Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1931, Page 8

EVENING STAR Sunday Morning Edition. e g N . WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.........August 7, 1831 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star per Company 1 fifl. vania Aveo R, Rate by Carrier Within :Z: oy, 60c per month @5¢ per month 5c per copy e at the f ‘each month. sent in by mail or ielephone ‘.lll H.Mlll-hylbh in Advance. ryland and Virginia. flli and Bun 1yr. $10.00: 1 mo., 88c oy only . 1288: 1 ko 38¢ All Other Stytes and Canada. Efil_mf Bunday...1 yr., $12.00: only deyr., 8 1 y only i 1mo. Member of the Associated Press, Associated Press is exclusively entitled 'se for tepyblicatidn of all news ais- credited to it or not otacrwise crec- per alko e Tocal m ws its of ®iblication of reserved. Fighting Idleness and the Dole,, ‘The President enlists What should be his most powerful ally in the fght against the impending threa.s of & Fed- eral “dole” this Wintet whenge calls wpon the ‘ieaders of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Their rasponse is encouraging. Julius H. Barnes and Silas H. Strawn, chairman of the board and president, respectively! of the na- tional body, report thet a survey of the situation is under way and that its findings will be ready for the Presi- dent the first of next month. Both of them are of the opinion that, as Mr. Strawn puts it, there will b€ “more kinds of legisiation for the %iole than England or Germany ever heard of” unless there is a very real and concrete plan for dealing with the situation ready and working by the time Con- gress meets. A . That is perfectly true. And what is more, if there is no such plan, the initiatiqn of a dole or of Federal aid in other forms and under other names 15 inevitable. 1f the organized wealth and indus- trial leadership of the Nation, as rep- resented in the United States Chamber of Commerce, are dead set against the dole, as they should be, it lies within their power to prevent it. Despite the expected campaign maneuverings of the ‘coming Winter and the political cap- italization of an unprecedented amount of hardship and suffering, the fact re- mains that the best way to lessen the demand upon the Federal Government for aid is to make such ald available without the financial help of the Fed- eral Government. There are enough surveys now in progress to assure a fairly accurate appraisal of the problem before Winter sets in. If as much energy is thrown into the organization of private relief as is now being spent upon surveys of the need for relief, the victory against s viclous system of Federal aid, to end no one knows where, will be complete. But the tjme is repidly approaching when the demand will be for action, not plans or surveys. And if one judges the situation correctly, -the time has already passed for the issuance of such statements as that which has just come from the President’s Emergency Com- mittee for Employment, outlining a Nation-wide campaign to urge Ameri- can youth to continue in school rather than seek employment in competition with responsible heads of families. “During an abnormal time like this” says the statement, “the dangers of ddleness for young people still in the habit-forming age must be frankly reckoned with. Even more than in times of prosperity should we appreciate the need for school attendance. Young people should not be handicapped n obtaining an education because of the serious unemployment conditions.” If the aim of the movement is to base a Nation-wide propaganda against child labor on economic instead of upon humanitarien grounds, and to free the million or more children under fifteen years of age from the gainful toil that keeps them from school and Increases the unemployment among adults, well and good. More power to the campaign! But to base the campaign upon the “dangers of idleness for young people still in the habit-forming age,” and to seek to remove such dangers by urging them to go to schoot is pointless. Chil- dren will be kept out of school as long as there are employers who can law- fully hire them dirt cheap, and as 1i#g as the economic situation demands their enlistment in the ranks of bread win- ners. And it would be more intelligent to emphasize the dangers of idleness for adults past the habit-forming age, with hungry mouths to feed and denled the right to earn a living because their jobs are filled by children. S o When Lindbergh is reported “lost” an admiring public will recail the re- mark of the Indian who when found straying far frem his dwelling stolidly nsisted, “Wigwam lost; me here." ——iete Eminent Germans who refused friendly suggestions before the' war are now willing to give attentive consideration #o timely advice on business matters. o e Fifteenth Street. Complications arise whenever street ehanges are proposed to relieve traffic congestion. This is especially 8rue when 1t is proposed to alter levels, to provide separate routes for ordinary vehicular trafic and the tracked traffic of “car lines.” Such & change has been sug- gested in the case of Fourteenth street south of Constitution avenue. A study that it be carried stralght through the |as siiver and prohibition. He was an | THE EVENING STAR, WASHI THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. however, encroach upon the Monument ' licity and the services of competent grounds and make of that portion of makers and distributors of “copy” came the park a busy thoroughfare. be more and more in demand, with In the so-called “plan of 1901" sub-|the result that congressional activities mittsd by_the McMillan Commission, | and theories and advocacies and oppost- | which laid out a comprehensive scheme ' tions gained a large lineage in the press for the treatmsnt of the Mall, Fif-|of