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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15

munities which ratify the law, with the
aid Of local agents.
The fate Of the jerks dry bill was
not without its measure of comedy. It
had been planned to report out the bill
providing for State enforcement of pro-
hibition and fixing the alcoholic con-
| tent Of beverages at not more than
one-half of one per cent, just as is pro-
vided in the Volstead act for the entire
Nation. But about the time the meas
ure was to be reported Republican
assemblyman on the committee offered
an amendment providing that the al
coholic content should be as high as
six per cent, before the law should run
against manufacture, sale and distribu-
ton. In the twinkling of an eye the
bill was changed in committee SO that
it became in effect light wines and
beer" measure, for which there has
been much clamor from the so-called
moderates and against which there has
been roar from the strict prohibition
lists. 1t was in this form that the meas
ure was reported to the Assembly.
When 1t came to a showdown on the
floor OF the Assembly, however, follow
ing an appeal from the Republican
speaker, the report of the committee
was rejected, the Democrats taking the
position that they were opposed to all
State enforcement laws and most of the
Republicans following the leadership of
the speaker. So the vote required on
the original bill. and the final act of
the comedy--which to the drys is not
without It's tragic side--was played out.
If prohibition is actually to be en-
forced, probably no other State In the
Union needs to so great a degree a
State enforcement law. New York has
its Atlantic port. 1t has its Canadian
border, and through both constant
How OF illegal liquor enters the State.
To leave the enforcement of the law to
the Federal Government alone in this
most populous State, with nearly I'M
limited opportunity for the importation
OF liquor, is to put up to the Federal
Government task that is almost i'm
possible. The Empire State at one time
had a State enforcement act. But 1t
was repealed by the Legislature and
the repeal was approved by former Gov.
Alfred E. Smith. This act on the part
of the Democratic nominee for Presi-
dent was cited against him time ana
again by the drys in their fight against
his election last Fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15
Rockefeller's Victory Called
Achievement for Big Business

"Not only victory for decency. but
in the long run victory for corporate
management" is the verdict of the Roa-
noke WorldNews; an indication that
stockholders want something more
than mere profits" that of the Walla
Walla Daily Bulletin, and, as viewed by
the Houston Chronicle, 1t is "in keeping
with day when frank dealing with the
public and honest service to 1t is being
made the very foundation principle Of
business" The Little Rock Arkansas
Democrat observes: when oligarchs
like Col Stewart voice their contempt
for the rights of the common man there
can generally be found an honest leader
who can toss them overheard. Mr..
Rockefeller is such leader"
Evidently the business men of today
who defended Mr. Stewart" suggests the
Cincinnati Times-Star, do not realize
that business ethics have changed In
the past so years. But business ethics
have changed. even though the defend
ers of Mr.. Stewart give you the disquiet-
ing feeling that there is reversion to
type" The st. Paul Pioneer Press feels
that "the oil industry in its present
massive dignity does well to put its
house In order" The Asbury Park
Press emphasizes the point that this
action ''manifests the rising public SEN
timent for integrity in business"
Rarely. We believe, have great wealth
and the influence that goes with great
wealth in the world of corporate activity
and service been concentrated upon so
excellent purpose" AYERS the Syracuse
Herald, and the New York Times as
sertS: What Mr.. Rockefeller has now
will be good not only for
his own company and his personal re-
pute, but for the management and per-
sonnet of other great concerns. I'm
seemly public conduct by corporation
officials has more clearly come into view
as distinctly bad for their own business"
"A billion-d dollar concern, whatever
the reasons. has placed ethics above
profits by a more than 2-to-l vote"
states the Bellingham Herald, while the
Admission Star sees "a new day, when
men of affairs regard the doctrine O:
oblige," and the Manchester
Union holds to the view that business
standards have improved, and the pub
lie conscience today will not accept
Mr.. Stewards record. es-
pecially when 1t has been given the
stage setting of the past few months"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

