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Baptis, Church Notes

Rev. Henry r. Hodge, Pastor. Wednesday, Baptist Day at the Exhibition fer the Blind.
 Thursday. 7.30. Prayer meeting Gardening.
 Friday, 8. Choir rehear al. Sunday;
 i0.30 Worship. Address by Miss Evelyn Cranska upon her trip around the world.
 12 Church School of Missions. Faiths of Africa"
 Worship. Orchestra. Sermon. "The Courage of Jesus"
Putnam patriot., 1929-05-09
\. M. [. Zion Mis.ion Nele.

60 Railroad Street Rev. Mrs. Zoe A. Walters in charge i.30 Church school. 7.30 Evening worship. Rev $. W. Weller will be the speaker for the evening worship. Mrs Walters will deliver the ser mon for the Household of Ruth at 8 o'clock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03

spent a good part Of his youth inventing
ways to make folks buy newspapers on
trains. Suppose some philanthropist
had come along about that time. bought
a newspaper from the bright train
butcher and decided to send the young
ster to college. The philanthropist
might have made a highly successful
broker out Of young Edison, but would
the broker have invented the electric
light? And is it not just as reasonable
to believe that Mr.. Edison's protege,
after intense training in the art Of in
vention, will turn out to be q successful
broker?
Necessity is not only the mother of
invention, but she numbers among her
children a good many inventors. While
Mr.. Edison may give some bright young
man a fine college career and develop
capable executive to run the plant at
West Orange, fate and the gods of
chance are set against the young man
from the start II he hopes to become a
successor to Mr.. Edison. Mr.. Edison will
have no successors. Edisons are born,
not made. AS for genius, he once said,
him, Genius is two per cent inspira-
ton and ninety-eight per cent perspira-
tion"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03

bias upon the news 50 printed, be avoid
ed. Upon the conscientious publishers
of the Nation, conducting their prop
critics as public institutions in full ap-
probation of this truth, devolves the
obligation of progressively bulwarking
that popular confidence to which fair
title has today been won. No matter
how innocent the connection, financial
relationship with any utility or great
corporation affected with public in
terest cannot but inspire cynical doubts
as to the editorial integrity Of publica-
tons so connected. This truth, of
course. has no bearing upon outright
or part ownership by newspaper Of
the mill where its newsprint is pro-
duced, provided that mill is unen-
numbered by direct public utility con-
nections.
Both the newspapers involved and
the International Paper & Power Co.
suffer more than they could possibly
gain through the relationship which
has been established between them.
They suffer, whether deservedly or not
a din1inution of public confidence in
the ingenuousness of their respective
operations. No economic convenience
can adequately compensate such loss.
There is, in view Of all developments
since the disclosures before the trade
commission, every evidence that this
fact is fully appreciated by the news
papers of the Nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
War Debts and British Politics.

Our British cousins are deep in the
throes Of their impending parliamen-
tary election, which explains the recur-
rent recrudescence of John Bulls war
debt to Uncle Sam as public issue
over there Ever since the Labor leader,
Philip Snowden, recently espoused
something resembling reputation OF
that SIS 900 100000 obligation it has
been the subject of animated discussion
on and OF the hastings.
Yesterday. as an obvious move in the
campaign game by the Conservatives,
Lord Birkenhead secured the approval
in the HOUSE of Lords of a motion re-
affirming the principle of the famous
Balfour note. In that note Great Brit
ain proclaimed that she would not de-
mand more from her war debtors than
would sufIice to pay her own debt serv-
ice to the United States. In moving
adoption Of his motion, Lord Birken-
head denied that "the American Ma
ton" had subjected itself to the slight
est ground for criticism by refusing TO
| identify itself with the Balfour prin-
ciple. 1t was strictly Americas bust
ness, Birkenhead explained, to say
whether We approved or disapproved
of it.
Earlier in the week Premier Baldwin,
speaking before the British Bankers
Association, made some characteristic
cally sensible remarks about the Ameri-
can debt settlement. He defended it as
zone Of the most important steps" ever
taken in behalf of British financial in
tegrity. He sketched in matter-of-fact
terms how Britain had given her bond
to America" in the midst Of the World
War. II went to America" Mr.. Baldwin
continued, "to get the best terms
could. We funded the debt. Instead Of
the contracted $250,0oo,0o0 we pay
$165, 100000 per annum for ten years,
and $3.50, 100000 after that-and that
covers both interest and redemption. "
The prime minister insisted that bur-
densome as is the obligation still rest
ing upon the backs of British taxpayers.
1t was well shouldered, "else we should
never have made any progress in re-
storing the currencies Of Europe or re-
placing the credit of the city Of London
on the high level where it stands to-
day"
Lord Birkenhead yesterday subtly sug-
gested the satisfaction with which Brit
ain would greet all-around cancellation
Of war debts. cit would suitably con-
clude great and perilous comradeShip
in arms" he said, referring to Americas
Recommendations attitude. But it is
amply apparent from Mr.. Baldwin's
previous remarks that British states
manship, ever jealous of British pres
tige, financial and otherwise, looks upon
the American debt settlement as an in
cident not only honorably and fairly
closed, but, from the British treasury
standpoint, profitably ended.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

