Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1932, Page 8

A8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY....January 21, 1032 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The lmm..!sur Newspaper c.mp.ny; usiness Office 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave. New t or& Office: 110 East 42nd B! gmeuo Office: Lake Mi furopean Office. 14 a»;em Englan Rate by Carrier Within the City. R- gmmc Star ...... 45 per month e Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundays) 60c per month The Evenin, 85¢ per month f, And Sundiy siar (when 5 Sundays) ber copy The Sunday Star 5c Collection made at the end of each month Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone NAtional 5000. ndon, Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ily and Sunday.....1yr. $10.00: 1 mo., §5c . 1y, 50c ?l] only $6.00: 1 mo.. inday only .. 171, $4.00: 1 mo., 40c All Other States and Canada. fly and Sunday...1yr.$12.00:1mo.$ 1yr. $800: 1 mo. aily only 3 nday only 1¥r. $500: 1mo., Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled the for republication of all news dis- edited to it or not otherwise cred- ted in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dmpatches herein are also reserved 1.00 | 15¢ 50c Satisfactory, Welcome Compromise. The compromise between the Po- tomac Electric Power Co. and the Publié Utilitles Commission over rate reduction is an excellent way out of what promised to become a most un- satisfactory impasse It is an excellent thing from point of view of the consumer, will obtain a cut in his rates for elec- tricity. It is an excellent thing from the point of view of the lawyers, who can now go down to court and argue about the principles of the law to their hearts' content, without the embar- rassing knowledge that the longer they argue the longer they delay a settle- ment that everybody wants. It is an excellent thing for the electric light company, which wins deserved public good will by voluntarily taking a step to reduce rates that it could not have been compelled to take for some time, while retaining its right to fight for & judicial definition of its rights, and it is an excellent thing for the Public Utilities Commission and the peoples’ counsel, who have been able to obtain a greater reduction in rates, for the time being, than would otherwise haye been made without their efforts to break the consent decree. ‘The compromise means that the power company for 1932 is applying about $860,000 of its excess earnings in 1931 toward a reduction in rates. Under the consent decree, now in liti- gation, the company would have applied about $660,000 toward this rate reduc- tion; under the new sliding scale that the commission has attempted to sub- stitute for the old scale the company would have applied about $1,000,000 toward the rate reduction. The con- sumer who paid a primary rate of 4.2 cents per kilowatt hour in 1931 will pay about 3.7 cents in 1932. Under the consent decree he would have paid about 4 cents per kilowatt hour, ac- cording to incomplete computations. Interest now turns to the outcome of the litigation over the consent decree, arguments upon which are about to close in Justice Luhring’s court. There are two important points wrapped up in this litigation. The first, and most important, involves the right of the Public Utilities Commission to abrogate the consent decree without agreement by the court or the power company. The second involves the reasonableness of the commission’s new sliding scale arrangement. The importance of a de- cision in favor of either litigant, it is understood, will force the other to ap- peal. An extended court fight is in prospect. For this reason the willingness of both sides to compromise is commendable, and the compromise itself is satisfac- tory, as it marks the middle point be- tween two extremes that, in dollars and cents to the consumer, are not so very far apart for the present or immediate future. It accomplishes the purpose of fixing & settlement on rates for the time being, leaving the broad matter of fu- ture policy to the courts’ interpretation of the law. the | who | | ——— It is to be wondered how the tcacher feels today—if still alive—who first said, “Albert Einstein, go to the black- board.” ————— The Connecting Parkway. Steadily, if slowly, the project for the establishment of a parkway connecting Rock Creek and Potomac Parks is ad- vancing. It is announced that “nearly all the land necessary” for this work has been acquired, only about half an acre remaining to be secured by condemna- tion or direct purchase. This, how- ever, is somewhat beside the actual oondition, for there still awaits final action the suit of the Government for Ppossession of the area at the mouth of the creek, which is claimed by the canal company, although the United States considers that it is a public property. The parkway, as projected, cannot be regarded as completed until this riverside outlet is secured lnd, linked up with the boulevard that is | to provide direct and uninterrupted | communication between the two great reservations For more than twenty years this en- terprise has been under way. For a longer period it has been in contem- | plation. Indeed, as s00n as Rock Creek Park—regarding the Zoological Plrki as part of that area—was created and ! Potomac Park was developed by the reclamation of the river flats the plan was advanced for the union of the two | by & driveway along the creek. A counter proposal was urged that the valley of the creek be filled in and the waters carried to the river by means of & tunnel from about the line of Massa- chusetts avenue, or even farther north. This alternatitve was happily rejected, and after much discussion the parkway plan was adopted and & commission was | created for the securing of the land | necessary to execute it. 8o leisurely has been the progress in this matter that many Washingtonians have forgotten the project. A few years ago it was developed to the point at which a driveway could be constructed from the Taft Bridge to the Massachu- setts avenue viaduct, which spans the valley. Park users have found them- selves, after travel over this road, faced | {“When Do We Eat?” would do as well Thus bit by bit the project advances. | Perhaps in another five years it will be possible to progress without impediment from the northern boundaries of Rock Creek Park to the Potomac, and thence, by a short span through city conditions, into Potomac Park itself. But the actual completion of the travel course from park to park will not end the work necessary for the proper development of the ‘“connecting park- way.” Immediately north of Potomac Park the route runs through a sad dis- array of unattractive structures, old