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THE EVENING STAR
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WASHINGTON, D. C.
MONDAY July 21, 1930
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Local Utilities Regulation.
The right of appeal to the courts re
mains, and will remain, fundamental.!
Legislation may restrict it without de
•Mfoylng it.
The street car fare decision merely
■dds one more to the rather imposing
list of cases that recently have been
taken out of the hands of the Public
Utilities Commission, supposed to regu
late public utility rates and practices,
•nd reversed by the courts.
The Public Utilities Commission
denied the application of the car com
panies and the court granted it, using
as a basis for the valuation of the com
panies a valuation handed down by the
Court of Appeals in 1925.
A rase involving .the valuation of the
pas eompany was argued in the Dis
trict. Supreme Court more than a year
ago on appeal from an order of the
commission. The court still has it un
der consideration, and the Public Utili
ties Commission is marking time wait
ing for the answer.
Recently the Public Utilities Ccmmis
•ion tested its power to designate a bu*
route to be followed by an interstate bus
doing business in Washington. It fined
the company for leaving the prescribed
route and the company appealed the
line. The Municipal Court dismissed
the case and it is pending now on ap
peal.
When the gas company purchase went
through some time ago the Public Utili
ties Commission took the ground that it
Eras consummated in violation of the
La Follet*e anti-merger act. The courts
decided the case against the commis
sion.
The Public Utilities Commission en
deavored to enforce a regulation requir
ing taxicab companies to show financial
responsibility. The commission was en
joined by the courts from enforcing
the regulation and in vain sought from
Congress the legislation that would give
It the authority denied by the courts.
Every rate case, every valuation case,
Snd. it now seems, any case involving
anything more than a trivial effort of
the Public Utilities Commission to regu
late, runs into extensive litigation and
the record shows that the commission
la apt to come out second best.
Congress made a half-hearted effort
during its last session to broaden the
authority of the Public Utilities Com
mission and restrict to some extent the
grounds upon which appeals from its
decisions may be taken into the courts.
Another session of Congress should see j
• definite action in this respect, or the
recently enlarged personnel of the Pub
lic Utilities Commission might as well
be reduced as a saving to the taxpayers.
It is now hindered and handicapped at
•very turn, either by the lack of regula
tions with which there is no earthly
reason for the Congress of the United
States to concern Itself, or by its total
aubordination to the courts as a regu
latory body in the matter of rates.
A Reversed Decision.
America's Davis Cup chances are im
measurably brighter with “Big BUI”
TUden reversing his decision not to
play and becoming a member of the
team which will take on France in the
challenge round next week. TUden has
Just emerged from his usual difficulties
With the United States Lawn Tennis
Association. At almost the last minute
the governing body of tennis decided
that "Big Bill” was needed for this
year's classic, although his retirement
had been accepted last Winter and he
had agreed to write articles for a syn
dicate, something he would not be per
mitted to do under the strict rules of
the association.
So a cable was duly dispatched to
TUden in Paris requesting him to give
tip his writing contract and to play on
the team. This he refused to do. But
now Joseph Wear, chairman of the
Davis Cup Committee, announces that
•'Big Bill” has had a change of heart
*rnS that the association is making some
concessions in his favor. The syndi
cate has agreed to waive Its contract
for his articles on the actual playing
days*of the matches, and the current
1930 squabble appears to have been
amicably settled.
The settlement is gratifying to the
American public. TUden is showing a
line national pride and brand of sports
manship in deciding to play. The U. S,
L. T. A. in permitting him to carry out
his contract in so far as advance articles
©n the matches are concerned is making
a concession that will find universal
approval. Now it is up to the team
to go ahead and win for America.
“Germany Declares Money Rules U.
8..” states a headline. You bet! And
It is up to her to keep it coming.
Zaro Agha.
Zaro Agha of Istamboul lias Just ar
gived in the United States.
The old, old Kurd—ls 6, he says, on
fes last birthday, his passport stating
•he day of his birth as February 16,
1774 —wants American scientists to look
him over and pay for the opportunity.
Perhape they can find in his ancient
body a clue to the secret of overcoming
the presumably Inevitable advances of
age.
A part of Zaro Agha’s longevity
must be attributed, of course, to al
most incredible good luck. Most per
sons die of accidents long before they
reach the century mark, unfortunately
and unconsciously getting themselves in
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the way of speeding automobiles, dis
ease germs or bio-chemlcal combina
tions in the blood stream. The lia
bility to accidents increases with ad
l vanclng age. Persons have less agile
legs to get themselves out of the paths
of speeding vehicles and less active
bodily reactions to get their vital organs
out of the paths of the disease germs.
To this extent Zaro Agha can be dis
posed of according to the laws of
chance.
With nc accidents, the mechanism of
life simply wears out. There is some
relation between the rate of wear and
the activity of the nervous and gland
ular systems. The old man certainly
has not led the sort of life calculated
to prolong the wearing process. He
was in the Turkish army, which fought
Napoleon in Egypt and since then has
gone through the nerve-tearing ex
perience of three other wars. All his
life he has done the heaviest sort of
manual labor. And moreover his do
| mestic struggles with twelve wives, one
after the other, must be considered.
This is certainly the reverse of a quiet,
sheltered life with no great opportunity
for emotional experiences.
His body machine simply has refused
to wear out. It Is noteworthy that the
Balkan Peninsula thus for has fur
nished the most notable examples of
old age, chiefly among the peasant
t women living in sheltered villages.
Zaro Agha always has been a city dwel
ler, subject to all the nervous stresses
and strains of city life. But why should
the classical cases of extreme old age
seem to be concentrated in that little
coiner of the world?
There is little likelihood that examina
tion of the old gentleman himself will
throw much light on this problem. It
doubtless is extremely complicated with
many illusive factors. But the coming
of the veteran piano mover of Con
stantinople may serve to direct serious
scientific interest to this fascinating
field.