ninistrations since that time. Prob
ABLY no financier in the United states
has so fine background OF professional
training. After student days at the
University of California and gradua-
ton from Yale in 1895, Meyer spent
two years in London, Paris, Berlin ana
Brussels studying banking and inter-
national finance. He is q rich man
and is sure to be heard from in big
business ere many moons.
X X X X
Big oratorical guns, which bark
learnedly in the law. will hold forth at
the seventh annual dinner of the
American Law Institute in Washington
on Nav IL. They include Newton ID.
Baker Of Ohio. former Secretary OF
War; learned Hand, Judge Of the
United States Circuit Court. second
circuit. of New York. and William d.
Mitchell, Attorney General OF the
United States. The presiding officer
states Attorney General. George w.
Wickersham of New York, president OF
the institute.
This is National Hearing week, r"
sponsored by the American Federation
of Organizations for the Hard of Hear
ing" Its headquarters is in Washing
ton, and it has three major alms-re-
Mobilization of the deafened, conserva-
ton of hearing and prevention OF deaf
ness. There are said to be about 5000,
900 children in the United States with
defective hearing, and it Is commended
that 80 per cent of deafness probably
could have been prevented. The founder
and honorary president Of the fedora
ton is DR.. Wendell c. Phillips OF New
York.
X X n X
Representative Gilbert N. Haugen OF
Iowa, chairman of the House aSricul-
tural committee and author of the farm
bill which recently passed the lower
branch of Congress, is one agricultural
leader who doesn't think Wall Street is
the source of all evil. He has a son
there who is employed in the National
City Bank-the country's biggest-and
has a promising career ahead of him.
Representative Haugen is proud OF the
record of the House in enacttng farm
relief legislation after barely q week S
debate, and by a majority correspond
ing to nearly II to /. Haugen, with ID
continuous terms in Congress and en-
tering upon the sixteenth. holds the
record. He came to the House in 1899.
(Copyright, 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
A Successor to Mr.. Edison

One envies neither Mr.. Edison nor the
youthful genius he selects to succeed
him as the Wizard of West Orange. AS
for Mr.. Edison's task, there are about
one million boys of fourth-year- high
school age in the United States, and
possibly twenty-five per cent of these
would fall into the upper stratum, or
those endowed with the intelligence and
ability to make them eligible for Mr..
Edison's Selective test. OF these two
hundred and fifty thousand youths a
small proportion would be clasSed by
psychologists as geniuses. And when
the forty-nine geniuses, one selected
from each State and the District Of
Columbia, appear at West Orange and
answer the questions put by Mr.. Edison,
only one of the forty-nine viii be chosen
to go to college at Mr.. Edison's expense
and prepare himself thereafter to fill
the shoes Of the man who has brought
more light into dark places than any
human since the world began.
But Mr.. Edison's task is relatively
simple. Consider the prospect faced
by the winning genius. Suppose this
young mans brow fairly bulges with
facts relating to parallels and paral-
| kilograms, perpendiculars and protract-
ors, commensurate magnitudes and in
commensurate magnitudes, the doc
trine of the center Of oscillation, the
theory of torsion, the equilibrium OF
arches and domes, electrostatics, cleo
tro-dynamics and the difference be-
tween Scansores or Zygodactyli and
Cursores or Struthionidae. What of it?
When he has graduated from college
and with numerous degrees jangling
against his Phi Beta Kappa key goes
to work, what will the watching world
say? The watching world will say
Now invent something" and pity the
poor boy who is told to invent some
thingl Suppose he does not There
will be loud laughter heard throughout
the world, but it will not come from the
solemn-faced young genius who Is rack
ing his great brain to do it.
Mr.. Edison never went to high Schoo
or to college, and when he was Of an age
of the young geniuses now in theil
fourth year at high school, he was busy
trying to invent ways and means t.
earn a living. Inventions, with him
Just Led from one thing to another. IL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
Sale Of Firearms.

