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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-23
Blosser
BY Crane
By Martin

Tarzan swung the body Of the murderer up
and down like pendulum and then upwstd
with mighty surge. hurting it full into the loge
Of Sublatus, where it struck Caesar. snocking
him to the floor. am alive and alone n the
arena" shouted Tarzan, and by the terms Of
the contest as just announced. am vctorl"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-14
College Honor System
Has One Big Weakness

From the Columbus Ohio state Journal.
From Ohio Wesleyan comes word that
the honor system in effect among stu
dents there Is about to be abandoned
because 1t has not worked. This mere
bald statement Of the situation would
seem to indicate that so many of Ohio
Wesleyan students are dishonest that
such a system cannot be effective. The
real weakness Of the system, however,
lies In the fact that 1t depends for its
successful operation upon the willing
ness of all students to report others who
are cheating in examinations.
Students as a whole realize that they
have come to college for their own profit.
They cannot be aroused over the fact
that a few of their number, for some
unknown reason, try to beat pleasant
system of acquiring knowledge and OF
stimulating the desire for wisdom. II
some of their fellows see reason to cheat,
IL is no concern of the main body. It Is
not their loss, nor the faculty's loss. No
one loses but the cheater.
Colleges are not primarily institu-
tons to enforce discipline. No one is
forced to attend college. To enroll Is a
voluntary act and is done by the in
dividual because he believes he will en-
JOY college life and close contact with
learning, and in the belief that his mind
will be stimulated and he himself will
benefit. If some of his neighbors, by
some peculiar twist Of mind, will insist
upon attending classes even though he
despises them, and then will cheat to
pass in examination, it is not his worry.
Why should he run to the faculty with
tales? 1t would do him no good, the
faculty would be no better off, and the
cheater still would be cheater.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-14
Fridtjof Nansen.

Explorers of a later day we're destined
to penetrate deeper into the unknown
polar region, but 1t is with Fridtjof Nam
sen that the world for many years as
ISOLATED the term and idea of "farthest
North" DR. Nansen's untimely death at
Oslo, at the age of sixty-eight, takes his
friends and admirers by surprise, for
they had no intimation that the Viking
Of the Arctic was In failing health
Indeed, when recently In the United
States DR.. hansen disclosed hts plans
for an invasion of the North Polar
Basin in the great German dirigible
Graf Zeppelin. Age did not wither his
zest for new achievement in the domain
with which his name will forever be
honerably and censpicuously identified.
Nansen was known to most of his
contemporaries as an explorer. But he
was scholar, scientist, humanitarian
and statesman besides. He played a
decisive part In effecting the separation
of Norway from Sweden In 1905. The
Norwegian people held his services in
that bloodless revolution In such high
esteem that there was q strong move
ment to make him the first king of
modern Norway.
1t was In 1888 that Nansen carried
out the famous Arctic expedition that
was to take him to the latitude of IS
degrees and II minutes-the then
"farthest North" Five years later, with
Nansen at the head of another company
of gallant Norsemen, the second expe-
dition, aboard the Fran, set out on
q venture lasting three years, Allied with
peril and hardships, and destined TO be
rich In polar achievement.
Nansen takes his place among the
immortals of the Arctic. Peary and
Ainundsen, Greedy and Byrd, are names
which Americans will always bracket in
reverential pride.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-14
The Park Bill Passes.

