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THE EVENING STAR
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FRIDAY July 18. 1930
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The Real Estate Investigation.
Now that the ball has started rolling,
the duty of the Blaine subcommittee,
investigating certain types of repl estate
transactions in Washington, is clearly
outlined. That duty is to see the thing
through to the end and to allow noth- j
lng to interfere with the presentation j
of all sides of the cases that have !
been and will be presented for exam
ination. Any antipathy on the part of
reputable real estate firms in Washing
ton to these investigations is not found
ed on the fear of exposing dirt that will
Mnear their own reputations, but upon
the fear that ex parte statements and
one-sided stories may invite conclusions
that are not deserved. The only way
to prevent these conclusions is by pa
tient search for all the facts. These
facts should come to light, and it is to
be presumed that reputable members
of the real estate business in Washing
ton will co-operate fully In bringing
them out.
It is common practice to condemn
•uch inquiries as that inaugurated by
Senator Blaine on the ground that in
nocent persons will suffer; that good
names will be dragged in and be
smirched, and that tongues will start
wagging to no good end.
On the contrary, If there is any dirt
In the corners in the real estate busi
ness in Washington, the business as a
whole will benefit by having it exposed
and cleaned up. No real estate firm
should fear the accusations or state
ments of witnesses, if that firm has held
Itself rigidly to the code of good busi
ness and fair dealing; and reputations
built up through the years need have
no fear of being dragged down and out
within the space of the relatively few
hours of a congressional investigation.
Senator Blaines subcommittee will
be performing a valuable service to the
people of Washington, provided it ex
ercises as much care to protect good
names as it shows vigilance in exposing
shady tactics. It will do grave harm if
it allows its work to be interrupted be
fore it is completed or adjourns its sit
tings before every man w'ho wishes to
apeak has been given that opportunity.
One HunJred Years Old.
Uruguay, smallest of the Independent
nations of South America, is celebrat
ing its 100th anniversary today and is
receiving the deserved congratulations
due the people of a country who suc
cessfully have survived the stresses and
Strains of infancy and have entered the
period where age and experience in
government are used to advantage in
self-improvement and national advance
ment. Uncle Sam is delighted to
voice his own felicitations to a young
and coming brother.
Uruguay dates its real birth from the
18th of July, 1830, when it proclaimed
its declaration of independence and
adopted its constitution. Before that
time, in company with the other re
publics of the South, it had engaged in
struggles for freedom and independence
that culminated in the establishment of
self-government, and for many years
thereafter internal strife and possibly the
Jealousy of neighbors retarded its full
measure of progress. In the last few
generations it has rid itself of the grow
ing pains of youth, subordinated the
lawless element and now enters upon a
new century that holds rich promise for
Steady growth and development.
The President has a camp and now
(me is prepared for cabinet members
and their wives. The sort of camp
many would like to see arranged for j
the Senate and House can easily be
Imagined. There would be not only
plenty of kitchen police, but the motto
of the Boy Scouts. ‘‘A good deed once
a day,” would be in full force.
The Norrises of Nebraska,
Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska,
©utstanding independent and progressive I
of the Senate, finds that his race to j
be renominated for the Senate as a i
Republican has been complicated. An- j
other George W. Norris has filed as a i
candidate also for the Republican
senatorial nomination. How the voters
are to distinguish between the two Us
what is troubling the friends of Senator
Norris. Should the vote between the
two Norrises be so divided as to permit
another candidate to slip through to
victory, they feel fiat an injustice will
have been done to Senator Norris.
The Interjection of George W. Noriis
of Brokenbow. Nebr, as a candidate for
the senatorial nomination is palpably a
political trick to embarrass Senator
Norris, who hails from McCock. Trick
ery In politics is no more admiiable
than trickery in any other form of
human activity. It would be more char
itable to regard the entry of the other
Mr. Norris as a practical joke. But
trick or joke, it is not likely to make
any particular difference to the
chances of Senator Norris in the long
run. Os course George W. Norris of
Brokenbow has a right to enter the
senatorial primal y if he wishes, is of
the requisite age—as he presumably 18
—»nd has filed his prtition in accord
ance with the State law. No one will
deny that. But this, particular Mr.
Norris has, so far as can b» learned,
not yet proved him.vlf of senatorial
caliber nor advanced in political and
governmental affairs to a point where
he would have the slightest chance of
betas nominated for the Senate in Ne
kaaaka. His only claim to fame, or no
toriety. lies In the fact he bean the
same name as the Senator.
The suggestion is now advanced that
unless the Brokenbow Norris retires
3 from the Republican senatorial pri
mary race or is disqualified by the
r State authorities—it has been charged
that his filing was irregularly late—
' Senator Norris will himself withdraw
and run as an independent. Under the
State law a candidate who has been
defeated In a party primary is not
eligible to run in the general election
, as an independent candidate. In Ne-
braska. where the voters wear the party
1 label lightly. Mr. Norris may find it as
! convenient to run as an independent
I as on the Republican ticket. He is
widely popular in the State and in ad
dition to Republican and independent
votes, he has received Democratic sup
; port in the past.
Mr. Norris is to have a Democratic
opponent, according to reports, in for
mer Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock. Mr.
Hitchcock may prove a formidable op
ponent. He was elected Senator in the
past. He is widely known in the State,
and there is the possibility that many
of the regular Republicans in the State
might prefer to vote for Hitchcock
rather than Senator Norris, on the
ground that Norris is anti-administra
tion and voted for the Democratic na
'ional ticket in 1928 and announced
himself in opposition to the election
of President Hoover. With Senator
Norris nominated as a Republican and
In a race confined to himself and Hitch
i cock, the veteran Senator might find
I It more difficult to win than if he ran
! as an independent, with Hitchcock and
the regular Republican nominee dividing
the opposition to him. Doubtless a con
siderable number of Democrats might
swing to Norris even against Hitchcock,
or at least that is a reported prob
ability.
