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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-13
Cherry Blossom Week.

A plan is under consideration by a
committee of the Washington Chamber
of Commerce to establish an annual
cherry blossom festival in this city. The
committee will report at later meeting
of the chamber, and probably in favor
of the project, as sentiment has already
been strongly expressed for such an OBJ
servance of the Capitals vernal in
augural. The details of the festival are,
of course, yet to be planned. The i'm
portant point is to determine in ample
season upon the fact. The manner in
which the fete is to be conducted will
readily follow.
Festivals appropriate to the season
have been conducted by other cities for
some time past. On the Pacific Coast
several cities have their flower fetes
which attract great numbers Of visitors.
Close at hand, the city of Winchester,
Va, has an apple blossom week that
draws large attendance from a wide
area and is one of the most beautiful
Of American outdoor spectacles.
Washington has an opportunity In
the annual blooming of the cherry trees
in Potomac Park to offer an attraction
second to none in this country. Indeed,
already the Capital is a festival center
in that tens Of thousands of people
come at cherry blossom time to enjoy
the scene Of floral beauty But they are
coming in streams anyway at that time
OF year, and when, as this year, the
cherry poisoning comedies with the
Easter holidays the city is especially
well filled with guests.
1t is proposed to devote a week to the
observance Of the cherry blossom fea-
ture of the Capitals attractiveness. A
most picturesque and significant program
of episode pageant displays could be de-
vised which, even if repeated from year
to year, would be always diverting and
inspiring. All that is needed is an or
ganization and fund for carrying its
plans into effect, and Washington will
give the country an annual show that
will be worth long travelling to witness.
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which forbids making or drinking
liquor on university property. AS the
alumni secretary is careful to explain,
there is no penalty attached to the vio-
lation of this rule. Alma mater has re-
fused to tie her hands. She has left
herself free to deal with each case on
its merits.
Still, law is law, and there is a
good deal of fuss about it just now.
Alma mater knows that the neighbors
are gossiping about the goings-on at
her house. So she makes gesture.
She draws up an agreement and sub
niits IL 10 each of the thirty fraterni-
ties, by which the students would pledge
themselves to obey the rule to the letter.
Now the traditional atmosphere of
liberalism at the University of Virginia
involves something more than a toler-
ance for disrespect OF the eighteenth
Notwithstanding far more fun
damental. 1t involves the code of a gen.
tleman--a code in which ones word is
ones bond, subterfuge and hypocrisy
are deadly sins, and the individual
makes no compromise with his honor
for the sake of public approval.
Eighteen fraternities examined the
proposed agreement and refused to
sign it.
These fraternities assured alma mater
that they understood her predicament
and were loyal sons, anxious to do any,
thing honorably possible to make her
comfortable in her old age. They would
go to any reasonable lengths to stop
their members from drinking.
But they would not pledge their word
that none of their members would drink.
Such a pledge, they pointed out, would
be a practical absurdity. Moreover, it
would be hypocritical In the extreme.
Some of the fraternity brothers were
bound to bring in bottle of corn now
and then despite anything the officers
Of these societies would do, and it would
be a poor brotherhood that pledged
itself to take vengeance on these fellows.
We might sign this, they pointed out
to the college authorities, but common
sense tells you that We would not have
the slightest idea of keeping the pledge
under all circumstances.
So they drew up substitute agree
ment which does not contain such ex-
acting promises and which the faculty
are reported to be considering with
favor.
Regardless of ones personal opinion
on the dry law, one hardly can refrain
from admiration of this insistence on a
code of honor and of loyalty to fellow
students.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-13
Searchlights Seen
AS Aid to Farmers
BY E. E. FREE. PHI. d.