A Treaty Fleet.
Senator David I. Walsh of Massa
chusetts insists that the United States
should build Its Navy up to the full
strength authorized under the London
naval treaty, now awaiting ratification
in the Senate. He excepts, it is true,
cruisers of the six-inch gun type be
cause some of the American naval ex
perts hold that vessels of that type are
not fitted to the needs of national de
fense. But of the eight-inch gun
cruisers, the submarines, destroyers,
and aircraft carriers permitted the
United States he would build every one.
Senator Walsh is entirely right. Out
of the London Naval Conference has
come an agreement, which is designed
to give the United States “parity” in
naval strength with Great Britain and
a ratio that approximate* 10—6 with
Japan. If we are to have parity, we
must have it with ships. That is clear.
And parity has been promised the
American people. It is up to Congress
to go ahead with the naval building
program which will give us that parity.
Congress has been prone in the past to
neglect naval building. But now the
limit* for Great Britain and Japan are
fixed as well as for the United States.
A naval building program will not be
regarded as competitive building, but
merely in keeping with the treaty itself,
designed to make for limitation of naval
armament and world peace.
The Massachusetts Senator argues
that the only way to bring about a
marked reduction in naval armament
is for the United States to construct up
to the full of the treaty strength. When
the United States has done that, he
says, the other nations wl|l be ready
to talk about scrapping war ships. In
; other words, they will be able to tell
their nationals that the United States,
and not they alone, is proposing to do
some scrapping, just as the United
States announced in 1921 at the opening
of the Washington Naval Conference.
To those who favor peace and reduction
of armaments particularly, Senator
Walsh’s plan may seem a roundabout
way of arriving at the end they desire.
But the argument has a foundation
that appears to be sound. To those who
favor a Navy capable of defending the
United Slates and Its commerce in event
of an emergency, Senator Walsh's plan
will commend itself beyond doubt.
It would be a sham and mere folly
to bring this country into a treaty
which guarantees naval parity with
Britain and a 10—6 ratio, or something
like it, with Japan, and then by failure
to build the ships abandon both.
Senator Walsh has asked the Senate
to go on record as favoring the building
program he asks in the midst of its
debate on the treaty. His resolution
has no real place in the Senate at this
time. The Senate can only express
itself in this matter. The appropriations
for a naval building program cannot be
made at this time, nor authorizations
for building. Those are legislative func-
requiring action of the House.
But when Congress reassembles In
December steps should be taken prompt
ly to advance a naval building program
which will give the United States the
fleet to which it is entitled under the
treaty—a fleet second to rone in the
world.
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One way, though not recommended,
to become a successful physician, Illus
trated by a man out in Decatur, 111.,
is to collect moths for years, sell the
collection to the Government for $50,-
000 and with the money build a fine
hospital.
Hail, Shamrock V!
If there is anything at all in the
ancient copybook maxim that ‘‘keeping
everlastingly at it brings success,” the
dove of good luck ought to perch on
the venerable shoulders of Bir Thomas
Lipton. The Irish baronet’s Shamrock
V. latest challenger for the America’s
Cup. has just lifted anchor in the
Solent, at the outset of another quest
of yachting’s golden fleece.
Within a few weeks the newest prod
uct of British sliipcraft will be spin
ning thiough the spray of American
maters in a series of test races, pre
paratory to trying conclusions with our
defending schooner. All accounts agree
that Shamrock V will be worthy
of the best we can pit against
her. The honor of meeting the chal
lenger Mas not yet been bestowed upon
any of the four boats still en
gaged in elimination contests off the
New England coast.
It Is a full ten years since the re
doubtable Sir Thomas last ventured to
lift the coveted cup. The four other
Shamrocks he has sent against us—
respectively, in 189®, In 1801, In 1901
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and 1920—were trim and taut boats,
which were Invariably and incessantly
dangerous foes, though none of them
ever managed to show her stern de
i clsively to the yachts that carried
1 1 America’s hope and colors.
Shamrock V, with Capt. Ned Heard
: at the helm, is headed our way heavi
ly laden with laurels captured in Euro
pean races. She has won sixteen first j
prizes and four seconds out of twenty-two
starts, despite the fact that she was al
ways handicapped and had to compete
against much larger craft. . Sir
Thomas Lipton. unhappUy. is confined
to a bed of illness and could not see
Shamrock V off to her great adventure.
His myriads of American admirers hope
1 that the noblest British sportsman of
them all may find it possible to cross
the herring pond for the big race. He
may rest assured that if he “gets that J
old mug”—his own terse epitome of
his ambition —not a sailor or a land
lubber anywhere from Sandy Hook to
San Diego will begrudge him a victory
long, tenaciously and honorably fought
for.
Use Common Sense.
Extremely hot weather seems to stir
a great many people up to great physi
cal activity, resulting in noise and an
noyance to others and much danger
to themselves.
While exercise and perspiration have
their place in a heat wave, an even
more necessary ingredient is plain, old
fashioned common sense.
A senseless dashing to and frp in air
which is at the temperature of body
heat not only does no good, so far as
reliei from the heat goes, but actually
makes one warmer.
Excessive indulgence in the rapid
rhythms of radio music is not U> be
advocated. In short, anything which
tends to increase blood pressure or
warm the body is to be frowned upon.
The rules of common sense call for
as little clothing as possible, absolute
cleanliness, plenty of drinking water
and light eating.
The National Capital may well con
gratulate Itself during the present hot
spell upon possessing the fine supply of
wholesome, palatable water which it
enjoys.
Few, if any, of the great world capi
tals can boast of a better, if as good,
water supply. “Washington water” al
most invariably is commented upon
favorably by visitors.