The Nebraska senatorial fight will be
watched with keen interest throughout
the country this year. No member of
the Senate has been more hostile to
the Hoover administration than Sen
ator Norris. Yet in 1928 Mr. Hoover
carried Nebraska over A1 Smith by a
substantial vota, despite the effort of
Senator Norris to swing the State to the
Democratic candidate.
The Nadir of the Stage.
According to a dispatch from N„*w
York City there were on view in the
whole United States on the night of
July 16 only tw'enty-six plays and
musical comedies. Chicago for the first
time in many years had only one play
before the public, and New York oniy
fifteen. Ten other shows were dis
tributed about the rest of the country,
including two musical tabloids, five
stock productions and one minstrel
show. It Is true that this Is the dullest
time or the year in theatricals, but this
is an extraordinarily dull year. A sur
vey made by the Actors’ Equity Asso
ciation shows the smallest number of
productions ever listed by this organiza
tion, whose records run back for nearly
a decade. The head of Equity, com
menting upon this showing, said that
there were two factors responsible for
this situation of dramatic dullness, the
tendency toward individual curtailment
of expenses following the stock market
collapse and incident ito ‘‘hard times,”
and the absence of the usual number of
tourists in New York. But New York
alcne is not hit by the theatrical
famine. It is, as the figures of Equity
show, prevalent throughout the country
One reason for this depletion In the
dramatic output is the competition of
the motion pictures, especially since
they have gone into the vocal field and
have combined ‘ production,” or vaude
ville entertainment, with the screen at
tractions. The average price of a mo
tion picture entertainment is very much
less than the price of tickets for a
stage show. The “movies” have simply
emptied the “legitimate” theaters witn
their competition in rates. Then again,
the radio is entertaining people at home
who formerly went to the theater for
their diversion after dinner. This may
be a small factor, but it contributes to
the depletion of theater patronage.
It is beside the mark to raise the
question of the o allty of stage produc
tions during the past few years. That
is always a matter of taste. And much
might be said about the quality of the
screen attractions that are offered,
especially since the voice reproducing
methods were adopted. Certainly in
respect to quality there is no particular
advantage on one side or the other. If
the stage plays and the pictures re
flect public taste then indeed public
taste is at low mark.
The theater is not dead nor dying.
It will always remain an institution of
entertainment and possibly instruction.
It will "come bad ".with the return of
j better times and beiier plays, and better
acting. It may come back strongest in
the form of straight drama or in revue,
in road company or in stock company.
That is a question for development.
But the theaters now “dark” will be
relllumlnated and perhaps some of the
picture houses of the present will be
transformed into dramatic establish
ments. From this present condition of
; depletion will surely come revival, and
; the hope of the public Is that it will be
! a revival of merit and not merely of
j theatrical commercial success.
I When casting up accounts this coun
try certainly cannot consider Mrs.
I Helen Wills Moody and Mr. William
I Tilden as frozen assets.
Britain'* Egyptian Woe*.
Even a British Labor government
finds that the burdens of empire are
onerous—and inescapable. With India
still in incalculable turmoil. Egypt has
I dared up again, requiring the dispatch
iof British battleships to Alexandria
* and ol an ultimatum to the Carlo au
i thorlties. The Egyptian government
i has been summarily notified that Oreat
Britain will hold it to strict account
ability for British lives, property and
interests through the kingdom.
Intermitientl.v lor months rioting and
violence have prevailed in Egypt. On
the face of things they are the ear
marks of political strife between the
I supporters of King Fuad and the par
tisans of former Premier Nahas Pasha.
Last month the King maneuvered Nahas
1 out of office. But 'these are purely the
external manlfeftallons of Egyptian un
-1 rest What deeply underlies it is the
ancient grudge—the Nation-wide hos
tility to British pretensions to sover
-1 eignty over the Land of the Pharaohs.
■ , The throne favors conciliation and
i I co-operation with the long-time British
t' overlords. Nahas and his’extreme Na
• tionallsu cohort* would expal John Bull.
• bag and baggage, from Egypt. It was
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. I). C.._ FRIDAY. JULY 18, 1930.
e Nahaa who caused the recent break
down of negotiations at London, from
t which It was hoped a treaty of Anglo
s Egyptian peace and amity would flow
- He was believed to be calculating that
e Britain’s preoccupations with revolu
-1 tion In India were so absorbing that
- the MacDonald government would turn
s’ b!e over itself to make concessions to
t Egypt. That did not come to pass.
, Excesses in Alexandria and other
t Egyptian Nationalist centers will not'
end with the suppression of this week’s
. outbreaks. Nor will the demand for
, complete annihilation of British influ
s! ence in Egypt cease. Still lees is there
t ' probability that any government In
, 1 London will be found in mood to yield
_ ;to Nationalist pressure. Th’ Nile coun
| try flanks Britain's “all-red line” to
J the East and her highway to South
Africa. Control of the Suez Canal and
of the Sudan Is at stake.
The British have built and held their
empire by compromise at psychological
moments with disturbing elements here.
’ there and everywhere within its far
flung ramifications. Unless conditions
’ are to remain a perpetual thorn in the
’ empire's side, London statesmanship
’ will have to And away of reducing
| British authority in Egypt to a mini
mum compare with Nationalist sus
ceptibilities!*^
If an honest-to-goodness conquering
hero like Dewey should ever come home
again to New' York it is wondered just
j what sort of a demonstration she could
J think up, in view of the emotional out
burst theretofore accorded to Arctic ex
! plorers. channel swimmers and most
recently a young man who can put a
small white ball into 18 various holes
in fewer strokes than any Briton.
Witch burning, bear baiting and
formal dog fighting have ell gone out
of fashion. Some day the celebration
o? Independence day by means of loud
and exceedingly dangerous explosives
will appear equally ridiculous and rep
rehensible.
Excavations north of the Deed Sea
are said to have laid bare the cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah. A1 Capone and
Bugs Moran have quite away to go yet.
However, give them, aided by loyal
citlaens, a little time.
