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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-03
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C0L0RED VOTE RULING
DISCUSSED IN VIRGINIA
Question Referred to Democratic
Executive Group for Further
Recommendations.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, october 3.-Virginia's
two ruling Democratic bodies, the State
central committee and the State execu-
tive committee, Wednesday pondered
how to meet q recent Federal court de-
cision that colored persons can vote in
Democratic primaries, decided the
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BIRTH OF TEET0TALlSM
WILL BE CELEBRATED
Temperance Organizations to OBJ
serve Centenary of Origin of
Worldwide Abstinence Pledge.
~ Cable TO The star.

BY Cable TO The star.
LONDON, September 15.-After two
years of discussion, the committee
representing various English temperance
organizations will meet in London on
Friday to draw up a definite plan Of
celebration of the teetotalism centenary.
Various suggestions have been adj
vanced as to what form of observance
the one-hundredth birthday of the total
abstinence pledge should take, including
one calling for 12-months' platform
campaign for pledge signers. a pageant,
and an enormous poster display.
Thefe has been some shrinking, how
ever, from celebrations on such a big
scale. and the leaders are now said TO
favor plan of more dignified and a
more modest nature.
Preston, a small city near Man
chester, probably will be the center Of
the national celebration because it was
there that Joseph Livesey and six other
temperance enthusiasts originated the
pledge in modern form. The word
'teetotalism" is said to have arisen
through the expression of a working
man, named Dicky Turner. who was a
popular and humorous speaker at the
Preston meetings when the pledge was
being considered. In a speech on the
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superiority of total abstinence over mere
moderate drinking, Turner, wishing to
express himself forcibly, shouted, I'm
be right down, out-and-out teetotaler
for ever and ever" The audience
cheered and Livesey said, This shall be
the name of our new pledge"
(Copyright, l930)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-15

For killing with a golf club dog
which bothered his game on the links
at Worcester, England, r. D. G. Brewer
was compelled by the court recently
to pay Mrs. M. Richardson. owner of
the canine, SIS for the loss of her pet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-15
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiatt Entertain
For Their Son and Bride.

Mr.. and Mrs j. Edgar Hiatt gave a
reception Friday night at their home
3l16 Thirteenth street northwest, in
honor Of their son and daughter in
law Mi and Mrs. Merrill l.. Hiatt, who
were married August Ia, in Richmond.
Ind. the brides former home. About
go persons we're present TO greet the
young couple with their good wishes
and congratula The bride is the
daughter of former Mayor Lawrence
A. and Mrs. Handley of Richmond.
They met while students at Earlham
College, that city. of which they are
both graduates. Since graduation, she
has taught French and mathematics in
the Richmond high schools. He spent
a year in Friends Mission School,
Ram Allah. near Jerusalem, Palestine,
and received his masters degree at
Columbia University last June. They
will make their home in Baltimore,
where Mr.. Hiatt has a position as
teacher of mathematics in the Friends
School He is member of the Friends
Church, Thirteenth and Irving streets,
this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. w c. johnson, jr, of
Palo Alto, Calf, were week end guests
ct the Dodge Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram K Green of
FouEty-fourth place are leaving Wash
ington today on a motor trip during
which they will visit in North Carolina,
Tennessee and Ohio Mr.. Frederick
H. Green, their son, sailed on the
Ieviathan for home Saturday. He has
been in Paris, Cologne, London and
the Rhine Valley. He also made fly
ing trip through the Shakespearean
country in England,
Mrs. Otto Torney Simon has returned
to her apartment at Stoneleigh Court,
after a Summer spent at Rehoboth
Beach and Atlantic City.
DR.. and Mrs. Arthur M Zinkhan of
Hawthorne street returned to the
United States on the George Washing
ton. reaching Washington Wednesday.
They spent a month in Vienna, where
DR.. Zinkhan studied the continental
methods of medical practice They
also had a trip through the Austrian
Tyrol and spent some time in Paris,
Berlin and Hamburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph B. Kalbfus left
Washington yesterday to motor to
Denver. Colo, where they will make
their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Howell Of
Forty fifth street returned to Washing
ton Friday from a motor trip through
the New England States. With them
we're their two children, Ann and Max
well They spent some time at Bantam
Lake in Connecticut.
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AUTO RACE FATAL
Three Argentinians Killed When
Speeding Car Jumps Track.

RAFAELA, Argentina, September Is
(Pl.-Two men and woman were
killed while watching the 500-mile ma
tional automobile race here yesterday.
Driver Alberto Fontana in making q
curve lost control of his car and ran off
the track into crowd of spectators.
Driver Gayetano Damico won the ma
tional race He completed the grind in
hours a. minutes AZ AS seconds.
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SOCIETY
tcontlnued FROM Second page. )

abe is invited to visit in several castles
for the Autumn season. Mrs. Hope
has been abroad for the past three
years, and the races at Newport re-
mind us Of year ago, when Mrs Hope
chartered Sir John Esplin's yacht Allah
Karin and entertained a party of
friends, including Sir Thomas Upton.
At that time she was also entertained
on Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock w
and was later invited to sail on Sham
rock V when completed.
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The Ne1U Coats!

