Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1934, Page 10

fTHE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON,D.C FRIDAY.....December 21, 1934 R R TR ST e R THEODORE W. NOYES. .Editor PORGR ne l li L T LESE nd ivanis Ave, o Fork: Office: 110 East A2ng St é:uo Office: Lake Michigan Building. pean Office; 14 Regent St.. London. England. Rate by Carrier mh: the City. b 450 ver month . 60¢ per month Biar ~.. Boc per the end of each be sent by mail or tional_5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. and Sunday. .1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ A R Dail d&mdus $12.00: 1 s! y an 177, $12.00: 1 mo., $1. only. . .. $8.00:1mo., " 76¢ only, )ly;r.. 5.00; } n:.. 50¢ Member of the Assoclated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively en- titled to the use for republication of all 2ews dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches hereln are reserved. Unfair, Vicious, Unworkable. The Civil Service Commission places eorrect emphasis, in its annual report made public today, on the necessity for obtaining the highest type of person- nel in the interest of efficient Govern- ment operation. In the Treasury 350 clerks are being dismissed for no other reason than that they happen to hail from the Dis- trict of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, or some other State which has more than its “quota” of employment in the Federal service. Once again, the absurdity and viclousness of the apportionment law is demonstrated. ‘There is no question whatever as to the fitness or ability of the luckless 850 Treasury employes. All of them were chosen by competitive civil serv- ice test; they ranked at the top of their respective employment registers, and because of their efficiency they have survived a weeding-out process in which others, not so well equipped for the work, have fallen by the wayside. Secretary Morgenthau would like to retain them. But the law steps in and says they must go, even though their discharge disrupts Treasury functions by replacing them with an inexperi- enced group which must be tshined in the work from the ground up. That is the wasteful, uneconomic side of the matter. In addition there 1s the injustice. ‘When these employes were hired ebout & year ago there was pressing demand for their services, as the Treasury was loaded down with work. It was mot only not feasible to wait untii men and women could be brought in from distant States which did not happen to have full quotas of Federal employment, but to bring men and women here from far away was considered unwise. It was not certain how long the jobs would last, and there is a disinclination to bring people thousands of miles when they ean be given no more than temporary status, Furthermore, the jobs are low-paid—generally about $1,440 an- nually—and difficulty is always en- countered in filling such posts from the under-quota States. Because the employment was tem- porary, it was possible to waive the apportionment law. Now, however, the Civil Service Coémmission holds that the jobs must be considered as being of indefinite tenure, and con- sequently the law must apply. If the administration is really in- terested in efficiency in Government and the absolute divorce of politics from the classified civil service, it might appropriately seek a change in an unworkable, unfair law which bases fitness for office on place of res- idence and is absolutely contradictory to the spirit of the merit system. ——e M the Government takes over in- dustry it will relieve many minor executives who are frankly worried about the problems of budget bal- ancing. —————— Gov. Nice requests advice, This is one thing he can be sure of long after the letters to Santa Claus have been read and forgotten. The Business Program. ‘The recovery program advanced by leaders of American industry, after their econference at White Sulphur Springs, has struck a sour note in offi- cial Washington. While the President has so far made no comment upen the yecommendations of the business con- ference, it was the White House secretariat who received the chairman of the conference, C. B. Ames, when he called at the Executive Mansion. Herry L. Hopkins, national relief ad- ministrator, fiippantly suggested that the business men had made up a Dhristmas package—the dole as & sub- stitute for work relief—and “sent it to the unemployed for Christmas day.” It was Mr. Hopkins who wel- eomed the nomination of Upton Sin- elair on the Democratic ticket for Governor of California not so long ago. On Capltol Hill, administration members of Congress dubbed the busi- ness men’s recommendations “reac- tionary,” “astounding,” ‘“conserva- tive” and the like. It is not long since administration Jeaders, from the President down, were telling American business that it must take wp the slack, must remove the burden of caring for the unemployed from the shoulders of the Govern- ment, There was some suggestion that there might and should be a measure of real co-operation between the Government and business to bring about recovery, Perhaps the business leaders of the country took the sug- gestion seriously, It looks, however, #e though any suggestion which was not emactly in line with the program of the administration may receive lit- tle serious attention. Furthermore, it