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LD THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 13, 1931—PART TWO. B s s e e S——— e E——— .'. :[‘HE EVENING STAR wreught further destruetion and loss of | streets. Next in importance come the LIFE’S INDISPENSABLES Capital Sldelights v life. The list of the Fall hurricanes|cries of children playing, the metallic A o s et is & long one. New Orleans was swept | groans of street cars and elevated rail- e _ THE GREATEST BOOK, BY WILL P. KENNEDY, et Fe ‘The selection by the Public Build- WASHINGTON, D. C. by a terrific stcm on September 29, |ways, the clang and bang of ash eans, BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FEEMAN, D. D, LL. D, ings Commission of the area west of 1915. It was in August of the same |the whistle of fire apparatus. SUNDAY.....September 13, 1031 ' " ;1 at Galveston was Iaid waste.| New York City has an ordinance On September 3 a hurricane swept| making punishable by fine the violation Bishop of Washin:ion, the White House and north of the new ; The multiplicity of statutes, Federal | tain expectation of recouping losses and Corpus Christl. There was a hurri- | of rules for maintaining silence on hos- : m;":;‘o:m-dv’;n'lf ‘f'ol:h;:: hw:;;zlz ;:30 !::x&;rgcn mofll:r: lunu;mm ynl)l'mg dback, J‘he thluplers :‘: "ffu -zwg L as resulted in a degree | followed as they always -~ 3 cane of major proportions that hit the | pital streets, If, as the Gotham medical determined opposition in Congress to| of specialization which s threatening | the boy got in deeper and deeper. Ho Louisiana eoast in September of 1921.|authorities suggest, well peopie can this site) has given rise to speculation ) the very existence of the old-fashioned | was short $25.000. The next morning The Tampa hurricane, a year later, oc- | easily be converted into sick people by whether the ~famous old " Octagon | fast-thinking lawyer wha was faced | there was to be a directars’ meeting, curred in October. the racket created by the various nuis- House, owned and occupied by the with the necessity of - meeting any ' and the accounts were in such shape s g 4 American Institute of Architects as its | emergency, not only with & fund of | that the boy knew his defalcation The breeding place of most of these | ances responsible for the average city's| national headquarters, would be torn |iegal lore, but with acumen. | would be discovered. hurricanes lies off the western coast | noise, there would seem to be mo good down, as so many other historic struc-| The civil lawyer has divided his prac- | Now, the judge knew a thing or two tures in the National Capital. tice into s0 many fields that the man about some of those bank directors. There is no present plan for con-|Who can handle a traction company | He knew how close they had skated to demnation of this old buflding, so in- | claim ‘ca=» knows practically nothing | the edge of thin ice in many a deal. timately connected with important | Of the equities in a mining dispute. In | He knew all about. the private lives of events in our history, particularly that |the criminal field there are specialists | most of them. the Treaty of Ghent was signed there | Of all kinds and they do, indeed, often | “Do you still have free access to the on February 18, 1815, by President [ Show flashes of shrewdness, but usually | cash?” he asked the boy. He replied in Madison in the circular room on the |they are based on technicalities hav- | the affirmative. “Then go back to the second floor over the entrance, which [INg. in themselves, only the merit of | bank and smuggle out $25,000 more in was the President’s office while he oc- | technical trickiness. cash and bring it to me cupled“that structure after the White| The great, broad, bold, sweeping | Somewhat bewildered, but having House had becn burned by the British | 5trokes of the old-time lawyer rarely | faith in the judge, and being in up to in August, 1814. are heard of any more. The lone |the neck anyway, the young man got The Octagon House is a misnomer, ?,',‘e“c‘.‘.'.’ in the law courts is a rarc | the money. for it is not an octagon in shape. It [ SPecimen. en a man gets in trou- | 1= buslt, within an_seute angle bevween | ble these days he i as likely s not | A Trick of the Trade. Eighteenth street and New York ave- | !0 be represented noteby a known, re- | _ The next day the directors discovered nue. The ground plan may more ac- | SPected and sometimes feared figure, Whe $25.000 defalcation and called in curately be said to consist of four|DUt by some such firm os Nash, Nash, | the guilty man. He admitted it, but parts—two rectangles, a triangle and a | Nash. Nash, Chizilwitenheimer & Nash. said he would not continue the dis- circle. ‘The two rectangles are set|. HéTe in the Capital of the United | cussion until he could obtain counsel. facing Eighteenth street and New York | States can be found a few old-timers. | This was permitted, and the judge was avenue; the triangle connects them in | TN€ré are some few in Congress and | brought in. He addressed the bank the rear and the circle is in the front | °NCé in a while they get to talking | directors. He told them that the boy corner within the acute juncture of | OV€r ©ld times and teil an epic. Then, | had confessed to him that he had taken the two strbets. The architect was Dr. | 100 there is the quite numerous com- | not only $25.000. but $50.000. It was William Thornton, original architect of | DIty of former Congressmen who | bad. But the gentlemen would bear in the Capitol. It was built between 1798 | DaVe tasted the social and professional mind the lad’s position in the com- and 1800, The owner was Col dJohn |!Mfe of the National Capital and set- | munity. How the revelation would hurt Tayloe, whose father founded one of |¢d down to practice in Washington. | his aged. widowed mother; how, indeed, Virginia’s most noted estates, Mount|A 800d many are associated with law it would hurt the repufation” of the Airy. He was & close friend of George | 17Ms and handle the highly specialized | bank were it known that a trusted em- Washington and it was at Washington's | (YP¢ Of case. Many do a little lob- | ploye had weakened it in such a man- suggestion that the colonel built his|PViDE on the side in a dignified way. | ner. He had & compromise to propese. Winter residence—of brick trimmed | , They belong to an older school and, | If the directors would agree not to with " sandstone——in_ the new Capital |\ they did not themselves occupy out- | prosecute, he would make restitution of half the $50.000 loss. The directors, o standing positions at the bar in their - earlier days, they remember the giants | first aghast at the $50.000 loss, then feeling