Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1931, Page 24

2 THE EVENING STAR _ . With Sunday Morning Edition. R ————— 2 wAuune;ow. D. C. SUNDAY....,..August 16, 1931 The,Evening Star Newspaper Company Business jce. Pen) i _Ave. wew otk See: 1 d e e i Rate by Cnrfl:wlthln the City. ing Bar . 4be per month ehing ang Binday Siar 0 ‘undansv . 30¢ per month Ay Siai i) 3 us:‘:i-m'"?' " osg por monty Fn ny Brar ... 3 3 de at the end of ‘each month ”&mfl‘ "arcnli 'be ‘sent in by mail or telephone Rate by Mail—P: in Advance, y and Bunday... In»’l;M.lmo.,E el 1y 3800: mo oA Mt anada. . 8100 Pma: ik i imo. All Other States and imo. 50c day...1yr., 812 F Safy Sencer T RS y only 1yr, 8 3 Member of the Acsociated Press. hé Assocjated Press is ex: e Nioe o opubiication of 3 ted paper and aiso i news " All rights of publication of S ieparches hereln are Citn 1eserved Local and Suburban Traction. i7fn their argument before the Public Utilities Commission the other day representatives of the electric traction lines that enter Washington from Vir- ginia seeking a route to an intersquare terminal, to replace the street terminal soon to be abandoned to make way for Government buildings, advanced the proposition that the people of the nearby suburbs south and west of the #iver have as much right to come into Washington by tram as the people of adjacent Maryland. They pointed out that lines from Maryland enter the District and run to the center of the city, and this fact they presented as & reason why the desired factlities for a ‘Washington terminal should be granted to the Virginia csr riders. There 15 no established right in the ease. ‘The fact that the lines in ques- tion. have been operating for & long period into the heart of the city does N6t create such a right. Washington, of goyrse, wants the people of Virginia's suburbs to be accommodated to the fullest possible extent, so that they can féach their places of business here most conveniently and speedily and cheaply. But there is a consideration beyond such & desire, and that is the proper arrangement of traction facilities that will most fully conserve the interests of &l the street users in the Capital. If h of the city are to be griddied b3 i &3 be operated if mot owned by such a | consolidsted corporation. Suburban | branches should be part of the urban system. There should be no loose ends and misadjustments, such as those that are now In evidence in the pending question of the Virginia services. ‘The Publi¢ Utilities Commission can- the community, it seeks the unification of the lines, the clearance of the streets of neediess tracks, and the maximum acéommodation to all carriers, whether local or suburban, Maryland or Virginia. A makeshift arrangement to meet the rieeds of these present petitioners for atsommodations will only delay the con- summation which all desire, the estab- Mshment of a fully serving and a Jeast cpngesting traction system within the District ,,,,, o “¥o one is disposed to make serious obfection 1o the statement of a plain &NA not discreditable fact in connection with the life of Lord Cornwallis. In- deed, there mey be & disposition to polit with pride to the sbsence of any méteFial that might give him a chep- ter or even.a paragraph in a “mirrors’ ook It sometimes happens that the Lin- coln Memorial, though claiming as a Mie reverent ndmiration, meets with severe criticism The circumstance is not fnapproprinte. The man in whose honor it was reared has met with sim- {lar experience e Farm Tenancy. THE .SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, his land from becoming exhausted unintelligent or too intensive use. - Fences sag and fall, bulidings are decrepit, tools are neglected and de- teriorate. Increase of tenancy means that farm- ers are quitting the land and, failing to find buyers, are finding renters and share workers. They are shifting the burden of farm maintenance to other shoulders, It is interesting to note that of the six States which show a decrease of tenancy, five are in the area of close population in the East, Connecticut, New Ycrk, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. This probably signifies | that in those States farm lands have, been absorbed by city growth or have been emalgamated for large country estates. e Alfalfa Bill's Hat. As the old familiar phrase goes, the Democratie party might go farther and fare worse than name as its candidate for President at the convention next year the Hon. W. H. Murray, Governor of Okiahoma, better known to the coun- try at large as “Alfalfa Bill” His hat was thrown