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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24

pointment of an advisory committee to
assist in the development of the ma
tional parks. The notable group to be
associated in this undertaking is COM
posed of Dr. John c. Merriam, president
Of the Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton. chairman. and DR.. H. G. Bumpus Of
the American Association of Museums;
DIR. Vernon Kellogg, secretary of the
National Research Council; DR.. Wallace
w. Atwood, president of Clark Uni
versity, Worcester, Mass, noted geog-
rapher: DR.. Clark Wissler, curator of
the American Museum of Natural His
tory; DR.. Isaiah Bowman, president Of
the American Geographic Society, and
DR.. Frank r. Oastler of New York.
The rulnor still persists that John
l.. Lewis will soon resign as president of
the United Mine Workers, and receive
from Mr.. Hoover an appointment to a
Federal post in Washington. The only
basis for this report seems to be the
widely held notion that the veteran
labor leader desires to relinquish his
command of the mine workers and that
in the light of his yeoman service in
behalf of the Republican nominee in
the last campaign he is entitled to
substantial political reward. The Lewis
boom for Secretary Of Labor was short
lived. Now the idea is that he may be
named to an assistant Secretaryship in
the Labor Department. or to place
on one of the commissions. The White
House is mum with respect to the
Lewis gossip.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24
An Air Investigation.

The public will await with interest
the findings of the investigating bodies
which are probing the fatal crash in
midair of an Army pursuit plane with
a passenger liner near San Diego re-
Gently. The accident was one of the
worst in aviation history, six people,
including the two pilots, losing their
lives when the planes crashed into the
ground The investigation IS brought
about by the fact that witnesses charge
that the collision occurred because of
"stunting" INDUCED in by the Army
pilot and because the head of the serv-
ice operating the passenger line is al
legged to have made several Intellectual
protests regarding the reckless flying of
Government planes near his ships on
regular run.
Three separate investigations are be-
ing undertaken and out of them will
probably come the true story of the
disaster, although all those in the two
planes were killed. If the Army aviator
is proved guilty of stunt flying near the
passenger ship, stringent action by this
branch of the service should be taken
so that no repetition will occur. Flying
already has too many hazards to permit
"smart-aleckism" in the air.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24
The Bus Terminal Trip.

BY strict Interpretation of the law
Daniel j. Donovan, District auditor ano
budget officer, has caused cancellation
of the contemplated trip of two officials
of the Public Utilities Commission tc
other cities to study motor bus trans
portation conditions, particularly with
respect to terminal facilities.
The survey was planned in view OF
the renewed agitation for establishment
in Washington of union bus depot
the need for which has become more
acute because of the ever-increasing
number of buses and the growing traf-
fic congestion in the business area where
the buses terminate.
The auditors ruling forbids the Dis
trict Commissioners to allow the Public
Utilities Commission to use any part OF
the appropriation provided for Incl
dental and travelling expenses Of Off
Gals and employees Of the municipal
government. The commission, 1t was
held, has its own appropriation for
those specific purposes, and because its
fund is nearly exhausted there is no
legal way in which the Commissioners
might augment 1t.
Fear is expressed by the chairman
of the commission that abandonment
of the trip will react as serious set
back to the movement for the erection
of terminal. It is unfortunate that
by some means funds cannot be pro-
vided to pay the travelling expenses OF
the two commission officials who looked
upon the expedition as one of utmost
Importance to Washington. It's cancel
lation, however, should not interfere
with the establishment of the proposed
union depot.
With the beginning Of the new fiscal
year July / the commission will have
adequate funds of its own to defray the
expenses of the trip, and can use them
without seeking opinions from the au-
ditor. In the meantime, the commission
should continue to exert its efforts to
bring about the establishment Of the
terminal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24

paint during hours, 1t seems, only when
traffic Is at its peak. A narrow lane,
1t Is true, Is left for a single file Of
automobiles, but single-file traffic Is not
enough on any Of Washington's main
arteries. Congestion breeds accidents,
and congestion of the worst sort occurs
when a heavy volume of traffic Is I'M
expectedly diverted into bottle neck.
OF course, the streets must be painted
and they must be repa.zed. Little
breaks soon become big ones and
prompt action is necessary to prevent
spread. Likewise crosswalk lines
must be refurbished at regular intervals,
else the motorist will encroach upon
pedestrian domain and cite the almost
invisible markers as an excuse. But it
does seem, however, that this all-im-
portant work should be done with the
least possible Delay to traffic. Wash
ington's daily three-hour rush period
should be immune to any but the most
imperative street work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24
Test of Tax Collecting.

