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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23

four corners of the land detailed re-
ports of the speechmaking, The VIII
Jamestown sessions have concerned
themselves with international aspects
of American problems-limitation of
ornaments, debts and reparations, and
Latin American relations. Owen D.
Young is one of the headlinerS there.
At Virginia, domestic problems, with
prohibition and tariff vyipg for the
of Maryland and Prohibition Commits
Sioner DoraD crossed swords at Char
lottesville, Mepcken and Dresser were
pilioried and strange to relate a men,
ton of Bishop Cannon provoked Kissing,
according to press accounts.
California wins over its most bitter
rival, Florida, in the first distribution of
largess by the Federal Farm Board. The
Far Western raiSin growers receive a
combination board and bank loan of
$9,0OO,0 900, while the Southern State
citrus growers receive only 100000. as
starter. Funds Of an undetermined
amount have also been promised to
finance the California fresh grape crop
Prohibition Commissioner Doran is en-
route to the West Coast to assure the
grape industry against unwarranted in
reference from his bureau. The sun
never shone quite so brightly on golden
California. Incidentally, the bonds of
the Sun Maid Raisin Growers Associa-
ton jumped Is points on the New York
Curb Exchange with the announcement
of the Farm Board loan to the associ-
alton.
The Post Office Department. proudly
reporting a new milestone in the rapid
transit of international mails, acknowl-
edges the receipt of letter in Wash
ington within the space of seven days
from its posting in Berlin, Germany,
clipping three days of the previous rec
ord fer elapsed time between the two
capitals. The new ocean greyhound,
the S. S. Bremen, and ship-to-shore
airplane mail transfer played promi-
nent parts in the seven-day record. The
mail moved by air from Berlin to Co.
logne, by train to the Bremen dock at
Cherbourg, catapulted off the Bremen
by plane 500 miles outside New York
harbor and from New York City to
Washington by train. .
Copyright. 1927
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Much of Canada Revenue
Comes rOmLiquOrTrade
From the st. Paul Pioneer Press.

From the st. Paul Pioneer Press.
Canada's annual check-up discloses
that one-eighth Of its total revenue
for the operation of the Dominion and
provincial governments in 1918 was de-
rived from trade in alcoholic beverages.
Sales through provincial liquor COM
missions exceeded $40 for every man,
woman and child in the Dominion
Disturbed by the announcement, the
Toronto Mail and Empire hastens to
place the blame on thirsty Americans.
1T is a notorious fact" says the
newspaper, that this province (On-
tario) has attracted tourists from the
United States in far greater numbers
than any other province has done.
The largeness of this influx of visitors
is urged by prohibitionists, not in ex-
tenuation Of the province, but in its
reproach. They accordingly should
make allowance for the part Of the de-
mand at our government liquor stores
for which tourists are accountable"
From this the conclusion might be
drawn that the Mail and Empire
would rather the Americans remained
at home or would quit patronizing the
liquor stores Of Ontario. 1t admits,
however, that a large part of the $780,
100000 spent by the Yankees in On
tario last year went for alcoholic bev-
erages and that two-thirds of the to-
tai price paid for this commodity is
pure revenue for the government. The
taxpayers of Canada apparently do not
wish this source of income stopped.
The total sales of liquor through
government sources in 1928 amounted
to 07,OO0,000 and of this $4,000, 900
was clear profit or revenue for govern.
ment purposes. Contrasted with this
the United States Government spent
prohibition law.
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The Supreme Anomaly.

There is probably no place in the
National Capital where the lack Of
uniformity is so apparent as at the
intersection of Wisconsin avenue and
M street.
Washington is becoming known as
the home of all breeds. both good an..
bad, of left turns. At various inter-
sections and at various times the Hoover
municipal code is enjoyed, while at
others the rotary turn is used.
But the supreme anomaly occurs at
the busy intersection in Georgetown
where both turns are called for by the
trafic authorities and at the same time!
This statement seems fitting for the
"Bclieve it or NOT cartoon, and at
least Is perplexing- but so IS the matter
OF making the turns.
me explanatiop. if one can be- given,
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Insect Fits Through Air
At 8l8 Miles an Hour
From the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