into the ring on Priday by 'ws s boyhood friend who presented him at the Parker County, Tex., Old Set- tlers' Reunion. This was a literal per- formance. A hat woven of Parker County straw, which had been presented to the Oklahoma Governor, was tossed into the center of the speaking piat- form, and the cheers, the dispatches state, were loud and long. ‘What has he done? it is asked of as- pirants for political honors. What “Al- falfa Bill” has done in Oklahoma has been aplenty. He has put Oklahoma on the map. He has made the first {page in the news scores of times since his inauguration. He has waged war against Texas—there is peace now %o that he could go to Parker County without embarrassment—and he has fought the ofl octopus. He has ordered the wells closed to prevent flooding the market and to bring the oll price back to normalcy. He has challenged the great oll companies to make an issue of the tax question. He is ready for a fight at any time. He is & stout defender of State's rights. In his speech at the reunion he said: I am opposed to the powers of the State being nullified by inferior Fed- eral courts. There is a twilight zone between State and Federal powers that must be wiped out. ‘Then we will know where jurisdiction lies in controlling the great corporations. Whenever a great corporation attempts to oppress the people of my State I'll call out the Na- tional Guard to protect the people from corporate r-ced Outside of the great captains of industry the United States has now no leaders other than dema- . ‘We should have leaders of in- ce in statecraft, capable of mas- the machine before it destroys us. must be th to give the tarmmer e Tetum Tor R Jabor, © Great stuff! And Alfalfa Bill has been talking that way for a long time, throughout the years when he was heading upward in the political game, He would make a stirring figure on the national hustings as a candi- date for the first office in the land. He would wring the neck of the power trust. He would solve the farm prob- lem. He would %ick the innards out of the stock ticker representing the money interests. There is no limit to his elo- quenece or his ferocity of attack. ‘The Democratic party bas not gone west of the Mississippi for a candidate since 1908. That was the year of Bryan's third and last nomination Here is & man from that section of the country who has all of Bryan's courage of attack, much of his eloquence and more humor than the Sage of Lincoln ever manifested. Alfalfa Bill has made himself a national quantity, and is to- day & Democratic asset of undeniable ———— e A Prize Novel. | No doubt many young people gazed | with envious eyes recently upon the an- | nouncement that & prize of $10,000 had been awarded to a comperatively young man for his “first published novel.” | Back of that book, however, | not the bed of roses which many per- | [ sons seem td think it is. It is work, | and hard work, and woe to the boy or | | Birl, ambitious to succeed in this field | who once gets the idea that writing is | “easy.” | Literature, no less than bricklaying, | | must have as its own solid foundation a | | meritorious substratum of physteal en- | {ergy. While it is true that some noted | authors have been men suffering from | disease, it truthfully may be said that! thes» men succeeded despite these han- | dicaps The young man or woman with a de- termination to succeed in “the writing | g2me.” as it is sometimes called, should | that real success in it is| thing of a few months or oven[ | not a | years. Here, again, one may point to phe- | nomenal successes which burst upon an | |amazed world. Such cases exist. since |genius is not bound by rules. But an {investigation of such authors reveals, {in most instances. that they uncon- |selously worked at their trade from | childhood | The young man whose first published | landed him in the “prize novel” | {class s the latest case in poin:. Al-| though his prize nove! is his first pub- | lished book of any sort, he has a ten- | vear background of writing effort, dur- | ing which time he wrofe and rewrote. | than extermination, of rodents. The present indiscriminate use of poison, he declares, has Tesulted in a “terrible scourge of insects.” The fine balance of Nature, worked out through scores of thousands_of years, is one which man often tampers with to his sorrow, Whether the Balti- more savant is correct in his hypothesis must be left by tne layman to the scientists. It is a fact, however, according to experts, that the insect hordes are bat- tling man for supremacy on the earth. These living creatures