Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1936, Page 10

A—10 . THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. .. July 7, 1936 THEODORE W. NOYES.. « Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company. Business Office: Penusylvania Ave. 11th St A - New York Os e: 110 East 42nd SL Chi Office: i‘k Michigan Building. ea S maor. T4 Resent 5. London Ensiand. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Regular Edition, Ha Evening ’;'s"'d'.‘ siar 450 per month Cehen 4 8ondays) - -80¢ per month 2" s 8c_per month 50 ver copy 1ght inal snd Sund 700 per month fl"&‘lleffii}xsfinds A fhie end of each monih. ?rdm msx be sent by mail or telephone Na- ional’ B0 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Marylazd and Virginia, s $10.00: 1 mo. 3 3400 1 mes The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this Baper and also the local news published herein. 1l rights of publication of speeial dispatches erein are also reserved. Steel and Politics. In the name of the Governor of Pennsylvania, Thomas Kennedy, secre- tary-treasurer of the United Mine Work- grs of America, has pledged the aid of the State government to workers in the steel mills, if they should strike. It hap- pens that Mr. Kennedy is lieutenant gov- ernor of Pennsylvania as well as an offi- cial of the United Mine Workers. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers and head of the Industrial Union Committee, is leading the fight to organize the steel workers in one big Industrial union, and the steel operators are strongly opposing Lewis’ plan. Here is the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, in which some of the greatest steel mills of the country are located, promising to align the govern- ment of the State on the side of the steel workers in any contest they may have with their employers. It is an in- vitation to strike—a remarkable invita- tion coming from a government official. Seemingly the lieutenant governor and secretary-treasurer of the United Mine ‘Workers, when he spoke, was very con- fident that his chief, Governor Earlz, would fall in with his plans. Governor Earle has indeed promptly indorsed the lieutenant’s governor's pledge. © Mr. Lewis is an ardent supporter of President Roosevelt for re-election. Pre- sumably he would do a great deal to bring about the victory of the President at the polls next November. One of his aims is to bring all organized labor into line for Roosevelt. Is it possible that his fomenting of labor trouble in the great steel industry, just at this time, 1s a move to attain this end? The lieu- tenant governor of Pennsylvania and secretary-treasurer of the United Mine ‘Workers is no less an ardent supporter of the President and the New Deal than is Mr. Lewis. Governor Earle has be- come a New Deal firebrand. Mr. Kennedy made his promise of State relief to striking steel workers and their families, if and when they strike, at a mass meeting of the stéel workers at Homestead, Pa. He said that the drive for organization of the steel work- ers was “peaceful,” but added that if force were necessary it would be used. The implications of the present drive by Lewis, Kennedy and others in the steel industry seem clear enough. And certainly if Mr. Kennedy meant any- thing it was that the force of govern- ment would be placed back of striking workers. The Government, both State and Federal, has in the past been on the side of maintaining peace and order and protecting lives in industrial disorders, Government has intervened frequently as mediator to effect settle- ments of industrial contests. This is the first time that government force has been used as an invitation to strike. It s something the American people may well think about. The mass meeting addressed by Mr. Kennedy adopted a resolution which seems to have been patterned in part after the recent address delivered by President Roosevelt when he accepted the presidential nomination at Philadel- phia. The resolution begins: “On July Fourth, 1776, the American people de- olared their independence of political tyranny * * * but today we find the po- litical liberty for which our forefathers fought is made meaningless by economic inequality * * * a new despotism has come into existence.” Mr. Roosevelt in his speech made statements almost identical. % The steel operators insist they will not submit to having organizers—like John L. Lewis—from outside come into their plants and stir up dissension. They argue again for the “open shop” on the theory that no man should be compelled to j6in a labor union in order to get a Job. Whether theoretically they are right or wrong has very little to do with the political aspects of this latest drive to organize the steel workers, —————— Tt is now feared that Ben Franklin and Tom Paine wasted valuable time when they went to France to assist in recovery from a 'violent attack of Communism. Farewell to the Britannia. When the postal authorities of the Dominion of Canada last year desired*to honor King George V on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his