the country. Eventually the Lentz teenth street was t> be carried through ' method of making the country sit up south of then B street, now Constitu- ' and take notice was overworked, and tion avenue,.as at present proposed. although there remain stme instances The Morument section of the Mall was [of professional promotion, the game is to be very rearly a square, the exten- |not a3 generally in vogue as it was a sipr. of B street cutting out frcm fits few vears ago. Perhaps the radio has | limits the space in which stands the old | had its effect through giving the “public Bureau of Engraving Building, once man” a direct mouth-to-ear contact used as the general accounting office | with the unseen audience. and now occupfed by the Treasurer of —_— e —— the United States. It is not essured The Bust of Mystery. mt!t_r;:tr:]'r::;:r;;*;rlfl::;“x:;d:‘m:, The finding of a plaster bust, evi- | e e age e tve | DY & replica of a marble sculpture, |in cone of the bulldings that are being the picture of the Capital as at present | yed for publi " vork planned. It contrask; unpleasant ' e e | destr= v 'in this city, 178 the Bureau dBuilding immediately 9! city., susgests that there may | to i | be, or rather may have been, many | he south. Its rem:val wo 3 sl y al would be quite | o ogting scuvenirs and relies of the | Z'.',.',ffo."ffwfilfa.:’"”"m'““ ROW %! paet in these old houses that are final- | Wil this bullding removed, as it ly prssing. Fer the srea that is being ahould b6 evensusis, the cutting | SWCPt SIer of private structures to th¥ough of Fifteenth street, howeve: MTke room for Government bullding, desirable it might be as & matter of |both Pederal and District, was literally the heart of Washington fifty and even trafic accommodation, would be Ile | warranted than at present. The agree- |ON® hundred years ago. Scme of these structures go back indeed to the very ment now reached between the autnori- | 5T ties indicates that a definite proposal | €rliest times in the Capital. The sec- GTON, D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST . 3 Men of action seldom make comments on accomplished facts. This is & curious but little noted bit ot psycholegy which any one interested can prove for himself. .~ All one has to do is talk fo a doer. There are in the. main two distinct types of humen beings. * One is the doer, the man of action. The second is the dreamer. 2 ©One man mmy be both or scverely one Intellectual habits are so complicated that it is impossible to draw the line fine and declare that one stops here, the other begins there. * Xk x % Men of action evidently are nat swayed by the ordinary rules of polite- aess which hold for many human beings. 1f you say to them “I am peinting my car,” they will have mo repiy to make. You yourself might find it necessary to retort if some fricnd mate a similar remark to you “Il bet it looks nice.” or “How does it Jook?” or maybe “How much did it cost?” & But this man, our typical doer, says nothing at all The thing is done. He fi necessary to comment on the any way. At first, 1f you tend toward the other type. you may feel inclined to resent this attitude of mind. it un- atter in ! wonder the poor fellows don't plunge the countfy into two depressions. | Yet there is a solid basis for the necessity_for being polite, and no one negd ever feel ashamed of himself for 1t Inceed, Amerioa suffers from its iack as any -one may know when he starts down the street in his automo- | blle. Politenéss is good, even if one is dimly aware at the time that he is | wabting 1f on the principle of throwing pearls before swine. ‘The necessity which one feels to make some remark when another says some- | thing is due partly to the feeling which | |exists among ordinarily polite people | that a stated remark does call for a reply. To have onb's statements greeted with a grunt is universally regarded as 'insulting. No reply at all, according to circumstances, ranges from sheer impu- dence to strategy. |- It is strategy perhaps when the man of action reserves comment on a state- ment of fact made to him about some- thing or other., Suppose you have just sold a piece of property and, chancing to meet him, apprise fim of the fact. Notice the wav he handles it. He does not say “That's good!” or “Where is it located’” -He has. in fact, prac- tically no interest in the matter as a matter. He passes no opinion on facts as facts but may be interested in how yout came out in the deal. 53 “Did you get what you paid for it?" | he may ask. Note that this is only in- | will be made to Congress at the next | |session for the extension of the street. | tion that is soon to be prepared for the Municipal Center was indeed The fellow might say something OF | directly a comment on a fact. His other. 3 A - T s ot Sk he mmitnet Sduiie | or PN GUAEE D STEL. SR S That Troublesome Name of “Woodridge” To the Editor of The Sta The recent successful fight conducted by one individual against the use of the name “Woodridge” as the destin: tion sign of one of the bus lines is an 'S 'w exceflent example of the misuse of time and energy which might better have! been applied to furthering some objective | of importance to the community. In a recent letter to your paper the aforesaid individual states that “the boundaries of Woodridge are established by law.” This statment is not only untrue, but is ridiculous. There is no law which establishes the limits of subdivisions, or copyrights their names. Any individual who owns a plot of ground is privileged to call it by any nams he pleases. So may any other in- dividual owning a different plot use the same name if he wishes. In the days before the adoption of the “Per- manent System of Highwavs” it was customary for a subdivider to use some distinguishing name for his subdivision, | largely for purposes of identification in conveyancing. It was customary to de- seribe a lot in such & subdivision as “Lot number — in square number — in So-and-So's subdivision called Some- thing-or-other, as recosded in Liber -— at folio — iu the surveyor's office rec- ords.” In order ‘o avoid confusion the surve;or's office usually endeavared to avold duplication of subdivision names. Atter adoption of the permanent hizh- way plan the use Of such names be- came unnecessary, because the wiole District of Columbia was plotted into blocks with a consecutive system of num- bers, so that a deed conveying simply “Lot — in square —"‘is sufficient. The addition of a subdivision name and the ysalary of jor $15,000 a year. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. hin; delay? of Mauretania and eric J. Haskin. director of our - | converted inhabitants to Moham- ington Information Bureau. He is em- | medanism. The race soon became mixed nd these people upon invading Spain formation | and Portugal were called Moors. Span- jureau, Frederic J. in, director, |ish writers soon applied the term to all Washington, D. C., and inclose 2 cents the Mohammedans of Northern Africa. in coin or stamps for return postage. . - 1Is Mount Vernon built of wood or —— | @ Q. When playing auction or contract ' stone?—G. B. bridge with two packs of cards where | A It is of frame construction. An should the pack be placed after it is elaborate fire-fighting system protects made up?>—M. F. | the bullding from damage. A‘, The1mll p-,:k is .zum‘:a by the | i pastner of the plaver who is dealing.| Q. Please give a brief history of He places it at his own right, which is Hoqtnken hrfv.—x M A. The Hoboken PFerry, established by 2t the left of the next dealer. Wnen | he_prepares to deal he | Cornelius Haring in 1775, carried the P et g o e player o8 Db T | S e poan® cien N e Bt Wwho cuts the cards. tionary War and ferried United States Q_What i the approximate average |SoIciers on their way, to_entist with peeel A M'.{."’"‘" W) o ”‘";n was estublishéd fo connect the cor- A. The salary of major league base | irgr, in New York City, with what is now -Hoboken, but which was then a |smail town with one hotel. This was ball layers ranges from a few thousand dollars a_year to the $25,000 paid coeh; e e rer | the Ring's Arms Inn, which was owned | by Haringj who also operated a stage rane, Gehrig, Grove and 2 thie $80,000 paid Babe Ruth. The aver- | from/ Hoboken to Paterson by way of | the Plank road. age_good player receives. about $10,000 Q Ts the Milky Way always in the heavens?—N. L. It is. This Juminous band com- Q. Did Mussolini serve in the World 1t should in any event be effected with- | ! scen of Washingtons most active out lescening the park aspect of the | ocie] life before the War of the Sixties. Monument area. Many of the business buildings razed LB in the region south of Pennsyivania Spain and the Catalans. avenue for the uses of the United States Although the overthrowers of the | Were the relics of the same period: Bourbon dynasty made haste, after Al- ; were, in fact, dwellings before they were Here and |fonso's dethronement in April, to as-|t4rned to business uses. there in them traces have been found sure themaelves of the fealty of Catalonia | to the newly born republic, it is nn‘\.‘ol the old life of the Capital, such as | | evident that it was loylty with strings | Dits of furniture, going far beyond the itled to it. The provisional government MemMory of men now living. The bust | at Madrid has suddenly been brought | that has just come to light, found in to realize that separatist sentiment at'® TWelfth street building, is indeed a Barcelona is real and resolute. mystery. Whom does it edent? | Francisco Marla, Tedoubtable advo- | HOW did it get to the place where 1t | cate of Catalonian autonomy within the | Was found, in the midst of relics of framework of the Spanish republic, has | the liquor dispensary of one of Wash- just obtained from his people an im- | Ington’s best known public caterers of pressive 70-to-1 indorsement of his pro- posed independent charter. On the face | of things, the Zamora regime and the constituent Cortes, now 'wrestling with' a national constitution, are confronted | by a situation calling for the most adroit statesmanship and delicate | treading. The Catalans have longed through the ages for a natfonal sovereignty all | their own. Even at the height of Bour- bon power in Madrid, the embers of in- dependénce never ceased to glow in their breasts, and not alone in theirs, for now and then it threatened to flame out in Valencia, the Basque provinces and other regions. The other day, when’ Francisco Maria received the Catalans’ | mandate to demand sovereign rights in the new Spanish state, he cried, “Citi- zens, you have signed your papers for liberty. Now we can help our neigh- bors obtain their autonomy|!" That is an omen bound to cause anguish and tribulation at Madrid. A/ “United States of Spain,” on the model | of the federated American| republic, is obviously impracticable on [the Iberian peninsula. Yet it is equally unthink- able that Madrid would ever attempt, by force, to club provinces with sepa- ratist complexes into a | republican union, Separatism is not a malady from which alore Spain is suffering. It is epidemic in Europe. The bacilli which breed it were implanted at many spots on the Continent by the treaties | of Versailles and St. Germain. An| anxious outside world will watch 'Ith‘ interest the success or otherwise with which the masters of Madrid grapple with the problem. Justice and Dignity. Action of a local justice in “daring” a prisoner, whom he had fined for contempt, to throw his hat on the floor | again in disgust, was not only a plece of poor