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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-19
Governors in Conference.

tOVernorS In conference.
There is now in session what may
well develop into supplement to Con-
gress to round out our form of Govern
ment--a conference Of governors. In
creasing recognition OF the valuable
part such conferences may play in
reconciling conflicts between Federal
and State authority, has been observed
during the past twenty years.
1t will be recalled that the dynamic
President Roosevelt transmitted some
of his characteristic force In con-
ference of governors which he called
together in 1908 to consider the ire
mendously important subject Of con-
servation common to all the States.
While the conference of governors
meeting annually at various places
throughout the country appears
through press dispatches to be round
Of entertainment in evidence of hos
pitality and in the interests Of giving
Nationwide publicity to some particular
area, 1t has a really serious purpose Of
great moment in getting common
counsel of the executives of each
State on interlocking problems. 1t
affords an opportunity for breaking
down sectionalism. and gives the COVER
nor of any one State first-hard oppor-
tunity to learn the policy and opinion
Of the governors Of other States. 1t
makes easily possible an agreement on
general policies without doing damage
to the state rights" 50 that there may
be union of action on vital issues af-
fecting the whole country regardless Of
State lines.
This does not mean in any sense
fathering standardized or fabricated"
legislation, but more understanding,
cooperative administration through ex-
ecutive authority during the period
of proverbial Legislative delay 1t
makes for brotherhood. and mutual
helpfulness among States.
Especially are such. conferences help
full in combating the network Of pro-
lection spun over the entire country
by. organized crime. Some States have
a uniform extradition act-and the
governors might agree on some COM
mon rule In this respect. 1t was with
such a view Of the governors confer
ence that Gov. Roosevelt of New York
addressed his fellow governors on Co
operation on Crime Problems" There
are also problems of conservation, power
development. interstate commerce, flood
relief, irrigation, waterway development
important economic problems of gen.
eral benefit that can best be solved by
talking them over across round table,
and then centering upon them united
action.
The conference of governors has an
open opportunity to make for itself an
important place in our form of self
government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-19
The Moon Rocket.

Prof. Robert H. Goddards moon
rocket" is in the headlines once more,
as the result OF an explosion in one of
the test shots.
This device. upon which the Clark
University professor has worked for the
past fifteen years and which has the
backing OF the Smithsonian Institution.
is by no means fantastic bid for pub
lie attention. 1t embodies a sound
scientific principle. which is likely TO
prove OF Increasing Importance. once
the practical difficulties in its applica-
ton have been overcome.
The real object, of course, is not to
shoot rocket to the moon. That has
been advanced merely as an outside
possibility. It might be done, at an
enormous cost. Little would be gained
by such sensational exploit.
But the principle embodied in the
rocket does offer tangible prospect of
shooting a projectile equipped with
recording devices into those regions Of
the upper atmosphere close to the edge
OF interplanetary space. These belong
to our own planet, but less actually is
known about them than about condi-
lions on the face of the moon itself.
Some say that they are hot and some
say they are cold. There is little agree
ment on the nature of the forces at
work there creating the conditions
which make the earth habitable
planet.
Such an exploration is the primary
purpose contemplated for the giant sky
rocket. It seems to offer the only prac-
tical prospect of obtaining certain
information.
But something of even greater impor-
lance is involved. The rocket principle
is one of the two known methods of
propulsion. These are propulsion by
pushing against something else and pro-
pulsion by pushing against the pro-
PEELED object itself. The first is illus
trated by almost every type Of move
ment known from the vriggling Of an
earthworm to the fight of an airplane.
The second is illustrated by the kick
back Of gun.
Experiments with the rocket consti-
tute an effort to solve the practical diff
culties involved in making use of this
last principle Of ropulsion--admittedly
much more efficient than the first-in
actual transportation. 1t holds vast
possibilities for the future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-19
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.
The human voice Is slowly but surely
gaining ascendancy in the radio broad