begins to look as though any suggestion, from any 2 quarter, which would call & halt to 50 11l received as to be practically im- possible of achievement. Yet, the business men of America may possibly be correct to some slight extent in their efforts to bring about & curtail- ment of Government spending! The swelling chorus of eondemnation from administration sources for these sug- gestions, however, does not exactly give hope that they may be followed in any degree. The program of the business men of America is called merely selfish, dictated by personal interests and not the interests of the many. Some of 1t may be selfish, After all, if Amer- ican business is to take up the slack and to give employment, it must be built up. Hampering its operations, checking its confidence in the future, will not help to build up business. Recommendations by the business men that the work of relief be turned back es quickly as possible by the Federal Government to the States and communities have aroused the Governors of some of the States and the mayors of cities. Finding money for relief is a tough job. The Gov- ernors and mayors have found relief from this job in Washington. They do not wish to give it up. The na- tional credit has stood like a rock while the credit of States and mu- nicipalities has been weakened. It is up to the administration to see that the national credit continues to stand like a rock. —_—— e —— Buildings 0ld and New. Indication of the attitude of the President regarding the matter of pub- lic building construction and recon- struction in Washington is given in a statement made on Wednesday at the White House. It is to the effect that he is opposed to spending money at this time for rebuilding work and for the replacement of structures that are architecturally unsightly. However, he favors the erection of permanent homes for the War and Navy Depart- ments, though on sites different from those lately suggested, in the area west of Eighteenth street “and South of Pennsylvania avenue. The so-called munitions buildings, in Potomac Park, erected during the war-time period in the emergerty of the Government for housing, he believes, must be taken out iof that location “some time in the future.” THere is no doubt that the Govern- ment needs all the space available for the conduct of its administrative work, which has grown to great proportions in the development of the recovery program. There should, however, be no more “temporary” constructions, such as those that were strewn over the park areas in 1917-18-19. Those that were so placed in that time should be Temoved as rapidly and early as possible. Considerations of immediate economy should not pre- vail to cause the selection of sites for permanent structures that do not ac- cord with the general plan that has in effect been adopted, else a few years later the same problem of pos- sible demolition and replacement will recur. Retentfon of the old Post Office, which jars shockingly in the archi- tectural scheme in the development of the Mall-Avenue triangle, may be tol- erated on the ground of immediate expediency, but its eventual disap- pearance to permit the completion of the Internal Revenue Building, al- ready being extended to its prox- imity, is to be regarded as assured. Likewise the completion of the triple- unit building, now housing {he De- partments of Labor and Post Office and the Interstate Commerce Com- mission, must be effected when proper and equitable arrangements for the housing of the District Government, now quartered within the allocated site, are made. The real economy lies in a straight= forward, progressive and early com- pletion of the general plan of Capi- tal building that is now the adcpted model for constructions of this char- acter. Delays do not save money. They waste it. There is no need of provi- slonal accommodations while the new War-Navy buildings are under con- struction. When that work is com- pleted the present housing of those departments in Potomac Park can oe used while the remnants of the old lay-out on Pennsylvania avenue, east of the Treasury, are being replaced with the two units of completion of the Mall-Avenue triangle project. ——————————— ‘Wall Street is early and emphatic with protests that Government power plants are likely to be no possible as- sistance in regulating the stock market. —————————e The Fence Around Jimmy’s Place. District highway authorities have torn down a portion of the high fence surrounding “Jimmy’s Place” on Bladensburg road, notorious gambling house, reputed headquarters of the better organized “mobs” and gangsters of Washington. Demolition of the fence, done in the course of extension of Eastern ave- nue, exposed the gambling house to public view. Another fence probably will be built. Entrance to the gambling house, hitherto afforded from the Dis- trict, will be through Bladensburg road. The house itself is located in Maryland territory. The fence around “Jimmy’s Place” is made of board and metal sheeting. It is easy to destroy and easy to rebuild. Chief interest in should relate to the more ingenious and invisible fence which has served as its protection these many years. How does such a place eontinue to operate? Are the Maryland suthori- ties so stupid that they do not know it exists? That is impossible, Do