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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-24
BOY, 5, CALLS FlREMEN.

Responding to q FIRE alarm In the
1900 block of Forty-fourth place yester-
day flremen discovered that 1t had been
sounded "just for fun" by Homer Eimers,
years old, who was seated on the curb
awaiting the arrival of the apparatus.
According to Homer he broke the glass
Of q fire box In the 1900 block Of Forty
fourth place, where he lives, and turned
In the alarm.
He was returned to his home by the
flremen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-24

about one hour later Detective ALI
good called me, advising that he had
recovered my car ct Eighteenth and
Adams Mill road. When he had been
informed that my automobile, license
V-5331. was reported stolen, he re-
membered that he had seen car by
that number at the above location.
such q memory Is almost uncanny.
I have heard of many other instances
In which persons owe the return Of
their cars to his remarkable ability"
Friends Of Alleged say that auto
mobile license numbers register on his
mind with the accuracy Of camera.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-24
NOT PLAN OF BOARD.
National Association Of Realtors Has No
Prohibition Aim.

PHOENIX, Ariz.. January "a R.-
Action Of the Washington, d. c., Real
Estate Board yesterday In pledging its
support to the United States district at
torney's ONCE to stop prohibition vio-
lations Is in no way related to the pres
ent aims of the national body, Presi-
dent Harry H. Culver of the National
Association of Real Estate Boards, said
here last right.
THE question of prohibition is en-
tirely beside the point as far as the
National Association OF Real Estate
Boards is concerned" said Culver. 1.-THE
action of the Washington realtors Is en-
tirely unrelated to the present aims and
activities of the National Association Of
Real Estate Boards.
Our viewpoint is that the enforce
merit of law, including the national pro-
hibition law, is entirely up to constitut-
ed authority.
Our sympathies. naturally, are with
the law enforcement"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-24
PUBLICATIONS BILL o.K.D.

Senate Post ONCE Committee Would
Force Security Holder Reports.
The Senate post ONCE committee to-
day ordered favorably reported to the
Senate the bill Of Chairman Phipps re.
curing newspaper and magazine pub
fishers to inform the Government Of the
stockholders, the names of known bond
holders or other security holders, in ad.
dition to the names Of the editors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-24
D. G. Mem Get Commissions.

Commissions In the Reserve Corps Of
the Army have been issued by the War
Department to Daniel M. Andreins,
ais o street, as . second Lieutenant,
1909 q street. as q second lieutenant OF
Cavalry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-24
POOL OPEN FOR SKATING.
Park Police Will Permit Sport Un-
til IL O'clock Tonight.


til II O'clock Tonight.
Following a. lull yesterday, due to a
rough surface, ice skating on the re-
flecting pool of the Lincoln Memorial
was on again today in full force. United
States park police say skating there will
be permitted until IL o'clock tonight.
The rough surface problem was solved,
when Lieut.. Col. U. s. Grant Sd, direc-
tor of public buildings and public parks,
authorized the flooding Of one-haf of
the rejecting pool, and Jack Frost co.
operated admirably last night, so that
today a smooth skating surface was
available. O
Park division offcials have ordered
the other half of the rejecting pool
flooded today, so that skaters may have
wide expanse to work on, after this
surface has frozen sufficiently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-24
History Reconstructed.

All these facts, Prof. Ragatz said
are easily available results Of the re-
searches of sound historians who have
reconstructed the history of the war
from state papers and memoirs entirely
without bias in favor Of any of the
combatants. The general public would
know them, he said, If It would take
the trouble to read the war histories
issued In the last two or three years.
And ell sides thought they were fight
ing for the right. We now know, .
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-08
For Optimists and Pessimists