have several points of superiority over man, it is said, and are able to take advantage of the work of man to their own good. The huge increase of grain crops, now a problem to their own creators throughout the world’ has enabled the insects to find provender ready for consumption, and those in a position to know do not hesitate to ceclare that the insects have taken the fullest ad- vantage of this unintended help of man. Sometimes it seems that man loses more than he gains by tampering with Nature, by endeavoring totally to wipe out certain creatures. It would seem that moderation, if such can be worked out, might be more effective, espe- cially where there are shown to be clear gains, such as the eating of in- sects by animals. —————— ———— A recently developed school of finance regards planting coyn and cotton as a bad habit easily induiged in to excess. The old chap who used to put in the day sitting on a fence and chewing -' straw may not have been such a bad | farmer after all. ot ‘When a derelict is turned loose at sea | (o serve as a target the markmanship | is preceded by a display in which shafts of sarcasm figure to while away the | time until the exact location of the old | boat is accurately ascertained. ————————— It would be a strange climax to a career at first linked to prohibition if Californis grape growers were to con- centrate on an agreeable vintage and christen it “La Wille- brandt.” T — Care should be taken to keep Col and Mrs. Lindbergh informed of the adven- tures of some fellow fiyers so that the camera can be blindfolded when a Japa- nese neighborhood is approached. ———— Since farmers have been admonished to raise less grain, the elock-watcher may, as he curtalls his efforts, soon be | hoping for recognition as & public bene- factor. I % Having scored well by pointing out the existence of erime, all the Wicker- sham Commission has to do to earn more applause is to show how to get rid of it. e e An important point in the economic problem is to atrange a five-day week | without losing sight of the seven-day full dinner pail. — e ‘The ficiitious names given by gun pirchasers entitle a dealers address book to rank among the prominent ex- amples of American crime fiction. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. An Achievement, He was an artist, whose wondrous skill, | Made many with admiration thrill, | For he painted landseapes, whose every hue Seemed blending as colors in nature do. His tints seemed captives from sunset skies And his foliage to shake in the breese | that flles; And all who knew him declared his life Would be erowned with fame—all ex- cept his wite. And even his wife confessed, at last, His abilities ne'er could be surpassed- 'Twas the day when he started, with | mood intense, And painted the roof and the back- yard fence. | An Energetic Guarantee. [ “You think the man you are com- | mending is capable and industrious?” | asked the high official. “I do.” replied Senstor Sorghum. believe he will work almost as hard as I have worked to get the position for him " Jud Tunkins says prohibition gave art & real boost in this country by taking the bock beer signs off the sidewalks Benefits Forgot. Man is an ingrate. When it's hot His soul to wrath is stirred: But when it's cool, as like as not, He never says a word. “So your wife does not approve of | base ball?” “No.” answered Mr. Meekton. “Henri- etta can't stand it to see any mere man bossing people around the way the umpire does A Proverb Question. “Remember that politeness costs nothing.” sald the ready-made phi- | losopher. v “I've heard that told” replied Mr Cumrox, “but I never yvet saw any| gratis politeness from a head waiter.” D, C. AUGUST 16, 1931—PART TWO. WHY A CREED? BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, Bishop of Washington. In an age that is disposed to disregard the value of creeds and definite expres- sions of belief it is well for us to dis- cover how essential a place creeds and beliefs have occupied in the lives of those who lived efficiently and well. ing fallacious than to afirm that definiteness and fixity of conviction places limitations upon thought and practice. e is no de- partment of our life—domestic, social, political or religious—in which we can effectively function without sorhe well defined expression of belief. A home without a creed or an established code {of practice is disorderly and unstable. Soclety without well recognized conven- tions is Iln.llfeulnl insecure. The state Inws, based | Pressi upon certain fixed ideals, degenerates into a condition of anarchy an ly disin/ ites. By the same rule it iz unthi le that the church as a world institution can long exist apart from the recognition of & well conceived ex- pression of its belief, hence a creed. ‘We are talking much today of “self- expression.” A modern school admon- ishes us that life is solely governed by impulses, that is no such thing as fixity of habit or practice, and that every man is & lJaw unto himself. Such & conceit carried to its inevitable con- clusion is productive of a world confu- sion and disorder, where “e man does that which is right in own eyes,” irrespective of what it may effect in others. for 'ms or il we study or observe the lives of those men and women, whom we greatly respect ‘whose virtues we seek to emulate, we inevitably discover that they are governed by lm,-uned and definite beliefs, the value of which they have demonstrated and proved. It was said of one of old, “unstable as water thou shalt not excel.” Stability, however it may express itself, is born | of conviction and conviction resides in & consistently recognized creed or for- Such a creed or formula may, in the more reticent, be inarticulate, but it has its fixed place in the scheme of life nevertheless. Amiel, in his journal, says: “Men think that they can do without religion; they do not kmow that religion is indestructible and that | the question is, which one they will | have.” Through the long ages men have repeatedly undertaken to put in | some form of words what they held of | belief concerning the eternal Father |and His relation to His world. Some | of these expressions of belief have come | down to us from remote times. They | may be inadequate to express in any wemm way what we hold of faith or lief in God's purpose and plan con- cerning us, but for generations millions of men and ‘omen have found in them that which satisfied their deeper think- ing and ‘yearning. There have doubt- less been many whose faith has been insufficient to accept these fixed ex- lons of belief, while there have | been others who have found them too | restricted and limited. | We are not arguing their sufficiency | or infallibility, we are maintaining that | for each one of us there must be some deep and unchanging conviction con= | cerning God, the purpose of the min- istry of Jesus Christ and our relation | to the world in which we Jive. together with a conviction concerning life's ulti- mate objective and destiny. To go on | without some form of belief is to live | unreasonablyand tisfactorily. When | the great Apostle St. Paul came to the | tragic close of his life, while awaiting execution, he wrote a letter to Timothy, | & young man who had fallen under th spell o wer, saying: fought » fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.” His life had been one of great conflict and | suffering. He had every obstacle mt | in his way to impede -his course, but | in the face of this he held with tenacity to his purpose and he could say while awaiting execution, “I have kept the " "It is the valedictory of a great soul, it marks the climax of the life of one who had held to his course In spite of all opposition Our age may be rebellious to a defl- nite statement of belief, but as a matter of fact it cannot long continue in safety without it. Sometimes in an age of conflicting ideals and opinions we are | compelied to cry out: “Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief.” President to Inform Congress Fully As to Nation’s Need of Winter Relief BY WILLIAM HARD. Getting ready for next Winter seems to be all the rage in Washington just now, and it seems likely to become all the rage everywhere else pretty soon. ably presently urge a vernors of Btates to lun!monr' their State officials and their county and municipal officials and their private charity organizations to combine their resources to meet next Winter's needs, due to the depression and unemployment. The Federal Gov- ernment will cease to seem to contend that those needs can be met by the private charity organizations alone. It | vealizes that current statistics of unem- ployment distress relief prove absolutely private generosity so far has been al r inadequate to the task in . It will now clearly state that local public agencies must exert them selves to the utmost if appalling suf fering is to be avoided. ‘The Federal Government will con- tinue, nevertheless, to hope that it will not be called upon itself to make any direct contributions to rellef neceesities. ‘The chances are that its ambitions in :M.ud_m will be in some degree frus- Tat - ‘Widespread misinterpretation has at- tended a statement made to the Presi. dent l’mnlg by the Association of Community Chests and Councils in re- gard to the prospective uacy of local relief funds. The i credited with having funds would suffice thre tion in a1l localities. Inqui it_did not thus commit itself. ‘The Association of Community Chests and Counecils, with headquarters in New York City, is dealing only with communities hl\'ln;h;remll(km of 25,000 and more. are some 376 such communities. Two hundred and forty-four cf them have “Ches One | hundred and thirty-two have not. The association is extending its scrutiny to the whole 376. There, however, it stops. 