From the Pittsburgh Post
The rising tide Of speed, nowhere
noted SO well as in the records of the
Schneider Cup races for seaplanes, the
renewal of which will be held at Cowes,
England, next month, again brings the
redoubtable fly, the Cephenemyia, into
the equation. This insect can fit
through space at the rate of, 818 miles
an hour. In 1918, the first year of
Schneider competition, a rate of As
miles per hour was good enough to win;
the man who will be champion this
year is expected to fly from $40 to $50
miles per hour. If man is to be the
fastest moving creature, he still has to
60 some.
The small plane built for Lieut.. Al
ford williams Of the United States
Navy was designed to make 400 miles
in the hour. It has not yet been test
ed in the air and it may well reach the
race scene without trials other than
skimming over the water as for a take
of. One of the English entries has
been timed at $50 miles and another
is thought to be good for 800. The
French and Italian entries are equally
promising. with the present holder of
the worlds record of 318.624 miles per
hour, Mai. de Bernardo of Italy, ex-
pected to compete.
All this finds man long, long dis
lance behind the insect Even the pre-
diction of an italian aviation authority
that planes would soon be produced
which can make 621 miles per hour is
outdistanced by the reality Of the fly.
The other man-made speeds are puny
by comparison. even that of Maj. Sc
grave of England on the DaytOna sands,
231 miles per. hour In an automobile.
offering no serious opposition. The
other ground speeds are negligible.
not be too cocky about IL. The adj
vance of aircraft in few years from
AS miles an hour to more than 300 Is
g. Esin 5sot g y viewed too con-
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punctilious continental, apparently, they
are devastating"
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obviously the chancellor hasn't the
skill in soft sayings that France has
shown throughout diplomatic history"
remarks the New Orleans Time Plea
yune, land obviously, had he attempted
to carry on the discussion in the French
manner, he would have been hopeleSsly
at a disadvantage. It is at such times
on many historical occasions that the
man of rugged thought and language
has carried his point against the more
diplomatic adversary. We have had
plain-spoken masters of argument
among our own most successful diplo-
mats from Franklin'S time through
Lincoln to Cleveland and Roosevelt"
''Snowden's abruptness in telling
France where she gets off," thinks the
Detroit Free Press. was not only justi-
fled by the particular facts with which
he was dealing, but 1t also had the in
teresting effect of telling her dramatic
cally that the leading strings with
which Austen Chamberlain had bound
Great Britain to her were snapped,
which can cause no alarm among those
who are looking for greater co-opera-
ton between Great Britain and the
United States"
Advocating the conciliatory style. the
Springfield Republican suggests: Much
can still be said for the pinch of snuff
in the old-fashioned diplomacy of the
period of Talleyrand and Metternich.
Snuff has gone out Of style like ruffs
and powdered wigs in mems court cos
tunes, but the good old snuff takers
at the conference table were able to
make many soft answer merely by
holding their tongues long enough to
open their jeweled snuff boxes for the
stimulation Of their noses. The near
est modern equivalent to snuff taking
in diplomacy is lighting a cigarette.
But the cigarette isn't SO much an art
as habit. The trouble with Mr. Snow
den is that he doesn't even smoke"
In suggesting q reason for his course,
the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat states.
He Is in touch with the toiling millions
on whom public burdens fall most
heavily and shares their viewpoints
rather than those of big business trad
ers and international bankers The
Des Moines Tribune-Capital calls Snow
den admittedly one of the strong men
of England in financial matters" and
concludes: His political opponents
grant his ability readily His prompt
battle for 'Britain's rights will both
advertise his quality to the world at
large and quite possibly strengthen the
Labor government at home"
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The Investing Public.

The stock market has been blamed for
many things, from wrecking commercial
credits to accounting for the unprece-
dented prosperity of the Nation In the
last eight years.
The question of the value of the vari-
Gus charges and claims can be passed
over for other discussion, but the pre-
liminary report of the Treasury De-
partment on internal revenue receipts
for the last fiscal year. made public this
week, casts official Illumination on the
question of public participation in stock
market operations and the relations OF
these operations to the national In
come.
The report shows that the stamp taxes
on new capital stock and bond issues
have increased nearly IL per cent In the
last year, while the stamp tax on capi-
tai stock transfers have advanced more
than so per cent to a level never before
reached. The increases in the former
receipts are due entirely to the absorp-
ton by the public of new enterprises
and of the latter partly to greater buy
ing and selling activity and partly to
higher values, which is just lett
handed way of saying the same thing.
That is the setsof figures to indicate
the general activity of the stock mar
ket and it brings up the question OF
whether or not real benefit arises
therefrom. Moral benefits. of course,
cannot be deduced from a table OF fig-
ures issued by the Treasury Depart
ment, but financial benefits at least can
be guessed at. AL taxes on incomes
in the United States in the last hscai
year increased by slightly less than
sls7,Oo0 coo, while income taxes paid by
/. diyiduals increased nearly $2i3, 000, 600!
Nest, bit not all, Of the decrease in
III corpcraticn income tax copks from
rss.nc.ion iandsy the resenuaaw Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
Foot Ball as Student Aid
Rated i'm High Position