themselves lucky to salvage who did. "Those giints not infrequently were men Who often were in their cups. | anything, grasped the compromise. and the judge turned over to them the $25, men who played high, men who had never attended a law school, but had 000 the young man had taken just be- read law in the offices of still earlier | fore closing the day before. lights. They usually were addressed | Then there was the case of Judge as “Judge.” This sometimes meant White. He was called upon to defend that the individual had served on the a woman accused of murdering her bench, but not always. In those days | husband by putting arsenic in a birth- when a lawyer had reached a certain | day cake. Judge White knew that the age. a certain dignity and a certain woman had patiently endured an evil | character for some years. He, and réputation at the bar, inevitably he slipped into a sort of imaginary judge- | many others, knew the community was well rid of the man. Still it was mur- ship. Perhaps it was because he had a way of presiding over life in general. | der. The evidence was adduced. The Classic Tales. | man’s stomach had been examined and Changes in the Legal Profession BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. THEODORE W. NOYES. ... .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company New York Office "znam. Li 1 ldirg. of many authors, it has a universality that gives it place in every period and With every race. Even the stories con: tained in the Old Testamen: we read again and again, and there is about them a freshness that suggests that human nature while affected by changing customs and usages remains More and more today we are br,lnx‘ compelled to reappraise those things that in more normal times we have 2ccepted without much thought or se- rious con-ideration. The whole world situatfon is driving men to think more deeply about what are really life's in- dispensables. In looking over the record of the past we note how | essentially the same. thoughtlessly and carelessly we accept- | The Bible as a book has entered ed and adopted certain theories of life | more largely into the world's litera- and made them our own. No one who | ture than any other book. A distin- is living in this present world of ours, | guished Englishman maintained that that is so full of situations that are |if the Bible were lost to the world the tense and critical, can afford to dis- | substance of it could be recovered from regard or disesteem those vital things | its literature. In the utterances of our that are basie. Certainly among those | public men it is suggestive to note how things that are fundamental to life as | frequently and readily they adorn their we conceive it s the Bible. As a book | Pronouncements concerning govern- it is wrought into the warp and woof ment with passages or illustrations of our life. Indifferently as we may taken from Holy Writ. We recall that regard it, infrequently as we may read | the late President Hadley of Yale in it. it occupies a place that is at once |One of his addresses maintained that commanding and supreme. True, it has | DO man might consider himself well been repeatedly attacked and its theo- | educated who lacked a fairly accurate ries concerning life both questioned | knowledge of this great book. We look and refuted. In some periods it has |t0 other books for information and for been boldly affirmed that its influence | In‘ellectual refreshment, we turn to was no longer recognized, and that its | this book for inspiration and direction, dogmatic statements had ceased to be | especially in the great crises of life. operative. As one considers it simply as | A touching incident in the closing a book, it is amazing to note how it months of the late President Wilson's has survived these repeated attacks. |life comes to mind. A lifelong student Voltaire dared a century ago to afirm of the Bible, he found it increasingly that Christianity as a system would | difficult to read, as was his wont, dur- not survive 50 years." Others have Ing those late and critical days. Hear- made like statements and still the sys- | ing of this, a child sent him a little tem prevails, and the book that con. book of devations that contained three tains its principles is the world's best scriptural passages for each day. This seller. little book became very precious to him True, this ancient book has had and afforded him for daily reading that many interpreters, good and bad, and comfort and support that the long years theories concerning its inspiration have ' of close Bible study had given "him differed widely. The preachers them- Doubtless this devotional book meant selves in various periods have differed more to him in the time of his supreme in their interpretations of the sacred need than the many volumes that filled text, and now and again socleties and | the shelves of his splendid library. organizations have been formed whose Fragmentary and detached as the pas- theory and practice have been based | 5ages were. they contained those deep upon some overstrained and exagger- And eternal principles that constitute ated passage. All this has wrought At once life’s greatest security and confusion in the mind of the great | peace. body of the laity, and vet in spite of | Tt is our conviction that this “Book all this the book survives, its teach- of Books® is being more widely read ings widely prevail and institutions and pondered today than at any time founded upon its precepts exercise their | in our generation. It is the book for beneficent influence the world around. |every age and every situation. One of the most striking things about | “We praise Thee for the radiance this book is its adaptability to every That from the hallowed page, age and every situation. Old as it is,| A lantern to our footsteps, and representing as it does the work Shines on from age to age.” "goc per month | the Caribbean. Tesc per month | the coast of Africa follow a relatively | streets, whether they contain hospitals straight line westward until they enter [Or not. the Caribbean, and a chart of the, Washington is notoriously subject to courses of these past storms shows|the noise evils with which New York how many and how varled are the|lS trving to grapple. There is plenty directions they may follow then, of food for thought in the report herein | mo. 88| protection apparently lies, first, in | described for the Commissioners of the N AR e veomatrintion o b alldbgs (hst are Disirict of Columbla. = The National tal, as much as, if not more than, All Other States and Canada. more eapable of withstanding the ter- | C2P! ’ ails and Sunday 1200 1 mo., s1.00 | rific force of the wind and, secondly, | 80V single community in the United Bl T §800 1mo. T8 |in heeding the warnings that science | States, demands conditions which con- e has enabled the Weather Bureau to|duce to restfulness, quiet nerves and Member of the Associated Press. | 0 i1 payance. According to officials | C/°AF thinking. Noise problems that The Associated Pre 1o the “se {0 atehes g de per coRY Orders may A ] Tt iene NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. b . $10.00; 1 » Cive ’hsgv o Daily only fe0 Bunday only ;1 mo.. s \‘_s":’?crlllln.