1t is undertaking no ity wha soever for communities having & popu- lation of less than 25,000. * ok ox % ‘The relief problem of next Winter may accordingly be divided into two categories. One is the cal ry of the larger communities. The other is the category of the smaller communities. The Association of Community Chests and Counclls believes that in the larger communities a dil t and energetic effort by public ity and by pri- ate gnemllty combined may uer next Winter's perils. It admits that in many of the smaller communities the local resources are much more and the prospects of really uate local self-help are much leas ing. Among the smaller are, for instance, many ‘“one-industry towns in which the one industry is par- alyzed and in which thereupon the lo- cal resources are almost nil. In the list of such towns there are hundreds of mining villages which even now are wholly incapable of self-help both from the standpoint of taxes and from standpoint of private gifts. Many other such situstions in the who recently have made tours of them. % x tion of the local unemployment dis- | tress problem. In a great multitude of the smaller | communities no such local treasuries of large private wealth exist. The paradox which ensues is that it is from the small towns rather than from the big towns, and it is from the country sides rather than from the mi tan areas that the great cry for 1 help is likely to be raised next Winter. This distinction is bound to become abundantly apparent as the President's | 872all in_comparison with the stupend- | ous 1dle financial resouroes of this coun- | try. | * ok ok % The total of that cost in those com- | munities in June of this year. as re- | ported by the Russell Sage Foundation, | was $7.603820. Of this sum less than 142,000,000 came from private charity | organizations. Almost $6,000,000 of it | came from public agencies. That con- | trast is & biting cormentary upon the | alleged capacity or willingness of pri- vate philanthropy t» respond to the ‘turum emergency. ‘That emergency in | our largest and wealthiest communities throughout the couniry is getting sus- tained today enormously more by taxes | than by gifts. i wv. Roosevelt of New York is sald to heifeve that private philanthropy should be exhorted to arouse itself and to undertake to handle next Winter's unemployment distress need in New | York without any further expansion of |taxes. His feelings may be illustrated ;lnd in part justified by comparing the ie!lllln[ cost of “outdoor relief” in our | largest communities in June ‘of this year with a certain sum of money known to be existing in complete idle- ness in New York City banks. PR | ‘The “outdoor relief” c=st of those | communities in that month wes, as | stated, approximately $7.000,000. Con- | trastingly the deposiis now every day | maintained in the Federal Reserve Bank |of New York by New York member banks. without interest, is from $70.- 000,000 to $100,000,000. That money 15 | & | dotng just exactly nothing and earning Just exactly nothing. Optimists _argue the big towns and metropolitan areas the pub- lic_authorities and the private charity | organizations can bring such idle money | into relief use either by emotjonal ap- | peal or by taxing coercion. Gov. Pinchot | of Pennsylvania holds that such ap- | peals and such coercions should be tempted to the utmost limits of propa: ndist and of legal possibility, but he olds also that they will fail to pro- duce the amounts of money required. |1t is for that reason that he foresees | that in and demands Federal help. | * ok % | It is on every side accepted that the ::u;.k‘: of the u::nftlmun in sound n sense ully accomplished | before the Congress reassembles ll,n De- | cember. If President Hoover cannot tell the Congress in December just how much the local communities are going to be able to do and just how much | they are not going to be able to do, he | will be exposing himself, it is realized, |to a period of almost unexampled po | litical confusion and attack. It is cal- | culated accordingly that he will put | himself in a position to be able in De- cember to analyze the whole situation fully to the legislators on Capitol Hill, |and it is mlso caleylated that such an analysis will almost inevitably indicate ‘21“9 ;:r &ndl{fic& Fedyal luhfi’l’dy to 'Jlo- | wi som o | g B N e still unfixed de. | (opyrizht. 