and in a hopeless state of disrepalr. Unless this space is cleared to boule- vard breadth and swept of its disfigur- ing occupants the “connecting park- way” will be under a blight. Steps should be taken as early as possible to, permit the union of the parks without such an unpleasant condition. To realize the ideal that was inspired by the creation of the two great reserva- tions, which are Washington's chief pride, the connecting link should in every respect and every aspect and for the entire distance be harmonious with them e The Safety-Responsibility Law. The safety-responsibility bill of the American Automobile Association, a measure to sweep the streets and high- ways clean of the reckless-insolvent motorist, has again been started on the long congressional trail to enactment for the District of Columbia. It nearly reached its destination at the last ses- cion, but for some unexplained reason was stopped in the Senate in the clos- ing hours of the Sesenty-first Congress. It was favorably reported by the House District Committee, passed the House unanimously, received a favorable re- port from the Senate District Commit- tee, but remained forlornly on the Sen- ste calendar when the session ended. Now it must go through the same process all over again, and its friends, who are legion, earnestly hope that the result in 1932 will be different from that of 1931. It is a good bill—in fact, it has been called the best piece of au- tomotive legislation ever devised—and is the product of years of study of one of the most perplexing questions affect- ing motordom. Eighteen States, which contain more than one-fourth of the motorists in the United States, and four Provinces of Cenada, comprising over one-third of the motorists in the Do- minion, are successfully and contentedly operating under its principles. Probably no other legislation affecting such a large number of persons has ever been recelved with such universal com- mendation. ‘There is nothing complicated or con- troversial in the safety-responsibility bill to those who realize that safety and financial responsibility must go hand in hand in these days of heavy traffic. The time has passed when & motorist should be permitted to operate a car in a reck- less manner if he possesses no means of compensating his victims in accidents arising from his own reprehensible acts. Too often in years gone by has this type of driver maimed and killed and damaged property with financial immunity, only to resume his nefarfous activities as soon as he was able, under the traffic regulations, to operate his car again. The safety-responsibility bill has four main features. They are: (1) Any per- son convicted of a major traffic offense must, before his permit is returned to him, show financial responsibility for the sum of eleven thousand dollars, one thousand dollars for property damage and ten thousand dollars for injury to one or more persons in an accident. He may do this by posting collateral, tak- ing out a bond or securing liability in- surance. (2) Failure to pay a judg- ment levied against him by a court of competent jurisdiction up to this amount for an accident will auto- matically deprive a motorist of his per- mit to drive until he does pay it and demonstrates future financial responsi- bility. (3) That all States using the law maintain reciprocal relationship. In other words, the motorist barred in Connecticut would be_unable to obtain a permit in New York. (4) That all States enact & driver's license law to provide a closer check on automobile operators. Bo the law does four things: It takes & motorist when he shows the first in- clination to be & menace to other users of the road and makes him financially responsible for his future conduct; it rids the highways of that slippery customer—the judgment-proof motor- ists, those who are careful to have no visible assets, but carry their property under the names of relatives; it pro- hibits the motorist convicted of a seri- ous offense in one State from securing & permit in another, and it promotes a Nation-wide check on all motor car operators by means of the universal permit law. AH of these are naturally | supplemental to the traffic regulations of the various States and communities. Washington should have this law, | and the sooner the better. Surely the judgment of eighteen State Legislatures | and those of ‘four Provinces of Canada cannot be wrong. Congress should | hasten to put the National Capital in step with modern motor legislation. ————— Within the past 2200 years there | have been 2,000 famines in China, it s | reported. If that unfortunate country ever should adopt a national slogan, as any. ———— Vesuvius Gives Warning. Word comes from Naples that Ve- suvius is again in travail. The crater, | which ordinarily is illuminated at night by the internal fires, has gone dark. A | series of loud explosions has been heard | from the depths of the great vent and | an earthquake lasting several seconds| was felt at the same time. Anxiety prevails in the region round about this | ancient enemy, which has taken a, heavy toll in the course of the centu- ries of recorded history. Vesuvius is one of the most continu- ously active of the world’s volcanoes. A streamer of smoke and steam pours forth from its crater virtually without | cessation. Hardy visitors to the crest can go down into the vent for a short dis- | tance and “see red” with the aid of experienced guides, who themselves de- scend & bit farther and retrieve frag- ments of the soft lava which they form into souvenirs. Thus thousands of tour- ists have within recent years witnessed | the THE Iies close to a large center of population. It is not especially difficult of ascent. For & good many years it has been scaled by a railroad, successively oper- ated by electric traction, by cable and by cog and ratchet, with the last few rods of travel along an easy ramp to the very pit ltself. No other vent s so readily accessible. Despite its occasional outbursts, which have cost humanity so terribly in the past, the people persist in their occupation of the very flanks of the great hill, planting their vines and crops in the soil that is strangely fertilized by the effluvia of the vent. Their chances of survival are fair, for destructive eruptions are rare. But there is never assurance of safety except that the volcano gives reason- able warning of its revival of activity, such as the choking of the smcke stream and the inner rumblings and chocks. These present manifestations of “in- ternal trouble” may be followed by & terrific blast, due to the congestion of the gases occasioned by a fall of rock into the vent. If that now has hap- pened there will probably be such an explosion, styled an eruption, when the