The Senate's quick passage Of the
Capper- Cranton park bill yesterday in
effect assures the enactment Of this i'm
portant legislation at this session of
Congress and constitutes one of the
greatest steps ever taken for adequate
park and parkway development in and
near the American Capital. The power
issue, which threatened for a time to
produce sparks in the Senate, melted
away unnoticed. Signature of the bill
by the President will set up an effective
safeguard against power development
of the Potomac by private interests and
the irretrievable loss of beautiful area,
now to be held In trust by the people
against the time that demand and
necessity may force them to develop it
themselves
The effect of the bill upon park de-
velopment in Washington will be to place
In the hands Of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission a large
sum of money for immediate acquisition
and development of available areas
which, If left open to commercial devel-
opment or to uncertain yearly appropri-
atoms, might have been destroyed.
The bill places upon the taxpayers of
this community an unequal and inequit-
able burden in financing a park de-
velopment that is broadly national in
Its scope and purpose. But the actual
cost, to them. Of repaying the advance
granted In the bill Is no greater than
the current cost of annually financing
the work of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, and the
remedy for the evils in the park bill
should be applied through return to the
fixed ratio system of appropriating for
the Capital, or, in lieu of that, by
materially increasing the lump sum.
The measure goes now to conference
over a few changes written by the
Senate. With its final enactment will
come the test of Its eficacy In develop
ing park areas outside Of washington,
a test depending for It's success upon
the amount Of financial responsibility
the voters of Maryland and Virginia
are willing to assume. That remains
an open question.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-14
Washington's Petition.

The petition and argument delivered
to Congress today by representatives of
the Citizens Joint Committee on Dis
trict of Columbia Fiscal Relations, texts
Of which appear elsewhere in today's
Star, represent the plea of a united
Washington for fair treatment at the
hands Of its legislature, possessed of
exclusive governing power over this
community of taxpayers.
The petition sets forth that while
Congress has refused all propositions to
amend the definite proportionate con-
tribution provision of the law of 1922,
and while the sixty-forty provision is
the existing substantive law, Congress
provided as temporary provision of
the appropriation act of 1925 a lump
sum payment and has renewed this ex-
ception to the provisions of substantive
law In each annual appropriation since
that date. AS long as this lump sum
remains in effect, Congress should COR
rect some Of its grosser and more OBJ
vious injustices by Cd increasing
substantially, both on general and spe-
ctf1c grounds, the basic lump sum pay
ment; ca exclude great national or
semi-national projects from the Dis
trict bill and finance them on some
other supply bill, so wording the items
thus excluded as to set forth the exact
method OF financing in relation to the
amounts of contribution by Nation and
Capital that is thought to be Just, or
Cd provide for local as well as ma
tional maximum of contribution, on the
assumption that it is the impotent local
partner who alone needs this protec-
ton, or 90 by referendum or other
wise permit the local taxpayers to have
some effective say in regard to the
amount of local taxes and the purposes
for which the tax money is to be ex-
pended"
The Senate this year has increased
the lump sum payment. The retention
Of that increase depends upon the con-
ferees, and for this current District bill
1t Is the only equitable action that Is
left open to them.
The members Of Congress, anxious to
hear the voice Of united Washington,
have before them a petition, signed by
the representatives Of the citys civic
organizations. The right of petition
Is the only one left to them as Aneri-
cans who are denied participation in
their Government or voice In the coun-
sells Of those who govern them, tax them
and expend the revenues from their
taxes.
It Is petition that justice, logic and
fair dealing demand; that cannot be
denied without denying that justice,
logic and fair dealing enter the equa-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-14
The New Supreme Court.

Decision by the commission in charge
Of the project for a building for the
Supreme Court to proceed at once with
the preparation of the site, the drawing
of plans and the construction itself as
sures an early beginning on this long
delayed project. The site chosen, the
block between Maryland avenue and
East Capitol, First and Second streets,
corresponding in part to that occupied
by the Library of Congress, is that
which has been favored for many years
for this purpose. Its suitability was
recognized almost Immediately after the
extension of the Capitol grounds to the
present dimensions. 1t was especially
advocated when the Library of Con-
gress was placed across the street to
the south. A sentimental objection that
the use of this space for Supreme
Court structure would involve The raz-
ing Of a building of some historic
note, that which served as the meeting
place for the Congress when the Capt.
toll was burned by the British in 1914,
was ignored in the interest of the proper
placement of the chief court Of the
Nation.
For long period, when the need of a
separate home for the Supreme Court
was acknowledged, objections were
raised by the justices themselves against
the removal of the court from the Capt.
tol. They did not want to leave the
precincts hallowed by the presence of
the court for many decades. There was
certain convenience. too. in the i'm
mediate proximity of Congress, men,
bers of which occasionally appeared
before the court in cases Of importance
However, this objection was overcome
through the influence of the late Chief
Justice Taft, who recognized that the
court, in justice to its own dignity and
convenience and efficiency, should have
a separate and adequate housing. He
was the chairman of the commission
for the construction of the building
and now in his stead is Chief Justice
Hughes, who ID an ardent advocate OF
a Supreme Court structure separated
from the legislative unit Of the Govern
naent.
Sufficient funds have been already
appropriated to permit the immediate
clearing of the site and the preparation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-14