From the New Castle News.
The accepted theory is that college
foot ball is designed for the benefit Of
the student body. Defenders of the
game insist that without it college life
would not attract or hold undergrad
yates and college spirit would vanish.
Critics of the game as 1t is played In
the stadium and bowl era find that 1t
serves also to annoy college professors,
whose principal objection seems to be
that their salaries are smaller than the
coach'S. and that a star player Is more
famous than q star professor.
Much is said on both scores, but to
any one who patronizeS college and uni
versity foot ball 1t must be apparent
that the game Is designed chiefly for
college graduates. Certainly they pre-
dominate in the stands. OF course the
great Saturday afternoon pastime al
fords the undergraduates an oppor-
tunity to take the girl friend some
place and offers an excuse Tor bringing
out fur coats.
If YOU. would prove to whom foot
ball is the most vital, lend your ears
to what happens when some college fol-
lows a successful season with losing
season. In q majority of cases the pro-
tests and recrimination that follow a
poor season come from the alumni. The
pride of a graduate in his alma mater
appears to be reflected almost entirely
in the scores and standing Of her foot
ball team. He. individually and coll
lcctively, wants a, winning eleven. and,
denied one, takes for granted that the
school Is going. to the dogs.
II serious effort Is ever made 10
determine what Is wrong with foot ball
and what its relation is to the college.
much time will have to be devoted TO
the attitude of the alumni. 1t will
have to be determined why they give
more generously for college endowment
after a successful foot ball season and
why they talk OF relative values Of foot
bali teams instead of relative values OF
faculties.
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Here is what we solemnly promise

Here is what we solemnly promise
the world:
When we get old, we won't "remi-
nisce," talk over old times, indulge in
public recollections.
We won't paw over young girls.
We won't eat lunch with them In
public places.
We won't make a point of sitting
with them In public vehicles.
Aside from these lapses, we think
that old men conduct themselves pretty
well, perhaps better than their feminine
counterparts. -.
In perpetually talking over old times,
however, and in the other points men,
toned, elderly men tend to make con-
siderable nuisanceS out OF themselves.
we have discovered this, not only by
personal observation, but also through
conversation with young girls, who, in
the business world, are forced to put
up with great deal-including old
men.
Our personal creed is that there is o
time for romance, and a time for put
ting 1t out of ones life. Nothing Is
:1ore unSeemly. to use the good old
h1blical word, than the incessant paw
m; over young girls INDUCED in. per-
haps with the best intentions in the
world, by some elderly men.
The fact that they are "old enough
to be your father" makes little diff
ference, my dear; on the threshold Of
middle age, pausing one minute to look
back to our youth, another to look for
ward into the vast unknown, We pledge
the public that we won't do it. And
De hope somebody checks up on US
when we get there.
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about old times seems to be the all-be-
setting one of age. Not that there Is
anything so very terrible about 1t. after
all; at the worst 1t is only boresome to
others.
Yet boredom is one of the very real
faults of life and living, and nothing
worse can happen to one, in the
ordinary course of life, than being faced
by 1t.
Schopenhauer based an entire philos-
ophy upon boredom as the basis OF the
misery u HE; ne outlined the various
boredoms. and gave their remedies.
We do not recall whether he men,
toned the garrnlity OF elderly men, but
II he did not he lost a wonderful OPP
portunity. for his magic pen could have
done it ample justice.
The past is the be-all and end-all Of
such takers. The present interests
them only as a means to get back to
the past, the future is to be glanced at
in order to make springboard for q
leap into the past.
And what wonders they dig out of the
glowing past! The beautiful young
women they knew, the great deeds done.
the achievements wrought-these come
and go in rainbow hueS, decked out
with words as glittering as electric
lights along pleasure street.
These words are as numerous as the
grains of sand on a SeaShore. Once
a listener is buttonholed. he finds him.
self deluged with words, laved in words,
submerged in words-words endleSsly
dripping from out the overtiowing mouth
Of age.
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Just why must an older man have
such perpetual recourse to the past?
Is 1t because romance and adventure
and advancement, and even the hope OF
these things, have gone out Of his life,
that he must ceaselessly talk about
them?
One edges away, only to be pursued
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the previous year. On the other hand.
comparatively negligible part OF the
increase in earnings Of individuals can
be traced, to greater earnings from in
vestments In these corporations. A
large portion Of the general income
perhaps the largest in the financial his
tory of the country-comes from the
increase in the value Of the securities.
There can be only one answer: There
is an expansion of capital investment in
American business on foot; there Is a
temporarily smaller comparative return,
however slight the shrinkage may be,
due to this expansion: and there is an
public confidence in the
future of American industry and conf
merce which is reflected In this in
creased value. Nearly eight full years
of unquestioned prosperity has failed to
swing the pendulum of the general
viewpoint back to the darker side of the
arc and pesSimistic predictions of
general break" heard in a small way
since the political campaign opened
year ago. continue to be discredited
There can be no break while industry
continues to produce, commerce to dis
tribute and the public to buy.
The market has been blamed for
many things, but the public is in the
market now and has been. That is per-
haps the reason that one Of the fea-
lures OF speculation which is most con-
the speculation in the necessi-
ties of life on the futures market, Is
dying off. Last year the tax on such
operations fell off nearly IS per cent, a
reliable indication that trading in wheat.
cotton, corn, meats and such products
before they are. produced was reduced
by one-fourth.
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is something like this: When going
south on wisconsin avenue and DESTROYS
of, going east on M street turn left on
the green light o Ia Hoover code. When
going east ON M street and DESTROYS of
going north on wisconsin avenue pull
up to the right at the intersection on
the green light. await itsl ehange to red
a IL rotary.
There is sign visible TO southbound
trafiic on Wisconsin avenue. appended
to one Of the traffic signal lights, which
commands that left turn be made on
the green light. The sign does not state
that this applies only to those wishing
TO 60 east on M street.
There is no sign at all visible to traf1ic
on M street proceeding in an easterly
direction. But the average motorist,
having seen the Wisconsin avenue sign,
is of the natural belief that 1t applies
to both directions.
1t would seem TO be poor rule that
does not work both ways, but appar-
emily the rules on left-hand turns in
the National Capital are exempt from
logic. Unquestionably there is an ex-
PLANTATION for the traffic office to depart
so far from precedent and conviction
as to use the Hoover turn In preference
to its own pet. the rotary turn, in
one direction at this intersection. The
explanation is simple. The Hoover turn
avoids congestion and speeds up traffic.
Why does not the same consideration
apply to other busy intersections in
Washington?
1t is quite obvious that when the
traffic Office orders two different turns
at the same intersection at one and the
same time matters have reached point
where the Commissioners should step
in and end the left-turn comedy - or
tragedy, If you will-that is making a
laughing stock of the\Nation's Capital.
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The Regatta Fund.

