Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1931, Page 8

STAR. WASHINGTON, D. ' C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931 " A8 : THE _EVENING e e e ANSWERS TO QUESTIO BY FREDERIC J. HASKIW. {THE E.\"-ENING STAR With y Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.....August 13, 1881 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor Rate by Carrler Within the City. P M‘lfi per month I&ma!) ... . .80¢ per month ening o1 l)\..d.y Siar (when 04 e mlonll M Rate by Mail—Pa in Advance. BT A 00: 1 il St shamine: All Other States and Canada. .« $12.00: 1 mo. i Member of the Associated Press. 1 titled (st Bt el ot 7 15 e ocal news o g A.ll rights of publication of re: his paper herein. spatches herein are also reserved. Mdihiiais o ed a Give Washington Protection! So numerous have been the demon- strations of the danger from unrestrict- ed, unregulated pistol salgs in Wash- ington that it seems idle to cite another | case as an argument for corrective legislation. But the latest local pistol tragedy is so plainly to the point that 1t should be added to the long-contin- ued plea for protection from this men- ace to life in the District. Yesterday's tragedy at Wardman Park Hotel was & case precisely of this character. Ac- cording to his own story, the slayer of Capt. Norman armed himself after a quarrel. The first encounter between the two occurred on Saturday. On Tuesday, it is now established, the doorman bought a gun at a store in this city. There was, it is plain, only one purpose for such a purchase, and that was the use of the weapon against the man who had, as he conceived, in- jured him and possibly whom he be- leved to be dangerously hostile. This 15 not to discuss the question of guilt. That will be determined later by the court. The fact of vital importance to the community is that it was possible for a man with a grievance or with a fear to arm himself with a deadly ‘weapon, and not only possible, but easy. The Star has pleaded for years for the enactment of & law which will pro- hibit under severe penalty the selling or the giving of a deadly weapon to any person who has not,obtained a permit to possess such a weapon, issued of the exposure of the public to the |are now in use that dwar! It to the pro-| peril of “shocks” from the current. Long since the use of the electric cur- rent has been established on elevated and subway lines, with practically no, danger. The methods of conduction and protection have been perfected now to the point where it is perfectly safe to run a large system of transport by means of the current, on the general level of travel. Only the trespasser up- on the right of way of the raflroad is in danger, and even he must seek out the contact which may cost him his life. the electrification of this line—which 1s likely to be followed by similar equip- ment on other lines in the East— whether it will result in speedier serv- ice, which is now necessary to enable | the rallroad to compete with the air lines, already a serious rival for pas- senger patronage. The rail time be- tween New York and Washington has been reduced considerably below the point of former service. The alr time, however, is much shorter. The chances are that the air service can be cut further in point of time, and that the rail service cannot go much below the present rates, which are close to the limit of public safety. However, with the straightening of tracks and the improvement of roadbeds, somewhat higher speed may be developed on the tails with the electric power. iy s el Yorktown Uncensored. Now that it has been decided by the National ~Yorktown Sesquicentcnnial Commission that the “surrender scenc” + shall be included in the pageantry that is to form a part of the celebration of the event next October, the stir over the matter, which has been considerable and Nation-wide, will abate and the plans for the affair can go forward. There has been altogether too much fuss over the question. Yet it has been to good end. There should never have been any question at all, indeed. Elaborate arguments against the de- piction of the scene of the formal yield- ing of the sword of the British com- mander at Yorktown have evoked only a faint response from the country. Overwhelmingly the public sentiment has been adverse to such a proposal. Consideration for the sensibilities of a national enemy defeated a century and a half ago has not appealed to the logic or the emotions of the public. Suggested parallels between the York- town and Appomattox situations have | not