The editor of the journal of the Na
tional Educational Association predicts
a working day of no more than four
hours. There will be clock-watchers
and whistle-listener* just ,the same.
In spite of detailed confessional di
aries, the fate of the Collier Cyclopa
continues comparable to that of the late
lamented Dorsey Foultz.
Cisco. Tex., has a swimming pool
whose dimensions are 700 by 267 feet.
Now if there were only a little Ashing
there!
The Bureau of Navigation says there
is no law compelling merchant ships to
salute Navy ships on the high seas.
Nor rum-runners, either.
Europe, there is no doubt, is away
behind this country. They do not even
have litter in their public park* over
there.
—■ —e e-■ —*
“Liquor Syndicate Believed Broken,”
runs a headline. Curious how these,
like certain other lower forms of life,
can mend themselves.
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDKR JOHNSON.
The Simple Life.
If men were born to take their ease
And skies were ever blue;
If money only grew on trees
And bills were never due;
If hopes could ripen unrestrained,
With food and lodging free;
If wealth were easily attained —
How simple life would be.
But nature says that men must toil
To win her favors fair.
To wrest her bounty from the soil
Or gain aurceaae of care.
TU for the simple life we yeam,
Midst daily ills that vex;
But Fate, mysterious and stern,
Says life must be etynplex.
Always Practical.
“Have you never given any thought
to what posterity will say about you?”
“No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I
long ago arrived at the conclusion that
posterity cannot make you as much
trouble as one of your next door
neighbors."
Not Sure.
“Is your daughter learning to play
the piano?”
“I can’t say for sure,” answered Mr.
Cumrox, whether she’s learning to play
or I'm getting used to it.”
An Impossible Ideal.
When'er I buy a ault of clothes
The mirror makes me very sad.
I cannot, howsoe'er I pose,
Look like the picture in the ad.
I An Impression.
, “Do you think that wealth is es
> sential to happiness?”
' From some of the letters I receive,”
said Mr. Dustin Stax, I am inclined
to think a number of people consider
some of my wealth essential to their
, happiness.”
Affronted Authority.
'So your wife does not approve of
base ball?"
“No," answered Mr. Mrekton. "Henri
i etta can't stand it to see anv mere man
t bossing people around the way the
i umpire does.”
Joyous Comparison.
"Oh, merry robin in the tree,
I love to hear your song anew;
I’m also glad we never see
Mosquitoes quite as big as you.”
I 'Some man,” said Uncle Eben, “aln'
satisfied to eat de bread of idleness.
1 Dey ’slsu on pie an' cake."
’ After the End.
From the Pasadena Star-News
Speaking of language as it is some
times written, a Los Angeles concern.
* which Is closing out Its business, ad
r vertices. “We're through forever In
* four days."
A Form of Penance.
From the Plttaburtn Poat-OuMtte,
J If. the lowa man who returned a
i T. M. C. A. towel after two years is
-• really repentant he might buy up the
l, souvenir* of other people end get them
s back to points of origin.
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES I. TRACEWELL.
A dry season takes the measure of
i the gardener. The way a place looks
during such a drought as the present
speaks louder than words of the care
given it.
It is during dry weather that the
i small garden comes Into Its own. for
. then it can be given the attention
which Is impossible on a large estate.
Water, the salvation of grass and
flower*, may be put on artificially if
a yard Is small, but It becomes another
matter entirely on the extensive place.
Lawns on many larger places are
literally burning up on account of the
lack of water. As week after week
goes by without even a drop, owners
of such gardens must be content to
watch their work turn to failure.
Here the small place owner has the
advantage. He Is In a position to give
the care which the season demands,
without undue sacrifice of time or
money.
He finds possible in short, what the
other finds impossible.
** * *
Another advantage of the smaller
place is that It often suffices for the
amateur.
Perhaps that ia not putting it
strongly enough. The big place more
than suffices—lt is so large that the
home owner, who is not a trained
agriculturist, simply will not work at it.
For the best in gardening, one must
de it himself. To turn the work over
to some one else is to lose its finest
charms.
In the matter of the extent of
grounds one cares to take care of
every one must be a law to himself.
What arems tiresome to one will not
prove so to another. The man who
willingly mows the lawn of the little
lot may find a larger one too much
for his patience. Not always ia it a
shrinking from physical labor.
Perhaps there is no more positive
proof of the depth to which the
Biblical injunction (that man must
eat his bread by the aweat of his
brow), has sunk into the human con
sciousness, than the readiness of prac
tically every one to brand the next
as lasy.
Parents call their children lazy if
they do not hop and jump at their beck
and call. Associates call fellow work
ers lazy whose philosophy of life and
living differs from their own.
On every hand most human beings
are prone to hurl the charge of laatness
at the heads, often unoffending, of
those whose natures are different from
that to which they have been accus
tomed.
Perhaps the old sense of Inferiority
which society through the ages has im
posed on the majority of men makes
most people delight In calling others
lazy. They thus And a certain and easy
superiority at no more trouble than the
mere uttering of a name.
** * *
The wise amateur gardener will find
out early just about how much land he
wishes to take care of, and will there
after not exceed his limitation. He will
impose this limitation upon him
self, not only to make sure that his
garden gets the care It thould have,
but even more to make certain that he
does not bite off more than he can
chew.
The anxious gardener—and most
amateurs are that —often has grandiose
ideas of what he would like to have.
He dreams in terms of acres. When
he gets in possession of his coveted
land, however, he learns that an acre
is quite a tract of land. Two acres ia
a veritable farm.
Standing at the front of hie domain,
looking back to the far stretches, he
see* that the one-man superintendence
of all that ground is a task far beyond
his physical and mental capabilities.
He has other things to do. He finds
that his land, with its far-reaching ex
I WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS I
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILK %
One of President Hoover's current
woes, apart from the naval treaty snarl
in the Senate, is the appointment of a
major general commandant of the Ma
rine Corps. The Leathernecks are very
close to the President's heart nowa
days, since Maj. Long s splendid de
tachment of 200 Marines built and be
came the custodians of the Rapldan
camp. Pour officers of high rank are in
the running to succeed the late Maj.