One way for Washingtonians to show
their appreciation of their splendid
water l* to use it properly, but never to
waste it. Proper use also means plac
ing an adequate supply of it for pet
animals and also for those homeless
creatures which wander streets and al
lays. A pan of water in the back yard
may save some creature's life or prevent
it from going "mad.”
Hot-weather living should be temper
ate living, in the true sense of the term.
By adhering to common sense Wash
ington will be able to exist more com
fortably and more healthfully during
the hot spell which l* Nation-wide.
For poor old Portugal life is just one
thing after another, a severe heat wave
being followed by hurricanes and inun
dated crops. It is thought no small
country has packed such a heavy bag
of troubles as has this little republic
Since the assassination of her next-to
last King and the banishment of her
last one.
Representative Fish says he is in
favor of a modification of the eighteenth
amendment which would “give bottled
beer to the working man.” Why such
narrow discrimination?
The Duke of Gloucester finishes
poorly on the Sail. . ’ry, England, race
course, but anyhow, he and his mount
arrive under the wire simultaneously.
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The Congressional Medal of Honor
has been given to Col. “Eddie” Ricken
backer. What was the hurry? The
war has been over only twelve years.
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Ancestral Wisdom.
Our ancestors, so scholars say,
Were won’t to live in trees.
Where they might comfortably sway
With every passing breeze.
They wore no collars, stiff and hot;
They shunned the fiery drink—
In faith, it was a happy lot
To be a missing link.
Where branches screened them from
the sky
And kept away the heat,
With wardrobes that were very shy,
They dwelt in bliss complete.
Now science answers to our call;
And yet I sometimes think
The very smartest of us all
Was Granddad Missing Link.
Explanation.
“That man,” said the proud friend,
“went into politics a poor man and
came out of It a poor man.”
“Well,” answered Senator Sorghum,
"all I can say is that there must have
been contributory negligence on hi?
part.”
Social Martyr.
“The man who serves on a jury often
makes a great deal of sacrifice for the
public good,” said one juror. “It is hard
work to listen to all this testimony.”
“It Is not only hard work.” answered
the other, “but it Is mighty demoraliz
ing.”
Inverse Ratio.
In youth success seems easy won.
With years our hopes diminish.
The work that’s easiest, begun
Is oft most hard to finish.
Easier.
“Are you going to send your boy to
college?”
“I don’t see the use.” answered Farmer
Corntcssel. “The first thing a college
professor does when he gets a bright
idea is to publish it. I’d rather sub
scribe to the newspaper.”
An Old Story.
“Van Brush says he is wedded to his
art,”
“Yes," answered Miss Cayenne. “But
they don’t get along very well together.”
To Be Wished. ,
How few misfortunes would surprise
The nen who strive on land or sea
If each one were Indeed as wise
As he believes himself to be.
“De bird dat can sing an’ won't sing,”
said Uncle Eben, “ain't as bad as de
bird dat can’t sing and Insists In buttin’
i to."
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| THIS AND THAT ]
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
The real beauty of the grand con- j
course at the Union Station has come '
to view again, as cleaners and painters
have taken off the deposits of grime
which had collected there.
It has been a long time since the
tremendous room, if one may call it by
so circumscribed a name, has stood
forth in its native majesty.
Truly It Is a wonderful creation, the i
concourse, one which most favorably
Impresses the visitor arid native alike, j
First impressions are mighty, they say;
certainly sight-seers get a very favorable
one when they come into the newly
painted concourse.
Size always makes an impression. j
The mind of man is so constituted that i
| something either very large or very i
small makes an appeal. At dog shows
the largest dog and the smallest always
have crowds around their cages.
In mountains it Is the peaks which
stand out. In houses the best are per- j
haps the very large and the very small, |
everything else being taken into con?id
eration, for the former give one plenty |
of room, and the latter are big enough. |
In Washington’s Union Station it is
the concourse.
** * *
Railroad stations, despite the counter
attractions of the more modern air
terminals, hold their place very well in
the esteem of the general public.
There is a fascination about them
which never vanishes, and it Is difficult
to see how they will ever be replaced in
the favor of the public, particularly of
this generation.
Steam engines not only are a mighty
force, but they are woven into the very
thought processes of the American
people.
If you want an old-time thrill, go;
over to Union Station some day, pref- j
erably in the evening, and watch one of j
the big trains come in.
If you are waiting for a loved one. of '
course, the thrill will be proportion- |
ately larger, but in any event the sight j
of the train stealing down the track
will give you a deserved “kick.”
Somehow the hurry and bustle of rail
roading is natural to the American tem
perament. The noise w'hich it makes,
and even the dirt which it creates, is
not foreign to us. Perhaps that was
why no one in particular ever “kicked”
against the grimy walls and far-flung
ceiling of the concourse.
** * *
“The people, ’tls the people are the
sight,” said the poet Pope. The great
Queen Anne versifier knew nothing of
railroads, and especially of railroad sta
tions, but he hit them off very well in
that sentence.
Today those who wait for trains seem
to do more sprawling than in the past.
Once upon a time, when the bulk of the
populace took life more seriously, wait
ing for a train was a weighty, if not
arduous, proceeding.
When an entire family was involved,
the members sat in a sort of straight
confusion in the usually uncomfortable
seats which the railroad corporation in
its w isdom provided for Its patrons.
Mother spent her time attempting to
keep Johnny from “running all over the
place,” and John, of course, spent his
trying to do that very thing.
Today there seems to be a more tol
erant spirit, a rather sophltsicated way,
of waiting for trains. No doubt the
more comfortable benches have some
thing to do with it. In such a terminal
as that which graces the National Cap
ital, most of the uncertainty has been
taken out of waiting.
The old-timers felt very serious about |
it all, because they weren’t sure they
would know just when their train left
the station, and even if they did. they
felt reasonably certain that they would I
| WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS |
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE.