Beautiful brOadcIOthS, trimmed with su
South american Kit FO1, Russian Fitc
Bearer and FOx, are here for you at pr
$98.5O.
Equally fashionable cOdtS-m splendid ,
are here at the surprisingly IorU prices
$3.50 and $60.5O.
Advertisements can ShO,U but one or tuUC
the store and look ouer the dozens ascend
ton. You ,oiH be delightfully."- surprised
and the prices.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
A Great-Great- Grandfather.

child was born at Spark Hill, Rock
land County, N. Y, the other day who
has the unusual distinction of having
a paternal at-great-grandfather who
is still in active service as a member
of the municipal organization of the
city of Greater New York John r.
Voorhis, president of the New York
board of elections, will on the 27th of
July be one hundred and one years of
age. Despite his years he is still at
work. This child who was born the
other day is the grandson of his son.
Unfortunately for the continuity of this
little ones ancestry, Mr.. Voorhis' son,
who would have been the youngsters
great-grandfather, died a few years ago.
Should the patriarch of the New York
municipal building survive for, say,
twenty-five years he has a good chance
of being a great-great-great-grand-
father, and those who know him feel
that there is good chance that he
may remain for another quarter of a
century.
The other day 1t was announced that
veteran of the Far East, whose age
was stated as something around one
hundred and fifty years, is soon to visit
! the United States. If the East car
produce a modern Methuselah surely
the United States should. There have
been many cases of centenarians in thi'
country hit not so MANY as in tht
regions where age records are not a.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
Japan's Policy of Peace.

Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, president
of the House of Peers of Japan, has just
addressed the Rotary International Con-
vention at Chicago in terms that should
give reinsurance to any who may yet
feel that the island empire is menace
to international peace. Japan, he said
has now but one absorbing thought. to
put her financial and economic struc-
ture upon firmer foundations, and her
foremost aspiration is to cultivate the
arts of peace. 1t is evident, said Prince
Tokugawa, that this end can be obtained
only by policy of peace, good will and
friendliness.
Japan is, as Prince Tokugawa re-
minded his hearers at Chicago, only a
cluster of small islands, in great degree
devoid of raw materials essential to
human existence and to industry. The
Japanese look to the sea for food and
other essential supplies. Upon the sea
depends Japans national existence. A
few weeks of blockade would starve the
people and would bring all factories and
shops to standstill.
In these conditions Japan's naval
need is solely for defense. 1t Is enough
for Japan to develop and maintain a
navy adequate for this purpose. There
can be no menace to international peace
in any japanese navy that merely meets
this requirement. And in Japans eco
nomic situation at present, proportionate
naval reduction such as that effected
by the London treaty is blessing.
In two sentences Prince Tokugawa
expressed what may be regarded as the
changed spirit of Japan toward the
Asiatic mainland. He said I'VE
cherish no territorial ambitions. We
have no intention to impose any ma
tional policy upon any of our neigh
bors.'' This obviously refers to China.
Here is change indeed from the for
ner policy which was expressed in the
"twenty-one demands" imposed upon
China by Japan.
Out of the complex of the Chinese
situation there comes one clearly de-
fined fact, that Japan is now favoring
the establishment of sound, stable
central government on the mainland.
Japans economic interests require a
pacified China. That land is a rich
market for Japanese manufactures, no.
tably cotton goods. The turmoil in
China, which seems to have no end,
has greatly diminished Japan's market
there.
Japan has huge task in the stabi-
lizing of economic conditions at home, a
task in which it has the hearty good
will of this country for success. For
japan is good customer of the United
States, even as this country is one of
Japan's best customers in what is al
most reciprocal trade in raw silk
and raw cotton. There is every reason
on both sides to keep at peace and
especially on the side of Japan.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
Higghlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands
Hawaii Successful
In Curbing LeprOsy.