Oen. Neville. In alphabetical order,
they are' Brig. Gens. Smedley D. Butler,
commandant of the Quantico base;
Logan Feland. commandant of the De
partment of the Pacific at San Pran
cisco; Ben Hebard Puller, acting major
general commandant of the corps, at
Washington, and James H. Russell.
United States high commissioner in
Haiti. A tremendous behind-the-scenes
competition is on at the White House
and the Navy Department, with friends
and supporters of each of the four
brigadiers pulling wires and wiring for
pulls in all directions. An appointment
will probably be withheld, as is usual,
until 30 days after the death of the late
commandant. This may postpone a
final selection until the end of July.
Devll-dcg enlisted men are plugging
for Butler. The State Department is
said to be boosting Russell.
a* * *
A clean desktop is the irreducible
minimum demanded by the President
before he starts West on his little va
cation at the end of August. What Mr.
Hoover has particularly in mind is his
determination to reconstitute the United
States Tariff Commission and the Fed
eral Power Commission before he goes
on his holtdav. It's an open secret that
the White House is having its own
troubles on this score. The task the
Chief Executive weathered in naming
the Federal Farm Board last year was
child's play compared to the difficul
ties he's experiencing in finding the
right sort of men for the tariff and
power bodies. Any number of eligible*
have said "No, thank you," to the Pres
ident’s importunities. Some present
alibis in the form of their inability to
leave their private business. Many
very many—frankly acknowledge their
refusal to subject personal reputations
established during the lifetime of work
and success to the fire of "political gun
men" who specaillie at Washington in
pillorying nominees to Federal office.
m* * *
Just before Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur,
Secretary of the Interior, and Mr*. Wil
bur left Washington the other day for
their Far Western Summer camp In
the Sierra Nevadas, the tallest timber in
the Hoover cabinet ordered a new bed.
It's to be 7 feet long and will be in
stalled in Secretary Wilbur’s cabin in
the "cabinet camp" on the Rapldan.
Nothing he could find in stock in Wash
ington furniture establishments was of
any dimensions he could tffie, so a bed is
to be made to order for him. What Dr.
Wilbur does when he travels in a Pull
man has not been publicly disclosed.
One of the Interior chief’s missions in
the West, besides vacationing, will be
to look over the initial construction
operations at Boulder Dam, which have
Just set in. The project, in Wilbur’s
words. "signally* our national conquest
of the Great American Desert."
** * *
"Bill" Schilling, Jovial, broad-shoul
-1 dered dairyman member of the Federal
; Farm Board, made such an impression
)on a recent missionary tour through
Colorado that an admirer at Grand
Junction has broken into rhythmic
rhapsody over him. Here are the open
ing stanzas of "Sagebrush Philosophy”:
"We’ve heard about a Federal Farm
Board for quite a spell.
Though if one really did exiat. was
rather hard to tell.
But now we’ve seen Bill Schilling, and
heard him laugh and talk,
We aren’t scared to bet 5 cents that he t
the biggest half.
But, speaKin' serious, mixed in with All
his Jokes and fun,
f panse of lawn to be cut, stretches out
5 in hi* Imagination even farther than it
t does in reality. Its contemplation tires
► him more than the actual work would
do. Just how one arrives at the per
> feet state of knowledge of how much
r grass one is willing to cut per cutting
i season cannot be stated. A great deal
will depend upon one’s activities, one’s
I age. one's real interest in working
r around the home. Above all. no one
r else can speak for one, although many
. will attempt to do so.
,** * *
• The drv season will demand a great
: deal more' than the usual care not only
i In watering but in the cultivation of the
) ground.
It is perhaps true that hand culti
' I ration of small areas does not have the
' same sanction nowadays that it once
. had. Mulching, as the process is called.
' is done with almost religious fervor by
many gardeners.
The theory of the dust mulch is that
It forms an impervious covering around
the plant through which the water
. beneath has difficulty in evaporating.
Surely such a covering, tight or other
wise, is more than necessary during
such a season as the present, when
; water seldom falls, and. when It does,
scarcely moistens the crust which has
| formed during the past weeks.
The advantage of a small place is
that it may be handled, in respect to
: the major operations of watering,
mulching and fertilizing, precisely the
; same In a drought as at any other time.
We say it may be, not that it Is.
Somehow the specter of dry weather
1 tends to frighten away many enthusi
! astic gardeners. They succumb to the
| inertia induced by heat and let th?ir
. gardens go to pot.
** * *
One of the pleasures of gardening
during a drought it to watch the re
sponse of the grass to the application
of water. During an ordinary season,
with a normal rainfall, one takes the
I grass tor granted. There is nothing
spectacular about the way it comes
along. The proverbial April showers,
followed by seasonable storms, keep the
lawns green without human thought.
During a real dry spell, however, even
the best grass plots will burn up unless
they get their daily stint of water from
the old hose. Those who, returning
from vacation, find their yards in poor
shape need not be discouraged. A lib
eral application of Water will soon put
the grass back in its old form. Perhaps
not quite. But wonders can be accom
plished.
In performing this major operation
upon a baked and parched lawn it is
perhaps best to take the nozzle off the
hose and permit the water to run as it
will. By this method the dying grass
can be sopped. One may have read
that it is not well to sprinkle grass
while the sun in shining. That is the
theory, and. as a theory, it is well
enough. But when a lawn nreds water.
It needs water. Its application during
the sunny hours is better than waiting.
It should be kept in mind, however,
that what such grass needs is plenty of
water, so that three or more hours of
continuous watering is necessary.
This process kept up over a stretch
of several day* will work veritable
miracles with the worst-appearing lawn.
It Is perhaps too hot to plant grass
seed In case bare spots tend to appear.
