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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-01

Chase, D, G., has gone to Atlantic City,
where she will remain while conva-
lescing from an illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. z. Nelson Of ST.
Paul, Mimi, are spending some time
In Washington, staying at the Potomac
Park Apartments.
Mrs. Alfred H. Kraft of New York,
who had taken an apartment at the
Wardman Park Hotel for the season,
was recalled by telegram and left Mon
day for New York.
DR.. Dieter Thoma, professor and d.
rector Of the Hydraulic Institute of the
Technical University of Munich, and
Mrs. Thoma, recently were the guests
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-01
JANE adams WOULD :
DISARM DRY AGENTS
Social Worker Objects to Belliger-
ent Display by Those Engaged
in Prohibition Enforcement.
By the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, October miss Jane
Addams, internationally known social
worker, in an article in the October
Survey Graphic, expressed the opinion
that Federal dry agents should be dis
armed.
Miss Adams although hopeful about
the ultimate results of prohibition, is
discouraged, she says, by the present
attitude on the problem, particularly
the belligerent display and use of fire.
arms by the enforcing agents.
ITO give up now or even modify seri-
ously the eighteenth amendment" she
writes. would be to obtain not even
negative result and would mean that
we never could be clear as to the real
effect of national prohibition.
Whatever the final decision, one
thing I am quite clear about is that
what the prohibition situation needs
first of all is disarmament.
If this necessitates Federal control
of the sale of firearms, SO much the
better; but, whatever is necessary for
the final results, the Federal agents
should promptly be taught some other
methods than those of gunner"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-01

Stores In Switzerland now are COM
PEELED to obtain permission from trade
organizations to conduct clearance sales.
which are allowed only twice year.
Heavy damage to sugar plantations
was caused by recent floods in Negros,
Philippine Islands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-01

q three-week automobile trip. Mrs.
as Albany. N. Y. Mrs. Fernald and
Mrs. Marsh spent a few days at the
Summer cottage of Prof. and Mrs.
Ernest Mercer Fernald on Owasco Lake,
N. Y, and on their way home they
were guests of Prof. Fernald in Easton,
Pa, where he is one of the faculty of
Lafayette College.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-01

Of MIR. and Mrs. Blake Van Leer at their
home, In Foxhall Village. MIR. van
Leer. who Is the executive secretary Of
the American Engineering Council, will
give q series of lectures at Massa.
chusetts Institute of Technology during
the coming Winter.
Mrs. ]. A. Rosenplenter and Miss
Helen A. Rosenplenter have come by
aeroplane from Stamford, Conn. and
are at the Dodge Hotel.
Mrs. Grace Mckee Briggs Of Topeka,
Kans., is . guest at the Dodge Hotel.
Panama Is adopting modern methods
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-01

Having been happily married for 58k
years, Mr.. and Mrs. M. Hunter recently
won the Fitch at Bridlington, England
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-01

Panama Is adopting modern methods
Of highway construction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10
Washington Of the Air Route,

Twcnty-nine airplanes Of all sizes and
types, participating in the National Air
Tour, passed over the National Capital
yesterday afternoon en- route from the
municipal airport of Baltimore to the
municipal airport of Richmond on the
fifth dav of their 5,00o-mile trip.
The National Capital, having no
adequate airport facilities for handling
the tour, which is regarded as one
of the important annual aviation
events, was dropped from the tour
itinerary, though cities like Winston
Salem, N. c., with a population of less
than $4,000, and Greenville, S. C., with
less than $4,000, Boosting better air
ports than their Nations Capital, are
included as tour stops.
II there Is any city along the tour
route which should be a stopping point,
it Is the National Capital. Here are
the Department of Commerce regula-
tory officials who have to do with the
licensing and regulation of commercial
aviation. Routing Of the tour to this
city would give them an opportunity
to examine planes which are to some
of them only features of field in
spector's report.
In this city are the commercial at
taches Of foreign governments. Amer
lean aircraft manufacturers are en-
deavoring to build up a foreign market
for airplanes, motors and accessories.
To give foreign attaches an opportunity
to look over our latest airplane and
motor models should be of benefit to
the entire industry.
For sentimental reasons it Is obvious
that the National Capital should be a
tour stop. Many of the flyers and
their passengers undoubtedly would
welcome the opportunity to visit here,
even briefly, during their 16-day COM
petitive flight.
The decision of the tour officials to
eliminate this city from the tour
itinerary is a national advertisement Of
the fact that the National Capital lags
behind cities a fraction of its size in
providing facilities for handling the
mounting tide Of air traffic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10
Plan to Aid Insane
Commitments Approved

