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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

DREs1DENT Hoov:-7!:s at the out
- set of his adm .nistration has
embarked upon what amounts to
l. a competition with private en-
terprise for the services of the
United States grand army of seasoned
Government officials. Mr.. Hoover de-
sires to retain those forces intact.
He "contemplates comparatively few
changes" in Federal personnel, But
the President is aware that big business
is on the lookout for men with back
ground of important Washington expert
ence and is prepared to outbid Uncle
Sam for their services.
Mr.. Hoover ran up against this sit
uation before he had been in the White
House week. The initial occasion was
his invitation to Gen. Herbert M. Lord
to remain director of the budget. The
President has long been of opinion that
the man who has been master of the
budget since July l, 1922. is almost
irreplaceable. He would like Lord to
continue in Office indefinitely. The gen.
eral has consented to stay for the i'm
mediate present, but Mr.. Hoover knows
that if Lord should be offered attrac-
tive opportunities to improve his finan-
cial position in private business life, it
would be too much to expect the bud
get director to remain at the Treasury
Department. The inducements wouldn't
have to be very heavy. Lords total
emolument from the Government. as
compensation for saving it millions of
dollars year, Is exactly $4,000 per
annum. OF that sum only $500 is
budget salary. The other $4,000 is
Lords retirement pay as former
brigadier general in the Army. He
probably. has had score of offers"
during the past three or four years to
triple and quadruple his Washington
pay,
Shock to Patronage Element.
Apart from the competition with big
business to keep competent men in
Government employ, President Hoover's
decree to reduce changes In the Fed
eral service to the minimum comes as
a distinct shock to the political patron
age elements. No one In Washington
can recall so smashing blow to their
hopes and to their traditional claims
What Hoover has proclaimed, in effect,
Is that Ito the victorS the spells do not
belong" He has declared that the
"spoils' belong to the men who now
possess them, in so far as they are
public servants who have given honest
and jealous service"
If the White House ukase Is carried
out to the last degree, 1t means that
the $4,000 men and women now on
Uncle Sans pay roll can look forward
to retention thereon, provided their rec
ords are spotless. 1t means that the
Nations myriadS of postmasters will
hang on, and with them the thousands
of other presidential appointees who,
since time immemorial have had to
shiver in their boots every time a new
administration took office, even Of the
same political complexion as its prede-
ceSSOrS
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Why Eyes Are Front Of Head
BY BRUCE BARTON.

