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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
AERO LURES STUDENTS.
Baltimore City College Club Formed
for Flying Instruction.

AOK y 2I1S AlISI1 UCI1UIIs
Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, September 28.-Stu-
dents of Baltimore City College, spurred
on by the interest displayed in aviation,
recently formed society to be known
as the City College Aero Club.
A brief outline of the tentative pro-
gram includes: Instruction in model
plane building; lectures by representa-
tivcs OF the Curtiss Flying Service, Ber-
liner-Joyce Aircraft Co. and other air.
craft manufacturers; bus trips to neigh
boring cities airports; competitive model
airplane meets: essay contests among
the members, and possibly an air trip
to a neighboring CITY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29
Glass Blackboards Favored.

Educators of Europe ara taking much
interest in the proposal to substitute
blackboards of translucent ground glass
lighted from behind In place of the
usual black surface now found in school,
rooms. 1t is claimed that the new
boards allow everything chalked on
them to be seen by every pupil.
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day expenses, should be shown some
consideration"
The defense counsel objected, how
ever, and Judge T. Blake Kennedy of
Cheyenne, Wyo., who is sitting tenn
porarily in this district, set the date a
week from today, telling Waggoner's at
torneys that If they needed additional
time to prepare their case they may
apply for postponement at that time.
Waggoner, falling to raise the bail, was
returned to the Federal prison.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-08
Governors and Inauguration.

Participation Of governors Of the
States in the inaugural proceedings in
Washington on the 4th of March,
which was formerly q striking feature
of the ceremonial, will be resumed next
month when President Hoover takes
ONCE. This is the consequence of a re-
turn to the more elaborate program of
inauguration. According to latest re-
turns, twenty-five governors will be
present and will have places in the
parade to escort the new President to
the White House. This is a significant
showing Of State participation in the
affair. Others will join the line from
time to time until on Inauguration day,
It is now expected, nearly three-fourths
Of the States win be thus represented.
In earlier times, before the inaugural
proceedings were modified, the COVER
nors Of the States and their stats came
to Washington In. large numbers on
the 4th OF March. Their presence in
the parade gave additional color to the
ceremonial and greatly heightened the
interest in 1t on the part OF the attend
ing thousands of citizens. These repre-
sentations directly symbolic the States
OF the Union, by the votes of which the
President is elected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-08
Answers Defenders
Of Tennessee Girl

To the Editor of The Star:
You and many of your readers will
recall reports few days ago concern
Ing a girl who was arrested at the
Union Station and who stated that she
was from johnson City, Tenn, and had
left there to find work here and also to
find her brother here.
Her story was put into such form as
to arouse sympathy. One or two letters
to newspapers criticized the police for
being harsh with simple mountain
girl. My sympathies were aroused in
the same way.
I sent a newspaper clipping concern
Ing that case to an acquaintance In
johnson City. From him I have now
received letter containing the follow
ing:
IT took this case up with the Judge of
our Juvenile Court and am told that
the case has been very thoroughly in
vestigated. The girl In question is a
delinquent pure and simple. She Is 81
years OF age, and not IT, She has run
away from home on other occasions,
and the story which she gave to the
reporter IN washington Is almost wholly
bunk: Am very glad you sent me the
clipping"
Does not this give the case a different
color, and does not this indicate that
our police and the Police Court were
not far wrong? The newspaper reports
here mentioned that this girl had q re-
volver In a handbag and that was made
the basis for arrest. A few days later
woman In corridor at the Police
Court also had revolver in a handbag,
ana with that she fired three bullets
into her husband. CYRUS KEHR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-08
Proposed Location
OF Farm Market Hit

To the Editor OF The Star:
This letter is being sent to you to So
licit the aid of your newspaper to assist
in stopping the passage Of House bill
H. r. 1898, providing for wholesale
Farmers Market in the Southwest Sec
ton of this city.
This bill is probably the most fragrant
legislation against the wishes Of the
people Of Washington that has come up
before Congress. Yet. with the very
strong lobby at work on Capitol Hill the
bill has fair chance of passage.
Nearly every citizens association OF
the city has opposed the passage Of this
bill. The Chamber of Commerce, the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, the Federation of Women's
Clubs and the Bureau Of Efficiency have
gone on record In favor Of Farmers
Market north of Pennsylvania avenue,
and yet, with all this opposition to the
bill, represented by this great number Of
citizens, Congress Is about to pass this
legislation forcing these citizens, our
taxpayers, to pay approximately $780,
600 for something they obviously do not
want, and moreover will not use.
N. J. WARD.
President National League of Com
mission Merchants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-08
Lo. the Poor Rich Indian

