Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1931, Page 8

n London, c . in Advance. ginia. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclysivelr eriitied to the use for republication of all news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ¢ his pADer and aiso the .ocAl news ed, hereln Al riehts of sublication of erein are ilso ieserved. Al nispatches The Flexible Traffic System. Thoroughly in line with experiences in other cities, the flexible system for the operation of traffic lights now in- stalled on Rhode Island Avenue is working out with great success. Dif- ferent from the “block” timing, in that the needs of each intersection can be cared for by the flexibie con- trol and the whole arrangement tied up into a synchronizéd unit, the new plan is now in full swing and after & further period of expegjmentation will probabiy be tried out on other thorough- fares, such as Sixteenth street and Massachusetts avenue. Another inno- vation, so far as the National Capital 4 concerned, is the flashing amber lights from midnight until seven in the morning to warn motorists to keep | down their speed. With the further advotion of the | fiexible system and the return to nor- maley in the left-hand tum on Sep- tember 15, Washington will join other jarge communities in complete sup- port of recommendations of the Na- tional Conference of Street and High- way Safety, that body of experts origi- nally assembled by President Hoover when he was Secretary of Commerce and which has given its time and labors freely to promote uniformity in traffic regulation throughout the country. Not | — WASHINGTON, D. C. | bergh, there will be many other fights. ke M Will have any purpose but the friend- Ao x"n‘..! | comed by Japan as promoiive of good ane B 854 uc per manta | Probadly the presen; season tor Paci ) : copy | ee 3 rd internaticial avia- TP Pangborn and Herndon and the critl- All Other States and Cana | TRubber Hose Police Methods. tainly e appisd in the case cf the tracting a confession from a prisoner. police blotter, should be entered the cell and denied communication with | rately, hour after hour, by detectives, {the use of such instruments of torture | suspects or hit them in the face. rmed methods might be permissible, The confession is the thing, and by ness. contrast to the treatment that would some similar offense. Whether the suspects, however, they have not been They have been perfectly free to com- all cities, of course, follow the code in mony and to interview other witnesses. g0 wrong in taking the advice, which i’ | stead of every member of the force On sccount of the rotary left turn, THE EVENING STAR Editien, QUBSDAY . .....August 25, um‘ i op | 8CTOSS the Pacific, by The Evening Star "‘;f."’ °"""’".nun will be naturally the prime ob- !1test, and all of which shou'd be wel- Rate by Carrier Within the City. | = feeling hetween the two counirles, nders) "8, -al Bunday Mar i fiving is about over. There %:l! b2 timi undars) ot the end of eacn month {tion which will avold such unplensent I 4 ;1 meo- B9¢ | ctem <f Lindbergh. Eflr and Sunday...} ;r:xiig: 1 mg;nzai The accepied joilce melhods of con- in 1 . 1 mo.. policemen of tis first precinct charged Each of these policemen should be magic word “Investigation.” { friends, relntives or legal counsel. | singly and in groups. {as rubber hose. Of course, the police | But as these policemen of the first 2ccording to police standards, in mak- all means it shotild be got. The treatment of the police “sus- | have been given to the common, garden policemen are guilty is neither here nor deprived of their liberty. They have municate with each other. They have | They have, as & matter of fact, every is based mostly on fundamentals, of allied against them. which is wrong in principle and danger- ‘With Sunday Morning st MR TP A THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor e {by Pangborn and Herndon, and by Lind- T X L xew otk D08 Rask and Jective of thess hops, mone of Which ichigan Bildtie. nt ., ;43¢ DO th | ening Star gyt per mon el th dav Bt PBef oy | in the next few months to d o e Semt in by mail of telephone | new attitude tows | instances hercafter as the fining of ¥ only o y only . T, oc | duct ation” should cer- with end suspected of brutality in ex- arrested. Opposite their names, on the Each should be placed in a separate { Each should be interviewed sepa- Of course, the police never resort to {never use force, kick the shins of the precinct are now ‘“suspects,” strong- ing them sign a “confession.” How it is obtained is nobody's busi- pects” in the case has been in marked variety of ordinary citizen charged with | there. But they are “suspects.” As not been suspended from the force. been able to obtain transcripts of testi- its entirety, but no city ean possibly member of the force behind them in- | this great organization. | ‘The average citizen, placed under the | | same general nature of suspicion, would past few years has held none 100 envl- | ;0 pave been so fortunate. He would | able s reputation. There has &IWAYS | 1,ye peen locked up. He would have | been a wide difference between com- | munities in the use and timing of traf- fic lights. Some, notably New York before the recent