other everyday feature We stress this
latter point because such pleasurable
uncertainty is at once common and
homely.
|, 1t is not confined to any one class,
but helps all peoples without reserve,
the only requirement being that one
have firm belief in himself. Let age
steal upon him and his hair turn gray,
and the glittering visions which once
promised themselves to him have be-
come faded, too-these make no differ
ence so long as he has faith in himself.
Time itself steals away no faster than
hope from the man who has given up
faith in the uncertainty of fate before
him.
This kind of uncertainty is sort
OF two-edged sword which cuts away
the cords which bind the mind down
too closely to actuality and also which
loosen the bonds which hold one too
close to himself.
No matter II advancement seems an
impossible thing, the very uncertainty
of life may make it possible.
There Is still a handwriting on the
wall, which some will read with secret
shudder: there is still chance for
those to whom chance long ago gave the
cold shoulder.
At any moment the unexpected may
happen. 1t may happen Anything
that has ever happened once may turn
up again. The strangest whims of for
tune are not queer to those who believe
in them.
Hope springs eternal In the human
breast"
What If many who believe go down
recklessly in defeat, borne away by the
weight of years, and the turn of events
and the sad pressure of STANDARDIZED
and through which they dare not
break?
So long as hope is with them, in a
sense they have succeeded, since they
have held fast to their faith in the
eternal wheel which is forever bringing
them around to the place they would
want to be-
Not there yet?
Well, what difference does it make ?
Every one knows, from reading and ex-
perience, that many who have got there
have been unhappy and dissatisfied.
The sun has not shone for them,
neither have the birds sung. Their sue
cess was so dazzling that something
essential nad skipped out OF tnelr lives,
gone to live with those who needed it
more.
X X X X
What was it?
1t could be nothing more than this
uncertainty of which we speak To be
pitied is he from whom it has fled.
Luckily those who need it most have
it most.
Here one pauses in wonder at the
divine mercy, which taketh away from
him who wants 1t not to give to those
who verify need.
Divine uncertainty. placing a beau
tiful vision on the path of reality,
beckons the traveller on to the goal of
all his desires.
Infinite pity concesls from him that
uncertainty is the goal itself the dream
within dream, the secret of the secret.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15
Extra Fund for Inland
WATERWAYS Is Hailed

From the Portland oregon Daily Journal
Nothing more significant has ap-
peared at Washington than the addi-
ton by Congress Of $1o.0o000o for in
land waterway development to the War
Departments supply BILL
1t is new encouragement for barge
navigation of the upper Columbia. 1t
is added emphasis to the gradually un-
folding governmental policy of inland
waterway development.
The $10.000,000 is to be used in fur
ther expansion of the Inland Water
ways Corporation, Government enter
Department. The appropriation is made
available for extending the operations
on the Warrior and lower Mississippi
rivers, not only to the upper Mississippi
but to Kansas City on the Missouri and
apparently to Chicago through the
Illinois River and the drainage canal
joining into one system the Mississippi
and the Great LakeS--the two greatest
inland waterways in the world.
Begun largely as a product of the
transportation breakdown in the war,
the unexpected thing is that the Gov
eminent continues development of the
system as waterway policy. And the
policy Is emphasized by Congress in
appropriating money to expand the sys-
tenn. All this is intelligent, but some
what surprising in the National Capital
where the bitterest opposition to any
publicly operated enterprise is CEN
tered.
Anyway. developments like these make
it very certain that future use of the
upper Columbia is as much certainty
as death and taxes.
And in the picture is the accession
of Herbert Hoover to the presidency
the same Herbert Hoover who declared
at Seattle. August 81. 1926, for CON
version of our inland waterways into
real connected transportation systems"
and then added:
TT is demonstrated by actual rates
current today that we can carry 1000
bushels of wheat 1000 miles upon lake
and ocean steamers for $40 to $50, and
, on modern barges for $50 to $40, as
against $3.50 to 5000 by rail"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15
Aiding and Abetting Lawbreaking.

