Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1931, Page 8

Rate by Carrier Within the City. 4Be pér month 00¢ per month Mail—Payable in Advance. ryland Vireginia. ia. and % e Member of the Associated Press. exclusively entitled [ all news diz- cred 5 SHa ndal ‘ews ot mgfi'cnmn .fif Another Police Scandal? ‘The murder of a policeman near the Soldiers’ Home grounds has given rise to another series of ugly stories which imply police protection and con- nivance by policemen with bootleggers and other underworld characters. Some of the stories, such as the re- |, port that a policeman had rezorted to the crude method of beating old soldiers who : refused to ronize & favored bootlegger, obviously appeal more to the imagination than to intelligence. In the first place, the old soldiers would set up & howl thet would bring restue, And,the dead policeman should not be indicted on circumstantial evi- dence alone. As far as any real evi- dence is concerned he may have been guiltiess. But even the police themselves are quick to put two and two together and reach the conclusion that his death was In some manner connected with scan- dalous stories and reports of police officers who were victimizing veterans and profiting with the bootleggers. A gkeptical public will be even more easily convinced. Within the last two policemen have been piaced suspleton as ‘racketeers.” One of them was arrestzd by Maryland authori- ties After a chase on the Washington- Baltimore Boulevard and five gallons of liquor were found in his car. Although e pleaded that he was merely adding to his personal supply and stocking up with forethought for his needs next ¢ 3 E ; £ 5 i ¥ | i i H 1 e £ 4 | | i i ; | ! i : i ! g i ! E f i : k { il | i i | 7,38 bl i i i g £ will remember the recent case in which & woman shot her escort with s police~ man’s gun. They will be surprised to learn that the policeman, while under- suspension, is still & member of the force. In time the Trial Board may get around to convieting him and get- ting Tid of him, despite such appar- ently tremendous handicaps as the refusal of the others involved in the affalr to testify. And the impression persists that the Police Department's first reaction to the Soldiers' Home scandal seemed to be expressed in the thought: “Well, that just goes to show. We have been hearing stories that a policeman was mixed up in those drink- ing parties out there!” - ———— Bdiscn is warned that he must cut Gown his daily working time. He can o thif 10 a considersb’e degree and stil] get in more working hours than the aversgs citizen finds possible. — e Record of Progress. ‘The American Civic Association has added to an already notable list of ac- complishments an annual review of the Wation's progress in_preserving and safeguarding, through intelligent plan- ning for future growth, those priceless Sgsels that lle iIn unspoiled natural beauty. This annual review takes form in the American Civic Annual. One who reads this amaringly interesting volume obtains a new idea of the vast scope of the work in which the association has been. engaged, and of the remarkable progbess in fostering and sustaining public interest through organized and consistent effort. ‘THe theme of this year's volume, as explgined by the Association’s presi- that he cannot disclose the documents. | U7 dent, Mr. Frederic A. Delano, is, on the one hand, an emphasis upon “some of the more stupendous besuties of nature unspoiled, &8 In our great national parks, and on the other side, the neses- ©of making our bwn eities more use- wholesome and more enjoy- in two chapiers and the by Lieut. the other by ©ol. progress so far on realiza- e Oupil ot the ter & hop of 1,115 miles from . | Baker Leke probably carries them past ington plan. fwmbmly, # muiet possess the author- | W to provent deviation from the plan and i to kzop the ob’ective of complete realiza- jtion without resort to ahort cuts that, ‘ln the ead, will destroy its value. Beosutlfully filustrated with photo- | graphs, this third volume of the annual | series contains 350 pages, upon which are spread & fine record o hope and achievement. Its contrloutors have written authoritatively on such subjects i As the nationa! parks, the national for- ,ests; housing, regional planning, work {by the States on their capitals, the de- { velopment of their highways and their I‘DI’D!!L'"OI’\ egainst the encroachments of billboards. Especial reference is con- ‘ained to the campaigh to protett Wash- {ington and its approaches from this | beauty-destroying menace. | The American Civic Association ean Ibe proud of its title gs publisher of | these volumes and of the encouraging | realization on the part of thousands of | Americans of their true value. . ot Germany's Internal