There will be a great deal of interest
In the outcome of the case decided
upon by the District to test the law
giving the municipal government au-
thority to sell at auction property held
for non-payment of taxes. In the
present instance the value of the land
lying on Sixteenth street between H
and I, promises to make the sale spec
tacular. But If the sale is effected and
stands the test of dispute in the courts
the District will have found the proper
method to get rid of scores of white
elephants in the form of lots that are
held for non-payment of taxes. They
have become white elephants because
no one seems to want them, the Dis
trict is forced to hold them and the
accumulation of unpaid taxes and PEN
alties represents so much in loss Of rev.
enue to the municipality.
The law, one of the last signed by
President Coolidge before he went out
of Office. gives the District authority tc
go into court and obtain an order
for the sale of property, with the un-
derstanding that the new title would
be legally binding. The District
would only have to realize from the
sale of the property the money repre-
scented in back taxes and penalties, and
the proportionately small value Of this
sum in relation to the actual value OF
the property would, in many cases, at
tract ready buyers.
In relatively few instances the Law
would serve to work .hazdship on pgpp-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24
Public Is Being Tested
By Traffic Regulations
From the Utica observer-Dispatch

| From the Utica Obseryer-Dispatch.
| Cities and large towns all over the
| country are testing the public in a
matter that is of supreme Importance
| to the public itself.
| Whether traffic may be made reason
| ably safe and at the same time keep it
| flexible is not personal question for
| officials. 1t is not for the benefit of a
| party or a faction of party. 1t Is
something in which each individual in
| the community-in fact in the entire
public body-is personally interested.
The safety, the life of every individ-
| ual, man, woman or child, is at stake.
1t depends largely upon how each OF us
obeys what has come to be known as
traffic rules"
Too many of us think that these
traffic rules are regulations which are
imposed upon us for the purpose of
hampering progress and making it diff
fcult to proceed with motor traffic over
streets and highways. We in some in
stances disobey them. There are many
drivers who will deliberately break al
most any rule if they think it possible
to do SO and escape the penalty. Per-
haps they do not appreciate what this
might mean to themselves were con-
ditionS reversed.
PUBIC conscience must IN some man
ner be awakened to the fact that safety
in traffic is merely safety to the indi-
vidual; to the children and aged people
in your family: to your sisters and
brothers, your relatives and friends and
neighbors; the rich and the poor: the
girls and boys attending school or
church or going on errands for their
parents; to those with whom we are
associated daily-and to ourselves.
Be selfish about 1t. One doesn't want
to have his car or truck damaged at
considerable money loss: and surely
there is no pleasure in contemplation
of a term in the hospital, perhaps a
crippled condition for life - perhaps
death in this distressing form.
You, owners and drivers of motor We
hicles, get this understanding fixed in
your minds:
The next wounded broken, r1angled
person in motor accident may be some
one in your own immediate circle. or
yourself;
The next funeral of the victim of a
motor accident may be that of some
one whom you will deeply mourn, or
your own
The next motor to go to the repair
station In damaged condition mounting
Skyward may be your own.
VIII the public respond to this test
that is being put upon it--this test of
character; this test of responsibility;
this test OF thought for others; this test
of citizenship?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24

tariff question. however, has issued a
statement warning Democrats against
falling away from their traditional OPP
position to Republican tariff bills. He
said in part:
The most amazing thing in our
political annals is now transpiring, and
that is the attempt of the ultra stand
pat and embargo tariff forces in this
country to unity the two leading politi-
cal parties behind fixed and per-
manent policy of superprotection and
narrow nationalism. Speaker Long
worth possesses Pickwickian rather than
Machiavelian traits. He bordered on
the Machiavelian in cunning, however,
when on yesterday with the baldest
iInpudence he practically assumed to
speak for both political parties with
respect to existing prohibitive tariffs
and to proclaim their complete unifica-
ton. assure the Speaker that this
undertaking IS not SO simple as that
This delightful Republican proposal
would camoufiage the forthcoming tariff
bill, already prohibitive as to most
manufacturing, as offering a tariff
holiday for agriculture, and Democrats
will be urged to swallow it whole by
seeing that 1t receives united Republican
and Democratic support. This inevitably
would mean that Democrats would in
the future follow the high tariff and
special privilege leadership Of Smoot,
Mellon, Grundy and their associate
spokesman of this small but powerful
group 1t would mean that the Demo-
cratic party in the future would place
itself on the auction block every two
years as does the Republican party. /
denounce and challenge this proposed
course as, an outrageous libel on the
great historic Democratic party and on
sound economies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24
Red faint In Textile Strike
Thought Result and Not Cause

