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Evening star., 1929-06-28

ate. He does not subscribe to the plan
for cloture, advanced by the former Vice
President, who would have made It pos
sible to shut OF debate by q majority
vote so as to force action on q pending
measure, but he does stand by the de-
mand Of Mr.. Dawes that debate be at
all times directed to the subject before
the Senate. Senator Allen Is quoted In
. dispatch from his own home town,
Wichita, Kans.. as saying:
II do not think that In the midst Of
q serious debate on farm relief q Sen
ator should be allowed to claim the floor
to make speech on the characteristics
Of the horned toad"
Neither would any one else with COM
mon sense sustain such a procedure.
But that is precisely the kind of thing
that happens again and again in the
greatest deliberative body in the
world" Senator Allen has announced
that he intends to seek election to the
Senate to succeed himself next year
he is serving now under appointment
by the Governor Of his State. filling q
vacancy caused by the election Of
Charles Curtis, former Senator, to be
Vice President. The latter, by the way,
has not undertaken to follow in the
footsteps Of Mr.. Dawes, so far Is the
Senate rules are concerned. Senator
Allen, however, with a later view Of the
Senate and its procedure, Is inclined to
agree with the former Vice President in
this matter. Some day something will
be done to make the Senate rules more
sensible
Evening star., 1929-06-28
Sporadic Law Enforcement.

There is something akin to frenzy
ils the reaction Of police and traflc ON
cials to the alarming increase In traffic
accidents. A special squad of motor
cycle men is mustered and sent scour-
ing the highways for violators Of the
trafic regulations. Arrests increase
overnight, and scores of automobile
drivers are apprehended for their fail
ure properly to observe signal lights,
for their failure to display license tags
correctly, for their failure to make
proper hand signals in turning or stop
ping, for speeding, stopping on cross
walks and not giving the right of way.
Publicity from such q drive will have
the temporary effect Of making every
driver more careful. While the drive
lasts every driver will watch his step.
But after the drive? From past
experience with such campaigns it is
known that the good effect does not
last long. A few days and the police
men relax In vigilance and the careless
ness Of the motorists increases in pro-
portion. The benefit Of q short and
spirited campaign to enforce the trafic
regulations Is questionable.
One readily appreciates the RESPONSE
bility felt by trafic and police ofacials
to make the streets safe against acci-
dents. Their determination to enforce
the law sealousIy, with o mounting
casualty list staring them in the face,
is natural. The point is that there
should be no stops and sudden spurts
in enforcement Of the trafac law or of
any law. II the increased force of
fifteen motor cycle policemen added to
the Trafic Bureaus patrol is necessary
to deal with an acute situation, they
should be permanently and not tempo
rarily assigned to this duty. The TRAFFIC
Bureaus new campaign win bring good
results while Il lasts. why not make
it a permanent policy instead Of cam
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Evening star., 1929-06-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES 3. TRACEWELL.