Woes. Germany's’ woes seem endless. No sooner has the financial crisis simmered down, with the restoration of normal banking conditions and the cessation of panic. than an internal pollijeal crisis raises its head. It ranges around next Sunday's plebiscite in Prussia, which is to decide for or ezainst & dissolution of the Prussian Diet, The Bruening _government opposes diesolution on the ground that an en- suing general election might not only bring the Hitlerite and Communist ene- miés of the republic ints power in Prussia. Qut simultaneously wreck the new and valuable friendships the Reich has just cemented abroad, ‘That structure of £ood will toward Germany undermined, the aid which she craves would almost constantly be denied. Economic ruin, 8o recently averted, once again would stare the Reich in the face. The National BSocialists — Hitler's | brown-shirted Pasciste—who instigated the Prussian plebiscite by obtaining the required 6,000,000 signatures favoring it. have suddenly found ailies in the Communists. Until lately the latter could find no vituperation in their red vocabulary vivid enoush to denounce fhe “Nazis.” Now, according to Berlin cables, the Communists, under orders from Moscow, are sligned with the Hit- lerites in the effort to overthrow the Socialist - Centrist - Democratic govern« ment, which for seven years has vigor- ously ruled Germany's overwhelmingly largest and most populous state. The fallure of the plebiscite is fore- shadowed, but in no termis of reassur- ing confidence. A clear majority of 13,500,000 voters would have to approve the project, if it is to be carried. The Mitler “steel helmet” contingent and affiliated reactionaries count some 9,000,000 cohorts, The Communist elec- torate 18 put at 4,000,000 1f the gov- ernment’s foes combine in anything like full numbers, the forces of constitutional law and order are confronted by o tight squeeze if they are to hold their own. Just before proceeding to Italy for conference with Premier Mussolini and Forelgn Minister Gfandi this weék, the QGerman chancellor, Dr. Bruening, broadcast a Reich-wide appeal against the plans of the republic’s detractors. He painted a persuasive picture of the 2221 with which the German people Tave buckled down to the task of help- ing themselves if they expect to benefit further from the help of other coun- | tries. They have made an impressive ibeginning in that direction, as yester- }nn resumption of unrestricted bank- | Ing activities indicates. It would be a thousand pities if next Sunday's elec- tions in Prussia were to result in de- velopments capable of causing fresh internal havoc and reviving forelgn fesrs of the Reich's stability and ca- , Pacity fcr rehabilitation. [ B TR Ovations will be accorded Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh in spite of th> fact that , they are going through territory where facilities for throwing ticker tape and , torn telephone directories from upper windows are not to be found, It Ja the pecuiiar Lindbergh fortune to meet with all varietlés of cvation in every lan- guage i Hot weather complaining slows dcwn the energies of everybody within hear- | ing distance. As a depressing influence | the thermometer watcher is worse than | the clock watcher It used {0 be sald that the true wealth of a nation lay in its agriculture. Overs production is showing the world & slartling example of “frozen assets.” s A Change of Mind in New *ork. The corporation counsel of Great-r New York, who declined to furnish In vestigator Seabury with certain reco: relating to injuncticns 1o prevent a for mer police commissioner from making raids on gambling clubs that were spe clally favored by politieally importan personages, has come to the conclusiof that his relations with his client, the city, are mot, after all, s confidential Tossibly the spe-tacle of a recalcitrant witness whp declined to ancwer certain questiony i the same inves: gation lan- guishing In jail pending (s out-ome of an appeal may haie el change of ming regardln bitity of ihe e ¥ munt p ng temncrature made the prospe & bit of rgi‘dence bechind dars abb rent, even to the point vonsctentious serap resords. ted a . Grant,; This demurrer of the corporation | 50d YOU can be of any help in my busi- with counse! is a bit of the apirit tha: makes | ness Tl hire you.” Tammany government in Greater New York such an effense to the honest Havitg been given the re- | | % { the gravest dangers of thetr entire routs | {to J2pan. They have ncw treversed the belted ares of Northern Can- w:a held at the outset to be their hardest going. They have yet to altain tielr “farthest morth,” st Point | Barrow, but that hop is comparatively | ia shert one. only about 350 miles, with | en mdditional gap of 150 