sportsmanship, but did nothing to uphold the dignity of judicial proc- esses. Judges are human, and often ii the course of their work raust be tempted | to make the retort clever, ¢f in other ways to display the authority which they possess. No doubt every man on | the bench is faced by persons who | richly deserve some such repartee. If the court, however, possesses & | dignity which makes “back talk” con- | tempt, then it should manifest that dignity by not indulging in it itself. A story is told of a famous judge in the West who fined a young man $300. | Such a sum of money was large, mi those days, and the young fellow was | proud of possessing it, and replied to | the judge: ? “Sure, Judge, T got that right here in | {my jeans.” “And twenty years in prison " replied the fudge. “Have you got that in yo It may be submitted that all such in- cidents, while they tend to show that | judges, as men, are only human, after all, also have the unhappy effect of lowering respect for justice. | B i Atter a large amount of denunciation | as a tyrant and a reckless theorist, Stalin is gradually commanding a cer- tain degree of deference throughout the | *@rid as & rising young business man. P The Father of Personal Publicity. John Jacob Lentz, who was a mem- | ber of Congress from Ohio from 1897 to | 1901, has just died at Columbus at the age of seventy-five. Mr. Lente's con- | gressional, career was not long enough |to justify his inclusion among the not- sble members of that body, but there was one fact of his career that calls | for particular reference. Mr. Lents is | sald to have been the first member of | Congress to employ a press agent for !the broadeasting of his actions, his views and his merits. This press agent, whose name has gone from memory, did his work well, so that his principal “made the first page” of the newspapers of the country with s frequency that must bave been highly gratifying to the Ohio legislator. This is not to sug- Monument grounds, thus linking the two effcctive orator, and at the Democratic by means of Iake Just ¥ ross | convention tn Denver in 1908 he | you? half a century ago? It is a frail thing, easily crushed, and yet it is today practically without flaw. Evidently it has been carefully tended during many years. One art authority believes that it is a cast from a marble work by Clark Mills, who was a famous sculp- tor in his time, creator of the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square, remains of whose studio out on Bla- densburg road are still in evidence. That this bust was a portrait is plain. But of whom? Can that question be answered? Warm weather discomforts call at- tention to the importance of parks in large cities. The taxpayers who some- times hesitate at liberality in maintain- ing them find the park not only a benefit to children, but a welcome means of securing a little sleep on a hot night, s ‘The next popular hcliday on the list is Labor day, the day which ends va- cations with especial demands in the way of the hard work incident to long homeward journeys. PR N A SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Utopia. Utopia, Utopia! You are the land of dreams, Where flowers always blossom and where sunshine always gleams; Where every man to other men is gen- erous and just, And honest human sympathy effaces all distrust. We've tolled with chart and compass; every map we've scanned with care, But we find no indication of its pres- ence anywhere; And the worldly wise assure us, as for counsel we apply, It is but a fleeting fancy, cloudiand in the sky. like the Yet every human traveler, as he jour- neys on his way, Down in his heart expects to reach Utopia some day; Or, if his span of years, so brief, be spent ere he arrives, His children or his children’s children there shall pass their lives. Whene'er he takee a railway train or fares by sea or stream He seeks some little betterment to help this earthly scheme. Utopia, Utopia! They say there's no such place, 5 Yet it seems the universal destination | of the race! Scientific Assistance. “Is your boy Josh much of a help to “Yes,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “He's makin’ a collection of insects. Of course, he don't catch as many as he could if he wouldn't stop to label ‘em, | but every little helps.” The Ready Romancer. “Clumsy of you to fall overboard,” said the critical friend. > “I didn’t fall overboard,” replied thé | man who never confesses to a mistake. “The biggest fish 1 ever saw swam alongside and I couldn't resist the temptation to dive for him.” The Agreeable Idler. The bee is never known to shirk, It's always on the wing The butterfly, it does no work— But then, it doesn't sing. Qualified Appreciation. “Shakespeare was & master of the English language,” remarked Mr. Hi- brow i “M’ yes,” replied the sporting expert, doubtfully, “although I bave found nothing in his works to indicate that{ he could write an account of a base ball game that would be classed as cor- rect style.” Disagreement. “Your parts of speech do not always 1ala. in ordinary conversational nothings? No, he is not a savage. * %ok X He is just a man of business who when a thing is accomplished feels that it is finished. What is the.use of comme¢niing? Why should he say anything about your old car? The inner urge of many people to re- ply when spoken to! ‘Whence comes it, and why is it? The man of action knows nothing of it, no matter whence it comes or why. 0 % It will be helpful, however, for the remainder of us timid souls, ‘who some- how feel that we must be polite, 1o Jook int> this matter. When we are talking to some one we are like thousands of telephone users who when an unknown voice asks them a question are unable to refrain from iving an answer. There is no real reason in the