elicited any response of assent to the suggestion that it would be in- delicate to rub in by pageantry the humiliation of a proud people. Yorktown would not have been a significant point in American history but for the defeat of Cornwallis there by & competent public authority. The “concenled weapons” law is ineffective for the prevention of shooting crimes. Mariy hundreds of weapons are being carried at this moment in this city ‘without the knowledge of the police and with no risk to their bearers, weapons for which they have no legitimate need crime has been committed. Make the vendor not only report the thority for a permit, to establish iden- tity and demonstrate good faith of purpose of use—and the fllicit traffic in small arms, murder weapons, Will | dwindle to a small percentage of the present volume. Had the unfortunate man who is now in custody for killing Capt. Norman been required to go to one of the Police Court judges, or to the chief of police or to some other official named by the law, to obtain a permit, witbout which he could not have bought a gun, he never would have armed himself short of buying through some ‘“bootleg” source of sup- by a combination of American and Prench forces, For that defeat in 1781 | meant the final triumph of the cause of the colonists, who in 1776 had de- clared themselves to be independent of England. It meant the establishment beyond question of the American Re- public. The surrender was the final sct of acknowledgment by England of the independence of the new state. The ylelding of the sword of Cornwallis was but the ceremonial token of the surrender, and therefore of the ac- knowledgment. No yielding of the sword, no surren- der. No surrender at Yorktown, no victory for the colonists. Hence, no celebration one hundred and fifty years inescapable. The deduction from them is obvious. The National Commission on the Celebration of the Sesquicenten- nial of Yorktown has fully recognized country-wide publicity that has been given to the affair by the discussicn over the surrender scene will probably result in a large attendance and the complete success of the undertaking. o i In the earlier days of political ora- tory a speaker could so modify his re- marks as to adjust them to different localities and if inconsistencies Wwere pointed out, protest that printed ac- counts were garbled. This is no longer | possible. The radio puts & man on rec- ord for all the world to hear. ———— The loss of $500,000 worth of jewels was reported to the police of Milan by an American actress, who explained that she left them in a taxicab. So ply or in another jurisdiction. The fact that it might still be possible to |to be expected from a legitimate actress | get a gun in Maryland or Virginia does not lessen the necessity of making | 4t impossible in the District of Co- | Jumbia to arm with murderous intent. This country is suffering from a weapons evil that has cost uncounted | thousands of lives. This District has | suffered from that evil for years. It | has seemed impossible to get the ben- | efit of any kind of truly protective leg- sslation. Will not the Commissioners, undiscouraged by prior fallures, lay before Congress at the next session an urgent requisition for such a law? —etre Present conditions are not strietly favorable to kings of any kind. The market is compelled to announce to the fatthful retinue of Southern planters that good old “King Cotton” is again baving his troubles. - — Electrifying the Rails. Work is to start at once upon the laying of a conduit between Washington ( and Wilmington which will constitute the first element in the electrification ©f the Pennsylvania Rallroad between this city and New York. This conduit, which will require the services of about for the signal and communications sys- tem. No announcement is made as to the undertaking of the other features of the work, but it is to be assumed that they will be planned for consecutive exe- fution, to the end of the earliest possible of the whole project, the Bost of which is estimated at $7,000,000. Thus actually starts a work that has in contemplation for & long time: : § | i ] : [ 135 glflgz 388fs8 H does not suggest the sense of propriety | in the matter of costume. ————a————— | When doctors tell & patient that his | age leaves him little chance he ma: | prove himself old enough to know bet- ter than to believe them. ——— The First Passenger Train. ‘With the great number of anniversary “days” on the national calendar, it | would seem that none of the significant | | and historic events