accumulation of gas and molten watter reaches the point of dynamic outburst, In that case the question of moment will be whether the outflow of flame and lava and ashes and pul- verized rock will carry far and in great volume, constituting one of the major eruptions, or will dribble along without causing injyry until equilibrium of pressure is restored and Vesuvius again resumes its course of harmless smok- ing and glowing, with the tourists cnce more clambering to the edge of the crater and down a little way inside to “see red” and bring forth relics of their courageous enterprise. P — The word “pecuniary,” it appears, comes from the Latin “pecus,” meaning cattle, the very ancient Romans hav- ing used them for money. And, while on the subject, it is recommended that Uncle Sam, confronted by that empty pail, refrain from “milking the cow too fast.” ——————————— First the Japanese called them “ban- dits.” Now they refer to them as “ir- regulars.” By the time their history Looks are rewritten to include the pres- ent difficulty their Manchurian oppo- nents will probably be styled “crack troops.” ———— Gov. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray, it is an- nounced proudly by Oklahomans, is & fine performer on both the harmonica and the jewsharp. He must either use some sort of strainer on the instru- ments, or else, like ex-Kaiser Bill, go in for those cunning mustache-regulators. —————— Any one reading the newspapers is struck by the fact that among Amer- ican Indians “chiefs” have survived in numbers so much greater than ordinary men. ———— “Woman Smugglers Busy in Ergland.” —Headline. Woman smugglers never seem to have much unengaged time either. e r—————————— The automobiles for 1932 are declared to be “three years ahead of the times.” ‘They will not be when they are all paid for, ————————— “All good things come in threes” runs the old adage. On the contrary, however, there 1s the third put-out, the third rail and the third party. ——r—t——— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Folly Shooters, The world is full of Folly, And everybody tries To shoot it as it files. Man struggles to be jolly ‘When everybody knows His heart is full of woes. We prance in giddy fashion; We sing in rhythms queer That sometimes shock the ear. We scorn the simple passion Of old romantic folk And say it is a joke. We shoot and will not quit it, At Folly, so we say, While striving to be gay. If ever we should hit it, Despite our conscious pride, It might prove suicide! Necessarily Biased. “What are your views on the great public problems?” “I haven't any views on public prob- lems,” replied Senator Sorghum. “Each election year, I'm one of them myself.” Electioneering. “Hiram,” exclalmed Mrs. Corntossel, “‘that candidate you don't like is com- ing up the road. What'll T say if he ‘wants to kiss the children?” “Don't say anything. Just call ‘em back to the kitchen and give 'em plenty of bread and butter and molasses.” The Answer. Life is a riddle told in style To interest the many. Bometimes the answer brings a smile; Sometimes there isn’t any. How It Looked. “Why don't you eat your caviar?” asked the host. “Didn’t know it was to eat,” replied Bronco Bob. “I thought there had been an accident and the cook had spilled the bird shot.” No Such Thing. There’s no such thing as “down an’ out.” Folks don't know what they're talkin’ "bout. When they throw up their hands an’ say, “There’s no more luck to come my way.” As long as you have hands to toil, There's food to gather from the soil. As long as you have ears to hear, There's somethin’ worth your learnin’ near. While you possess a voice to speak, There's some one who your words will seek. There's _disappointment an’ there's doubt, But no such thing as “down an’ out.” | the actual turmoll of the internal fires. Vesuylus has been visited probably by with an impassable condition. Now an- the greatest number of people who have “De wust thing about arithmetic,” said Uncle Eben, “is dat a whole lot o' folks gits de idea dat any kind o' fig- other section of the driveway Is to be’ever gone out of the safe and benunl gerin’ is all right if dey kin finish up 1ald down and the travel course thus paths of travel to view the tokens of wif a number dat has a dollar mark in of food and of lal for thou carried s little farther toward the river. the earth's interior molten state. It front of it." \ EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. €., THURSDAY, JANU THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “I wish some one could tell me,” he said plaintively, “how to get out of the doctors’ clutches.” Of course, he did not mean a word of what he said. He wanted no one to tell him anything. A firm believer in the expert, in any line, he merely bemoaned the money which his implicit faith cost him. Any one who has thought at all about such matters could have told him in- stantly “how to get out of the clutches of the doctors,” if that had been an ad- visable thing for any one to do. The medical men would be the first to applaud, because it would give them more time for people who really need their services. ‘What is needed in such a case is that one replace perhaps too great a faith in human beings with faith in the “healing power of nature.” The trouble with all those who run to the doctor at the least provocation and who bow down to his dictates with- out putting them to the scrutiny of common sense and expetence is that they are men of little faith in the power of One who made us and who keeps us all alive, T The greatest faith of all perhaps is shown by those who believe too devout- edly in boring and scraping. A full- fledged believer would no more admit that nature might cure his maladies than that the world might come to an end tomorrow night. These people love to talk about their ailments, to recount the horrible pains they have gone through, and to tell of the misery they expect as the result of the next operation. Especially do they delight in detail- ing the gross and net cost to them of it all. We sat not long ago at lunch with a gentleman who said, not without ap- parent pride, that doctors’ bills in his family during recent years had cost him some $30,000. It goes without saying that he made more money than most human beings. One small daughter, it seemed, was the pocketbook stumbling block. For years he had been using her, as far as we could make out, as a sort of offering on the altar of sclence. She had been the victim, according to his picture, of pure sclence and, wonders to relate, {::d not seemed to be getting much bet- The father, at last, was on the poini of rebellion. It was to be seen, ‘;gnn: the look in his eye, that he had come both to the end of his pocketbook and of his patience. He