miles to cover | to reach Icy Cape, where they willl ! surely make thelr contact with s refuel- | . ing ship, which may not be able to put | in at Point Barrow. After Icy Cape | thes are to make Nome, and then ! straigiten out for Asia. One fzct is constantly to be borne in mind in the watching of the Lindbergh !fugnt to Japan. That is that no at- ' tempt is being made to establich a time |record. The “Lone Eagle,” now hap- pily provided with company, s trail { blezing, seeking & practicable routs. He will not fly in the face of adverse weather in order to make his goal in the shortest possible time. Nor will he dodge conditions which would perhsps deter less skilled and confident pilots. He always flies safely, rather than {swiftly. But he flies, and he reaches his destination. And thet is why there 1a no enxiety cn the score of his safety in this latest adventure. — et His habit of writing constantly indi- cates a belief by Trotsky that he has public awaiting him. He dees not ap- preciate the fact that he is in exile, sup- posed to While away weary hours like Napolecn by playing solitaire. —— et Programs fcr crime elimination in- clude an increased use of firearms. The desperado and his pursuer have de- parted from the area once known 28 “the wild West" and are now to be found cn the sidewalks of New York. —— e —t—— ‘Tha career of Calvin Coolidge, distin- guished in many ways, i especially ex- ceptional in one respect. He is one of the few men who have appeared to find the peeition™t ex-President thoroughly enjoyable.. R Credit must be given the Wickersham Commission for having defined some perplexing conditicns and Jeft remain- ing only the simple question, “What is ' to be done about the matter?" —_— e Prance is 2gain telling the world what the fashicns will be. American women what they cheoee. o SHOOTING STARS. proceed to wear BY PHILANDER JOMNSON. The Knocker's Discouragement. “Oh, what's the use of effort that is manfully applied,” ‘The knocker in his gloom was heard to say. v “We did our best his motives and his manners to deride. We even felt a readiness to pay Por anything that might assist to queer him with the erowd And help to block his visionary game. ‘We uttered protestations that were ve- hement and loud, But he went and got elected just the same. “We published pictures of him that ‘were comical and bold; ‘The public seemed to thank him for the laugh. ‘We ridiculed him freely. Many anec- dotes we told; They liked him all the better for the chaff. We talked about his family and tried to scare his friends, ‘We said his arguments were limp and lame. Oh, what's the use of honest toil which | unrewarded ends! He went and got elected just the| same. | “You can get up' fabrications of & most ingenious style And satirize his habits and his dress, And intimate that he is but an instru- | ment of guile And his frankness is assumption, more or less. You can rail st his achievements till the very air will throb; You can smile and sneer and whisper and deciaim | But if the public likes the man and | thinks he's on the job, He goes and gets elected just the) same!” Looking for an Argument. “What makes that man keep saying he is not & candidate for office?” “I don't know™ replied Senator Sor- ghum, “unless 1t i in the hope that| somebody will come out and contradiot | Safer and Samer. { ‘You encourage your son in writing | “Weil," replied Parmer Oorntossel, I don’t exactly emcoursge him. But 'd rather he'd print that sort of thing n the weskly paper than put it into !letters that might get read before s i ! The Merry Sunshine. The merry sunshine all admire; Eut on & Summer day Wo must admit, as we perspire, It sometimes gets 100 gay. A Proposition. “This set of books will heip you enor- {mously in your business.” said the per- ! suasive agent, will a5 usual list>n patlently and then |98 {phile Gautier, I8 the -t Clearing the Track. hat citisens. The claim that the city i a | When avistors numerous and rich been encountered from “client” whefe secvels muct be pre- | .)mm Govern- scrved from public scrutiny is just & Bit of the doctrine that the municipal sadministration is & private grafi. The records themssives, when disclosed, may notprove l: ‘be espocislly important or Exort progressive sway, | No coubt we'l see a good roads move- ment which ‘Will push the clouds away. BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. of s most the greyhound. The cat, in {ts pride of feline grace, 1s left a poor second when it takes alter a squirrel One of these rodents can outrun s cat any dajein the week. As for jumping sround in the top- ' most branches of a tree, that is where the cat gives up entirely. Many eats chase squirrels, but few ever cgtcih them. Now and then, of conrse, & flying cat happens