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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-16
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

was likewise Flooding fellow, without
| a trace of interest in ancient things.
He neither had the mind nor the
disposition to find anything worth pre-
serving. And above all, he saw him
self as the guardians of the ever-dear
"peepul."
The people were such fools-in his
opinion-that If they were allowed TO
read Numas sacred books they would
get only harm from their reading.
The people we're not TO be trusted.
They had such unusual ways of seeing
the wrong things in what they read,
at least wrong according to the IDEAS
of Petilius and his friends.
The people, in plain words, were fools,
and the best thing to do was to take
the books away and destroy them so
that they would never be tempted by
| them. -,
"Whereupon the volumes were all
carried to the Con1itium and there
burnt"
The Joke of the matter was, as is
the Joke of all similar cases, that there
wasn't a word in the II volumes or re-
lieious books and the IL volumes Of
Greek philosophy which would nave
harmed any one.
Unburnt, those books would nave
been consulted by perhaps as many as
two or three persons year, after their
novelty had worn off. OF the three
genuine readers, two would have read
them merely out of real interest In
ancient things.
The other would have found solace
in them, inspiration. If he had dis
covered any wisdom which would have
beer, ini.nical to the Roman state, he
s1ta& Nffle
but in all probability he would but have
added strength to the government.
The trouble with most book censor
ships, as seen by average readers, is
that they are done without grain
of humor.
Mankind always has revered the re-
suit Of placing little black marks on
white paper. Even the least discrin1i-
mating of men realize that something
has been added to life by books.
Even the most vulgar men shrink
from polluting paper with a perverted
arrangement of these little black
marks. There are, of course, vulgar
books, but when their number is con-
trasted with the number of good books
the former fall away to nothing.
Book censorship today is sporadic.
some Government ofhcial. only to be
released for general circulation again
shortly thereafter.
1t always is a noteworthy fact that
such books are no worse, in any way,
than scores of others which are per-
mitted general circulation at the same
time.
The happy thing is that decent
minded people maintain their own CEN
Sorship. and that what they read may
be accepted as a more reliable judg-
ment than the rulings of any number
of individual "cenSorS."
If there is to be Government CEN
sorship of books. it should be placed
on a scientific basis, with the control
lodged in committee of intellectual
men and women who are in a position
to have real ideas about the worth of
books. and to make judgments which
will compel the intellectual regard of
the great body of intelligent readers.
ANY censorship Of less quality is mere
ly playing at hide and seek. The CEN
sorS hide, and the readers seek, and
there is great deal more finding than
hiding.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-16
One Nurse for Quake
And Tidal Wave Stricken

From the Portland Oregon Daily Journal.
Again nurse has lived up to the fine
traditions of her calling. She is iden-
titled in a special dispatch to the New
York Times as Nurse D. Cherry of the
Nina Center at Lamaline, Newfound-
land, Outport Nursing Industrial As
ISOLATION.
The report said that Nurse Cherry,
the only nurse in the entire area devaS-
tated by the recent earthquake and
tidal wave on the BURN Peninsula,
newfoundland, had known no rest day
or night, nor assistance of any kind,
from the day the tidal wave struck until
she was taken aboard relief steamer
a week later.
Nurse Cherry made her way on foot
all through the stricken area, distance
OF 20 miles. Roads and bridges were
swept away. She had to wade many
streams en- route. The weather was
intensely cold, with snow falling most
OF the time. Relief workers who ar
rived later said her miniStrations proved
nothing less than providential to the
terror-stricken women and children.
They call Nurse Cherry "the Flor
ence Nightingale of the fishermen"
The story of her heroism, love and de-
Votion to duty is heartening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-16
More Technicalities,