To the Editor of The Star:
The article in Tuesday nights Evening
Star, relating to proposed new meas
ures in connection with committing in
sane persons to ST. Elizabeth's, is very
interesting. hope you win do every
thing you can to help the Board of
Public Welfare in its efforts to change
the law and thereby obviate the neces-
sity Of bringing insane and feeble
minded persons into court for jury trials
in order to be able to furnish them
proper disqualification.
It is manifestly as absurd to have the
ordinary or even extraordinary jury pass
on the sanity of a person as it would
be for such jury to pass on person
who needs care in tuberculosis insti-
tuition. These matters must be left to
physicians who specialize. The present
method merely makes for delay, en-
barrassment to families, and adds to
the human suffering which feeble
mindedness and insanity entail.
can readily see that where a person
may have an idea that he Is being
"railroaded" he might ask for more than
two physicians to pass on a case. In
all other instances, however, the place
ment should be made as it is done in all
enlightened countries and in the adj
vanced States of the United States.
There is no doubt that with your
assistance and cooperation the Board
of Public Welfare will be enabled TO
obtain the necessary relief measures
and thereby accomplish piece of real
human helpfulness.
Yours truly,
OSCAR LEONARD,
Executive Director,
the Jewish Welfare Federation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10

disposition Of the tariff bill In the
Senate. Yet the Senate was called here
to deal with the tariff in this special
session which began last April. The
farm relief bill was the only other
measure of importance in the program
for the special session. That, after
some delay, has become a law. TIE
country doubtless would be pleased II
the Senate undertook to act with "a
little more expedition on the tariff
Certainly the Senate would thereby gain
in its reputation for efficiency. How
ever, If the reports that come from out
side Of Washington are to be relied
upon, the country is not concerning
itself particularly over the tariff bill.
The principal interest seems to be right
here in Washington, where politics as
well as economics is playing its part in
the framing of the tariff. II the pres
ent rate OF progress is maintained, the
bill is not likely to be out Of the Senate
before Christmas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10
Believes Clemenceau
Missed His Calling

From the Omaha World-Herald.
In some respects 1t is too bad that
Georges Clemenceau, additionally ac-
copied as the Tiger Of France" was
not top sergeant in the United States
Marine Corps. From all we can read
about him. he is and has been all his
life q perfect pattern of the successful
topkick. He is hard all through,
Georges Clemenceau Is. At SO he is
Just as hard as he was at 48, and he
was hard at AZ!
Clemenceau is hard at 88, but he is
licked. When the Republic of France
failed to make him its President after
the close of the World War, the Re-
public of France turned its fighting
premier into an embittered old man.
He withdrew abruptly from politics and
The presidency, obviously, could have
meant little to him. He had had about
all the honor and fame that a man can
have these days, and he had had power.
The post of premier carried plenty of
power. The presidency of the republic
does not. It is an honorary position,
largely, and that was precisely why
Clemenceau desired 1t. He didn't care
for the Office half so much as for the
spirit of gratitude on the part of his
compatriots which his election would
have indicated. 80
And so the Tiger dropped the whole
business and retired to his little gar
den in the Vendee. We don't believe
he even dreams there. Frenchman that
he is, we don't believe he has ever had
much time for sentiment, for reverie
Always he has been a fighter, looking
not to the past-hardly to the future
but to the "thousand-eyed present."
He is like that hero of Robert Brown
ing's who never turned his back but
marched breast forward" He is a
hard boiled tiger.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10
Congeniality and Precedence.