The human voice Is slowly but surely
gaining ascendancy in the radio broad
cast programs.
The era of the blabber mouth has
come.
Turn on a receiving set any night,
tune in any station, and the chances
are 10 to ] that you will hear voice,
either singing, announcing or making q
speech.
Now there are many radio listeners
who like this sort of thing, and there
are many who do not. The writer here
lines up with the latter group.
We feel that one hears human speech
enough every day In the various activi-
ties of ordinary life without wanting to
listen to 1t as entertainment.
We believe that the human voice re-
sounds in so many ways throughout the
day that no one is under the necessity
OF listening to songs after dinner.
Songs to us who do not like them are
and always have been something OF a
nuisance.
A song must be sung, that is where
the trouble comes in.
If every tenor were q Caruso and
every soprano Bori, perhaps the thing
might not be so bad.
Unfortunately for those who must
listen the world Is full Of tenors who
insist on pronouncing "hill' as "hee-
yull" and "kiss" as "kees"
Not only are their ideas Of words not
ours, but they are possessed by positive
yearnings to waver and ouayer when
they should hold the note steady.
And then, too. most songs are absurd.
There Is only one song out Of every
and love does grow tiresome, as a steady
diet.
Affection is better than love, but you
would never know it by listening over
radio.
To hear the singers sing. one might
think that all young ladies were turn
ing down their sweethearts.
Love-in songs-is invariably tire
some, heart-rending. Lovers long pine
and yearn; they are always separated,
or about to be separated.
Only the man in the moon sees the
young lady, and he is so far away that
he couldn't kiss her II he wanted to.
Besides. he doesn't want to. He is a
hard-hearted Moon Daddy. or some rot
and drivel. which no respectable moon
would want to be at all.
And talks!
If somebody isn't singing-over radio
somebody else is talking.
with base ball.
Now base ball is q great sport.
No one would say word against base
ball. No one does, at any rate. This
Is a sports nation, at the present writ
ing. and base ball is the major sport.
Even golf hasn't quite oyerreached 1t
as yet.
To be forced TO listen TO base ball
every afternoon, whether the radio own
err wants to or not, from every one of
the three local stations, we must submit,
is wrong.
A radio isn't like a newspaper, a book
or magazine. which one may read or
not read, just as he pleases, or in which
he may read what pleases him and let
the rest go.
Over the radio the listener takes what
Is coming in. or he must turn the whole
thing off. or tune to another station.
And every radio fan knows that often
as not, especially during hot weather,
the only stations he can get satisfac-
torily are the locals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-19

throwing up a $4,000 law practice on
Manhattan Island for a $500 Job in
washington.
1t won't be long now before the
faithful among the Democratic women
Of the country will be reorganized
into a phalanx of battling AInazons
for the 1880 congressional election. The
missionary work is to be resumed under
the direction of Nellie Tayloe Ross,
former Governor of Wyoming, who was
in charge of women's activities at Ras-
koblan headquarters in New York dur
ing the late unpleaSantness. Mrs. Ross
will work in cooperation with. If not
under the direction of, Executive Com
mittee Chairman Jouett Shouse in
Washington and the potent peddler of
Democratic publicity, now so effectively
on the job, Charles Nicholson Mrs.
Ross hopes to make vast thunder with
the Republican tariffs designs on the
household budgets Of every lady in the
land.
Nearly everybody in Washington, and
presumably just as many out in the
United States, are smiling over the
free lad" which the new baby $40 bill
is giving popular brand of automobile.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
WhcA ~ OcSlSlcO UI16 lU-bpOL, uenuoeQ
the Fifteenth street side of the Treasury
Building (Which picturizes the reverse
OF the $40 note) Of the street car
tracks which are in the street, and sub
stltuted in the foreground an unnis-
taxable 1929 model of certain buggy.
Treasury officials are quoted as saying
1t was sheer accident.
\ \ y
Representative Florello H. La Guardia,
independent Republican, has rolled up
his sleeves in New York In an intensive
effort to bag the Republican, Fusion
nomination for mayor. His fate win be
decided at the city convention on
August /. The stalwart, black-haired.
scrapping Congressman IL just back
from Hot Springs, ARK, where he re-
cuperated from an operation for re-
moval Of his tonsils, and reports him
self in top-hole fighting trim.
La Guardia formally opened his cam
patgn in banquet speech at the Re-
publican Club of New York this week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-19