1931.) | ——r———— éBitnminous Industry’s Woes Shown by Figures BY HARDEN COLFAX. Government statistics slways irrefutabie, because "Uncle. Gam , has access to frcts and figures which .70 one else may reach, but in all candor it must be said that sometimes the bare tabulations fail to tell the Whole story. Consequently sometimes business fails to read (royln the ::l‘ tistics the real meaning that they give. A case in point is the semi-ansual report of the Bureau of Mines on the country's coal stocks, or reserves of fuel, if that term is more mcceptable. The jreport, read superficially, would seem { to indicate that the coal industry was {mot in such & bad way as might be { Judged from the efforts of the admin- |istration to get the operators and |Mminers into a conference for mutual {ald, yet I:en:xndu&e bald figures is quite us Dituminous coal, " TeAUnE to PR = & Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Nationsl Capital tourists who have recently from seeing New Eng- enthusiastic remem- beauties of nature, will be in getting auf first-hand _information lation aut] the Jacobs La It all came out at a political pow-wow when resentative Allen T. Treadway, dean the Massachusetts delegation in Congress, who is largely mentioned as one of the “big four” to renominate ‘President Hoover, wa: host to some 100 Republican leaders of his Berkshire district at his “camp” on Lake Mahkeenac, in celebration of road. former general ma r of the Berkshire Street Rail- 0., as the mnnm“l:hn named the during his service with Representative Treadway in the State iture. He introduced the bill for Mohawk “I have | he and operated for many years, was one of the most popular stops on this old stage route. ¥ ko Here's & new_vacation pastime sug- gested by Miss Vera K. Charles, one of the progressive young pathologists in Um“l(' filrfl'l service—read! | vorite fiction, rmry or philosophy, or | perhaps & let-doux, by the pale | green light of ck-o'-lantern or & mushroom. She guarantees that it can be done, so nature lovers are hunting around for mflc;:m‘ll{. luminous mush- rooms—outside corner grocery stores. Miss Charles points out that a striking phenomenon displayed s cer- tain fungl is lumlmms or ying b test per proposs are they will have the best luck with & par- ticular species of mushroom which has its habitat in Australia and which, she says, "fil‘val out such a clear, emerald- E;”,{‘ ht that it is possible to read m.'l"n &-u w;mu! ben"; ;;\ {n‘h sto- youa vestiga- tor for Uncle Sam a thllun‘phm‘..- nce in mushrooms has been the s in some countries for fairy stories and superstitions about ghosts. ok Former Representative R. Walton Moore of Virginia, living at Fairfax, Va., who has used the Chain Bridge during his entire lifetime, credits this structure with being one of the most important avenues of approach to the National Capital in a location of rapid- ly increasing importance. It is one of the river crossings by which a large vol- ume of business comes into the District of Columbia from & very extensive ter- ritory. A Virginia State road reaches the bridge from Fairfax, where it inter- sects the road from Winchester, and also connects with the Lee Highway, which enters the Shenandoah Valley beyond Luray at New Market. The | first named road at Tyson's Corner in | Fairfax County intersects the road to | Washington from the Shenandoah Val- |ley via Round Hill and Leesburg. And the District of Columbia sends out over that river crossing much of | the bullding material and other ;n‘\m \:’:?h uu“ area south of tl ver c] now progressii with such amazing rapidity. g e Chain nr!?:m with the new Key ge and the Highway Bridge carry Bri ! the from the National Capital into Virginia and the South and West. The traffic |across these three bridges has been extremely heavy and approaches to all ‘three structures are to be improved in |the near future. The Chain Bridge's chief im; . however, lies in the | fact that it fs the only direct access from Washington to Great Falls, and makes outlet for one of the most at- tractive drives, the riverside road along | the old Chesapeake and Potomac Canal and the Potomac River. ————ate A Come-Back. From