Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-08
CITY GOVERNMENTS OUTWORN,
SPEAKER TELLS INSTITUTE
VIRGINIA Meet Hears Central Rule Is Big
Need in u. S. Gain In European
Democracy Seen.

clare them so. They never raised the
question"
Latane and Stevens continued the
debate for some time.
Miss Annie Peck, traveller and noun
tain climber, said that the United
States had assumed many rights in
Latin America not included III the
Monroe doctrine
The place of the press in public
affairs was the subject of a round
table opened yesterday by Victor Rose
water, former publisher OF the Omaha
Bee. DR. Rosewater pointed out that
curious phenomenon has taken place
in the last three years whereby total
newspaper circulation has increased,
while the number OF papers radically
has decreased. There are now, he
said. 40l morning and 1881 afternoon
daily newspapers in the United States.
with a total circulation of approx
mately 100000.
Newspapers with large calculations
in the big cities, said Don Seitz, for
mer treasurer of the New York World.
have made an aristocracy impossible
by continually holding the scandals of
the rich before the public eye. Not
only is a newspaper seldom influenced
in what 1t prints by its advertising
contracts, he said. but in 20 years ex-
perience on New York dailies he never
had been approached by an advertiser
in an effort TO bring pressure on
| matter Of policy. Twice. he said. rich
advertisers had asked for the suppress
sion of accounts of family tragedies
and been refused in both cases
Industrial Growth in South.
The South is on the threshold of
period OF unexampled industrial growth.
Richard H Edmunds. editor of the
Manufacturers Record. said at the
round table on industrial progress,
Eastern industries" he said, rapidly
are being moved to the South and
within the past four years, New Eng
| land and the Middle States have in
vested over 500 5000 in the cotton
mills below the Potomac The rayon
! and paper-naking industries are rapid
I ly centering in the South. Last year
/ the South spent 100000, 900 In high
way work, or eight times as much as
/ the United States thus spent in 1900,
| The output Of cotton goods In the South
| now Is valued at 81 900 900 900 a year
compared with 1899 ,000,000 for the
| United States in 1900.
Tells Woman's Advance.
The advance of woman in education
! and citizenship has been the product
Of economic forces, Mrs. Aurelia II.
Reinhafdt, California, educator, said at
| the round table on women In modern So
ciety. She divided the history of wom-
ems education and activities in America
in three periods. The first extended
for more than 200 years, from the earli-
est settlements until well into the
nineteenth century and was character
lied by no educational opportunities
whatsoever outside the home
Then, Mrs. Reinhardt said. came the
second period. when women gained a
place as school teachers, From the
schoolroom they graduated into numer-
Gus other fields. until now they are be-
! ing educated for and taking part In
almost every human activity with sue
I cess.
Aircrafts Use.
| Development OF commercial airlines
! will mean very little for national de-
| Tense in time Of war, DR. Otto Schneider
| Of the University OF Konigsberg told the
| round-table group discussing aviation
J law The only object OF government
| IN substituting commercial lines, he said,
! Is tn provide customers for the aircraft
manufacturers so that they can have
| their factories ready TO turn out war
! planes In time of need.
Not only would commercial planes be
useless In war, DR. Schneider said, but
commercial pilots probably would be
worse than useless,
The general understanding, he said
Is that an airpIane's nationality is that
Of the country it IL flying over, and
that this changes with each border, re"
gafdleas Of origin ANY acts ON the
plane come under the law Of that coun
try. The day will come, he said when
IL will be necessary to give magiateral
powers to the commander OF AN air
plane such as now are given 10 the
captain Of ship.
Every country, he said, needs flying
policemen to enforce It's air laws