Another chapter in the lengthy in
uuiry into the marital and financial
status of Jackson Barnett, wealthy
Creek Indian, was written recently
before a Senate committee when the
owner of an Oklahoma Oil well, already
judged incompetent, admitted his wife
had asked him to marry her. Further
investigation developed that she had
been married twice before.
Barnett. who has been the subject of
several Investigations by the Senate
and by the Commissioner of Indian AT
fairs, appears in the role of victimized
incompetent. whose money has been
the goal of INSCRIPTIONS individuals
The present inquiry is to establish
whether Barnett's wife literally "kid-
mapped" the wealthy Indian.
The native Americans Of Oklahoma
and other parts of the Southwest have
gone queer" on many occasions wher
they found themselves made wealthy
overnight by finds of oil on their tribal
lands. One hears little of the eccen.
tricities Of the Osages, who have 9
yearly income Of about $4,000 each
from their oil royalties. Rarnetts case
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-08

has been dragged through the courts
and before Congress so many times that
1t Is now a butt for humor, to which
the aged Indian himself contributes.
It Is no small matter, however, to
make an Indian or a tribe Of Indians
wealthy overnight. White men Of con-
siderable intelligence have been known
70 be victimized by swindlers on their
accession to sudden wealth. And what
of the untutored Indian of the older
generation. who knows little Of money
or its value, suddenly endowed with
unlimited money to spend? It Is almost
foregone conclusion that he and his
fellows will become the prey of self
seeking individuals, willing to go to any
length to secure a part of this golden
flood. The crux of the matter is not
so much the Indians themselves as 1t
is their guardians, for their affairs are
administered by Government agents,
who must approve any considerable ex-
penditure of their money. In the Bar
nett case a donation" of more than
half million dollars was approved by
the Bureau of Indian Affairs, along
with similar donation to his wife.
The first half of the million and more
was to be used at college In Okla
homa.
Records of the Indian Bureau are
crammed with queer instances of the
ways Indians have used their suddenly
begotten wealth. Much of the money
has gone into expensive motor cars,
and stories of Indians spending as much
as $4,000 for houses, leaving them I'M
occupied to live in the chicken house,
or in shack on the prairie, are in
the files of the bureau. The Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs has been asked
to approve the most bizarre purchases
by his Indian wards. ranging from
grand pianos: which were never used,
to expensive collins to be held against
the passing of the Indian. The
gullibility Of the wealthy Indians should
be more completely encompassed by
regulations which will protect their pat.
rimony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-08

near Folkestone and Calais" Review
ing the subsequent progress, the Ex-
press recalls that lin 1882 the British
mllltary authorities asserted that such
tunnel would expose England to an
ceSSful."
Giving similar attention to history.
the santa Barbara Daily News states,
The plan wac brought to the front
In 1913 and received serious considera-
Ton; Companies were formed in both
England and France to promote the
project and If possible win government
support for the plan. With
modern machinery and the knowledge
gained by the engineers in the con-
struction OF tunnels, the work on this
bore probably would not prove par
ticularly difiicult" AS to the danger
OF invasion, the News believes that the
tunnel could only be a death trap for
invaders" and 1t concludes, "A tunnel
under the Channel would pay for itself
In comparatively few years under a
system of tolls because of the enormous
trafhc that such double-track railroad
could carry under the Channel waters"
4
ut Is so common sense a thing Tn
do that sooner or later common sense
will prevail over prejudice" declares the
Terre Haute Star, while the Albany
Knickerbocker Press argues, EVERY
where the railroads are extending. i'm
proving, constructing. without counting
the cost. The great, new tunnel through
mountain near Seattle, recently
opened, brought this truth home to all
the Nation, yet that was only an in
stance Of what the railroads as a whole
are doing In the way of improved serv-
Ice. There may be important objections
TO the construction of a tunnel under
the English Channel, but the possibility
that 1t might not be used. If construct
ed. Is hardly one to be seriously con-
sidered"
1T would give Great Britain secure
communication with the Continent Of
Europe" in the opinion Of the Charles
ton Evening Post, mot only opening its
resources Of food In time Of war. but
making all Of its neutral or allied ports
entries for cargoes from other parts of
the world for supply of British needs. A
submarine Gordon drawn about the Brit
ish Isles would be of no serious eject
u tunnel beneath the Channel gave
access to the continent. It Is ar.
gued that It would give great opportun.
the markets Of France and Italv ana
Spain-perhaps of Russia much n,ors
accessible to British manufactures. And
there Is at this time the particular con-
sheraton OF labor. Unemployment il
problem Of deep concern to the Brit
ish, especially Of the coal miners. Con.
struction Of Channel tunnel would cali
for the employment Of at least 81. 000
men for q period Of years.
AS an engineering feat" saws tina
Hartford Courant, 1.-The project IL said
to present no difficulties, or at least no
difficulties greater than were encoun-
tered in the construction of the s,,es
and Panama Canals. Private CAPITAL e
understood to be available, In case Il
Is not made joint undertaking by tbs
British and French governments"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-08
Peace in Shantung.

