Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Merning Editfon. WASHINGTON, D C. THURSDAY. ....August 27, 1981 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star N e Rate by Carrier Within the City. g o :45¢ per month 80¢ per month per month ¢ cogy = Rate by Mall—Pa in Adva by .nbh ince. r., $19.00: 1 mo.. R IRE All Other States and Canada. [l s o 1 ot 120 Ee Associated Press is exch ly extitied o At B n et it or 12 otherwise cred- d E e o Dr. Reichelderfer Does His Duty. Some of the Washington correspond- ents who discuss the Department of Justice investigation of the Washingt>n Police Department in their dispatches today are quick to trace it to the Wick- ersham Commission’s recent indictment of widespread third-d:egree methods. ‘They interpret the President’s indorse- ment of the investigation as a desire cn his part to follow up that report by timely ection. ‘They are only partly correct. The Wickersham Commission’s discussion of brutal police methods is an interesiing colncidence. ‘The infervention of the Department of Justice in this affair is due to two things: First, the stupid failure of police officials to realize that public in- dignation and a desire to know the facts are nct to be appeased by the usual cut-and-dried gesture of going through the motions of & routine police investi- gation of a complaint; secondly, the quick and determined action of Com- missioner Reichelderfer and Corpora- port, carrying their fight to the De- partment of Justice and insisting that this investigation be made. The police officials have themselves fo thank for the result. The first hint of the charge that & prisoner had been ‘beaten in the first precinct should have followed by immediate acticn on their part, with the use of every avail- able detective and investigator, to Jearn now the peripatetic per- ambulations of an inspector, with a pad, taking statements here seven new records to his list and it is becoming spparent that almost every time he Hawks and “Al” Williams, the former Erack Navy pliot, have probably done swered by the manufacturers of air- planes with better and faster ships. ‘When it that in years the - Hy per Company | acteristic and widely exploited tricks of social behavior. Then he went on to Cannes, where preparations had been made to recelve him with cere- mony, The mayor was in a quandary, because he had to choose between offi- ¢cially welcoming Mayor Jimmie, Who, There are still worlds to be conquered, was coming from Vienna, or the young Sultan of Morocco, who was to arrive at a different part of the city at about the same time that Jimmie was due. The mayor elected his fellow magis- trate from America and went to the station wearing all of his medals, only to find that Mayor Jimmie had taken been announced for him, and that the train he did take was late. So the mayor of Cannes and his committee of fellow welcomers had to stand about and bide the coming of the gladsome Manhattanite, who recks nothing of other people’s schedules so long as he whether he was cheered with louder acclaim for his tardiness, as in Vienna. In all the statements that have come from Europe Iately about Mayor Jimmie’s doings there has been no mention of his health, for the sake of which he is supposed to have gone abroad—his physical, not his political health. It may be assumed that ue is fairly well cured of his indispositions, whatever they are, for he has not stinted himself of pleasure in his re- cent travels. And it may be deduced that he is homeward bound, as he is working his way westward. No an- nouncement has been made regarding his expected arrival on these shores. Perhaps he is waiting to see what the Seabury Committee is planning to do with him before heading definitely for bome. ~ Harvey and Nardskog. Perhaps “Coin” Harvey, octogenarian political economist, believes that the adage about the early bird getting the ‘worm applies to politics as well as avian gastronomy. Certainly he is the earliest bird in the political field of the 1932 presidential campaign. Yesterday at Monte Ne, Ark., whith is in itself a announcement .is accompanied by the explanation that the Liberty Party was formed only on the eve of the nomina- tion, at s convention called under Harvey's leadership. Harvey was named unanimously against his own demurrer, he refusing the nomination at first ut under pressure. Then the convention proceeded to select a run- ning mate for “Coin.” Two names were propased, Homer Earl of Lincoln, Nebr., and Andre N. Nardskog of Los Angeles. Mr. Nardskog, whose name will at least & different train than the onc that had | fo4- | has & good time. Reports do not state | i carries new apprehension of their power cise agreeably and enjoy the beauty of new sights and scenes. These may be as new as Japan, if one has not seen them. congenial companion, according to tem- perament or circumstances. Be sure of one thing, thet no one, however traveled he is. hes ever seen all that thers is to see in & great ‘city and its environs. at home as elsewhere. — sk Personal popularity and fame do not of themselves suffice to make a success- ful statesman. QGen. Smedley Butler |would find it much harder to hold a| {group of politicians uncer leadership ! !than it has bsen to keep a following of Marines in loyal and cheerful disci- pline. - = It is now believed that the Cuban revolution