Flowing all night by searchlights, as
contractors sometimes build much
needed buildings In cities, and regular
night shifts for farms like those in busy
factories, are possibilities in Germany
this Spring as result of the hard, long
Winter which is just ending. The Sc
verify of the weather has delayed all
Spring work on the farms. Unless Some-
thing can be done to catch up, German
agricultural experts expect such de-
lays in blowing and planting that many
crops will not have time to grow and
ripen before harvest time. With typical
German practicability and ingenuity,
the lighting engineers OF the Reich have
come to the rescue with the suggestion
that powerful electric lamps be rugged
to permit the farm work to 90 on night
and day until the delayed work in the
fields has been completed. For plows
and similar moving machinery, power
full incandescent lamps equipped with
refiectors like those used In theatrical
productions are to be attached to the
machines and supplied with electricity
from cables drawn behind as the ma
chine goes back and forth across the
field. For fields needing to be planted,
soWed or worked otherwise by hand,
great hoodlightS are to be set on the
fences or In the corners, as was done In
many American factory yards during
the war and as is now being done to
illuminate airplane landing fields at
night. Electric power for the farm night
lights will be supplied from the network
of roadside transmission lines which
covers Germany almost sYeyyWhere, .
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Delaying the Spoken Word.

Standing before gathering of engi-
neers in Philadelphia an Official of the
Bell Telephone laboratories said "Hello!"
into an ordinary telephone transmitter.
There were two seconds Of silence be-
fore the "Hello!" came out at the other
end Of the short coil of wire. There
was nothing significant about the fact
that the test was held in Philadelphia.
although the general atmosphere may
have added picturesque touch to the
demonstration of how sound may be de-
layed and slowed down in transmission.
The purpose of the test was to demon
strate device which, attached to tele-
phone wires, bottles up word. holds 1t
for a fraction of second and in long
distance transmission avoids the echoes
which arise during the lapse of time
required for spoken words to travel.
This, the scientists say, will clarity
words spoken over cross-continent or
transoceanic telephone wires.
This scientific feat is more interesting
for its possibilities than for the actual
accomplishment. If a word spoken over
the telephone wire can be bottled up
and delayed, will not science now pro-
vide a way to recall certain words or
else shunt them off the main line into
the ocean or the air before they reach
the other end of the line? What boon
and a blessing to mankind that would
bel How often are words, and whole
strings of words, sent flying over the
wires that were better consigned to
oblivion than to the burning ears on
the other end! And how wonderful 1t
would be to speak ones mind, press a
button, recall the whole Grafton and
start again, calmly, sensibly and with
the advantages of having rid ones sys-
tenn of superfiuous, If eloquent, wordsl
Keep on trying, you scientists! In
vent a method Of freezing up words in-
til they are melted by warm after
thought, to be released, or recalled. at
will. Do that and you will end more
private and public wars than all the
treaties ever written.
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Dramatic ROYALTIES.

In the course of the community
drama conference that has been in
progress during the past week in this
city, one Of the speakers, an authority
on the subject of play publication and
protection, in telling an interested audi
ence Of the royalty system and the ne
cessity for its strict observance, men
toned a number of British playwrights
who are particularly insistent upon the
collection of their needs Of compensa-
tioE for acting rights. He spoke of them
as hard boiled in the matter of royal
ties. One of them, Sir James Barrie,
whose plays are much in demand by
amateur groups. and who has proved
to be, in keeping with his Scottish
origin, rigidly insistent upon his rights
as an author-in fact, most competent
business man in the sale Of his wares
in the world market This observation
did not reflect unfavorably upon the
author of some Of the most delightful
and appealing dramas of this genera
ton. 1t simply cited him as an example
of the playwright as tradesman as
well as craftsman.
It is by somewhat of a coincidence
that 1t is just announced that Sir James
Barrie has presented all his rights in
Peter Pan" to the London Hospital for
Sick Chisssys.. 1t is estimated that this
is worth about $4,000 year. The au-
thor has for some time intended to
make this gift In his will, but has now
decided to make it in his lifetime. So
that hereafter whoever buys the right
to produce Peter Pan" and present
Wendy and Capt. Hook and Since on
the stage, amateur or professional, will
be paying royalties to one Of the most
worthy Of British institutions rather
than to the canny Scottish author.
It should make no difference to play
giving groups, amateur or professional
whether the royalty goes to the author
~ = charity. That royalty should b.
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Schulz, Noted Cellist,
Is Lauded for MOdesty

From the Dayton Daily News.