change which after the police were through question- ing him. He might, or might not, have come out of the cell with a black eye been denied access to his counsel until | City has remarkably speeded up travel, use Jong periods for the red and green. Others have the present Washington and a brulsed body. He would have| been yamked away from his job, at any | rate, and without any warrant what- ever held for a possible forty-eight |hours unless his attorney, by some | | fortunate chance which is not present | in the majority of cases, obtained his | | release. ! | 1s thet a wild statement? In the| | first three months of 1931 there were {2,700 eitisens srrested for “investiga- tion.” In the second three months’ period there were %500 so0 arrested and held. It is unfortunate that police tecords, a8 now kept, do mnot permit| of a eclassification that would show the proportion of these suspects after- {ward held under specific charges or | convieted. - It stands to resson that | the majority were released after an | imprisonment that is not justified under | | any 1aw on the Books, or by any pro- | | cedure suthorized under the Consti-| | tution In the Jaynes case alone—the hold- up and murder of & restaurant cashier PRI S, ORI | —there have been twenty-five “sus- 80 far as adventures InVOIVINg PhYS- | [ocic+ joked up, their_names broad- feal peril in a remarkably low tempera- | cu5 g5 under investigation. The net re- | ture are concerned, voyagers in ATCUE | gt today is that three persons are now | areas might as well have remained &t | gyaiting grand jury disposition of | ‘home. charges against them involving a “con- spireacy” to rob, but not actually rob- American Flyers in Japan. | ping, the restaurant Clearly the Japanese government Among the list of suspecis in this; should straighten out matters regarding | case who were arrested and heid in, the treatment of foreign fiyers who are | & precinct cell for the convenience of | visiting those islands. Definite regu- | inquiring detectives were four awdem!i Jations should not only Be adopted but | of the Georgetown Law School, as in-| shouid be widely broadcast for the in- | nocent of the crime as Dr. Albert Ein- formation of all nations, respecting es- stein. The bungling detectives respon- pecially the aréas on which landings | sible for this outrage were not even em- may not be made and lso the matter of barrassed by an official reprimand. photography from the air. Recently two! How mgny other simiar outrages instances have arisen in which lack of | bave been perpetrated under the same | Knowledge by flyers respecting Japanese | Cifcumstances? What efforts have the Testrictions and prohibitions has led to | Police officials mtde to discover them embarrassment and eriticism. and call & halt? In the present case case two American fiyers were ",“lfldsthe man preferring charges of police and later fined heavily for taking plc- | DFUtAlity has a criminal record. The tures over zones which are barred to | CATdS ate stacked against him at t photographers, There could e no com. | OUiset. e violated all police codes fhsint technically’ on this: éote it/ | WINR 18 oSghaloid ¢f bad foektuint Half of the unfortunate aviators because | S SN T Mpoted 10 Keep (et mouths shut they had undoubtediy broken the Jap-| " yol 4ig ny st beater nese rules. But they had done #o in! "y e sgnorance of the limitation and without | " o fntention of trespass, Their release with | p i o case against ti @dmonition would have been more AP- | ygrs §t 42 affirmed, is an excellent propriste than the imposition of & fin¢ | p05uunity for rubber hose inteliigence of about $1,000 each, exaction of Which | o "ine part of the police investigators has undoubtediy caused unpieasant feel- | wrat the public demands i A “con- 48¢ 1n uis couctey { tession” from the police suspects. And Now Col. Lindbergh is under criticism, | pere it is Tuesday—nearing seventy- t is stated by & news agency in Tokio, | (wo hours after the alleged beating for having landed his piane in the fllght | took place. What 8 the matter with from Petropaviovsk in Kamchatkh to|ine police? Are they all turning softies? | Nemuro, Japan. The going between | Any man ought to be made to confess #heee points was bad. The ship had t0 anything within twenty-four hours. e brought to water out of schedule be- | - oause of storm and fog. It is Aquflg One branch of indusury that may be now unofieially but peintedly that the | expected to report a lively and lucra- Lindnerghs landed on prohibited m..:me demand is the manufacture of 8fd gther waters Which were not firearms for trresponsible distribution. d By the Japanese aviation bu-! Sl i “in the emergency desesnt permit ! lssted at the request of the Americen empassy. It 18 evident from the fact that criti- clsm has been expressed of Lindborgh's course that the Japanese authorities are | lem, but the Labor party itsell has been 00 meticulous in their insistence upon ' divided and its prospecis of a return to prascribed routes and Ianding points. | power in the event of & general elec- Even though the government itscif has | tion—which must come shortly—are not demurred, clearly the matter has|cecidedly dimmed. Scarcely had the been discussed In critical terms and | premier, Ramsay MacDonald, kissed the this iteelf is an unpleassnt suggestion | King that Japan does not yet understand (he;ol the charge of forming & new “co- purpdsé of internationsl flying. It was | operative” ministry than the die-hards gertainly not to Apy out military secrets of the Labor organization began to At- Pangbofn an@ tack him. He s been all but read out U“’ré“fm of the party. And with him go Puilp are caused by misunderstadings as to what the “other fellow” is going to do. Great progress to this desired end has already been made and residents of the National Capital are gratified that ‘Washington is among the leaders for uniformity of regulation. . ———— Did he Did he him, ‘o » Absurd! up? Laborites Turn on MacDenald. Not only has the British Laborite ministry gone out cf office to mike WAy for & coalition cabinet now being framed to ccpe with the budget prob- hand in token of his acceptance | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Snowden, who has been chancellor of the exchequer, and J. H. Thomss, Who has been secretary for dominion affairs, both of whom are following the Laborite chief into the new cabinet. The break from MacDonald and Snowden is head- ed by Arthur Henderson, Laborite secre- tary for foreign affairs, who, it is well understood, has for some time aspired to the premier's place as leader of the Labor party and head of the govern- ment. It is, however, a far ery from MacDonald to Henderson. The latter, able man though he is, does not possess the confidence of the rank and file of his party as did MacDonald. His lead- ership is likely to bscome a mere ges- ture, for it is greatly to be doubted whether he can command a sufficient following of Laborites to win for him- seif at the next election a balance-of- power representation in Parliament. Nobody, of course, can foretell the length of time that the coalition min- istry will last. It is an emergency or- ganisation, created to meet a condition that may prevall for some time or may be quickly adjusted. The general ex- pectation in England seems to be that there will be an election in the Autumn, on the assumption that the drastic remedies of eeonomy adopted will effect s balancing of the budget and permit the issuance of & call for the electorate to determine the future organization of the government. In this situation the Liberals, though weakened somewhat at present by the illness of their chief, David Lloyd George, who is convales- cent, will undoubtedly make a strong effort to regain power. So will the Con- | servatives, who today are the plurality party in Parliament and who normally command the largest fraction of the | votes cast in a general election. The measures now to be adopted will greatly affect thé trend of the voting when the call for ballots comes. e It would not be precisely considerate for Stalin to hint to New York that it gang men were to assert sctivity in Moscow he would promptly find & way to take their guns from them and put them to work. e The “open door” for China's trade comes into evidence along with the open heart of Uncle Sam, in connection with wheat shipment. “Business is business,” but financial experts agree that the closest dealing is not always the best. -t Advice on the care of children in a large city during the Summer will not be regarded as complete until it in- cludes some suggestion for clothing that will be cool and at the same time bulletproof. v In spite of much fun that has been made of the Wickersham report, some parts of it have to be taken very seri- ously indeed. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Tired Business Man. Every man’s & business man—at least he ought to be, Though life be on a humble scale the times he must foresee, And do his best to give and get the value that is due, Whatever be the traffic that he happens | to pursue. Some sell corn and bacon, and some sell | time and toll; Some sell works of art and some sell products of the soll, And some sell new ideas for an economic plan— But everybody's working for the tired business man. When the business man got weary in the days not long ago. They tried to entertain him with » jolly singing show, His taste has grown more serious, and now he wants to hear Of practical endeavors to make busi- ness less severe. The producer, the consumer and the agent have combined In search of some substantial thought to tranquilise the mind. 80 the orators are speaking just the very best they ean, And everybody's working for the tired business man. Youll find him in the office; you'll find him on the cart; Youll find him in the attic struggling on with aching heart: i 1l find him in a palace, and you'll find him in & shack | At work on some ideal his surroundings | seem to lack. H Each seeks the profit in the mart to which he has aspired. And they themselves quite frequently make one another tired, The world's a stage. as Shakespeare | said, and actors there we scan Btill trying to bring solace to the tired business man. You' Constant Peril. “Do you fear for the future of your | eountry?” “Of course,” repiied Senator Sorghum. “My country has always to face the | chance of my landing in the minority or | even being retired to private life.” | A man’s right to change his mind de- pends a great deal on whether he is at present in agréement with you. A Difterence. | The kicker does it much rejoice { In words of woe to raise his volce; | But him it flll with discontent | To hustie forth and raise the rent. | Busy. “BlIgRINS says & mAn ought to attend | to his own business.” “¥es. But he thinks it's his business | to show everybody else how to attend to his business.” A Trace of Egotism. 