they lack the laws necessary to close it up? That is unlikely. Have they been unable to secure the evidence necessary to bring about indictments and convictions? Apparently—but what efforts have they made? ‘Washington police are taking de- layed steps to harass the place, to question customers, te discourage \ I3 “Jimmy's Place™| patronage. They must keep it up. ‘They should extend their campaign beyond “Jimmy's Place” and keep after the gambling establishments in who, the police say, are known to them—that the “big shots” will leave town, They can do it. But s far us “Jimmy's Place” is con- cerned, its future is going to depend largely on the attitude of the law- abiding, self-respecting citizens and voters of Prince Georges County. Are they going to continue to tolerate it, or are they going to tear down, once and for all, that mysterious and in- visible “fence,” whatever it may be, that has permitted “Jimmy's Place” to operate without Interference for many years? —_—————————— Masanao Hanihara, Few foreign Ambassadors accredited to the United States in our time ever enjoyed greater respect and affection among the American people than Masanao Hanihara, who has just passed away in Tokio. He was on duty at Washington in 1924, when the immigration issue with Japan reached its climax, and was fated to be associated with it under circum- stances that eventually led to his re- call. After two years of duty in the United States as Ambassador, which had been preceded by an earlier service as secretary, Mr. Hanihars lived in retirement, and, as his many friends in this country always knew, the afternoon of his life was clouded by sorrow over the strain in Japanese- American friendship, which the en- actment of the so-called exclusion law was destined to produce. It was the late Ambassador's abiding hope that the day would dawn when the Congress and Government of the United States would by remedial leg- islation see fit to make amends for the wound to Japanese national pride which Nippon felt she had suffered at our hands. An extraordinarily shrewd diplo- mat, & militantly patriotic Japanese, Mr. Hanihara consistently regarded it as part of his mission at Wash- ington to cultivate personal ties among Americans here and through- out the country. The name of those who were happy to consider them- selves his friends was legion. He knew us and our ways as few for- eigners did end he spoke our lan- guage fluently. ‘Those who came within the orbit of “Hani's” engaging personality will cherish his memory with unalloyed fondness, confident that history will fully justify his claim, made publicly in Tokio four years ago, that nothing but “warmth of friendship and high regard for the Government and people to whom he was accredited” ever inspired his professional activities on our soil. He was a true ambassador of Japanese-American good will, —_————— There are predictions that sky- scrapers will no longer be in favor. If they are left tenantless, the motor magnates may do a good deed by equipping them with freight elevators and offering them for parking pur- poses. —_———— Farmers may welcome the plan to allow them to grow more, so that there will be no fear that a bonus will all be used up before the re- quirements of the family kitchen range are met, —_—————— The crop yield as regulated by A. A. A. was the lowest in years and prices were the highest. The ultimate consumer is, as usual, trying to figure out where he comes in. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Who Is Santa Claus? Who is Santa Claus, Working mostly for applause? When the letters have been sent That disclose the discontent, ‘Who again his face will show, Saying, “Surely you must know I am Santa Claus!” Who is Santa Claus? See the old taxpayer pause To go down to his last cent, Helping others pay the rent. When relief calls are sent out Hear him shout, with courage stout, “I'sm Santa Claus!” Similarity, “You understand agriculture?” “A little,” snswered Senator Sor- ghum. “Farming is a little like pol- itics. It lands you either in one of the easiest jobs on earth or one ot the hardest.” Jud Tunkins says maybe the Spartans took children away from their parents so that when they grew up they wouldn’t sing the songs ihey learned at mother’s tea. Rush. “Home, Sweet Home!” we often sigh, But the hours go speeding by. Father Time’s a traffic cop. He reproves us if we stop Too long in & single space. Home is just a parking place. Waters of Finance. “Did you not put by something for & rainy day?” “T saved several millions,” snswered Mr. Dustin Stax. “But I was look- ing for & rainy day, not & deluge.” Pay Day. In humble patience I await the day When I line up once more to draw my Pay. My eager fingers tremulously grope My envelope! My envelope! The grim enolosures float along the way ‘Whose figures fill me with & deep dismay. Though slighter grown, you are my cherished hope, My envelope! My envelope! “De idea dat politeness costs nothin’ is wrong,” said Uncle Eben. “Don’t never expect as much politeness for & L 'THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, - One of the greatest failures of the average human being lies in the per- sonal inability to accept other per- sons for what they are. If men snd women are never blessed now, but always are looking for a blessing in