New York's Symphony Orchestra loses
Leo Schulz, its premier cellist, the first
of April. On that occasion, Arturo Tos-
canini, the world-famed conductor, will
relinquish his pedestal to the man who
for 80 years has been first cellist with
the organization. Schulz will take the
baton of the maestro and strike up the
overture he wrote for the Chicago World
Fair in 1893. After this last concert he
retireS.
Leo Schulz was cellist with. the Bos-
ton Symphony for nine years prior to
the time when, in 1899. he joined the
New York orchestra. A contemporary
recalls his appearance then--'a Byronic
young man with waving mop of long
hair" He Is 63 now. Age has taken its
toll of his features, but he still plays
like, the youth with the fire Of great
music in his soul.
The remarkable thing about the man
is not that he has been With his Job for
80 years. That is no rarity in any pro-
fession. Leo Schulz is recognized az q
master Of his instrument. He mis:4S
have played his way to fame and for
tune as virtuoso on the concert stage.
Instead, he was content to remain one
Of the musicians in great orchestra.
The most exacting critic in vain sought
flaws in his solo renditions. He was
always there, landmark in q con-
stantly shifting sea Of faces. Subscri-
bers Of the symphony society spotted
his rudy face In the ensemble ami felt
they were hearing the same old orches-
ira, whatever the personnel changes.
Leo Schulz will not go down with the
musical irnmcrtals: but he has provided
a refreshing contrast to vainglorious
artists" TYPICAL Of the time. whose
chief thought is to strive for the spot
Hnht.
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paid in full without any claim for re-
mission or reduction on the score Of the
poverty Of the producing association or
the worthiness OF the cause for which
the play is to be given. If dramatic
performance is planned for a charity
enterprise-usually the charity is only
incidentally the beneficiary. as the play
giving inspiration is primarily for graft
fication of dramatic desire-it is not ex-
actly equitable or fair to ask the author
to contribute to the fund to the extent
of his royalty when he has no conceiv-
able interest in the charity, and par
ticularly when the play is in part his
cwn means of livelihood.
If the laborer is worthy of his hire,
truly the dramatic author is worthy Of
his royalty And yet, according to this
speaker at the Washington conference,
hundreds OF American play-giving
groups are by various devices constantly
seeking and in many cases succeeding
in defrauding the authors Of plays By
avoiding the payment of royalties
groups composed of men and women
who would nsver dream Of cheating the
grocer out of the price of butter and
eggs or the coal merchant out of the
cost of the Winters fuel, or the domes-
tic servant out of her wages. If the
drama is to flourish in America, If au-
thors are to continue to produce worthy
works, there must be respect for the
rule, which is indeed the law, of royalty,
which is in turn simply the law Of hon.
esty.
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Virginia Gentlemen.

A traditional atmosphere of LIBERAL
ism pervades the wisteria-wreathed
campus of the University Of Virginia.
Liberalism seems to involve. in these
days, gentlemanly tolerance toward
the making and drinking of intoxicating
LIQUORS. Few would deny that there is
some consumption of alcohol, outside
of It's experimental use in the chemical
laboratories. ct the picturesque old COLI
lege.
The university is wise old alma
mater in the ways Of adolescent boys.
She has seen too many generations Of
them come and 60 to suffer nervous
spasms at their recurring indiscretions.
She knows that the more adventurous
among them viii drink for no other
reason than that 1t Is against the law
to drink. There is no purpose served
by holding up The hands In hypocritical
horror.
There Is i ong-stapding regulation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-13
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

All books sent to the boxes placed
at the Union Station and other public
places about the city are culled, so as
to weed out unsuitable ones, then made
up into balanced rations" for the
library boxes.
No commun!stic books, none that at
tack Sectarian religion, or teach athe-
ism, or immortality, or class hatred, are
used.
Not mere trashy novels are accept
able; scientific books and travel books
are especial desired.
1t is not wholly desirable to fill the
boxes with women's books on how to
make dresses out Of three yards OF
cloth, which will expose the dimpled
knees of the wearer-especially If such
a collection is to be sent to the Ant
arctic or even the Arctic.