1 “My constituents never fail to accord me continuous applause,” Temarked the Congressman, “Yes,"” replied Parmer Corntossel. "AI hear themselves cheer than listen to an- other man talk.”" Til-Requited Industry. Now doth the little busy bee Discover with dismay That honey which he stored with glee By man is snatched away. “A man dat refuses to worry,” said | uncle Eben, “is liable to wake up some day wif & whole lifetime o' worry on his hands @8t bhas to be ‘tended to all o onea® ~ D. C., TUEBDAY THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Traffic must forever remain s mystery to_ the man who isn't in it. ‘We thought of this the other day as we stood on the north side of Pennsyl- vania avenue, waiting a chance to go across. How different this wide street is to- day from Ithe Avenue of 20, 15, even 10 years ago! Now it is as much as one's life is worth, as the saying goes, to venture across on one's legs. The safest thing to do, if one wants to go to the postal station in the old Post. Office Department building, say, is to_hire a cab to take one acroes. Why not? Taxis could work up & thriving busi- ness in taking pedestrians across street for a nickel. Such a maneuver wouldn't slow up the cabs much, and would result in greater safety to p:deau'um. * o % Where do sll the automobifes come > m That is the question one asks one's self while waiting for an opportunity to dart across. Even on Thirteenth street at a quarter to 9 o'clock in the morning the feeling of mystery which comes over one at the large number of cars is no more acute than on Pennsylvania avenue at almost any time of day. ‘The extra width of the favorite parade ground no doubt accounts for the pop- ularity of this noble thoroughfare with motorists. Surely these thousands of people can not have so much business down this way, as that they want to go somewhere, and take this avenue to it. * x ox % But still the question remains: Where do they all come from? It does not the slightest bit of good to remind ourself of the fact that each driver is & human being. that he is com ing from sowmcwhere and going some ‘where else. Still we have an unaccountable feeling that so many of them should not be coming along here at just this particular tim e. Doesn't any one stay home any more? 1t does no good, either, to remind our- self of the fact that each one is on the street no more surely than ourself. * o ox % ‘We, with our small package the parcel post. are there 0 to the postal statior Each to put in 80 across n. one of these human beings in an | sutomobile is on some sort of errand or other, there can be do doubt of it in the world. What seems mysterious to the pedes- trian is simply the effect of numbers on the human mind. 2 Up to & certain point, probably differ- ing with each person, numbers are in-| teresting. After that merel -y ‘The 1 of large numl humlnm, lies in the realm of mys- tert}:. may not apply to the financial expert, who has mastered the handling of aggregates as if they were units. To him, a million (say dollars) is just one thing: million doilars, one million | measure, deal with patronize banks, buy other ways participate in ‘The way they do it is look wise, discuss such matters in public as little as ible, carefully select firms and individuals with whom to do business, and then rely on the innate honesty in | human beings. Yet if you can catch one of these | persons in an honest frams of mind, | when he has no bluff to put up, he will | admit frankly that numbers, as such, in any realm, are unknown quantities him. * k x * All numbers after they get to a cer- tain point are the x of the mathema- | ticlan—the unknown quantity. | who make a great success of handi | large quantities of | money, are success. | 1t is only by the principle of reducing | the many 1o units, as we have suggest- | ed, that these people “get by” so nicely. | This does not in the least detract | from their ability, but rather adds to it, | it seems to us. A man who successfully } trains bears when he knows nothing about them is more to be congratulated than the bear expert. * K % ‘width of Pennsylvania ave- nue between d and the Cap- itol makes its crossing to the pedestrian | one of the most dangerous in the city. | ""The lack of traffic control on it adds to the danger, as several cars come at one side b side, sweeping the entire intersection. | This brings one around to the desir- ability of crossing in the middie of the | block. Most people hold this as highly | dangerous end motorists decry it, as well they may, but it is not as bad as it looks, if one follows the old rafiroad | injunction, “Stop, Look, Listen.” Parked cars add to the danger, and yet in a measure they add to the | 0. 