They sneered at Fulton when
his steamship lay building in the
dry dock. The idea Of a fool
supposing that he could run a
boat without the aid Of wind or
tide!
They called Alaska derisiveiy
Stewards Folly" and Stewards
lcebox," never dreaming that the
products of that icebox would in
a single year pay for its cost
many times over.
They agreed with the London
Times, which in 1877 branded
the telephone as the --latest
American humbus" and soIemnly
declared it "far inferior to the
we'll established system of speak
ing tubes. -.r..
Years ago they were sure that
The automobile had reached the
utmost possible perfection and
hat the "saturation point in
automobile production was just
around the corner.
X X X
The past few years have been
N uncomfortable time for pessl-
;,ists and men Of little faith.
fortunes have been made by
some men who had courage and
sometimes very little else. Many
of these fortunes may be lost,
for every period Of easy wealth
bcgets a greed that overreaehes,
overstays.
But human wants keep on in
creasins, and human ingenuity
is not yet at an end. What may
happen in 80 days no one can
definitely foreteIl, but who can
doubt that in 80 years the world
will be buster, more profitable,
more interesting in every way?
X X X
II is pleasant and useful to
read the history of the past. The
wise man does so, but he does it
at night. During the working
hours he keeps his eyes on the
present and the thrilling future.
For eyes were made to look
forward. That's why they're in
the front Of the head.
,aoo
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suit being that the great northern in
dustrial belt, along with the coal and
iron area of Wales and the Scottish
lowlands, is full of jobless and half-time
men, despairing women, hungry chill
dren and broken homes.
In these depressed areas the whole
capitalist system has been under fire
for years. But since the general strike
ended there have been no riots or dis
turbances, and no hunger professions,
with the possible exception of the march
of some hundreds of unemployed to
London, where they met in Trafalgar
Square. No, one has attempted to as
sassinate the prime minister or Winston
Churchill (the one cabinet minister who
insists upon wearing a fur coat. And
the big industrialists and great coal
owners are without special police pro-
lection on their estates.
+ Further, there is a revolution In the
social outlook which has steadily
strengthened the Labor Socialist party
in suburbs formerly as Tory as rural
areas. Up to two years ago the middle
class regarded the miners as bolshe-
visits. A. J. Cook is mainly to blame for
that. Old gentlemen and ladies read
his latest Grafton in the Times and
asked why the government didn't put
him against wall and shoot him, along
with the rest of the miners leaders
The papers were full of editorial men,
aces to labor.
When it was suggested that it was
sad thing that miners should be starved
into surrender to mine owners, the con-
sensus was that it served 'em darn we'll
right, and although the Prince of Wales
had sent q check to the distress COM
mittee In the Duchy of Cornwall terri
tory. If you suggested giving the money
to the miners families you were liable.
in strike and immediate post-strike
days, to be regarded either as a weak
ling or else person of secret sub
versive tendencies
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TN 1888 a clerk in the Patent
Office at Washington handed
in his resignation.
= 1t was an interesting doc
ument, touched with pathos. He
had found the work congeniai,
he said; he was sorry to leave
it. But his conscience would
not allow him to continue to
draw pay under false pretenses.
There was no more need for. a
job like his. Every possible in
vention had been conceived and
patented; there was nothing lett
to invent!
In 1e33--and nothing left to
invent! Before the railroads
had spanned the continent! Be-
fore electricity lighted our
streets and moved our cars!
Before the telephone or the radio
or the steamshoveI or the dy-
namo! At the very threshold OF
tne greatest pCTi0N " hSS'Nf
ical advance that the world hs-
ever known this young mar
threw up his hands.
X X X
A large section of the human
race, in any age, belongs to til
class of that mistaken young
man. You find men at every
period, their eyes gripped by the
past, looking forward, when they
look at all, only to shudder and
to fear.
There were the people who
criticized Jefferson because he
paid the enormous sum Of
: GO, 00o, 900 francs for the worthless
tract of land beyond the Alle-
shenies. Fortunately, he with
stood their criticism and per-
sisted in his extravaganza course,
and the richest agricultural en-
pire in the world was added to
our territory at cost Of less
than 4 cents an acre.
(Copyri
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Mobile, the commander. Apparently,
also, it discovers a certain lack of eff
ficiency In the subordinate personnel.
The committee finds the conduct of
Comdrs. Mariana and zappi Tin con-
nectiOn with the tragic death of DIR.
Malmgren) as mot open to criticism,
but rather worthy of praise"
On the other hand. it finds the con-
duct of Gen. Mobile in allowing him.
self to be rescued before his compan-
ions, to lack justification. "It can,
perhaps, be explained. but not justified,
by the condition of physical and moral
depression in which he found himself,
which did not allow him to weigh the
full value of the STEP"
Finally, the committee finds nothing
but praise for the conduct of the res
cue parties, particularly, of course,
touching on the work Of the Russian
ice breaker Krassin and the "chival-
rous and generous sacrifice of Roald
AnlundSen."
MEXICO.-Another instruction on
the grand scale. apparently. is supported
be federal troops in 10 or more states
We are told that, speaking in a large
way, the inSurrectionary leaders rep
resent the agrarian interests as against
the industrial, with which latter the
government, though not identified, is
said to be closely allied; that, more
over the discretionary leaders are.
with what sincerity you please, playing
up to the clerical interest. But the
whole situation is viciously complicat-
ed and the above indication of aligh-
ments may be rather beside the mark
1t might be more proper to say that
the development is due to inveterate
and invincible "orneriness" and abom-
Unable traditions. leave it to others to
descant of "Obregonistas, "CalliStas."
etc. Ex-president Gales has been made
secretary of war. The sorry bu-tsIesS
began on Saturday night, March 2-3,
and first blood was spilled on the 5th.
President Hoover has decided to sup
port the Portes Gil government, and
the embargo proclaimed by President
Coolidge in January, 1924, continues in
force the which forbids shipments of
arms or munitions of war from the
United States to Mexico except such as
may be approved by our Government
flor use of the Mexican government
recognized by ours or for non-military
purposes).
The military developments to date
have been. on the whole, favorable 10
the government arms.
\ + X
NOTES.-Marshal Foch is some
what better. Dispatches tell of three
days battle between forces of the
usurping governor of Human Province,
China (backed by the 'Kwangsi-Han-
kow faction''). and forces of the ousted
governor (who owns allegiance to the
Marking governmenD, resulting in VIC
tory for the former.
During 1928 considerable advance was
made In development Of several of the
competing methods for conversion of
coal into oil toward the point of definite
commercial profltableness. When that
point is reached. most of the important
powers will be assured of power" in
dependence; and by the same token
oil will be deprived of the role to which
lin succession to religion, dynastic
ambitions, general stats and sultanas
whims) 1t seemed destined for a long
period-the role. namely, Of chief war
morger In the world.
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coal valleys of the North he
threw high light on unemployment In
England which for the moment irradi-
ated the whole vast and gloomy canvas.
He also indicated that he and some
other individual Englishmen who mat
ter perceive that there is a cloud on
the island horizon no bigger than a
mans hand, but which, If left to drift
unchecked over the sociaf sky. will bring
in, its train mysterious cancer OF the
social body that will eventually have to
be exciSed by the surgeons knife OF
Mussolini If the patients are to be saved
from the terrible remedies OF Lenln. J..
There are pessimists and optimists in
this matter. Both realize that the root
cause of Britain's troubles-the question
of her debt burdens apart-is the eco
non1ic stress in an overindustrialized
island whose increase in population has
outrun the growth of industry while the
sluice gates of emigration are not func-
tioning to anything like the degree nee
essary to relieve the population pressure.
But they disagree as to how the Sltu-
alton is going to end.
Dean Inge Pessimistic.
Dean Inge, for instance. makes the
middle class flesh creep with prophesies
warning of the destruction of civilization
by inferior human animals who have
votes in democratic age He sees Eng
land plunging into an abyss OF COM
munism amid the groans of the dying
middle upper classes and the roar OF
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rich men among those early alumni
rich, at least, as the Pacific Coast rates
wealth. But, fortunately, they are still
alive and healthy. Further, when VIII
bur took control the building scheme
was not yet completed; money must be
retained or found for new construction.
There, the university had sustained a
cruel setback in the destruction wrought
by the earthquake of 1906.
Wilbur has managed all this with his
own shrewd common sense. In raising
money, he has made horn spoon out
of sow'S ear as well as any man alive
could have done 1t.
However, 1t involved some drastic
measures, for which Wilbur had to
fight. Notably, there was the crisis over
tuition fees. Senator Stanford had
founded the institution as a free uni
versity. Wilbur and such associates as
agreed with him from the beginning
saw that with the spread of American
wealth in the last decade or two, the
average American family could afford
university tuition for their sons and
There remained a minority,
the bow from a very poor family which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
BY c. PATRICK THOMPSON.