Undoubtedly the heat wave, together
with the opposition's depleted lung
power, is what's brought the naval
treaty debate to an abrupt end. Cynical
administration critics go so far as to
suggest that President Hoover used his
pull with the Weather Bureau to assure
himself that an all-time hot record for
Washington would be hung up in mid-
July. Knowing what high temperature
does to senatorial nerves, the Chief Ex
ecutive thereupon determined (so the
story goes) to pitch the treaty session
in a period which assured speedy re
sults. As a matter of fact, the thing
that broke the Johnson-Moses-Hale-
McKellar square was its inability to
smash a quorum. At one time —about
a week ago—the treaty forces were on
the verge of rout over ihe quorum issue.
Then Hoover got into the game. He put
sorely needed life into the administra- I
t,ion's fight. His leaders wrested the
initiative from the opposition. Slacking
Senators were drafted back to the Capi
tol. Then the enemy knew the jig was
now up. Humidity did the rest.
** * *
Canadians are winding up their hotly
contested parliamentary election cam
paign this week. They go to the polls
on July 28. The United States figures
conspicuously in the contest. The Mac
kenzie King Liberal party, which seeks
another lease of office, is pluming itself
over the imposition of countervailing
tariffs on American imports, as a re
prisal against the Hawley-Smoot act.
Finance Minister Dunning, author of
the retaliatory scheme, is quoting our
Department of Commerce for the state
ment that the Canadian plan will divert
at least $200,000,000 of American busi
ness into Canadian-Brltish channels.
The Liberals are also campaigning on
the issue of "Get On With the St.
Lawrence Waterway!” That vast project
to link the Atlantic with the Great
Lakes will materialize with relative
rapidity the moment Canada gives its
OK. The Dominion Conservatives do
not oppose the enterprise, but contend
that the Liberals want to carry it out
on lines unjust to the individual i
provinces.
** * *
His friends in the Senate—totaling
95—rejoice at the assurance they re- j
cetve from Seantor Borah that he may ;
contemplate early and complete relief |
from the malady for which he recently
underwent examination at Johns Hop
kins Hospital, Baltimore. Now that
physicians assure the Idahoan that his
complaint w’ill lend itself readily to
treatment, it can be told that there
was a time, not so long ago, when
Borah's family and admirers were gen
uinely alarmed about him. His trouble
turns out to be far less grave than was
feared. If “Big Bill” 1 could only be in
duced to work less and play more, his
return to physical normalcy would be
a swifter process. Borah has hardly
ever know’n what it means to be ill.
One of the Senate’s disappointments
over his present condition is that he
could not wade into the naval treaty
fight with old-time vigor. But he has
been the real generalissimo of the
fray and is entitled to much of the
•credit lor its- satisfactory termination.
** * *
There may be Just the semblance of
a ruction over confirmation of Nicholas
Roosevelt as vice governor of the
Philippines, whose name President
Hociver has lust sent to the Senate.
Mr. Roosevelt, an editorial writer on
the' New York Timw. was a witness be
fore the Senate Philippines Committee
some months ago, when the independ
ence bill was up for hearings. He
voiced some views on the subject of
the islands' future status which cer
tain Senators may want to scrutinize
before approving his Manila appoint
ment. The inclusion of another Roose
velt in the Federal administration sup
plies fresh proof that his house is un
doubtedly one of our “ruling families.”
In city, State or Nation a Roosevelt has
been in high office, a political statis
tician declares, continuously for the
better part of the past 40 years some
where in the U. S. A.
** * *
Most members of the Senate have
their transportation reserved for sea- i
i experience difficulty in discovering on
; which track it was.
The very officials at the gate seemed
to be in a kind of conspiracy to pre
vent travelers, especially nervous trav
elers, who composed about 80 per cent,
from knowing with surety either the
1 time or track of departure.
** * *
All that is happily changed in the
great modern depots. Even the most
timid traveler may take a seat on a
bench with the comfortable assurance
that the trains will be flashed on the
screen, with full directions, in plenty
|of time for even the slowest to get
: aboard.
i Train catchers, by and large, divide
j themselves Into two classes, the non
! chalant and the nervous. Those of the
first class give themselves just one
i minute to catch a train, those of the
second an hour.
It may not exactly be a secret, but
| many hesitant, diffident travelers go to
; Union Station even hours ahead of
| time under a sort of psychological com-
I plex that by doing so they help the
train to be on time.
Thus they impose upon themselves
many minutes of weary waiting, but
the waiting Is not so weary as It used
to be. There are drug stores, where
almost anything may be bought: res
taurants, and, above all, one's fellow
travelers.
The “red caps” make a specialty of
these' nervous persons and have devel
oped an uncanny faculty of remember
ing their faces for hours at a time.
** * *
The expert train catcher allows him
self just about five minutes in which
Ito catch his train. The man who is
I imitating him. but rather unsuccess
| fully, gives himself no more than one
l minute. Then what a bustle and con
: fusion he works himself Into, as he
| dashes through the big doors on his
i way down the aisles between the
i benches, through the heavy swinging
doors into the concourse, thiough the
concourse to his gate, past the ticket
taker, down the long train to his
destined sleeping car!
Half the sport of watching the
crowds at Union Station lies in these
hurry-up fellows who dash in and out
as fast as they can go, all of whom
could have made things just a little
bit more pleasant for themselves if they
had given themselves just a few more
minutes’ leeway.
Every now and then one of them
“gets left.” and it serves him right,
although one cannot help feeling sorry
for him, as he stands bewildered, his
handbag swinging hopelessly as he
looks at his retreating train, now going
too fast for him to make any attempt
to catch It.
Observation of train waiters does not
show any particular difference between
the actions of the present generation
and those of the past, except in the
particulars already noticed.
They will eat in trie station, and
sometimes leave smeary places for
others to sit on, and they will look
around wildly for luggage which they
carelessly placed many feet from where
they decided to sit down. Thus they
display an Infinite trust in human !
nature—or is it rather a lack of fore- i
thought?