it extinguishes blaze. There could
not have been even q small decrease
in the 1929 fire loss, with the increased
number Of alarms, had not the Fire
Department been efficient. Thus. the
reduction in thealast fiscal year in the
total fire damage is strikingly i'm
pressive.
1t is the aim Of Fire Chief Watson to
bring Washington's annual fire. loss
under 100000. He has been striving
toward that goal since he was appointed
head of the Fire Department in 1920.
The records show he is making con-
siderable progress, but he needs the CO.
operation Of the public to succeed.
in the handling of matches,
cigarettes and other causes of most
fires will not help.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-19
Postal Deficit Is Attributed
Largely to Abuse of Franking

1t can be made virtually self supporting
and be operated without a deficit, that
will be something accomplished, but It
should not be achieved at the expense
of good service" As to possibilities In
this direction the Detroit Free Press
offers the Judgment: The ablest bust
ness man In the country could not make
success of the mail carrying business.
with his hands tied by political body
that dictated what he might charge for
carrying other peoples mail matter and
forced him to carry its own for nothing.
Congress can make or break the postal
service, as business enterprise"
ForecaSting efforts that may be made.
the Spokane Spokesman-Review holds
that cit Is hoped, first, to effect econo-
mics wherever possible; second, to In
crease, If possible, the volume Of mail
handled, and third, to secure cheaper
contracts for the transportation Of the
mail" The Spokane-Review expects
the President to demand all the facts
first" and advises that until these are
organized in systematic manner, 1t is
impossible to work out any sort Of
solution" The Rochester Democrat
and Chronicle also Is convinced that
"tfe hope seems to lie In the elinina-
ton Of waste. in greater efficiency and
in details Of management for which the
Presidents trained mind is especially
equipped"
Presumably the old question Of rails
ing rates will come up again." says the
Cleveland News. There should be very
little objection, provided the additional
charges are put on the parcel post or
other patrons so long given more serv-
ice than they pay for. rather than on
newspaper or magazine traffic, long ago
subjected to rate raises or zone systems
expensive enough to make It avoid
doing business with the Post ONCE De-
partrnent as far as possible. Such sec
ond-class trafic is already charged all
1t will bear"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-19
Intense Rays of Sun
Swell Goldfish Crop
BY z. e, FREE. Pr. ID.

ID Es Gs NEE fEks he
What is probably one effect Of the
unusually intense ultraviolet rays re-
ceived from the sun during the three
years between 1925 and 1927 Is now
bringing happiness to Norway. The
happiness Is over an unusually large
catch. of Goldfish, expected to prove the
largest made in a. decade. 1t is prob
able, too, that the percentage of vita
min d, which gives to cod liver oil its
recognized value in medicine, will be
high in the oil obtained in this years
fish. This vitamin is known to be
created by the ultraviolet rays. The
Goldfish are supposed to obtain 1t from
the nnyriads of tiny plants and animals
which grow In the ocean and on which
the fish live. Ultra violet rays are be-
lieved to stimulate the growth and null
tiplication of the microscopic plants
which live in the upper levels of the sea
water and manufacture food by absorb
ing sunlight, just as the larger plants
do on land. There are millions OF these
tiny Slln-catching plantlets In each
glaSSful OF surface sea water. Their
numbers increase when the sunlight Is
intense, especially when it is well sup
piled with the invisible ultra violet rays.
During the three years when these rays
were plentiful the sea pastures were
probably Iuxuriant also, so that the
growing Goldfish had ample food. That
accounts for the heavy catch OF fish
this year as well as for the plentiful
supply Of the vitaYnin presumably now
inside the livers Of the Goldfish and on
its way into this years crop Of oil.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-19

q future great work Of literature will
not arise at last from the brain of
some youth who stands mute before
the Lincoln Memorial?
Such influences are never gaudy; they
do not arrive with brass bands playing,
or with shout and tumult. Such in
fluences are silent influences. yet none
the less mighty for their lack of noise
Perhaps the Japanese cherry trees
will call forth some unexampled work.
begun In sort of dream by an mag
NATIVE boy or girl here on tour from
the home town. Already the Wash
ington Monument Of the West" has
shown what such influences may do.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-19
Close Fuel Estimates
Held Risky to Flyers