China and Japan are composing their
differences. Tsinan, the capital of
Shantung, which has been occupied by
the Japanese for nearly year, is to be
evacuated in March, according to ar
rangemenss just effected. Japanese
troops took possession of Tsinan follow
ing its bombardment by Japanese ar
tillery in May, 1923. Undertaken in
alleged defense of imperiled japanese
lives, the Chinese branded the attack a
massacre and the gravest strain in
Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations has
prevailed ever since.
Upon the outside world an impression
hardly less unfortunate was caused. 1t
looked as If Nippon had seized upon a
pretext to re-occupy China's richest
province, from which she retired, largely
at American insistence, following the
Washington Conference in 1922. The
garrisoning Of Shantung with thousands
of Japanese troops seemed an unneces-
sarily exhaustive measure, and as their
sojourn was prolonged it developed into
potential bone of contention not only
with Nationalist China but with foreign
powers. The particular region of the
occupation lay athwart the path to
Manchuria. 1t cut China off from the
north, much as the Polish corridor di-
vides Western Germany from the east
ern section of the Reich.
Toxic and Marking have now reached
an accord over the Tsinan episode and
its aftermath. Details remain to be
completed, but all basic differences have
been ironed out. The Shantung railway
is to be handed back to the Chinese.
Anti-Japanese agitation, especially the
trade boycott, is to be abandoned. Mu-
tual expressions Of regret are to be ex-
changed over the loss of Chinese and
japanese lives during hectic twelve
month, which has often resembled a
state of war. A claims commission will
investigate and assess damages. Pres
entity normally will mark the relations
between the two great Asiatic states.
Japan has not yet brought herself to
recognize the new China, as the United
States, Great Britain and others have
done. The Tsinan affair blocked the
way. Now that it has become closed
incident there is every reason to hope
that Japan, facing stern realities, will
come to terms with China along gen.
eral lines. Their relations are peculiarly
interdependent. They are bound to be
closer than those which subsist between
China and any non-Asiatic power.
Toxic craftsmanship is fully conscious
of that obvious fact. The settlement Of
the Tsinan imbroglio is destined to be
the forerunner Of a Sino-Japanese rap
prochement Of far-reaching magnitude.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

husband. They hadn't been man and
wife but a year or two before they joint
ly produced translation in English of
the famous sixteenth century Latin
work of Georgius Agricola on the dig
ging and smelling of metals, entitled
de Re Metallica."
Col. Edwin p. Thayer of Indiana, the
secretary Of the Senate, has dug up an
interesting bit of history in connection
with the pending project to modetnize
the ventilating system of the chamber.
It Is contained in a work called "Docu-
nentary History Of the Capitol" On
March S, 1852, a certain Mr.. Hale wrote
When this Capitol was commenced a
decent Christian plan Of building a
house was devised. Then Mr.. Pierce
came in, with Mr.. Davis as Secretary of
War, and he thought the arrangement
of the Almighty for supplying light and
air was not quite as good as he could
devise and he moved it into the center
of the building, like mouse trap In a
pot, so that no air could come in it, and
went to work, at an immense cost
pumping air up from the cellar. That is
the way We get our air hereby, a
steam engine that Is constantly al
work." That's the system In vogue In
AID. 1929.
One of the great journalists of Can
ada and a real power in. Dominion
| affairs-John W. Dafoe, editor of the
Winnipeg Free Press-iS q visitor ia
| Washington. He dropped into town
| during the closing days of the cruiser
debate In the Senate and listened with
abiding interest to the frequent ref
erenceS to Britannia. Mr.. Dafoe saw
editorial service in Montreal and Ottawa
| before going West to grow up with the
country in Manitoba. There, amid the
great agrarian regions of Canada, he
has been molding public opinion for
the better part of 80 years. Dafoe was
| the official representative of the Cana
dian department of public information
at the Paris peace conference. He Is the
biographer of Sir Wilfred Laurier and
| has written a volume on Canadian
policies.
Washington diplomatic circles are
busily discussing the effect upon the
| United States of the creation Of the
new Vatican state" They're wonder
| ing whether Uncle Sam will give serious
consideration to the question of sending
a minister to the Holy See and receiv-
| ing an envoy of the Pope with diplo-
matte status. Before the Church OF
! Rome was Invested Of temporal power
| in 1871 such relations were maintained
between Washington and st. Peters.
(Copyright, 1922
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viii be much easier. From time to time
during the year washingtonians should
recall the fact that they have SUBJ
scribed to these funds, and should ap-
preciate the fact that they are not
being importuned and solicited In be-
half Of any of the fifty-seven organiza-
tons and agencies. This reflection
should cause them to be grateful for the
institution Of the Community Chest,
and this gratitude should be manifested
next season in a prompt and adequate
subscription to continue the good works.
In short, this years success should mean
an assurance of undated success here
after.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-08
The Cramton Bill.