Yet what would one past the half
way point Of life read II not novels?
Sometimes one hears Slurs cast at
fiction, as If it were somehow an igno-
BILE occupation. Great men have said,
upon occasion, that they had no time
to devote to it. The reading of French
novels was for long time frowned
upon by our Victorian ancestors.
Surely this attitude was and Is a
mistake, for fiction Is simply glorifled
picture of life, glorified by the very
intensity of the production, which de-
mandS that the reader put himself into
it as well as take the lives of other
people out of it.
A novel needs no apology. 1t has
been the accepted story form Tor sew
eral generations, and its end is not yet
Pure fiction is the legitimate descendant
of the poems of ancient Greece, which
mixed legend with the hopes and as
pirations of the human race.
#k*k
Psychologists make O great deal OF
ways of escape" whereby human be-
ings find In fiction the love or success
which they are supposed to have missed
in real life.
AS o matter of fact, the most omniv-
erous readers of the novel in every
form is the man whose life has been
reasonably well filled with success and
romance.
Having known and in some measure
understood both, he Is able to under
stand and appreciate variations of the
same when he meets them in books.
That is why men past the age OF
80 years generally come to an appre-
citation of the great novels Of France,
whereas in their youth they may have
NJ fh0NH q g "UUVleYor
Great French fiction is life 'aS is. -
The immortal novels of that people
have not vulgarized life, as some per-
sons think, and as many an American
novel does, but have shown that phase
of life when necessary.
This is realism, naturalism-call 1t
what one willis an advanced aspect
Of storytelling. whose lure Is so great
that many halfway practitioners have
seen but the sensational aspects.
Many halfway readers, too, coming
to French literature before they should
60 away baff1ed. They should wait
until they are as old as our reader on
his porch.
He is reading Zola, Maupassant
Flaubert, Dumas, France, Proust.
He is enjoying the greatest fiction
in the world, greatest because the most
truthful and the best written.
Let no lover Of Dickens, SCOTT, Cooper
frown. Let no admirer of Wells
Holmes, Conrad, admonish.
We love them all, but cast our vote
for French fiction, and feel quite sure
that our man on his back porch Is
reading in translation.
Could works on tactics keep q man
reading until such hours? Gould
poetry? Could history Gould BIZ
ography, fiction sugar-coated with
facts?
No: only real fiction could keep q
man reading until /. 2 or o'clock night
after night.
Here is a real happiness, ladies and
gentlemen. Scenes of raucous revelry
fade into boorish oblivion before our
picture of the quiet. dignified man at
his books.
Evening star., 1929-06-28
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

the post of chief economist Of the
United States Tariff Commission Is for
tunately not going to deprive that body
of the expert services of A. M. Fox, for
the past five years chief of its eco
Monies division Mr. Fox ranks as one
Of Americas foremost authorities on
tariff questions. At different times he
has been a member of the faculties of
three notwithstanding City Col
lege of New York and Catholic Uni
verSity Of America. Before coming to
the Tariff Commission Fox was assist
ant to the valuation counsel Of the New
York Central lines. Once he was con-
nected with the cost department Of the
Dodge motor organization, DR.. Coul-
ter's appointment will relieve Fox of
the cares Of the Tariff Commission 8
advisory board and permit him, as chief
Of the economics division, to devote
more time to the special problems OF
the commission.
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Ambassador and Mrs. Dawes have
just weathered, as maiden experience
at the Court Of st. James, one of the
severest ordealS which our envoys
abroad have to survive, If they are un-
fortunate enough to be stationed In
monarchial capitals. More push and
pull are exerted by aspiring papas and
mamaS at Washington, TO get either
mother or daughter-or both-the
privilege Of curtsying before a Queen
or Empress than for any other purpose
not even excepting government jobs.
The President Is necessarily the target
Of these Notwithstanding Americans
He generally passes the buck to the
Ambassador or Minister In question
In London the goal of goals for would.
be presentees, usually a couple OF
dozen Americans are annually intro
duced at Buckingham Palace. The wait
ing list Is always six or seven times
larger.
(CopyriRht, 1927
Evening star., 1929-06-28
Competition Suggested
AS Car Fare Solution

To the Editor o. The Star:
I have followed in your columns, OF
and on, the situation regarding the
street railway fares in the District Of
Columbia. have by no means made
any profound study of the subject, but
thought occurs to me which have
not seen mentioned In any of the dis
cussions of the subject.
Although in these days OF Govern
ment regulation and public utility legis-
lation it has largely gone by the board,
we did have q successful theory that
competition provided healthy stimulus
to service.
AS I understand the situation, one
of the companies now operating street
cars in the District of Columbia is able
to do so successfully at the present rate
of fare. The other company, due to
long hauls and etc., is unable to do so.
Why not let each company charge
what is necessary in order to allow II
to operate? Would not the situation
soon take care Of itself?
It appeals to me that If such action
were taken, many of the dubious ex-
pedients which have been suggested,
such as compulsory merger, compulsory
higher fare on all lines, ETC., would be
suggestion is especially apt to work out
| to the benefit Of the public in WASH
| ington, where the two street car COM
panies have laid out lines which cross
and intertwine, serving largely the same
| territory in o competitive way.
The natural result of such a scheme
would be for the lower fare company 70
survive and to absorb the higher fare
! line. If and when this occurred, the
public utility regulating body would be
In a position to force the remaining
company to carry out the franchises II
| acquired and at the same time to en-
l courage q rerouting of the transit sys-
| tenn to serve the needs Of the Capital
| better than Is now the case.
ALFRED TAWRESEY,
Lieutenant Commander, u. s. Navy.
Evening star., 1929-06-28
The Kellogg Treaty,