“l:‘ertllltd here, the storm that destroyed & por- have to be confronted here do not ap- 58, for, SRy SIICRtIOn, Ot urwles ¢red- proximate in magnitude those with Cih E exs | tion of Belize was known to be on its 4 Ipeal news which Manhattan Island has to deal. iR iR RBeT AT her of publication of | way fully two days before it struck Epecial dicparches herein are also reserved. m:’ Bel!;’e s w-’med That it 1ay i, | Thelr solution by our suthorities should —_— e i the path of the hurricane. Yet in| D¢ correspondingly easier. Temptation. Belize, as elsewhere, ong of the ter- T whe temptation to play politics, to | TMYING aspects of the calamity is the Rats and the League. seek to put the President “in a hole” | 3Pparent suddenness with which it| A feature of the work of the League will be great when Congress reassem- |5trugk and the number of helpless| of Nations has been the formation victims, totally unprepared, caught in|of many committees to study a variety of subjects. bles, with the Democrats almost equally dividing in strength the House and the [ ® horror from which there was no escape. While the orderly functioning of na- tions has been the main aim of thel Senate with the Republicans. The fact organization, its members have realized that by uniting with the Republican that nothing which affects the health Progressives against the administration forces the Democrats will hold the whip and welfare of human beings is beyond its scope. hand adds still more to the temptation to put measures through the Congress Hence there has been a special com- mittee at work for the past two years which may appeal to this class or that, to one group or another, so that the President, by his veto of the measures looking into the best ways of killing in question, may arouse the enmity of rats, especially those undesirable in- ternational travelers which infest ships. Surg. Gen. Cummings of the United these groups and classes. But the goberer heads in the Democratic party States Public Health Service is chair- man of this committee. The latest realize the danger which such a course development is an Intense study by holds for their party on the eve of a experts In New York, who have come e ‘Will Mr. Capone Go Free? It is only natural to wonder whether the Government's roseate picture of Al Capone behind the bars was not a mirage after all. When Federal Judge Wilkerson refused to acknowledge a “bargain” with Public Enemy No. 1, the lay public was forced to indulge in some mental acrobatics to understand Low a man who pleads guilty to a charge, under certain ecircumstances, may change that plea to one of not guilty; how a man who has said in * x ko Although Washington has as national headquarters of the American Insti- tute of Architects what is probably the most famous Octagon House, it was not the first or only house of such construction either in the National Capital or throughout the country Among old examples of this style of architecture are cited the Baptistry of St. John in Florence, the Chapter Houses of Westminster, York, Lincoln and Salisbury in England, and the choir built by Charlemagne for the Cathedral of Aix-la-Chappelle; the first meeting house in Heptonstall in Yorkshire, the design for which was recommended by John Wesley. national election. ‘They understand that if the Democracy in Congress gives its support to half-baked measures, to ill-advised panaceas. it will lose caste with the count t large. The country, despite ‘he depression, is sound at heart and has shown no indication of losing its head. The job which the Demu<rats have cut out for them is to p@ve to the country that they are eapable of handling affairs of public interest under difficult conditions. If they ghow them- selves, when Congress convenes, ready to run hither and yon after nostrums advanced by well meaning but ill- balanced persons they are likely to fail. Indeed, if they put through Congress legislation of that character and Presi- dent Hoover withholds his approval of the measures, the Democrats will merely play into the hands of the Republican Chief Executive. The President will become, in effect, the champion of the people against an irresponsible Congress. The danger of such a situation arising, from the Democratic point of view, is: in the minds of some of the Dewo- cratic leaders today. Many of them are confident that if their party in Congress makes no great mistakes the Democracy will win a sweeping victory next year. Whether they are right or not. time will tell. But certainly the Democrats will be in far better position to achieve victory if they can demon- strate to the people in their course in the coming Congress that they are trustworthy. There will be the temptation, too, for the Democrats to oppose the administra- tion's relief plans and its recommenda- tions for other important legislation for the sake of oppcsing them and to make political capital. Such opposition may be merely a way of losing political capital if the plans of the administra- tion are well considered and generally approved by the voters. It is not to be expected that the Democratic opposition to the Republi- can administration in Congress will sit supinely by during the coming session of Congress. It would be neither human nature nor good politics if it did. But there is such a thing as overdoing oppo- sition. If it is overdone President | Hoover is likely to thrive on it. One of the reasons the late Willlam Jennings Bryan, Democracy’s nominee for Presi- dent three times, never could cross the line a winner lay in the fact that he g0 often advocated policies which the country regarded in the last analysis as unsound. The country faced hard times on at least one occasion when he was the Democratic nominee for Presi- dent, but it was unwilling to turn to open court that he is guilty as charged may change his mind and say. on sec- ond thought, that he is not guilty after all. But having been informed on good authority that all of this is in good form and in keeping with the best of legal traditions, the lay public has sought to adjust itself to a policy of watchful waiting for the result of the various maneuvers. Thursday a Federal grand jury, from which Federal prosecutors had sought | reindictments of