Hawaii Successful
In Curbing LeprOsy.
Star-Bulletin, Honolulu a pe-
riod of so years the effectiveness of
mandatory segregation in reducing the
number of leproSy cases in Hawaii is
still doubtful, nor has the value of
chaulmoogra oil and derivatives in the
treatment of the disease as yet been es-
tablished. However, cases of leprosy
are annually becoming fewer in num-
Der, but this decline appears to be due
than to mandatory segregation or any
therapeutic measures. Symptomatic and
hygienic treatments under hospital or
sanitarium regime probably aid in the
recovery of some patients, but studies
OF pathogenesiS, early diagnosis and
preventive treatment are required for
the promotion of more effective results
than are being obtained.
Hawaii has practiced mandatory seq
regation of leperS for more than half a
century, in a manner and with an eff
cheney commensurate with the practices
IN any country in which the problem
is comparable. The incidence among
the Hawaiian people was of a very Sc
we're degree even as late as 1890, when
there were over 1000 in segregation, and
from a population of 10000. Inter-
marriage with Caucasian and other
foreign strains improvements in houS-
ing conditions over the old straw mat
in the straw hut, replacement of the
family poi bowl with individual dishes
and an improvement in diet are among
the factors which have undoubtedly
contributed to at least a noticeable dim
mutton of the ancient malady.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
The Crime Commission.

Under the leadership of President
Hoover commission on law observance
and law enforcement, composed of men
highly qualified for the work, is investi-
eating the whole question of law viola
ton in the United States. Any Ameri-
can who looks the situation in the face
will agree that something should be
done to bring about a lessening of law
violation in this country. The crime
statistics show an enormous and ever
increasing list of law violations. The
Presidents so-called Crime Commission
is engaged in an important work, seek
ing the causes for these great increases
in crime and preparing to make rec
concentrations which should aid in re-
ducing crime. Yet the Senate of the
United States is not content that this
work should continue. BY its vote yes
terday on an amendment to the def
cheney appropriation bill it reduced the
sum to be used by the Crime Com
mission to $4,000, instead of $250000
recommended by the President, and
provided that the commission should
conf1ne itself entirely to the subject of
prohibition.
The Presidents Law Enforcement
Commission already has done a great
deal of work. It should be allowed
to complete this work and submit its
recommendations to the President and
to Congress for their guidance in ad-
mlnistrative and legislative work The
effort of the Senate to confine the
scope of the commissions inquiry to
prohibition and its enforcement is
picayunish. 1t is a pennywise, pound
foolish policy. Long before prohibition
became the law the crime statistics
such as they were, showed an alarming
situation in this country. Criminals
Haunted the law repeatedly with far
greater immunity than punishment
than in foreign countries. To be a
murderer apparently was less hazard
Gus occupation than several other risky
occupations which come entirely within
the law. The great delays in bringing
criminals to trial, all kinds of techni-
calities which have enabled shrewd
lawyers to get guilty men of scot-free,
the failure of the law to apprehend
criminals, all contributed to the unfor-
tunate and dangerous situation.
Undeniably. the prohibition law has
added new and large group of law
violatorS in this country. But, as
President Hoover has pointed out, the
increase in law violations and the large
number of such violations cannot be
attributed alone to prohibition. The
list of murders and other crimes has
been on the increase in this country for
years. If there were no prohibitory law,
crime would still be rampant in Amer
lea. Unless the crime wave is to
be permanent, something must be done
1t is for that purpose that the Presi-
dents commission is making an ex-
haustive inquiry. And that inquiry
should be completed.
President Hoover has announced that
if the Congress will not agree to pro-
vide the funds necessary for the COM
pletion of the work of the crime COM
mission, he will undertake to get the
funds from patriotic private Americans
willing to contribute to such cause
That the funds should be denied by the
National Legislature is a sad COM
mentary.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. H4SkIN.

Stop a minute and think about this
fact: You can ask our information
bureau any question of fact and get the
answer back in personal letter. 1t Is
great educational idea, introduced
into the lives of the most intelligent
people in the world-American newspa-
per readers. It is part of that best
purpose of a newspaper-service. There
is no charge except 2 cents in coin or
stamps for return postage. Get the
habit of asking questions. Address your
letter to The Evening Star Information
Bureau, Frederic j. Haskin, director,
Washington, D. c.
@. How much money do people spend
going to fortune tellers?-S. L.
A. AS far as we know there is no
estimate for the United States. 1t is
said that New York people pay approx
mately s5,oo0,0Oo a year to fortune
tellers.
@. Do many girls work their way
through college?-C. A.
A. In 1929 there were 1000
women working their way, either en-
tirely or partially through college. This
was % per cent of the enrolment.
@. Does Ivy poisoning ever leave
ScarS?-G. p.
n. SEVERE cases VI Ivy pOlhOlllIle nave
been known to leave scars.
@. Please give some facts about Ran
dolph Field at San Antonio.-F. p. l..
A. Randolph Field the West Point
of the air, is the worlds largest flying
field. Several years ago the City Of
San Antonio bought 1900 acres of land
and sold 1t to the Government for 81.
This was the inception of the $50,000,-
uylo taA
June 20-21. The field is an innovation
in airport building. Heretofore airports
have been built with the landing area
in the center and the hangers and other
buildings around the edges. Randolph
Fields hangers, barracks, ETC., are in
the center, and the landing area runs
around the outside. 1t will be walled in
on three sides by hangers, of which
there will be 26. The flying area will
be so large that $50 airplanes can take
off at once in formation.
@. What are cut-back asphalts9--
j. NICE.
A. They are asphalts to which has
been added sufficient petroleum distil-
late to make them of suitable viscosi-
ties for use without the application of
heat.
O. Was a fleet ever captured by a
troop of cavalry?-J. G. B.
A. A noted instance of this kind oc-
Cured during the Reign of Terror. The
French armies were sent to protect the
threatened frontiers of the country.
Gen. Pichegru led an army into AM
sterdam in 1894. AT that time the
Dutch feet was icebound in the Zuider
Zee near the harbor of Amsterdam.
Pichegru surrounded the fleet with his
cavalry and compelled 1t to surrender.
The result was that the government of
the country collapsed and Holland was
forcibly allied to France in 1875.
@. Which State has the longest coast
line?-T. B.
A. Maine has the longest, the coast
being so indented that its length is
about 5000 miles.
O. Where was irrigation first en-
ployed in the United States?-R. c.
A. The first projects of any size were
those instituted in Utah by the Mormon
settlers.
Q. How many miles of highways has
Canada?-B. C..
A. 1t now has about 100000. This
Evening star., 1930-06-28