Although the red flare of Commit
nism is discerned by some observers in
the action of the striking textile workers
of the South, most commentators who
detect it consider it result rather than
cause Of the present situation. There
is an emphatic call for just and pene-
trating investigation, with demand for
justice to the worker as well as protec-
ton of the industry.
Conditions at certain points inspire
the advice from the Charlotte Observer
that lit behooveS the authorities to
adopt a rigid policy of taking nc
chances whatever in any of the areas
where the Communist inspired strikes
are under way" and that paper states
further: MANY people understand the
startling character of Southern labor
and they experience difficulty in under
standing the pull that has been sue
cessfully exercised in some cases in
divorcing this labor from its long
established condition of stability and
reliance"
Controlling interests of North Caro-
lima cotton mills, some of which have
taken occasion recently to draw COM
parsons between the National Textile
Workers Union, a radical labor outfit,
and the United Textile Workers of
America. the conservative organization
of the American Federation of Labor,
will be put to the test" in the opinion
of the Raleigh News and Observer,
which adds: "One result of the hys-
terra that has accompanied the Gastonia
strike will be the effort of sane, con-
sentative labor element to organize the
textile workers of the South.
Too long the South has been held up
to dividend-hungry New England cotton
mill stockholders as land of cheap
labor, willing to work long hours under
conditions that would not be permitted
legally in New England. Only a very
poor and very near-sighted brand of
Southern patriotism can rejoice over the
accession of industries from the North
under such. terms"
THE cotton mill owners of the
South" according to the Greensboro
News, "are learning more clearly now
that there is more than one kind of
union. more than one kind of leader
ship, more than one direction in which
the organization OF employees can co.
That paper also holds that 1.-The future
of the cotton mill operative of the
South depends quite as much on the
owners and managers of cotton mills as
on the operatives themselves. Time is
ON the side of the employees"
In the conflict between the American
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24

Are there no more real friends?
The blatancy of modern life has
turned the attention away from the
old overlords of human conduct, called
Righteousness, and Friendship, and De-
cency, and Honesty, until such things
are scarcely discussed except in the
pulpits.
In their stead many a strictly up-to-
Date person has substituted new gods
called Automobile, Clothes, Amuse-
ments, Sports. Wild Parties, Position,
Place and Power.
If one were to accuse him of lost
faith in the old things of beauty and
light, ne would violently dispute what
Is as plain as If it were written out
in letters Of blood.
There Is, no overlooking the track
left, not because these modern gods
are not good gods, as far as they go,
but because the worship of them has
become SO Grass.
Perhaps Moses might have swallowed
the golden calf If his fellows had not
bent their knees to it quite so abjectly.
There can be little doubt that friend
ship is not generally held in the es-
TEEN which once enveloped it,
Too many are putting it on and of,
at their divine pleasure, reserving their
displays of it when they are feeling par
ticularly fit, recalling them when some
thing rubs them the wrong way.
1t may have been nothing more than
quarrel at home. or fall in a pet
stock quotation, but it is enough to
Danish all thoughts of genuine friend
ship from their lives for the time being.
So easily banished, the quality could
not have been very strong, could it.?
They reply that it is only the forms of
friendship which they pass up. Let us
examine that statement.
Are not the forms and obseryances
OF friendship the real thing, or at
least the nearest approach to the real
thing which most of us will ever know.
Friendship is sort of divine courtesy.
1t Is a beautiful gesture in the face
of animal life, which only knows friend
ship as sort of instructive let-up in
the general massacre of the species.
Friendship is mans contribution to
Nature. 1t is the rebuff of his better
moments to the slaughter which peri
odically oVerWhelms the world
X II ~
True friendship demands an unvary-
ing front against deception, cruelty, I'M
faithfulness, caprice, whim.
1t presupposes loyalty as strong as
man can make it, as firm as an I'M
stable creature can conjure it out OF
dreams, hopes and aspirations.
He who uses" friend for advance
ment's sake is as guilty as he who kicks
child in the face.
He Who greets a friend with a smile
one day, and the next pretends not to
see him. is slapping Decency in the
jaw with right hook unexpected.
He who is willing to accept the ben
efits of friendship, but never able to see
that he himself owes anything, is on
parity with the street bandit who
not only takes ones purse, but ones
watch, too.
In this day and age, many are called
friends, but few answer the description.
Many mans only real friend is his
automobile
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC j. HAsKIN.