was about to make & heroic resolve. He was going to give nature a chance. ok ok ok We heard recently of a lady whose emall boy was suffering from nasal troubles. She went to the family phy- sician, who solemnly advised her that there were only two things to do: To take the child South for the Winter, or to have an expensive operation. The mother was in despair. The al- ternatives seemed far too expensive, the times being what they are, and, besides, she feared the operation. What struck one of her friends, when she told about it al], was that she never doubted the doctor at all, nor once had any idea that if she had been too poor the child might have got well, any- way. She had no faith in the “healing power of nature” in other words. It was cnly when the friend told his own experience, as & child, that she con- sented to believe that even if the little one did not go South, and even if it did not have an operation, it still might and in all probability would come out all right. The one who gave this advice tried B C, Madrid—The ministry of the treasury has issued a grant of 400,000 pesetas ($38,000) to the Spanish Olympial Society for the furpou of defraying the expenses of its respective athletes who will take part in the next Olympic contests, to be held in California, in the United States, next year. The games will be held near the old Span- ish city of Los Angeles, which should be an inspiration to our national con- testants to uphold the prestige and glory of Spain in what is now a foreign land. Selections will be made from hundreds of strong and agile sports| lovers who have been training for these events for years, and some of the triumphs will undoubtedly go to Span- ish contenders, for in prowess and in- trepidity Spaniards have never been | inferior to any other race. * ok ok ok Frenchwomen's Right to Work Defended. Le Matin, Paris—It is claimed that part of the trend toward an unbal- anced industrial state in France is due to the displacement of men by women, not only in labor, but also in intel- lectual and professional pursuits. But what are the facts? Of late there has been an energetic campaign in favor of more equal civil rights for women with men in France. Tabulations dis- jshown that in very recent days there university faculties of this country, 300 women practicing at the bar, about 1,000 women doctors 'and 140,000 and other assistants in the offices of government. If woman's home, and her | rimal sphere is the figures that many have deserted their traditional posts. There has been, paradoxically ~enough, a persistent clamor for higher feminine education. Why stress this modern anomaly if her only activities must be the domestic and the maternal? In Italy the law forblds the depriving of woman of her employment and of her salary for the we to be less considerate in France? In a country where there are five and one-half millions of women, either spinsters, widows or divorcees—and some, alas, in a still more pitiable sit- uation of abandoned motherhood, not to mention households where the sal- ary is insufficient, or spent by the hus- band in cabarets—is it just that these women, and their children, numbered by the thousands, be condemned to death by an interdiction against female employment? We are of those that think the first right and duty, as well as the greatest Jjoy, of a married woman is to have children, and that she should prefera- bly occupy herself with such cares and privileges. We think that it is the duty of & husband to work and provide for his family. But we believe, too, that in this modern life these respective ideals cannot invariably be adhered to and that when circumstances defeat, or impede such natural desires, either the man or the woman should have the right to carry on in whatever capacities are yet available for them, for the preservation of their moral and material ucurgly, It is certainly not logical that in such circumstances women of culture, ability and character should be robbed of the opportunity to function in the useful roles for which their qualifica- tions have fitted them. Any woman has the right to work when it is neces- sary or expedient and that right is in- contestable, the insouciances of an un- charitable publ‘lc :ottw!‘t‘hnmdlm. Porto Rico Plans Huge Vegetable Planting. Porto Rico Progress, San Juan— Through the united efforts of the In- sular Department of Agriculture and Commerce, plans are well advanced for the planting of the largest acreage ever given over to the production of vege- tables in the island. Two purposes are in view: First, to provide a source both isands of people in the tobacco district who will, tributed by interested agencies have | were seven women professors on the | women working as stenographers, clerks | 'unction caring for the | family, it would not appear from these | sole reason that she is married. Are| to make it plain that he was not in any way ‘“slamming” the doctor in question” or the medical profession in general. All he was attempting to do was to point out that the physician was, after all, a human being, and that his verdict might not be infallible. There might be another way out. Every one knows how it is. The doc- tor is a busy man. When a patient comes to him he diagnoses the case and gives the best advice that he knows. That he knows it all, he would be the last to cllll? That there would be no other olution to the problem he would not claim. He sim- ply gives one or two. The man who advised the parents, in this case, to try a certain other solu- tion (later tried with success, and with the full approval and co-operation of the physician) pointed cut that in his | own childhood one of the best chil- dren’s doctors had forecast a small chance of survival for him. | “Yet not only had he gained greatly in health after the age of 30 years | (which period had been marked off as | his life probability), but he had “out- grown,” as it were, allments which | gave the eminent physician the right | to make such a prediction, based on | the laws of probabilities. * K K X The interesting point is that nature tends to take care of her children. It is only the unobservant person who has no faith in her, immortal mother. Faith in human beings is fine, ..I? to a certain point, but beyond that it is an insult to the great powers which, | for purposes known and unknown, carry on the processes of the universe. | Just as the fear of God is the begin- nmg of wisdom, so a certain amount of interest and faith in the “healing | power of Nature” is essential to & proper beginning of an understanding | of life. (Note that we say “a beginning of an understanding,” for we do not | know whether there is any complete understanding. All the dispute lies | there.) | _Any one who