George Wharton Pepper, former Sena-
tor from Pennsylvania, is one of those
who do not believe that the so-called
Root formula, written into the revised
statutes of the World Court, is an ade-
quate substitute for the fifth reserva-
ton adopted by the Senate when it
agreed three years ago to American ad-
herence to the court, with reservations.
Mr.. Pepper has written his opinions to
Chairman Borah of the Senate foreign
relations committee, who has been an
"rTeconcilable" in his opposition in the
past to the entry of the United States
into the World Court.
Senator Peppers opinion is of inter
est because it is one OF the early evil
denceS of the fight which seems sure to
be made against the ratification of the
protocol, which President Hoover will
End 10 the Senate, at an opportune
time, providing for adherence to the
court without the Senate reservations,
Guided in the statutes of the court
When, during the administration OF
President Coolidge, the Senate was call.
ed upon to ratify protocol bringing this
country into adherence with the World
Court. the majority of the Senate and
the sentiment of the country were over
whelmingly in favor of American adj
herence.
The group Of irreconcilables in the
Senate which had effectually prevented
the ratification of the treaty Of Versail-
les and the League Covenant. somewhat
reduced in number, Immediately organ
lied an attack on American entry into
the World Court, charging that it was
1.-The League Court" and adherence by
this country constituted backdoor en-
try into the League itself. Reservations
were offered and commanded the support
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-16
The Christmas Greeting to Byrd.

Saturday night The Star sent a
Christmas greeting to Comdr. Byrd and
his associates at Camp Little America,
in the South Polar region. There were
messages from Secretary Adams and
Rear Admiral Willard and representa-
tives of The Star. There was then a
program of entertainment of exceptional
quality. The words and the music
flowed through the ether over distance
of more than nine thousand miles.
This morning came a message from
Comdr. Byrd expressing his thanks for
himself and the members of the expedi-
ton for the Christmas greetings and
entertainment. Every word, he said,
had come through clearly and distinctly.
The SHOW" was a perfect success.
Here Is one Of the real marvels of
modern science. The little colony of
American explorers and scientific advcn-
turers, separated from home by an
immense distance, are linked up with
their friends and relatives by definite
tie. Conversation, in effect, is carried
on between them and washington.
Music flows down to them in their
Antarctic headquarters in stream Of
sound undimmed by the distance.
The Star rs proud tn be associated
with such an enterprise as that which,
under the leadership of Comdr. Byrd,
is engaged in a work Of supreme i'm
portance. The men composing the
expedition have I'll proved themselves
to be of the quality and character re-
quired for heroic endeavor. Their leader,
who has in his previous enterprises won
the affection and the confidence of
not only his fellow Americans but all
other people, meets modestly the acclaim
of his friends and admirers.
Before another Yuletide comes,
Comdr. Byrd and his men will have
returned home and received their. re-
wards for the great achievement which
they are now concluding. But it Is
safe to say that no message or greeting
they may receive will have quite the
heart warming quality of the Christmas
message sent them Saturday night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-16
Sirens.

Just why the Emergency Hospital
finds 1t necessary to mute its ambu-
lance sirens is still a mystery to those
who believe that both ambulances and
fire apparatus should not only have I'M
disputed right-of-way, but the means
of obtaining it over the din Of city
traffic. 1t has been forcibly demon
strated time and again that the prompt
arrival of ambulances on emergency
runs has been the means of saving
human lives, and it would appear that
any action calculated to retard the al
ready slow progress of these vehicles,
due TO congested condition of traffic,
would, in many cases, defeat the pur-
pose of mobile hospital attendance.
This is especially true in Washington,
where motor-car drivers have cultivated
a singular deafness at the sound of
siren. Observation of fire run or a
trip of an ambulance will readily con-
firm this fact. Little, If any, heed is
paid to the emergency vehicles, and local
motorists have much to answer for in
their persistent and fragrant violation
of the regulation which provides that
upon the sound of the siren all motor
lists must pull up to the right-hand
curb and STOP"
AS for ordinary horns, which, of
course. do not mean anything, it is the
rare driver, indeed, who will abandon his
leisurely pace in the middle Of the street
to give way for an overtaking vehicle.
In fact, motor cycle policemen, who
have to make emergency runs in a des-
perate attempt to apprehend criminals
before they make getaway, have been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-16
Ex-President for Senator
Stirs Nations Imagination