Mr. Capone on some five thousand alleged violations of the prohibition laws. failed to find the in- dictments and sought to make a report instead. Judge Wilkerson refused to accept the report, explaining thot a| Federal court may receive no written reports from grand juries—a matter ol more than passing interest, in view of some unique papers prepared by Dis. trict of Columbia grand juvies. He interested, sald Judge Wilkerscn, only in indictments. And these have rbt been forthcoming. Capone is still facing an indictment for having conspired to violate the pro- hibition iaw in some five thousand cases | during the last ten vears. He is to be tried before a jury of his peers on this indictment, provided motions to quash that indictment are not granted, flnd‘ still later will be tried on another in-| dictment charging evasion of income tax payments. He is still at liberty| under bond and the public prints are graced with his pieture, surrounded by his body guards, attending charity base ball games and indulging in the other forms of recreation available to free citizens. ‘The real test of the Government's; efforts to put Mr. Capone in jall will come with the trials. Up to now the prospect of getting a jury from the citizens of Chicago and vicinity that would find him guilty has been any- thing but hopeful. Every member of the panel has before him a vivid under- standing of the possible fate that might | lie in wait for him around the corner| from the court house. The grand jury's failure to find indictments on the Gov- ernment's liquor charges raises doubt both as to the strength of the Govern- ment’s case and the strength of mind of Chicago jurors. The only silver lining to this cloud that can at present be discerned is the fact that if Capone does go free the weaknesses of our legal machinery will be so clearly demonstrated, and there will be such strong public demand for | their remedy. that appropriate action will follow. Everybody knows that Ca- Mr. Bryan and his party under the circumstances. Certain of the Republican insurgents may undertake to show the Democrats in Congress ways of embarrassing the Hoover administration. It remains to be seen, however, whether the Demo- crats are willing to constitute them- selves a body to be wagged by a handful of insurgents from the other side of the House and Senate chambers. ——e—————— The thermometer has registered its usual September postscript to the Sum- mer reminder of the importance of parking spaces in big city buildings for the future. - Another September Catastrophe. There is bitter irony now in the British foreign office handbook's ob- servation that “British Honduras is practically free from hurricanes. Earth- quakes are slight. The long line of cays acts as a protection to its coast and provides comparative calm water; and it enjoys the advantage of deep estuarfes.” For pot only did Belize, capital of British Honduras, suffer the full force of one of the two hurricanes enat swept the Carivbean last Thurs- dey, but its major loss of life and property damage is reported to have followed with the tidal wave that rushed in on the tail of the blow. None of the centers of population|commission says: “Many well people | 2 acstion without telling me that he bordering on the Caribbean and the|wi)l be forced into hospitals by the|never saw me JockiigisoriL” Gulf of Mexico seems to enjoy even relative safety from what have become seascnal calamities in that part of the world. Every September brings with it the danger. the caprice of the winds. As was the case in Porto Rico three years ago|worst offenders in the noise nuisance.|of watching the thermometer all day, this month, years of tranquil build-|The din of general traffic, in fact, was|he'll sit up and watch the gas meter all ing and development seem destined | mentioned as a serious source of dis- | night,* for the tull force of some errant storm. It was on September 17, 1826, uml Florida was laid waste by a great ) W pone ought to be in jail and there is no logical reason why he should not | have been there long ago. There may be plenty of legal reasons, of course, which have little in common with logic. e Chile is engaged in negotiations with Russia, being willing to take a chance on the communism for the sake of the commerce. ———— Noise and Health. Superintendent of seventy-nine of the leading hospitals of New York City have just supplied the municipal Noise Abatement Commission with some startling evidence of the effects of noises upon public health, especially upon the condition of persons under- going treatment in hospitals. The con: sensus of these expert opinions is thi almost every kind of noise that goes to make up a great city's roar, ranging in volume from the rattle and back- fire of heavy trucks to the wailing of cats and the shrieking of ambulance sirens, is a definite detriment to the well being and progress of the sick. Fifty-four of the hospitals report that the effect of noise on their patients is important or serious,” especially in so far as the din disturbs sleep or shocks the nervous system. In a statement submitting the hospitals’ testimony to the authorities, the Noise Abatement same noise that will hinder their recov- ery. ‘The situation, then, is grave not only for those already sick.” | is commanding a great deal of atten- ous advice you insisted on lending him money.” “Sometimes a lift is of more value than | an ‘uplift.” " whether you forbid me or not.” exclaimed haughty Gwendolin. And you'll be glad to see, me, to0. going to get a job as letter carrier.” Back to the old accustomed grind "Twas there we left our cares behind; to that eity from France, Germany, Holland, Spain and Great Britain. New forms of fumigants and their safe handling are engaging the atten- tion of the distinguished doctor mem- bers of the committee. ‘The success of the United States in barring from its shores the rodents which carry the deadly bubonic plague has made this country a leader in this work. The use of hydrocyanic gas in destroying rats in vessels arriving here is receiving the closest study from the visitors. Por hundreds of years the rat was regarded as an undesirable but inescap- able passenger aboard ships. He was tolerated in much the same way that mankind ashore put up with flies. Sclence, however, said that the fly had to go, and he has gone—at least from the modern homes, as the result of all-over screening. The ship's rat is not so easily kept out, and total extermination is the goal, as yet not achieved. The rat serves no good purpose in the world, as far as men know, and does inestimable harm. Life will be better when it is wiped out. e The man who is oficlating as mayor of New York in Mz, Walker's absence tion. This need not disturb the light- hearted James, who 1§ too popular an actor to fear an understudy. — vt It would not be remarkable if Stalin, as a highly efficient business man, should again feel need of the services | of an expert prospectus writer like Trotsky. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. His Waterloo. There was hardly any peril that this fellow wouldn't dare. He was big and he was brawny and he never seemed to care How great the odds against him. an ordinary fray He welcomed opposition with a soul serenely gay. He would chase the raging lion. would tame a bucking colt. He would lead a trusty squad against an army in revolt. In single-handed combat he was never known to quit. He'd whip three people twice his size and still feel fresh and fit. At last he came to grief, as people gen- erally do. It wasn't very long before he met his ‘Waterloo. He trembles and he quails before the stern, relentless eye Of a fragile little woman who is scarcely five feet high. In He A Practical Mind. “When that man asked you for seri- “Yes” replied Mr. Dustin Stax. Persistence. “I shall continue to call at your house “You will do nothing of the kind!” “I'll call even oftener than usual. I'm The EDIWQ( Vacation. From sea or sylvan nooks. Likewise our pocketbooks. Not the Usual Thing. “Chillum is a very original person.” “What makes you think so?” “He looked me over after my Summer Bound to Worry. “Bliggins will soon find no further Trucks that backfire or that clatter|cause to complain of the weather,” said Safety depends upon|from loose parts were named by the|the cheery citizen. hospital superintendents as among the turbance to the sick. Horn-blowing, the roar of motor cycles, the grinding of gears and brakes on motor busses, 'kin," sald Uncle Eben. “But dat doesn’ hurricane, and a second storm that these are among the deafening and mean dat you is expected to lay yom';e‘: broke of, September 18 two years later obnoxious sounds heard on hospital wide open to mo’ #ouble at defr han's. “Yes, but he won't be happy. Instead “Fohgive yoh enemies as fur as you NEW YORK, September 12 formative period of the 1932 national olitical campaign the groundwork is ing laid for another conflict on pro- hibition in the Democratic party. latest developments that whatever else he may do. E. Smith of New York intends to lead the fight for a wet plank in the party’s platform. His sphinxlike attitude is several Democratic candi- dates cause for worry. Attention agein has been focused on week by renewal of a report that he has inti- mated to close friends not choose to be a candidate and is looking with favor on Newton D. Beker The Baker boom has been giving Mr. of Ohin getting othe~ taken leaders in Washington. up of Newton Baker as a rival to Gov. Frankiin D. Roosevelt Is not an acci- It is not prompted primarily as a movement to head off Roosevelt, although such may be its effect. dent. and candidates Gov progress day candi his w faz, of the national chairman. ite-son candidates, anxious to get into the race, are perplexed. because they are uncertain how far they can rely on an Al wing of the party looks to Smith as its undisputed counted on to lead its fight for a wet plank in the 1932 platform. issue. on prohibition, Legislature. hen BY GEORGE VAN SLYKE. indicate the Smith during the last that under way in his own Middle Western States and is the Democratic | The building | seriously by Smith’s Silence Baffling. In the case of Mr. Baker, as at every other turn, the Smith influence rises to challenge or annoy Democratic leaders His silence is baffling. Roosevelt is credited with making leading te and the one big obstacle in v is the uncertainty concerning Smith's position ‘and purposes ‘The drys, particularly in t ern States, are trying to organize even now with the intention of forcing the next National Convention to modified position on prohibition and, face a battle with Smith as_the head and front of the wet bloc. The anti- ‘Raskob faction. by day as the inspired by the sentiment which flared is balked by Smith _alliance. champion, Will Be Convention Factor. Smith appears indifferent to all this | political u(‘-’g\'l’_\' around him, and his | . only answer to the various reports con- cerning his plans is that nobody has any authority to speak for him, and that he is saying nothing about events still a year away. Whether or not Smith is an active candidate for another nomination, it| is becoming more evident every day | that he intends to remain in politics and make himself one of the control- ling factors in the coming National Convention; that the Democracy cannot sidetrack prohibition without a battle and the defeat of Smith. and, further, that the Democratic nominee for Presi- dent must stand for a wet plank or risk losing the .:uppfln of some of the stern States. hl'G(E‘. ‘l;oocevelt won both of his vic- tories in New York as a wet and his record to date is consistent on that His spokesmen and managers, however, appear anxious to play down prohibition, subordinating economic issue. it His candidacy has although credited with He Differ Over Prime Issue. ‘What is now seen as the fundamental difference between the Roosevelt and Smith groups is that the Governor contends that the depression will be the paramount issue on which the Democracy can win next year, whereas the former Governor holds that the depression will be played out as a pri- mary issue and that prohibition must again come to the front as the most rtant factor. if the economic issue does hold -In this | clearly | Alfred he does he South- to take a up Smith as_the ally The favor- The wet who may to the The contention of the Roosevelt, boomers is that the best poli- ties for the Democracy is to go easy thereby opening way for the wets and drys to get| together and end the disastrous split of the two last national elections. Drys Willing to Compromise. The drys appear more willing to accept that viewpoint than the wets. One of the sources of Roosevelt's strength to date has been that the dry South would accept him, while at the same time he is wet enough for the East. built on the theory that prohibition can be kept in second place and the | depression forced to the front. | Mr. Smith's silence in the face of | that proposal is ominous alike to the Roosevelt men and the drys. mer Governor may not be a candidate ! himself, being receptive, but he is not going | to eliminate himself as the spokesman for the 15,000,000 Democrats who voted for him in 1928. And that is taken to mean, in other words. that he is golng to have a lot to say about who nominated and what kind of liquor plank goes into the platform. Not for months has Gov. Roosevelt referred to prohibition. with making headway this week by