Less than a year ago In Paris
representatives of fifteen of the most
powerful nations of the world signed
the Kellogg multilateral treaty renounc-
ing war. Yesterday the Emperor Of
Japan formally ratified the treaty for
his country, following Its approval by
the privy council. The action by the
government Of Japan completes the
ratification Of the treaty by the fifteen
signatories. AS soon as the ratification
by Japan has been officially deposited
in Washington, which will be within q
month, the treaty will be declared in
effect. In addition TO the fifteen sigma
tory nations, forty-nine others have
been invited to adhere to the treaty.
With the exception of Argentina and
Brazil, all have been heard from,
favorably. Twenty-three Of them have
already deposited their ratification in
Washington.
The negotiation Of the Kellogg treaty
was hailed the world over as q great
step In the interest Of International
peace. The nations under it agree TO
renounce war as an instrument Of set
Ting international differences and to
resort to peaceful measures In bringing
about such settlements. Now that the
treaty is going into effect it is a matter
Of great congratulation to the Govern
ment of the United States, which took
the lead in its negotiation.
The privy council Of Japan adopted
an interpretative declaration regarding
the language of the treaty, holding that
the signature of the treaty Gin the name
Of their respective peoples" did not ap-
ply 10 Japan. It was held that without
some Interpretation this language
might be held to imply that the EN-
peror was the peoples agent, which
would be incompatible with the consti-
tuition Of Japan. Count Uchida, who
signed the treaty for Japan at Paris
last year, has rendered his resignation
as member of the privy council, hold
ing that the interpretative declaration
was unnecessary. Despite the furry
over the interpretative declaration and
the feeling In some quarters that the
language Of the treaty was incompatible
with the constitution Of japan, there
has been no opposition voiced in Japan
to the purposes of the treaty.
The Kellogg treaty is n simple dec
laration that the nations ratifying 1t
win not resort to war, but win adopt
peaceful methods Of settling interna-
tional disputes. There is no supergOv-
ernment, no combination Of powers
provided for carrying out the provisions
Of the treaty. 1t Is q solemn declaration
nevertheless, and any violation Of II
would subject the violating nation to
disapproval Of the world and bring
down upon 1t the condemnation OF
vyorid OYiNi0n
Evening star., 1929-06-28
Tributes to BramwelI Booth
Warmly Appreciate His Career