Business conditions ar neither as good as the op-
mists would have believe, bad as the pess-
mists paint them, the industrial conference board
concludes after statistical survey in which the pres
ent depression is compared with the one of a
decade ago.
The greater part of the decline in each of the
two periods occurred within few months. Dizziness
then ensued and when the upward swing began it
not counterpart of the decline, but slow and
gradual climb. In other words it is easier to slide
down hill than climb back up
The present depression is less severe than the
previous one and we just about have reached the
low level to be expected the board concludes after
a study of figures.
The board offers sound advice on the sub
ject of false OPTIMISM which was sponsored by high
authorities, both public and private"
Never before has there beer such loud and bois-
ferrous whistling have passed through the dsGk
lane of business decline" says the report Editors
and speakers have been encouraged to equip them
selves with rosecolored Spectacles and to give all
their utterances joyous tone.
ut may be that at one time this well-organized
cheerfulness materially ightened the burden, or at
least diverted the minds of the people from the load
they had to bear, but it is probable that any such
effect long since has been spent and that today the
depression of spirit not only corresponds to the de-
preston of business but often exceeds it."
Which means simply that would have been
better off if we had admitted the facts and faced
them, and set about correcting them and deviSng
ways to prevent a recurrence.
Telling man without job and hungry family
that all is well doesn't do much good. Nor does it
convince a business manufacturer whose
books tell him another story.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-08
Effrontery That Amazes

eve ask YOU to stamp your approval on an admin
istraton whose record largely has been one OF mis-
management extravaganza and gross laxty in conduct
Of state affairs"
That in reality is what Republican candidates Tor
reelection are asking of the voters of Indiana.
That is the record on which the secretary of state
the state auditor and the state superintendent Of pub
lie instruction stand.
They are asking supposedly intelligent electorate
10 approye the administration of the highway Depart
nent. which shows an increase in overhead expense
Of 81 23o over the last fiscal year. increase due
largely to flood of unjustiied salary boosts and I'M
restrained spending in the maintenance division.
They are asking these same voters to approve the
manner in which the state school aid fund has oeen
handled resulting in a deficit Of approximately
s25ooOOO
The Republicans ask reelection of secretary OF
state who has made the state police force merely
olitical machine working for his interests instead OF
the interests of the people of the state He mas SHOWN
little or no activity in enforcing the blue SKY laws
Every move he has made has been made with pohU-
ieaI gain in view He has devoted far more time TO
his campaign than he has to the business OF the SCa
and that business has suffered accordingly
The state superintendent of public instruction has
put politics and his own advancement aheao Oh 'Ae
cause of education He fought before the last egs-
lature to keep administrator OF ScAoo olu 4"A4O' 49,
his department instead of under the board OF ac-
counts where these funds had been more capaby
handled and a CHASTITY deficit is the result.
He has sought letdow1i in the restrictions on
child labor which could undo much of the work &C
conulished for protection of children OF Indiana he
too has devoted great portion Of his time to his
campaign for reelection negectng the position OF
trust in which he was placed.
The state auditor consistently has lodged decisive
action in the gasoline fee scandal He has made little
or no effort to expose those guilty of sharp practices
which have defrauded the state of thousands OF dol
lars.
These men seek reelection on their records Their
effrontery is amazing The voters should answer
with such landslide against them that even the
most brazen politician will be convinced that they are
through with Encouragement, extravaganza and
laxity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-08
Ambassador Clark,s Declaration

In appointing j. Reuben Clark as ambassador 10
Mexico to succeed Dwight Morrow, the President
probably has picked the best man available. This
appointment is especially welcomed in Washington,
it is in happy contrast to the recent selections
of lame duck politicians and campaign contributors
for important diplomatic posts abroad.
man who has been in public life as long as
Clark always has some enemies and hostile critics.
In the past, complaints have been filed against him
by Madame Teresa de Provost for his handling OF a
claiYns case while state department solicitor under
Secretary Knox.
But we are inclined to believe that Clark is I'M
usually well fitted to take charge of the embassy IN
Mexico City.
He is trained diplomat Since 1906 he has been
in almost continuous government service at the state
department or on international commissions He is
a special expert on Latin American and Mexican al
fairs. field Of diplomacy which requires much more
than uniformed good intentions.
Moreover he will provide continuity Of the Nor
row policy for which he has been jointly Responsible
His work as undersecretary Of state laid the tounoa-
ton for the friendly shift in policy under Morrow
When the latter went to Mexico City, he soon called
Clark to his side counsellor
Clark has the confidence and friendship OF the
Mexican government and people who have greeted
his anpointment enthusiastically. This relationship
will be in itself an invaluable asset to the onued
States government in future negotiations.
Finally. Clark as undersecretary of state, was
author of the still suppressed official declaration on
the Monroe doctrine That declaration swept aside
all false interpretations by which previous admin
istratons have misused the Monroe doctrine 10
Justify American military intervention in the internal
affairs of Latin American countries. Such misuse OF
the Monroe doctrine in the past has caused hatin
Americans to distrust us today
The Clark declaration on the Monroe doctrine Is
a true and accurate statement. 1t also happens 10
be very expedient statement, one which VIII I'M
prove our Latin American relations.
Now that Hoover has promoted its author to be
ambassador to Mexico he Immediately should cancel
the order by which ne has held up for a year and
half the delivery to the Latin American govern
ments Of the Clark declaration on the Monroe
doctrine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-08
A Fish Discovery

