Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1932, Page 8

THE, EVENING With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. April 1, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Edito r| The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Susiness Office 11th St and Penniyivania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd St Office: Lake Michigan Building. o uropean Office’ 14 Regent M. London, n Rate by Carrier vening Star Sunday Siar vs) hin the City. 45c per month 60c per 65¢ per month montk | { unda; and Sunday Star ndavs) | ders may be sent in by mail or telephone Ational 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. fiv and Swnday... 1yr. 31080 1 mo. B ?:nv only Sr.. $8.90° 1 mo. 50c | unday only 151 3400 1 mo. 4 AN Other States and Canada. jly and Sunday 31900 1 mo.. $1.00 Aily only 5 unday only $800: 1 mo. sc 359 1 mo. S0c Member of the Associated Press. The Associnted Precs is exc 1o the ise ‘or repubiication of il news di Patches credied fo it or not othereise red- ited in this paper and also the locel news | published herein All rishts of publication of special dispatches herein are alro reserved e Arms Limitation and Invention. dred years ween arms | 11 Iy ertitted | For nearly twenty-three 8 battle has been waged ard armor in naval warfare. Methods of resisting d d egainst ships were succes v [clloved by in- crease in the penctrative power of show folloved in turn by improvements in the coatings applied to warcraft to ward off the blows directed against them. The earliest efforts to protect the sea fighters from the onslaught of the enemy are attributed to Archimides, who, about 250 B. C., devised mats of ropes sus- pended by brass chains for the preserva- tion of the racusah” of King Hiefo. That was virtually the beginning of a competition that has not vet ended The most recent contribution to this succession of missile-resisting armor and armor-penetrating missiles is just snnounced at London. British scien- tisis have produced a new type of pro- jectile that 1s capable of piercing twelve inches of the latest type of armorplate at a range of ten miles in one two- hundredth of a second. ‘This disclosure comes at a time when international conferences are in prog- ress for the reduction of armaments. The makers of combative and defensive materials have not ceased their eh- deavors to make war more deadly. Lab- | oratories are continuihg to find lethal gases of greater potency and certainty mis i STAR {Cunerd eould no longer, on its own|them. If they are Wise they will pro- resources, finance the project. British government aid, the management rep- resented, is reguired, if the great vessel is to be completed. Another sign of the drab shipping times is the “week end cruises” which half empty or two-thirds empty liners reached this side. By means of allur- ing rates and even more alluring de-tinations in less erid climes h the Caribbesn or other regions not far from America’s prohidiloh shores, | large and profitable business whs done during the past year and a half. It! s of ’n.nn-" atlantic traffic, but it has mo2de the balance sheet less red in spots. | It remains to be seen whother A twenty per cent cut in fi'st and second | cleas fares and a ten rer cent slash in third-class rates will meterially M‘-‘ cre: trancoceonic travel. The big money has never lain in fivst-class pas sages. It s the old steerage, mow | camouflaged as “third-class,” and, ;m-nm that generally paid the steam- | commission has been lenient with the ship lines' once fat dividends. The | Cunard yesterday took the lead in an- |no more nouncing that third-class fares wmudi 2lso be reduced twenty per cent, along with & cimilar cut in first-class pas- | seges. This puts the Cunarders on an! equal footing with the American lines, which are entitled to the credit of | ating the bergain season now ahend of the globa-trotting community. As matiers now riznd, (ne cen cress tite Atlantie in £n . for litle as %5430, or the rourd ttip. That would sem to re- move all excuse for putting off any | 3 s'eamer $116 for !longer the realization bt the average ican citi#>n 1§ Awake to the need of of- American’s ambition to see Burope. R Parade-Stopping Technique. “The newspaper Accounts were im- mensely exaggerated,” the Commis- sioners have informed the American Civil Liberties Unioh, Answering that organization's protest Against “the use l | of excessive violence” in quelling mg“mnney demonstration at the Japanese em~J bassy. “There were ne women struck. | ‘There were nho heads broken. No one wes khocked unconscious. The one | woman was knocked to the ground be- cause while struggling with Sergt Langley another rioter jumped on | Bergt. Langles’s back and he lost his | ference in Europe there will not be ! balance and fell over the girl. News- paper photographers insisted that she remaln in & prone position while a photograph was made, yelling, ‘Hold it; don't get up.’ ™ | What constitutes “excessive violence” | is a matter of opinionh, ahd, in this case | | have been concucted by most of the | Public | European shipping lines, after their | throughout the field of public uti'ities THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 1. 1932 ceed promptly to seclre the hecessary off-street spaces for terminals, and thus be prepared to obey the orders of the comimission in good faith and in seasoh. ‘The disposition te resist the orders of the District Commissioners and the Utilities Commission preévails BY CHARLES K. A magnificent old volume on birds, | flled to the brim with hand-colored | ‘usirations, went to the bookbinders ihe other day to get new covers, the old ohes being dog-eared afier & hundred | years of sérvice. and services. Hearings are held and the conditicns are fully discussed and rea- s nab'e rcquirements are frimed, for the book whi s en- Beneht of the public welare, AN |goraPiiel ey Tk cbaemtione and almost without exception appeals ar¢ happy the owners thereof, Wwhoever taken fo the courts or resistance is) they may be, for themyg{ mew:f ;M manifested, with belated and reluctant | ET€Atest Jovs of the booklover, Who has wany joys. compliance, sometimes with de'ays that The care of books is akin to the care cannot be adequately penalized. A co- | Of other worth-while articles, but with opérAtive spirit should prevail rather | this difference—that there usually is Iéss that may be done to them and for { than this disposition to resist and ignore | them. Wrat should be done, however, | is essential. ! Toe average booklover is the veriest amateur in the repair of book . and perhaps it is just as well that he is for then he will turn his injured v umes