From the Toronto (ontario) Daily Star.
Miss Ishbel Macdonald, daughter of
Britain's prime minister, says she does
not care where she sits at official BAN
qCetS so long as there is somebody nice
to talk to-" Not a little human nature
in that, and candor as well as nodesty.
To talk to people and to be talked to
in return is a yearning by no means
confined to Miss Macdonald's sex. To
be altogether deprived of its fulflllment
Is. for most human beings, torture
Hermits wear this garment Of silence
but 1t Is garment of self-punishment
and they probably do not wear it at all
in the presence of the wild things about
them. They speak to the birds and to
the trees, and when a dog ticks thei;
hand in reply they are for the moment
happy. Robinson Crusoe's man Friday
made all the difference in the world tc
that desert island. Human beings are
not the self-contained units they some
times like to consider themselves.
Miss Macdonald Is quite frank about
It, She is more interested in having
some one pleasant to talk to, in having
curing a place near the head of the
table. It is sound principle and ca
pable OF application in wider sphere
of life than that to which Miss Mac
donald refers. When q girl marries
some one congenial and pleasant, some
one in whom she can confide and who
will conf1de in her in return, she is
making far more profitable invest
ment of her life than if she yokes her.
self with some gruff and unsociable
personality because he can give her
head-of-the-table position.
Gossip of the malicious sort is a thing
to be despised. But the little bits OF
household news, the neighborhood hap
penings. the children's sayings that find
their place in the gossip of the family
circle are not things to be condemned
for they are the natural and happy ex-
preston of human love for compan-
ionship OF mind. Many jests have been
made at the expense of rural telephone
lines. but the rural telephone enabled
the farmers wife to asSuage the lone
hness Of her life with conversations un-
important in themselves, but important
In their bearing upon her happiness
and contentment.
The fact is that great and learned
men, II their conversations could be
overheard, would often be found talk
ing about whether they liked cabbage
for dinner or some subject equally pro-
sale and homely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10
Tariff in the Making.

A month has passed since the Sen
ate began consideration of the tariff
bill. So far not a single rate in the
bill has been acted on. Indeed, not
rate has yet come before the Senate
for discussion. That body has devoted
its attentions TO the administrative fea-
lures Of the bill. It has removed the
so-called flexible provisions, permitting
the President to change tariff duties
on commodities by fifty per cent of the
rate fixed by Congress after the Tariff
Commission makes report and recon-
/ mendation and has adopted several
other amendments over the protest of
the finance committee. But so far the
real test Of the pudding has not been
made. It Is when the rate schedules
are reached and voted upon that there
will be q clear demonstration as to the
stability Of the Democratic Republican
progressive coalition, which defeated
the administration forces on the flexible
provisions.
The coalition leaders profess conf
dence that they will maintain the whip
hand throughout consideration of the
tariff bill in the Senate. Some of the
=. seasoned veterans of the Senate, how
ever, are questioning this, pointing out
that sectional and State demands for
tariff duties may have a strong infiu-
ence on the votes Of individual Senators,
once the rate making begins. They say
that 1t is one thing for a coalition OF
Democrats and unfriendly Republican
. progTessiyes to lambaste the President
In the matter Of the flexible tariff and
that 1t is still another thing when 1t
comes TO voting against the interests
OF q State in the matter Of tariff rates
This is Q matter, however, that time
apparently, alN1e can settle.
At the rate the Senate is progress
ing in its consideration Of the tariff
bill, 1t may be a matter of much time
before the story is told. Nor does there
seem any real desire TO hasten the con-
: sideration Of the bill, despite reiterated
'denials from Democratic and Progress
eive leaders that there is no intention
- to use obstructive tactics, or, putting
It more bluntly, 70 filibuster. A sug'
=. eestion made by Senator Smoot, whc
as chairman Of the finance committee
>. has charge Of the bill, that night SEES
eions ulight be demanded, raised veri
table storm Of protest.
a. A month has now gone by and tn
Npcuntry seems little Il any nearer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10
Prison Outbreaks.
From the Omaha World Herald.