One ship captain complained that the
books sent his ship had shown his
sailors how to hatch chickens, and sc
they had Matched out brood which
was running about the deck: he wanted
no more books that would make farm
ers out OF perfectly good sailors. But
he would like to read books telling how
read about th1 ports to which they
were sailing. There Is a lot of human
nature disclosed by this library work.
Aliens who cannot read a word oil
English seize upon picture books so thai
by reading the captions Of the pictures
they can comprehend from the pictures
what the English words mean; it's q
good kindergarten method of learning
English. School text books are desired
but are very rarely among the gifts
X X * X
Not only have women's fashion maya
zines been contributed to these marine
libraries, but also three social regis
tiers came in one shipment from Bos-
ton. Very thrilling to the fo'c'sle upon
the high seas! Now that the Depart
ment of State has abolished its bureau
of social precedence, doubtless the Bos-
ton giver of the social registers will be
glad to recapture the books. They may
be useful in settling the latest social
tangle which transpired at fashion
able luncheon in Washington this week
1t concerned fruit cocktail (anti-
Jones? NoD
The several fruits had blended their
colors into a peculiar shade, and some
of the guests pondered on what to
name the color. One suggested Alice
blue" another of more youthful expe-
rience, thought of Harding red, an
other argued that it was, really Coolidge
gray, but the last fair guesser an
nounced most emphatically that all
we're wrong, for the color was clearly a
Gann-grene. Which so shocked the
hostess that it made her seasick. But
it would only stimulate sailorboy
equipped with an up-to-date social reg
lister. S. o. S.!
ICnnyripht 1929 hv Paul V Cnllinsl
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

When Spring suddenly kicks you back
into Winter again, what are you going
to do about 1t?
Well, just about what the plants do
make the best of 1t.
Changeable weather gave the District
of Columbia tastes of true Spring, real
Summer and then switched back to
Winter, and there is no telling which
will prevail when this gets into print.
After all, what difference does 1t
make?
Mankind's discomfort with the vari-
| able weather can be nothing to the
st,lpor Of plant life at the rapid-f1re
changes confronting it.
Imagine the confusion of an honest
tulip which ought to be blooming a
month hence at finding itself forced to
herculean growth by an April tempera-
ture of 95 degrees.
Consider its further humiliation when
its growth is suddenly checked by an
influx OF cold air, bringing the ther-
| mometers down to A degrees.
X 4 ~
Sensible human beings simply start
the furnace again, but the growing
| things in the yard have no furnace
other than the sun.
his kisses to the earth, plant growth re-
mains more or less stationary, no mat
ter what prodigious efforts 1t may have
put forth previously.
The plant lover would not 60 so far
as to say that his flowers do not under
stand and sorrow over their check.
Perhaps they do. Who knows?
Each flower and bush is a living
thing, with a certain sort of intelligence
of its own, gathered into queer form
from the 1nexhaustible treasure house
Of Nature.
Call the plant cell elemental, If YOU
will; 1t gets there just the same, each
after its kind and law.
The emotions of man, Towering in
kindness and love, move in some fash
ion, one may feel sure, in every lilac
bush which waves its beautiful blossoms
in the breeze.
Perhaps some such thought as this
has moved men to turn to flowers when
they wish to express sentiments which
words leave cold.
\ X X \
1t is curious to speculate upon what
the plants would do if by some hook or
crook they suddenly were to be en-
dowed with dominion over the other
king doms.
Can it be supposed for an instant
that the venerable trees would issue a
mandate demanding the world for
themselves?
Or that those growing fools" the
weeds, would take real pride In crowd
ing out all the cultivated plants?
Or that the roses, In their turn. would
sneer at the pansies because they were
not so large?
One would prefer to envision the
vegetable kingdom acting in a calm,
sensible manner, free from prejudices
and fancies, rather than the sport of
propaganda, slogans and catch-phrases.
4 X 4
Until the millennium, however. plants
will be the faithful servants Of mankind,
ready to serve us and to put up with
all our crotchets and foolishness and to
be our best messengers when words
grow dumb.
1t is incumbent upon us, then, to do
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our best for the trees and the grass
and The bushes and the plants and the
flowers. This best includes understand
Ing, care and appreciation.