the Senate and q member Of the Ameri-
can delegation to the London Con-
ference, and Senator Swanson of Vir-
ginia, the ranking Democrat on both
committees. Senator Robinson Is a
strong advocate Of the treaty and Sen
ator Swanson has not indicated OPP
position TO the pact up to this time.
It will be interesting to see which Of
the committee hearings they will at
tend today.
Opponents of the London naval
treaty are exercised not 80 much over
the pending treaty as they are over
what may happen in the future. They
fear that it may be a step toward much
greater reduction In naval strength
when the next naval conference is held
in 1885, for example. They represent
the school which believes in a big navy
and in no reduction. Secretary Slim
son has emphasized in his statement
before the foreign relations committee
the fact that naval reduction is a mat
ter which must come by degrees. He
has predicted that each step, however,
will make the next step easier to take.
He has not suggested that there should
be no navy to guard the coasts of
America and its far-hung commerce
But he represents the idea that there
should be a reasonable limit TO the
size of all navies, both in the interests
of international peace and in order to
lessen the tax burden on the peoples
OF the world. A reduction in naval
strength, Mr., Stinson believes, must
result in lessening fear and suspicion
and in building up confidence necessary
to stable peace. The pending naval
limitation treaty will give to the United
States strong, well-balanced navy,
on q parity in strength with the navy
of Great Britain and of a ratio with
the navy of Japan somewhere between
10-6 and 10. But it is not this
treaty so much as it is fear of other
treaties in the future that gives the
big navy group cause for worry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-14
Separate Government
For Moros Championed

From the New York Herald-Tribune
Every now and then we hear Of the
Moros, but American indifference TO
their fate is so overwhelming that even
death, that usual attractor of public at
tention, fails to move us. The Moros
are the Mahometan peoples living in
the southern islands Of the Philippine
Archipelago. Our representatives gave
them to understand some years ago that
II they handed In their arms they would
be governed by us. Instead we have sub
jected them to the cruel and inefficient
government of the Filipinos-a people
the Moros have always despised and
which. before Americans disarmed them,
they were always able to defeat Not for
nothing is the Moro problem referred to
as Americas shame"
A bill has been pending for a long
time to make a separate province for
the Moros and to give them their own
American governor, to be appointed by
the Governor General of the Philippines
without the consent of the Manila SEN
ate. There is no good reason why this
should not be done, and there is every
reason, moral and otherwise, why we
faith with the Moros. The horrors Of
alien rule have created set Of outlaws
in the Moro country who are ready to
do almost anything rather than submit
to the Manila politico. Every now and
then these unfortunates come into con-
tact with the constabulary and there is
fight. If enough persons are injured
we hear about It. Recently con-
stabulary officer and privateS were
killed and officers and is privates
were wounded. When the Moros fight
they do so with all the vigor bred of
desperation. Why will not Congress do
its plain duty to these poor people and
give them the regional status they de-
sire and deserve?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-14
Writer Would Locate
Wheaton College Students