to fly just s little bit faster than a flying squirrel. In the very vast majority of cases however, a cat a8 if the latter never existed. * % % As far as we have been able to ob- | serve, the house cat merely affords the squirrel some pleasant excitement. The spice of danger, evidently, is en- Joyed by the brute creatures as much 82 it is by man. Any one who has watched a squirre chatter at a cat, at the same time tantalize it by coming down closer and closer, will be willing to admit that the rodent seems to be fascinated by the '"g" l’:‘l‘nnee he s mnnl:m ‘e have seen squirrels. playing to- gether, run within three feet of a cat, which, apparently smazed by boldness, merely sat watching the animals at play. Not until the squirrels started to-run away was the cat lured to pursuit, which proved squirrelless, owing to the superior speed of the rodent. * o ow o A squirrel seems to enjoy baiting a cat. It has a highly nervous organization, meanifested by i#ts. quick. darting move- ments, its twitching tall, and its erratic | ection. | changes of dir It may be suspected that the squirrel comes as near to being a sophisticated animal as there is in Nature. If any four-footed creature could suffer from vhat used to be termed neurasthenia, the el would be it. its nervous character is more on the surface than anywhere else. owing to the constant twitching and Rirting in which it indulges. No sooner does it start to run one way, than it changes its route and goes another. If it is up a tree, it mever seems to be satiefled to stay there, but must come down immediately, or leap to another. % * ok ko a domestic cat is one of its | ‘Worrying chief diversions. m‘:’l;e cat, of course, brings this on if. If it were content to let the other creature a'one, it would never be hissed and chattered at as it is, nor lured out onto slim branches slong which it Is e ‘oat “appasently i that 1t cat appareni nows can never catch the squirrel in its native arboreal ele:le‘:t:q Imltt neverthe- less is sport enougl upon any and every occasion. A -'Julfl'ue‘le oeetnl““n: u" looking up -dt {rom will run aroun the *trunk to the cat side, and then progsed to come down as close &s it res. Al this time it is chattering away, with the grating nolse peculiar to it The nearest approach to heard from some of the 18 it nmot peculiar that this same sort of nolse should be made by tree-living animals exclusively? ‘The cat itself sometimes makes & Highlights on the Wjfle World L Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands A NACION, Buenos Aires—At & meeting of the Society of Natural Sciences in the Museo Mitre, the top'c was the prosaic one of “The Cat.’ the gait, or gal- lop, of the cat which is the feature or pecullarity of the ani- mal which will clear up tie old mystery of its origi The elltm vhich, sccording to Theo- \a:r of the poor,” has not solicited this minute research on the part of its investi- Pm. and prefers very much to be eft alone rather than photographed, measured and charted. These views are shared not only by all the cats of low degree, but by the Angoras and trangest thing about cats is that they are all alike in every re: spect—in their nocturnal com. plaining presence on the roofs; in their stealthy progress about our yards and lanes—in their decorative and tran- uilizing pose before the stove, and fiwy are all interesting, but more $o to the poet than the sage—that 1s, until the sage conceived the idea of | finding out from what remote ancestor cat is descended by observing its P important sci roblem has reached the stage where he progress of the cat has been de- scribed es “rotary.” But whether this method of locomotion is a character- istie inherited or acquired remains to be discovered. Certain it is that' its flexible spine. and, as it were, “double-jointed” ticulation. gives it a very rhythmic snd undulating aspect when ceeking to escape the unweicome attentions of #n inquisitive canine, But just what ancestor of the animal in the remote Ingu had the same style of locometion and nine lives, according to the popu- lar superstition, still is to be dis- covered. *x % % High Cigaretle Tax Causes Drop in Revenue. Cologne Gazette —The Budget Com- mittee of the Reichstag is in a quan- dary relative to what they should do | sbout the cigarette tax. The estimates for the coming fiscal year include an fiem of 57,000,000 marks, placed on | tobacco, the same as the current year, 55 per cent | and of this amount aroung bas been derived from the sale of cigarettes, the balance of the tax be- ing collected from the sale of tobacco | in other forms. and from the taxes on smokers' articles and materials. Dur- ing the last quarter.’ however, the sale of cigarettes has been constantly minishing because of their compara- tive high cost in relation to pive and bultk tobacco. There has been a tend- ency in recent months for more and more smokers to make their own cigarette: By buying i able tobacco Bnd cigarette papers, de- spite the tax on thbee articles, too, a smoker can roll his own cigareties at & fraction of the price which must be peid for them already manufactured. Much revenue has been lost, it is con- Jectured, by the smuggling of cigarettes across the borders from countries where they are not subject to such taxation. h%e ¢ Committee is debating the di ity of increasing the taxes tte tobacco in 3 L e o P e & policy, if pers] tually abolish the ci even! and the r coun- wlflnm’: supposed to be | ranulated or other suft- | Most. | when seated inside & window and, Jook- ing through the pane. happens see | bira outside. Female cats chatter | this way more than males. ok xw | ‘The sheer sudacity of | leaping from tree to breath away from the human observer if he is in & vantage point where he is fully able to sec just what tremendous ] 18 as safe from a | house situsted among trees. and the | neighborhood to have plenty of squir- rels. he may be able to see | at_their pl | ‘There can be little doubt that the gauirrel i3 proud of his ability at tree | R | e other day we watched & squirrel | dart out on the very topmost limbs of | a locust. at_least 60 feet in the air. The outer branches of the tree were uite pendulous and not over the size aQ of an index finger. The I ‘main were ¢ eter of * | When the squirrel began to run out to the very tip the jon_of bramches started to drop, d ly dipped so far, as the little creature L he was several feet lower than he | had been. ‘This did not deter him in the least, however. His ancestors before him had known what they were doing. | " Parther and farther out he went and lower and lower sank the branch. The nearest, flimsiest tip of the next tree was fully & dozen feet away, swaying and rustling in the wind. g ick { the diam a thumb. * * % The squirrel leaped. ‘There was & mighty rustlin set sail through space. The he he | quiver and almost ring. | He ded on the very tip of the branches of the other tree, causing them to heave downward madly. To the observer it seemed for a moment as if ward to_the earth. But we might have known better. | This squirrel ew his trees. Quicker | than a wink he was on a larger branch and then on-a bigger one. At first he to run upward, but | shortly he was nmtr.ldo'nnrd head first, in that inimitable fashion which i must forever be the despair and envy of cats, who must go ? and down & tree the same way, ad up. * ¥ % x One morning we saw two squirrels leave their tree and descend to flur of a garage in order to hurl i maledictions the surer at a couple of | cats. | " Flaunting their banners of tafls over the ridge pcle, the squirrels called the cats scoundréls in the best rodent of and began N Then, feeling perhaps that the cats | were hard of they came down |onto the top of the open, and from that van o few feet -bvul:;e cats, deliver another ure on general y of the entire-cat tribe to | riain couple of squirrels. incom; catch a ce: | loaf of white bread in the capital now | costs 50 pfennigs (12!; cents). * ®x * % - World Customs. | _ Bulgarian British Review, Sofis— The Slav people throughout the world "hnld more to religious customs and superstitions than any |of Western Europe. | beautiful r.lblfl t!\.lltfllll‘!n ety | preserved by the Bulgarians during | five ecenturies under Turkish rule. The are, as & rule, also ! and in consequence t! | clergy is called upon to perform & cere- | mony for what :Tuc a Western Europe, modt tri: In addition to the cevemony in the case of ma deaths, the cutting of the laying of a foundation for & new house or public buildis o’ \ new street, building. public gar- le . or » factory, etc. without & re- 1 ceremony is considered as an |4l cmen. Immediately the roof placed on a new house or building, a cross, blessed by the priest, with a wreath of flowers attached. is hoisted Many , n things. performed jemMfic and remains until the work is finally completed. 