world why any human being when an imperi- ous unknown hurls at him over she wire “Who is this?" should® feel the least bit of necessity for replying. Many do, however, no doubt out’of sheer politeness, some timidly, and a cel'(].ln Jack of readiness with another reply. Perhaps there is as little reason why people in conversation must spap back with something, anything, just to keep the conversation goi Silence—people hate it and are afraid of it. How bored every one feels when silence suddenly descends, and how glad every one is when some one thinks up a remark which will start the ball to rolling again! * % The necessity for being polite—even the man of action feels it at times. Some, however, feel it at all times, and with them it tends to become a vice, like any other pleasantry carried too far until it turns into a weakness. From this tribe of pleasant people come the thousands of “yes men” who clutter up industry and give their superiors such a mass of misinformation it is a WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC Now that the American Legion for the first time in its history musters more than 1,000,000 members—1,026,000 is the exact number—its leadership is more coveted than ever. That the or- ganization s on the threshold of be- coming a dominant political power is universally acknowledged. ‘The gion's next annual convention, at De troit in October, is destined to be the scene of a correspondingly lively scram- ble for the post of national commander. Five candidates, Tepresenting widely scattered sections of the country, are already in the field and condueting more or less active campaigns. The far West offers George W. Malone of Ne- vada and Rice W. Means, former United States Senator of Colorado. Middle West there are two aspirants— John A. Elden of Ohio and Emmet O'Neal of Kentucky. The South's entry is Edgar B. Dunlap of Georgia. All of these Legionnaires are, or have been, | either department commanders in their own States or held office in the national organization. Malone is State engineer of Nevada. Means is a former national commander of the Spanish-American War Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars, as well as a_one-time shining light of the Ku Kiux Klan. Elden lately was president of the Ohio State Bar Association. O'Neal is a Louisville business man. Dunlap is a Gainesville, Ga. lawyer. Three of the candidates are Republicans and two Democrats. ok koK Undoubtedly the last has not been heard gf the gumdrops, alleged or other- wise, presented to President. Hoover the other day by Col. Nutt of Cleveland, official geld-digger of the Republican National* Committee. If the colonel, as officlally declared. brought cigars and | not gumdrops, the stogies were certainly delivered in & receptacle that bore every resemblangs to a candy box. The ques- tion now arises, Why - shouldn't® the President of the” United States nibble gumdrops? . Also, even if he doesn't, why was the official denyfhg machinery at the White House set in motion to clear him of any such suspicion? For some time the impression bas been brewing, especially among W n negspaper men, that what's needed around the executive offices is more gumdrops and fewer gumshoes. Gum- drops Mave now, at any rate, broken into the news for the first time since Dr. Cook discovered the Morthl Pole, or saig he dif. It will be regiembered that Cook once narrated bow he soothed the Arctic savage with gumdrops. find- ing fhat the natives® farthest North had a special weakness for them. Oh suc- cessive expeditions Cook always went heavily laden with the asty sweets. SRR | * Senator Pat Harrison, Democrat, of " the |0f Mihnesota, Who has ust passed away, Mississippi, has taken & hand in season's controversy over gelf bslls. The_new, larger and lighter folf ball,” says Pat, “has had little or no effect on my game; it was so bad that no jegula- tion could make it worse. I never saw any reason for changing the gd ball to the new, and I see no reason for all ahis agitation to change the new back to the Those of us who play Qoif for pleasur: ought not to be constantly harassed by some one forcing us t learn how to play with a different sizec ball every other week!" One of Senatol | Harrison's favorite golfing playmates i William D. Mitchell, Attorney General of the United States. They are often together on the Burning Tree links, across the Maryland line. * * x % x . Unbeknown except within the U'mited “That’s all right” replied Senator | h Sorghum. | sgres or not. speech.” “I don’t care whether they This s an insurgent el you have bought another set “T see lafitic for a honeymoon in Europe. Mr. e n\lmhlaglghy says address is R. F. D. No. ustin, Minn., is serving his second term in Congress, having come to Wash- ington first in 1 Senate in Minnesota. He is a World War 'g:m Mrs. * Christga In- the | 928 from the sme», ‘When you say that you did, he has nothing further to say about the mat- ter. He looks stolidly down the street and wonders if the afternoon will be good for playing golf. * ok ‘The ‘cuuumve mind thus differs largely Mom the inguisitive. The for- mer accepts facts without question. It |is sold, therefore it is sold. The in- quisitive mind, wondering, might try to inform itself as to why you sold and to whom. ‘The whole thing resolves itself in the | last analysis into a question of interest. The dwarf of the fairy tale is outdone. “Nothing that is human is foreign to me.” said he. | Our man of keen interest believes that nothing at all in the earth, above the earth or in the waters of the earth |is unfit for his speculation. Hence we find him dreaming, musing, meditating, | turning over and over in his mind facts and fancies which the other type of mind promptly released as matters of lh,&llctur"xlm interest. | G ese men look strangely alike. At bottom, however, they wfll'bey{urever strangers, although the man of action may have, and often does have, the most profound respect for the dreamer. Many of him, however, professes only contempt for the dreamer. He despises a polite fool who finds It necessary to make contments when no comments are needed. Here, as elsewhere, the interested type | of mind is more tolerant. He gives the | man of action credit for his every due, :;:nd“é\'en l:’eeg t‘l? hh"l.