The Board of Trades public order
committee will work for legislation to
curb the menace which lies in the in
discriminate sale of firearms, seeking
first, q law for the registration and eX-
animation by the Police Department OF
all purchasers of firearms, and, sec
ondly, to reach the mail order traffic
in firearms by a statute bringing such
commerce within the purview and juris-
diction of local laws and ordinances
relating to sale or carrying of deadly
weapons. Without this second law,
which Congress would necessarily have
to make applicable to the country at
large, the first type of legislation would
be relatively innocuous. No matter what
obstacles are put in the path of would
be purchasers of deadly weapons in the
District, they are useless unless like
statutes apply elsewhere. When every
mail order house advertises and ships
pistols on receipt of the price, the pistol
becomes one of the most easily obtained
commodities in the world.
Efforts to end the pistol-buying and
pistol-toting menaces usually accom-
pany public fare-up over the COM
mission of particularly sensational
crimes. Unfortunately, these efforts
gradually lose momentum and come to
nothing. The problem of ending the
danger which lies in the indiscriminate
sale and possession of firearms is too
big. apparently. for solution at this
time. The contention is often heard
that an attempted prohibitory statute
would work mainly to the advantage Of
the underworld by depriving law-abid-
ing citizens of weapons to be used in
their own defense.
While pistols and guns are manufac-
tured, it is idle to speak of preventing
their sale. On the other hand, regis
tration Of purchasers by permit and
after examination, accompanied by laws
such as the Sullivan law in New York,
which makes the possession of an I'M
authorized firearm felony, are rea-
sonable steps that should be taken as
matter of course. The Board of
Trades committee will have the senti-
ment Of the community behind 1t In
It's labors.
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/ get by" and save himself from an out
and-out confession of not knowing.
Students in the higher institutions OF
learning receive excellent training IN
bluffng. Many man takes geology
for instance, and never opens the book
or attends a class, yet manages to pass
a good examination. How does he dc
it? He bluffs. He writes 10 pages on
something he knows little about, but If
he happens to have that sort of in
structor, he makes a good impression
just through clever handling of the
ordinary facts which all people learn
| through living You say that such a
student is a clever writer rather than
a geologist? Admitted.
And many man who passes for wise
in everyday life is rather a good talker
than wise man. He doesn't know, but
he will never admit it, not even if he
knows that you know he doesn't know,
y X X
An amusing experiment is the follow
ing: Ask the first friend you meet If
there is one 81" or two of them in the
name of the great French poet Eli
FAINT" Now, of course, there is no
French poet, great or otherwise, by that
name, but the one questioned will be
an honest man, indeed, if he doesn't
hem and haw around and say, LET me
see, 1 believe it has a double !,
hasn't it?"
Not one person in a hundred will say
frankly that he doesn't know, that he
never heard of the man, that he is
unacquainted with French verse. If he
does, you may rest assured that he has
got to that satisfactory point in life
where one doesn't care much what
every Tom, Dick and Harry thinks of
him. He is more intent on knowing
what he knows than in trying to i'm
press others with what he doesn't know,
Such men are refreshing to meet, just
as old Sam johnson must have been
refreshing to meet. We will never for
get the real kick" we got when one
day we asked a learned gentleman of
our acquaintance how to spell a certain
word.
II don't know" he smiled. and
walked on.
It takes real courage to do that. 1t
shows, above all, superior knowledge
Only the man who knows something can
afford to admit that he doesn't know
everything. Knowing has a high place
in the human scheme Of things, but II
should never exact a false knowledge
of what one does not know. There
should be a general reformation in this
respect. More and more men and women
should come to admit easily that they
do not know. After all, the departments
of knowledge are SO many and so wide
that no one can possibly know more
than a small part of them. To be UNI
willing to admit ignorance is silly. Yet
ignorance is a harsh word, one OF the
most forcible in our language. No one
wishes to team up with it, so mostly
every one pretends to know everything
If the world could get rid Of the single
word Ignorance" and remove the con-
tempt that is a part of it, soon 1t would
be natural and easy for all OF us to re-
plv. candidly. honestly and With SMILE
"Why, don't know"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
Newspaper Integrity.