The Cramton park bill has received
vide Endorsement from the citizens or
ranizations in Washington, the Com
rnissioners have added their approval
and the measure now goes to the Bud
get Bureau. While 1t Is not to be mis-
takenly regarded as legislative wind
fall for the taxpayers of the District.
nor even as blessing in disguise, the
Cramton bill does contain certain cor
receive and economic features which
undoubtedly are sound. Its chief fault
lies in the ineQuitable provision for re-
paving the Treasury advance from
District revenues without binding the
Federal Government to any fixed con-
tribution. The Federal Governments
proportionate share will depend upon
the relative amount of the lump sum
in the annual District appropriation
bill. The fault found here is not con-
fined, of course, to Mr.. Cramton's park
bill. Whatever remedy Congress applies
to the existing unsettled state of finan-
cial relations between the District and
Uncle Sam will also apply to the Cram
ton bill.
The advantages of the bill are found
IN the section which provides for ex-
penditure of District revenue within
the District only, thus preventing out
lays of District revenue for acquisition
OF land in Maryland and Virginia, now
permissible under existing legislation;
the fact that 1t makes available at one
time as much money for park acquisi-
ton in the District as can be used, thus
enabling the park commission to buy
land in advance of natural increases
In land value, and In the Treasury adj
vance, to be repaid without interest and
without an exorbitant annual increase
In the money already made available
each year to the Park and Planning
Commission.
AS a park measure, the Cramton bill
Is excellent, although its efficacy as a
means Of extending the Capitals park
system into Maryland and Virginia is
yet to be tested In the Legislatures of
those States. But no amount Of eulo-
CYSTIC praise can remove it from that
class Of obnoxious legislation which in
effect will foist upon the shoulders
Of the local community the lions share
Of the cost Of developing the Federal
City in accordance with Federal plans,
executed and supervised by Federal
officials.
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able to produce everything q man wrote,
his good with his medium good, and
his excellent along with his poor work.
Surely a great deal may be said for
getting crush" on an author. There
| is a time in every mans life, for In
stance, If he has cexsain temperament,
| when Edgar Alan Poe will make a great
/ appeal Most readers go through It,
just as this nation went through 1t, and
| iust as France went through 1t.
One will not know Poe, or get the
| gist of him, even, If he does not read the
lyrical poems, which, slight though they
may be, have never been excelled In
their manner. His literary criticism
which may be found in his collected
works, had certain frankness, an al
most French directness, which every
| To be content with 1.-THE Raven" among
the poems, and a dozen or so selected
| tales Is unthinkable to the enthusiast
One of the supreme heights of book
enjoyment Is enthusiasm for certain au-
thors. This Is reading peak which
those will never know who are content
to remain on the lowlands of another's
selection.
When one becomes enamored Of q
certain author, whether at the age OF
10 years, or 20 years. or 80 years, OF
60 years, he wants 1.-The whole hog OF
none," If one may apply such a homely
expression in this connection.
Thus the boy who reads with Give
in India" wants all Of Henty. Small
girls want more of Elsie Dinsmore. AT
enthusiasm to the so-called standard
English authors. Later in life they may
work up enthusiasms for the French
authors.
These literary enthusiasts are NO
whit less entertaining to the booklover
than the fever which the golfer works
up for trying all the types OF clubs on
the market.
The automotive "bug" would like to
make a collection of all the better cars
if he could, and the radio fan" al
ways has a secret hankering to own at
least a dozen of the latest sets.
In a similar way the booklover longs
for the legacy Of great minds left in
sets of great books. Who that comes
under the spell of Emile lola, who has
read about him In Matthew Joseph
sons mastery biography would be con-
tent with reading only "LAssommoir, u
"Germinal" and Mana? These may
be high spots" as they are, but the
rest must be good too!
To wake up, as it were, to the merits
of any author, as one travels through
the years, is to come under a living
spell. We defy any lover Of books to
read Guy de Maupassant's Nine. Tel
lier's Establishment and not wish to
read more Maupassant This master
piece, with "Tallow-Ball," Fiji" and
'The Olive Orchard" are his best
among the short stories-but the rest
of them are entertainingl
The true booklover is an omniverous
creature. His appetite is gigantic. Re-
call how Theodore Roosevelt read hum
dreds and hundreds of books year.
That many-sided man was a Booklover
| with capital "B." The ideal of dis
elimination is fine, but our personal
belief is that the ideal of reading every
thing a favorite author wrote Is better.
It Is not wasting ones time. 1t Is the
only way to understand your author, 1t
IS the only way to do him justice. One
who likes sets of good books works with
Time in doing justice to great intel
| lectual creations,