watches a small cut on | the finger heal up has made a begin- ning in this simple wisdom of the | everyday life. What is it which hap- pens when a scab begins to form, the extra formation drops off, and the finger is left as white and complete as ever? Nothing that the human being has been able to do has been more than an ald toward this interesting, and, if | we view it properly, this amazing, proc- | ess of healing. The “healing powers of nature” as the ancients so well said, did it all. Whether one applied an antiseptic to ‘nne's self, or called a skilled physician and permitted him to apply it, made | not the least bit of difference tc this | astounding power. The white corpus- cles knew nothing of all that, one way or the other. The blood stream was in complete ignorance of who presided, who took charge, or who didn't preside or_who didn't take charge. Then out of these mysterious powers came complete healing. The patient deserved credit, the man's ancestors deserved credit for giving him good clean blood, the doctor deserved credit for “doing the right thing"—but, above all, nature deserved credit. the face of such mysteries, the | Psalmist in many utterances voiced all | that can be sald. This faith is whole- | some, and the physician, more than | most men, comprehends it. He works , with it. His success is built upon its |success. The best patient is he who co-operates with both medical science and God's science, and who, in his faith in the one does not lose his faith In the other. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands be out of their usual employment this year, and also to increase production of island foodstuffs and especially vegetables for export. There will be considerable planting of lands which, last year, were in sea- island cotton. Cotfon planting this year will be very much reduced. It is estimated that from 30,000 to 50,000 | families, mostly in the former tobacco | sections, will be provided with a variety | of seeds with which to plant their own | vegetable gardens. Several hundred | acres of highland rice will be planted— more than the island has ever before attempted to grow. Irish and sweet potatoes, grandules, corn, eggplant, tomatoes, and Valencia onions, 8s lima and other varieties of beans. Recently vegetable growers in the isabella district raised $800 toward providing themselves with seeds, fer- {ilizers and other necessities. In the next few months the island | will likely produce more vegetables than at any time since the World War, when war-gardens kept a large part of the population from going hungry. * ok ok % New Highway Brings Monterey Closer to U. S. El Universal, Mexico, D. F.—Of all Mexican cities, probably none is better known to Americans than Monterey. This is both because of its proximity to the Rio Grande and its attractive- ness as a modern and progressive city— the chief manufacturing center, indeed, of Mexico. Popular with Americans even when the railroad was its ovly link with the border, it is now the first interior city of importance in the re- public that can be easily reached by moThtor ve!gcles. ere now an exceptionally well constructed highway existing between it and the city of Laredo, in the State of Texas, which is patronized daily by hundreds of tourists. The city itself, though mainly Spanish in appearance, is supplied with all modern comforts and conveniences, and is interspersed with picturesque plazas, grateful and alluring at any season of the year. Several battles were fought here at the time of the American invasion in Septevl:nber. 1846, and the famous “Obis- pado,” or Bishop's Palace, still exhibits imbedded in its walls some of the solid shot fired by American artillery. There is a barracks of the national army, and also a Penitenciaria Federal (federal penitentiary) which, with its improved methods of caring for and occupying (employing) the inmates, is well worthy of a visit, which can be arranged for almost any day. Philippine Gold I;ind May Be Boon to World From the Topeka Daily Capital. Perlods like the present stir gold Pprospectors over the world to diligence, and gold discoveries the last year have been more numerous than usual, The greatest gold rush is now re- ported from the Island of Luzon in the Philippines, where tbe richness of the de}mslu staggers bellef, and is prob- ably greatly exaggerated. The Baguio gold district of Luzon is a well known producer, though not of the first rank, its production having been about one- tenth that of the United States. That the new find is exaggerated appears likely from the fact that reports claim the gold uncovered assays as high as $3,000 a ton. This is not impossible, as gold mines in Canada have assayed in spots as high as $5000 a ton. A ton of Bure gold is worth about $480,- 000. ut gold mines are profitably worked today which assay but 75 or 80 cents a ton. If the new Baguio discoveries have considerable extent and anything like the richness now reported, they will be a boon to the entire world. o One Barber Silenced. Prom the Columbus Ohio State Journal. A man was shaved in a cage which was occupled by three non-vegetarian lions, and we bet for once the barber didn't try to sell him something. as well | | I ARY 21, 1932. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. ‘The Republicans have a terrific bat- tle on their hands to retain control of the Senate in the col general elec~ tion. Unless the G. P. national ticket should attain str enough in the campaign to win, win handily, it looks very much as though the Re- publican control of the Senate would vanish after March 4, 1533. Senator “Jim" Watson of Indiana, Republican leader of the Senate, has, by the thority vested in him as leader, an- nounced the -a) ?olmmem of a com- mittee of mp\& ican Senators to aid in the senatorial eampaigns this year. In selecting the committee Senator ‘Watson has pretty well wiped the slate clean of old animosities among the Re- publicans of the Sen: He has se- lected & committee of “Young Guard,” as distinct from the “Old Guard,” com- d of Senators who are serving (heir rst terms in the Senate, with the ex- ception of Senator Robinson of In- diana, who came to the Senate in 1926. The committee is headed by Senator Hatfield of West Virginia, who has been a member of the Senate only since Merch 4, 1929. The other members of the committee are Senators Hebert, Rhode Island, vice chairman; Patter- ton, Missouri; Robinson, Indiina: Goldsborough, Maryland; Kean, New Jersey; Carey, Wyoming, and Dickin- son, Iowa. * kX K Progressive Republican Senators from the West charged that the last Republican Senatorial Campaign Com- mittee, headed by Senator Moses of New Hampshire, was lukewarm if not actually inimical to the re-election of