‘] in some cascs les whicl e other ‘ m;z;:ghhcuurmy. possesses only | ether it is necessary to comment on a fact must be left, after ail, to the individual. Perhaps the man of action | might whet the edge of his interest | with profit to himself. No doubt the ‘Wllt! dreamer might withhold com- | ment more than he does and yet be as | kindly in his conversation as ever. In | this matter there is no fixed rule, but the abiding play of character, the ! only sunshine and shadow of life. WILLIAM WILE. gar Hoover, ditector | Investigation _in e o | Justice—is engaged in an effort to | popularize fingerprinting for identifi- catlon purposes throughout the United | States. In the course of an address the | other day before the convention of the | International Association for Identifi- | cation at Rochester, N. ¥., Mr. Hoover |said: “The infallibility the finger- | print science is a subject no longer Pen to CONtroversy. A year or so ago | an officer of Scotland Yard was called |as an expert in the British law courts to testify in support of the infallibility of identification by fingerprints. He | selected as the basis for his premise a biblical quofation. He referred to the | Book of Job, chapter 37, verse 7, read- | ing as follows: ‘He sealeth up the tof every man; that all men may kno | his work.” " i i Y., of W * X ok ox Willlam G. McAdoo is about to enter the lists as a political autobiographer. |“A Tenderfoot in Politics” ,is the title of the volume which will come from |the press in the Fall under his name. The book is sald to shed new light on the Wilson administration and Amer- |lea’'s part in the World War. Uncle | Sam’s loans to European allies, now in |the news again, are going to %e dis- | cussed by McAdoo, who was Sfcretary of the Treasury when they were made. Some lowdown on William Jennings | Bryan's retirement from the cabinet, | the Government administration of rale roads and other war-time matiers in which “W. G.” was prominent are also |to be trcated in revelatory fashion. * ok ok % Judge William J. Jilson of the United States Court of Customs at New York® | was appointed to the Pederal benctr by President Coolidge in 1926 and elevated to his present seat by “Cal” in 1928, | but he has just handed down a decision |which challenges the 'legality of a {tariff ruling _made, by Coolidge five years ago. The décision affects the |tariff rates on straw hats. By procla- | mation, President Coolidge fixed the |duty on straw hats vahied at $9.50 a | dozen at 88 per cent and that on straz | hats of greater value at 60 per cenf. | Judge Tilson, who is a brother of Rep- resentative Tilson of Connecticut, Re- publican House leader. holds that the | President is without authority to change the tariff rate fixed by Congress to a | varying rate based upon the value of & given commodity. If the decision is sustained againsi the Government’s ap- peal, straw hat impowers will be en- titled to customs refunds 6f about | {name, so why not call it Woodridge? lib>r and follo number of the sufveyor's office record may clarify the instrument, but adds nothing to its legality. Tt happens that one of the early subdivisions in o suburban northeast section was called “Woodridge” It was a small subdivision, with irregu- lar stree's and large lots. Later it be- came surrounded by .other subdivisions with various names—West Woodridge, Rhode Island Avenue Terrace, Ellaston Terrace, Langdon. Park, ~Clark -Mills Subdivision, rt Saratoga Addition, Sherwood'’s Addition to Brookland, and later Sherwood, Villa Park and Villa Park Heights. Still newer subdivisions | were named, because the permanent highway . plan made distinguishing names unnecassary. A business center developed along Rhode Island avenue. Part of it is in the West- Woodridge Subdivision, and other parts in Ellafton Terrace, Fort Saratoga, Clark Mills Subdivision and Sherwood. Obviously, this business center needed a name, and. of all the old subdivision names in its svicinity. that of “Woodridge” was the most "eyphonious, and became generally used. It would have been silly to attempt to use half a dozen names to describe one business center. When the territory tributary to this business center became sufficiently built up to require a branch station, the s'ation was, verv called “Woodridge.” It might have been given a hyphenated name like the Woodridge-Langdon Bank, or A new name might have been coined for it. but the people of the locality liked the name Woodridge, and the business district was known by that Also_very naturally the territory served by this post office was known as Wood- ridge, regardless of the smaller sub- division names, most of which were forgotten by all but real estate convey- ancers and tifle examiners. " When the busses first came to this locality their signs read ‘“Brookland” because they pessed through another and older business center known as Brookland. But it was soon thought desirable to use some means of indicat- ing the fact that they went beyond Brookland into the newer territory within the delivery limits of the Wood- ridge postal station, so the name Wood- ridge was added to the sign. True, they did not go to the business center known as Woodridge, but they came within a few squares of it. There was nothing misleading in the name. n an