sea might crystalline" The Beloit Daily
News Republican, is convinced that
'the rich fruits of long experience in
legislative, administrative and executive
office that President Coolidge has
gained should stand Massachusetts, in
good stead, if he would consent to let
MS friends boom him for the Senate
vacancy"
zone can note" records the Man
chester Union Independent Republi-
CAM, that large element of the pub
lie would be glad to see Mr.. Coolidge
IN the Senate. His services there would
class as a national asset. But that is
by no means to say that the former
President would care to become a
Senator. Certainly he has given no
nlnG OF wish to succeed Mr.. Gillett.
And, until he betrays such an inclina-
ton, 1T will be just as well not to rec
kon him among the candidates. The
judgment of the Fargo Forum (Repub-
lican) is that eff Mr.. Coolidge con-
suited his own wishes alone, there is
doubt that he would even think of en-
terlng the primaries" but that "if he
is impressed with the thought that, by
so doing, he can unite the party, he
might be induced"
Mr.. Coolidge would give stanch sup
port to President Hoover" argues the
Flint Daily Journal independently "and
would provide a strong leadership in the
upper House of Congress, which is drift
ing wide of its duty for lack of proper
leadership. If for no other reason than
Tor Mr.. Coolidge's admirable capacity
for silence, the country would appre-
ciate him in the Senate"
Doubt that he will be willing to be-
come a candidate is expressed by the
scranton Times tDemocratic), the Hart
ford Times independent Democratic)
ana the Kansas City Journal-Post (in-
dependent Republican,. The New York
sun independently and New Bedford
standard Republican) are confident
that his election would be assured if he
were nominated. The Utica Observer
Dispatch independently understands
tnat ne rs quite well pleased as to his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-16
forced to install SIRENS On their ma.

forced to install sirens on their ma
chimes in the hope that some progress
can be made through the ranks of In
different motorists.
Obviously, there Is no excuse for the
unnecessary use of siren, whether it is
on a police motor cycle, fire apparatus
or an ambulance, but observations of
abuse have been few and far between.
The remedy for this unnecessary noise
would seem to lie in rigid discipline Of
personnel. The smart aleck" operator
of emergency vehicles should immedi-
ately be forced to look for another job.
So, in view of the simple corrective
measures necessary to prevent abuse and
the Importance of obtaining right of
way for vehicles of this type, 1t would
seem that the call should be for bigger
and better sirens rather than smaller
and more feeble ones. The authorities
of Emergency Hospital might well re-
consider their decision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-16
Ware Rejection Held
AS Wholly Deserved

From the Atlanta Journal.
The Senate's vote of So to %, DENYING
William S. Ware of Pennsylvania a seat
in that body, is a severe and wholly
deserved condemnation of the tactics
employed for his election. For three
years his case has been searched and
Slfted, with the result that the Repub-
lican machine conferred In Philadelphia
stands exposed as probably the most
corrupt and the most arrogant known
to American politics within the last so
years.
In May, 1926, Ware won his partv,s
nomination in the Pennsylvania sena-
torial primary over Clifford Pinchot and
George Wharton Pepper. The funds
spent for him in that contest were so
extraordinary as not only to arouse
public suspicion, but also to start an
investigation by the Senate itself
Nevertheless, he went forward with the
campaign, his Democratic opponent be-
ing William B. Wilson, formerly Secre-
tary of Labor, and in the ensuing No
vemoer election Ware was declared the
winner, So narrow, however, was the
margin of victory claimed for him and
SO pronounced was his defeat outside
OF Philadelphia that the Senate refused
to accept the credentials issued to him
by the Governor Of Pennsylvania, and,
instead, ordered another investigation.
The disclosures which followed would
make profitable reading for those who,
when casting about for convenient eX-
ample OF political crimes, conjure up
the ghost of an old Tammany from an
era long dead. That some So
100000 were expended in Wares behalf
that there were widespread frauds in
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh" that in
the former city 22,572 votes were oil
legally cast on the basis of tax receipts
not paid for by the voters to whom they
were issued; that in ISL divisions were
found as many as 1,547 fraudulent reg
istrations," and in 116 divisions as MANY
as All signatures illegally inserted"
and that in thousand other divisions
there were upward of $500 "registra-
lions of alleged illiterates, which lacked
the support of affidavits and which
therefore were illegal and possibly
raudulent"-these are random SAM
pies OF what the investigating commit
tee found. 1.-THE recount showed" saws
a summary by the Washington CORE
Spondent of the Boston Transcript. "that
more than 1000 persons distributed over
more than half the city (of Philadel-
phia) voted without having registered:
that 635 names were repeated two or
more times in the lists of the voters:
that 1884 ballots were found on which
there were fraudulent erasures and al
teratlons, and that 1921 ballots which
had never been touched by a bona-fide
voter had been marked by small groups
OF handy men, Of interest, too, the
committee ascertained that 1884 bal
lots had been distributed over IA divi-
slons which could not be accounted for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-16