over to these who make & busi- ness of such work. Toere are certain things whi.h may be done by any one. how.ver, to keep the home libraty in shape. Funda- trental, of course, is the proper piace to keep them. Usually this resolves itself into the question of closed cases or open shelves, Each hus its good points. Caces with glass doors undoubtedly | keep books better, shielded from the | | effects of wet weather in Summer and the excessively dry air of Winter. Less dust gets to them. The open shelves have the advantage of being more 1 “booky” in appearance, and this is no small thing, indeed, to & “booky” person. While it is true that most books the requirements. There should be no extension of time for the clearance of the busses from the s reet terminals. On the first of August ten months will have elapsed ince the orders of the commissioh were issued, mample time f-r every line to secure guitable mccommodations. The bus companies. Now there shouid be toleration for cbstructive toctics. The streets must be cleared of the standing busses, which block traffic, induce accidents and expose the patrons of the lines to danger. ——e—s Tammany, absolute in its own do- main, 18 again regarded as viewing the na.ional sitwaticn with extended aspi-' printod” and bound nowadays will ab- ratios. The desive for power is as sorb water and bow up in wet weather, lmitléss A% It wes in the classic ume:”?!\' sq"lll_v will x|l\1 ié u;u again when which révealed truth as well as poetry. | i I8 @53, b0 WAL Ih the long run they 2 — other. Most of this may be overcome h open cases by seeing to it that the books are fitted into their places rather tightly. A little juggling of the vol- umes when putting thein into open shelves will insure each book having snug fit, so that the tendency toward bowing is overcome by the firmness with which the book is held in its place By the volumes on éither side of it. ok Another simple Wway of keeping a Book from getting a permanent bend in its covers, always unsightly to the eye {of a real friend of books, is to keep it with other books lying on tep of it. Republican goologists insist that white | [0 1s 107 the book which one is xead” a wild jeckass may run faster, he # hot hate no special Interest in books may as reliable in following the eours s i feel that this attitude is & mere finicki- the old elephant. ness. but it s a common attitude among ——e— In Aceepting heavier taxes the Amér- fering A8 Much work as possible, o M to assist more people to assist In pay- ing them. Publieation of market quotations is again permitted in Germany. There! are Stonomists who insist that even speculation has its value M heiping to circulation. booklovers, to whom no phase of what a book is, or may do, or may be, is too small for consideration. It is this very attention to small details which makes 2 man a booklover. The common habit of placing a book on a table by an open window and allowing it to remain there all night elmost invariably results in a bewed back, which at once is unsightly and @isagreeable. Often such book backs Bow out it both sides, thé front cover to the left hand and the right cover to the right, so that the reader almost When Andrew Mellon goes into eon- 50 MANY réporters present as at Geneva. The intérchanges will be none the less | influential ahd significant. ——— Suspicion that kidnapers are imper- sonated with designs of hi-jacking & ransom @iscredits another proverb, and at the same time to perfect means | something that must be settled between | Honor Among thieves” is mostly myth- | feels & if he is trying to read a ball. of resistance against this form of on- slaught. Arms makers are inventing ' guns that will fire a greater number of shots in a minute than were ever fired before, and with greater range and ef- | fectiveness, with a reduction of weapon | weights to permilt the arming of assault | or shock troops with them. International agreements on the score of reéducticns of arms do not include suspension of experiments. The num- bers of battleships and auxiliaries may be reduced, but the endeavors of the scientists and manufacturers persist to make more efficient those that are permitted by treaty to be maintained, and there is no hope that they can ever be checked. Airships of greater and still greater range of operation and capable of conducting offensive oper- ations are being developed, while weapons for their resistance and de- struction are being sought and pro- duced. The aboliticn of war as a means of settling disputes is earnestly desired by | humanity, but the search for weapons | and means of defense continues ih a paradoxical accompaniment of this en- deavor. It has been declared that “the | next war” will be so terrible in its destructiveness that the world will be a shambles, over a wider area than ever before known. It is this prospect that impels the peoples of all nations to hope | for relief, and yet the process of | preparation for that catastrophe con- tinues. i Distrust of the good faith of even' those nations that are foremcst in the endeavor to find a dependable, lasting formula of peace keeps the laboratories and the mills at work in the race be- | tween the agencies of attack and of de- | fense. “Preparedness” is said to be| the surest protection against Wl\llt.‘ | he Civil Libarties Union and the police. But the Commissiohets, one fears, resort to techniealities when they attempt w‘i hold the “immensely exaggerated” ac- counts by the newspapers to blame | for the public’s impression of what | took place in front of the Japanese ombassy. Whether the womian was | knocked to the ground when sem.i Lanhgley unfortunately Jost his balance, | or whether, as tersely described by & | photographer, she was kicking & police- man who then ‘“clocked her” is of no great moment. Certainly nothing h’ demonstrated by the fact that some photographer yelled “Hold it: don't get up!” Photographers vell “Hold it!" under all conditions. It is the battle; cry of the clan. 1t is more interesting here to examine | the technique of the police in stopping this demonstration. Capt. Kelly, with | some eightéén policemen &nd possibly twenty plain clothesmen lined up along | the curb, first asked the leaders of th | parade if they had a permit, warning | them that without a permit they couid | not parade. Capt. Kelly, having de- | Itvered this ultimatum, then stood aside. | The paraders were allowed to proceed | twenty feet—twenty feet, apparently, | marking the difference between a pa- | tade and & non-parade. At a sighal, the eighteen policemen and the score of | plain clothesmen thén waded in and | began snatching banners and banner- | bearers. Reporters say the policemen used their fists and their ni[hhlk‘k.