appropriaticn was secured for the rental of quarters for a branch library, it was the obvious intent of thoss active in securing the appropria- tion, as well as of the Congress which made it, that these quarters should be located in or near the business center commonly known 2s Woodridge. Any other location would have been unsuit- able for the majority of persons who would be served by this library. When an appropriation was made for a junior high school for the Brookland-Wood- ridge section, it was intended that it should be located at some point equally accessible to the general neighborhoods broadly known as “Brookland” and as “Woodridge,” and it was so located, in neither of the old subdivisions, krown by those names, but about midway be- tween the business centers of those sections. The attempt to limit the name Wood- ridge to the small area originally called by that name for subdivision identifi- cation purposes, an area which has no business zones, and no street car or bus lines, is foolish, nd the Public Utilities Commission would have shown better judgment to fave ignored the persistent protests of the one individual who has such peculiar ideas about the legality of location names in the District of Colum- bia, and attempts to put them on a par with the names of incorporated towns and villages in a State. If there were any legality to such names, the writer and others would like to have the northern part of the territory served by the ‘Woodridge postal station officially desig- nated as “Burroughs,” by which name the new business center at Eighteenth and Monroe streets northeast is now coming to be'known, Then perhaps we could have the busses signed up “Brook- land-Burroughs,” as has been suggested by the Burroughs Citizens’ Association, but which suggestion the Public Utili- ties Commission failed to adopt. KENNETH P. ARMSTRONG. e States Plant Many Trees. From the Buffalo Evening News. Some idea of the extent to which the United States has become tree con- scious is gained by the report of the Department of Agriculture showing that last year more than 79,000,000 trees were distributed for reforestation yurposes in 39 :States and the Terri- fcvrles of Hawail and Porto Rico. Up- | $1,000,000. * K ok x “Edy’ Smith, old-time Republican boss |was the guide, adviser shd friend of | every Washington political writer whose | quest for inside news took him into the Northwest. Charles Michélson, Demo- | cratic national publicity chief, says that | Smith’s epitaph should read,, “The only | dolitician from whom you ld always |depend on getting nothing but the truth.” Smith's political insight | proverbial anel seldom turned out to inaccurate. Only a few weeks ago he |said to a caller from Washington, “Re~ pulfficans have one tremendous advan- {tage ofer the Democrats just now {they have theis presidential candidate a full year ahead and can start their | campaign forthwith.” | (Copyright, 1931) The 8ridge War. From the Columbia, 8. C., State. No, Dolly Ann, the :’1@ mped gue Oklahoma¥ but it's been almost as h ‘ns if et were. | Intellectual Test. | Prom the Akron Bescon Journal. bt ward of one-third of this replacement of timber was under the provisions of the Clarke-McNary law setting up a co-operative plan for planting as wind- shelter belts and farm wood- 1 ands. In reforestation, as in taxpaying and otherwise, New York leads, this report . All fold 24,960,000 trees were distributed for plant in this State in 1930. Michigan followed with 19,- 000,000 and Pennsylvania's plantings numbered 9,500,000, More than one- third, or 30,443,654 trees, were provided for the reforesting of State-owned lands, while for planting on private lands’other than farms 23,039,760 trees were_distributed. When to these State operaticns in providing for trees to conserve the Na- ticq's natural resources in seil and Any O1d Job Is Good. Prom the Duluth Herald. Looking at it one way, any job is a good job to the man out of a job, pri he has lost his appetite and sar- torial ——— o Sure Guess. A pletely encircles the earth. P Why do leaves turn so as to show the under sides before a storm?—R. H LR A. Prof. Humphreys of the Weather Bureau says that many plants undergo some changes on the approach of rain. The hanging of the leaves so as to show their under sides when viewed laterally or at a distance is owing to | changes in the leaf stalk on the ab- sorption of moisture. Similarly all no- ticeable plant changes on which weather predictions are based result from varia- tions in humidi.y, temperature and sun- shine. Plant signs, however, are not regarded as reliable guides to coming weather, Q. I notice that you say that 3.700 francs, & year's cost of a French soldier, is more than $700 in American money. Isn't this a mistake?—M. W. A. The franc is stabilized at 3.9 cents. The Prench soldier therefore is an expense of only about $145 to the French government. Q. Do the bells in carillons keep their tone?—T. D. | A. The Etude says that some of the most perfect chime bells in the world | are several hundred years old, and were | made in the seventeenth century by Van den Gheyns, Dumery or Hemony. Q. In what State is the longest resi- | dence required before m could be | elected Governor’—R. 8. P. | A. Louisiana and Maryland require the longest residence—10 years. Q. Who started the m reform | movement in the United ?—J. H. A. The Prisoners’ Rellef Soclety says | that it was started in 1888 by Dr.| George H. Sandison, editor of the Chris- | tian Herald. } e | Q. How far does a fly travel from its | breeding place?—R. A. B. | A. The Bureau of Entomelogy says | that a house fly will travel a mile or o | from its breeding place. If carried by | a d«zmm breeze, it may travel several miles. | Q. Who administers the oath of office | to the Speaker of the House of Repre- | sentatives in Congress?