H. T A. A metal shaft may be shot with accuracy, but not so consistenel the wooden shaft. The zeason is that the metal shaft does not have the pover o recovery that nature has put 1ito the well seasoned Norwegian pine shaft. By recovery is meant the action of the {shaft as it leaves the bow. . What is the meaning of Okeef | nokee, the Indian name of %the grs | swamp in Georgia®—H. J. I | A, Okeefenokee -means water. - trem . Who was the first professional architect in America’—A. R A. Peter Harrison. He probab! i rived in this country in 1745 engaged in designing the Reda Library at Newport, R. I, he w. vited to prepare plans for the re ing of King's Chapel. Boston. In Harrison built the Brick Market at Newport, R. I, afterward used for a city hall. He died in New Haven April 30, 1775, at the age of 59 years. Q. When was the Dolly Varden dress {in fashicn?—V. C. A. This dress, with bouffante skirts made of flowered c! House its bodice and intz, Varving opinions are expressed as to the effective forcé of the stateme to Secretary of State Stimson from Pre- mier Mussolini of Italy—that he has chosen the road toward Db " and that “the success of the di mament conference is indispensable. so that peo- iple may have faith in their govern- I ments™ His conditions appear to some |as nullifying possibilities of reduction, while others held that there is a new attitude on the part of Italy which is encouraging to other nations. Premier Mussolinl's statement that “the people must not be disillusioned” |seems significant to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which holds that i would, indeed, set the people to think- |duction of armament burden. their governments should fail o do what is | expected of them.” The Cleveland News believes that the statement “identifics | Italy as one of the chief proponents of | disarmament snd gives promise of an aggressive campaign by Italian states- men at Geneva in behalf of world | peace, in spite of the current belief { that Italy is arming for war.” “While the world has heard it stated that Mussolini likes to rattle swords !and deliver jingo speeches.” according 1.68 inches and weighs 1.55 ounces. The | A. One definition is, “Anything that will work directly for you if you will call — for the fruits of their labors through Q. At what altitude does the air be- our Washington bureau. State your in- quiry briefly, write clearly and, inclos- ing 2-cent stamp for a personal letter in reply, address The Evening Star In- formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, | director, Washington, D. C. Q. Please explain how the scene in “Trader Horn” where a crocodile swal- lows & native is filmed—M. H. A. The scene was processed. In other words, & dummy resembling the figure of & man was thrown into the pool of crocodiles and the resulting action oc- curred. Later, the figure of the native was shown falling into the same posi- tion into an empty pool and applied to the former picture. This is what is known as the Dunning process. 1t for breathing?— P, D. 3 lieved that a man can live at an altitude of 25,000 feet for a brief period if he does no particular work Army fiyers are required by Army regu- | 1ations 1o begin using oxygen as soon 2s | they reach an aliitude of 15,000 fect. Q. Why is & binocular g ferred to a spyglass?—N. A. Tha binocular glass has an ad- | vantage over ordinary spyglasses | single lens telescopes, because it enables | both eyes to focus on the same object | and gives a much stronger vision tha | can be obtained by the use of one alone. The first binocular telescopr which was invented in 1608, co iwo telescopes placed side by Q. In what light should a goldfich aquarium be k C. M. | "A. The aquarium should have a northern or northeastern expasure in Summer, while in Win id be placed where frcm two to t | light should enter |about the same wa | streams. 100 mu it will stimulate the growt tation known as algae, the water to turn green. lass to be pre- = s e hours each day the aquarium ay it enters 15 adm of low which ¢ th: ted es | Q. What is the meaning of gigolo”?—F. F. A. “Gigolo” is a French slang word used to designate a man who lives on women'’s money, specifically, one who is paid to dance with women patronizing public tea rooms. hotels and restauran in Prance, or to escort them to places | of amusement | @ Wno s the Orphans”?—H. L. C. A. Adolphe Dennery. Q. Did the Greeks use the letter “hrr—J. W : “just & ithor of “The Two h” was used as a sign sper (rough breathing) before it came resent the lon vowel, or G The Greek “h" from the Phoer Q Who first highest balcony for the lower Q. H novels did Mary J P. B She is gaid to have W She died in 1905, A. What wood is used for a bowling alley?—W. E. D. any Ame eet of a bowling alley About 30 more feet are pine an pins pine and ‘Mussolini Is Spectacular Figure in Peace Discussion an of them son again and solini ¢s & pacif picture. He his and prac- 1 d force and zed and , he has swagge insulted France, denounce back ta for mode: ence of his ideal of a = Now he c: ing if. at a time when public opinion | throughout the world is calling for re- ! “The opening up a question.” declar State Journal, “gives Italy tunity to in<ist upon a @ | nition from the | chance to establ outtrick her rivals, lin a military way, whereby the people fed on the pap of a selfishly national- istic patriotism through the complaints | of her representativ e | regret that the {to the Oakland Tribune, “it is notable | ang hope that the Amefican representa- | that, when international action lm;kh?w‘!