The fact that the international
Paper 81 Power Co. has acquired a
ponderable interest in several infuen-
tial newspapers, disclosed by the Fed
eral Trade Commission in the course
of its investigation Of the so-called
"oower trust" cannot but disquiet the
minds of the American public and the
American press.
p, The Star is far from seeing eye to
eve with those who make the demagogic
charge that the facts as disclosed
establish a deliberate plot on the part
of the International company to pur-
chase and poison the news and edi-
torial compilations of the press. There
is far more of sanity and the probable
ity of entire truth in the explanation OF
the facts given by Mr.. Graustein tc
the effect that the newspaper interests
of his company were acquired for the
sole purpose of guaranteeing steady
market for the newsprint produced as
one of the two principal functions o!
the International But having said this
and having admitted the superficial
economic soundness of Mr.. Graustein''
plan as set forth, The Star adheres t.
the belief that there is grave cause foI
the profound concern that these de
velopmentS inspire.
It Is essential to the good name o
American Journalism that the most re
mote possibility of control of news o
editorial columns by any agent excep
an open ownership dedicated to tn
obligation of printing uncolored new
And commeutipg .tsarlessly and Wtthol
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

1t is amusing how few people arc
willing to admit their ignorance of any
thing. One might believe that most Of
us were under orders to appear wise al
all cost so few times do we frankly and
freely admit that we do not know.
No doubt modern universal education
is partly responsible for this attitude
A second cause is the vanity of man.
kind and third is the innate mean
ness of, alas. too many human beings
In Boswell's Life of Samuel John
SON. is to be found the following anec-
dote bearing upon this point:
"A lady once asked him how he came
to define pastern as the knee of a
horse. Instead of making an elaborate
defense, as she expected, he at once an
swered, Ignorance, madam; pure igno-
rance"
The present writer, in line with the
JohnSonian honesty, will admit at once
that he hadn't the slightest idea where
the horses pastern might be until he
looked it up in the dictionary. A fine
horse was there presented in diagram
with all his salient parts named, with
lines running to them. The pastern is
part of the foot, the horse having a
rather long foot, or bottom part of his
leg, whatever you want to call it.
Johnson was a scholar, and didn't
know anything more about horses than
most "booky' people. But also he didn't
pretend to know when he didn't know
He didn't mind in the least admitting
his errors when he made them, and
aScribing the right reason for them. He
didn't labor under the foolish present
day impression that every one is sup
posed to know everything, and to by no
~
Today you will find few people, for
instance, who will not attempt the def
milton Of any word you pop at them,
even If they tell themselves that they
never even heard the word before.
Try this experiment on your friends
and acquaintance, and see how few of
them will say, Il don't know" Words
are part Of every ones schooling; theo-
retically, at least, every one who has
gone to school ought to know most OF
them. So when you ask a definition
from the average man he will immedi-
ately think it incumbent on him to fire
back some sort of answer
The honor Of universal education
depends upon his giving some sort of
answer. Then. he Is an average man,
and such an individual is usually more
or less proud of himself. Closely asso-
ciated is his knowledge that the ques-
tloner is PROBABLY only too glad TO
catch him up" on something. This is
that innate meannesS of which we have
spoken.
A fourth reason which propels most
persons into attempting to give some
sort OF answer, when they don't know,
instead of plainly admitting their ig-
norance, is the necessity which most
moderns seem to feel FOR putting up a
bluff. A good bluff, in the eyes of the
world, is almost as good as the real
thing; at least it is often as successful.
A halfway clever man or woman is
usually able to bluff way through al
most any sort of question to some sort