the future, as the poet averred, it is even more true that they cannot accept others just as they are. ‘They want others to change them- selves, in some mysterious way, so that they will come nearer to some one else’s idea of who and what they should be, how they should act and how they should look. Instead of accepting human beings a8 they are, they are forever in & stew about something or other which they deem wrong in others. Never will they learn, seemingly, that reform begins at home. Thoy want others to reform them- selves. *xx X Therefore was another poet right, on another count, when he asserted that & great many persons willingly would tear the world to bits and “mould it nearer to the heart's desire.” It is probable that he did not have in mind at all the present céntury and the literal remaking process which is going on in governments. No, the poet of the quatrains was concerned only with the single human equation, at most its action and re- action with one or two others. Just & few, That is what life is, mostly, after all. At the ‘center of the few stands the one. Individualism! ‘We are born individuals, and die in- dividuals, but all in between powerful forces are bent on making the in- dividual human being & “case” just one of many, thousands, millions. In America we had thought to en- Jjoy forever the triumph of individual- ism, but gigantic forces, as old as hu- manity, seem determined at this hour to take our precious heritage away from us. This is not governmental, solely, or at all, from one standpoint. The worst tyranny comes from the individual man. The ego in each one of us forever wages & battle between a desire to be individual and a desire to follow the crowd. * ok % Far too often the herd instinct wins. It wins, particularly, when some- thing in us asks that other people say and do just what will please us. ‘This is such a common feeling, one 80 possessed by so many. different types of human beings, that at first many will fail to recognize it. ‘Why, the reaction will be, I always accept people as they are! What else can one do? ‘Then the thought creeps in: - If I had been willing to accept others as they are, I would not now be angry, hurt, outraged in feelings, at plain statements of truth. I would not so willingly fit myself into shoes which were designed for others to wear, nor so loudly proclaim to all who will iisten that they fit me. Such is the upspoken dialogue in many & mind that recognizes it not. Angry fumes cloud the dialogue, until it escapes observation. But the astute person, although he says not! . sees. It does not escape him. He will know, better than you, just what goes on in your mind, because he knows, better than you, what goes on in minds. g 13 gs: i young to achieve it after the absolute juvenile term of 18 years. He is as marked with the brand of the crowd at that age as if he had lived & hundred. He wears the same clothes, tslks the same lingo, eats the same things, and, above all, drinks the same things. He dares not wear, talk, eat, drink other than as his companions do. He Is about as original as & ground- hog, each groundhog looking like every other groundhog that ever was born. Then there are much older men who put up a big bluff at being individual personalities, but if you pin them down you find them about as individual as & woodchuck, which looks, acts, eats and moves as all other woodchucks that ever trod earth. * % % The genius of man calls for orig- inality. At the same time som: in him insistently demands that originality in others be frowned upon. This latter trait most often pre- dominates, especially in persons who have no originality of their own. One would think that those who have no originality of their own would sdmire it in others, but often it is just the other way around. Those without it reseat it in others. They are forever asking that these others remake themselvs to conform to commonplace habits and thoughts. ‘The most ordinary form this desire takes, in everyday life, is anger. Some one is forever “mad” at some one else! It is such s common situation, in- deed, that it would have no interest for any one if there were not some hope that by pointing the thing out as plainly as one can the offender will be led to realize the sheer in- sanity of becoming angry at another human being. Especially as often as is commonly observed! “I'm mad at you,” i not just a childish phrase. It represents the thought pattern of thousands of so-called adults to thou- sands of other adults. And it is all so silly. S0 useless, 30 essentially juvenile! Only the rare person manages to get something unique out of life by taking words or actions that seem to offend him and turning them into words or actions which reveal to him the essen- tial personality, the unique quality, of the other. Such a person is commonly called & philosopher, mostly, one may sus- pect, because his action is so at variance with the commonplace action, called anger, ire, choler, or what you please. One does not have to be a philoso- pher, however, to play fair with others; and that is all refraining from becom- ing angry over nothing much really is, in the last analysis. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Both President Roosevelt and Sec- retary Hull indicate that it is prema- ture to suggest that there is any thought of abandoning America’s his- toric policy of the “freedom of the seas.” The State Department's neu- trality study may eventually reach the point of considering the scrapping of the principle, for which the United States went to war in 1812 and in 1917, but apparently no such decision has so far been reached. If it is ever seriously proposed to renounce our traditional positioh, it is a safe proph- ecy that there will be a wealth of opposition argument. The wheat raiser, the cotton grower, the meat packer, the steel maker and the host of other American interests that since time immemorial have done oversgas business in war time, may not forego without protest the right to continue that practice and to demand the pro- tection of the United States Navy. Apart from the practical commercial questions involved, there’s undoubt- edly an old-fashioned school of thought that favors keeping the Stars and Stripes at sea as long as Uncle Sam is attending legitimately and legally to his own business in the maritime realm. X k% One of the advantages of having our Ambassadors and Ministers, now here in unusual number, come home periodically is the opportunity to keep them abreast of political and economic developments in the United States. An envoy who remains at his post too long, especially in kaleidoscopic New Deal times, loces touch and is cor- respondingly handicapped in inter- preting the American viewpoint to the government and people to which he is accredited. Foreign governments only exceptionally allow an Ambassa- dor or Minister u; remain for Ivl;::l- tracted period at any one ca) . The late Jules Jusserand was French Ambassador in Wi for the better part of 25 At the time it was ht that been one of the reasons why the scholarly diplomat was retired. EE One of the striking records made in the November elections, as finally disclosed by official figures, was chalked up by Senator Joseph C. O'Msahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming, in his successful contest for re-elec- tion against Representative Vincent Carter, Republican. The total sena- torial vote of 94,376, though 1934 was an off year, was larger than the 1932 presidential vote, which was only $3,953. O'Mahoney’s total, with a majority of 13,058, represented 56.9 per cent of the entire poll and was the largest ever received by & Wyom- ing candidate for the Senate, ex- ceeding the big votes that the late Senators Prancis E. Warren, Repub- lican, and John B. Kendrick, Demo- crat, were accustomed to roll up. In- cidentally, O'Mahoney, formerly Jim Farley’s First Assistant Postmaster * K K % Women deplore the passing of Harriman Rumsey because Mrs. Roosevelt and Secretary of Labor Perkins in & variety of flelds reflect- ing women's capacity for public serv- ice, especially welfare work. The dy- namic daughter of E. H. Harriman in- herited the late railroad king's flair for business. In recent times she had been credited with an ambition to enter diplomacy, in emulation of Ruth Bryan Owen, and to be appointed American Minister to the Irish Free State. ERE Dr. Hugh S. Cumming, surgeon general of the United States Public Health Service, has just returned from the ninth annual Pan-American Sanitary Conference in Buenos Aires. On January 27, 1935, Gen. Cumming will have ecompleted 15 consecutive years as head of the Public Health Service. The main achievement of the conference in Argentina was the adoption of international health reg- ulations for aviation, including the quarantining and medical observation system long in effect on the seas. Be- cause of the importance of speed in air travel, the conference recognized the necessity of expediting health in- spections aboard plenes and at air- ports, *x x % One of President Roosevelt's callers the other day suggesied that even specimens of “ginger-bread” archi- tecture in Washington, like the Li- brary of Congress and the State, War and Navy Bullding, are better than “monotony,” 1, e., regimenting the Capital's Federal structures on one universal pattern, Apropos all this, it's recalled that Mark Twain once remonstrated with an Englishman Who alleged that America had no distinctive achool of architecture, “You're wrong,” quoth Mark. “We have three different schoois—early Indian, Missouri rensissance and modern Pullman!" * X % % During the recent farewell reception given by Attorney General for the Crime Conference, the Navy Orchestra, of Lieut. Charles Benter, played “The Prisoner’s Song,” which once was as popular a ballad as “The Last Round- Up” or “The Man on the Flying Trapeze” in latter-day times. When Lieut. Benter set about to select s program for\the soiree, he scratched his head for appropriate numbers and decided that “The Prisoner's Song” Dr. Orville Wright did not take to the air on December 17 in celebra- tlon of the historic pioneer flight he and his late brother Wilbur made at Kitty Hawk, N. C., 31 years ago. For some time he has suffered somewhat from the after effects of an airplane accident that befell him about the year 1909, and he has been “ground- ed” almost ever since. Although he does no more fiying, Dr. Wright re- tains an animated interest in every- thing connected with aviation, is con- (Copyright. 1934.) Political Parallel. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. underuudlnc'.hnh Drastic Measures Needed To Correct Traffic Evils ‘To the Bditor of The Star: Iread with deep interest and convic- tion your timely editorial in The Star of December 17 anent the appalling loss of life due to reckless automobile diiving. This ever-mounting casualty list is an indictment of our traffic lawa called “caution” light (amber) en- tirely or enact traffic regulations re- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN, A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Washington Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Direc- tor, Washington, D. C. Please in- close stamp for reply. Q. What was the award which Prances Perkins received lately?— L D. C. A. The BSecretary of Labor was awarded the Chi Omega gold ’:e:;l as the ‘woman e fleld of m“m‘mwnt in the year 1934. Q. Is Gerhart Hauptmann living? —M. J. H. A. The famous German author re- cently celebrated his 72d birthday an- niversary. Q. How old is Gen. Lazro Car- denas?—G. L. 8. In order that there could be no of a “frame-up” or “spite work,” those reporting the violations should be re- quired to establish their responsibility and reputability. Old offenders would hesitate to violate traffic regulations | were they atrald they would be re- ported. It is & well-established fact that fear of punishment is the deter- Tent of crime, and with sure, swift Jjustice meted out by the proper court these potential trafic killers would think twice before they wouid take s chance of being caught in the act, (¢) Secure the co-operation of all employers in having it fully under- stood by their employes that should they be convicted of traffic violation, especially where injury or death en- sues, they would automatically be dis- charged from employment and a “blaek list” be kept of all thus dis- oharged. Drastic measures? Yes, but it re- qQuires drastic measures to meet this distressful situation, where daily injury and death result from reckless and drunken driving of automobiles. Pe- , 100, should come under some ban in their crossing of streets. Outstanding violations of traffic on the part of motorists are excessive speeding, speeding up on the amber (“caution”) light to get scross the in- tersection, weaving in and out of traffic lanes in order to gain distance, failure to give signals when about to make & turn or stop, when making & left turn, speeding across traffic from the opposite direction, effecting a hold-up of the latter. Stand on esw torneg and see this violation daily. At the upper end of the Taft Bridge that is carried on almost continually; a visit there will confirm my statems The activities of the so-called “One Hundred” in their efforts to “educate” | B the public are but a small scratch of the surface. Asa matter of fact, trying to ‘“educate” certain people along safety lines in driving an sutomobile is time and labor wasted; the only law these old offenders know is fear of punishment. WALLACE M. CRAIGIE. Tagging Parked Cars Not ’ A Solution of Traffic Evil To the Editor of The Star: Right here in the shadow of the Capitol dome, where laws are made for our entire Nation, the bustling City of Washington seems powerless to make its own population observe traffic regulations. To make matters even worse, those in charge also ap- pear unable to enforce them. This does not apply to overtime parking. Oh. no! 1If you have some important mission or constructive business which brings you downtown and it so hap- pens that you may be detained while 80 engaged, when you return to your parked car a ticket will greet you on your arrival. Police are very alert in enforcing this overtime parking law, and we can understand why. It pro- duces revenue and must be worked to the limit! Our local newspapers inform us about the terrible death toll for 1934 to date. I have yet to see a parked CAr jump out on & pedestrian and kill or main him. It is a mistake in my opinion to watch the parked car so closely. It is the moving vehicle that at all times does the damage. I am not losing sight of the fa- vorable feature of the parked car, however. It takes more effort to catch speed law violators. But why get ex- cited over this type of lawbreaker, even though they scatter cripples, sorrow and death into many homes, when it is better financial meat and easier to snare a car at the curh without an occupant? . The pedestrian does not seem to have a chance. Drivers should be compelled to approach intersections at a moderate speed. Ninety per cent of them seem to get a kick out of a quick, short stop. They dash to the corner 50 swiftly, it is indeed a miracle that some pedestrians do not die right there and then from fright or heart failure, Police stationed at busy intersec- tions would be of more service to our People than driving or walking around distributing parking tickets. The revenue from this type of violation would be decidedly decreased, but so would the accident rate, if police would watch these speed demons in an effort, to save human lives. Another delight of the Washington auto driver is to blow his horn for or at any little pretense. Blowing at an sutomatic signal which is red in an and unseemly noises would put a stop to this practice. The horn should be only when absolutely necessary. driver very rarely needs to use You can’t blow people out e way. You must, instead, use ; Judgment when driving in c. ake the driver behave while Pistol Wavers and Automobile Weavers To the Editor of The Star: examined, but daily we see hundreds of auto drivers weaving through the streets of our cities, abso- lutely regardless of the safety of pedestrians, not to mention that of other, more careful drivers. Yet, an automobile with a the wheel is far m revolver, even in &F I i it gg® i £ : xiggzi a§ sk i il A. Mexico's new President is 39 years old. Q. Who played a carillon in Chicago from & eity some distance away?