elevation to the throne they selected & photograph of the sovereign’s famous racing yacht, the Britannia, to be re- produced on one of a series of com- memorative postage stamps. The result was a philatelic novelty vastly popular among collectors and non-collectors everywhere. > But now comes word that under the terms of the late monarch’s will the beautiful little vessel is to be “secretly ‘scuttled” in the English Channel. To ‘use a cruel phrase still unhappily current #rom war-time, she is to be “sunk with- ut trace” The W.T over which she sped to triumph in no less than one hundred and twenty-two trials are to close over her forever. Certainly the destruction of any craft seems tragic in its implications. The Britannia, as recently as only a few months ago, appeared to be in first-class condition as she lay at anchor in Cowes Harbor, Isle of Wight. Many Americans saw her there—tall and lithe and grace- ful of line; a veritable princess of the sea In her bearing. No stranger, passing by, would have guessed that she was built more than four decades ago. She had a quality of durable youth which did not tarnish. But the period to which she belonged is coming to a conclusion. King Edward VIII prefers to travel by plane. The tastes of his forbears have no attraction for him. He symbolizes a different gen- eration, a “class” of men who want greater speed than any yacht can provide for any captain. The expanded air- defense program of the empire is a symp- tom of the change. Yet it may be wondered why those Englishmen who continue to follow the marine traditions of the past have not interceded to save the Britannia as Nelson's Victory was saved—as a museum plece, if nothing else. It seems a pity that so good and so deserving a ship should survive only as a scrap of paper in a stamp collector’s album. The Danzig Crisis. Crisis succeeds crisis at Geneva. At the very moment of the Ethiopian obsequies, Germany confronts the League with & new dilemma. Dr. Arthur Karl Greiser, Nazi president of the Danzig Senate, appeared before the Council, to demand in truculent tones virtual aban- donment of League supervision of the “Free City” established at the head of the Polish Corridor by the treaty of Ver- sailles. Speaking grandiloquently for “the German people,” Dr. Greiser called for replacement of the present League high commissioner, Sean Lester of the Irish Free State, or abolition of his office and transfer of certain of its functions to the Danzig Senate president. The Nazi spokesman thereupon added insult to injury by thumbing his nose at the international press gallery in the Coun- cil chamber, a gesture generally inter- preted as one of contempt for the League itself. The whole incident, following recent utterances in the German press, strongly suggests a forthcoming Nazi coup—diplo- matic, military or otherwise—to restore the sncient Hanseatic city to German sovereignty as Hitlerism's latest move in the program of complete demolition of the treaty of Versailles. Unconfirmed reports were rife throughout the recent week end that German troops were actually on the way to Danzig for the pur- pose of confronting the League with an- other “accomplished fact.” That the Nazis sooner or later mean business at Danzig is evidenced by declarations in their government-controlled newspapers that the Reich will not return to Geneva until the city is again under the German flag. Thus the League, defled in turd by Japan, Italy and Germany, is about to be flouted afresh hy the Reich and put to another test of what is left of its shattered authority. The certainty that strong-arm methods would sunder Polish- German relations may deter Hitler from resorting to extremes. Anxious. as the Nazis are, for political and sentimental reasons, to retrieve the corridor that drives a wedge through East Prussia, Berlin shrinks from alienating Warsaw's good-will by seizure of Danzig. Poland bulks conspicuously in Nazi contempla- tions of conflict with the Soviet Union. Another possible deterrent is the fact that a large portion of Poland’s seaboard trade now passes through Danzig. If the port were to become German again, it would forfeit a lucrative source of revenue, as the Poles possess a fairly adequate Baltic outlet of their own at Gdynia. The Poles, despite their desire for amicable relations with Germany, do not want a Nazifled Danzig. They may presently take the initiative in requir- ing the League to tackle the thorny issue presented by the Nazi threat. The Reich, on its part, seems willing to risk pressing matters to a conclusion. It is apparently confident that Geneva is a glutton for punishment and is no more disposed or able to thwart Germany on the present occasion than it was when she remilitarized the Rhineland, to say nothing of the successive League re- treats in Manchuria and Ethiopia. Differences now under discussion might enable American labor to develép enough politics of its own without interfering with the more or less formal procedure of national elections. Peace at Any Price. One is not inclined to argue