of fourth-rate answer. Mostly he will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
Writes Alley Slums
Mar Beauty of City
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Pages of print and illustrations tell
us of the magnificent Capital Of the
future, Capital worthy of this great
Nation of ours. A forceful and practi-
cal President has sponsored his ap-
proval of the elaborate plans that ma
tured under his predecessor. There is
already practical evidence that the
pussyfooting and parsimonial attitude
has been abandoned and that some real
progress may be expected In the near
future.
We are told that hundreds of millions
are available for the general "face-lift-
ing" of the city of Washington, Which
is to include series of new buildings,
reconstruction and remodeling OF old
ones and the general Identification and
extension of the park system.
Now that we are given assurance that
these improvements may be realized. ]
venture to suggest that another project
be included and few millions diverted
to that purpose. Legislation to that
effect was enacted several years ago,
but for various reasons the plan was
never executed.
I have in mind the abolition Of the
alley slums of Washington, for as long
as these contaminated novels remain
we cannot conscientiously point to
Washington as a model and beautiful
city, regardless of the costly beauty
spots elsewhere.
Many of those unsightly and I'M
healthy sections are unfit for human
habitation and are a menace to the
health and welfare of thousands of
Washingtonians, and the younger gen.
Grafton brought up in those environ
mentS can have no reason to feel en-
thusiastic over the beautiful surround
ings that are proposed to arise about
them.
hope to see the local press devote
pages to the exposure Of these condl-
tions persistently until demand for
their elimination cannot be longer ig-
nored and thus make Washington not
only beautiful but a model and
healthful city in its entirety"
G. v. BRENT. :.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
Policemen Who Shoot
Rum-Runners Defended

To the Editor of The Star:
1t is with interest that I read the
criticisms against the police concerning
the law enforcement officers in the city
and their efforts to stop rum-running
1t seems to me that it is the same old
cry that is always raised when police
man in the line of duty kills criminal
by accident. When policemen use their
weapons to stop felons, they are critt-
inals they are criticized, so what are
they to do2 AS far as criminals are
concerned. would like to ask some
OF those who criticize the police the
most what they would have to say II
one Of these rum-running cars should
strike some one of their family and
leave this person lying in the street?
Men who equip their cars with fast
motors. dead tags and smoke-Scrscn
apparatus are potential murderers of
the worst kind and should be dealt
with accordingly. These men, driving
through the streets OF the Nations Cap
ital at 90 and 10 miles an hour, are far
more menace to innocent people than
one policeman who uses his revolver in
line OF duty. These men are going to
speed regardless OF consequences and
will speed whether they are being pur-
sued or not. One lquor-laden auto
mobile careening through the streets at
so miles per hour can strike another
automobile and kill more people than
stray polcemen'S bullets would kill in
years.
would like to see some OF the worst
critics Of the Police Department mount
ed on motor cycles and ride through the
streets at go or 10 miles an hour In pur--
suit of some Of these criminals. and
after some bootlegger had tried to
crowd them to the curb and shot at
them several times. I think they would
agree with me that this speeding car
menace should be abolished.
GEORGE w. HUFF. :
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Suspicion.

Suspicion.
shall not say he is a shirk,
The man who says he loves to work,
Nor tell him with a sneering snub
To join the Ananias Club.
And yet, when he is singing gay
About the workers joyous way,
And unto toll persuading me,
I do suspect his studied glee.
He does not seem to do a thing,
Except to stand around and sing.
I shall not say he is a shirk,
Yet sinister impressions lurk,
When am toiling like Turk
And he assumes soulful smirk,
And tells me that he loves to work