This may be left until the last of the
Summer—the last two weeks of August
and the first two in September. What
Is more necessary now is water, it is
particularly required tor sod. Placing
sod and forgetting It is not fair to the
sod, which must amalgamate with the
old earth. Newly-sodded areas should
be kept continuously moist for several
weeks after placing and should reoelve
extra attention during the hot weather,
especially during such a dry spell as the
present.
Bill Schilling is a-showln’ us the way
out, or else there isn’t none.
Now let us drop our prejudicial notions
in the sea.
And show these Farm Board bozos just
how brilliant we can be.
If Hoover really wants to help the
farmer win the day.
Let's give the old boy half a chance by
meeting him half way."
»* * *
The new state of the “Vatican City”
at Rome has Just completed its first of
ficial census. The state has a popula
tion of only 526 nuls. It includes one
American citizen—or one who hitherto
has carried a United States passport.
He happens to be the Vatican astrono
mer. Inasmuch as he now lives within
another sovereign Jurisdiction, the ques
tion arises whether he will continue to
see only the stars, or the stars—and
stripes.
** * *
Now that It can be told, there was
grave danger a few days ago that none
other than Cupid would play havoc
with the administration’s naval treaty
quorum In the Senate. A thirk-and
thin supporter of the pact. Senator
Thomas. Republican, of Idaho, told
| "Jim" Watson he would see things
through only up to the eleventh hour
! necessary to entrain for Idaho to see
! his daughter married. The wedding,
Senator Thomas said, had already been
postponed twice to suit his congressional
convenience at Washington, but the
young folks would brook no further de
lay. Even the unofficial offer of a cere
mony at the Capital, under exalted
auspices, failed to dissuade the Senator
from hla plans to go West and give his
daughter away. Happily, the quorum
situation took a turn for the better
and Thomas’ presence in the chamber
is no longer so indispensable.
♦♦ ♦ *
National Commander Bodenhamer of
the American Legion explained on the
radio the other night “how come" that
’ j veterans’ pension legislation has such
j easy sailing in Congress. "Byway of
parenthesis." he said, discussing recent
1 events on Capitol Hill, "mav I say that
there are 63 members of the House of
Representatives and 15 members of the
Senate who are members of the Ameri
can Legion. These, together with hun
dreds upon hundreds of other national
legislators, have been most militant in
their support of Legion and veteran
legislation.”
** * ★
Hey. Herbert Hoover i Stanford ’gs>,
what’s the big idea? The President’s
alma mater, in Its 1930-31 catalogue of
"Officers of Instruction and Adminlstra
' tion," has a footnote on .Page l, read
; mg:
"The dagger (t) marks the names of
j men who are married.”
j (Copyright. 1M0.)
Michigan Steps Out.
, From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Michigan has passed Massachusetts,
the new census shows. Even Plymouth
Rock can't stop a flivver.
■■■*—'■■ • —*. ■ ■
Harmony of Fashion.
Prom the Dayton Dally News
I Fashion experts have decreed slender
waists for men, thereby harmonizing
1 with the economical situation.
I j < ■ ■
Likenesses
‘"rom the Detroit Newa.
Often we wonder whether, if the
names were mixed under the photo
trAph of the prominent thug and his
counsel, the fact would be discovered
s >efore five edition* had gone to pres*
1 No Slump There.
i ?rom the D»» Moines Tribune-Capital., *
Whilt many linaa of endeavor appear
I i to be suffering a ■fecllne, bank robbing
i Is still going strop*. in some sections.
Midsummer Charities
To Benefit Animals
To the Editor of The Star:
Midsummer is upon us and most of
us have either had or expect to have a
vacation. Again this year I would sug
gest that we try to spare a little from
: jur vacation fund for our child and ani
mal friends who must depend upon our
; kindness for any relief from crowded,
I hot city quarters, toil and neglect.
Outings are provided little children
and boys and girls by such institutions
as the Associated Charities, central
Union. Oospel and other missions of
i various religious faiths. Help some neg
lected little child soul to a treat of
God's great outdoors and fresh fruits
and vegetables.
The Washington Humane Education
Society would greatly appreciate funds
for vacations of one or two weeks for
tired horses at the society's Be Kind to
Animals Rpst Farm, near Potomac, Md. t
and will be glad to hear by phone or
letter of horses in need of such and
, arrange with their owners for the loan
of substitute horses if owners prove
worthy and depend entirely upon their
horses for a living. A couple of dollars
will provide green pastures, grain, wel
come shade and grateful rest for a
whole week for each of these faithful,
patient servants of man. ,
The agents of the humane society
are especially busy during the heated
term attending to cases of suffering
among the four-footed victims of man's
appetites in markets large and small,
and Increased membership in the so
ciety encourages their efforts.
The work of the Animal Rescue
League is doubled and tripled for at
least three reasons during vacation time
and funds are needed for these emer
gencies over the ordinary running ex
penses furnished by the Community
Chest.
(1) Many last-minute calls from those
leaving town to get pets or strays they
will not abandon must be answered; <2i
the usual increase of calls from owners
for removal of unprovided for offspring
of their pets demands attention, and (3)
most needful of all is as prompt as
possible rescue of literally hundreds of
kittens and cats and a great many dogs
and pups from all sort of cbnditions of
just unwanted strays to those of
thoughtless and willful desertion.
An unusual number of houses and
buildings are being vacated and torn
down this year. May I appeal to own
ers and occupants of such to please do
all In their power to humanely dispose
of any cats and kittens or other animals
around. In mfcny cases numberless cats
have been allowed to multiply at these
places, and have been harbored for
their usefulness as protectors against
rats and mice. If other homes are not
to be provided for them and the oc
cupants cannot personally get them to
the Animal Rescue League, will they
not at least notify the league w'ell in
advance of vacating, rather than
abandoning them or waiting until the
last minute to call In, so that they may
be more easily obtained while there is
still some food supply; also to prevent,
if already wild, their becoming more
terrified by the commotion of building
razing and the danger of being buried
alive by debris In their hiding places.