Y YHEN the Prince of Wales
M jumped on train and went
wv to see for himself how men
we're faring in the stricken
coal valleys of the North he
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BY HENRY w. BUM.

.HE following Is a brief sum-
mary of the most important
news of the world for the seven
days ended March 9:
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tCopyright. 1922
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windward and leeward course. Boice
was third and they were tied at 10
points.
A sail-on was declared necessary and
the contestants agreed to hold it at
once, making one tour of the wind
ward-leeward course. Boice's Neptune
III, was on the windward side crossing
the starting line and Hayford tackled to
port and came up astern Of the Toledo
boat, the Twinkle-Ditto was pointing
higher ana footing faster than Boice's
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Sheridan Shore Yacht Club, Chicago,
the Commodore Tom p. Archer Per-
petual Starboat trophy. having won the
right to keep 1t for a year by, winning
double victory on Lake st. Clair this
Hayford and Cy Belknap, forced the
competition to 60 into an extra race
to decide the Great Lakes starboat
championship. Before today's races
Johnnie Boice of Toledo was In the lead
with eight points accumulated. When
Bayford and his one-man crew pushed
Twinkle-Ditto over the line first on the
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States, municipalities and communities
can come for the concrete object lesson
of the best in all phases of city and
community life. The Capital in 1882
will extend the widest welcome to the
Nations population, who will do honor
to the memory of the founder of the
Republic.
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Spanish Consul to U. s. Named.
MADRID, September R.-The
Royal Gazette today published a royal
order naming Santiago de Mugiro y
Mugiro Spanish consul in Chicago.
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craft and after the first mile the Chi
cago boat was never in danger Of los-
ing.
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Envoy Wright Returns to Post.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, September 7
R.--American Minister J. Butler
Wright returned to his post from the
United States yesterday.
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New Zealand now claims to be second
only to Denmark in the exporting of
dairy products
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"TWINKLE.DlTTO" WINS
LAKE STAR BOAT TROPHY
Max Hayford, Skipper, Comes From
Behind to Obtain Cup in
Extra Race.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, September Max Hay.
ford, young. curly-haired skipper OF
Twinkle-Ditto, will take back to
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be allocated a mile of road for such
state tablets and architectural treat
ment as determined by the State, with
the approval Of the Federal Highway
Department and the Fine Arts Com
I1aicSinr
The Nome nugget., 1929-09-07
VICTORIA SAILS FOR NOME:
 80 PASSENGERS