Perhaps the happy medium is best !
when one goes to Union Station. Per
mit yourself plenty of time, but not
too mueft. Then one will be able to j
look around a bit, enjoy the people, and j
especially the beauty of the newly I
‘ cleansed rooms, with emphasis upon
! the concourse. It is truly the Jienlth
of sheds, a super-shed, as it were,
mighty, majestic, imposing, giving the
spectator something of the feeling of
< the great out-of-doors indoors.
—1
side, mountain or forest retreats,
whither they can hie themselves for
the ordinary pastimes of Summer rec
reation. Not so Senator Frederic C.
Walcott, Republican, of Connecticut.
Walcott merely wants to get back to nis
fiddle and his orchestra. A passionate
music lover, he has for several years
maintained a quartet of string-instru
ment artists, whom he Joins periodical
ly to make a quintet in the capacity of
first violin and leader. With them
he is accustomed to spend weeks at a
time, at some lodge in the Connecticut
woods, driving dull care away amid the
concertos and symphonies of Brahms,
Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and the other
high priests of classic melody. Senator
Walcott, who is one of the Upper House
members genuinely "close" to Hoover,
has one other hobby in addition to
| music—wild life and conservation of
natural resources.
** * *
Mahatma Gandhi is soon to open an
“embassy” in Washington, or what rev
olutionists in the Western Hemisphere
term a "Junta.” Sallendra N. Ghose,
president of the American-Indian Na
tional Congress, at whose Instigation
another Senate resolution calling for
American recognition of an independent
India has just been introduced, will open
offices in the National Capital in Sep
tember. By a coincidence they'll be lo
cated in the same building which housed
the Egyptian Nationalists’ Washington
headquarters 10 years ago, and whence
the drive for sympathetic American sen
timent for "free Egypt” was conducted.
** * *
Although the Senate in its wisdom
hasn't yet seen fit to give the World
Court the hallmark of its August ap
proval, League of Nations members con
tinue to turn then gaze in our direc
tion for Court timber. Two American
jurists have now been nominated for
a Judgeship on the Permanent Tribunal
for International Justice at The Hague.
Cuba some time ago offered the name
of Dr. James Brown Scott of Washing
ton, veteran secretary of the Carnegie
i Endowment for International Peace.
Last week Siam came forward with thp
j nomination of Roscoe Pound, dean of
I the Harvard Law School and member
■ of th« Wickersham Law Enforcement
| Commission. Scott and Pound are 2
!of 26 nominations all-told. The bench
| vacancies will be filled at the League
i assembly and Council sessions at
Geneva in September.
(Copyright, 1#30.)
Two State* Same
111 Dry I,aw Fight
From the St. Louis Time*.
The States of New Jersey and Wash
ington are about as far apart, mapwise,
as it is possible for States to be but
they are as one in the matter of the
eighteenth amendment. The Demo
crats of Washington followed the Re
publicans of that State and also fol
lowed both parties of New Jersey in
declaring for a revision of our prohibi
tion laws.
Washington Republicans not long ago
tossed a bombshell when they agreed
amendment was not'
all It should be. The explosion reached
the ears of no Jess a person than Five- i
and-Ten Jones, wlio halls from Wash
ington and was much shocked not to
say surprised, that the boys back home
had failed to stand by. Now the
Democrats, In convention assembled,
have placed a wet plank in the State
platform by a vote of 250 to 116. Nor
have they shilly-shallied as has been
common on wet and dry votes in most
recent conventions. They met the Issue.
Not only did they agree that the eight
eenth amendment was all It shouldn't
be, but they came along with a con
structive suggestion that prohibition,
questions be returned to the States, "in j
order to rid the country of the evils of!
organized crime which have followed
Federal assumption of police powers.”
Gandhi's Dressmaker.
From the Louisville Time*.
Judging by his pictures, Mr. Gandhi's
dressmaker must be the same woman
who makes Mary's hats.
iTlie Political Mill
By G. Gould Lincoln.
Senator Norris of Nebraska will have
to forego the experiment of running
as an independent candidate in the
senatorial election this Fall. At the
eleventh hour Friday Chief Justice Goss
of the State Supreme Court ruled that
George W. Norris of Broken Bow, Nebr..
the Senator's namesake: was not en
titled to go into tlie Republican sena
torial primary on August 12. That
being the case, Senator Norris let his
name stand for the Republican sena
torial nomination. He runs as a Re
publican after all.
Probably the Nebraska Senator would
prefer to run as an independent.
Although he has always stood for elec
tion to the House and later to the Sen
ate as a Republican, he has had the
non-partisan idea in politics. He has
voted Independently and without re
gard to party politics, using his own
best judgment. The courage which he
has shown in following his judgment in
these votes has been responsible in no
small part for his popularity among
the voters of his State.
** * *
It is obvious, however, that if party
government is to continue in this coun
try. candidates for office must wear
party labels. And if party government
is to be effective, must support party
measures. If all the members of the
Senate and House, Democratic and Re
publican alike, adopted the Norris plan
of voting entirely without regard to
party regularity, there would soon be a
very different alignment on legislation,
and the old parties would go to smash.
Perhaps new parties would spring up
in their places, or maybe a plethora of
parties, as in some of the older coun
tries of Europe, where the bloc system
in parliamentary bodies has arisen, just
as it has threatened to arise in the
Senate of the United States.
It will always be a moot question as
to whether Senator Norris, running as
an independent for the Senate in Ne
braska, could win this year. Some of
his admirers inkist that he would have
been stronger as an independent candi
date than as a Republican. But that
is mere guess work. A party ticket,
generally speaking, is a help to a sin
gle candidate. The late -Senator La
Follette, independent as he was, stuck
to the Republican party all through his
long career as a dominant leader in
Wisconsin politics—until his last cam
paign.