10, the poor bootlegger! It wants
only poetic genius to paint the kindly
bootlegger, the obliging purveyor Of
liquors, In heroic colors. But, pending
the writing of the epic of the boot
logger, a committee of highly respecta-
bic and respected members of the bar
save the nark-have banded together
in New York City to defend violators
OF the dry laws who may find them
selves subject to the heavy penalties
imposed In the new Jones law. Indeed,
in the membership of this voluntary
committee are found four former United
States attorneys. And yet the coun-
try wonders why It is difficult to en-
force the prohibitory laws in the coun-
trys great metropolis!
Frederic r. Coudert, jr., is chairman
Of this comm zee which is rushing now
to the defense of the violators of the
law. The committee is to give legal aid
and counsel Ito those worthy cases who
may be subject TO the heavy penalties
provided under the Jones law"
1T was felt" said Mr.. Coudert, ac-
cording to the dispatches from New
York, that such a committee of law
yers might be helpful in aiding our
juries to perform their invaluable func-
tons Of preserving civil liberties"
Naively, Mr.. Coudert said, too, that
."apart from the law, the sale of liquor
Is not wrong" That. of course, is Mr.
Coudert's own opinion as to the dis
pensing of liquor. But 1t comes with a
harsh sound from the lips of an attor-
ney who, after all, is an officer of the
court Of law, the court which is set
up to administer the laws Of the land.
Could there be advanced more def
mite appeal by so-called respectable cit
liens to the bootleggers to continue
their thriving trade in beverages which
are prohibited by law? The bootleggers
who make life cheerful and bright--at
a price-hereafter are to be hailed, not
as violators of the law, but as martyr,
10 a cause for which Mr. Coudert anc
his associates are willing to seek II
influence the juries who may be called
upon to try the bootleggers. Mr. 1Cou.
dert and his associates do not propose
however, to enter themselves the boot.
Logging business, the traffic in liquor
They do not propose to risk themselve!
the payment of the penalties imposed
by the Jones law or any other law AL
they are doing now is to encourag,
others to violate the law, with thu
promise that they will aid them to avoic
the penalties of the law, the long i'm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15
Base Ball Settlements.

The base ball bargaining season is
at about an end One by one the 'hold-
outs" in the training camps of the ball
teams are being brought into line and
signed on the dotted line to renewed
contracts with their respective clubs
One by one the managers and owners
are compromising with shrewdly busi-
nesslike players, who have keen sense
of values. Yesterday two Of the more
stubborn cases yielded to adjustment.
Sad Sam" Jones, the veteran pitcher
now with the Washington team, signed
for the season after a brief but brisk
exchange with the president of the club.
Jones got $4,000 last year, had good
season and demanded $4,000 for the
coming season. He was offered $1,000,
and there the split occurred. Nobody
knows Just how the difference was set
tied. but each side proclaims satisfac-
ton.
Another veteran and valuable pitcher
likewise came to the scratch yesterday
"Dazzy" Vance, the ace Of the Brooklyn
staff. Vance had been offered $22,500
He thought he was worth $25 5000. Just
at the last stage of the case his man.
ager appealed to the owners of the club.
who had been adamant in refusal, to
grant the pitchers demands. They did
SO, and thus Vance becomes the high
est paid pitcher in base ball, rank
to which he is perhaps entitled, In view
of the fact that for seven years he has
led the National League pitchers in
strikeouts and last year won twenty-five
games for his sixth-place team.
Base ball Is at this time of the year
just one negotiation after another.
But as the time comes for the opening
of the season the players come to terms
or the managers and owners surrender.
The players cannot afford to remain idle
for year, and the clubs need the serv-
ices OF their star performers. just SO
the Washington club would be handi-
capped for the season of 1929 If Goose
Goslin. who is yet unsigned-unless he
signs today, which is possible-should
obstinately refuse to accept contract
on the score of having earned more
money by his brilliant batting perform
ance of last season. But the chances
Of "Goose's" idling are very slight.
for this hard-clouting, temperamental
fielder loves to play and mere money
difference Is of small consideration as
against the JOY of taking part in the
championship race.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15
Electric-Eared Dummy
Used for Experiments
BY E. E. FREE, PHI. ID.