From the Omaha World Herald
The heat was generally accepted as
contributing cause of a series Of
prison mutinies last Summer. This can
hardly have been a factor in the out
break at the Colorado State Peniten-
tiary which ended with the death of
Is persons and the wounding of several
others.
What is at the bottom of these des-
perate revoltS is something worth find
ing out. 1t is something which the az
states and the Federal Government
acting IN concert could well afford to
make thorough study Of What hap
pened at Dannemore and Auburn and
Leavenworth and Canon City might
happen at Lancaster or at any other Of
the prisons In which men are immured
to do penance for their crimes.
IL VIII not do to dismiss such affairs
with the explanation that they are led
by savage bruteS, lost to all sense of
humanity. Sayages many of them have
proved themselves to be in fact, and yet
II remains true that savages have been
tanned when the right formula for tam
ing them has been found.
1t Is not enough to blame bad food
nor harsh methods of prison disciplire.
although these two may be contributing
causes.
The whole subject of prison manage
ment, not as applied by any individual
warden, but as q system with the ex-
tent to which old traditions are stilI adj
hered to and the effect of modern eff
forts at reform, should be gone into. ANY
body. to make such investigation should
number among its members at least one
f1rst-class practical psychologist, for one
Of the most important things to be
learned Is what Is going on inside the
cropped polls Of convicts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10
Bingham's Tariff Adviser
Productive of Much Satire

organizations. The organizations can
take pretty good care of themselves. It
Is the ordinary run Of folk who have
nobody In washington paid to repre-
sent them-except the Congressman
that Congressman ought to take care
Of" The Fresno Bee (independent)
contends that although sometimes the
rhetoric OF Senator Harrison is rather
inflated, in characterizing Bingham's
action as a brazen affront to the
fundamentals of American government
he for once did not overstate his case
The New York World independently
believes that ''it is time to ascertain to
Just what extent interested parties hav-
ing no official status are interfering in
purely governmental matters while in
the pay OF people who seek to use gov
eminent for their own aggraritiize-
ment. The Memphis Commercial Ap-
peal tDemocratic) points out that "agri-
cultural Congressman were barred from
the secret formulation of an 'agricul-
turaP tariff bill, while the paid agent
OF the manufacturers was present and
furnished data"
Replying to the opponents of Sena-
tor Bingham, the PHILADELPHIA Public
Ledger independent Republican, SAYS:
Mr.. Bingham is one of those Eastern
Senators who, while sincerely con-
SSAACu AOA b4lc INDUSTRIES OF Cnelf own
States, would not deny adequate pro-
lection to the industries of any other
section. Mr.. Norris says the Repub-
lican Senators have no Thought of the
country as whole The members of
the farm bloc and the Far West bloc
are. OF course, setting them an ex-
ample
1T is matter for establishment" as
serts the Chicago Daily Tribune (Re-
publican), that the same Senators
who are enlisted against the Tariff Com
mission are also pretending to be OUT
ragged by the disclosure that Mr.. Binr-
ham took the best advice he could get
on the requirements Of his State. They
oppose logrolling and they oppose the
only known alternative to loeroIlinR."
The Jersey City Journal (independent
republican, suggests that, las a mat.
ter OF fact, 1t would behoove the Sen.
ate In general to applaud Mr.. Bing-
hams honesty in bringing Mr.. cyan
son openly to committee meetings with
him. because there Is no telling when
IL VIII be shown that some of the Sen.
ators have been accepting advice from
experts like Shearer -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10