Progressive Senators. That was one of the causes which brought about the fight of the Progressive group against the re-election of Senator Moses as President pro tempore of the Senate. Senator Moses is a candidate this year for re-election himself, and as such by practice is barred from cerving on the Senatorial Camvaign Committee. He has to look after his own campaign and not that of his Republican col- leagues. ‘The Republicans have 18 Senators coming up for re-election. while the Democrats have only 15. The election in New Jersey, where Senator Barbour. appointed to ill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Senator Morrow. must seek re-election, brings the total number of senatorial elections up to 33. instead of 32. Some of these Republican Senators will face stiff battles for re- election. For example, the fight in New Jersey, where a Democratic Gov- ernor has recently been elected by a huge majority, is likely to be a hard one. Even the Republican leader in the Senate, Wetson of Indiana, has no mean contest on his hands this year. But Senator Watson has such a wide personal following in his own State that the Democrats must have a land- slide to beat him. The Republican fac- tions in the Hoosler State, some of which have been antagonistic to Wat- son in the past, are lined up for him this yeer. Senator Waterman of Colo- rado is up for re-election in a State which elected a Democrat to the Senate in 1930, and Senator Glenn of Illinows must go to the bat where Senstor J. Hamilton Lewis, Democrat, won by over 700,000 votes two years ago. In Connecticut. too, Senator Hiram Bing- ham is up for re-election—Connecticut, where the Democrats show signs of re- vival and where they elected a governor a couple of years back. * ok ok X So far as ths Democrats are con- | cerned, there seems little danger of their losing senatorial strength because of the elections, with the possible ex- ception of McGlll of Kansas. McGill was chosen in 1930 because of intra- party strife among the Republicans in that State. Senator Wagner comes up again in New York. But Senator Wag- ner has shown himself an able and hard working Senator, and besides this year looks like a Democratic year in the Empire State, unless the Democrats split. into factions there because of the ‘contest over the presidential nomi- nation. The other Democratic Senators up for re-election are from Southern or border States and seem sure of victory, except Senator Robert J. Bulkley cf Ohio. Senator Bulkley won an amaz- ing victory in Ohlo in 1930, as an opponent of the eighteenth amend- | ment, -{umc & bone dry Republican opponent. The business depression had a good deal to do with the Bulkley victory. The depression is still on, end promises to help him again. The drys in Ohlo and out, incensed over such a wet victory in the old home of the Anti-Saloon League of America, will do their level best to beat Bulkley, unless, indeed, the Republicans should nominate a wet to run against him, which does not agpeur likely now. * oK ok ok If there is a general Democratic sweep the overturn in the Senate may be considerable, with the Democrats winning control of the Senate by half a dozen or even a dozen seats. Scme of the Senators up for re-election are facing contests for renomination. The first senatorial primary scheduled is that in Ilinols on April 12. There Senator Glenn will run against a Pro- gressive, Jenkins, who may have the support of some of the Progressive Senators from ne-rb{ States, like La Follette of Wisconsin. The second senatorial primary to come along will be that in Pennsylvania, where Sena- tor James J. Davis already has been threatened with strong opposition, par- ticularly if he fails to run as a wet. April 26 is the date of the Pennsyl- vania primary. Among those who have been mentioned as contestants against Davis are Willlam 8. Vare, the Phila- delphia Republican boss who was de- nied & seat in the Senate following the 1926 election. But Vare's health is not likely to permit him to make a campalgn. Representative James M. Beck, wet leader of the Housé, may enter the primary. Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, U. 8. M. C, retired, is re- ported to be itching to get into the political arena. And former Ambas- sador and Head of the Tariff Com- mission Henry D. Fletcher is also men- tioned as an aspirant. Finally, there is Gov. Gifford Pinchot, who might well clean up in a triangular race for the nomination. * ok ok The Committee on Arrangements for the Republican National Convention in Chicago next June 14 is to meet in Chicago Saturday to deal with the man- agers of the convention hall and the hotel proprietors. The latter have prom- ised not to increase hotel rates during the perfod of the convention. When the 1920 Republican National Conven- tion was held in Chicago, the hotels doubled and in some cases quadrupled their rates, much to the distress of the delegates and visitors. Senator Fess of Ohio, chairman of the Republican National Committee, is chairman of the Committee on Arrangements. It won't he long before the Democratic Commit- tee on Arrangements for the Demo- cratic ational Convention, to be opened June 27, will travel to Chicago for the purpose of looking over thc grours also. Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee heads this Committee on Arrangements, It happens this year that the tota’ delegate strength in the Republican and Democratic National Conventions 1s identical—1,154. The total is arrived at in different ways by the Democrats and the Republicans, it is true, with the allocation of delegate strength to the States and Territories and District of Columbia varying considerably. * ok kX Martin L. Davey, former member of the House from Ohio, self-constituted leader of a drive for the nomination of Newton D. Baker for President, has succeeded in one thing at least, he has brought about an agreement amorg the Demccrats of his State which wil give him, Davey, a job as delegate at large in the national convention. The delegation is to be pledged to sup- port Gov. George White. But Mr. Davey hastens to explain that the delegation will vote for the Governor onlly on the first few ballots and then Will feel free to switch to Baker or any other candidate the delegates desire to support. It looks as though Mr. Davey's drive for Mr. Baker has been a flop, however, except to land Davey ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI This great service is maintained by The Evening Star for the benefit of its readers, who may use it every day without cost to themselves. All they have to do is ask for any information desired and they will receive prompt answers by mail. Questions must be clearly written and stated as briefly as possible. Inclose 2-cent stamp for re- turn postage and address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. Will there be a stamp issue in honor of the International Olympic ‘Winter games at Lake Placid?