anything in connection with the Zioncheck case. It is the sort of thing that defies argu- ment. But as long as Mr. Romney, the House sergeant at arms, has brought up the matter by suggesting that he felt Mr. Zioncheck was being “persecuted,” it is pertinent to ask who was guilty of the persecution? Cruel and unusual punishment is forbidden under the Con- stitution, and perhaps something ought to be done about it. Were the police responsible? Even the House sergeant at arms must admit that when people speed through the streets and over the sidewalks of the crowded city, dash to the White House and leave queer momentoes for the Presi- dent, and do some of the other things that now form an interesting chapter in Mr. Zioncheck’s biography, they ought to be arrested. Were the Commissioners acting according to law when they sent Mr. Zioncheck to Gallinger? Under the law they are so empowered when sus- pecting a citizen’s sanity, and Mr. Romney will agree that Mr. Zioncheck’s sanity was not above suspicion. Were the doctors at Gallinger persecut- ing Mr. Zioncheck when they held him for investigation? They were at least willing to test their case before a jury. Was Justice O'Donoghue persecuting Mr, THE _EVENING Zioncheck when he acted on a formal petition for a writ for & lunacy inquisi- tion by signing a rule for Mr. Zioncheck to show cause why he should not be adjudged insane? Was he persecuting Mr. Zioncheck when he discharged that rille, after a conference with duly ac- credited officials and relatives, who de- ‘ cided to take Mr. Zioncheck to a sana- torium in Maryland instead of submitting him to the ordeal of the court proceed- ings? And when Mr. Zioncheck escaped, were the Maryland and District police persecuting him when they tried to ap- prehend a man whom the Commissioners alleged to be of unsound mind, dangerous to himself and to others? Mr., Romney is doubtless entitled to the praise he has received for sending Mr. Zioncheck home. That is where he belongs. But of all the legal corners that were cut in this queer case, none was more widely cut than by Mr. Romney himself, who was able to invoke con- gressional immunity when under the law there was none; who bluffed the Com- missioners, the police and the district attorney; who was ready to declare war on the metropolitan police force with his private army of Capitol policemen and who definitely demonstrated that there is one law for his employers, the members of the House, and another law for the helpless and uninfluential citizen whose taxes support Federal job holders, Nobody is going to quarrel with Mr. Romney for what he did. But speaking of glass houses—! ) It is the opinion of Ruth Bryan Owen that President Roosevelt is sure of re- election. Her distinguished father was a great orator, though not an invincible politician. The American Minister to Denmark may prove to be both. ————— Mining conditions may cause persons who interest themselves in creating social disorder to rewrite the song that has been so much honored in affection and make it read, “There Is No Place Like Homestead.” ———— e Discussion of a resignation from his official position may bring up the ques- tion of whether Mr. Farley is necessary to the post office or the post office is necessary to Mr. Farley. ‘The nfan convicted in Los Angeles of selling Navy secrets to Japan is a person of evil character. Even if the secrets were of no value, he is guilty of obtaining money under false pretenses. —o—s After developing many novel and in- teresting suggestions the Department of Agriculture is pretty nearly back where it started in promoting food production and advocating soil conservation. —_——eee Abyssinia was once at the head of the League of Nations roll call. It is painfully reminded that the distinction was purely alphabetical. ———e— Shooting Stars. BY PM‘“ DER JOHNSON. Radio Bird. Soon August will greet us with golden display. The locust so tuneful has passed on its way. The robin must presently silence his song— My Radio Bird will keep chirping along. Sometimes he will whistle a popular tune Or find inspiration to cackle or croon. Dear grandfather sits in the twilight of years And smiles at the Radio Bird that he hears. Like a parrot perhaps he will screech by and by With vociferous pleading for crackers— or pie. Though Autumn may end many songs that we heard, We still may depend on our Radio Bird. Adaptability. “Do you favor a high tariff or free trade?” “It's a deep question,” said Senator Sorghum, “but one which, for my per- sonal purposes, is easily decided. You control many votes in your community. Tell me exactly what you think and I will agree with you perfectly.” Fortune. We know that equal we are born, Yet some are happy, some forlorn. And Fortune cynically hints You cannot all be “Dionne Quints.” As twins or even triplets toil At trade or tillage of the soil, Their earnings ill rewaid their cares While Quints are natural millionaires! Literary Advantage. . “Of course, crime doesn't pay,” said Bill the Burg, “unless you let others do the hard work.” “What do you mean