X \ X
Perhaps the last should come first,
for there will be neither understanding
nor care If appreciation is lacking, and
without understanding and care neither
the plant nor the grower will do very
we'll
Let no one despise the plant because
1t cannot talk, nor think that the whole
reaction between 1t and man takes place
from the man to 1t.
There is no telling what influence q
plant may have on a man, or on a
whole nation. Coffee has made Brazil;
the pineapple, Hawaii. When Dole saw
9 pineapple 1t did something to him,
and he In turn boosted the trade Of that
territory by many millions Of dollars as
result
Plants do not give most of us such an
urge, or punch, as all that, but they
may have no less pleasing influences in
a smaller way.
X X A&
This is strikingly manifested in many
families when they move from apart
ment into house.
Here, for the first time In their lives,
they have a plot of ground, a parcel OF
land, some real earth to plant growing
things in.
whole new world bursts upon them.
Hitherto flowers had been something
to buy, and send, and watch fade, but
now they become real, alive, growing.
Names Of varieties of various flowers
become as familiar as the names of
close friends. The name OF Mrs Frank
Pendleton. glorious gladiolus, becomes
as well known as the name of ones
friend down on the corner.
Clara Butt, the great pink Darwin
tulip, which is even now beginning to
grace the public parks, is spoken of
with genuine affection in a million
homes
Nine. Lemoine, an old variety Of white
lilac, is a name no longer, but a living,
breathing creation of the Almighty.
X 4 \ X
A first acquaintance with this new
world, as 1t proves to so many families.
is at once interesting and inspiring.
There can be only one FIRST time" Of
course-that is why the family which
takes the garden seriously gets the
most out Of it.
Yet there is. perhaps, no other ac-
tivity which grows upon its devotees
more than gardening, so that, although
the first time" favor may never be
exactly duplicated, succeeding years of
gardening grow In interest because
they grow in knowledge.
One is perpetually learning something
in the cultivation of plants. Each de-
partment OF horticulture has its prob
lens, its rewards and perplexities, into
which any interested person may enter
who has some claim on tract Of land,
no matter how small or how large.
Planning and discussing gardens Is
never-ending delight to those who
somehow find in the work a sort Of
satisfaction no other occupation gives.
In the home garden, almost alone in
the world, one pays no penalty for
failure. 1t is one Of the few places
where lack of success is never penal
lied, but where every failure is merely
pleasant stepping stone to perfection.
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and judicial integrity has not really
been successfully impeached," con-
tinues the Times, "he perceiyes that
the nature and extent Of the complaints
made about his course in certain mat
ters coming before him as judge have
destroyed his usefulness. He is I'M
willing to embarrass the other judges
of the Federal courts in the district by
continuing to sit while under investi-
cation. and is also acutely conscious
that even if he were to fight the case
and win vindication, his reputation
could never be the same again.
The event should serve to quicken pub
lie sensitiveness about Judges at the
same time that it deepens in them the
conviction that they must so conduct
themselves on the bench as to be not
only beyond attack but above sus-
picion."
y * * =
The Hartford Courant thinks that
cit is not enough that Judge should
be honest; he must have a reputation
for honesty" and must keep himself
free from entangling alliances Of every
sort and description" The Harrisburg
Telegraph feels that "the responsible
ity of the judge for rectitude in Office
is even greater than that of the legiS-
lative or the executive branch, for the
judge holds the court of final appeal,
and if that fountain of justice be
polluted the whole scheme Of govern
ment fails"
The judges refusal to perform Judi
cial duties, after exposures involving
an alleged bankruptcy ring began to
take definite form" is commended by
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat which
also voices the view as to the position
of Judge Winslow: THAT his conf
dence in some of those to whom he
gave preferment was abused Is I'M
doubted Had he known of the gossip
going on among persons who had his
court under observation, doubtless
some of the most serious of the later
Irregularities would have been pre-
vented. The entire case has grave
warnings on the care with which COM
plicated business matters coming I'M
der the supervision of courts should BE-
looked after, the restraints with which
favors should be bestowed repeatedly
on the same person or interest. and on
the moral responsibility of judges for
the conduct of their appointees. which
by no means ends when they have exer-
cised care in their selection.