devotion to the cause for which he gave
all that he had"
Recording that che demonstrated
high administrative ability" the Rock
Island Argus adds that ''1f there IL JOY
in Heaven over one sinner that repent-
eth q great chorus Of acclaim VIII be
heard In the heavenly courts rs William
Bramwell Booth enters into glory"
The Roanoke Times believes that Gen.
Booth was loved even by those who
fought him." and that paoer, says Of
his removal near the end Of his life
from his position at the head Of the
Salvation Army: THE real struggle,
it is now generally understood, centered
about control of the army's funds, q
fortune in themselves, which the Booth
family not unnaturally desired to re-
tain, but which the reform element
sought to wrest from the Booths con-
troll and put at the disposal Of the high
council"
"He will be remembered" the South
Bend Tribune says, "for his splendid
work in association with his father,
his career as commander Of the army.
To father and son must go the ere T.t
for holding the Salvation Army together
in the face of widespread antagoniSm."
The Kansas City Times feels sure that
the reorganization in the control Of the
army will not lessen the pride which
the organization justly takes in 1tS
founder and his successor"
"T'he death Of the commander" a.
observed by the Charlotte Observer,
"has served to bring the two factions
together In sorrow over the mutual loss,
and If the differences shall have been
permanently wiped out, then life that
was crowned with memorable success Is
yet greater victor in DEATH
Further interest in the proceeding in
volving the former leader, now dead,
Is predicted by the New York Sun, with
the statement: "In the course Of the
contest over Bramwell Booths leader
ship the army'S affairs were taken by
him into court, an unusual, II not un-
precedented, thing in army administra-
ton. The final judicial decision has
not been made. It and the testament
Of Bramwell Booth win interest all stu
dents Of social and religious move
ments." L
Evening star., 1929-06-28
Urges Naturalization
Of Wives Be Changes
From the Buffalo Evening News. 5

From the Buffalo Evening News.
Representative Cable Of Ohio win in
troduce in the House q bill designed to
end the anomalous situation that now
exists with regard to the citizenship Of
American women who married aliens
prior to September AZ, 1922, and the
alien wives Of Representatives Of the
United States in foreign service. Mr..
Cables bill would amend the act Of
1922 to permit these women to be nat
uralized without the one-year residence
In the country now required.
The courts have ruled that the law
OF 1922 does not apply to women welded
to aliens before the act became Offective
Thus the question OF citizenship had
been raised in relation to Representa-
tive Ruth Bryan owen Of Florida. She
married an Englishman, Maj. Reginald
Owen. After his death she was renat-
uralised, but a contest against her right
to seat In Congress now Is on file In
the House.
The great injustice Of the situation
lies In the fact that some American
wives of aliens and alien wives of
Americans have been denied entrance
to the country when immigration quotas
are filled This is ridiculous state az
affairs. enc that should Be cOEyectaA
Evening star., 1929-06-28
Relevancy.

Senator Henry ]. Allen Of Kansas
would preserve the relevancy Of debate
In the Senate. More power to himI
The junior Senator from Kansas has
been q member Of the Upper House for
only q short time. But at least he has
placed his finger on . sore spot IA Sem
ate procedure-a spot which needs Q
remedy. The Senate Is called the great
est deliberative body on earth. That Is
the claim made for it by Senators
themselves. II 1t Is such, 1t does ap-
pear reasonable that the debate should
be relevant TO the question before the
Senate for consideration. But nothing
is further from the fact. Under the
rules Of the Senate, Senator is per-
Initted to discuss anything or any
question under the sun, no matter how
unrelated it may be to the measure be-
fore that body for consideration and
action. II Senators were compelled to
eonfine their remarks to the business
In hand, public business would be exc
pedited and carried forward in much
more sane manner.
Former Vice President Dawes, when
he became presiding oficer Of the SEN
ate In 1928, declared war on the Senate
rules, which permit unlimited debate
and entire irrelevancy. Mr.. Dawes has
passed to other nelds OF endeavor and
the Senate rules remain the same. This
is not because the former Vice Presi-
dent was wrong when he said there waa
something the matter with the Senate
rules governing debate. but because the
individual members Of the Senate In
sist upon retaining their individual pow
en- to block legislation. By those pow
eES they are able to hannstring legis-
lakion needed by the country and tc
force through deals by which they oh.
tain legislation which . majority Of th'
Senate would not stand for On it
merits. They are able to do all thess
things merely because they have th'
right to hold the Senate door and Il
speak for an unlimited time after the!
have been recognized by the presiding
onacer.
! The new Senator from Kansas admit
/ be ID q convert IN part 10 the DAVE
!, plan far eAapgsng the RULES 0f the sen
Evening star., 1929-06-28
The Nature of Space.