by ‘hard work’?” “Ho)din’ up banks or gas stations. You can make a crime story profitable with= out botherin’ de police. It's de differ ence between bein’ a clerk or & book- keeper and drawin’ dividends by runnin’ a correspondence school.” “You have exploded many firecrack- ers,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “My country ought, in friendliness, to undersell the market for liniment or bandages along with & movement for better fireworks.” Sausages. Of sausages we're hearing In many a mournful key, Though mighty is the cheering That sounds from sea to sea. The offering may prove “phony,” Though much admired at first, And what we called Baloney Turns out to be the Wurst. “When a man tells me not to worfy,” said Uncle Eben, “he most always means hehuwommybwbludhhgwn to be bothered with mine.” * § ¢ / STAR, WASHINGTON, Recollections of Third Parties of Earlier Days ‘To the Editor of The Star: “Third Parties” have been the subject of a recent article in The Sunday Star. As. Mr. John Walker Harrington points out, there have been any number of them. As Iremember, for instance, back in 1924 there was a “Committee of 48" that supported the elder La Follette. And so the 48 committee members rep- resented 48 different organizations, each having aims of its own, but no peg of its own to hang its hat on. And so they all picked the La Follette hat tree—48 “parties!” In 1896, on the other hand, when the really potent Populist party indorsed Willlam Jennings Bryan, its help came near to securing for him the popular (although not the electoral) majoritys, This is one instance where a “third party” support made itself really felt. Mr. Harrington also notes in passing the turbulent American party (“Know Nothings”). It made quite a stir from about 1845 to 1860. It elected Governors, Legislatures, Congressmen, etc. Flourish- ing mainly in the South and nominating former President Millard Fillmoye in 1856, it carried Maryland. But that was all. Shortly after it disappeared. This was a party of persecution. Its chief animus was against “forelgners” (American citizens of foreign birth), especially Catholics, and also against all native- born Catholics, “because they take orders from the Pope, who is not a native- born American citizen.” They commit- ted many outrages, especially in Balti- more, which became known as “Mob- town.” But finally the “foreigners,” mostly German and Irish, asserted them- selves, and order was restored. Another peculiar party, not mentioned by The Star writer, was the Anti- Masonic party (about 1825-1830). There were other issues, of course, but its activities were mainly directed against the Free Masons. Some New York “renegade” Mason had mysteriously disappeared, and it was claimed that he had been sunk without trace by his former lodge brethren. That s arted it all. The party attained great strength in the East, and in the presidential elec- tion of 1828 its candidate received the electoral vote of Vermont. Shortly afier it also went its way. The candidate was William « Wirt (born in Bladensburg, Md, 1772) He was quite a man in his time and day. He assisted in the prose- cution of Aaron Burr and for 12 years (1817-1829) he was Attorney General of the United States. Strange to say, Wirt himself was a Mason, and in his speech of acceptance, so I read, he spoke very highly of that order. This is just as if Gov. Landon would go out of his way to say a good word for the New Deal, or as if Presi- dent Roosevelt would offer to lay the cornerstonge for a new Stock Exchange. As it is, 'he might volunteer to help tear down the old one. The great game of politics! FRED VETTER. Congress Muddled in its Supreme Court Criticism To the Editor of The Star: When the number of United States Supreme Court justices was increased to nine, it was enacted by Congress that five justices shall constitute a quorum. If, for any reason, four justices should be absent from any session and the quorum of five should render a decision in an important case by a vote of 3 to 2, what a tremendous howl would go up! Yet Congress repeatedly passes impor- tant bills by approval of a majority of the quorum present. The tax bill to raise $800,000,000 or more was approved by only 38 affirmative votes—11 less than & majority of the whole Senate. Why, then, should members of Congress be heatedly critical of 5-to-4 majority de- cisions of the Supreme Court—a majority of all its members? Constitutional amendments are sub- mitted to the States only when two- thirds of both houses of Congress ap- prove. Amendments to the Constitution be- come operative only when three-fourths of the States approve. Why, then, should members of Con- gress so thoughtlessly seek to reverse the principle of majority approval in court procedure? To insist that no less than six justices be required to declare an act of Con- gress unconstitutional is equivalent to investing four justices with power to make that act valid. Four minority votes “yes” would prevail over five ma- jority votes “no.” The minority would overthrow the majority decision. Any