{‘ and that the sound of the tattoo of nightsticks Was & most impressive | sound. They may have exaggerated. | But at another signal fifty policemen. | cleverly hidden in the Basement of the | Japanese embassy, émerged from tem- | porary seclusion and arrived en the| scene in a manner reminiscent of { to be selling. ‘The sensible book owner, 8§ distin- guished from the borrower, will make a habit of inspeeting the tovers of his newer books, with an eye for their de- ficlencies in this respect; and if they give promise of being of poor stuff, not thick enough for standing alone, he should put them at the bottom of his current pile, not on top. This bit of thoughtfulness will insure him a flat book at all times. Dusting books periodically will help keep them in good conditien. Such dustifig_includés a thorough going ever | of the floors and sides and backs of the cases, whether glassed or open. All booklovers know that the best way te dust a book I8 to opén the covers and then clap them together vigorously, thus knecking the dust out of them by shéer impact. Then & wiping of the tops and bindings with cheesecloth puts them in condition for another half year. # .k N All this is merely preliminary care of good books. If one is finicky about his library. large or small. it will have & much better chance of attaining old age Without suffering anv_ of the in- Juries whieh Aré more difficult to re- ' ical. SRR S The number of objections to a sales tax has beeh reduced by making thém largely depenid on what & man happens r——— His recent endeavors will at least enable Mr. La Guardia to claim récog- nition among his constituénts as an indefatigable statesman. ———— Remarkable ingenuity has been dis- plaved in setking some legal means of taxing beverages which leghlly do not exist. L T Inereased thxes will be of immedi- ate Assistance in showing would-be hoardérs a way to put any sparée change into useful eireulation. — e Renewed effort is made by Trotéky to encourag® Russia in the expériment of having & government eonductéd by the book agents of the late Karl Marx. T e By way of stimulating industry this year, Bummer vacations will be abso- lutely barréd to the skilled workmen of both gréat political parties. r————— ‘When Mr. Garner decided to be & Speaker in faet as well as in title he found an impressive array of good lis- tenert A¥aiting him. By all the sighs of the political zodiac, | the stop-Roosévelt Movement has itself been stopped. With Georgia, Iows, | Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Washington and Maine in camp, the New York Governor has 130 pledged delegates. including six from the territories. Kentucky's 26 are es good as in the bag. The grand total represents only & round fifth of the two- | thirds (770) majority Roosevelt will re- | quire in the Démocratic convention, but his nomination already is accounted ss | sure as anything in politics can be. Even Tammany Leader Curry's cryptic statement that “New York doésn’t want to hog things in 1932 with its anti- Roosevelt suggestion, fails to under- mine politicians’ belief that the Governor will win in & walk. Complimentary votes for faverite sons are all that now | e SHOOTING STARS. 8Y PRILANDER JORNBON. Better Days. Heard about old Satan An' the darkness that he done, We're A-satehin’ waitin® Por the thinin' of the suf, | hours. A | the pages, beginni The fundamental evil lies in the fact | Blucher at Waterloo. ‘They joined the | that defensive preparedness is com- | peaceful but persistent eflorts of the | petitive and a breeder cf suspicion. | olq guard—the original eighteen police- Every such sdvance in potential offen- | men and twenty plain elothesmen—in | sive warfare such as the invention of ypholding law and order. # shell that will plerce the stoutest and| Tne reporters, it is true, may have | thickest armor induces & COUNIer | oyapgerated the detal’s. But with the advance in protection, lest an advantage | . p.ctacle before them of bobbing night- will rest with the latest development. sticks, bloody noses, flying fists and Arms limitation, to be actually effective, | (,me a8 policemen mixing it with a must include the suspension of experi- | erowd of 200 demonstrators, theg must ments, and that is contrary to human'pot be blamed too severely if such | Dajue. | terts as “broken heads" and “knocked BT T R ' | uhconsclous” crept into their aecounts A tax on matches can hardly be, ,n4 tne lady, prone on the pavement, resented. They were so cheap that wes rather convinelng photographic tobacco users were already turning to evidence thst somebody got violent, re- more expensive and elaborate devices co qiees of whether she was “holding for lighting cigars and cigarettes. {56+ as & oec. | Thive lay the 1647, = S | But it is believed that next time it Sensible .prrscns M expeciec W re.l"ould be better not to hide the shock gard April 1 as a day of reminder| fO0C T Th L T N While 1t is that practical joking is & nuisance that | good military strategy to have reserves ds gone on ot always on hand, the duty of the police R should be to prevent pitched battles, Herring Pond Bargains. not to stage them. A proper show of It is going to be bargain day every | yength in the beginning, And less em- day from now on, as far as the Atlantic | jragis on twenty-foot ulttmatums might ©cean is concerned. All the great help. steamship lines in the North Atlantic| eonference agreed at Brussels vesterday to'reduce passenger farss 20 per cent, | in consonance with a similar cut by| American shipping companies An other meeting 1is scheduled for this month, at which eurtailment of sailings and the numbers of liners in service s expected to be considered. Both rate slashes and reduction in sailings are dictated by tbe lipping industry’s Eealization that they are demanded by the grave falling off in ocean travel. The navigation companies are keep- ing step with the general trend toward e Priends of Speaker Garner see no reason why so large & State as Téxas should not have a presidential candidate onee in & while R Bus Terminals. At the eleventh hour the intefstate bus companies doing business in the District eomplied with the order of the Public Utilities Commission to vacate their terminals in the congested area of the Capital, an order issued, after public hearings, more than six months ago. Satan kep' &-goin’, Me was busy day an’ night. He's recéntly been showin’ That hé #n’ feelin’ right. The old man’s gettin’ dizzy On 4 job he doesn't like. He says he's kép' too busy An’ he's goin’ on a strike. Change of Mind. “Do you ever change your mind?” “New and then,” answered