has subsided sufficlently to | make an automobile passenger at least s safe in the highways of that island as an innocent bystander would be in the streets of a gang-ridden United States city. A it An organization called the Phillips Petroleum Co., by accepting Gov. Mur- ray's terms of $1 a barrel, adds its bid for fame to the claims of several new companies. There was a time when Standard Ofl entircly monopo- lized the “octopus” prestige. PR o { Gangmen assume an importance that when a former Secretary of State is called upon to speak publicly &s a citizen and a taxpayer on a state of affairs purely local in its aspect. — e L After & few practigal tests, France is forced to the conclusion that in com- munications with representatives of & prohibition country a champagne thirst cannot be relied on as a diplomatic influence. o ! A reversion to a system of direct| barter in commercial interchange has | not yet gained encugh headway to make it probable that old customs will be revived to the extent of introducing tobacco and molasses as currency. B ——— An association to be known as “the hypochondriac club,” composed of per- sons who keep going in spite of unfa. vorable diagnoses. is mentioned. Thomas Edison migltt possibly be persuaded to Join it. Few persons escape the fate of being compelled to I'sten at one time or an- gther to those who delight in saying “I told you s0.” Even Lindbergh is compelied to do so. e An understanding among nations prevent food pitifully needed in one area from being wanionly wasted in another would go far to prevent famine, which many economists regard as worse than war. e Canadian boundaries and New York i of delegates , as all the States represented although full country which the Harvey con- demanded is to comprise the silver as “co-ordinate ory | Old Miss Experience—sometimes you tion of the white metal in the east. Harvey and Nardskog—two Sames to conjure with, one because of its familiarity and the other by its oddity. It is an interesting ticket. Maybe it will stand the stress of the next four- teen months and be a factor in the balloting of 1932. Perhaps “Coin,” how- ever, has no especial aspiration for the presidency, but realizes the advantages of publicity and is contemplating another contribution to the economic literature of America —————— ‘When Senator J. Hamilton Lewis states that the political issues are con- fused in the U. 8. A, he indicates an explanation in some degree of his sud- den restoration to prominence. Con- | servative estimates are inclined to des- ignate the present as a time when there is no telling what may happen. ————t———— —— Only an ungallant person would be guilty of reference to the Mabel Wille- brandt grape brick as an effort to put the ‘American bootleg in the #lk-stock- Exploration. % ‘These beau!iful SBummer days are the best in the year for the exploration of one’s own neighborhood. International adventurers may go from land to land, by the good wishes of hu- iy 4 pikg il ;53%5 Hil:s "lti M 1}3 By il i manity, but the vast majority of folk cannot go so far. Let them, then, ex- plore the immediate neighborhoods of ] gi streets require Gov. Roosevelt to look dlat for both ends of the State in seek- ing the welfare of an alert and exacting constituency. et SHOOTING STARS. Old Miss Experience—she’s calling up the class! You've got to iearn your lesson or she'll never let you pass. She isn't very handsome and she isn't very kind, But her methods are effective in im- provement of the mind. take a day, Neglecting all your lessons while you drift along and play. But you're certain to be sorry for eva- sions of her rule— If her punishment’s no worse, at least she keeps you after school. Old Miss Experience—she has an eagle | eye, 9 And she keeps a strict account of all you do as time goes by. She never gives the holiday you think that you have earned. Every time you get one lesson, there's a new one to be learned. Out of the Calculation. “Do you think there are people up in Mars?” H “What difference does it make?” re- Joined Senator Sorghum. “Even if there are they are too distant to vote or even | drag us into diplomatic controversy.” | Spoke Before He Thought. | “Some time,” said Mr. Meekton's wite “I think I Will have a chef. I really be- lieve that it is better to have a kitchen in charge of & male cook.” “¥es,” answered Mr. Meekton, absent- mindedly; “it would be a good deal of a comfort to have somebody down there who could be easily bossed.” The Undastied Hearer. The orator his words will fiing In glittering profusion. ‘The auditor keeps listening And draws his own conclusion. The World's Fault. “There is one thing I like about you,” sald the intimate friend, “and that is your lack of vanity. You don't pretend {to be the greatest actor the world has | ever seen” “No,” answered Mr. Stormington Barnes thoughtfully, “but I would be, if the world would only come te see me.” Precarious Sense of Humor. “You Americans,” said the man with the superior manner, “have a strange sense of humor. I don't believe you can see a joke.” “Yes, we can. The trouble is that we don’t know what to do with one. Some- times we're satisfied to laugh and then again we're liable to elect him to office.” | And give the world a thing to think about. £ 5}Ii But it proved to be a spasm Of condensed enthusiasm | necessary to call themselves anything at | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Such trips may bé slone, or with some | Those who are interested in houses— are and who isn't?