such undemocratic method will not be tolerated in this free country. Common sense rejects it even before it seriously could be entertained. ‘When Congress overcomes the habit of passing inwalid laws, its members will stop trying to devise unfair means to prevent the United States Supreme Court from protecting the rights and liberties of all the people of this great Nation. JOSEPH W. CHEYNEY, Concerning the Parking Ban on Kennedy Street To the Editor of The Star: X Will you, through the kindly offices of your paper, permit me to express a few words regarding Traffic Director Van Duzer's ban of parking on Ken- medy street? For 14 years I have been a resident on this street and being so placed I have been in a good position to observe traffic conditions, both before and after the order was issued. I am inclined to agree with the car owners in the District that the edict places a distinct hardship upon them. They are now forced to park their cars clean across the street, or perhaps in one of the 101 empty parking places that exist around the corner and that, it must be admitted, is a terrific trial. And joining in the chorus are the local business men; they, too, are in- convenienced beyond words. When a customer calls, these merchants can no longer walk to the waiting car at the curb; they must bridge that vast en- gulfing distance of some 30 feet and deposit on the other side the loaf of bread or pint of milk, or what have you, that has been bought. All of which is enough to ruffle the temper of any in- dolent business man. But to an observer who has stood on his porch and watched accident after accident happen merely because cars were parked where they never should have been, just let it be said that the traffic director’s order is a godsend. No longer need one cross the street in direct peril; the view is unpbstructed and safe. And no longer need' cars weave in and out and across over to the left side of the road when a street car is approached. All the driver now has to do is stay on the right side of the street and drive right on through. If any criticism is to be directed at Van Duzer let it be for not issuing the order sooner; that to my observation has been his only failing. He has taken & step forward in the preservation and prolongation of human life and for that deserves great credit. Saving human life should be our primary endeavor.! Per- sonal inconvenience that results from doing that should be a minor concern. J. AMOROSE. 3 D. C., TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1936. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES B. TRACEWELL. The “why” of personal liking still remains one of the great mysteries. There is really no explaining why some people’s eyes light up when they see you, why others are indifferent, why a few hate you. The only sure thing is that the first eyes that gleamed with pleasure will be the last eyes, too. Life is so, and it is & good thing for most of us. In a universe of constant and terrific change, this is about the only thing that stands sure. Hatreds come and go, because mostly they are counterfeit, but liking, or love, whichever one wants to call it, remains steadfast. This was said long ago, but every person proves it anew. Each lifetime is a sort of chemical experiment in which the reagents are physical activity, mind activity, spiritual activity. These combine to Make a life. Many startling compounds are formed. Some of these are the material of art. Others are purely political. Some are economic. e ‘The best of life’s compounds is love, or liking. Like a vitamin, it is told by results, rather than by what one sees, because the thing is not to be seen or isolated. In the everyday life the mystery of . liking (a less striking word than love, which has been given so many curious twists nowadays) is known to all. Friendliness is a synonym. Some one you never did a thing for likes you; some one you did everything for does not. And there you are, and who can ex- plain it? Take all the books on psychology. Gather many degrees in kindred sub- jects. Know enough to confuse juries. Do what you please, read what you please, go where vou please, and you will know no more about the “why” of likes and dislikes than the veriest child who has been nowhere and seen nothing. Here are half a dozen elevator “boys” in a big building. One of them is always glad to see you. ‘The remainder are indifferent. hE\'cry!hing you say to the first pleases im. You could “wise crack” with the ability of a certain gentleman famous for repartee to the other five. It would leave them cold. But the merest word pleases the first young fellow. * % ¥ X And it is the same everywhere. You can't explain it on the grounds of clothes, or appearance, or any other single matter. It just is, and that’s that, as the saying has it. Wherever you go it is the same. In one store a clerk seems to “take a shine” to you, and you get real service, the sort they write and talk about so much. At the very next place you are practi- cally snubbed and left to cool your heels while two of the boys