Senator| Sorghum. | “Do you ever apologize for dolng s6?" | “Certamly mot. In my opinion & man | who never changes his mind 15 likely | to be one of those chaps Who aré capa- ble of having only one idea in a life- time.” look like preventing Roosevelt's selection | on the first ballot. The time has ar- | rived when you hear the old saw that ' you can't beat somebody Wwith nobody. | Nobody, in other words, is in sight who | at present has & Chinaman's chance of | overttaking Roosevelt. His bandwagon is in rampant progress. Henceforward the effort to get aboard it may be ex- pected to résémble a stzmpede. Few doubt that Tammany will be found en | the front seat when the time comes, whooping it up all along the line fot | the third New York Democratic nominee in succession within eight yesrs. Davis (in 1924) having been u West Virginian from Long lsland. | - x kAR | It anybody hed any doubt what the Republicans’ “Lne” s going to be in the impending presidentinl unpleasant- fiess, Senator Dickinson of fowa, gave | the show away in his recent radio ad- | | dress lambasting the collapse of Demo- cratic leadership in the House. The wkeye Republiean farm leader paint- | Jud Tunking says nobody 3 goin' to be 50 partieular ad to stop and figure on the tax ¢harged on what he eats ed & horrendous picture of what things | wotld be like at Washington if the eountry shoul put 4 Demoeratic ad- ministration in office next March. | THIS AND THAT . TRACEWELL. pair. These include torn pages, dog. eared covers, covers which pull away from the back, backs Which split or are split. pages which come loose, etc. One coes not have to be & booklover to remedy these defects, alth there are several books available which wi help him go at sweh problems intelli- ntly. Common sense often achieves t which more bpecific knowledge dares not atteémpt. Torn pages, for in: stance, may be “fixed” by the applica- tion of & eut sheet of transparent paper to the tear. The booklover will have to try various papers and glues before he hits upon the exact combination which will sult his temper. Often the best remedy for & torn page is to let it alone. The application of the wrong sort of | adhesive or paper makes a bulky place which is always in sight. This tends to spoil the enjoyment of the owner in ! his book. In many cases his eye will not be attracted to the tear unless he hap- pens to open the at that exact So the best remedy will be to let the place remain torn and to forget abuut it ‘The dog-eared cover, as it is called, is another bad task. Here, too. discre- tion is the better part of valor. The remedying of this fault often comes within the province of the professional Wookbinder and maker, and wise is the buoklovéer who lets his dog-tared covers alone. The blunting of corners ix, after all, not such a terrible fault in a book; often it takes on a homely, almost sym- pathetic look and causes no oné any particular worry. If the blow has dai ed the corner so that it is in two| parts, the application of & good, quick- drying glue will remedy the mat Covers which pull away from the back may result from poor manufacture, old age or careless handling. especially by juniors. In any event they causé a book to betome unsightly and unsatisfactory to handle. ‘This situation may be remediéd Wwith surprising ease by o more arduous work than giving the open back & good coat of glue—on the in- side, of course—and then clamping the covers shut tightly and permitting them to remain that way for at least 24 way to keep the covers s to twine soft cord around theth. This cord must be rather large, else it will cut into the binding. It should be Wrapped around carefully and tightly, the aim being nld the book as in & vise. 1If the gle one uses is first class, when the book is finally opened its covers and back will be ab- solutely integral, and the owner will never know that there was anything wrong with his book. Care must be exerciséd, however, in first opening it, in order not to split the baek. This brings us to one of the ugliest of book. faults—the split back, usually caused by someé careless réader who grabs books as if they were made of iron and makes & practice, though un- conscious, of forcibly bending back the covers “to make the pages lie " Sueh handling will make the pages lie fiat. all right, but at the shme time it | will chuse an ugly crack to appear from the top to the bottom of the page where the sheets are sewed together and then glued to the backbone. Nothing causes so much woe to the booklover a8 to watch some enthusiastic person forcibly seize one of his prize volumes and thoughtlessly break its back fof no purpose at All or without any real interest in the book. This wight is 4lso the one who insists on shuffling through thé pages with fingers periodically moistened with saliva. “And nothing can b done hbout it,” as Webster says. ‘The best way to handle 8 split back. a8 it is called, is to caréfully bend back at either side of the split, first pressing down ohe page to the left, then Another to the right, and 5o on, first one Way and then the other. Bometimes this will tend to make the split less noticeable. To at- tempt to glue the pages together in order to hide the crack is futile. In the mratter of split books the best prac- tice is to hide the book when one sees & careless person approaching. If it cannot be done, send up a silent prayer to the god of books and hope for the best. It is always well to keep a showy book of some sort nearby where it will be easily seen, one with plenty of pic- tures. to attract the Attention of the back-breaker. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS RY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Speaking of powers behind thrones, there's a suggestion that some of the fiscal inspiration which propelled Rep- resentative La Guardia's tax ht in the House came from former Senator Robert L. Owen, Democrat, of Okla- homa. La Guardia could go farther and do worse—as some of his enemies are persuaded that he will before he gets through. At any rate, while the revenue bill insurgents were kicking up their heels in the House, “Bob" Owen was frequently seen in their vi- cinity and could be observed in occa- sional lobby pow-wows with the black- haired little Napoleon from Manhat- tan. Owen, who I8 proud of his Indian blood, is one of the charter members of the I-Am-the-Author-of-the-Pederal- Reserve-Act Club. 2o NN John Owen, for 16 years the colored messenger of the Washington bureau of the New York Times, has followed his chief, Richard V. Oulahan, to the Great Beyond. “Doubtless,” says the Times in"an editorial eulogy of Owen, “that is the way ‘Old John’ rl'l.:hed