of the past has been | | overlooked by the holiday makers. But| it now develops that the centenary of | one of the most important and epochal | happenings in the history of this wun-! | try has been altogether ignored. This| was the successful operation of the first) passenger train in the United States. It occurred on the 9th of August, 1831, | and if the historians and “day” makers had been on the job in time last Sun- day would have been marked in some | way in observance of this interesting | On the 9th of August, 1831—which | | was Tuesday—the locomotive De Witt| Ciinton, which had been bullt at the | West Point Foundry, pulled out of Al-) bany for its first run to Schenectady, | seventeen miles distant. There was great public excitement. Many penple! | thought that the Jocomotive would never | last that far. The steam was made in a | boiler heated by wood. The locomotive sputtered sparks from its stack in such abundance that the clothing of some of the passengers caught fire. The road- bed was not the smoothest and the run- ning gear of the cars was not the most flexible. Consequently the train jolted 80 savagely that at one of the numerous A quiestion arises in connection with | later. The sequence of negatives is | it, and that settles the matter, and the | much display merely for a taxicab ride | portions of a small motor car, but noth- ing lessens its importance in the his- tory of rail carriage in this country, even though its first trip went unnoticed and there was no tooting of whistles or Im;m. of bells or pageantry of com- memoration. Next month Schenectady, reminded of the event of 1831, is to have an anniversary and the old De Witt | Clinton will perhaps be taken out and sent over the rails—not the ralls of today, however—to show how it made its first trip & hundred years ago. ————— Jack Diamond’s Sentence. The mills are grinding for Jack Dia- mond, alies “Legs.” He has escaped the law pretty regularly heretofore, but now he is feeling its nip. Just con- victed of offenses against the Federal Government, he has been sentenced to serve four years in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $11,000. Barring suc- cesful appeal, this probably means the {end of Mr. Dismond as a going con- (cern in crime. He must now “take his rap” He must abandon his highly profitable rackets and eschew the to- ciety of the gangs. He will probably | relish the security of a Federal prison, where he will be immune from the un- welcome attentions of rivels and foes who have showered him with souvenirs !of their distaste rather frequently in the past few months. There is a fair chance that by the time he comes out of “stir” these gentry of hostile spirit may have themselves’gassed into limbo. or indeed may have gone the way of |the gangster to their graves. And | there 1s, of course, the possibility that four years in jall may effect a spiritual | reformation on the part of Diamond, and then upon his emergence into comparative freedom—there will alw be & lot of charges hanging over him, unless the pardoning power is evoked— he will turn straight and live the life of a law-abiding citizen, perhaps in trade or in some of the learned pro- fessions. One never ‘knows what the effect of & few years of quiet contem- plation in confinement will do to a man. e ————— The statement by a Chicago beer i baron that he has had a large salary {ofler from London picture producers to | play the part cf a gingster must excite doubt. Conditions are viewed by the British people as requiring strict economy and a regard for usefulness in [ the employment of money. It i not likely that large expenditure, even in private commerce, will be applauded when its purpose is merely the celebra- ticn of the American underworld. —_——t——————— Indifference as to whether he goes on indefinitely being Mayor of New York is expressed by Mr. Walker. The positicn is one which has discouraged many men. The charm of a cheery disposi- tion is too valuable an influence to be | sacrificed to a mere matter of office- holding. e | Policemen who defend the use of the | third degree naturally stress the fact i that gangsters show no sentimental for- | bearance when they get &n officer of the law cornered. The third degree, ruthless as it seems, at least gives its victim & chance to get off with his life. — it ‘When the revolution habit becomes established in a small country, there are only two political parties, the “ins” and the “outs.” SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Rolling Along. Dis world goes travelin’ th'oo de