—would rejoice in a little home out our way. It {s about a foot or 14 inches long, perhaps 8 inches wide at the top, run- ning to a point at the bottom, near which it has a very fine door of stylish cylindrical ehape. This house, in form, a cone inverted, | 5 of the most ex:ellent construction, and | its roof so well made that not a one of its 5,000 inhabitants got wet during the recent rains. It hangs to the u| story room Win dvantage of the previous labors of man along similar lines. | The shape of the structure is perfect for its purposes, rain hitting the top and falling off the edges, thus not touching the greater part of the house at all. ‘The door, being near the bottom, and somewhat inside the outer curve of the | top, or dome, is perfectly free from wet- ness, although the inmates have enough | sense to stay in when it rains, being | very smart tem;wa; t sill of & second- w, thus taking full | % ‘This house -belongs to some stinging insects of the order Hymenoptera. They are members of the family Vespidae of | the superfamily Vespoidea. These particular ones belong to the | genus Vespa, and, according to human scientists, are hence called Vespa vul- garis or perhaps Vespa germanica. Most people call them wasps. The insects themselves find it un- all, but just live out their curious life | histories in the way their ancestors es- tablished so many hundreds of years | a4 g0. There are said to be about 10,000 | species of wasps, all of them predaceous, | living off other and smaller insects. The vast majority are solitary, but some 800 species are social in habits, and these include the constructors of the little house of which we have spoken. Wasps never swarm outside tropics, where warmth and plentiful food enable them to increase so mflmly that nests become overcrowded. the north temperate zone, where the mem- bers of the genus Vespa hold forth, the colonies Jast but a single season, and phenomenon of swarming, familiar among bees, is unknown. The wasps’ house, as we call it, for it is every inch a superior piece of crafts- manship, is of a dark gray calor, and looks to be made of ground pnfien | As & matter of fact, that s exactly what it is made of. The nests are called “paper” by the scientists, and are made from fragments | n_tuary wood chewed up and mixed with iva, of the nest, new layers are wrap- ped around, these being called coats of | beal D’R:'!hnflnflequmtoeverynefi "There are thres types of inhabitants, | the queen, a large number of workers and & small number of males. As far t. | live in combs, above, in he: | somewhat_unusual wi | idea. not necessary to illuminate the tragedy of undernourishment. * X * % About this time of the year, however, the wasps seem to do better, with grub. From now on there is every chance of some ugly duckling turning into a queen, :‘Tlply because there is more food foi ‘wasps are not the only inhabil. tants of this neat little house, if ‘we can believe those who have investigated such things, and, of course, we can believe them all along the line. ‘Various parasites, and small files, live on the debris which falls to the bottom of the nest. The regular inhabitants onal cells. Mostly’ wasp nests are bulit In more secluded positions, often in trees. It is I ninent & place on the froat ing 50 prominent & place on the fron of a human habitation. Tae sheer utility of this busy hive, and its of ways to means, must strike a responsive note in all careful observers. There are many houses built human beings which leak, which do not conform, as it were, to their surround- ings, which are not insulated as well as they might be, and which are in need of constant repairs. Here, in this dull gray tenement, is room for thousands. (Let it be stated, in passing, that we have not taken the asp census, personally, and have no of doing 5o, even for the sake of accuracy. Wasps, we sus} are hostile to consus takers. But there are said to be about 5,000 in a nest.) These fellows have no organizations, ,lature | with speeches, and 50 on, but we wager | W) that no wasp nest has leaked in 10,000 years, at least. > metropolis, an investigation to which , Gov, Frank- . of New York has de- :1‘11;:: to follow the md-tm e Tammany City in his message to the State Legis- lature, which is meeting in special ses- sion in Albany. The Tammany leaders wished the Governor to include in his message a recommendation that charges of corruption in upstate Republican cities be made a sul of investiga- tion along with the City of New York, controlled by Tammany Democrats. But. Gov. Roosevelt in his message con- fined the recommendations to strength- ening the hands of the Legislative Committee now investigating corruption in Greater New York. The Tammany leaders have announced their determin- ation to fight this legislation to the | last. They are doing nothing to aid in |is rarely mads. the inquiry. into New York City's gov- crnm:t. On the contrary. they are attempting to hamstring the inquiry. The New York Governor did not fall for either the bait or the threats of Tammany. He has so far placed him- sclf on record as favoring a theugh investigation of alleged graft in the Tammany is opposed. But there is nothing muvnt Gov. Roosevelt, after the lature has acted upon the bills to strengthen the hands of the committee investigating the City of N'el";l!m g;v;emmem, h-vm.!