1f one will take the trouble | stop, on coming to the end of the cars, |and cautiously peer both ways, there | is little danger. | 1f one will not take that elementary | precaution, he is very likely to be bumped, on _such & wide avenue as that | designated Pennsylvania. ‘The width of the the hfare en- bles two or more cars to come abreast, and this forces the one on the inside to | come close to the parked cars. Parallel parking adds to the space st the com- | mand of motorists, and hence to the | number that can come along at once | and more closely to the curb. | * ing 1y ‘The extra It is interesting to note, facing a rushing traffic, that women are the boldest to plunge into the stream. Women take a thousand echances every day to men’s one, and in man; cases seem to rejy solely on the ancient courtesy shown their sex. Courtesy, however, is & slender reed | to lean on nowadays. and the pedes- trian, male or female, who fails to | listen to the voice of reason in this f things, -Feel heroic actuality surprised at their c:vn dollars. The accent goes on the one. | matter may listen to the ambulance To the countless scores of persons of | siren later. & another type, who foolishly insist on Even when the stream of traffic is understanding numbers as such, a most insistent, and one feels terribly million means a million, and as such | upset by being delayed, it is well to ends up by meaning exactly nothing at | remember that the longest wait in such all. | cases is not more than a minute or two. i i 9 | And sufely most human beings are not ‘That is why stocks and bonds, hnk-l ing, high finance, trading, mergers, etc., in such a hurry that they cannot wait & minute or two to save their lives. Highlights on the Wide World prohibiting the sale of Chinese factories to foreign interests has been issued by the ministry of industry. The ministry has also announced measures to deal with cases in which the owner is unwflling or financially unable to carry on the operations of his factory. Under such circumstances, the government, central or jocal, will | arrange to take over the factory and| convert it into a state enterprise, in | case the factory in question is one of any magnituge. In all other cases loans *bearing low interest will be ad. vanced to the factories and govern- ment supervisors will also be appointed to introduce methods of scientific management in order that production | may be increased —Kuo Min. l * x % % | Statisticians Throw | Ne New Light on Unemployment. | Irish Independent, Dublin—If sta-| tistics could eure unemployment, or even point out the way to recovery, the | world would not now oe lamenting its inability to discover a Temedy for trade | depression. Beyond coun'ing the grow- ing numbers of the unemployed, and reckoning how trade is declining in value and in bulk, the statisticians have not succeeded in throwing any new light on the problem Year by year the position seems to be becos more serious, while the revival $0 ardently desired, and so often foretold, still fails to appear. When the Labor government came into of- fice after the last general election the total number of unemployed persons in Great Britain was about one million. Now. two years later, the army of un- employed 4s over two and a half mil- lions. This increase is alarming, and. though slight reductions occur now and again, no imprcvement can yet be confidently expected. | The seventh annual report of the British ministry of labor fhows that in some industries, such as cotton, iron, steel and shipbuilding, more than one- | third of the normal number of employes were idle last year. In Germany the | | to the Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands ORTH CHINA HERALD, have largely given themselves over to Shanghai. — A circular order | the consumption of mineral waters of . various sorts, none of them, in his opinion, as beneficial as wine. Another gentleman, Abou Nouss, an AUGUST 25, 1931 A clear score of years went into the astounding round-up itself. Each twelve month of that period an exacting and taskmaster CAP- ture. At the end of the gn L ture, the quarry held, whole, ning George Dorsey died of |+ One may have a suspicion that many | of , they e made also for withholdings, the shrugged shoulder, the lifted brow. They are that sort, too. The glad welcome, the long study, will come from the at average, th great intelligent avel —all the you’ and the me's—so charmed and in- structed by the outright simplicity of & surpassing story shed from the mind and hand of this way. Charmed, too, with the story lure itself, with the fiing of true ad- venture, seized and handed over to the of man, on his way from a seemingly remote nowhere ‘on through to some illimitably far and future somewhere. We, the average, dre bound to move for weeks, mon and maybe years with this stupendous caravan of an advancing civilization. But objectors too, are bound to line up in formidable frontage along George Dorsey’s way. These, in the main, will step out from the ranks of pure profes- sionalism, where lines of inclusion have grown to be hard and fast, where doors are close-shut st innovation, where change is unwelcome to the cult, even change of mode and custom. Among the ceremonials of professionalism high George Dorsey cuts no at all. He Y | knows nothing of mum kotowings. Indeed, he has no literary