sky, Rollin’ along— It keeps on a-goin’ an' we don’t know why, Singin' a song. We Iift our voices an' we has our say, An’ we gits excited on election day; But de world don't notice an’ it goes its way Rollin’ along. De world is happy an’ de world is sad, Rollin’ along— It's good when you's lucky; when you | ain't it's bad, | Travelin' strong. | When folks git to scoldin’ an’' a-talkin’ | rash, | You feels it wobble an’ you waits foh de crash, | But she turns & corner an’ dar ain't no smash— Rollin’ along. Running Dewn Rumors. “Do you think women improve politics?” “Well” replied Senator Sorghum, “after listening to the conversation on ‘lhe front porch I'll say this for them i If they ever start an investigation they’ find out semething " | | i | Delay. “So you have & biack eye again, the young man's father. “I have.” “Didn’t I tell you to count 20 before you utter an angry word?” “That's what I was doing when he got in the first blo Oh, life may be a song, they say, ‘Where varjous themes converge. Some yearn for jasz time every day And others want a dirge. Precedence. “You call that horse race a success?” asked the American in Europe. “A marvelous success. It took months of the most careful preparation. “But there was no remarkable speed developed.” “Certainly not. But didn't you observe | that the horses finished in the exact THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. A spider so small as to be almost invisible has taken up his home on a , himself a neat web. ‘When he was observed. by the luckiest chance, being so small, the strictest orders were given to leave him alone, with the result that he has been there about a month. His web grows larger and larger, fuller jand fuller, until a portion of it is al- | most fabric. He has grown perhaps one one-hun- dredth of an inch in that time, but is i still so small that his legs are scarcely visible. | captivity. i * x % % The functioning of the weather glass, a large pear-shape closed at tte top, | with a spout somewhat resembling that |of a teapot, in no way worries the | spider. The action of the glass depends on the relative pressure of the atmosphere in comparison with the body of con- | fined air in_the top of the bell, sealed in by the lake of water, wkich rises or descends in the spout. As the sir outside grows heavier, its pressure on the top of the water in the spout forces the column down and back into the bell. This signifies clear- ing weather. As the outside air grows less dense, it relieves the pressure on the water, and thus tbe impounded air, which remains stable, pushes the column higher and higher in the spout, spill- ing over at the approach of wet weather. Comparison of this rise and fall with that of the hand in an aneroid barom- eter shows that the water is down at the bottom of the spout when the pressure is 30.40 plus, and that it rapidly as the hand of the aneroid strument begins to go backward, be: ginning to come out of the spout when the hand of the other instrument reaches the neighborhood of 30 inches. * * ¥ % These figures mean no more to the minjature spider than they may to the reader here who has never made it his pleasure to compare these two types of barometers, The spider does not mind the drip of water from the tip of the spout. He bell to shiver slightly on its support. It is a curious fact that after the water has been rising out of the spout for some time, dripping drop by drop down the outside, to spill on the bit of blotting paper below, it drops suddenly, gerlupa as much as a half-inch just efore the storm breaks. This change, a dramatic one in lit- tle, no doubt comes about as a resuilt of the wind which usually precedes a | mind it all in the least. He is utterly unconscious that he is part of any sort of instrument. No doubt what he likes about the glass is the bright glistening character of the bowl, and ‘the long spout, which gives him a perfect place for web con- struction. Not only has he tied the entire ves- sel to its stand, by tenuous strands, but he has weaved back and forth be- tween the spout and the giass itself. * ok x So far the insect has been very fortunate. Never once, so far as we know, has he happened to be down on the blot- ter just before a storm. Down on the blotter, that is, at the precise point where the drops If he were, he would be a pink spider, for the water has been colored by the simple procedure of dropping in five or six drops of red ink, the red ink dear L COMERCIO, Lima—About the most difficult thing that people have to do today is think. Due to the thinking