George Washington of the United States
Lines having been selected for the pur-
pose. There was merry mess behind
the scenes at Washington before it was
decided to book Secretary Stimson and
ms colleagues aboard the fine former
German liner which carried President
WnSon to the peace conference. At
IlISC tne White Star liner Olympic was
CONSIDERED. Then from Superpatriotic
land ultra-dry) quarters a howl went
up ABOUT the iniquity of an official
american mission using a non-Ameri-
can snip. Then S. S. Leviathan was
discussed, but 1t proved impossible for
her owners to alter her mid-Januarv
sailing date to suit the convenience of
the naval conference delegation. There
upon there was some thought of using
3. s. Bremen, the new queen of the
seas. But that project, somewhat to
Slle ulSmay OF all concerned, also had to
De dropped. Finally the George WASH
Ihgton was chosen. Practically ali of
her choice accommodations have been
put at the disposal of the State Depart
ment. 0p''1 y
Patrick J. Hurley, Secretary of War
was invited to be a guest of honor at
toLLlorroW nights foot ball victory din
ner which the Notre Dame Club of
washington is holding. The new chief
OF the Republics military department
OF peace had to decline, because the
PERIOD OF mourning for his predecessor.
James w. Good, would not be entirely
over. am Tor the Irish" Col. Hurlev
EToGe, IRON the first jump to the end
U o.. tne trali' except when they are play
Ing against the Army"
X y X X
George p. La Vatta, an Idaho Indian
Doy, VINO has become an official of the
tOnlted States Government, with the
tICie OF overSeer Of Indian employment,
Is IN Washington in consultation on the
problem of finding suitable places in
INDUSTRY Tor the Indian wards of the
MaIion: La Vatta grew up on the Fort
nan reservation in Idaho. He went
away to the Indian boarding schools,
put returned to the reservation. where
ne ne nved in idleness for several years,
tn,nlng or this, he applied for work at
t Inc Union Pacific shops in Pocatello.
Inc foreman refused to give him a
cnance, saying that Indians are law
ana VIII not work. La Vatta came back
every morning to ask for a Job. FINALLY
me tne foreman handed him a mop and
IoIu MN to prove he wasn't afraid of
y woIK. IL wasn't long before the Young
m11Lluldn became helper on a machine,
1nree years later he was operating ii.
roT ~ years he drew the pay of a
SAi!!eo machiniSt. Then he began
framing other Indian boys for the
same work and today there are about 30
OF tnem doing 1t, not one of whom has
1aned to make good.
Copyright, 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-16
of a majority Of the Senate. Wit