From the Schenectady Gazette.
Partial success OF the flight Of the
Pathfinder to Europe impresses again
upon us one of the essential needs in
undertakings Of this nature. Time
after time we read Of aviators forced
down because of lack Of fuel
1t Is to be assumed that most, II not
all, Of the flyers who have started on
transoceanic voyages have estimated in
a scientific manner the amount of
gasoline needed. To do this they would
figure the distance, with so many gal
Ions required for each 100 miles.
As weight is big factor. they would
naturally keep this down as much as
possible, although probably taking an
extra supply as a precautfon.
Herein may lie solution Of some of
pearances of airmen seeking to span
the ocean. They took a reasonable
supply of gasoline, which proved to be
inadequate. Far from land, with no
ships at hand. they fell into the water
and ultimately sank.
williams and Yancey took enough
fuel, they supposed, to carry them to
Rome. Instead, they were forced to
land thousand miles from their goal.
On the same basis, had they planned
on flight to Spain, they might have
oeen Aoieeo oo"h 'aio"s"iAo Aaiies
at sea.
It would seem that, in the interest of
safety. arrangements should be made
to carry enough fuel, in addition to
liberal estimates of the amount re-
quired, to carry them at least 1000
miles. This may call for larger planes
or for the discarding of other things
to counterbalance the added weight.
But obviously it would be merely the
precaution of the man who does not
wish to risk his life unnecessarily. Those
following the custom are certainly TAX
ing needless risks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-19
The Tyranny of Propaganda.

Mr.. Coolidge concerns himself with
an uncommonly- timely topic In his
latest magazine contribution to the
sum of his country's knowledge. There
Is slender reason to suspect that the
former President and Senator Caraway
put their heads together for united
frontal attack on Hobbies and lobbyists
at Washington-for the Vermonter and
the Arkansan are not accustomed to see
eye to eye. But it is striking coinci-
dence that at the very moment Mr..
Coolidge tits vigorously at "fanatical
rinorities" and their intimidation Of
Congress" Mr.. Caraway should be
launching his drive against lobbyism
or Capitol Hill.
The statesman who recently quit the
White House launches the arresting
thesis that Congress "in its hours Of
timidity becomes subservient to the i'm
portunities Of organized minorities."
Because Of this situation, Mr.. Coolidge
holds that "the President comes more
end more to stand as the champion OF
the rights of the whole country" The
inevitable result. he points out. Is the
weakening Of political parties, the loss
Of confidence in Congress and cor
responding growth of executive power.
In the bosom Of such system, as Mr..
Coolidge plainly inttmates, are carried
the seeds of presidential dictatorship,
violative of the fundamental principles
of American Government.
Every washingtonian knows how
government by propaganda is progress
sively becoming an outstanding aspect
Of Federal life. The mails are choked
with the endlessly flowing stream OF
pro-and-con literature. With few ex-
captions the purpose Of this Niagara
of ballyhoo is to organize mjnoritles,
which, Mr.. Coolidge rightly explains,
"has come to be we'll recognized in
Gustry at Washington" Organized
rinorities are capable, when astutely
led and copiously caparisoned with
cash, of making Congress believe that
they are the voice Of majorities. 1t is
rarely that this Is so. All they do is
to make more noise, spend more money
and emit more monographs than
lethargic maiorities.
Both matorities and minorities have
rights including the right to organize
for the influencing Of public opinion.
The first amendment to the Consti-
tuition guarantees the people in this
privilege ito petition the Government
for redress Of grievances" But 1t is
not difficult to envisage situation ct
Washington In which the intrinsic
merits of a cause or policy will be
lost in the shuttle and din Of rival
propaganda.
The basic idea inspiring propaganda
,presupposes that members of Congress
are incapable Of thinking for them
selves and need to be doped >on high
pressure lines with the merits and de-
merits Of q given question. It con-
lures up a state of affairs in which
our national legislators would have no
minds except those which were made
up for them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-19
Number of Lynchings
Decreases This Year
the Anniston Star