I To the Editor Of The Star:
am trying to locate the present
whereabouts or date Of death of the
following former wheaton College
(seminary) students, who attended at
the date mentioned:
Lillian s. Aldrich, 1874.
Harriet Louise Collins. 1890-9i.
Sabra B. Ellis, 1841.
Hattie z. Jordan, 1892.
Mrs. G. c.. Lindstrom Beatrice
Hoxie Sawin), 1884, formerly 212
Insurance Building.
Mrs. Robert Morrison Qdella Make
peace, 1901.
Ethel A. Nye, 1893-94.
Mrs. Richard Rathburn Caroline
Augusta Hume, 1868.
Fanny Steele, 1S59-60.
Fannie A. Waters, 1901.
Sarah Elizabeth Hitchcock, born
April Is. 1888, daughter of Asa and
Lucy NJ. She had brothers. Asa Morse
Hitchcock, DR.. jeremiah T.. Hitchcock
(wife, Harriet Z. Bush) and Joseph
Vail Hitchcock, who died April II. 1852,
in Washington, and sister, Harriet
Keep Hitchcock.
The information is desired for the
college register.
(Mrs.) r. B. MATTHEWS.
81 Herrick street, Beverly, Mass.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-14
A Race for Publicity.

Not satisfied with the hearings on
the London naval treaty conducted by
the foreign relations committee of the
Senate, Chairman Hale of the naval
affairs committee Is launching today
hearings before his own committee. It
Is well understood that MIR. Hale is not
friendly - the limitation treaty. The
supporters of the treaty have been able
to obtain favorable publicity on a large
scale throughout the country by the
presentation of their case to the foreign
relations committee by Secretary Slim
son, head Of the American delegation
to the London Conference. With
possibly few exceptions, the members
Of the foreign relations committee look
upon the treaty with friendly eye.
To wait until the foreign relations
committee has completed its hearings
on the treaty before opening barrage
ON the pact through hearings of their
own apparently has become too much
for the opponents of the treaty to
endure. Hence the insistence by
Senator Hale that his committee go
ahead with its inquiry into how the
Navy will be left by the terms of
the treaty. The insistence that the
Secretary of the Navy come before the
naval affairs committee of the Senate
before the foreign relations committee,
which actually has the treaty before it,
has had an opportunity to interrogate
Secretary Adams is scarcely a curteous
proceeding. However, the opponents Of
the treaty are faced with the necessity
Of building, If they can, sentiment
against the treaty as rapidly as possible.
They have sought in every way possible
to have the consideration of the treaty
In the Senate postponed until next
Winter. Having failed in that attempt
they are unwilling to let the grass grow
under their feet before they open fire
on the London pact.
Senator Hale might, if he wished,
have aat with the foreign relations
committee at the hearings which il
Is conducting on the treaty. As
. matter of courtesy he might have
asked questions of the witnesses himself
under such conditions. But the OBJ
ject of the naval affairs hearings on
the Il eaty is to bring as much evidence
into foreground as possible which may
be unfavorable to the treaty. Two
. members Of the naval affairs committee
are members of the foreign relations
committee. They are Senator Robinson
Of Arkansas. the Democratic leader q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-14
Make the Safety Zones
At Car Stops Really Safe
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Observation of traffic conditions ex-
isting on Connecticut avenue, relative
to the safety of street car patrons,
prompts me to OFFER suggestion to i'm
prove that condition.
Although safety zones have been
painted at car stops, these lines mean
very little In the life of many motor
lists. who deliberately drive through
them.
After observing the effect Of placing
three silent cops at the entrance of
safety zones located at Upton street
and also at the Bureau of Standards,
and the jealous manner in which these
particular zones are avoided by all
motorists, ] am convinced that the en-
ployment of a row Of three silents at
each zone would provide the desired
remedy.
This added protection would speed
up street car transportation, for instead
OF standing on the curb and frantically
waving to the approaching n1otorman,
the passengers would occupy the zones,
If given fair chance for safety.
AUGUSTUS s. NESS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-14
Laurels for ''Deadwood Dick
AS Dime Novel Hero Passes