For the third time the Presidents
Cup regatta. probably the outstanding
9peedboat competition in the United
States, Is to be held in Washington
next month. A sum of about $1,000 Is
necessary to defray the expenses Of the
profit to themselves, are depending
upon the people of Washington to raise
the fund. So far the returns have
been disappointing. The threat of a
deficit has been raised. and If there is
a deficit the Presidents Cup regatta
may be lost to Washington next year.
MANY other cities would welcome an
opportunity To raise the necessary
guarantee fund and something more IN
addition.
Fears Of deficit, however. are Offset
by WaShington'S fine reputation Of al
ways rising to the occasion and doing
what it is supposed to do. In this case
the relatively small task of raising
about $1,000 is one which, it seems,
should be seized by the trade and busi-
ness organizations and assumed as
their own. The speed races have d di-
rect and beneficial effect in advertising
Washington. They tend to attract to
Washington the thousands of speed
boat enthusiasts throughout the country.
but, what is more. they present in an
unusually favorable light Washington's
s., 30 toll Of notipna llv
important sporting events.
The trade and business organizations
should divide the necessary quota
among themselves and raise the money
without a great deal of effort. They
. are already working. but it Is believed
that they could do more than the re-
suits so far indicate. One naturally
would expect to find them hustling to
make the most of fine opportunity
that presents itself to the city.
The Presidents Cup regatta is pc
culiarly a Washington affair. The
beautiful solid gold trophy offered the
winner is the only cup sponsored by a
President Of the United States in q
sporting competition, and the deed Of
gift states that the race must be held
every year on the Potomac at Wash
ington, unless the American Power Boat
Association designates some other site.
The association has no intention of
choosing another city unless it is forced
to that move by lack of interest here.
The Government departments CO.
operate in the race to the extent OF
their ability. The Commerce Depart
ment closes navigation on the George
town channel during the races; the
Coast and Geodetic Survey marks the
course and the Lighthouse Service places
the marking buoys. The Coast Guard
furnishes vessels to patrol the course
and the Navy Yard unloads and puts
in the water the speedboats sent here
for the race. Those who enter the
race are put to an expense that runs
as high as 81 900 per boat. Washing
to-; expense Is comparatively small.
If each person who witnessed the race
in 1927 subscribed ten cents the amount
needed would be met and there would
be generous surplus. The plan adopt
ed, however has been to give to every
subscriber of So or more reserved seat
on the sea wall near the start and
finish lines. or a seat on one OF the
patrol boats-the reservations depend
ing upon the amount Of the SubScrip-
ton.