A wax-headed window dummy built
to resemble human body as closely as
possible and provided with delicate cleo
trio receivers inside its waxen ears was
described at the recent meeting Of the
American Physical Society In New
York City by F. A. Firestone and d. l..
Rich of the University of Michigan, who
used this auditory robot to discover pre-
ciSely how the sounds from a radio loud
speaker enter the two human ears to be
transmitted into the sensation Of hear
ing.
Every one knows that the direction
from which q sound comes affects the
way in which 1t is heard. The attitude
of fitting the head slightly, which most
people take automatically when listen
ing. is probably an instructive recogni-
ton of this fact. Physicists can use
theories of sound to calculate what
sounds arrive at one point in space, but
men have two ears instead of one, and
the shape of the head and the outer
ear cause what might be called sound
eddies." which affect hearing. This is
what the Michigan experimenters found
with their electric-eared dummy The
intensilies OF sounds entering the two
wax ears from the loud speaker. CORE
spending to sounds that would have en-
tered the ears of living human head
Of the same shape, were found not TO
be entirely in accord with previous theo-
retical calculations. n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15
Threat of Higher Fares.

When the Public Utilities Commission
dismissed without prejudice the traction
companies application for an increase
in fare last Fall, its action was based
on the assumption that at the short
session Congress would reach decision
on the pending merger agreement. The
commission did not commit itself on
the merits of the case, declining to
cross that particular bridge until it
was reached. The bridge is now in
sight. Congress having failed to ap-
prove the amended merger agreement,
the board of directors of the Capital
Traction Company has authorized its
officers to renew its fare petition.
Indications are that this petition will
not be renewed until after the extra
session of Congress. 1t is certainly to
be hoped that such will be the decision.
While the extra sessions program con-
templates consideration of only two
major national issues, there remains
the possibility that Congress may have
time to dispose of problem whose
solution is vital to the District. AS the
problem is made more difficult by rea-
son of the failure Of Congress to ap-
prove any agreement for merged opera
ton of the car lines, added RESPONSE
bility falls upon Congress to seize the
opportunity presented in the extra
session and do something to clarity the
muddled and unsatisfactory condition
that exists today. A merger agreement
was approved by committees in both
houses and reached the calendars in
the last session. While the legislative
processes must be repeated in the new
Congress, a great deal of preliminary
work has been accomplished. Concerted
action could bring about an approved
merger agreement in the extra session.
The Washington community is not
at all interested in giving the corpora
tions the privilege of merging, unless
that merger yields advantages to the
car-riding public. Nor does the COM
munity relish the thought that the
corporations are able to WELD club
in the form Of threatened increases in
fare unless the merger agreement is
ratified. But the community is tired
Of witnessing a continued juggling of
the fare rate question that settles
nothing.
One of the important local questions
confronting President Hoover is the
filing Of vacancies existing and soon
to exist on the Public Utilities Commits
sion. COL Brands appointment lapsed
by. reason Of the Senate's failure to take
up his confirmation. The term of Mr..
Childress expires June 80. The District
needs a. full commission. sitting full
time, to devote thought and study to
the various utility questions Of growing
Importance in & growing city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15