to go. In him existéd more than e the old South. Rare, old-fashioned courtesy, graciousness, dignity and in- Legrity elévated his humble services, ‘Nature’s gentleman' may bé an over- worked phrase. but it belenged to John Owen, & black man With & heart of old.” x X X x Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, who recently returned to the United States| from a trip to London for the marriage of her son, Prince William of Sweden, barrates & diverting experience at Ellis Island. Once upon a time there was some question about her re-enty rights, id she was put through & mild form of third degree. An immigration official registered perplexity over theé fact that the Romanoff princess hadn’t had any ofters of during thrse years’ résidence in this gallant land. He ex- for supper when he ought to be sayin’| Dickinson cut a somewhat ludicrous |pressed an urgent desire to know how grace. Postal Values. A 2-cent stamp ere long will be Marked up so that it sellt for 3. And many 4 letter, we'll confess, I8 worth 14 & cent, or less. Inexcusable. “That man was very rude,” said the songster to the hostéss. “In What way?” “When you introduced me as a crooner, he sakd ‘I'm & coroner. Hope to see you again.’ “As She world grows older,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “the peéople learn many things, including new ways of making the old mistakes.” figure in shedding crocodile tears over Democratic mishaps in the House, be- cause only a féew hours beforé he broadcast, Speaker Qarner recovered | the ball and has been racing across the feld ever since to a budget-balancing touchdown. The Demeocrats wel knockdown and dragout on “leader- ship.” What they're preparing to tell the country about G. O. P. “leader- | | ship” since 1929 will make Dickincon’s diatribe sound almest like a eulogy. | 2 o Most of the bankers who are hootin; and shooting at Senater Carter Ghs:' banking bill are believed to be aimin, abbed Lot pocs Do ths power d the Glass throme. ‘The invidible influence is sald to be H. Parker Willis, re- nowned New York econemist. Though several statesmen lay claim to suthor- ship of the 1 net, Willis 18 widely reputed to be the man who actually wrote it. He bécame the Re- ome & | Jower prices manifest throughout the Plenty of time was given tothe companies to rearrange their routes and provide terminals and, with a few exceptions, they failed to move to secure new sta- tions, most of them, faced With the al- ternative of penalties, waiting until the world of commmodities ‘They are forced to the recognition that the re- duced incomes of most members of the traveling public call for decreased fares if transatlantic passenger business 45 not to fall into complete decay.|last day of the period of grace befor~ Since 1929 it has been steadily end|acting. They are now ocnfronted wiih slmost disastrously hit. The proud |the necessity of another move, to secure Cunard Line, as a case in point, had | off-street terminals within the second suddenly to cease building operations | congested district by the first of Au- on its fabulous new 75000-ton grey-|gust. The question is whether they will hound—Britain’s bid for the oceanic!pursue the same tacties and refrain lost to Germany through the tmmhfihd.‘fim /and the Buvopa—becangs the elese four-movih Period greed Selling a Sales Tax. A style of tax they proffered Which they said was something new. We glanced at what was offered And deelared it wouldn't do. ‘They ripped it inte pleces, Oalling each & Jate design. Admiration now increases, A$ we say that they are fine. serve Board's first secretary, and later was its director ef research and con. economist. Since He has been at for Glass' elbow practically ever since the inception of the bl now arotring such furious contreversy. One of the caustic eurrent eriticlsms of the Senator, whose patriotic intent and financial acumen are not challenged, is that he has been “intel vie- timised body.” said Unele Even. * It 18 gefierally Wiiltn' %0 Reve Ge erap shosta o %. Hogver Sec- “I don't want ne advantage ever no- come. Finally the Grand Duchess turned interrogator. “Aré you mar> ried?” she asked the immigration of- ficer. He blushingly stammered that he was still unentangled. Thereupon the merry Marie popped at him ell, would you marry me?” As soon as the affrighted functionary recovered con- sciousness the Grand Duchess was sent on her way rejoicing, her papers O.K.'d. She is now on a transcontinental lec- ture tour. ¥ n American cities have a lot to learn about traffic regulation frem London and Paris. Those banes of modern ex- istence—traffie lqhu——.n virtuslly, un- Enown in Europe's biggest cities, They Reep their mighty streams of sutomo- biles flowing ‘almest exclusively by hu- man means—by the upraised arms of their extraordinarily competent police- men. Here and thers tral n‘:u are used at street ini , but the British “bebby” and his Parisian coun- terpart are the lads who really do the trick. Paris has a new police foree of young men, averaging 28 or 30 years | of age. Smartly uniformed and capped. | they look for all the world like & band | of brothers of Mauriee Chevalier in his | soldier kit. ©f eourse, what minly helps regulate traffie “over thers" 18 | universal respect fof the law. The cop in the middle of the European street persontfies that Louis of France who said: “I am the state” People in motor cars comport themselves accord- * X . R. Grant, president of B T would have! surface qualities of the Negro of | ]Indonel Strawn’s Views On Debts and Reparations To the Bditor of The Star: In a recent isswe of your paper I no- ticed the report of a speech by Silas Strawn, chairman of the American Com- mittee of the International Chamber of Commerce, made in Berlin and de- nouncing the evil effects of war debts and reparations. I should like to raise my voice in support of Mr. Strawn. The Wime has come for the world to | quit kidMing itself and }ok the facts in the faee, especially this matter of what to @ with war debts amd reparations. They must be settled, for the simple that they have completely broken down and dragged the entire business of the world with it. The for- ! | Lausanne this June and attempt to se {tle reparations, prcbably by means of a big reduction.’ That will be the time for the United States to settle its war | debts with these former allies. Not as a | matter of sentiment, but as a matter of sane business. For these debts can never be really paid. Those debts can be paid only with gold, goods or services. They total 1$22,000.000,000 (with interest) the world's gold couldn't pay half that! Services we certainly do not need— shipping, for instance. Goods we do not Want (witness our tariff), and will not take. Yet goods is the only means left our debtors to pay. Therefore, we will not accept payment in the only they have thus far paid, they frst borrowed to pay back as war debt in- stallments. This added principal and interést up over and over again. No wonder we all fell into the depression! The dog who chases his own tail has nothing on us! Let's settle the whole thing this Fall and give the world a chance for a | merrier Christmas next year! Many of your recders must feel the same way. I hope they will say so in no uncertain tones! JAMES F. LOKAN. New York City. ———— Classed With Insane, Sightless Man Objects To the Editor of The Star: It is my habit to listen in during the evening, when the local broadcasting begins. I am & sightless man and my yrofe-lon frequently leaves that time ree. The other night I was both sur- prised and shocked at the speech cf Hon. Hamilton Fish, jr, of the Houze of Representatives, on the OM Age Pension. I feel that the educated sightless people of the District, and of the Nation, will agree with me in my ob- Jjections to being classed with idiots, diseased and insane. It seems to he the Congressman's idea to scramble them all together and dump them on the scrap heap. A person s physically sound, highly educated and thoroughly capable; he loses his eyesight, and at once is supposed to become physically & weakling and mentally an imbecile. The Government will spend thousands those who became sightless and then rest on the oars and let them float o drown, as the case may be. Why Because of this ignorant attitude of ‘ hd deficient mental action I wish to go on record s objecting {in & superlative degree, to that portion of the speech which states that the blinded, crippled, diseased and insane !should be dumped together into &n | “Institution” than which no worse | sentence could be passed upon any healthy, educated, mentally alert and thoroughly capable and respectable sightless perscn—and most of them are all that, FRENCH S. HUFTY, b . mac East Poto Liéhls To the Editor of The Star I made suggestion recently that a great economy eould be effected by closing the two roadways entering East Potomac Park at the railway bridges during the Jate night hours in Winter, at the same time discontmuing opeta- tion of the hundreds of lights from near these entrances to Hains Point. This part of the park is deserted on Winter nights, so that there would be no_deprivation to the public. East Potomac Park i85 accessible practically only by auto, and eclosing these road entranges would keep all persons from the area so that there would be no need for its illumination The operation of these lights prob- mbly costs $25 each per year, and the aggregate saving by the measure pro- posed would smount to thousands of dollars. It has been argued that there is a tendency to prelong the illumination of the tn{‘ streets as a police measure, but this should Fave no bearing on the present proposal. evilly disposed persons would gain sc- cess to the park after closi of the read entrances and turning % of the lights, then there has been great risk in allowing the golf courses there to go unilluminated. Asnother place where money s appears to me, is along Chain Bridge road, where lights seem to be at closer intervals than on Washington's streets generally. There would be no sacrifice in traffic safety or police benefit by omission of alternate lights in this stretch of road. One of the poles is set out in the roadway, making & dan- gerous obstruction ‘We should guard against the exces- sive fattening of the city ego, involving tect itself to an extreme degree. with ultimate loss to the rural element of the population, and also making the wage of the city laborer worth less to bim. H. L. WOODWARD. »——— Train Radio Service Old, Says Gillilan To the Editor of The Star In an editorial on Tuesday, very justly commending the enterprise of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for its broadcasting from a moving train. the prediction was ventured that it might | be possible some day for passengers to Iride along on the train and get the broadeasting from various stations. Bless your soul, that has been going on for many, many years. 1 have been tuning in on broadcast programs while riding cn fast traing for as much as 10 years. are even using radio as a signaling device between caboose and engineers on freight trains. That is old, old stuff, having trains equipped —even day coaches, as on the better trains—with a receiving set so that to at the time can be easily and clearly received. Very truly yours, STRICKLAND GILLILAN. r—os — “United States Avenue” Proposed for 16th Street To the Editor of The Star: I often think, while admiring the magnificent development of our beauti- ful city, of & suggestion that 1 made some years ago and which I beg to urge again, namely, that Sixteenth street, the great handsome avenue uniting the north and south, be called United States avenue. ‘That name seems to me to be so eminently appropriate in every way that I venture to hope that it will be seri- ously considered and adopted. E. E. HAYDEN, Rear Admiral U. 8. N, Retired. . The Sun Doesn’t Shine. Prom the Bosion Evoning Trapscript Alfalia Bill apparently can make no hay m North Dakota. able weapons and maehine guns into the new tax bill. He thinks that if deaf équipment nt! n-;:; er mllies in Furope will get together at | All| form in which they can make it! Whflt‘ of dcllars to readjust the conditions of | sighted people with wagging tongues | Declared Wasteful | 17 it is thought that | wasted in unnecessary illumination, it | a determination to decorate and pro- ! whatever station the train is nearest | Thousands of Government experts are working constantly for the benefit of all citizens of the United States. They will work directly for you if you will use our Washington Bureau. This news- paper employs Mr. Haskin to act as an agent for its readers. He will take your matter to the proper authority. State your inquiry briefly, write clearly, and, inelosing 2-cent stamp for a personai letter in reply, address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Prederick J. Has- kin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. How many miles of airway are | there in the United States—G. L. B A The network of air transportation iln the United States aggregates 30.000 | miles of fairways. American air lines inow link the United States with 34 | countries in the Western Hemisplicre Approximately 20000 miles of air trans- port routes in other countries are trav- eled by planes under the American flag Gorgas put in sanitation in the Panama > E. G Q When was Gen | charge of Canal Z« . G. A. He was appointed chief sanitary officer at Panama in 1904, and was largely instrumental in eliminating yel- low fever as well as controlling malaria. In 1907 he was a member of the Jsih- mian Canal Commission. Q. What are the dimensions of a Dh;g-po‘nc able?