Out in Nebraska there are, it is said.
Republicans who not only resent the
fact that Senator Norris supported A1
Smith, a wet and a Catholic, but who
are raising the issue against him this
year, just as the issue has been raised
against Senators Simmons of North
Carolina and Heflin of Alabama that
they supported a Republican, Mr. Hoo
ver, for President.
** * *
When Theodore Roo-evelt bolted the
Republican party in 1912, he sought to
set up another party, the Progressive
party. He had no particular fondness
for running as an "independent.” He
believed in party government. When
the experiment with the new party
failed, Roosevelt and most of his fol
lowers came back into the old Republi
-1 can fold. Many of his followers con-
I tinued to be elected to Congress as
Republicans and the former President
himself in all probability would have
been the G. O. P. nominee for Presi
dent in 1920 had he lived.
Pennsylvania fussed for the better
part of three years because it was
represented in the Senate by just one
instead of two Senators, the constitu
tional allowance to all States. Then
Mr. Grundy, “Uncle Joe.” as he came
to be called, came to Washington to
sit in the place to which William S.
Vare had been elected in 1926, but
to which the Senate would not admit
him. Mr. Grundy stuck around a few
weeks while the tariff bill was being
considered in the Senate, failed to be
nominated in the Pennsylvania Repub
lican primary and lost interest in the
Senate. In fact, since the day he was
beaten soundly by Secretary James J.
Davis of the Department of Labor in
the senatorial primary, Mr. Grundy has
been in or around Washington very
little And now Pennsylvania is con
! tinulng to be represented by one Sena-
I tor, David A. Reed. Mr. Reed is doing
a good job. • Indeed, in the present
i treaty fight he has taken on the bur
| den, along with Senator Robinson of
! Arkansas, the Democratic leader, of ex
; plaining the treaty to the Senate. But
| where has Mr. Grundy been? The
j junior Senator has gone, it is reported,
jto Europe. He has not been in Wash
ington since the special session of the
Senate opened to deal with the treaty,
nor, according to reports, does he in
tend to have anything more to do
with the Senate. He is through. Not
a particularly good loser, he has found
his incursion into senatorial life not
quite so pleasant as he might have.
It cost him $290,000 to run for the
senatorial nomination and got noth
ing for the money, unless his support
of Gov. Pinchot against the Philadel
phia machine candidate, Francis Shunk
Brown, may be said to have been a
great satisfaction. But he could have
supported Pinchot without himself run
ning for the Senate.
** * *
Down in North Carolina the Demo
crats who defeated the veteran Sena
tor Simmons for the senatorial nomina
tion this year and picked Bailey in his
place have a regretful way of speaking
of the defeat of Mr. Simmons. They
insist he merited defeat because be
bolted his party’s national ticket in
1928, but they are sorry that he had to
suffer a defeat at the close of a long
career in the House and Senate as the
representative of their State. He led
them in many battles in the past, and
what they did to him a month or so
ago, after all, does not sit very well on
their consciences. This does not apply
to those political leaders who were op
posed to Mr. Simmons right along.
They are only too glad to be rid of
him. Furthermore, the opponents of
Mr. Simmons are not crowing so lustily
over their defeat of the veteran as they
might, perhaps fearing that Mr. Sim
mons' friends would resent it and not
flock to the polls with much enthu
siasm to vote for Mr. Bailey in Novem
ber against his Republican opponent.
** * *
No one has yet suggested that Rep
resentative Will Wood, chairman of the
Republican Congressional Campaign
Committee, quit his job. nor are they
likely to. Mr. Wood has performed as
chairman of the committee with suc
cess and satisfaction all around. But
the Republicans have been at odds over
their other campaign chairmen this
year, particularly Claudius H. Huston
of Tennessee, chairman of the National
Committee, and to a less degree Senator
George H. Moses of New Hampshire.
Mr. Moses was appointed chairman of
the Senatorial Committee by Senator
Watson, the Republican leader of the
Senate, a year or more ago. Since that
time the New Hampshire Senator has
been treading on a number of toes. In
the first place, he had a run in w'ith
the Senator from Rhode Island. Mr.
; Metcalf, who is up for re-election and
i who requested Senator Moses to keep
; out of hLs Slate. Possibly Mr. Moses'
, "hot stuff" letter to a Southern news
paper publisher during the 1928 cam
paign. urging the editor to publish an
anti-Catholic screed which he inclosed,
had something to do with the desire
not to have Mr. Moses mix up in a
campaign where there is a large pro
portion of Catholic voters. Then Mr.
Moses made a speech in which he
called some of the Western Republicans
in the Senate sons of wild jackasses,
which got a big play in the newspapers
of the West. And finally Mr. Moses
stood up for Huston and advised him
not to resign as national chairman
when many of. the other party leaders
were trying to ease Mr. Huston out.
It has been reported that Mr. Moses
threatened to quit as chairman of the
Senatorial Campaign Committee if Mr.
Huston was forced out of the national
chairmanship. Those who heard of the
threat are waiting now to see if Mr.
Moses will go through with It when Mr.
Huston retires, as he Is expected to do
when the present session of the Senate
| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIS.
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tion Bureau? Can’t we be of some help j
to you in your problems? Our business
is to furnish you with authoritative in
formation. and we invite you to ask us
any question of fact in which you arc
interested. Send your inquiry to The
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• i
Q. Please advise me from what wood,
or woods, the heads of wooden golf
clubs are made. —I. G. T.
A. The Forest Service says that the !
heads of wooden golf clubs are made
of persimmon wood. A little dogwood
has been used, but the former is more
commonly employed.
Q. Do children learn geography more
readily through visual instruction?
—L. A. S.
A. Experiments sponsored by the
National Education Association and
conducted by Dr. Wood of Columbia j
University and Dr. Freeman of the
University of Chicago show that chil- I
dren make 33 per cent greater gains :
in geography and 15 per cent greater !
gains in science by learing these sub
jects partly through motion pictures.