the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator. _Benny Leonard, after an absence of | six years, plans to return to the prize ring, If he can take it on the chin as expertly as the public does he should o far. | | tons.” moving in cars en route to desti- | nation. Each of these figures was same category a year ago. *¥ Thus the statistical picture falls to | show that the movement is at a very |low ebb. It is not the fault of the | bureau and no criticism attaches to |1t on the score under discussion, but | the situation is one that is typieal. The | figures are satisfactory if read with & ‘\n:lkrmund of knowledge of the sit- uation. When the consumers’ stocks are look- od ufeh l:‘-a;s. the ?lmlu makes » good j icting commerce and industry how it is .r:” for the future in the way of fuel. “In making of stocks on different dates,” the bureau says, “it is necessary to take into consideration the highly variable factor of consumption. TXI'I; present lwcnu cf 30,100,000 tons, although apparent y current market ldlnzfleflr:llbhh' in "n:- when mflllnmf! n gen: moving at high speed. this reason, perhaps the best measure the reserves is to express them in terms of the number of days they would last at_the prevailing rate of consumption.” Its calculations show that on July 1 | foP 33 days of ave t-day use. From thia i Is seen that. the Teserves | actually were sufficient to last two days longer than on July 1, 1930. As a fur- | ther compari reserves were sufficient for 28 days on July 1, 1920; 38 days on July 1, 1928; 54 days on Jul 1, 1927, and 42 days on July 1, 1919, ®ox ok % Of course, those figures are the aver- age for all industry and for all cf the country. They are broken down further ing your fa- | great bulk of cross river traffic | comparable in a way to amounts in the | t prove to be | ™ The Quick and the Dead BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. “All that tread the handful to the tribes its bosom.” ve, | 1o regarding the naming of Mohawk Trail and the legis- | ceed the dead. it | I T |ernment and include t Revolutionary era from town Settlement and Those gathered to their that century and a half Ve but a trifiing addition to the d-:g No more impressive calculation numbers of the American peopl rich in promise. that the star of the American people, in hey live on fresher land, with large proj tor of accumul other question. The numbers who ever trod American soil were few so {at as any extant evi- dence is coneerned. It is doublul | whether as many as 3,000,000 Red In- dians ever lived on the continent at one time. The numbers of the Mound few. Old World Census of Dead. American contrast into strong lfi. ‘The tale of death and destruction, cen- the dead in Asia and E- H 535} ?gé years ago that the normal 50 modern a nation as Great Britain but 18 years compared with some 50 America toda; y. The toll of plague, warfare of earlier years is appalling the modern mind. There are only the most inaccurate statistics the fatalities in the r'—chflm era, but the Old Testament, as well as many other books, has much to say of the plagues of Egypt. It is known that they slew many. In the of Justinian a plague came out of and raged in Eur for 50 years. It killed more than 100,- 000,000 mk. There is an early chronicle h tells how & Chinese pes- tilence destroyed 13,000,000 in one sec- H 5 sk strength of attraction of & new land, | | | The fact emphasizes how fortunate is | po i Bullders and of the Oliff Dwellers were | gy gss i a 5 5 z i i ] B I i! ] 2 788 i | 5 i §§§i§§ § f58 ! Eizfi H § §| g 2 3 I gE 3! s‘z | Fifty Years Ago In The Star Early in the morning of August 10, 1881, a Summer hotel at Beach Haven, | Summer H 250 escaped with- Hotels. % fifry, cause The Star to comment as follows in the issue of Al,ult 12, 1881 “The burning of a hotel at Beach Haven will be very apt to make so- Jjourners at Tesorts uervous and more afraid of fire than ever. And effect. The N. J, was destroyed by fire. Though all of the i tinder 3 teference to the pre tion, and provided no means for once get started. are, therefore, at least ninety in & hun- dred that a fire breaking out in a watering place hotel will result in the total destruction of both building end contents; and we may add that if the inmates escape with their lives they may count themselves fortunate indeed. “How can the matter be helped? It is hard to say. Prom the nature of the case the .situation is surrounded with difficulties which make it almost if not entirely impossible: to provide complete security. Manifestly the ex- mu of construc a fireproof