—M. P. A. There will. These stamps will be first placed on sale January 25, 1932, at Lake Placid, N. Y., and at other post Office Department, Washington, D. C., January 26, 1932. Stamp collectors de- siring first-day cancellations of these Winter games stamps may send a limit- ed number of addressed covers not to exceed 25 to the postmaster, Lake Placid, N. Y., with a cash or postal money order remittance to cover ex- actly the value of the stamps requirad for affixing. Other postage stamps will not be accepted in payment. holds.—E. 8. A. Among the well known ones are walst-lock hold, double-leg hold, nip lock, half Nelson, quarter Nelson, full Nelson, head lock, hammer locks, scis- sors and three-quarter Nelson. used in cross- ). ‘horses or oxen Q. Were ho o b ing the continent before were bullt? If bo serviceable?—J. W. S. A. Oxen, mules and horses were used. Oxen had the mest endurance and the | least speed. Mules came next, while horses had the least endurance but the most speed Q. What per cent of the national in- come is expended for education?—S. S A. The cost of public elementary and secondary education is 2.4 per cent of the total national income. Q What postmaster has the distinc- tion of having served the longest term as a postmaster?—C. T. F. A. J. N. Van Zandt. He was born August 17, 1844, The date of his ap- pointment was April 23, 1866. Q. Who wrote the music to “Hail, Hall, the Gang's All Here?"—B G. C. A. Sir Arthur Sullivan. It was taken . from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, “The Pirates of Penzance.” The mel- ody used occurs in act 2, song 12—Sam- uel and chorus of pirates—beginning, “Come, friends, who plough the sea,” etc. This melody is exactly as it was written in the operetta, but begins ‘in the middle of the chorus. Theodore | Morse made a slight change in the notes at the end of the present ar- rangement. Q. How does a type of hot-water bottle work, which contains a com- ition which feels like emery and is gg:ted by pouring a little cold water into the bottle?>—L. B. A. The Bureau of Standards says that such a hot-water bottle is patent- ed and exact data cannot be given as to its composition. The heating is | generally caused by a chemical reac- tion between the substance in the bot- tle and the water. Some such bottles contain a mixture of substances that react chemically when water is added in the same way that effervescent salts undergo & chemical change in water. Another kind depends on the fact that heat is absorbed when a substance is dissolved in water and that when the substance crystallizes out of solution an equal amount of heat is given off. Q. Did the Byrd expedition exhaust |its food supply?—J. H. A. A. not. It prepared for a three-year stay instead of two in case it should get caught down there an- other year. offices and the Philatelic Agency, Post | Q. Please name some of the wrestling th, which were more | C J. HASKIN. Q. How many people “are employed in the Library of Congress?—A. M. R. A. The normal staff of the library proper (as distinct from the force under the superintendent of library bullding) is 631. Q. If_four cars are following each other, the first going 40 miles an hour, how 'fast would the fourth car be going?—R. O. G. A If the first car is going 40 miles |an hour, the speed of the fourth car would be 40 miles an hour, if equal distances are maintained. between the | cars. | Q How many people have lived in the world since its creation?—F. M. A. It has been estimated that in the | approximately 1,800 generations since | 4,000 . 2,000,000,000,000 people | have lived in the world. It is impos- | sible to state, even as an estimate, the | number of human inhabitants of the | earth since its creation, or, more ac- curately, since the beginnings of human | life, since this has not yet been defi- nitely dated. Q. Is hard coal a form of rock?— D A. Coal is not a rock. It is a black or brownish black solid combustible | mineral substance formed by the par- tial decomposition of vegetable matter, without free access of alr, under the influence of moisture and, in many cases, of increased pressure and tem= perature. Q. What are bar pilots on the Mis- | sissippi River at New Orleans?—S. L. A. They are the persons who pilot ships at the entrance of the Missis- sippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. In | additlon there are river port pilots for | the port of New Orleens and branch ber pilots. Q. What prcportion of the diet of the Chinese is made up of animal | products>—R. C. A. About 1 per cent of the food en= | ergy of the Chinese comes from animal products. About 90 per cent is derived | from grain. Q. Tell something about the ine fluence of American turfmen on British | horse racing—D. D. A. No American horse had ever raced in England until Richard Ten Broeck, in 1856, took a stable across. His great mare Prioress, in a field of 37 starters, ran a dead heat with El Hakim and Queen Bess in the Cesare- | wich, a course 2 miles 2 furlongs and | 28 yards. In the run-off the American horse won by & length in 4 minutes 18 | seconds. From that time on American | turfmen began taking a prominent part |in British racing, among the more | prominent being James R. Keene, | Pierre Lorillard, August Belmont, Riche ard Croker and Clarence Mackay. Q. How long is the Grand Canyong —A. M. | _A. The Grand Canyon of the State | of Colorado has a total length of about | 280 miles from head of Marble Gorge, | near the northern boundary of Arizona, to Grand Wash Cliffs, near the Nevada line. Its most impressibly beautiful rt, 105 miles long, lies within the (g:and Canyon National Park, in North- ern Arizona. The width varies from 5 to 15 miles, while the maximum depth is more than & mile, The char- acteristic portion so often seen in pic- tures is the point near the town of Grand Canyon, Ariz., where the gorge is almost 15 miles from rim to rim. . Does the boll weevil fly at night? Is it attracted by light?