SEATTLE, Sept. 4, (R-Thc s. s. Victoria of the Alaska Line sailed from here this morning for Nome, carrying sixty-seven pass engers, thirty nine of which are for Nome, Following are the passengers for Nome:
 R. McWilliams, Mrs. A. Buchan- an. Mrs. Ross J. Kinney, D. H. Lyons. Mrs. Wm. J. Hoelscher, Mrs. F, R. Stout, A. F. Parsil and wife. E. F. Powell, Mrs. R. E Smith G. A. Morelander and wife Daphney Morelander, C. w. Lewis Hugo Eckert. Ella Schmidt, Al bert Schmidt, Miss A. Schmidt Lena Schmidt, Mrs. T. A. Ross and child, A, W. Mead. Faye Cypser, W. c. Grant and wife C. E. Hallberg, Miss M. Tender son. Susan Drentt, Miss NJ. Lee Miss J. Warren, W. T. Anderson Florence Kinney, G. W. Maybe A. Bahlke and wife, L. Carsen and wife, Albert E. Thompson and one steerage.
The Nome nugget., 1929-09-07
HIDEOUS SPECTACLE ARISES FOLLOWING CONFEDERATION

SOUTHWEEK. Eng. Sept. 4, (R)-Eleven persons, six of them members of one family named Mcdonald, lost their lives in fire here last night which origin ated in a confectioners' shop and spread to a theatre and an apart ment house, and three others are in the hospital suffering from sev- ere injuries.
 Several families were trapped in the burning buildings and some escaped by leaping from third story windows.
 Bremen searching the ruins. found the remains of the McDo2- aid family, father, mother, and children. all huddled together. A father. mother and son by the name of Jones also perished as did a Mrs. Aston and an unknown crippled person. It was reported that there were twenty-eight per sons living in the apartment house at the time.
 One of the most hideous examp- les of the results of fires was re- vealed when a search of the ruins resulted in the discovery of char- red bodies lying in beds hanging from the girders, where the foc- had burned away A great crowd watched the flremen in their work of removing the bodies. as did many of the relatives of persons who lost their lives.
The Nome nugget., 1929-09-07
MORE SALMON BOATS
 ARE CONFISCATED

KETCHIKAN, Sept. 3, (R- The halibut schooners Sentinel. Anna J.. and the Claire were seized the other day by order of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. for alleged violation of the fishing laws. Following an investiga- ton, the Sentinel and the Ann J were released and the Claire was held. It was reported that char ges will be filed again here. The boats were said to have aboard salmon for bait, which had been caught out of. sea- sen.
The Nome nugget., 1929-09-07
WEDNESDAY {TELEGRAPAic>
CATHARINE B Is CAUGHT
 ONCE MORE

SEATTLE, Sept 3, (P,-The Seattle salmon trolling vessel Catharine B was seized Satur- day of Rose Spit in the Dixon En- trance and charged with allegal fishing in Canadien waters. She will be sold at Prince Rupert next Saturday. It is reported that the Wilbur E. Dow Company will have a representative ct the sale.
 The forfeiture of the vessel and her equipment, was ordered by Justice Martin of the Admiralty Court at Victoria. She was own ed by Captain Ludwig 7Thormod- sater of Seattle and was virtually a new vessel. being launched in April of this year and was on her first fishing trip when seized.
The Nome nugget., 1929-09-07
GRAF ARRIVES BACK
 AT HOME STATION
FREIDRICHSHAvEN,