"Are you sure of it?" asked one.
you can't be certain of anything in
this world" replied the other.
Well, you can be reasonably sure of
taxes and of receiving the coal bill at
the end of the month.
You can be pretty sure that there viii
continue to be a certain number of au-
tomobile hogs and that fat ladies will
continue to step on toes in public
vehicles.
You can be fairly certain that affec-
tionate dogs with muddy feet will spring
up on you, especially if you are wearing
new Spring suit.
X Y X X
There are so many things. indeed.
which involve reasonable certainty that.
the gentleman's statement that one can
be certain of nothing must be received
with the suspicion which it deserves.
Yet uncertainty continues to be the
very spice of life, the relish without
which the grand meal would taste some
what fiat.
At the same time that certainty. in
certain matters, exists undoubtedly, and
unquestionably a greater uncertainty
maintains itself side by side with it.
The play of life is hinged upon the
reaction of uncertainty to certainty,
whereby We get chance, fortune.
call it what one will, but known to every
human being who ever lived.
X X x
Hence. though one starts off from the
standpoint of surety, he must neces-
sarily go back to uncertainty, as GER
tain philosophers do to pain, for the
true basis of successful living.
Without uncertainty there would be
no need for hope, and without hope. In
its various and varying degrees, life
would miss much of. its Zest and most
Of its happiness. Uncertainty is seen to
be even more positive than certainty.
since 1t allows for hope, the guardian
angel Of man.
The angelic role which hope, beaIti-
full hope, plays In the lives of men and
women everywhere can never be dis
cussed too much. Here bromideS gieam
with silver light truisms shine Ike the
sun, for nothing is old or stale that
enters so closely into the everyday life
of humanity.
Hope Is the priceless ingredient which
transforms the humdrum into the interI
esting.
1t makes broad highway of success
out of what appears TO others TO be
hopeless rut.
Hope transforms howell into a pal
ace and cheap car into an expensive
one. working this magic because the
owner of the howell sees a palace in the
distance, and the man at the wheel of
the little car ceaselessly paints himself
as the proud poSsessor of the big car.
All such transformations are based
solidly on the power Of uncertainty.
No matter how hopeless a situation
may seem to be, even the most pessi-
mistic cannot be sure that something
may not turn up.
X
This is the basic hope of humanity,
that something may turn up!
Let the ultra practical sheer, this
basic hope has done more to buoy up
struggling mankind than almost any
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15
SHOOTING STARS.
BY pH1LANpER JOHNSON.

Across the Cloud.
We know that over Wonder
Just across the cloud so gray
Lies the hope on which We ponder
OF a smiling April day.
Rainbows and poisoning
Which make the world so proud
Are waiting all their JOY to bring,
Just across the cloud.
Beyond the day of sorrow
Where we meet the misty tear
There will be glad tomorrow
Bringing tranquil skies 50 clear
Blue birds and butterflies
May song sweet and loud
Hold in store the things we prize,
Just across the cloud.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15

It has been stated that Col Lindbergh
does not like to be referred to as
Indy" He may as well be prepared
to submit to the requirements of the
headline writer who wants as short a
word as possible to assist In spacing
caption.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15
MICROT0RIAL

Keeping Up With the Joneses.
The name of Jones great fear has
brought
To numerous malefactors;
And many agents he has taught
To go as able actors,
Impersonating Jones. Each moves
'Mongst folk who sadly chatter
ITO keep UP with the Joneses' proves
Indeed serious matter!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15
Fish Aplenty.

Fish Aplenty.
Our President now looks about
For some cool stream where there are
trout.
And fishermen exclaim ALAS
What is the trouble with the bass?
Or when for other sport you search,
There's fascination In the perch.
Fishing's a joy-there Is no doubt
But why be limited tontrout?" :.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15

The U. S. A. will conserve oil fields.
Transportation Is quick and easy and
there is no danger that the filling sta
tons in American territory will find it
difficult to supply the demand, from
foreign sources.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15

Independence of thought and action
have asserted themselves in a manner
which leaves the impression that those
who used to write decorous "side talks
with girls" labored largely in vain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15

Tourists are returning from Florida
in spite of the fact that the month of
March here still holds blizzard posi-
bilities. No man is sufficiently infiuen-
tial to be sure of what climate may
hold in store.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15

Racing is an exhilarating sport where
man and animal make the contest.
When a man only tests out the strain
which insensate mechanism can under
go. as in motor tests of speed. racing
Is only the prelude of inevitable tragedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
to the use for republication Of all rews ais
patches credited 70 it or not otherwise cred
tied in this paper and also the local news
published herein. All rights Of publication Of
special dispatches herein are also reserved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15
A Real Contribution.

From the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat.
A German says monkeys adore their
benefactors. Another contribution to
the theory that man isn't related to the
monkey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15

Several able statesmen venture re-
marks indicating an impression that
the campaign of 1882 is already under
way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15

From the Butte Montana Standard.
The more vigorous and active OPP
timists continue to hope that New York
and Chicago will yet escape the fate Of
Sodom and GomQrrah.