— L. H. A. Harold Krell in g‘rllllcl‘n:mig the J. C. Deagan a’e'l‘io. This was accomplished by the carillonneur’s operating a tele- graph-typewriter. Q. What does the Better Fabrics Testing Bureau do?—H. L. B. A. The Better Fabrics Testing Bu- reau says that it is at present spe- cializing in the testing of textile products from yarn clear through the processes to the finished mer- chandise, for the purpose of informing retail buyers the quality of the prod- uct. In some cases manufacturers engage the bureau to test their prod- ucts and use its label or certification on the merchandise itself, in which case the label is carried on the goods through the retailer to the ultimate consumer. The bureau was organized as & commercial corporation, but the activity was established by the Na- tional Retail Dry Goods Association and is operated as a service labora- tory to the buyers of its member stores, numbering about 4,500 retail units in the United States. Q. Are savings deposits increasing or decreasing?—P. C. B. A. Savings deposited in banks as of June 30, 1934, gained 3.5 per cent during the past year. The aggre- gate is an increase over last year of $742,132,000, the first since the year which closed June 30, 1930. Q. What was the first iron battle- ship built by the United States?— P . 8. A. 8. 8. Wolverine was the first 1 built by the United States She was launched at Erie, Ps,, 1344, as the n. Her name was changed to Wol on June 17, 1905. She was con- structed by Stackhouse & Tomlinson, Pittsburgh, Pa., between 18342 and 1844. Her length (B. P) was 164 feet 11 inches; beam, 27 feet; mean draft, 9 feet; displacement, 685 tons. Q. Why is the Tersanctus so called? —C. R. G. The U. iron v Navy. A. This is in allusion to the triple utterance of the word “sanctus” in “Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Domi- nus Deus Sabaoth.” Q. What does the following expres- sion mean—to be put through & course of sprouts?—H. L. H. A. It mesns to receive a course of severe discipline, especially in former days flogging with switches or rods. The use of switches or rods probably led to the origin of the term, sprouts, in this connection. Q. Where is the most volatile coal found in continental United States? —D. N. A. The highest percentage of vola- tile coal is mined in Breckinridge County, Ky. The coal is 62 per cent volatile. the Civil War?—A. O. A, Near the south side of the Arlington Mansion stands the Monu- ment to the Unknown Dead of the Civil War. Two thousand, one hun- , dred and eleven nameless soldiers are gathered here in a common grave, de- prived of the individual measure of fame which each one by his daring and dying merited, and denied the boor desert of recognition, even of identification. Their names, their homes, their friends all are unknown. Such is the horror of war. Yet they died for their country that others might live. Q. Does the term, “colored people” upAnly ;: Negroes only?—C. R. - may equally well apply to Asiatics, the red Indians of North America, the brown race of Australia and the Polynesian group. It has be- come, however, a general custom to of Negro in the United States, Q. How many students have some form of military training?—L. G. 8. A. More than 100,000 youths i1 eol- leges and secondary schools through- out the country are being given mili- tary training. Q. In how many occupations are women engaged?—F. T. A. There are 527 occupations in which women are engaged, although the great majority of them are to be found in only 63. Q. Which are the most important Chinese tongs in the United States? —K. O'D. A. Among them are the On Leong, the largest in the United States be- cause its local chapters include well- to-do merchants; the Hip Sing, the Ming Gai Hong and the Hoy On— the two latter claim to have more than 2,000 years of history. Tong houses are located in San Francisco, New York and Chicago. The Hip Sing is somewhat similar to a labor union, and the On Leong is described as combining the elements of a mer- chants’ association, chamber of com- merce, church, fraternal society, city council, judge and jury and public school. Q. What is the name of the child prodigy with such a high intelli- gence quotient?—A. E. W. A. Arthur Greenwood of the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School has the. highest intelligence quotient on record. His mental age is nearly 17 and he is only 7); years old. At the age of 2 he learned to resd. Q. How long has the dodo been extinct?>—J. F. A. This large, flightless bird was last seen in the Island of Mauritius in 1681. Q. What railroads are operating the most mileage in the United States at present?