Of . majority OF the Senate. With
the reservations, the protocol was finally
agreed to by large vote of the Senate.
But the irreconcilables had included one
reservation which provided that the
court should hand down no advisory
opinions in any case In which the
United States had or claimed to have
an interest, without the consent of the
United States. This reservation many
of the member nations of the court
were unwilling to accept, and so entry
of this country into the court has been
delayed. The Root formula was de-
signed to make possible entry into the
court without giving up the measure of
protection to the United States provided
In reservation five of the Senate. Elihu
Root, former Secretary of State, believes
that the formula accomplishes that end.
President Hoover also believes that to
be the case. Senator Swanson of Vir-
GINA, the author of reservation five, has
accepted the Root formula.
The Root formula in effect provides
AOA SSIISS VI uItENlINCo dLlO ACSOhlAiACAA-
dations from this country before the
court shall hand down an advisory
opinion in any case in which the
United States has or claims to have an
interest, and finally, for the withdrawal
of the United States from membership
in the court If it is not satisfied with
a decision of the court to go ahead with
an advisory opinion.
Mr.. Pepper has legalistic mind, and
his reasons for opposing the Root for
mula are technical. He is at loss, he
says, for any good reason why the
United States should give up reserva-
ton five. The reason seems clear
enough. The United States, in the in
terests of peace, to which this country
has frequently dedicated itself, should
become a member of the Permanent
Court of International Justice, the
World Court. Now that the nations of
the world, under the leadership of this
country, have ratified the Kellogg treaty
war as an instrument Of
settling international disputes, the need
of such a tribunal is all the more re-
quired, if the kellogg treaty is to be
observed. The Root formula amply
tire interests If the country.
1t Is always possible, however, to find
lawyers to argue on any side of ques-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-16
Tea. Taxes and Tyranny.

One hundred and fifty-six years ago
today the most historic tea party of
all time was given. Its cups, like the
shot fired at Lexington, ratified round
the world. The Indians" who mas
sacred" the cargoes of the ships III
Boston Harbor and dumped their fra
grant remains in its murky waters till,
AS one chronicler put it, "the tea lay
like Seaweed on the beach," struck
picturesquely the first blow for Ameri-
can freedom.
Three years later came the Dec
1aration of independence. The Boston
Tea Party was its forerunner. 1t DEM
Onstrated to the British crown that the
Colonists held taxation without rep
resentation to be tyranny. and that they
were ready to say it, so to speak, noe
with flowers. but with tea leaves.
The "Mohawks" who made a tea
pot out of Boston Harbor did more
than scuttle cargo. They sank an
anachronism. A happy and prosperous
United States, lulled into complacency
in so many respects, is today content
with nothing so incongruous with the
principles of American liberty as the
liberation of political discrimination at
the seat of Federal Government.
The continued denial of national
representation to the citizens of the
District of Columbia is a downright
negation of everything for which the
Boston Tea Party is famed in song and
story. 1t mocks that bold defiance of
eighteenth century autocracy. It is an
indictment of American consistency. It
entities WaShingtonianS to ask this day,
and ask with a vehement inSiStence,
why if taxation without representation
was tyranny in 1773 it Is not equally
tyrannous in 1929.
In these times, century and half
after, Boston Tea Party methods are es-
chewed, though ever and anon the
American people writhe under condi-
tons which cause them to yearn for a
Renaissance Of the spirit which in
spired Joseph Warren, John Hancock
and Paul Revere to indulge in Spectac-
ular demands Of their rights. The dis
reimbursement of the District of Co
lumbia is as foul blot on the Ameri-
can body polite as King George HIS
impious imposts on the American Colon
lists of 1878.
1t is unjust and unjustified. 1t is in
defensible. It is senseless. 1t is I'M
necessary. 1t is wrong, the righting Of
which can injure none. On the con-
trary, it is a grievance to remedy which
will not only do justice to the aggrieved,
but honor the Nation which sees jus
tice done.
Before the Congress of the United
States there now lies the resolution
sponsored by Senator Wesley L. Jones
OF Washington providing national rep
resentation for the District Of Column
bia. The present session of Congress
has it in its power to speed it on the
way to its required goal-submiSSion Of
the appropriate constitutional amend
ment to the sovereign States for ratifl-
cation.
With the people of the enfranchised
Union Washingtonians are more than
content to rest their case. 1t is an I'M
answerably legitimate case. Whenever
it is presented to them, in unofficial
form, it unfailingly evokes approval.
tinctured with ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
that so elementary, SO fundamental, so
wholly American a proposal Is not writ
ten promptly and unquestionably into
The laur of the land