FREIDRICHSHAVEN, Sept. 4. R-The Graf Zeppelin, the great German airliner, landed here at S:51 A. M. today or according to Eastern Standard Time, 2:52 A. M., after her transatlantic voy- age from Lakehurst. New Jersey, on the late round the world cruise which began here Wednesday. Aug. 14th.
 The dirigible completed the trip around the world one day short of her schedule, making it in twenty days, four hours, and eighteen minutes.
The Nome nugget., 1929-09-07
COURT NOTES

\ motion for new trial in the case 0. the U. s. vs Charles Frank recently convicted of murder by a jury in the District Court he ,, was denied today by Federal Jud- ge G. J. Lomen. A motion in arrest of judgment was also den jed, and the time for sentence fix ed for Saturday, September z, at II A. N.
The Nome nugget., 1929-09-07

ay, and nine out of the thirty seven passengers reported saved; :; no mention was made of the mem bers of the crew.
 The provinces of Tayabas. Bula- can, and Pampanga, on the Island of Luzon. bore the brunt of the hurricane. No detailed reports of damage have been received because the lines are down. The typhoon missed the main part of Manila and passed over the northern sec tion. which experienced strong winds and rain throughout the day
The Nome nugget., 1929-09-07

property damage was estimated at $50,000.
 The fire was thought to have started in the basement and the flames to have shot up through the railways and stairs. Por- tions of the roof collapsed. making the rescue work very much more difficult. Some of the occupants leaped from the third and fourth floors to the fire nets or the pave ment.
The Nome nugget., 1929-09-07
COSTLY FIRE WIPES
 OUT HUMAN LIVES

WINNIPEG. Sept 3, R)-Mrs. Madge Edwards, aged forty-two, her daughter Marjorie, fourteen and son Gordon, nine; Alfred Ap- plebeet. aged forty five, and his sister Irene and brother Ralph;
 Mrs. G. L. Butler, Mrs. Sarah Gaunt, both aged sixty-eight; all lost their lives in an apartment house fire which stripped this dis trict last night Several more were very seriously injured. The
The Nome nugget., 1929-09-07

Church bells pealed and cannons ship as. escorted by twelve air planes. she appeared over her home port. One of the largest crowds in history greeted the ship and her twenty-two passengers, who were seen at the windows waving greetings to the crowd as the dirigible was walked into her hangar.
The Nome nugget., 1929-09-07
TUESDAY ,rElEGRAPHiC)
AIRPLANE NEWS

Pilot Frank Dorbandt flying the Stinson cabin plane of the AL aska Airways Inc.. hoped of to- day with mail for Candle and Deering. Irwin Reed will be pick ed up at Deering and taken to Teller. The plane is expected to return to Nome tonight.
The Nome nugget., 1929-09-07

LAKEHURST, Sept. 3, (P)- aided eby favorable winds, the mighty dirigible was far out over the broad Atlantic on her fifth crossing of that temptuous ocean. She carried twenty two passengers and according to her report was making a speed of eighty miles an hour This is the top speed of her motors but of course due to the wind she is not forcing them that much.
 The ship is expected to reach the home port before Thursday morning and is commanded by Captain Ernest Lehman. Dr. Eckner saw the ship off and then boarded a train for Cleveland to attend the National Air Races. From there he will go to Akron, Ohio to inspect two new dirigibles which are being constructed for the U. s. Navy. Following his inspection tour he will board the boat Saturday for Germany.
 (Radio Reportsl Sept 3, R)- The Graf which is now racing toward her home port intent on breaking the round the world time, was in communication with the freighter Exhibitor. of the American Line, asking for wealth CT conditions. The Exhibitor was about two thousand miles east of New York, indicating that the ship would probably reach the Euro pean coast sometime late today.
The Nome nugget., 1929-09-07
CAPTAIN BAKER STARTS
 LONG FLIGHT AGAIN

MITCHELL FIELD, N. Y, Sept. 3, R-A second attempt to break the refuelirg flight record was begun by Capt. Ira Baker and Lieutenant Barney Thompson this morning in the trans-continental plane Shuttle"
The Nome nugget., 1929-09-07

MOSCOW, Sept. 3, (P)-The Russian plane landed at Khabar- ovsk, in eastern Siberia. complet- ing the first stage of her flight which is to carry her over one ocean and three continents. The plane hopped off early this morn ing from agovestchensk and ar rived at haabarovsk late this afternoon.