building up the unemployment issue before the special session of the State taken a firm stand for governmental aid to the un- employed, in contrast with President Hoover's urgent appeal agency relief. been | ‘The for- He is credited for private New Battle Over Prohibition Looms in Democratic Party | first place in the campaign. it becomes more evident, day by day, that prohibi- tion will be the bone of contention in the National Convention. Tre party will inded in dealing with the Prohibi- tion will start the fighting. whatever is If Roosevelt maintains his lead and declares for a wet policy to satisfy the Smith wing and the East. he will If he tries to take a middle-of-the-road course to keep peace in the Democratic family. start, ‘That holds true be single. depression; that will be easy. The done. encounter trouble with the drys. he may appease the drys. but trouble with the wets. for any other candidate of the wet factions. The e and that issue. McAdoo Sounded Out. declared for Roosevelt and that viewed in New York as significant. North Carolina but would prefer him to Smith are taking no chances, however, ventions. It is understood nomination. reli- in report heard in Washington that ton Baker candidacy. secret for months that to Rnosevelt preference indicates that be this time. | ment to some other candidate. Copsright, 1931) British Situation Is Held BY A. G. GARDINER. bility to British credit. | society, "and the whole anxiety prevailed in regard to had been removed. el Situation Still Critical. ent of a coalition government. that internaticn against the working classes. Arthur Henderson, as I sity ~ of stabilizing British acknowledges that he agreed still | the hands of the threaten repudiation economies on the dole. is of Can the government _survive enabl British credit on a firm foundation? Torles May Force Election. colleagues of to force a November election. luvmbl.y‘ awaits Baker is more emphatic than Roose- velt in his declaration against national prohibition and makes a stronger appeal are afraid of Roosevelt on It is impossible to see how the party is going to avoid another battle like those of 1924 and 1928. Smith has not The extreme drys like Senator Morrison of Senator Sheppard of Texas and the Anti-Saloon League lead- ors are not quite satisfied with Roosevelt, They and are now organizing their bloc, which has_functioned_effectively in two con- that this groun is negotiating with William G. McAdoo with the idea of making him its leader or possibly candidate for the McAdoo is said to be will- ing to try again, but declines to make an active campaign. The drys unques- tionably will be in the minority in the convention, but a formidable minority Much has been made this week of & 3 Smith-Raskob group is helping the New- It has been no the national chairman prefers Baker or Owen Young But the new interpreta- tion given in Washington is that this Smith _has eliminated himself as a candidate. Such a conclusion is not seen as justified at The first and most natural move for those not enthusiastic over Roosevelt would be to lend encourage- Still Critical in Dole Cut LONDON, September 12.—The press| of the country welcomed Philip Snow- den's supplementary budget this week with an overwhelming chorus of ap- proval as a heroic step to restore sta- The scene when the chancellor of | the exchequer resumed his seat was unprecedented. He had just announced | the imposition of new burdens amount- | ing to $850,000.000 on all classes of ministerial benches rose and cheered as if the | minister had won a resounding victory. | __The incident revealed that pmfoulx;’d o | peril of a collapse of sterling and re- lief that. at whatever sacrifice, the peril | But the situation is still critical. The | erux of the struggle is the dole. On this | issue the Labor party threw over Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and Chan- cellor Snowden and forced the Fxpe'lgl’:- e party is savagely resentful of Snowden's cuts in the dole and is raising the cry bankers are arrayed der of the | opposition, is in a difficult position. He disavows belief in a bankers’ conspiracy |to dictate to this country, recognizes the gravity of the crisis and the neces- credit, in the | Labor cabinet to nine-tenths of Snow- den’s proposals and admits he would have joined in the national government if the Labor unions had been willing. But, having surrendered to save the party from disruption, he is helpless in extremists, who Snowden’s ‘The uncertainty of the situation turns on the question of a general elec%c:: encugh to consolidate its position and fe Snowden to carry through the proposed conversion of the public debt, which is the next step necessary to put Stanley Baldwin, Sir Herbert Samuel and other Conservative and Liberal Premier MacDonald favor the continuance of the Natiorial government until the financial posi- tion is established beyond attack, but ‘Winston Churchill and the bulk of the Conservatives want an immediate ap- peal to the country and are determined ‘They believe a victory over Labor is certain in the present mood of the country and that delay will only involve the Conservatives in the unpopularity that the dgastic measures The American flare for octagonal con- struction. especially during the decade from 1855 to 1865, is attributed to a book on the subject by Orson Squire Fowler, a famous phrenologist, traveler and lecturer of his day, who graduated from Amherst College in 1834 in the class with Henry Ward Beecher, * % o % Another octagon house in Washing- ton wes on Georgia avenue in the Pet- worth secticn, built in 1856 for Ben- Jamin Summy, one of the leaders of a company of 12 families, called the Erfe Company, from Buffalo, who set- tled a eolony on 137 acres of farm 2nd wocdland in that section of the Capital City. The “style” of this Summy home was copied from an ear- lier octagonal house near Fort Myer, Va. The octagon house on Georgia avenue was the first concrete house in Washington. It was surrounded by piazzas on both floors and topped off with a large cupola. This house was long occupied by Henry Conradis. a noted German ccntractor who super- intended the erection of the buildings of Rendall Green, often called Gallau- det College. the Columbia Institution for the Deaf. The earlier octagon house in Virginia was built and owned by one Valorcus G. Austin, whose son, Manville Austin, was later a captain and for a time acting major and superintendent of the Metropolitan Police force of the Na- tional Capital. PR A third well remembered octagon house in Washington was in Pheips place, at the end of Leroy place. It was erected by William and Edward Bebb, in 1865. on a tract of land that touched on one side the famous Kalo- rama tract and on the other side Rock Creek. It was long occupied as a resi- dence by LeRoy R. Tuttle, Treasurer of the United States The tract was part of a royal grant to the Holmeads by Charles II. In later years the house was occupied by Arthur Hale, son of the famous Massachusetts preacher, Dr. Edward Everett Hale. * v % ox In Hyattsville, Md., of the Capital City. there was also an octagon house, at one time occupied as a school for young ladies, taught by | Miss Mary Ann Keech and her sisters. It was built by Henry T. Scott, a drug- gist, of Bladensburg, about 1853. 