of a few, most of us have been freed from all mental exertion in the maintenance of existence. We need take no thought for the provision of our necessities; at least no thought comparative in any sense with the cares, counsels and cal- culations which not so long ago filled the aching heads of our progenitors. All the necessary labor which was for them so tedious is done for us by the pushing of a button or the thro of a switch. All this freedom from tofl and :)‘o_ fort, and from primitive dangers, q instead of giving us more time to de- velop our intel ce, gives us the more leisure for the pursuit of every and fri tend a lecture upon the mysteries solar system, a thousand will repair to some doubtful resort where there is no further design than to afford | entertainment and momentary gayety. If only thinking were not so hard, and if we would only pause, now and | then to reflect upon our and resolve to abstain from those activities which do mot conduce to mental sanity and spiritual intelligence It we the simplicity of a child, which when burned, fears and avoids the fire, how much better for the social and intellectual standards of our vaunted civilization! ok Tax for Pleasure Used to Combat Disease. ‘The Manchurian Dally News, Dairen.— Now that the tax reduction is taken up as a popular cry in Japan, the raise of | either the tobacco, the liquor or the gayety tax cannot be expected to ceived with placidity, but, at the same time, the people are expected to be | reasonable when told to what use the | additional revenue is to be put. In Italy, the promotion of the peop! health being laid down as one of the national principles, en! 1 protecting maternity and_cl | ed from those who do not bear the burden of either husbands, wives, or parents, rational ides. Similarly, in Japan, in combating the ravages of tuberculosis, funds may be derived from the antipodal indulgences s like drinking, smoking, and orgies. * ko o order in which their owners would go ! in to a state dinper?” The Ways to Wealth, “I wonder,” said Farmer Corntossel, who had just returned from & trip to the not fully B Ig‘ i in g weather glass, and proceeded to spin | He is perhaps the smallest spider in | 4if you have imagination gnough. With- 1 spins his web serene, causing the large | thunderstorm. But the spider does fot | Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands wing | Auckland to go in for voluntary pro- be re- | or ‘hildren are| without children. Of course, the funds| | to the heart: of childhood—shall we | say perennial childhood? ‘The spider has good fortune on his side, in this, because there is no human or spiderial way of telling just where, |on the small slab of g paper, | the pink drops will fall | We have seen him, all unconscious, | walking along with half en inch of | where the drops fell Somehow we | could not give him any credit for in- | telligenee, for something about his meanderings made it impossible to be- lieve that he knew where the drops |would fall and so had avolded them purpsely. | " 'No, he 1s a lucky beggar, that is all. Some are, both spiders and men. * ox ok % ‘Watching the first drop come out of | the spout is almost exciting, i you have the temperament to make it s0. Of course, you must have the tem- perament. ‘Wordsworth could see a whole world in a flower in & crannied wall, and | Robert Bruce got a great deal of con- | solation from a spider. | "1t is possible to see an entire ocean | in the pear-shaped globe of pink water, | |in that bowl lie dreams of old :2?. | with great shects which no man ay | knows how to handle. In the ancient days, before Torricelll discovered his better barometer, these weather glasses swung in many a cabin, Those spouts were watched with anx- jety. One can imagine that just before 8 typhoon or the like the water fairly poured from them. * xoxox The circular opening of the spout, | perhaps &n elghth of an inch | diameter, is not level, but slightly tipped up. It is interesting to watch the water rise in this opening. piling up higher and higher at the back, until it seems | that shortly a drop must run out. When this point arrives, the push | from beneath finally causes a drop to flow over the rim, and run rapidly down the spout. Usually this first drop remains on | the under part of the bowl, until re- leased the drop, when it falls to | pape! T. ‘The second drop, in its turn, stays d.r% runs down, and . es. or four drops will congregate, and remain there until & newcomer gives them the requisite | momentum to break loose together and fall with a