manners. Instead of all this, he goes about pick- ing up little hard words, as if they were pebbles, | terns. easy to | alight |beauty that the gray pel to be shining gems. ithe mazes of his own through the | vance toward stand—civ! ilized! What is civilization? come by it? 1s it a good one? The best we can make? Why not? Can we do something, anything, about it? we, could we, the big aves possibly help to make the worl |phu to live In? Such the higgway glr?n‘ which the reader is led in “ffian’s “Why We Behave Like Humfn Be- ings” consties a sort of prefaratory course for te and prger ap- praisal of 5 Show.7 That book let us into some of our own deep- est m) . How did we come to be thinking animals, slowly developing rough crafts and rude arts for enlist- ourselves to & per- Oriental poet, was quoted, who before | sonal dying, in the year 130 of the Hegira, and 740 of Christianity, wrote a short poem still serving as a very oved text with the students of Cairo and Bagdad, ing: “Solace me with wine—but assure me it is wine!” ‘This and many other eulogies of the grape occupled most of the sessians, hough beer and brandy were also not without their protagonists, in was represented, but not by delegates from any Spanish chapter, for there does not exist in Spain any anti-prohibition league, related to the international as- sociation. ‘There are branches, how- ever, both in Portugal and Italy, dele- %& from which showed themselves numerous, persevering and en- thusiastic. ‘This twelfth congress of vinicul- turists and anti-prohibitionists would except for this anomaly in the case except for this anomally in the case of a grape-growing country. “Refresh and strengthen me with wine, but be sure that it is Spanish wine,” should be the motto of our viniculturists of Andalusia, of La Rioja and del Priorato. For Spain, due of prohibition, has lost the marl of North America, Fin- |land and Poland. and is about fo lose | others. Therefore, if we do not con- sume our wines at home, they must eventually be wasted. Due principally to the embargoes of Yankeeland, the products of Alsace, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, and of regions along the :.h'll:: and Rhone, are also without an utlet. Day’s Palv for Rel;ef Of Jobless Urged To the Editor of The Star: estion for the relief of the un- employed s that all States, districts official estimate of the unemployed puts | and municipalities be requested to co- the present total at four and a half | millions, 1n the United States six mil- | “Pore.c 10 the end that all people em- lons is generally considerec to be @ | Ploved be required to donate at least fair estimate, but reports of Cistrass and | ON¢ day’s pay toward a fund to help the fact that there is no official ma- | are for those not employed and who thinery either for sscertaining the ex. | C8h DOt get work: that all business, tent of unemployment there or for re- | Professional and other persons, who do Heving ‘the workles, would suggest | NOt WOrk for a salary. donate as liber- fhat this is an under-statement. When | 81y to the cause of relief as the com- every country is suffering from the | same cause it is but small consoiation to say that all are companions in dis- tress. Beyond voting & sum in relief of agriculture the United States Govern- ment has refused to make anything in the nature of & grant for the unem- ployed. In Great Britain the dole sys- tem is costing the taxpayers about one million pounds per week, this being the rate at which the deficlency in the Unemployment Pund debt is increasing. The debt is now (85,870,000, and Parlia- | ment has been asked to sanction further borrowing powers which will bring the | deficit up to £115,000,000. Even this | will do no more than enable the pay- ment of the dole until the end of the year, without any early prospect of solvency becoming possible. ® 4% 8 Foes of Prohibition Complete Congress in Paris. A B C Madrid: The League Inter- national of the Adversaries of Prohibi- tion recently concluded its twelfth con- igress at Paris. Men from 18 nations, | who are in need ! ineluding some lk;;l ‘nflg‘hl’;e prhohm-i RO! Wi tion laws, convened in ench cap- iot o' folks out our way would rather|ia] to see what could be done to check | the objections and moderate the scru- ples relative to the use of alcoholic bev- or;!:s. ree brilliant banquets, presided over rurectlvoly by the French min- isters of mgriculture, commerce and health, were provided in the course of the convention. “Thanks to the vine,” sald M. Andre Tardieu, at the first of them, “we have been able to rehabili- tate our country in less than 10 years.” Ancther speaker, an attorney of Tou- Jon, said that he was one who had the vrivilege of making the trip to Ameriea in the Zeppelin, and observed that the tinable to o drink mittee may think would be a fair share for the individual to give. The above plan is suggested with the thought in mind that those who are employed or who may be enjoying an income from some kind of business, can and should be glad to help others who have been unemployed for months and are without incomes. The one day’s pay or the sum equal to a day’s net income from any business will go a long way toward the relief of the millions who will be