The vastness Of this universe Of space
and time in which our world 10 80
insignificant an atom is impressed upon
US by the calm announcement Of the
Carnegie Institution Of Washington
that two Of its stan have made obser-
vations Of objects so, ,OOo, 900 light years
distant in the heavens.
This means approximately 3o,000,-
o0o, ,ooo, ,o0o, ,ooo. .oo0, ,o0o. 900 miles. When
astronomers speak Of such enormous
distances q few trillion miles, more or
less, have no significance. They are
negligible quantities on the aStronom-
ical yardstick.
Over this great expanse Of space they
looked upon clusters Of clusters Of
stars, each Of the latter comparable to
all the heavenly bodies in our own
galaxy-all that can be seen through
the ordinary telescope. 1t cannot be
said that they actually saw these OBJ
jects with their own eyes, but their
presence was recorded on the marvel
ously delicate instruments which the
observers employed.
They found that these clusters Of
stars were moving away from them at
terrific speeds. from 3,l0O to 1900
miles q second. The greater the dis
tance the faster the objects seemed
TO move. In the spectrum Of q lumi-
nous object which is moving away
from the observer all the lines shift
toward the red end. The greater ths
velocity the greater ths shift Tit
relation can be computed with con.
siderable accuracy. This was thi
method employed In the nebulae OBJ
servations.
The observed shift. however, could b
explained in another way-not as du'
to actual velocity away from the OBJ
server, but as apparent velocity du'
to the unpicturable nature Of spac'
itself as postulated in the hyper
mathematics Of Einstein, De sitter IN.
Eddington. The observer. or rathe
the pectrosconA mas nearing over III
Evening star., 1929-06-28

He has been sitting on his back porch
for the past four years, reading until
or am.
Often when we happen to see him
there we wonder what he Is reading.
Night after night, month after month,
year after year, he has been reading
away without cessation, as IL his very
life depended upon it.
Heaven is to be thanked that reading
is a silent occupation.
There are no resounding laughs, no
outlaws every flve minutes, no melodies
splitting the skies, no noisy conversa-
ton.
All those who appreciate slumber are
glad.
Upon the chance occasions when they
awake and see the lone reader there,
sitting quietly beneath the light of his
bridge lamp, they send up their silent
thanks.
What is he reading?
The heart of booklover goes out 10
him, for of all the enjoymentS in the
world nothing quite equals book to
one who loves reading.
One may grow tired Of music, eSpe-
cially in It's scientific forms, but Of a
good book-neverl
The emphasis today has been put on
theatrical amuSementS, and upon the
various outdoor sports, but there are
more books printed now than ever be-
fore, and there are probably more ar
dent readers, too.
There are thousands Of small boys
who play all morning and read all after
noon. Real boys they are, boys who
run and leap and throw and catch, but
xrrIN0 ali hVanV IN
mental ideas, to catch q good story on
the bound, to throw their minds into
moving narrative.
These boyS--and we should include
the girls, too-are the mainstay OF books
In every generation, for they are the
future bookloverS, men and women who
get more real pleasure out Of good
book than out Of any other form OF d.
version whatsoever.
The lonely book reader on his back
porch is the type OF all such men and
women.
He shows, in the first place, that read
ing Is essentially solitary sport.
No doubt the race is eye-minded, as
the phrase Is; book read with the eyes
and heard with mental ears becomes
more real, more intense, than one which
Is read aloud.
Let no one think we are casting
stones at the gentle occupation of read
ing aloud. Between well balanced
minds it is one of the best ways to read,
but unfortunately such minds do not
often meet.
Even II they do, each may find that
solitary reading is best, since it is by
far the quickest. Especially when one
has done much reading as a child is it
the only type Of reading, for somehow
books seem more real when read in
wardly than outwardly.
r n
Our guess is that the midnight reader
is fond Of fiction.
The observer Is too far away to see
the titles Of the books the reader there
is reading, so his guess as to type Is
merely q guess.