‘n sending in & lemental message, call- ing attention to the charges laid before him of corruption in_ Republican-con- trolled cities in the State and asking that something be done about them. The Republican members of the Legis- might then be in a position they would have to take cog- nizance of these charges and provide for an inquiry into G. O. P.-controlled That roof is as solid looking as the | cities or lay themselves open to the rock of Gibraltar. Those little artisans | charge that they are no better than the somehow know what they want, and | Tammany Demdcrats in seeking to con- they build it just that way. How they have glued it to the window sill we there.it is, defying all l:hw and un- A UNWAary on attem, to lower r sash, it will be there until and the colony, as such, |the comes to its inevitable end. The path of wasps, alas, as well as the | of human beings, leads but to the grave; all the inner sadness of life -pxra to ey are in some all. The best we can do think, and to venera the little Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands use foreigir languages in schools and business firms, but even employes of the | t have made e uncecessary use | 3 i ith the spread of the na- Asahi, Tokio—The Emperor has re- cently heard an expert on the present status and future of the movement for reform of the Japanese . Mo official information is available about the nature of the lies made by th2 expert. But the t is enough to ice of the movement, show the imj which has proceeding for some years. ‘The question of reforming the Jap- anese language came to the fore about a The Union, ically submit to & com assist in the mhlmrmmm of country. Some A restrict- | Spanish Revolt Leaders characters. All these are not in daily use, even in China. In % elementary reform of the Japanese diff . Se iculties have yet to be over ai‘géf :Eg § 2 —_"uwflnm'." s . do pimtitulogy oo brend n:'nioW' Rty i % i i§§g P ;iii i - { td I is l ; § . 88p - fete i b ! Uncertain of Republic | Prom the Port Huron Times-Herald. I ?gggg :Eg Happy Germ Hunters. From the Janesville Daily Gasette. | questios reason ten tem fon to 3 % tion. ceal corruption. Such a’ move on the part of the Governor woiild undoubtedly strengthen him with Democrats the country over as well as in New York, but 16 would not meet the needs of the | i Democrats. The Tammany ts. strategy of the Tammany leaders was so to join measures for investigation of iblican-controlled cities with those for the investigation of Neb'e Yofl; Republican members of the Legislature would kick over the traces and not permit any of the bills to go thmlllh.‘ s Just where Gov. Roosevelt's deflance of the Tammany Democratic leaders in this matter is to land him is a n of much est. It doubt- less will make him many friends out- 1°° 5ut i brings him It open oppo- u open o) sition to the strongest political organi- mation in New York Oity. If the present g‘mlry, bowte\m should result mmw- up great corruption under sys- Gify, Tummany may Dot be 1o ' oo g iny a - L fight Roosevelt seriously l:e.xt year when the time rolls round for amendment But the ol success of a wet at the S S gy White He bac - power in - * X * % In 1928 the drys saw with distaste m:mmopw nomination Alfred E. P 5™ Smith for nings to worry much more than they had thought possible over the Demo- cratic situation. Even if they vcould prevent the nomination of Gov. Roose~ velt, could they bring about the nomi- nation of & dry Democrat for President next year? Almost certainly the an- swer to that question is no. * ok x % Indeed, today it looks though Newton D, Baker of Ohio, Sec. retary of War in the Wilson adminis- tration, may be the choice of the Demo- crats for President if Roosevelt should be side-tracked. Baker, as a member of the Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission, declared himself for the al of the eighteenth amendment. House, if his party were in|the .the pro- | hibition question which the might seriously worried over the | the very much as| ’ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. This great service is maintained The Evening Star for the benefit its readers, who may use it every day without cost to themselves. Al have to do is ask for any information desired and they will receive prompt answers by ma tions must be clearly writt:n and stated as briefly as possible. Inclose 2-cent stamp for re- turn postage and sddress The Evening Star Information Bureau, Prederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q In golf, i a hole made in 1 und:r par is a birdie and one in 2 under par is an eagle, what would you call a hole in 3 under par? this score made often?—B. H. A. Locally, a hole in 3 under par has been called & condor. This score Fred McLeod, pro- fessional at the Columbia Country Club, Chevy Chase, Md, made & 2 on the par 5 No. 12 hole on that cousse gev- | eral years ago. Q. Does the United States belong to a postal union?—H. T. T. A. It and practically all of the other countries in the worid are united in the Internstional Postal Union for the reciprocal exchange of mails. .“When did the Washington family w:‘nfin title to Mount Vernon?—H. D. A. 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