>—J. W. A. The boll weevil is entircly help- less and without power of locomotion in its larva stage, when it infests the scales and bolls of cotton plants. In | its adult stage it moves from place to | place by flight and does fly at night as | well as in the daytime. However, the boll weevil, unlike other weevils of the | same group of insects, is not attracted by light and consequently can not be snared in this manner. | Country Keenly Services o in the United States. the court brought wide recognition in the years of his service. His influence in the development of a liberal tradi- tion is placed to his credit as a great jurist. “In many ways he was far in advance of his time and of legal science,” as- serts the Chicago Daily News, adding that “he blazed the way to progressive interpretation of constitutional doc- trines,” and that “he sought to inter- pret and apply legal principles in the light of science, humanity and the changed and chanrging social and eco- nomic conditions.” The Daily News holds that “his intellectual vigor, his picturesque style, his comprehensive scholarship, bis strong personality and his passion for justice and the square deal have won for him the respect and admiration of the Nation, including those who could not always accept his bold and original views.” “He retains in full measure the ad- miration and affection of the American people,” avers the Atlanta Journal, while the Boston Transcript offers the estimate: “He seemed the great con- necting link between the people and that great body of law which meas- urably controls their destiny. His grasp of detail, his painstaking attention to the arguments of counsel were noted in his court, and the common man look- ed to him to strip sophistry of its gar- ments and to render a decision which combined scholarship and exact justice. He was the apotheosis of an intellect trained to service, and giving it to the last ounce. It was his privilege to in- terpret the law in terms of justice and equity, and many of his decisions will stand as a monument to the highest ideals of American jurisprudence.” * Kk K Commending the open mind of Jus- tice Holmes, the San Antonio Express remarks that “many of his utterances from the bench were such dissenting opinions as will live to guide the Nation of tomorrow, with its broader vision and new standards of right,” while the Worcester Telegram holds that “perhaps the most remarkable trait of Justice Holmes was his firm liberality.” The Oakland Tribune testifies that “his | many decisions have lightened burdens, | removed intricacies and uncertainties, and advanced the cause of civilization. { “the Natlon’s regret in losing the se; | its recollection of what he had done in ! his 29 years upon the bench in sup ! port of progressive ideals.” clares the rt Worth Star-Telegram, “because of the devotion with which Justice Holmes supported the cause of human justice, as the great and honor- eble traditions of the Supreme Court are the richer because of his long service there.” The Indianapolis News points out that “he was never outside | the case of good reasoning, but he was never hamstrung by tradition or prece- dent,” while he “spoke his mind with such refreshing cander that his opin- fons commanded x*n'.loml attention.” e | “The country hails him as one of its finest figures, as one of its most useful public servants” according to 2 place on the delegation. In justice to Mr. Baker, it may be sald that he apparently has not the slightest desire to be a candidate any way and that he has done “$vetything he can to dis. courage his candidacy. Retirement of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes from the United States Supreme Court, at the age of 90, Inspires tributes to his qualities from every community His application ot logic to and his considerations of humanity in the legal questions before | Newark Evening News states that “for | The Akron Beacon Journal says that | ice of this great jurist is tempered by “Humanity is in better case” de-’ Appreciates f Justice Holmes the Rochester Times-Union, while the New Orleans Times-Picayune offers the tribute: “He retires, as President Hoo- ver testifies in accepting his resigna. tion, with a ‘sense of devotion and | affection of the whole people’ such as | perhaps no other American has ever | carried with him from public life.” The | 30 years he has sat on the bench of the Nation’s highest tribunal to its honor and enrichment.” The Birming- bam Age-Herald declares: “His spirit, | embodied in decisions so beautifully written, so liberally advanced, will re- | main. 'That is the only compensation for his passage from the scene. As & justice he had come to stand in the public mind for all the things which warrant the Supreme Court's priority in the esteem of the country for mel- lowed wisdom, for a noble tradition and still for hospitality to the demands of an_evolving civilization.” Reviewing the growth of liberal opin- |fon on the Supreme Court, the Des Moines Tribune says of Justice Holmes: | “It will perhaps be many years before | the true significance of this great jur- | ist’s contribution to American law will be adequately realized, but there are few, even today, who would question his title to a place alongide such his- torical legal figures as John Marshall | and John Jay.- A grateful Nation re- | grets the retirement of Mr. Justice Holmes and hopes he may find in his return to private life the way of re- newin_ health.” ] Toilet Articles Found | InMesopotamia Tomb From the Buffalo Evening News. . An archeological expedition which is operating in Mesopotamia for the University of Pennsylvania, reports the opening of a tomb dating from 5000 B. C, in which it found a bronze mir- ror, a perfume bottle and a complete |cet of articles for applying face | makeup. These may appear to be trivial things to interest scholars. They reveal, nev- ertheless, a stage of society having the wealth and luxury which demanded such aids to beauty and the artisanship to manufacture them. The theory that | the present stage of civilization is the product of an unbroken evolution has been badly shaken by the work of the archeologists in the last half century. They are penetrating a new fleld of antiquity, however, if they are uncov- ering a world of 7000 years ago, in which people of the present ddy would | not have felt out of place. ——— - Purer Helium Hailed As Boon to Aviation Tom the San Antonio Evening News. Bureau of Mines lately published, {from its Amarillo laboratory, an item | which may have considerable bea: | on lighter-than-air fying development, | Experimenters there produced heltum 99.96 per cent pure. The Gas.Was obe tained at the rate of 50,000 cubfe feet a day, and the report says that the method promises to be commercially valuable. Before the Amarillo :plant was opened the Government was con- tent with 96 per cent pure heltum for | its dirigibles. "The West Texas product | has averaged 97.8 pure for- two and | one-half years, and during 1931 its quality did not drop below 98 per cent, | " Aeronautical engincers say that s 1 | per cent increase in heltum purity wiil increase the Lfting power of the aire ship Akron by two tons. Then the Amarillo gas is more effective by four tens than that previcusly available, Now that a process for turning out vip sl T B e n’ deve! be expected. ““