Of their 1923 election that they de-
termined several weeks ago to repeat
the experiment. Perfect order prevailed
at the polls two years ago, thanks to
the excellent arrangements mapped out
by Maj. Gen. Frank r. Mccoy, u. 8. A.
He had an American representative in
charge in each of the 432 election dis
tricts. Gen. Moncada, Liberal, was
chosen President by majority of some
10000 over Senior Bernard, ConserVa-
tive. No popular vote. in Nicaragua S
olitico-revolutionary days, ever regis
tered such proportions. Drawn to the
polls by the assurance of a fair vote
and a square count, the electorate turn
ed out en- masse. 1t was alike a
tribute to the Nicaraguans civic sense
and to their confidence in American
motives and methods. Events next
october promise to take no less salts
factory q course.
The United States Marines are still
in Nicaragua in considerable numbers,
but, like Capt. Johnson and his election
aides, the Leathernecks are there by
invitation. Their principal task is to
bring about the establishment of a
stable national constabulary. The
Marines and the election force have still
other American comrades in Mica
ragua-a picked engineering battalion
of 400 officers and men of the United
States Army, who went there in Sep
tember, 1929, TO survey a route for
the proposed new interoceanic canal.
The engineers, too, are in the country
by the express authority Of the Mica
raguan government.
If all this be Yankee intervention"
in the purely local concerns of sister
American republic, let critics make the
most of it. One thing is fairly certain:
it is a species of interference and in
trusion of which the advantage is far
more on the side of the invaded than
of the invader.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
High Cost of Mirth.

High Cost of Mirth.
1 wonder just what has become of the
smile
And what has become of the song
That blossomed in merriment, once in
while,
And were given to gladden. the
throng.
The youth that was careless in happi-
ness told
The Joy that arose in his heart,
Rejoicing to share it; and never made
bold
To bargain for gain in the mart.
Each smile has a price that the public
must pay.
The song takes toll for its glee.
Mirth grows rare and precious from
day unto day,
And only our sadness is free.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
Pacific Coast Wants
Share of Shin Work

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Pacific Coast shipyards seem to have
a pretty good chance to step into
several millions Of dollars in contracts
for building boats being financed by
the Shipping Board for Pacific Coast
trade.
The yards on this coast have worked
at disadvantage owing to the freight
charges on materials that must be
brought here to be built into ships.
The Eastern yards are close by the
base of supply. But the Panama Canal
tolls on freight constitute consider
able part of the freight charges and
these tolls must be paid whether on
ship or on raw material TO be built
into ship. 1t seems reasonable that
the cost of delivering a ship built in
an Eastern yard for Pacific Coast trade
should to some extent, at least, offset
the freight charges on material brought
here for building.
However this may be- Pacific Coast
builders say they are willing to absorb
freight charges and cut their margins
IN order to get the business. And since
the Shipping Board has 81 projects
approved. IL of them for Pacific Coast
trade, and many more under considera-
tlon, including seven Tor the racine
Coast depending on getting the mail
contracts, the Eastern yards expect to
be too rushed with work to make it
worth while to cut throats to keep the
business off the Pacific.
Shipping Board officials are reported
to have promised to give the Pacific
Coast yards an even break and these
yards are going after the contracts for
the boats to serve this coast. -Four of
these approved will probably run be-
tween $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 apiece.
600. The project of bringing this work
to the Pacific Coast is one in which
the whole coast should join forces.
Congressman Kahn and WEIGH and
Carter of Oakland have done good WORK.
and the campaign deserves senatorial
weight added to it. The Pacific Coast
needs this work and ought to have it