Q. How much ice is there in the Ant- I
arctic regions?—B. M.
A. Prof. W. Meindardus of the Uni- 1
versity of Gottingen has estimated the j
extent of the ice in Antarctica at'
: 26,000.000,000.000.000 cubic yards of ice,
j weighing about 20 quadrillion tons.
; There is enough ice there, he says, to
cover all Europe to a depth of 6,500
: feet, or to blanket the whole earth un
der a layer between 120 and 130 feet
thick.
Q. Is “Wang" one of the Gilbert and
Sullivan operas?—S. E.
A. This opera is often mistakenly at
tributed to Gilbert and Sullivan, but It !
was written by Theodore Morse.
Q. Why is ermine considered the
royal fur?—T. V. E.
A. Its beauty caused it to be tom
by royalty, and King Edward 111 made
it a punishable offense for any persons
except those of royal birth to wear it.
This restriction has long been removed,
but the fur still enjoys royal favor.
Q. How long has the Jockey Club ex
isted?—M. G.
A. It was incorporated under the laws
of the State of New York on February 8.
1894. The first annual meeting was
held December 31. 1894. It now has j
jurisdiction over all the flat racing in
the State of New York. , It also ascer
tains and keeps a record of the pedi- *
grees of horses in the United States. No i
horse can start in a race at a recognized
meeting unless it has been, registered
and named.
Q What becomes of electricity after
iit is used?—F. N.
j a. The Bureau of Standards says
) that electricity is simply a form of
motion. When electricity is “used’’ the
i energy given out appears in some other
i form, such as heat or work of some
kind.
Q. Are girls eligible for Rhodes Scho
larships?—H. E. T.
A. The scholarships are given to men
only.
Q. Is it deleterious to the health of
a growing family if the housewife shuts
' out the sunlight by always keeping the
I blinds closed?—D. V.
A. The United States Public Health
Op en Mind on Mooney's Case
Is Held Creditable to Public
Widespread comment on the case of |
Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Bil
lings, convicted in California as guilty
of the fatal Preparedness day bombing
in San Francisco in 1916, is considered
evidence that the American public has
an open mind on subjects of this kind.
Charges that the defense of the two
men has been largely radical propa
ganda are made, but there is also re
sponsible opinion that, in view of the
change in testimony by such witnesses
as John MacDonald of Baltimore, there
are doubts as to guilt.
“Interest in the fate of Mooney and
Billings does credit to the country,”
avers the Bufflalo Evening News. "Noth
ing can be far wrong so long as the
people maintain a passion for justice.
To see justice truly served should, as a
member of the Supreme Court once
observed, be ‘the greatest interest of
man on earth.’ ” The News finds that
“the opinion is widely held that the men
were convicted on general principles, an
opinion which is fortified by statements
from the trial judge and the surviving
members of the jury that convicted
them.”
* * * •*
Describing the crime as “one of the
most fiendish, brutal and diabolical in
the history of the country,” the Los |
Angeles Express reviews the later court;
proceedings in connection with recent
appeals, saying: “Gov. Young asked the
State Supreme Court to make an ex- 1
haustive inquiry into the Billings case j
and advise the Board of Pardons if I
in the court's opinion there were cir
cumstances to warrant a pardon, this
course being followed because of the j
fact that Billings was an ex-convict, t
and as such could receive no clemency
excepting upon recommendation of the I
State's highest court. It was assumed
that Gov. Young meant to be guided in
his action in the Mooney ease bv the
court's decision in the case of Billings, j
After a thorough examination extending
over several months, the Supreme Court
announced that there was nothing in
the records to show that BlU'ngs had
not been fairly tried and justly
sentenced.”
** * *
“It cannot be said that Mooney has j
not suffered punishment.” declares the
South Bend Tribune, convinced that i
“belief that he is Innocent has in
creased as the years passed, largely be
cause the evidence on which he was
convicted has been apparently torn to
shreds by investigators and volunteer
witnesses.” The Albany Evening News i
holds that “the case was never con- j
vineing," while the Kansas City Star ;
states: “The responsible authorities in
California evidently have been disposed
to believe the men are guilty because
they were suspicious characters. But
other persons, including Mooney's trial j
judge, the 10 living jurors, Billings'
prosecutor, the present district attorney
and several police officers who worked |
on the case, have been convinced of
their innocence.”
** * *
Attitude of trial judge, prosecutors, j
police who handled the case and jurors ;
causes the Portland Oregon Journal to
feel that there is substantial “question
of Mooney's guilt.” The Hartford Times
believes that “California's handling of
this case does not reflect credit on the
ends. If he does follow Mr. Huston
“out” there will be a number of the
Republican Senators who will not wear
mourning.
•'•****
Senator Metcalf is going back soon
to Rhode Island and begin a round of
State, meetings and State and county
fairs etc. It is expected that Peter
Goelet Gem’, former Senator from the ;
State, is going to make the race against
him as the Democratic nominee. Mr.
Gerry has been particularly active t
lately, although he has not formally j,
announced his candidacy. The Demo- i
crata insist they have a good chance of i
carrying Rhode Island tills Fall, with J
Gerry on the ticket. But Metcalf has j
a strong following in the State and j
particularly in Providence, which he ; l
carried against his Democratic op
ponent when he ran last by 5.000 votes j
or more. Providence is rated a Demo- :'
cratic city. i 1
] Service says that sunlight is essential
' to proper cleanliness.
Q. What do the Japanese call the col
| lection of dolls that is made by each
family?—J. G.
A. It is called the Hina.
Q. How deep* does the whale dive?—
S. A. B.
A. The maximum dive of the whale
is supposed to be about 600 feet.
Q. Who was the first Russian ruler
to assume the title of Czar?—S. T
A. Ivan IV, known as Ivan the Ter
) rible, was the first to use the title.