4w Mow much, pop is there in popcorn? What is the packing limit o!pap'mm of corn? Ask your Uncle Sam, who has a number of scientists making an interesting study of this point. These popcorn specialists have sur- passed the record of two blades of griss for one. Through selection they have produced a new strain of corn which pops to 26 times its volume. This new strain is a yellow pearl pop- corn, which they have named “Sun- burst.” It took seven years to pro- duce it, so you see Uncle Sam is year in and year out working up nice little surprises to make your evenings happy around the open hearth or over the more modern equivalent of an electric stove. Each sample tested at the various stages of this seven-year experiment was examined also for flavor and texture, as well as for pop- ping volume. Secretary Hyde tells us that the long effort was worth while, because it hss resulted in a better popcorn, which has been recommended to commercial growers. which the National government is bound to take. Opponents of an immediate election argue that a political crisis at this moment, with the possibility of a Labor victory, would imperil the Snowden scheme, revive world suspicions of British credit and lead a flight from the pound in more aggregated form than that which brought the recent crisis. Moreover, the defeat of Labor in November, though probable, is not certain, since the Conservatives will g0 to the country on a protectionist platform, which will destroy the pres- ent alliance with the Liberals, who still support free trade. New perplexity is introduced into the situation by the fact that Hender- son, though a free trader, is advising Labor to fight the election on a 10 per cent tariff as an alternative to accept- ing a cut in the dole. If Labor accepts a nearby suburb | Of such men one was always hearing stories in sharp contrast to the tales of law fees of today. Now the law library gossip runs to the enormous fee that so-and-so got or some fabulous re- tainers being paid some firm. A lot of the good storles of the older days were about the lawyers who repre- sented clients for nothing, if they were convinced that the interests of justice required such public service. That sort of thing is regarded as almost unethical today. Take the story of Judge Black. the hard-drinking lawyer of the Middle West, who had an eye for a horse, a hand for poker, a flowing compliment for a lady and a burst of oratory for the Fourth of July. There was a lad in the bank whn was engaged to his daughter. He was a good lad, and the Judge was favorable to his suit. He seemed to be hard-working enough and steady. although they did say he played Well. nearly everyhody played v in these days But one sultry afternoon the boy ran across the street from the bank and asked to talk with the judge in pri- vate. By that time he had worked up to a position of such responsibility that ke had free run of the bank and could handle money as a matter of course The boy confessed to the judge that he had lost a lot of money gambling It was the old story of borrowing off the ledger from the bank in the cer- traces of arsenic discovered. The cake. it was claimed, had been analyzed and found to contain arsenic. The r nants of the cake were produced in evi dence and rested on the attorneys’ ta- ble before the eyes of the jury. It was a brief hearing. all the evi- dence soon taken. The prosscuting at- torney apparently had an iron-clad case. While' the prosecuting attorney was making his closing argument, Judge White sat at the attorney’s table and. in full sight of the jury, absent-mindedly broke off a bit of cake and munched it. A juryman noticed him and nudged his neighbor. The judge. still in a de- tached manner. broke off another piece and nibbled. By this time the attention of all the bewildered jurymen was riv- eted on the absent-minded judge. He continued to nibble until the State fin- ished. Then he rose. briefly appealed to the jury, pleading the innocence of the woman. but making not the slight- est reference to the poison cake. The case was closed, the jury filed out Judge White. with other counsel, wandered out of the court room. It might be hours before the jury came in. But it wasn't. In four minutes the .mr'l\- returned with a verdict of “not guilty But Judge White did not hear the verdict. He was in a doctor's office across the street, having his stomach pumped out in accordance with a pre- vious arrangement with the physician. Fifty Years Ago In The Star President Garfield continued to pass Assistant ' alternately from states cf grave relapse whila | Gen. Francis E. Spinner was Treasurer. | from the effect of his wounds to r=cu- peration. which encouraged the hope of his even- tual complete re- covery. It was believed. how - ever. that the climate of Washington was not conducive to his cure and de- cision was reached to transport him to a cottage st Elberon, N. J. near Long Branch. The most careful preparations were made and cn the morning of Sep- temb:r 6, 1881. the President was taken from the White House to the railway station at Sixth and B streets and by special train was transported to the shore. The Star of that day contains a long detaiied account cf the transfer, in part as follows: “At half-past $ o'clock am. the actuzl removal commenc-d. The Pres- ident was removed from his bed and placed upon a stretcher which had been prepared during the night. The dce- tors and nurses took the stretcher up and carried it feet foremost down the private stairway, which is to the right of the building as you enter. A brief stop was made inside the glass doors which shut off the lower corridor of the house from the public vestibule. There the President was transferred to a bed which had been specially prepared for him. Along the side of this bea had been run an outer framework of white pine. From the framework there branch>d out three handles on either side. Upon the bed was a hair mattress with sheet, blanket and pillow. The same people who had brought the Pres- ident downstairs took hold of the bed. They were Gen. Swain, Col. well, Col. Corbin, Dr. Boynton, Dr. Bliss, Dr. Reyburn and Mr. O. E. Rock- well. When the