Otherwise, when finally reported, these
poor creatures, facing starvation and
fright, must be fed and coaxed, prefer
ably at dusk, for days and often weeks.
This requires much patience and time
on the part of the ever busy league
matron or members, and also funds for
food. As one of the latter, and suffering
with such deserted feline friends, for
over a month I have been coaxing and
feeding from 15 to 20 around the now
entirely vacated Government dormi
tories on the Union Station Plaza, out
side my Government office hours and
between trains to my suburban home.
Another sympathizer has provided milk
and also feeds several little squirrels
which seem deserted. The league
matron has rescued four and I five cats
and kittens. Whether I succeed in get
ting the remaining 9 or 10 depends
upon time and the razing of the build
ings. I shall do my best. But this is
only one single case of scores. Will not
the public co-operate as much as pos
sible by following the above suggestions
and preventing tragedies to these help
less cats? VIRGINIA W. SARGENT,
Ingersoll’s Apothegm on
Shakespeare Corrected
To the Editor of The Star:
Under the caption ‘ American Culture
Declared Beneficiary of Folger Fund,”
it is suggested, in your issue of July 5
that the following quotation from Rob
ert G. Ingetsoll: "An ocean of intellect
whose waves lapped every shore of
thought,” be engraved upon the portals
of the Shakespeare Memorial. Will you
kindly allow me—a member *>f Col.
Ingersoll’s family—space to give a cor
rect version of Col. Ingersoll’s words;
"Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean,
whose waves touched alt the shores of
thought * * * an intellectual ocean
toward which all rivers ran, and from
which now the isles and continents of
thought receive their dew and rain.”
SUE M. FARRELL.
Reduced Consumption
Curtails Cotton Price
Prom the Charlotte, N. C., Observer.
It is certainly a troubled condition in
the world of cotton. The downward
trend in prices has been going on for
more than a year. Spot cotton recently
Was quoted in New York at 13.25 cents
a pound, as compared to the 1929 high
of 21.65 a year ago last March, an indi
cated decrease of 38.8 per cent. Cot
ton is now near the low levels of 1921,
known as the year of industrial depres
sion. and is also nearer the low of 1926,
known as the year of big production.
This situation, according to the view of
the Business Conditions Weekly and of
the Alexander Hamilton Institute, is
due, not to overproduction, as in 1926,
but to curtailed consumption, as In
1921. One established fact is that the
combined output of the United States.
India and Egypt, which raise 80 per
cent of the world crop and which sup
ply practically all of the cotton enter
ing into international trade, amounted
to 20,815.000 bales in 1929, as against
20..668.000 bales In 1928. This slight
increase was offset by a reduced cairy
over in the United States, so that the
price decline during the past year was
in the face of a supply approximately
the same as that of the previous year.
Another outstanding fact is that cur
tailment of cotton consumption is world
W’ide.
But what of the prospect? The out
look. as the Business Conditions Weekly
see* it, is that a recovery in the price
of raw cotton during the coming season
will depend primarily upon a rather
substantial recovery in the world de
mand for cotton textiles. The world
supply of raw cotton now promises to
be larger than that of the past season,
because of a heavy carry-over in the
United States. The cotton crops of
India and Egypt are not expected to
snow any significant variation, while
the yield in the United States now
promises to be only slightly smaller
than a year ago. The condition of the
crop is apparently about as good as It
was a year ago. and no great cut seems
to have been made in the acreage
planted. The present outlook is that
the cotton yield -in the United States
this year will amount to 14.400.000
bales, as compared with last year's har
vest of 14.545,000 bales. This pro
spective small decrease in the yield will
be more than offset ' \ t rnrge increase
in the carry-over.
The prospect is that world require
ments during the coming season will
show an Increase over the past season.
Recovery, however, promises to be of a
gradual nature, especially in view of thf
unsettled conditions in India and China.
The outlook is consequently not particu
larly reassuring for a conspicuous rise
In the price of cotton. The market,
however, is certain to show a firmer
tendency when It becomes apparent
that the textile industry has turned the
corner. And when will that be?
* Camouflage.
From th« Ashland, Ky,, Daily Independent.
The timid soul Is grafting roses to his
grape vines for fear a Federal agent
will misundersts** his intent.
| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. RASKIN. , ;
Stop a minute and think about this
fact. You can ask our Information bu
reau any question of fact and get the
answer back in a personal letter. It
la a great educational idea introduced
into the lives of the most intelligent
people in the world—American news
paper readers. It la a part of that best
purpose of a newspaper—service. There
Js no charge except 2 cents in coin or
stamps for return postage. Oet the
habit of asking questions. Address your
letter to The Washington Star. Infor
mation Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin, di
rector, Washington, D. C.
O What are the duties of a script
Clerk?—M. C.
A. Above all, a script clerk, who Is
almost always a girl, must be an expert
stenographer. She has charge of the
script during the making of the picture
and is constantly at the director's side.;
She takes notes on costumes, action,
dialogue, the length of the running of!
a scene, directors that go with each
scene as made for the cutter. It is |
quite an important job in the studio. (
Q Who discovered the Carlsbad
Cavern?—F. J.
A. It was discovered by Jim White,
a New Mexico cowboy. He was investi
gating what- appeared to be an immense
cloud of smoke. It proved to b« a
flight of millions of bats. The cave
to which they led him Is probably the
most extensive in the world and is hall
of beautiful rock formation.
Q. Is the Southern Cross the first
airplane to fly from Europe to America?
—L. O. M.
A. It Is the second. The first was i
the Bremen In 1925.
Q. When did l*etrarch live?—R. H.
A. He was born in Arezzo, July, 1303,
and died at Arqua. July, 1374. He is
considered the first and greatest lyric
poet of Italy.
Q. Can Siberian crabapples be kept
through the Winter?— E. w.
A. This particular variety ripens so
easily that they do not keep well in
cold storage, or any other process known
at the present time.