lding for a hotel to be occupled cnl; two or three months in the vear will be so great and make th: cost of stay- ing in it so high as to put that pro- vision entirely out of the gquestion. ible to provide in all pply of water sufficient to amount to anything in a fight with the flames. re seems to be left then ni but vigilance and cau- tlon, on part of host and guest alike; and these ought to be exercised in the extremest degree. mate of one of these mammoth estab- lishments for a night—or of any hotel, for that matter—without first Lecoming entirely familiar with all its stairways, and exits, and deliberately & Toute of escape in case of fire or any alarm of ‘These precautions should then suj h use of hand, the manage- ment of & hotel owes it both to itself and to its customers to use every means within reach as well as to keep the danger from it within the smallest lmit possible. In this direction hing should be accepted as an ef. the stocks heid amounted to sufficient | fort cautions ought to be req m’: of " every “hotel situated remote” from first-class means of subduing a serious but, law or no law, to fire; by the bureau to show that, as of July —_— ‘Afialysis by the Department of Agri- researches into next Winter's imminent .. The bureau's figures showed that 1. the raflroads had 22 .“w‘{ iy culfure of Census Bureau figures dis-| No boy or girl in school who possesses | An Agreeable Ananias. Yonso closes that nearly half the farm 4 taste for literature should expect im- | Bill Bivvins doesn’t tell the truth; crisis continue. Th ::,fl"m mn:.:!,:::’“’“f,‘:j stocks stood at 30.100,000 population of this country is on a ten- | mediate success, but they should know | At least. not all the time, { 37000,900 'oymlb‘elg:ur:heu“t;; gn:: ‘ ,000, s e ant basis. Fifty years ago only about tnat if they are determined, energetic | And yet we welcome him, In sooth. dil i | ¥ ; e e rellet by, the Risse] ponding dates of 1929 and of compared with 20 a year bit nous coal Mkl;ll had 46 o ompared with 51 & year fmm.ln held a supply i * * % E =, 5 1930, twenty-five per cent of the farTers In.ng the possessor of some abiiity a cer- Ameriea were tenante, three out of €VerY. tain measure of success will ultimately | four owning their own land. Since 1925 | pe theirs. Let them not be dismayed by temant farmers have increased by DeaTly | the passage of years | four per cent. Last year temancy in- .- { creased in forty-one B'.A:»,s. drc:u:: | The automobile parking problem has in six, with no change in one, BOUth . reqsed in significance until it finally | asserts itself as & homicide m: E—— Parm tenancy is mot a satisfactory tve. 4 little more than & farm laborer who| Extermination of rodents has resulte: lives on the land which he works, in|in the grasshopper menace of the Mid- part for the benefit of the owner. In dle West, according to a charge lodged S0 But the rarest instances he owns|by Prof. Howell of Johns Hopkins Medi- t he is usually |- Ground squirrels and other small animals are sald to constitute ti:e chief check on the increase of insects on the Western plains. The animals eat large quantities of the insects and dig up and devour thousands of egg oasss. Dr. Howell has petitioned .| MeNary, in his position the Senate his influence ¥ With an affection prime. He tells the ladies they are all The fairest of their race: Likewise he says their children small | Have wondrous wit and grace. He tells each statesman that his speech Ranks as a classic rare. ‘Whate'er the goel you fain would reach, He strives to boost you there. With friendly talk since early youth Good cheer he's tried to bring. Bill Bivvins doesn't tell the truth, But he Is comforting! “Sometimes,” said Uncle Eben, “de white gemman dat tells his wife it's foolish ter go ter a matinee an' cry, spen’s de hull aft2ymoon at a ball game, | takin' de resk o' sunstroke an’ yellin' de linin® out'’n ‘s throat.” e ——— corres That fluctuation is not large. had been much At nges in between the dates 'fl:r f-rhxccnl: the comparative figures are mentioned, so on the surfsce it i; made to ap- | pear that the coal industry can worry along. But behind these ::;::m.ct t.n:flt‘utrl:: ":‘32'.“’3,5-" , represe; T Eiad o " represent the holdings of consumers and z&:emhmn. remained at the level Foundation of New York City. This re-| Ther, only with the largest of the e ities. It deals only with they had only 4 higssies “As the date fixed by the authorities of Chicago for having the telegraph Underground Jown 'From . ihe. potes Conductors, 24 t hand.” Thor hose " interested 43 g S | 9 E |