President was out of the door and being moved toward the wagon some of those who had hold of the stretcher were relieved by Sgt. Dinsmore and Dubois, Atchison, Louis and Smith of the White House. The express wagon, which had been waiting for some hcurs, had been backed close up to the eastern end of the porch. A movable platform of boards nailed to- s extended from the pcrch to 2rd of the wagon. Inside the President Taken to the Seashore. wagon was a set of double bed springs. | Covering the springs was a section of planking made for the purpcse. The bed was taken in almost on a level and rested upon the planking. “All having been comfortably ar- ranged. the horses wers put to the pole. They had been standing by in ready harness for two hours. The small con- gregation of carrizges which since half- this policy, the country will have the ! past 4 had been knotted around the strange spectacle of both Labor and the Conservatives supporting rival brands of protection. with the Liberals intervening in defense of free trade, coupled, perhaps, with the advocacy of total prohibition of the importation cf luxuries. ‘Whatever the result, it is regarded as a certainty now that tariffs in some form are inevitable. ‘The slump of exports is 8o formidable that the bal- ance of trade is now definitely unfa- vorable and protection is being as necessary to enable the coun to restore _trade equilibrium, without which financial stability is insecure. While the National government exists this great issue is in cold storage, neither Snowden nor the Liberals being prepared to make the plunge. A further complication is the re- sumption of the Indian conference, in- volving the fate of that dependency. It is feared an election would destroy the prospects of a scttlement, on which Premier MacDonald’'s heart chiefly is set. But this is onl - an additional in- centive to Churchill and the back- bench Conservatives to force an imme- portico began to brezk. Then came the starting of the wagon containing the Prosident. Sgt. Dinsmore was on the box with the driver. A slight word to the two horses and they pulled over the sand which had been laid on the six feet of concrete between the porch and the roadway. As the wagon moved away the President waved his left hand to those on the porch and commenced his journey to Long Branch. He lay on his back squarely, a sheet and blan- ket covered his body up to the arms Around the head was a bandage satu- rated with water to keep his temples cool. The morning, even at that eaily hour, was very warm. His face was pale but did not look as wan or wasted 1':&' was thought by many it would “The White House gates were passed in a few minutes and a turn was made down the Avenue. There was no jolt- ing; there was no noise save the heavy dull sound peculiar to the moticn of rompact and heavily built wagons. There were not over 150 people around the gate. Many of them had been diate election. There is doubt as to| there all night. This early crowd fol- whether Baldwin is ltionl enough to'lowed at a short distance, but kept hold the party in checl €Copyright, 19818 . apace with the wagon. The President turned his head now and then and took Rock- | | Restaurants Attack Slump With “Good Will.” BY HARDEN COLFAX. | | ! One of the first to feel the business depression, the restaurant industry of the United States, is among the first to organize for a comeback. The public knows that the price of food has fallen. It does not, so the res- taurant people claim, appreciate that fixed overhead expenses of their busi- ness cannot be reduced proportionately. Realizing this, the restaurant industry, according to information just made available by the Department of Com- merce, has decided on a campaign to hold the good will of its patrons and gain new ones. ‘The public is to be informed, Depart- ment of Commerce officials explain, through co-operative newspaper adver- tising on a Nation-wide basis. backed up by a general “adjustment” of prices on the bill of fare which will convince the customer that the restaurant keeper is passing on to him at least some of the lower prices of fond Among other methods of pleasing the public is the “eat all vou want at the price” practice advocated by one of the large chains of restaurants. All sorts of improvements in the eating places themselves along the line of ad- ditional comfort, including open air garden facilities in Summer time, are also part of the program. Naturally, however, price is the mast compelling lure. The patron of the restaurant knows that there has been a real tumble in the cost of food and expects to reap some of the benefits. This decline includes the cost of all the substantial items on the menu. meat, poultry, fish, dairy products, vegetables. fruits, flour, cheese and all sorts of bev- erages. The drop in food prices. at the last estimate made on any relable basis was approximately 30 per cent from that of a year ago. |, In surveving the restaurant industry for 1929 the census of distribution of the Department of Commerce found that the total business done by restau- (rants and other eating places in the United States for the year was $2.097.- | 000.000—not including drug stores and | other places in which serving food is a minor or at least a secondary item. Some interesting and significant data as to the American restaurant indus- | try are furnished by the Department of Commerce on the authority of the in- dustry itself. These include the fact | that the 23,000 leading restaurants of | the country do about 8 per cent of the | total annual business. Restaurants, moreover, get 6 per cent of every con- sumer’s dollar, 18 per cent of every out- of-town visitor's dollar and 22 per cent | of all money spent for meals by con- | sumers of food. There is one restaurant for every 859 persons in urban United | states. | It is estimated that in American cities ene out of every four persons | eats at least one meal a day in restau- | rants and millions eat all of their meals |away from their homes. (Copyright. 1931.) a view of the Avenue as he went down and of the people walking beside him. There was not much of incident on the passage to the depot. The driver went over the soft sawdust that had been | laid upon the crossings of intersecting ;nreet railroed tracks. At 11th street the crowd became larger still. It poured up from below the Aven but tkere W&s no noise. At 7Tth ‘street there was a noiseless rush of men and boys from the market house. Past T7th street about 500 people were as cloge to the car as they could get The removal of the President to the railroad car was easily effected and the train was at once started. It arrived at Elberon at 1:09 pm. and at 1:20 the President was in his room in the cottage,