Q. What is the derivation of the ex
pression "robbing Peter to pay Paul”?—
D. M.
A. It had its origin in the rivalry
between St. Peter's Cathedral, now
Westminster Abbey, and Bt. Paul's
Cathedral in London. In 1550 an ap
propriation was made from St. Peters
to make up for a deficit in the account
at St. Paul's. The action met with op
position, the question being asked, "Wny
rob St. Peter to pay St. Paul?”
Q. What is the weight of the heaviest
Jew fish caught?—B. H. H.
A. The Bureau of Fisheries says that
the largest Jew fish On record was S feet
long, 6 feet 4 inches in girth and
weighed 693 pounds.
Q. Which George was said to have
ruled England, but did not speak Eng
lish?— N. s.
A. This was true of George I. He
was not the nearest heir to the throne,
but succeeded by an act of Parliament.
He was Duke of Brunswick, elector of
Hanover. His son, George 11, spoke
only very broken English. George 111
was the first of the line to be born on
English soil.
Q. What is the Glannini Foundation?
—T. L.
A. In January, 1928, the Bancitaly
Corporation of San Francisco gave to
the regents of the University of Cali
fornia, as a tribute to Mr. A. P.
Giannlni, the sum of $1,500,000 to be
used in establishing the Glannini
Foundation Os Agricultural Economics
in the College of Agriculture.
Effort to Reduce Acreage
)o O
Creates Hot Controversy
Efforts of Chairman Legge of the
Farm Board and Secretary of Agricul
ture Hyde to impress upon the wheat
farmers Its necessity for reduced pro
duction not only has aroused contro
versy in agricultural State*, but has
divided the public in other parts ot the
country. It is contended by some ob
servers that lack of adequate organiza
tion among the producers is fatal to
reduced acreage. In opposition to the
i board it is contended that the proposed
j remedy for market conditions is con*
trary to traditional policy. Challenge
to the board from Gov. Reed of Kansas
is a subject for debate.
“Regardless of differences over mat
ters of detail,” advises the Tbpeka
Daily Capital, “farm States should stay
with the Farm Board. The greater
question, and the decisive question, is
that of the development of self»market*
ing by agriculture.” The Capital says
of the proceedings of the board: “It did
go out and purchase wheat at one time,
when it was young on the Job and more
confident in its faith in the act creating
it and settipg forth its duties. There
was a sort of emergency, though not
such an emergency as now. It wis a
typically American performance. Mr.
Legge reminds us all the time of his
fellow townsman, Charley Dawes, and
his ‘hell and Maria’ complex. lie is like
Charley also in being more ready to
take a big chance than most captains
of industry. Yet, after all. he draw,* the
line, hauls in his sails and backs water
w'hen he hears from American conser
vatism in its customary language.”
A v arning. however, is sounded by the
Davenport Democrat, which believes
that “hot weather, with farm prices way
down, appears to be an ill-chosen time
to go out and debate with the farmer
how he can work out his own salva
tion.” The Democrat takes the affirm
ative position that "the program doesn't
seem to have worked, the trouble being
that too many prom'ses were made ”
The Worcester Evening Gazette finds it
is “difficult to blame the farmers for
their resentment.” and “It will not be
strange if other politicians take the tone
of the Kansas Governor. Our solution
of the farm problem is about where it
was when it started, and we shall be
lurkv if wc don’t have to fight the whole
issue over again," concludes that paper.
»* * *
“Chairman Legge is too hard-headed."
in the judgment of the New York Sun.
“to underestimate the difficulty of eott
, vincing wheat growers that they must
radically reduce acreage if they are to
cure the troubles that afflict them. Eco
nomics, history and statistics support
his recommendation; human nature
contends against it."
"The board, for the good of the coun
try as a whole,” contends the Lincoln
State Journal, “should be given support
in Us efforts. If Its efforts fall, the ex
perience gained will show what cannot
be done along the line attempted. If
It succeeds, it will have done much for
agriculture. Wheat is low. There is a
general depression of prices. The trend
seems downward. That is true in every
country, the Agricultural Department
reports."
“The course of the administration
j has been straight. Its seamanship de
serves fair judgment on a fair and
completed test," declares the Philadel
phia Evening Bulletin. But the St,
1 iouls Post-Dispatch takes the position:
-The one sound thing which the Gov
ernment could do to help the farmer it
will not consider By lowering tariffs
it could increase hi? ability to cell his
surplus abroad and provide him with
manufactured products at lower prices.
But instead of lowering tariffs the pres
ent administration has raised them.”
“These representatives of the admin
istration.” charges the Dayton Dally
News, "have the nerve to pass the buck
to the farmer. We do not believe the
farmer is gullible enough to be fooled
bv it.” The Salina Journal comments:
"The acreage-curtailment plan Is vol
untary and hence defeats itself at the
• start If wheat production was in the
control of a few hands, it could work, j
i but not when there are millions en
gaged in it." The Minneapolis Star
asks: “How t» the farmer to hold his
wheat, Mr. Farm Board member? la
he going out and build himfelf an ele
Q. How large is An tares and Y»ow far
away is it?—E. F.
A. Antares (Alpha Scorpio is the
iwgsat s tar of which we have reason
ably accurate measurements, its diame
ter being about 400.000 000 miles: in
volume it is 100.000,000 times as large
as the sun and 125.000,000.000.000
times as large as the earth. The dis
tance is probably 350 light years. This
distance is 20.000.000 1 times as great as
that ot the sun from the earth, or
about 1.860,000,000.000,000 miles.
Q. How many doctors are there in
New York City?— O. C.
A. There are about 8,250.
Q. How many different racial groups
are there among the Filipinos?—M. T
A. There are among the Filipinos 43
ethnographic groups, and the homes
and customs or these groups differ.
Q. Where is the largest press In the
world?—H. WS.
A. The largest testing machine In
i the world is located at the Bureau of
Standards' and is operated bv oil pres
sure. producing a load on the specimen
of 10,000,000 pounds.