—C. A. 8. jciation says that the ping-pong table jfor tournament play shall have = smooth, level, rectangular top playing | surface, 9 fect long and 5 feet wide, of |5-ply or solid consiruction, stained or ! painted a dull, dark green, with a white | line not les n three-eighths nor more than three-quarters of an inch | wide painted lengthwise down its cen- ter. and a white Line not less than one- half nor more than three-quarters of an inch wide painted on its outside edge. The table may be of either the authorized folding or solid design, the top playing surface of. which, When erected for play, shall be 30 inches above the floor. Q. Mow many slaves were freed b, the Emancipation Proclamation?—H. C. z /4 A. The number of slaves affected by the Emancipation Proclamation has been estimated at 1.600,000. | or William and Mary>—R. C A, Harvard University is the oldest | institutton of its kind in the United | States. The first building was erected lin 1 by Nathaniel Eaton. Therefore this is the oldest school in the New England section as well as in the United | States as a whole. The second oldest | college founded in the United States 1 {the College of William and Mary at | Williamsburg. Va., founded when Vir-| ‘ginh was still a colony in 1693, | @ Is there such a thing as red snow?—N. D. A. Red snow is found in meany places, among them the Forbidden { Plateau, on_Vancouver Island, British ! Columbia. It is due to the presence of innumerable microscopic plants. Q. Please give the name of a pop- ular_inland lake resort in Argentina.— N. 8. 5 A. The most Xmmlnem inland lake and resort in Argentina is Nahuel- (Huapi, which is the largest of a group |of high Andean Valley lakes in the | southwest corner of the tefritory of the | Neuquen in western Argentina. name Nahuel-Huapi means “Lion | Grass” in the native -dialect of that The American Ping-Pong Asso- | Q. Which coliege is older, Harvard | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. | region. The lake is mearly 50 milés |long from east to west, and about 20 | miles from north to south at its widest part. There is a very popular resort cailed also Nehuel-Huapi at the eastern end of the lake Q. What is the insignia for shoulder loops of Army chaplains?—W. C. A. Christian chaplains wear a silver Latin cross, 1 inch in height, and those who are Jewish wear a double tablet bearing Roman numerals from 1 to 10, surmounted by two equilateral triangleg interlaced, all silver, 1 inch in height. Q. Is an elevator used in Quebee to set Irom Upper Town to Lower 2 —G. A. There is an escalator hear the Chateau Frontenac Q. How i a codicil added to & will? A.C.C. A. A codicil to a Wwill requires pre- cisely the same procedure s the main body of the document. That is, it must be in writing, signed by the testator, or At his direction and in his presence, wit- messed by two credible witnesses, who must sign their names and addresses in the presence of the testator and of each other. With this formality any simple statement may be added to the main body of the will. A declaration should be made that these later provi- sions are in addition to the above pro- visions, Q. What would become of the Ger- man war debts if Hitler were to win in the run-off election’>—R. C. E. A. The Hitler program includes a repudiation of the war debts and re- fusal to make the reparations or fulfill v\l:xc rnfldmnns imposed by the Treaty of ersailles. Q. Upon what basis is the center of population figured?—G. K. P. A. The term, center of population, as used by the Census Bureau, is that point which may be considered as the center of gravity of the United States; in other words, the point upon which the United States would balance, if it | were a rigld plane without weight and | the population distributed thereon, with each individual being assumed to have SIS central point praportiomal b5 s on a central point | distance from the point. Q. Was the term philately coined by | stamp_collectors?>—L. T. . A A French stamp collector named H("r-gln is credited with making this word In 1865. It was coimed from Greek words and means “the love of study of all that concerns prepayment,” the Jove of stamps. Q. What is meant by a pollarded | tres>—D. W A. The crown of the tree has been removed to promote the growth of a dense head of foliage. e, Q. How many marriages and di- vorces were there in the United States in 1930°—J. B. A. In 1830 there were reported to be 1128280 marriages and 191,591 divorces, or 17 divorces to’every 100 marriages. There were also 4,379 an- nulments during the year. . For how many_painters and | seulptors aid George Washington sit? A. For at least 27. For most of these he sat several times. Q. In pinochle whit is the past tense of the werd, meld?—O. R. | A The tense is fotmed in the ' usual way. It is melded. Changed conditions in the musical world are recognized as presenting practical reasons for making grand opera of wider appeal. Reports from the Metropolitan organization incicate that the “golden horseshoe” is shrink- {ing, and support is required from a larger and less afuent group. There is some discussion of the pessibility of an alliance with broadcasting interests ‘and suggestions that cutting salaries | and expenses would prove worth while. | “New York's gran according I to the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, | “is a national tradition, not the less | respected because of its association with | great wealth and social grandeur. The weight of the depression tpon people of large incomes is apparent when a single season’s deficit after 24 years of self-supporting activities leads ‘the di- | rectors to express apprehension con- cerning the future. The inference is that they are convinced of the neces- sity of the opera’s contlnuing to pay its own way, even if the character of the performances is changed and the comn- | pany moves away from its historic ‘golden horseshoe’ and takes up its | abode in a district of movie theaters and broadcasting parlors.” Observing that economic conditions have had their effect on this form of entertainment, the Charlotte Observer comments: “It is disclosed that the Metropolitan Opera Co. is now finishing out its season with three more losing | weeks in New York and one week on tour. It has developed a deficit of $550,000 and standm to see its capital wiped out. The ¥Tetropolitan