1In the villages certain superstitions are cavried to extreme limits, and the parish priest is called {upon to perform all sorts of cere- monies, such as blessing the land, | prayers for rain, storms and arvest, etc. P ) | Rewarding Pure Science. From the New York Times. When argon was detected in the air | no one suspected that it would be.used in eleetric Jamps. The wildest fantasy | in which Faraday might have indulged would have fallen far short of what actually been accomplished by aj | his discovery of induction. Not one | the physicists to whom we owe radio | dreamed that he had ih his grasp a new instrument of communication. So one might review science after science to| bes find that les wh were at ndr;t nt‘;“‘y ble::lllanx lo'ln hu‘n.’ knowl- edge ve exploited men to the world's technical Jvnmn and their own profit. consideration of the League of Nations —a treaty which creates a new kind of property right in purely scientific dis- coveries. Against ib strong objections have been raised. notably by Mr. Ed- ward 8. rs, who has made a spe- cial study of intellectual property for the American Bar Association. He makes the point that every scientist -technical -heritage. . Is . a Faraday alope to be rewarded when behind him stand Oersted, Ampere, Ar‘g: and line going back to Thales ery dis- covery is the result of an evolution. In an effort to overcome ob) | | such as these, Dr. Lucien Klots has Jaid | placed French a new plan before the of Medicine. The state is to appoint isur’cwlueh‘-';ve | ths granting mg:n 1hmm.'.ytolm-dlla.luuru Dr. gave s | would substitute system Surplus Reducers. | Prom the Des Moines Tribune-Capital. Those - might ha | enough to visit Western | Kansas and lighten the wheat surplus. ———e Rassling and Slugging. The rodent must have been | by He knew what he was aarnu.‘ gave the branches he left made them |2 |the rodent would go plunging down- | I were created and | fas he | servance and Enforcement, the opening | is | and other dry leaders the | ProB™ irvels in | tree '11"0!! the political fights in New Hamp- Moses has won nearly all of However, when he sought 10 uninstructed delegation to the luru lican *National Convention and Calvin Coolidge was a candidate for the presidential nomination to succeed himself, Senator Moses was turned down flat by the voters, who sent, in- stead, & delegation first, last and all the time f many shir presidential nomination at the hands of the Democrats and that he could not dictate who would be the nominee. He added, however, that Smith would have & veto power in the Democratic National Convention wnich would prevent the nomination of any candidate he did not re. Perhaps Senator Moses, one the most irreconcilable of the irrec- oncilables of the Senate when it comes | to American entry into the e of Nations or the World Court, like to have Mr. Baker selected as the Dem- ocratic presidential candidate, for Mr. Baker is regarded as a throwback to the Wilson -policies and the League {tself. * ko Some of the profcssional®dry leaders bhave recently bzen loudly ‘laiming that the Democrats of the ith would treat any other wet itic candi- date for President next year exactly as they treated Al Smith in 1928. Their however, do not at all jibe polftical leaders of T B e e o because of h‘:'e:.mh. but because he was a wet a use he was an off- |sprlu of Tamnany Hal furn now and support rm‘m of whom ate have a difficult time’ expla vublic just why they fought hard. ER | At the present writing. no matter what the proclamation of the dry lead. there seems little or no chanee of a dry winning the Democratic nomination for President in 1932. The ts may seek to soft-pedal the liquor fssue and make the fight on eco- nomi¢ issues. But they are not likely in the eampaign to succeed particularly well, for the simple reason that the naties both sides will not permit pedaled. Baker, as member of the Commission on Law Ob- wrote his own particular statement. declaring that he was for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. He made no bones about it. holding that the amend- ment ha fo may to the ith so on it to be soft-) Newton D. d not been a success. EE 1f reports from Kentucky be true, the declarations of Bishop James Cannon, jr.; F. Scott McBride. general superin- tendent of the Anti-Saloon Leagu: ;r!nn the nomi- nation and election Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt have not particularly stir- red the Democratic voters of the Blue Grass State. The liquor issue has been a dominant lssue in many elections in that State. Seénator Barkley, Demo- crat, is an ardent prohibitionist, but the Democrats are being lined up for Roosevelt in the State and if things ess as the Roosevelt I hope, tion to the na- they will sead a tional convention s ly favorable to the New York Governor. Joseph Democratic national com- mitteeman for Kentucky, it is said, is taking & leading part in the Roosevelt drive in his State. *xx Kentucky is one of the States which have not yet redistricted to meet the re- nt of Representatives under the 1930 census. State must give up two of its co: lonal districts. re is s0me sentiment in the State today against listrictipg before the next election and having all the mem- rs of the House elected at large. At [mm there are nine Democratic mem- of the House and two Republicans. If the members were all elected at large then the whole list of nine sitting ts could run and if the Demo- cratic ticket were successful all would be elected, eliminating the two Repub licans. On the gther hand, if the.Re- {xulbljlcnn“x;fiv.ml licket were success- ul it m 5 with it to victory number of ican candidates for the House. That is a chance the Demo- crats would have to take if they de- clined to redistrict the-State in time for the 1932 elections. * % ¥ % in Massachusetts, vhenl U] the re- districting of districts was | reform lies in the specific sentative Robert Luce, will not year. If he and Mr. Luce both into the primary election for the Hou: n next Simes |stl “‘fi safe to drink?