Q. Did the Indians practice any arro
batics before the white man came,
such as somersaults and handsprings?—
A. G. D.
j A. The Bureau of American Ethnrl
! ogy says that while instances of aero
batic practice are known since the com
ing of the white man. it has no knowl
edge of such practice before his tom
ing.
Q. What is the best way to rescue a
i drowning person?—C. I.
A. In "Swimming Scientifically
j Taught.” by Frank E. Dalton, the au
i thor says: "Os the many different ways
j of saving life, the safest and best meth
| od is to swim as near the person as
! possible, then dive under and come up
i behind him: otherwise he is liable to
I grab you around the neck with a death
1 clutch, from which it is extremely difUl
i cult to escape. When swimming up be
hind the person, grab his biceps and
force him on his back, the more he
j struggles, the more he helps himself to
keep afloat.”
Q. Is it true that some engineer has
built a hotel in Death Valley? N. M.
j A. H. W. Eichbaum has built Stove
I Pipe Wells, the hotel, and has started
I mining operations and opened a road
[in Death Valley. He had a pumping
j plant installed at Stove Pipe, and now
j 1,000 gallons of pure water an hour are
| being pumped from this well. Mr.
' Eichbaum keeps a force there all Stim-
I mer long to care for travelers who may
venture into the valley during the pe
, riod when the temperature may rang*
anywhere from 68 to 138 degrees.
Q. Which State has the largest num
ber of zoned municipalities?—G. N.
A. At the end of 1928 New York led
with 131 zoned municipalities. New
Jersey was second with 84. California,
third, with 73; Illinois, fourth, with 71.
Q. In measuring various sugars In
baking, how many cups are equivalent
to one pound?—H. T. B.
A. Two cups of granulated sugar are
: equivalent to one pound; 2 , / 2 cups of
j powdered sugar. 3 cups brown sugar,
t 3Vi cups confectioners’ sugar.
Q. Please give me a brief description
of John Wilkes Booth, as to his height,
etc., at the time Lincoln was assassi
nated. —C. R.
A. A description issued by the War
Department, dated April 20, 1865. gave
the following information: Height.. 5
feet 7 or 8 inches: slendpr build, high
forehead, black hair and eyes, heavy
black mustache.
Q. How’ much life Insurance did the
late President Harding carry—M. M.
V A. His life insurance totaled $34,-
422.41.
Q. What is the correct name of the
cathedral in Washington, D. C., popu
larly known as the Washington Ca
thedral?—B. N.
A. This has formally been designated
as the Cathedral of St. Peter and St.
Paul.
I State.” The Haverhill Gazette points
out that “preceding that disastrous oc
casion was a decade of industrial and
political strife,” and that “feeling was
high.” The Newark Evening News
contends that “Mooney has been made
a living martyr by California, not onJv
in the eyes of radicals and extremistt,
but to fair-minded persons of the mort
circumspect and conservative political
affiliations.”
The effect of agitation on the publte
mind is discussed by the San Bernar
dino Sun, and in the course of the
statement it remarks: “For a long
period of years the Mooney Defense
League has flooded the country with
literature designed to prove to the
satisfaction of any reasonable person
that Mooney and Billings are inno
cent. This campaign, supported by
donations running into the hundreds
of thousands of dollars and perhaps
into the millions, has had a marked
effect on public opinion. There was no
organization to challenge the claims of
the defense league. The Supreme
Court, however, challenged these claims.
* * * The league has had in its pos
session statements of the presiding
judge, all of the surviving jurors, and
; various police officers. Likewise, it had
j the benefit of the opinion of a com
i missioner appointed by President Wil
; son to investigate the case. * * * It is
! not surprising, therefore, that many in
! fluential organizations, led by church
! and labor bodies, have made flat decla
' rations of their belief in the theory
that Billings and Mooney were 'rail
: roaded.’ ”
"Which shall we believe,” asks the
San Francisco Chronicle, “the testi
! niony MacDonald gave in court or the
subsequent denial? This looks like a
| hard question. However, the Supreme
| Court has shown how it can be ana
lyzed. MacDonald testified in court
! under .the cross-examination fire of able
lawyers for the defense. The lawyers
! did their best to break down his testi
: mony, lor it was vital. They had two
chances in two trials. The lawyers
j did not succeed in breaking down Mac-
Donald's story. They were smart
lawyers and MacDonald was no intel
| lectual giant. But his story stood ud
j under fire.”
"Organized labor has been unceasing
in its efforts to secure Mooney's par
don, asserts the Salt Lake Deseret
i News, while the Youngstown Vindica
tor offers the judgment that “the agi
j tation to release these two has beer,
i chiefly propaganda.” The Muncie Star
contends: "Much of the agination on
behalf of the California prisoners has
\ ~^ en based on no more understanding
: than that which prompted the bombing
! 9j our embassy in Buenos Aires shortly
before the execution of Sacco and Van
j zetti in Massachusetts.”
Victim of Taxi Mrirr.
I 7rp "> ‘be Walla Walla Dally Bulletin.
A fare in a Seattle taxicab was found
dead, which only goes to prove that
; they ought to have a law against plac
ing those meters where a fellow has to
watch them work.
Solution Suggested to China.
From the PitUburKh Post-Gazette.
The readiest method of disposal of the
30,000 rebels captured by the forces of
the Chinese government might be to
have then* fight on the National side
for a while.
Hagen Bags Kangaroo. '
From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.
Walter Hagen has returned from Aus- ’
tralia. where he shot a kangaroo. Well, •
well! We thought Walter would bring '
back some kind of a birdie.
» ym •
Any Vacationist Understand*.
From the Sen Antonio Express.
The vacationist Just returning to hit
job can s-mpathize with the Ohioan
whose 25-year loafing spell was ended
by a sentence to the workhouse.