—F. M. | A. It is usually administered by the | oldest member in point of service, called \ the Pather of the House. | War?—L. D. E. | A. He fought until discharged on ac- 1 count of many and serious wounds. He had the rank of corporal. Q “To whom do_the following sobrs | quets ist k: me.:f»%'-’l James, @n of James II. | Q. Wha'gis the maximum-salary paid |in Russia?—J. A. H. | ~A. The maximum salary of workers |in Russia has been 400 rubles & month. | Ths is a little more than $200 in our | money. This maximum, ., has | not applied to American or other for- | elgn engineers or sclentists employed by | the gussian government. On July 4 of this vear an announcement was made | by Stalin which virtually sanctions wn- | egual wages and piecework. | Q How much coal does a railroad rry?—G. F. C. | odern locomotives have & ca- Ppacity of from 16 to 30 tons of coal. Q. Did the late Henry Cabot Lodge ever hold any other office besides that of United States Senator?—C. V. B. A. Senator Lodge served in the sachusetts Legislature and in the Lower g'mute of Congress before he entered the 'nate. Q. What is the oldest church in Yon- don?—F. T. A. That of St Bartholomew the Great. qu' :n:mmhomnmmmm A Lithographio ink is made of the dry color and oil. It is generally e con ho d xlgtéfl 50 thnto can ndi: equires. engine ca A. M T Q. When was it first demonstrated that gases could be liquefied?—D. E. A. The exact date is not known, but it was toward the close of the el nth century. Sulphur dioxide is w© have been the first gas Q. What was the total cost of the Louisiana Purchase?—E. W. 8. A. The total cost, including interest payments incidental to the final settle- ment, was $27,267,622. Nation Aroused by Plague Of Devouring Grasshoppers Better knowl of the means of doing battle with which is bringing disaster to areas in the Middle West is demand by Americans. Ruin for individual farmers is scen, although the cereal sup- | ply is expected to be sufficient for nor- mal needs. The of visitations is reviewed, and the scientists who have predicted that mankind must co such pests if it is to survive get a hearing. b history of this marauding pest for the crop led ‘The is short, but full of Western farmers,” says the Rochester ‘Times-Union, observing that the swarms are “laying waste fields in many coun- ties in South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and Michigan.” Blade remarks: “A poet once wrote: ‘Happy insect! What can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, Dewy morning’s gentle wine.’ A poet would. An -galculmmt whose | crops have been dest thoughts.” The Watertown Times states: “Very similar was the plague of 1874. Kansas and Nebraska had good C‘POT but just as the wheat began to ripen the grasshoppers came. They denuded the whole area. ’me{ahuped themselves on the railroad tracks so that trains were blocked for lack of traction.” A monument to gulls in Salt Lake City is mentioned by the Charlotte Ob- | sexver as it recalls that “the grasshop- | pers nearly drove the Mormons from | Central Utah in 1848, and that there | D€ seemed to be no hope of saving lheir! first crop “when suddenly from the West | came great flocks of lis, which | gorged themselves on nmppen, and | the crops were slv-ed;’ @ . “And the grasshopper is a burden, as the preacher said, in the Plains States,’ remarks the San Francisco Chronicle. “Towa, Nebraska, South Dakota know how Egypt felt when the plague of locusts arrived. They are both praying poisoning. The ns, so far and Osiris gave them no help. Not even that famous cross-word puzzle god, Ra, | for nothing is clearer than that the sun | is the god of the grasshopper. This is getting shoppers and mixed. What of g? Pmperlé' are grasshoppers an custs—all _except the 17-year locust, 'l;ich is neither one nor the other, but & bug.” A “In the warfare of man against in- sect,” warns the Chicago Daily News, there can be neither truce nor of gem If the ent are it, it is upon the outcome of that more than any other that survival of man and his civilization depends.” Minneapolis Star holds that “though the hopper ranks as No. 1 public enemy among the insects this year, entomol- such general raids frequently enmfi ways of exterminating them could devised by scientific As it is, everybody has forgotten just what was done before, and is sive. mmum'kt;u hoz;perl just now, :“h 'h are past due, will they p for once and all!” has been " Tecords United erous enemy “The situation is bad, but it ‘The Toledo | a farmers, serious threat to the food supply. present conditions it is inconceivable that insect yed has other | p."incen Paradoxically, evolves as an M-Pfl!ll; ic 3 BeEE creasing pressure of sect pests that are always besetting his crops, man must contend with increas- ly frequent devastating infestations. e year it is the boll weevil; the next ; another it Ond and the grassho) more than a little point to the scientists’ prediction of a final showdown between mankind and the insect world. But for all this, man goes right on ying the birds, his best defense against insect enemies.” s North Carolina Experiment From the Roanoke World-News. North Carolina embarked on July 1 on an experiment in highway develop- ment that will be watched with in- terest throughout the United States, for no other State has as yet undertaken so radical & ogists are authority for the statement ? for that four other American held by a large margin by the m quito.” “An extremely im) to agriculture of eliminating the AW have been found. although use of |sprays and of letaal bran has efiective.” The Davenport Democrat points out that “the insects are not | atory visitgrs, * * * They t where,4 “Millio the reformat itals an tories. cities followed the State t,