notorious bad men of the plains and the
mountains"
y X
What the old West experienced,
where settlement had rushed ahead of
government" AYERS the Buffalo Eve
ming News, was less menacing than the
conditions which have developed In
modern cities through the activities Of
gangsters whose conception of courage
usually Is to catch somebody unpre-
pared and defenseleSs. 'Deadwood Dick
If he followed the news of the day In
his later years, must have heard q great
deal that made him wonder" The New
Orleans Item holds that the paper
backed thrillers taught protection Of
other folks property and other folks
virtue; that their readers arose con-
secrated to all sorts of chivalric ideals"
The Harrisburg Telegraph recalls that
when you had read 'Deadwood
ambition less worthy than to help the
helpless or to fight in defense Of those
who needed aid"
May he be Invested Of none Of his
romantic trappings," hopes the st. Paul
Pioneer Press, "as he. sweeps through
the pearly gates on his favorite steed,
and may he have no difficulty in recog-
nizang his old friends, whether histori-
cal, sentimental or fictional!" The
Scranton Times observes that he died
with his boots off," but that ''he re-
manned true to the old West as he knew
It," The Dayton Daily News finds 1t
ironic that he died, mot from bullet,
but from the same disease which threat
ems the city tenderfoot."
He was not responsible for all the
tales that were credited to him." re-
marks the st. Louis Times, but he was
the brave frontiersnan, guide and rider
OF the pony express whom Edward L.
Wheeler used as the basis for "a of the
thrillers. In fact, it Is claimed that
'Deadwood Dick took little stock in the
paperbacks written around his name.
But, whether or not he approved them,
his name was something to conjure
with"
The New York Sun declares that the
halo Of fame about him was so lasting
that when he was 80 the enterprising
folk Of the Black Hills shipped him by
airplane to Washington to invite Presi-
dent Coolidge to spend the Summer in
the peaceful shades of land once dam
gerous. The Racine Journal-News
pays the tribute that civilization fol-
lowed the prints of his boots and the
tral OF his ponies hoofs."
something tells U.S." comments the
Grand Rapids press, that 'Deadwood
DICK had more in common with the
sensible present than with the sholt-
on-sight psychology Of his home toNN
IN the late seventies" Assuming that
his Respondent figure was sort of
sun myth evolved by a coterie of unre-
generate nct!onists," the Chicago Daily
News is convinced that the lurid yarns
did real service to mankind"
or the "hard-living, fighting fellows"
OF which "Deadwood Dick" was a typa
the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette gives assIIr-
ance that they will not be forgotten.
and with them their trays and their
fortunes will be remembered"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-14
Economic Conditions
In Mexico Improving

From the LonG Beach Telegram.
On the basis Of returns on United
States investments in Mexico, it may
be said that economic conditions in
that country are improving.
The Southern Pacific's extension into
Mexico reports a net operating income
of 81, 004 SOC for 1929. This Is particu-
larly encouraging in view Of the handi-
caps and losses that have been faced
by that company almost from the first
wear of its venture below the border.
Travellers in the fertile but largely I'M
developed west coast of the Mexican
Republic. the Southern Paciflcs line
from Nogales TO Guadalajara has been
the special objective of revolutionary
attack whenever such uprisings have oc-
Cured. Even during the brief rebel
lion which sprang up on the day when
Herbert Hoover was inaugurated Presi-
dent of the United States, 1879 trestles
on this railroad line were destroyed,
and serious damage inflicted on steel
viaducts and other properties.
The prompt quelling of that attack
on the Gil administration has had
much to do with the introduction of
an era of comparative peace for Mexico.
Oils successor has announced policies
that invite development of latent re-
sources. The results show In the an
huaI reuort of Sud Pacific de Mexico, +"
and In other balance sheets.
Mexico's west coast, where fewer than
a million people now. reside In an area
twice as large as California and con-
tanning a much more extensive tillable
acreage, is capable of supporting a
Larger population than is found in the
entire nation. Governors Of the various
western states of Mexico are, as rule,
nrorressiye and they are inspired by
Sornia. This wide-awake interest is
disnlaved also by the business leaders
of the west coast. There is a general
feeling that revolution is q plague to
be avoided; and while 1t may be I'M
Reasonable to predict that Mexico has
seen its last civil war, there are many
indications that point to greater secur-
ikv henceforth