splash on the | * % % % This lnun-unwoeeeflu is ended, |as we have indicated, shortly before | the arrival of the storm, by the sudden fall of the water in the spout abofit | one-half inch. Our pet barometrical spider so far has not got touched by the small ava- lanche of water, emulating in little the rains which descend outside. The spider has been is all, and some day he is going to get and we hope we are there this insect will | never grow any larger, but will be just this size for maybe a quarter of a cen- tury, for certain creatures have very long lives. Strict orders have been given for non- use of the dust cloth in the vicinity of the weather giass. Spiders must to be innocent live, and this one seems | enough. Some day, however, and surely be- fore the quarter of a century is up, |the web will attract a ruthless hand, |and then away will go webbing, spider |and all. And that will be the end of !a spider that lived for days beneath a waterfall and never got his feet wet. coming noticeably fewer, and trade is away from the | | ana bigger. | & city hotel hour of 5:30. | are_making easy money to let their friends know it? You are quite right; there are none. And where | are the men who used to be my daily customers? They are now tri-weekly and bi-weekly customers.” The hotel- keeper, looking as though he expected hibition overnight, pointed to a stock of imported English, Dutch' and Ger- man beers and & double row of Engl stout. “Not a bottle sold in a week," he said. | ———— Farm Board Must' Dance. From the Wall Street Journ Made desperate by the long continued ;am.m in Saeskatchewan, some In- | dians reverted to the practices of the | 800d old days and held a rain dance. At the end of the 48-hour ceremony | rain came. Large areas of our own | Middle West are f 1 | because of the Farm Board | was | agriculture ; wha lief could it give than rain in those parched areas? ‘There is no doubt that the need is | as great as in Saskatchewan, especially | in the western part of the Dakotas | and Eastern Montana, where the “earth is as iron and the heavens br: Th Spring wheat crop is a near calamity, which fact might be a relief to the hen the eouncil as. at Wash- ington this Winter there is likely to a war dance, with many of the been held for “time whereof o § i ot of » e i re| be correct Gov. |afi"f‘mm session impact of the second |,. the blotting The Political Mil! By G. Gould Lincoln, Unless the Democrats of the State of the government of New York City, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt A York may have of come the ways with those gentlemen. For if|only two cents in coin or stamps in- Skull wounds and Roosevelt will ' closed with your inquiry for direct re- | portion of the face of the Legislature to pass law when the In- vestigating imittee calls upon him to do so. adopt any other course he would sub- ect himself, along with the Democratic legislators, to a cl that he was conniving to prevent a thorough inves- tigation, after it has become evident not only to the people of New York City, but to the whole country, that there is a great deal of rottenness in the city government. As the leading candidate for the Democratic nomina- tion for President next year, it is not likely that Gov. Reesevelt will permit himself to be placed in any such posi- tion. *x oo New York Democrats have been op- posed to this inquiry into New York City government by a Legislative Com- mittee ever since it originated. They voted against it in the Legislature. The Governor, when he was urged to in- itiate such an ln%u by the City Af- fairs Committee, fin: decided that it was a legisiative matter and said he would t nothing in the way of a thorougl a it mittee 1 to hi real aid. The State urt of A‘:‘pe'lel: has ruled that the Legislative Commit- in |tee does not have the power to grant immunity to witnesses under the joint resolution creating the committee, but has added that a law passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor can give that power, which the commit- tee urgently needs if it is to be able to go ahead with its investigation in thorough style. The Democrats have insisted that the inquiry was born in lities and js designed only to aid the publican party. That kind of argu- ment, however, will not get them very far in the light of the corruption that c?:yll".dy been upturned in New York *x ok ¥ ‘The Republican national administra- tion was in danger of being discredited by the investigation made by the Sen- ate several years ago of the naval oil reserve leases to Doheny and