is Sup- ported by a corporation of wealthy men who have been making good any losses, but they have become tired of holding the bag, and thus the future of grand opera in this country has become & | little bit uncertain.” $ 240 “Qutrageously expensive” ls the ver- dict of the Columbus Ohio State Jours nal, recalling that the opera “was es- tablished on & money peak and held there even when all other lines of busi- !ness and public entertalnment were forced to slash deeply in production costs.” The State Journal conéinues: | “This country has been a fine place for the songbirds, but extravagant prac- | tices have boosted the price of tickets | to great heights and placed a burden on patrons which they were quick to | unload in adversity. Grand opera never has been presented to the general pub- lic, save when given over the radio. There is no reason why a reorganiza- tion should not be made. If the man- agers so decide, they can give good grand opera with talent obtainable at fair prices. That would give the masses an opportunity to hear and help sup- port it.” o ‘The suggestion that “the startling |absence of plicturesque personalities reduced patronage is considered by the New Day as reasonable, but that paper feels that the company “can be saved through the generosity of the wealthy,” though holding that “it seems logical that some analysis of the rea- sons for the slump bz made before the gifts are called for.” The Day | "If the Meiropolitan mus! | written every year, as some believe, it is a question whether delaying its | eventual demise serves any great pur- pose. The decline of interest in opera, in other words, cannot be indefinitely stalled off. Soomer or later, if that is the real trouble, the unpleasant facts must be faced.” “The opera must in some way ‘de- flate’ itself, trim off the more superfiu- | ous of its tinsel, and cultivate a greater | modesty and economy of style,” in the | judgment of the Baltimore Sun, which i among the singers” is one cause for | adds: | t be under= | New Basis for— Grand Opera Suggested by Music Lovers | probably an appeal would be made to | that part of the public which even in the past has thought of the opera sitply a glittering appendage | IM‘)l littering day of | wealth ” it | Recognizing a Metropolitan confes- | sion that it must “revolutionize its or- ganieation,” the Newark Evening News declares: “In & way this determination of the opera directors to move with the times is as significant of the age as anything that has happened. For nearly two generations the Metropoli- tan, entrenched behind its golden | horseshoe, has stood for everything that glorified collection of human beings represented. 1t might have its fat or its lean years, might present superlative performances or the kind that once gave Oscar Hammerstein a ibility of New York suprémhacy, but the golden horse- | shoe stood firm. Like the French no- | blesse, it always had been, it always | would"be. Men might come and men { might go, but the sacred principle of aristocratic domination based on wealth | went on ver. ‘Those times have fled. Grand opera is as subject to the law of supply and demand s groceries. | The golden horeshoe itself has been dimmed in its luster.” Considering the idea of radio broad- casting _of opera performances, the | Lowell Evening Leader offers the opi: “It is not surprising to find considerable degree of reluctance to a | development which would almost inev- | itably deprive the Metropolitan ra Co. of a great measure of its artistic independence and make it a subsidiary | of what is likely always to be a more popular form of amusement enterprise. Grand opera as the Metropolitan pri sents it is not self-supporting. Pepu- | larized, there is the possibility that for its devotees something of its distinction | will be lost. But the inference is that the situation is one in which money will talk. If generous guarantors of Anan- | cial resources do not say the word, | cherished operatic tradition may have to go by the board.” |Suggests Income Tax | For Principal Revenue | To the Editor of The Star: As the Ways and Means Committee of the House considers different sugges- | Hons as to possible new taxes that could | be placed on the American public in | order that our national budget might | be balanced, I have been giving our ‘t:xd system some serious thought and | study. It seems to me our means for secur- ing revenue is, for the most part, wrong. The greater part of the money used in the operation of the State and National Governments comes from the pockets of those who own homes, have a sub- stantial savi and own our industries. In other wi our Government penal- | izes the constructive citizen who spends | soberly. provides a home for his family and makes an effort to be prepared for sickness and old age, while the wan who spends recklessly and, as we some- times term it, lives by the month, es- capes taxation almost entirely unless his earnings are far above the average. Why should the man who makes $3600 a year and practices thrift so that he may leave his dependents com- fortable pay many, many times more into the country's Treasury than the man who makes the same amount and spends it for trips abroad, a fancy apartment on “Society” street, horse races and other real expensive amuse- ments. We should encourage men of :g:uiarmer type instead of discouraging Mr. Editor, it seems to me that 90 per cent of all the taxes collected from | which extravagance is somehow a part | mental advantages remarks as to the practical problem in- | volved: “The notion of opera as a kind of classical Ziegfeld show, our citizenship should be in the form of income tax. We should pay for pro- in | tection, privileges and other govern- in proporiion to of one’s pleasure, was all very well so ' what we are able to earn under these ong as it could be afforded. But, of | conditions, and not in proportion to ourse, that had little or nothing to do | what we conserve. Many farmers last h the esthetic values of opera. And | vear paid more taxes than their actual to try to maintain the old epulerce to- | profit for the year. In fact, figures show day would net cnly be in doubtful taste; | that taxes on farms in this country it would be next to impossible finan- | last year exceeded all profits from agri- cially. If economies could be effected | culture during the same period, all along the line (not simply in the | Start the income tax at 1 per cent on umfim';f nlnu; nndh:h"e° whol‘en !nre;;n- the t‘.fl‘m $1,000 and rease the per. jon of opera broug! a point where | céntage speedily as the thousa - it does depend simply upon its (crease and budget wr i orries will P Bl S