or girls talk over last night's party and all the funny things seen and heard there. When you go to cocktail parties and the like of your own you find exactly the same situation, only more varnished. Those who don't like each other always manage not to see each other. They go way ‘round. No matter how long you all stay, the STARS, MEN room remains divided up into little groups, which never separate much, despite the confusion and noise. ‘Those who really like each other, or at least have the ability to tolerate each other, naturally gravitate to the same spot. But if you look over the groups, trying to pick out those famous birds of a feather, you will see that each group is composed of startlingly similar “feathers,” 50 that in the end you must confess your- self defeated on all fronts. There is no telling by looking at people. X ¥ % x 1t is the same in a business establish- ment. After many years you wake up to the fact that two people you know and like nevertheless do not like each other. They never speak voluntarily. Their business relations are cordial, but carried on as briefly and impersonally as possible. Look at them as hard as you please, you find it impossible to discover just why they can’t like each other. “Office politics” won’t explain it. Thwarted ambitions—only partially. It is just another case of dislike. Neither like nor dislike, however, need be instinctive. “Love at first sight” is not essential. There are many loves which are bullt up, and becomes as strong as any. A simple like need not be an immediate affair. It, too, will be all the stronger for being gradual, in many cases. Every one knows how this Is. The budding friendship is tentative Here a little, there a little, until at last something fine and dignified is the result. | It is a fine thing, after all, that there is no telling. When one stops to think of all the enmity in the world, of the huge crop ! f rancor which is a-building in eve o g in every | coived g nation, of the instinctive dislikes scen everywhere, it is one happy feature of a distraught world that these good likings are to be found everywhere, too. It is a good thing to realize these friendships, as little as they may be, to value them at the time and continuing, to understand that they represent some- thing distinctly fine all the time. ‘Thus the spontaneous smile of the bus driver is something, although you do not know his name, and perhaps never will. It makes no difference. The thing to remember is the smile. There will be many times in life when its sadder sides, its fears, its plain hos- tilities, work to efface recollection of all the brighter aspects. It is then especially that it is good to recall the small though fine likings which many people have for you. Some- times it seems to work out this way, that the people one likes best do not like you, and the ones you do.not care for much have a great hankering for your company. This is only partly true. What is lack- ing, when one feels so. is the proper re- membrance of all the persons whose faces light up at the sight of you. Often those inner gleams have passed unre- garded. Is it not so? best of them. They are.precious pearls on the floods of time. They are lights along the way. They shine like fireflies in a dark night, little but powerful. Put together, in any one’s life, they make a great light, and, | like all true lights, give forth warmth ' as well. AND ATOMS Notebook of Science Progress in Field, Laboratory and Study. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. The most intensive war ever waged against an invisible invader now is under way to save the elm-arched streets of Eastern towns and villages. It has its pioneer companies, its ax- armed infantry of C. C. C. workers, its air force, its fleld headquarters, its test- tube-filled laboratory. The tide of battle now is turning in favor of this army. Two years ago it seemed as though the elms were doomed. A dreaded fungus blight, the Dutch elm disease, somehow had gotten into the country and prom- ised to leave only dead elms in its path, just as a similar fungus a decade before had destroyed the chestnuts from Quebec to Georgia. About the hardest foe to fight is a fungus, its spores carried by the wind and by insects. The Department of Agriculture accepted the challenge, how- ever, and the invisible enemy seems to be on the retreat, or at least barely holding the ground it has gained. Two years ago during the first three weeks in June, according to Lee A. Strong, chief of the Bureau of Ento- mology and Plant Quarantine, 200 scouts found 443 infected trees. This year the defending army was increased seven- fold. But with more than 1400 scouts in the field only 607 trees were found in which presence of the disease has been established by laboratory tests. But if the elms are to be saved, Dr. Strong says, there can be no armistice. The only practical way to fight the dis- ease is to destroy every sickly elm in the areas where it occurs. At present the infection is concentrated most heavily around New York City, where it entered the