Sinclair. But the Republicans were unable to say that the investigation should not con- tinue merely because it was being con- ducted by an indefatigable Democrat, Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, They knew that the Democrats would make the issue of the corruption against the G. O. P. on the national campaign hich to follow. But the Repub- licans had sense enough to know also that if they undertook to block the in- quiry of Teapot Dome by Walsh they would merely put themselves in a worse light. Perhaps the New York Demo- crats will wake up to the fact thet they 4re likely to have their opposition going inquiry interpre in an liy bad ll.llr:{~ i * Gov. Roosevelt can strengthen him- :_;l‘(. greatly with the mn’-’o':-tehnn-nune country if he calls a special session of the Legislature to put the law required to meet the needs of the investigating committee. It may hurt him with the New York organization. He, it appears, must decide for himself whether he is to _hang onto y or go ahead without regard to what may happen to some Tammany leaders of New York if ihe investigation is carried on vigor« * % % x y label in a presi- Tace next year. The “new Tam- for which Al Smith and his worked & few years ago has not . Roosevelt can have the &wofl of the New York delegation at tion, "in B prabebiiy "pone oS fends some of the _g..m.v;n padern past have brok and have 3 ocratic tial many” en with Ta been nominated by the Dem. for President, notably , who was elected have a concrete plan for the relief of the unemployed when Congress - in December. This is in line vith what Mr. Hoover has said him- i .DMBM the D!:nwn{.:‘ 3‘”"" they take tock ese protes- tations t and the chair- tio mittee, through its publicity bureau, which 'is mos - oy %, ai t active, continues attack- ul toward umpxoyfl‘inmu:'"&%de uation. One of the latest of these broadsides was issued under the name of Repre- sentative Clarence Cannon of Missouri. A the administration ot the iuation in- this uaf this oountry and attacks statements issued g‘fia President and Secretary Doak of Department of Labor regarding em- Pployment of labor. It is clear that the Democrats are going to make the most in the coming cam- Alfred E. Smith were President today. It is exactly what the Republicans have done in the past ts were in power. * * x % Whatever the plan of the adminis- tration, it now rs that it does not contemplate ;:loym 4 ent dole or Pederal unem, en E ator Felix Hevert of Rhode Taand 1 of Senate committee ose | have passed. H » i I i : pleg ] 1] i i g.l ! i i £ i: ség 81 i * - i ! i ; ; § & . ii 2 i E 13 i i i : ¢ i i g f i i B 4 i i 1" It is urged that if he should |service is free. Fallure to make use {you are entitied. Your obligation is | | ply. Address The Evening Star Infor- | | mation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, di- | rector, Weshington, D. C. { Q. Should an automobile tire earry | the same pressure in Summer as in | Winter>—W. K. i A. Automobile tires, generally speak- | ing, carry the same pressure in Summer | | as in Winter, particularly if in good | condition. Sometimes If the tires are | cld and weak, it 1§ not advisable to | | Bive as much pressure in Summer, as | they are apt to blow out. .Qfi In hmht - 0e ]::k‘hlnl. when s | shoe counted as a ringer’—W. G. A. Rule 17 of the official pitching rules savs: “A ringer is de- | clared when a shoe encircles the stake | far enough to allow the touching of | {both heel calks simultaneously with a | straight edge and permit a clearance of the stake.” Q. What is the diameter of the cells in the human body?—S. T. A. They are from 1/125 to 1/5000 of an inch in diameter. Q. Which States were first settled by | | Spaniards>—W. L. H. 2 A. The following States were first settled by Spaniards: California—San Diego, i, Florida—St. Augustin: 1565; New Mexico—Santa Pe, 1582; Tetas—San Antonio, 1690. Q. Is the Gulf Stream a freak of nature?—§. P. B, A. The Gulf Stream and other ocean currents are not freaks of nature, but | result from natural causes. Wind blow- ing steadily for a considerabie time from the same direction is able to start sur- face currents. This is demonstrated in the currents of the Great Lakes, where there are no differences of tem: wa in motion to the depth of 12,000 feet. Q. When did the tricolor become the flag if France?—A. R. is tte brought A. Marquis de Abw”nt the adoption of tricolor in Q. Is a child of 5 too young to be permitted to spend money?