| This newspaper puts at your disposal
a corps OF trained researchers in Wash
ington who will answer questions for
you. They have access to the Govern
| ment departments, the libraries, mu-
| seums, galleries and public buildings
| and to che numerous associations which
| maintain headquarters in the Nations
Capital. If they can be of assistance to
| you, write your question plainly and
send with 2 cents in coin or stamps to
| The Evening Star Information Bureau,
Frederic j. Haskin, director, Washing
ton, ID. G.
Q. Why is coat-of-arms so called?
E. S.
A. 1t takes its name from its origin.
The heraldic device was embroidered on
, the short coat worn by knight over his
| armor. The favorite emblem of the
knight later became the adopted badge
| of the family; the figures or characters
employed in the coat-of-arns began to
receive names and so the language and
science OF heraldry came into existence
@. Is platinum much more valuable
than gold?-C. E. M
A. 1t is now more than three times
as valuable as gold, the price being
around $40 an ounce.
I O. When was the city of Montreal
founded?-H. w.
A. 1t was founded May II, 1912.
@. Who invented Stiacciato?-L E. C.
A. This beautiful method Of low or
fiat relief was doubtless the invention
Of Donatello.
@. What is the oubliette in the Bar
gello Florence?-R. A. K.
A. The word means "a pit" Here
prisoners were held in this section of
the Bargello, away from communication
with the world.
@. What is the annual discharge of
the Mississippi River into the Cuff
S. F. r.
A. The total annual discharge of the
Mississippi is about 81 100000. 600, 900
cubic feet or $4,000 cubic feet per Sec
ond.
@. Are ginger ale and coca-cola fat
forming drinkS?-M. c. B.
A. The beverages are fat-forming only
in proportion to their sugar content.
@. Please name some we'll known men
whose wives were Older than they were
&C. F. T.
A. Josephine was older than Ma
poleon; Catherine of Aragon was older
than Henry VIII; Mary Stuart was older
than Francis II Of France; Jenny Lind
was older than Otto Goldschmidt; Dis
raeli's wife was his elder.
@. How old is Jackie Coogan now?
H. Nice.
A. He was born in Los Angeles,
October 26, 1914, SO is past IA years.
@. Is it true that the Main and
Franklin telephone exchanges in Wash
ington are to be discontinued?-J. H. F.
A. This change will be effected. The
two exchanges will be converted into
three exchanges, to be known as ma
tional," Metropolitan" and District"
The dial phone will be used.
@. Where did the Dukhobors, who
settled in Canada, come from?-B. K.
A. They came from Russia. They
were followers of Tolstoi and their be-
liefs were such that they were perse-
cuted. In Canada, after few years,
they declared themselves as paciflsts.
@. In speaking of Napoleon's barb
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

Friendship Is not something to be pu
on and of like a cloak just when II
pleases the wearer.
There seems to be an increasing
tendency nowadays for some persons t.
be friendly when it suits them and in.
different when they choose.
This attitude, one may submit, is moi
in line with the ancient standards
which have come down through the
centuries.
1t used to be that to be a friend
meant to be friendly all the time, not
just some Of the time or part of the
time.
To be friend in the old days meant
to be friendly whether one was In the
precise mood for 1t or not.
Friendship was the standard then
not the varying mood of the moment
and fidelity were heard often in con-
nection Herewith.
X \ X X
Today the sensitive may suspect that
a friend is one who is merely useful
or helpful.
A friend is pleasant interruption OF
the days work.
A friend is human being, according
to this new standard, who may be
treated as a friend one day and with
indifference the next, as suits the mood
of the moment.
This same human being, Of course,
is not expected to resent this sort of
treatment. For him to do so Is to bring
down upon him all the old barrage of
criticism which was reserved formerly
for the real false friend.
Thus resentment of capricious treat
ment, whether among men or women,
is the one crime left against friend
ship.
Mood has taken the place Of stead
fastness and within that of constancy.
The great beauties of friendship have
given place to fickleness. In the place
of trust reigns expediency.
y X X X
Even the "brotherhoods," which are
mans hopeful approximation of true
friendship, permit a brother" to be
ousted when he falls below certain
standards.
1t Is precisely when he does so fall,
however, that brotherhood, or friend
ship, ought to be at its maximum of
service. Self-righteouSness never wears
more hideous mien than when the black
ball comes into the ascendency.
In the ordinary walks of life, man
to man, where no oath has been taken
and no formal belief expressed in the
magic of "all for one and one for ALL"
one is more likely to find friendship
free from propaganda and blah.
Yet even here expediency plays an
insufferable part when it takes upon
itself the role of director, donning and
doffing its false-face to the tune of
G-l& ,rsn fAf -
wings.
1t is modernist music. subtle
clashing of notes which formerly no
musician would have blended, but which
today is held proper by those who strive
so nightly to achieve something diff
ferent"
In the olden times the chords pro-
duced would not have been deemed
music at all, but would have been
branded dissonance.
Were the men Of old right?