in need this Winter. Suppose we say that the Commis- sioners of the District be requested to name a committee or board, as they choose, to co-operate to the end I everyone in the District be given | an opportunity to do his bit. The plans | for distribution can be easily met when | the funds are once in hand. Should the above idea be approved, then the President might call upon the | Governors of the several States and all | the principal citles to co-operate to the end that this matter be pushed with all force possible until the plan has | been fully consummated, whereby all may be given reltef. BERT H. ALCORN. | New York Chy_lhrge Office Is in Battery To the Bditor of The Star: In your issue of The Evening Star August 19 you state the Barge Office at New York City where emigrants land is at the foot of Wall street. This |is in error. The United States Barge | Office is located at the foot of State | street. in Battery Park, at the southern [tip of New York, and is a nite | buildi and was built by my father, Col. <2 s from that of 2)\« creatures less forward-moving we have oved ourselves to be? When and w did we hit upon the trick of speech? And finding that it served an indubi- tably good turn, how did we succeed in it so an instrument of joy, of sorrow, of -beauty, of ugliness, of ‘high utflity and pathetic futility? ‘Hyv has this miracle of speech affected behaviors along the way and how as it set such an immeasurable dis- 1ance between us and that creature that came so near to being man, that ape creature? = “Man’s Own Show" opens, thriftily. with a little stock-taking summary. For instance, the significance to us, the advantage of having been “born hu- man.” A counting here of certain as- sets that allowed fair passage forward— , leaving the free for many uses, power to think, Articulate sounds that grad- ually grew into speech and without which there would have been no civi Here. a fascinating' summa of speech in its evolution and mechan- 4sm, the growth languages and linguistic change. And the great story sweeps on, gath- ering in, sarly, the emotion of love, the rise of the family, the dawning ideas of an overworld and an underworld. Re- ligion in its sources and its variations according to time and clime and cir- cumstance. The rise of sclence and its decline. The renaissance of science, called its first-coming by those behold- ing it in their own era. And here we are in the midst of our- selves with the physical sciences, mir- acle makers of the present day, with modern knowldege of ic matter multiplying dsily the wonders of cre- ation. With knowledge of organic mat- ter leading to the rise and growth of biology in its various applications to the life of man, by way of sanitation, hygiene, medicine, prevention, and so on along a clean and artiseptic road to that wide-spreading state of general health and, by way of it, to something like uriversal well-being of mind, body “Pane TH of th big ar e book-—900 pay big and more—turns squarely upon -u‘i'. its readers. As it should, for above all e:ud w’: ;ntthh: me, the whole study. is o sort. “What Shall We Do to Be Saved?" And, after so splendid & progression on the part of man, ean it be possible that he is still & bit shy on salvation? So it appears and so it is. “Salvation?” Is Mr. Dorsey talking about the next world? Oh, not at all! He is talking about our world, yours and mine, where disease is still tolerated, where wars are still promoted, where poverty is the rule, and suffering, needless suffering, a part of the,life of every communit; That's what s talking about, an talki ight from the shoulder to us. he begins to count the or- of salvation. And here they are, or seem to be, Primarily the church and the school and the home. These are the oldest and most universal of the foundations of a world's rightness. Wide philan- thropies are added as among the in- creasing forces of the best sort of righteousness. Millions of societies bent to good alms and deeds. These and all other agencies for good are rounded behind this question, “What Shall We Do to Be Saved?” No, not emough. e | 81000000 . And these glitter a way for the reader to follow through beginnings, and th of all human ad- place where we now How did we ganized instrumentalities of this kind ' Rather, not acted upon and through in & way to serve adequately. “The er can't do it.” “The teacher " PFather and mother, sister and brother can't do it. Only do it. As part of the As part of school and education? Yes. As any and all of these together? Yes, But it is to take all of us, work- ing all of the time, working without hatred or prejudice for anything on earth, without small envyings and bit- terness, those little ones that come out at the breakfast table, for instance, or oth‘ emumn'n Inflau;e. for an- er_ insta: thousand cases Sostndetion 1o getting &head past VA l opportunities. The foundation invites boys of 13, 14 and the required foundation awa; boys for Q. How many employes has the Bu- ruAu of mwrz;——n. T. K. ™ the United States m’-‘:‘o{ in Wi . C. This includes ington, not in the fleld. Q. When did et e S, 3. . June 1, 1035, ygEaE Q. When was Broadway c!tAy its name?