—M. G. A. Bureau of E.|s0 ineffective and brutal as those pic- | 2 cents in coin or i Send your question to The Star Information Buresu, Prederic Haskin, director, Washington, larger denominations. Q. What two Protestant ermmhu? . The union between the e tional and Christian 1Wm Christ) pleted Q. Is water that is clear and tastes Agricultural gineering says that the mere fact that water 18 cold, mln clear and tastes ht is not icisnt évidence to in- dicate that it may not'be polluted by | disease germs. | Q Why does it hurt 8 tree to pile | { dirt around its base?—-%.E. M. . A. The Forest Se says that pil- | ing dirt around th> roots of a tree of mature age will have almost the same effect as belting it. Such earth pre- vents the tree from breathing properly, and also prevents the moisture from & smooth board inches wide and 60 feet in length the foul line, which the must. not cross, to the center of the first pin. Q. What is the origin of the term “earmark”?—R. N. A. It was the practice to cut & de- |sign into the ears of cattle as & mark | of ownership, Q. How can white Bristol glass be distinguished from American milk giess?—M. A. E. A. When held to the ht Bristol ”"Mh Amer- Q In what State is the Odd lows' lodge the strongest?—E. N, A. The of 2 jurisdiction has the largest membership of any jurisdiction in the world, consisting of 176,702 male members and 43,338 female ‘members, Q. How lony thentic hf A. Actual Fel- B. ’ China had sn su- ?—D. C. | records exist in Wang about 1100 B. C. Q. How old was Howard Pyle, the artist, at the time of his death?—F. G. I.nA.H was born in 1853 and died | 1911, Q. Is there hvlnlutthzknln‘ | of song birds?—T. C. { VoA is & Pederal statute whiéh | ! prohibits it. . How fast does sn ocean wave move in a storm?—R. K. The speed of great waves may be of | - ii I A E;!v k i i i i ; g 5 i £ g LE | | 4 i H 53 zfl i I Eg.» § 2 i i & Bl ¥ e ] ;i i i by & H e i ] § i #H 4 2% EE; ‘ i 14 g gi "3 A as high as 60 miles an hour. {Wickersham Re American ideas on the function of | ja prison take two divergent paths, as | shown by national comment on the re- port of the Wickersham Committee condemning conditions found in vari- ous institutions. ‘Briefly, holds that prisons are for punishment; | i treat those who have viclated the law | with a view to making some salvage of | human lives. i “The problems raised by the criminals i themselves are almost the same every. where. The methods of dealing with | them vary tly,” says the Morgan- { town New don as it voices the thought that “it is encouraging to know | that every prison in the land is not tured in nrn." ‘The State Journal feels that the 18- sion “plans an ideal system,” but asks, “Will the States be able to afford & vast and complicated perole system, prisons constructéd on the plan of & TR s el e 52" B “Whether the Wickersham program would effect a reduction in crime through reforming the individual is a question that only e: can an- swer,” states the Charleston (W. Va.) Mail, which believes that “something is radically wrong- the . sys- tem or the general administration of justice in the United States,” and that the subject “demands ous thought.” The Bradfc thst “the reforms suggested are not for the purpose of ‘coddling’ criminals, but to protect society and to reform the criminals, if possible. - x ox % This_indictment of American “is almost blood-curdling” |-opinion of the Pasadene Star-News, which is convinced that it “should arouse the American people to demand reform forthwith.” The Chicago Daily News concludes: “It is easier tp pro- pose these major improvements to carry them’ into effect. stacles in the way are many. clearly rational and co: lve prison 's pointed out in the commission's report. in_ the | port Raises _ Question of Prison Theo ) s P are to create places hard experience ;the ¥ one theory |l another, that penal institutions should | inai mane treatment by the bas Jocked them up?” v Gazette believes that “tales of R in_the dark ages are i S s | menk o humane reasons. expect these methods to solve the lem of crime will bring, .nllnmll‘ pointment and invite reaction. i “America’s _prisons