New Wine for Old,

Few either in Great Britain or Amer
lea but will wish that the Joint valedic-
tory issued by Prime Minister Macdon-
aid and President Hoover, on the eve Of
Mr.. Macdonalds departure from Wash
ington, had sinned more on the side OF
clarity. It's plainest note is its am
biguity, or rather It's failure to be trans
parently concrete.
Individually the Joint statement" Is
most interesting at the point where 1t
declares that Great Britain and America
approach old historical problems from
0 new angle and In new atmosphere"
The English-speaking peoples having
agreed to assume that war between them
Is "banished," these ''oId historical prob
LENS" the prime minister and the
President now tell us, have changed
their meaning and character" In q
succeeding phrase of truly momentous
character, the British and American
peoples are informed that "the solution
Of these problems, in ways satisfactory
to both countries, has become possible"
These questions are now to become
the subject of ACTIVE consideration"
between London and Washington. The
high contracting statesmen should de-
lay no longer than Is urgently neces-
sary a crystal-clear expose of what the
problems In question are. Public opinion,
both In Great Britain and the United
States. will be the final arbiter in their
settlement. The cooner it Is given a
chance Of becoming an informed public
opinion, the better for all concerned
and for the vital issues at stake.
There is a gathering weight Of
opinion that the outstanding "old his
torical problem" to which the Mac
donald Hoover statement refers is the
freedom Of the seas. Readers Of The
weeks In advance of the prime minis
ter's arrival that this ancient and
acrimonious Anglo-American issue would
In all likelihood bulk prominently in
the washington discussions just ended.
The news article just referred to pointed
out how the implications OF the Kellogg
pact radically alter the traditional
American conception Of neutral rights
at sea in time of war.
Yesterdays Anglo-American state
nnent-as portentous state paper as
has come forth In either country in a
century-directly links the Kellogg
pact with the new approach to his
torical problems which Britain and
America are now able to undertake.
New International wine is about to be
substituted for old. Mystified as we
seem doomed to be, for the moment, as
to the precise nature of the libation,
the world is at least secure in the con-
fidence that 1t is the potation Of peace
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10

This is q special department de-
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@. Who is the ball player having
the lghtest weight in the American
A. Jack C. Tavener, Detroit, 142
pounds. Is the lightest- weight player
listed in Who's Who In Base Ball for
1929"
O. When it is said that word does
not meet the three demands Of good
| usage, what are the demands?-C. B. l..
| A. The three demands of good usage
are national use, reputable use, and
present use.
@. How many Protestant missionaries
are there?-F. A. 8.
A. There are about 10000. OF these
| over 1900 are from North America.
O. Who first spoke of the newspaper
profession as the fourth estate?-
w. OBJ.
A. It is attributed to Carlyle. In
Heroes and Hero Worship" he says,
| Burke said there were three estates in
Parliament, but in the Reporters Gal
| lery yonder there sat q fourth estate,
more important far than they all"
@. How are artificial diamonds made?
1t. F. NJ.
A. The conditions necessary for the
Capitalization of carbon in the form
Of diamond would seem to be intense
heat and great pressure, such as ex-
list during the formation of igneous
rocks. Successful attempts to repro
been carried out by Prof. Moissan Of
Paris, and also by the English chemist,
Prof. Crookes. The method employed
consists of heating pure prepared car
bon and iron in an electric furnace.
| BY sudden cooling of the molten iron
the surface contracts and exertS o DOW
erful pressure upon the interior mass
When cold, the iron is dissolved In acid
and small black particles remain, which
exhibit the properties Of genuine dia-
monds. No stones that are large enough
4 w NC VI COAlIIICLCldA tdluS nave yCb USCIl
prepared, and while the process is of
great theoretical interest, 1t is far too
expensive in comparison with the yield
TO be practicable even for the manu-
facture of diamond powder for polish
ing and grinding purposes Moissan's
200 experiments, costing $4,000, yielded
! one-half karat of diamond powder.
Q. How is socony pronouncedp-
r. T. D.
I A. This word, coined from the initial
| letters of Standard Oil Co. of New York
is pronounced with the o's long and &C.
cented on the second syllable.
| @. How long have cucumbers been
used as food?-P. N.
A. De Candolle says that they were
originally from the East Indies. but
other botanists ascribe them to Asia and
Egypt. Literature proves them to be
more than 5000 years old in Asia, and
1t is known that they were brought into
China 140-86 BIC. They were known te
the Greeks and Romans and were men.
tened by Pliny, who says that they
were grown in Africa, and that they
were such a favorite with Emperor tt
berius that he had them daily on his
table. Charlemagne ordered them plant