country and established its foothold before the danger was recognized. The chief carriers of the disease spores, Bureau of Entomology experts point out, are tiny beetles that breed fn dead or dying elms. They have spread the malady through a radius of 50 miles in New York, New Jersey and Connec- ticut. A few infected trees have been found near two other ports of entry, Baltimore and Norfolk. Some also have been found along railroad tracks carry- ing infected elm logs and near cities where veneer factories that use the logs are located. The first step in any successful eradi- cation campaign, Dr. Strong points out, is to find the infected trees. This search now is going on by land and air. Scout- ing crews scour woods, parks and road- sides on foot. An autogiro, recently acquired by the Bureau of Entomology, slowly flies over marshes and over areas difficult to scout on foot. The aerial observer spots sickly trees and marks them on a map so that the ground crew can find and destroy them. The army of defense is composed largely of Civilian Conservation Corps and W. P. A. workers. General fleld headquarters are located at Bloomfleld, N. J. The army is divided into three “services”—scouting, eradication and sanitation crews—which follow each other in the field. Sampies of every suspected tree are cultured at an Ento- mology Bureau laboratory, where is sta- tioned a corps of plant pathologists capable of making 1,000 cultures a day, if ngessary. The “army” has three training camps for its soldiers—each with a constant enrollment of 100. This is necessary be- cause of the rapid personnel of the relief organizations from which the ranks must be recruited. In New [} work, with 122 in New York and nearly 50 in Connecticut. in which the disease has been confirmed this year are in New Jersey and New York. One has been found near Norfolk, one near Baltimore and one at Stamford, Conn. Since the beginning of the “war” a total of 14456 trees have been found. One of the most important jobs is that of the “sanitary department,” which comes last and cleans up trees not in- fected with the disease itself, but har- boring the tiny beetles which carry its spores. The hope of saving the elms, Strong says, rests in keeping up the war until the last remnant of the dis- ease is eradicated. He urges every one anywhere to notify the department. Even if such a tree does not have the disease itself, he says, it offers a fine landing place for the bark beetles which carry the spores. “An elm with yellowing, wilted leaves is open to instant suspicion,” he says. “Present indications are that the only possible hope for the continued existence of the elm in this country is the prompt discovery and destruction of every dis- eased tree. This calls for careful and continuous scouting of thousands of square miles for a number of years. If the removal of diseased trees can keep pace with their discovery, the campaign has a better than 50-50 chance for success.” oo Protest Against Handling Of Crowds at Ball Games | To the Editor of The Star: I wal a stranger visiting in your city and attended the double-header ball game between Washington and New York July 4. I paid $2.20 for a box seat at the game. These seats were close to the ground out in the open. I did not mind that at all. However, the ball management kept on selling tickets as long as any one would buy them when there was nothing but standing room. Those who purchased the standing room seats, of course, had to have some place to stand, so they crowded down in front of the boxes standing up so that those in the lower box seats could not see at all. They refused to sit down. Officers tried to make them sit down but they would not obey. The crowd jeered them but still they refused to sit down. This forced all of the thousands ‘in the box seats out from under the roof to stand if they wanted to see any part of the game and thus discommode those back of them so they had to stand up, too. ‘The disturbance was so great that dur- ing the intermission between the two games an announcer notified those down on the ground in front of the boxes that they would have to move off before the second game would be started. Some moved away to the other side, others remained. Finally officers tried to move ;.hem away, but they persisted in a re- usal. If the management is going to keep on | selling tickets at a low rate for “stand- ing” room purposes, it should not charge people such high prices for “box” seats that are simply a place to sit, not to see any part of the game. I protest paying $2.20 for a seat where I must give way to some one who has paid only about a fourth as much, who all the privileges of seeing the plays the game. Prices for box seats should be so high or standing room should be tted to deprive those who ts of the privilege of seeing E. ADAMS, The thing to do | is to acknowledge them, and make the | | City in 1848. Most of the trees | Mr. | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. Is it against the rules of the Ameri- can Turf Association to rice a thore oughbred horse with padded bar shoes, the same as the ones used on- harness horses?