—H. . The in New York W, . The name was derived from the thoroughfare being & broad way in the same manner that higl y received its appellation. The Romans elevated all their roads above the adjacent land to drain off the ter, hence a highway a knowing one who passed | is higher and a broadway is broader than & lane. QA.Why' is & flag called the colors?— S A A. The use of the term the colors l.:lppfle“dwusehflul;‘w‘mmlh\m of speech wi em| - to in- dicate the whole. 5 £ 3 A crayfish akin to lobsters?. A. Shrimps, prawns and crayfish afe allied to the lobster, the erayfish often being called fresh-water lobster. Q. Did Hudson Maxim him- sell while e k= <y ;lvAu?;D. !v!wflmflw explo- . He narrowly escaj death man tims nd s it hand ws blown off 4"11':’ his experiments with maximite, In spite of his bent toward invention of Hudson Maxim was an Q. How old was H. G. Wells when his wril n to attract notice?—P. T. A. hit was “The Time Ma- chine.” published in 1895, when Weils Was 29 years old. ggnwmtmmummfl linden and, occasionally, mm fur- nish & home for the mistletoe parasite. Q. Which of George Washington's paternal ancestors came to this coun- try from England?—H. A. L. A. George of | of the husband or husbands or by former Vice President from ‘Where was Jesus' “Sermon on the doll!md and in what lan- cording to tradition, was on the Mount of Olives, and the langusge | used Christ His lifetime is said to be the ancient Q’ How m_l automobiles are owned by farmers>—T. Y. H. A. The American Motorist says ap- proximately 5,000,000 Q. Is & Spanish-American War vet- eran’s widow entitled to s pension if | she has rematried and is now divorced? A. According to the act of 1 1926, a former widow of a Spanish veteran marriage was dissolved either by l-tdlh Vorce on any ground except adulters on the part of ga wife.” g Where did Nublans come from?- ER. A. The Nubians were Negroid tribes ‘who formed a powerful empire between Egypt and Abyssinia from the sixth to the fourteenth century, when they were conquered by the Arabs. Q. What is meant by “humidity 72 per cent”?—P. 8. E. A. “Relative humidity 72" Q. Should one say, “We are going i> have company for dinner,” or “at din- ner”"?—I. C. A. “We are going to have compan at dinner,” is correct. One has turk: and cranberries for dinner. A . fron colder than wood?- "A. Tron feels colder than wood be- that side the family traced its lineage to larity in Coal Producers Are Believed Near Solution of mes Suggestions that operators of bitumi- nous mines would look with favor upon Oovermmn it regulation of coal produc- tion are accepted decided advance in the direction of the solution of the problems involved, al- though there is still much opposition to Government participation in private goal that has been for some years is declared-to be sought in the direction of conservation. The fact un'teau ‘1: a m:m:l.m : "Government action. - W and Pennsylvania believe that the - eral Government can take s ate a better market for coal not only the operators but the ahn are now lorgantown Dominion-News, while ‘Wheeling Intelligencer says of the diffi- culties in the way: “As &S pres- ent-day conditions are in the coal mine, on the farm and in th;fum. their must be left jon o{lu?‘l:‘n“l economic rtificial stimulants are as dangsrous in dealing with economic ilis as in treating human ailments.” Indorsement by the Executive Coun- cil of the American Federation of Labor of a joint conference of miners and operators is pointed out by the Pitts- burgh Post-Gagette as & “reminder that something will have to be dome.” That paper. sees ‘| momentum behind the publie that the coal in- dustry come out of its coma,” and says further: “The coal industry men ‘Gower plan calls for the compression of 1,000 indi- into six, a central di- rectorate in each unit to control pro- duction, sales and transportation. preservation demands steps in the direction in this coyntry.” “‘Great Britain has had a more acute coal issue than the Uinted States, fol- lowing the World War," recalls the Topeka Daily regula- gressed tow, tion for 10 years, of Parliament having last year in the British Coal Mines Act and is being put into effect. It creates national board and fixes a uniform working dav, regulates prices and ap- portions production among the various | companies. This may be the solution of the coal troubles in the United States. Nationalization of coal mines 18 no unlikely outcome of the complete “>moralization of this basic American ey “9¢ is & pitiful situatioa in which no Ll tions for stabilizations thus fa: u'ar foll % o mwm- wn Herald, hold- great tl five agert against ot many have left work and thought way of by the country as a! Gue Targely to. e Betng who are t e which h:: experienced an great misfortune pared to consider a bold coal business, rather than t, to settle the matter of production control.” The Mil- :Inu.ne Jourmlh contends that “lu large sul that opens up wi mrLII to m about having the say that & man in Colo- 1l close up his coal mines in tsml:“mmylvuhny Farmers Held Losers In Charity Wheat Sale To the Bditor of The Star. I note in the public press statements | to the effect that it is proposed by Carl | Willlams, a member of the Federal | Farm Board, that various Community Chests throughout the country buy the ‘wheat now in the Farm Board's hands