“-ps keep alive to the fact that in | mwfi"gl:n;(mg r:gg;t; s}_‘te s:‘aw:)g‘ u‘;i:\ {‘H !rllt"rm\ onal pgks\r games m; carLdg nrg arm: s sed, ; always stacked agiinst the Unite ear” The Charleston Daily Mail em-| States If they come out without sur- | phasizes the premier's statement that |“the TItallan government decided to | propose & one-vear arms truce if the | rendering anything they will have won | & victory.” | “Possibly the warm glow of apprecia- THE RED FOG LIFTS. By Albert|Geneva parlev is put off one year” and tjon to Mr. Hoover which was spread all Muldavin. & Co. “Face to face, radical Red Russia New York: D. Appleton may turn out to be not so red and not |upon as the new war lord. succeeding | jonger is it 1 soradical. Mr. Muldavin himself, talking as he takes leave of Russia after weeks of going about in search of “the truth about Russia.” Such the parting in- Junction of friends at home to this man of Wall Street—man of many missions, of demonstrated sagacity toward eco- nomic outlocks, of expert practice in business ways and industrial situations. In no time at all Mr. Muldavin threw that imposed mission out of the window, taking up instead the much more prom- ising task of “telling the truth about myself in Russi ~ Then follows one of the most engag- ing adventures by an outsider in Soviet Russia. Engaging because it is simple and straight. The day spreads,’every day spreads, in an account of what this man does, of what he actually does, without question. Business meetings, to be sure, but these without pretense or pomposity, without ceremony or other sacroscant implication. Rus- s he on one side and the “commit- tee” on the other, they practice the adroit art of “doing business” as this game is played the world over. But it is out on the street, before shop win- dows or watching the people; it is in- side the theaters or other places of en- tertainment, in cafes, in hotel rooms, among the shops and other centers of putting over the big idea—it is here in the midst of the hourly life that Mr. Muldavin justifies himself in a rich abundance of observation and shrewd thinking about the great show upon which he is looking with so much of personal Interest, so much of tolerant understanding. ‘We, the average, are most deeply en- with the daily run of life of the neighbor across the way—of the na- tion across the sea. Mr. Muldavin is responsive. to that average need. When he vowed, to Limself, that he would tell the truth about himself in Russia, he was admitting an affection for the com- mon run of doings, just such as we most enjoy. And so his concern is the man on the street, the way of the taxi driver, the ready acquaintance of the girl who is mnfi big adventure with the open frankness of a man, with none of the silly pre- tenses of a victimized and declassed female. A friendly fellow, this Mulda- vin of Wall Street; a good sport, too, not to be outdone by the latitudes of & red landscape, and so he asks the girl to eat with m. un: she udfi of course, she and woul any event, T take it since this traveler makes §t quite plain that everybody is her part in the adds: “Of course. ment means Mussolini. Coming from the man who has hitherto been looked the Kaiser, this is indeed significant.” * X ox * “Mussolini Is apparently in complete agreement in principle with President Hoover on the armaments issue, as re spects both the 1mperative necessity of quick action and the probability of stimulating the world's economic recov- ery thereby,” thinks the Providence Journal. That paper comments on ex- isting conditions in Italy: “The Italian leader has repeatedly declared that Ttaly must be prepared to deal success- fully with her enemies. He has empha- sized the necessity of every able-bodied Italian citizen being properly disciplined and trained for military service. Under his direction the Italian Navy has been brought to a status, both in point of size and point of efficiency, unparalleled in the nation’s experience. But nothing in this policy of preparedness and de- velopment, either on land or on sea, is incompatible with Premier Mussolini’s doctrine of reduction and regulation, al 1o the reduction and con- trol effected by other leading powers of the world.” \ Some of the difficulties in the way of producing results are pointed out by the Charleston Evening Post. which states as to the Mussolini attitude: “Il Duce, baving started on the path .tp peace,” would go the whole way in leap and a bound. He would disarm even to & maximum cf 10,000 guns fof all Italy—if no other nation had any more. Well, if France hasn't ten mil- the Italian govern- | | over the world, since the moratorium | proposal was made. has shown a new path to Il Duce, and he realized that no * nable, or_profitable, to rattle the saber.” says the Chat nooga News, with the recognition th | “Mr. Hoover has stirted something. and the werld is hiea Trom wars.” | The New York Post sugges “How admirable it would be if Musso- lini., &t the conference. put action be- hind _his s promised uld be mbination of his sltruism.” The Appezl avers | enough to absolve the for ments any blar | failure. While it m |accept the Italian ch: still it will be di | avoid or ignore Both Books and Poison | Prom the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectat That Yale professor who declares it is botter for children to read literary trash than nothing would hardly that it was better for them to eat poi: than not eat at all The Biter Bit. From the St. Lo Like all speed Charles Glass o excuse when he was arrest ing. He was hurryh try some speeding Globe Den Justice of the Peace Highwood, Ill.. had an for speed- | hungry over there. Food is irresistible. Machinery and mechanics come next. Discontent? Well, some. But this trav- eler is not out to peer into the inner recesses of human feelings in the mass, nor into their deep layers. He is wide- awake and entirely at home with world stuff and the human average, just tak- ing in the amazing surface manifesta- tions of Red Russia. And these he transmutes in terms of a very way- wise Albert Muldavin to the common understanding of us back home here. Most enjoyable, most informing, and, .’ indeed, not at all Hopeless, that big Red Russia trying its hand at running the greatest community on ==sth. 2rul. davin is not sure it Wil Ym, Wt that is not the point. He is meYely tell- ing what he saw, interpretiig this ac- cording to its jmmediate coigent. Use- ful reading to offset against ing on the Russian theme. Mosty implicity. From the Butte ) ana Standard. Mrs. Gandhi vs American women should make all the clothing for the family. Of course. all one would have to do would be to hand her husband the bath towel. e ey A News Definition. From the Topeka Daily Capital. Reading the papers. it is rather ‘humiliating to learn that when Uncle |Sam is a bigger man than Al Capone, that is news. e —r—t————— The Champion Wole. Prom the Worcester Evening Gazett.e And we suppose that a part of the silence prevailing in politics just now 1s most lkely Col. House burrowing Roosevelt, . l