From the Admission Star. 5+
Alabama citizens interested In the
preservation Of law and order should
note with qualification that this State
continued on the honor roll of States
with no lynchings during the first six
months of the year. It has been some
time since Alabama has had its record
stained by mob murder, and let us
hope that we shall for all time IN the
future remain free from the humiliation
of a lawless act of that kind.
The four lynchings recorded last year
occurred in Southern States, which we
regret. We wish that we might have
been told that there had been no I'M
lawful killings of this kind In the South
this year, but we have not attained that
ideal condition as yet. However, 1t
seems that progress is being made TO-
ward the elimination Of lynchings, as
there was a decrease of one this year
in comparison with the number re-
corded In the same period In 1928 and
i've less than the record Of 1925. 1926
and 1927.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-19
"Who Could Saw Mop

/ Mayor Jimmy" Walkers confidently
tpredicted acquiescence to run again
surprised the 6s2 "non-partisan COM
mitteemen" only in the righteousness
of his nonchalant expression-"Who
could say 'No'?"
OF course, a greater statesman than
BE disappointed much larger group Of
hon-partisan admirers concerning a
much higher Office than the New York
mayoralty when he declared-"I do not
choose to run
But then there was considerable
doubt for some time whether Calvin
Coolidge really meant that under no
circumstances would be accept the
11omination-that is. in the public
mind, If not in his own. But New
York's prince Charming" leaves no
doubt in any ones mind.
This little act Of offering himself
ranks Mayor Walker with Cariolanus
vHo, in asking for the consulship, urged
milne own deserts, ay, and not mine
own desire"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-19
Postal Accounting
Is Urged to Aid Ills
From the Kansas City Journal-post.

From the Kansas City Journal-Post.
There are doubtless several reasons
for the large postal deficit, aside from
the retroactive increase of pay to the
railways. The bill to shorten the hours
of mail employees, passed over President
Coolidge's veto, was another factor. The
air mail is not yet on remuneratlVe
basis. Just how much the development
of the parcel post has added to the cost
OF the mail service has never been de-
termined with exactitude. There have
been necessary increases Of pay through
out the service. Nor has there been
such a REIMBURSEMENT Of rural free de-
livery contracts as improved condition
of the roads would seem to warrant, IN
tiais age of motorization.
But there is one fragrant failure, for
which Congress is to blame, which pre-
vents a satisfactory study of the facts
Reference is made to the Government
ranking and the lack OF detailed facts
as to the extent of this free service.
1t may we'll be argued that every
service done by the postal system IS
proper and necessary But there is no
defense of the lack of accounting which
prevents study Of all the facts to de-
termination of Just what causes the
deficit. Until there is real accounting.
there should be no contenancing of a
proposal to raise postal rates, either on
letters or on other classes of mail.
Here is situation which should APP
peal to the efficiency experts. They
should not seek to find either new pos
tai revenues or new economics until the
facts are ascertained. Much revenue
has been lost. through changes in sec
ond-class man rates. Tons of matter are
distributed by freight and express and
then remailed, because of these changes.
The country suffered much from ur-
wise economics practiced by Postmas-
ter General Hitchcock and his successor
Mr.. Burleson. 1t will not stand for any
more penny wise and a pound foolish ex-
periments. The mails are public
service, with no attempt to base charges
on the exact amount of service rendered
But until the costs are ascertained and
distributed. the deficit cannot be dealt
with intelligently.