Q. What became of the Louisiana
Lottery?—D. F.
A. The act of Congress of 18$0 pre
vented the Louisiana Lottery m>m
operating In the United States. It
therefore removed to Honduras, where
it is still In existence.
Q. What is the name of the land
nearest to the no latitude, no longitude
point?—l. F. M.
A. The Gold Coast of Africa is near
est to o degree latitude, o degree lnngi
i tude. Acer* Is probably the nearest
place, being located at 5 degrees north
latitude and 0 degree longitude.
Q. Please describe the Cherokee
rose.—G. W. S.
A. It is a climbing rose (Rosa laevi
gata) 'naturalised In the Southern
United States. It has shining, usually
trifoliolate leaves and fragrant white
flowers.
Q. What is the maximum number of
patients Walter Reed Hospital haa hid
at one time?—M. C. 8.
A. The records show that during the
year 1918 there were 14,435 patients
treated there and the greatest number
treated at one time Was about 2,000 a
day in 1919.
Q. Why was Scotland Yard ao
named?—N. C.
A. Scotland Yard in London derives
its names from the palace, which from
the time of Edgar to Henry 11, waa as
signed for the residence of Scottish
Kings whenever they visited that city.
Scotland Yard In London is the head
quarters of the Metropolitan Police
Force. The first police office was located
in Whitehall in Scotland Yard and from
there removed in the Autumn of 1890
to the new building on the Thames Em
bankment, now known as New Scotland
Yard, in which all the branches of the
Metropolitan Police Force, including the
famous Criminal Investigation Depart
ment, are located.
Q. Why is Virginia called the Old
Dominion?—F. Y.
A. The nickname was taken from
early documents, which referred to it as
the ancient colony and dominion.
Q. Can windmills be used to develop
electrical power?—M. G.
A. They may be. The drawbacks to
windmills as electric generators are the
small power for their size and the ex
treme variability of power and speed.
Special devices are needed to compen
sate for these factors.
e | vator to store it in while he is waiting
-for the Government to regulate the
t 1 price?”
-** * *
- “The chairman of the Farm Board
» and the Secretary of Agriculture.” re
-8 marks the Omaha World-Herald, “have
- been to Nebraska with the latest offl
- cial word concerning the Hoover plan
3 of farm relief. Their message is brief,
8 simple, and lucid. If the farmer Is to
I be helped, he must help himself. The
* only way he can help himself is. to a
e large extent, to quit farming. In the
s case of wheat, either one out of every
four wheat growers should go out of
■ j business, or all the wheat growers
* should produce 25 per cent less than
i j normal farming would Justify. Every
r 40-acre field of wheat must be reduced
* to 30 acres; every 100-acre field to 75
‘ acres. If the farmers will not do that,
J voluntarily, then one-quarter of all the
1 American wheat farmers must be
* squeezed out and sent to the elties to
5 hunt for jobs ” The World-Herald Is
5 convinced that the farmers answer
- “No” to the board's proposed remedy,
‘ end suggests: "The new economic
1 scheme, diretUy contrary to what far
* mera have been taught and learned for
J years, seems certain to collapse of Its
1 own weight. It may be the remedy. *
? but it will never be tried. The lndi
-3 vidual farmer cannot afford to make
* the experiment."
8 “While, from the short-range point of
c view-,” states the Baltimore Sun,, “it
‘ would probably help the wheat farmers
to restrict their acreage, it Is doubtful
e , If it would help the country as a whole
® for the Federal Government officially
'' to advocate restriction of production as
e a key to financial success. It not only
r reverses our traditional national policy,
■ | which has been that of endeavoring to
- secure a maximum use of the available
1 resources, but it makes a major assault
?, I upon the basic assumptions underlying
j the general faith In our economic sys
-1 tern. In Us potentialities it is itlomen
r tous business.'
e Emphasis is placed by the Kalamazoo
f | Gazette upon the view of Chairman
J Legge that “all of the various groups
i and associations now functioning In the
8 interest of American agriculture should
* get together and provide the unanimity
■ of opinion that is so essential to the
furtherance of a common purpose.” The
Milwaukee Journal holds that "It does
>• j seem, that a compromise could be
-j reached by which the farmers would
1 agree to organize and limit their pro
-3 j duction. not Just to meet domestic
- needs, but to provide only a reasonable
t surplus.” The Portland Oregon Journal
8 j states that "the gluts, tfle. sales on con
signment. the acceptance of less than
- cost of production, are all due to the
3 hurrying of farmers to compete with
1 one another, while schemers chuckle
■ | and manipulators amass money.”
t "The Department of Agriculture,”
f says the Little Rock Arkansas Demo
r crat. "seems unable to grasp the eie
- 3; mentary truth that prices are never
1 helped by being talked down. Nor does f
f the Farm Board appear to have much
tj clearer vision of that vital fact. Acreage
reduction, too much wheat, too much
i j cotton — that's the battle cry of victory
| for the farm cause. Gov. Clyde Reed
; of Kansas pertinently asks the Farm
I Board wjiat else but wheat the farmer
of the semi-arld Western plains can
grow.”
The Bt. Paul Pioneer Press notes that
i“on the showing of the Federal crop
report for July the Northwest has re
! sponded to the Farm Board's advice to
! plant leas wheat.” The San Antonio
Express maintains: “If the farmer can
sell the harvest from 10 acres for what
the yield of 20 acres brought before, he
is better off. even though the extra 10
acres produce nothing.” The Okla- t
homa Citv Times take* the position that
: “reduction, if it is to be achieved to
any helpful extent, must be applied to .
the regions of bi* production. The '
■ Winter wheat belt of the Middle West
: and Southwest tk such an area.” The
i Asheville Times remarks: “The weight
| of evidence seems to favor the correct
ness of Chairman Legge's remedy; there
is now too much wheat in the world,
j But If Mr. Legge can so persuade the 1
! farmers, he is Indeed a mighty man,
l in words as well as deeds.”