—C. J. H. A. The systems having the most mileage at the present time are the Southern Pacific, with 13,381.40 aver- age miles of road operated; the Atchi- son, Topeka & Santa Fe, 1333160 average miles of road operated, and the New York Central, with 11,418.82 average miles of road operated. Q. Please give a short sketch of Sam Byrd, who is playing in “Tobacco Road."—A. J. A. He was born in Mount Olive, N. C., & branch of the pioneer American family, the Byrds of North Carolina and Virginia. He left the University of Florida to come to New York to g0 on the stage. His first role was the part of David, a crippled boy, in “The House of Meander.” He had two seasons on the road with “Street Scene,” then played in stock. He played the part of a crippled boy in “Incubator,” a part which he liked better than any other he ever played except Dude in “Tobacco Road.” Success of League Acclaimed In Settlement ‘There are differing opinions as to the possibilities of war that lay in the controversy between Yugoslavia and Hungary, but credit is given to the League of Nations for its success in arranging a compromise. Following the establishment of rules for the Saar plebiscite, the latest Eu- ropean events give American observ- ers the impression that the League is showing some of the influence that it was intended to have when it was organized after the World War. “Conditions on the continent,” com- ments the Atlanta Constitution, “should react generally to the pros- pect of an early settlement of the trouble between these two Slav na- tions and the recent agreement be- tween France and Germany on the Saar. With the various nations able now to pay less attention to interna- tional complications, they will be able to concentrate on the solution of the manifold internal problems with which most of them are afflicted.” “One of the hopeful aspects of this new success,” in the opinion of the New York World Telegram, “is that it may encourage the large European powers, who dominate the League, to make even fuller use of it in future crises.” The Richmond News Leader feels that “it was a great victory for the League,” and adds: “Coupled with acceptance by Russia of membership and the negotiations of the Franco- German pact for the return of the Saar territory, this adjustment re- covers for the League much of the prestige that it lost through Germany's withdrawal and Japan’s definite seiz- ure of Manchuris. The close of 1934 ignoring or defying all written and moral rules for safety. ‘The shortest distance between two Had every one suffered the loss of & loved one, struck down by a careless or intoxicated driver, as have I, every B bl b i i § g EE I | i H £ i i g ; i H kg §§§ F E:EIE s3a? 3335 e i 5t fif 5§ b £ £ E 5 AN of Balkan Row finds the League a more virile influ- ence for peace than it has been in a decade.” “The outlook will be more promis- ing,” says the Newark Evening News, “if the nations familiar with terrorism can be ded to act together to stamp it out.” The result gives new importance to the League, as viewed by the Buffalo Evening News, the Providence Journal and the Charles- ton (8. C.) Evening Post. “Under the compromise worked out at Geneva,” according to the New York Sun, “the Yugoslav-Hungarian dispute is in a fair way of adjust- ment. Hungary agrees to hunt down and punish any of its nationals as had anything to do with the murder of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, and to report thereon to the League of Na- tions. The League's Council expresses sympathy for Yugosalvia and con- demns ‘this odious crime,’ asserting that no State should tolerate terrorist activity against another by persons within its own borders. It sets up a committee to formulate a policy of dealing with terrorist bodies. With this arrangement everybody—relieved, no doubt, by the blowing off of steam in the last few days—expresses satis- faction. So a threatened smash-up is averted, but not until everybody got a good scare.” “Europe was unquestionably wor- ried,” observes the Lowell (Mass.) Courier-Citizen, “lest this controversy over the recent murders would even- tually involve the leading powers. Yet complete success for the League can- not be claimed until its intervention has been accepted-by France or Great Britain or Italy in some dispute over & question of major importance. As for thfa &m&d States, while there seems no greater disposition to join the League than there was in 1920, yet on the whole our co-operation is increasing and the time may come when, although not a member, we shall think best to sccept the good offices of that osganization to adjust matters of dispute on which our pride would not allow us to yield outright, but which would not in the minds of htened modern sentiment justify war. There can be no disgrace in according what the consensus of the nations deem to be justice.” Back Trek in View. Prom the Boston Transcript. an end, announces a Yale professor. All those people who moved to Cali- fornia in anticipation of a Sinclair vic- 3 tory now have only 3,000 miles to go. Just a Little Of Reckoning. Prom the Bosion Globe. ‘Those who predicted, back in 1914, that the war would bankrupt the world were right, but they were & few years off in their estimate of the time it would take. Indifferent Gangsters. Prom the Flint (Mich.) Journal. It seems that the underworld these days has almost no interest in all the talk in Washington about old-sge pen- -