>—E. D. A. The Children’s Bureau it | at that age a child should te between & penny and a dime and be permitted to make occasional purchases in order to learn the handling of money. | the zodiac, the clent Rome. Q. What causes mahogany to look blue?—R. B. A. The bluish haze that is often no- ticed on a polished surface is nothing more than the accumulation left by moisture and dust from the i of clive oil may be ‘Wipe off with a sof! chamols. # ‘?':“vz.:flc): En :flflu lnuthe United Al e hest titude and which is lowest?—M. P. A. The post office at Leadville, Colo., frequent visitors. It IFZM ter | between 1702 and 1878. is probably the above sea level. " California, is being 10,190 feet n Southern the lowest—175 Q. Did the g of steel helmets the loss of 1yes in the World scalp and of the upper and neck by & large of New ! of it deprives you of benefits to which | War>—W. C. A. Steel helmets percentage. Cn?b Whendwu the Casing at Mont o bling establish. 3 . It is said to be the most l:_::r?u gambling establishment in the Q. Has the comic opera, “The Mi- kado,” another name?—G. S. - A. It is “The Mikado,” or “The Town of Titipu.” ‘Q"nzhn t:e the inscription over the en %) Typt where Napoieon burled?-T. N. T = . It is taken from Napoleon's “I desire that my ashes shall ms:u‘tlun banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people that I have loved so well.” Q. When was the British National Art 3 a Galle: in a collection of nnnth‘r:. 29 by :‘& masters and 9 by British painters, pur- chased with public funds in 1824 for coléred ever been city paving?—J. A. ‘anal street, New Ofleans, La. i to use stripping and then sanded down and polished. Q. When is grouse-shooting season OmtoBrlum"*l D. » in shooting in October. Fox huni ing begins in November. - Q.- What disense has appeared most often in the United States n epidemic form?—G. C. recent time yellow fever has been one of the most dreaded and 112 times Q. What were the seven grounds for vwceo under the old Chinese code?— | The seven justifying causes for were A lvorce barrenness, disregard of the h veness, mm suspicious di L. plumed knight?—C. B. A. “Our William L. Mc[eanE Lauded As One of Great Publishers ‘Tributes to the unusual qualities of Willlam L. McLean, of can Newspaper Publishers’ Association. The esteem in which he was held on his own paper, The Evening Bulletin, is expressed editorially by that publica- ggxl‘e l"': the statement, “We cal him expressed loyalty, trust, devotion. We | 1t invoked zeal and co-operation, Twen- ty-three years ago, May 4, 1908, the employes of the Bulletin, through a committee, presented to Mr. McLean » testimonial of their association with him, then for a period of 13 years, in which it was sald: ‘We wish to express, | and here record, our appreciation of the good will, the sense of justice, the patience, the helpfulness and the man! simplicity which have invariably mark- ed your relation to each and all of us, in our comings and goings, in the course of many years. We have ever found you kindly in speech, wise in ], considerate in criticism, just in reproof, and we have felt firmly, from day to day, the impress of your directing hand on every part of our and never heavily or Me come and gone. t this Tk | stating that - and letter, is the heart-throb of the Bulletin organization as it stands today with heads bowed, in reverence, in the pres- ence of death.” * x % % “He was the kind of newspaper man that most newspaj men 10 be,” declared the b “the truth, the whole truth but the truth” might well his motto. The Tel paper above all else, and saw In its ownership And in that word there was | 5t€! press live up to its responsibility to the Piblican holds that i strength and n a and the of T lay in the ult and rare large an organization as metro- politan journalism requires, he main- tained a knowledge and command of detail in every t and im- pressed his personality throughout.” ‘Mr. McLean furnished as strong a contrast as could be named,” according to the Baltimore Sun, “to the coterie of journalists who. in years gone by ly | dominated the great newspapers of the country—the Greeleys. Danas, Watter- sons and others whose the Bulletin, maki: strument nt‘n the testimony mn&.nnd.m:mmmd-mm farm marketing act is net sufficient. ident Coolidge vetoed the McNary- Haugen bill the equalization fee once or twice while he was in the White House, and President Hoover has rongly opposed this plan, too, on the ground that it is unsound, would prove disastrous for farmers themselves and wholesome * X X *x Recalling that he was a product of in its business ! manager of the old was still active ¥ ?E i Lil