—J. L. O. A. The Jockey Club says that there are no special rulings as to the shoes of thoroughbred horses. Q. How can the average automobile driver tell whether gasoline is high or low grade?—G. M. ' A. A simple test is to pour a little gasoline into the palm of the hand. If it evaporates quickly and leaves the hand dry and clean, it is high grade. If it evaporates slowly and leaves a greasy deposit, it is low grade. Q. How many attendants at bathing beaches and outdoor swimming pools were there last year?—W. T, A. In the United States and Canada, | the seasonal attendance at beaches was 46,500,000 in 1935, and 18,000,000 at out- door swimming pools. Q. Please give a biography of John' | Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee.—E. H. A. John Daniel Miller Hamilton wa born at Fort Madison, Towa, Marc 1892. He is the son of John Danicl Miller and Mary Rice Hamilton. In 1913 he was graduated from Phill Academy at Andover, Mass. He bachelor of laws degree at Northwestern University in 1916. In 1915 he married Laura Hall and they have two children, John Daniel and Laura From 1916-1918 Mr. Hamilton practiced law in Kansas City, Mo. Since then he has practiced in Topeka as a member of the firm of O'Neil & Hamilton. Mem- ber of the Kansas House of Represent- atives, 1925-1928, he was Speaker of the House in 1927-8. From 1930-1932 he was chairman of the Republican State Central Committee; member of the Re- publican National Committee since 1932, He is a Phi Alpha Delta, Mason and Elk. Q. How long does it take the blood to make the circuit of the human body? —P. 8. A. All the blood goes in and out of the heart once every minute. Q. Does mahogany grow in the United States?>—E. C. A. It grows naturally in the tip of Florida and on the Florida Keys. It has also been planted in Southern Florida. | The species is the same as that found in the West Indies. Q. How mapy people visit the Statue of Liberty?—F. M. A. In the travel year (October 1, 1934, to September 30, 1935), 257,000 visitors made the trip from the Battery. Q. How powerful is adrenaline?—E. J. A. Tt is so powerful that a solution con- taining one part in a milllon will pro- duce physiological effects. Q. Please give some information about Louis Tiffany.—E. R. A. The artist was born in New York He studied under George Inness and Samuel Coleman, New York, | and under Leon Bailly, Paris, devoting himself to decorative art, particularly mosaics, stained glass and enamels. He invented Tiffany favrile glass, which possesses refractive powers capable of iridescent effects. Among his oil paint- ings are “Algerian Shops” and “The Pool.” In 1918 he established at Oyster Bay, N. Y., the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation for art students. He died in 1933. Q. Of what does Mahatma Gandhi's diet consist?>—H. L. A. He lives mostly on goat’s milk, almond paste and tomato salad. Q. How many kinds of plastic mate- rials are there? Which is the oldest? —D. McC. A. The six major types of plastic ma- terials are pyroxylin (celluloid). cellu- lose acetate, phenol-formaldehyde, urea- formaldehyde, casein and the vinyl . | resins, Celluloid was the first plastic. who knows of a dying or sickly elm tree | P Q. When did Adelina Patti first sing in New York City?—T. D. A. On Sunday, November 22, 1859. Q. Are all panama hats bleached? —M. H. A. About 99 per cent of panamas are bleached. Natural colored hats are rare and quite expensive. Q. Have women in the Virgin Islands the privilege of voting?—H. M. H. A. Under the new organic act of the Virgin Islands all residents who are citizens of the United States, whether male or female, 21 years of age or over, and able to read and write the English language, are free to vote in the general elections. Within the past 10 years the Congress and the local Legislatures have also passed woman's suffrage acts in the Territories of Alaska, Hawali, and in Puerto Rico. Q. What courses should a person take who wishes to run or be employed upon a dude ranch?—C. C. A. Some helpful subjects are: Hotel management, bookkeeping, public speak- ing, journalism, geology. botany, wild life and history of the West. Q. Where is O. Henry's grave?—E. H. A. The author is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, N. C. Q. How many Indians are there in Canada?—R. W. G. = A. The Indian population for 1934 was estimated at 112,510, No Complex! From the Worcester Gazette. The feeling seems to be that Gov. Landon is not a brilliant or eloquent speaker, but it is to be hoped that cir- cumstances won't give the Republicans an inferi-oratory complex. A Rhyme at Twilight B Y Gertrude Brooke Hamilton Public Fighter. Out in the world’s arena, A gladiator at bay, Elate to meet the beast of fate, On guard for valiart fray, He stands alone, Faee carved in stone, In the conflict of the day. Out in his car at even, Driving with tempered speed, The conflict over, forgotten The perilous daytime need, His face at peace In dusk’s surcease, Love is his only creed. )