Renresentative Hamilton Fish OF New York,
chairman of the house red investigating committee,
has found plenty of communistic activity but Ger
tainly not enough to be called menace" Fish Is
in San Francisco, preparing to open two-day IN
curry there.
So the New York statesman has made olScoV-
cry He has found out what almost everybody else
has known all along-that the Communists IN
America are numerically weak, have made little
Roadway despite years of agitation and DO not by the
widest reach Of imagination threaten the eStaoSneo
order
Fish and his associates will study the lumber and
wheat industries in the west, dispatches say.
They also proftably might give a little attention
To the Mooney Billings case to learn what comes of
red-baiting. and to learn what incnes citizens to-
ward Communism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-08
D u 4 COM nv FREDERICK
A\A1 AOO4 Lands

THE north used to sing Marching Through
Georgia" but in the person of Robert Tyre Jones
of Atlanta who has won all the golf championships
Georgia is now marching through the north.
Hazel K. Groves, the East Chicago Ind) bank
president who has returned home after a weeks
lapse of memory, ought to be very patient with the
fellows who have forgotten to pay their notes.
John W. Wesley of Detroit just has been sent to
prison Tor marrying eighteen wives, which is the
greatest merger Of modern times.
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT will be reelected Cover
Il nor of New York by 100000 for the reason that
his party is sodly wet and the other party is split
clear up the back.
and that will nominate Roosevelt for President
in 1882 just as an abnormal majority in similar race
nominated Grover Cleveland
England doesn't like it because France tells her
she must accept less than par French bonds be-
cause they were issued to raise money to fight war
that saved England we'll as France, but this is
exactly what England told when she wanted her
debts reduced.
TINE d1sappointments of other baseball players are
L nothing alongside the tragic finish of "Old
Pete" Alexander.
Several years ago he was the hero of a world
series, because he saved the day for the st. Louis
Cardinals, but he just has been freed from jan
for driving an automobile while intoxicated out in
Nebraska
When our bandits read that four members OF
their profession Just have been executed in Mexico
then think of the charming hospitality We extend
them here they should swear anew their allegiance
to the United States
Charles Lathrop Pack announces that ten mil
lion trees viii be planted in The country in honor OF
George Washington.
It's not so important in whose honor we plant
them; the main thing is to plant them
Indiana should plant them along every state road
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-08
The Last Schooner Is Gone

The last of the old fleet of windjammerS has van
ished from the Great Lakes in the sinking of the
schooner Our Son; and those to whom the flavor
of the old days is attractive will find melancholy
interest in the announcement.
The windjammers Jared worse on the lakes thar
they did on the ocean, Coastwse schooners still are
in service on salt water and of them cleal
for overseas ports; but the sailing vessel has been
rarity on the lakes for years.
There are too many places like the Detroit and
ST. Clair rivers, where schooner must be towed
to enable sail to compete with steam and the steam
boats the lakes carry bulk freight cheaply thai
the schooners economic advantage is gone.
But the windjammers served the middle west vel
in their day. They helped to build up the interior
of the nation and most of will be sorry to earr
that the last of them has gone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-08
Planets and Stars

XXTHILE Jupiter and Mars ap-
w pear much brighter in the
heavens than Castor and Pollux, the
true situation is, of course, just the
reverse.
Castor and Pollux are stars, and
therefore bright objects shining by
their own light, just as does our
sun.
Jupiter and Mars are both plan
cts, and therefore are dark bodies
shining only by reflected sunlight.
The distance from the earth to
Jupiter and Mars is measured in
millions of miles. The distance to
Castor and Pollux is measured in
trillions of miles.
Jupiter is the big brother of the
solar system. It is about ten times
the size of our earth.
Mars is about half the size of our
earth, having a diameter of ap-
proximately 1920 miles.
There still is considerable queS-
ton as to the individuality of
Mars. Such eminent authorities as
Professor Henry Norris Russell think
it quite likely that there may be at
least vegetation on the planet.
Astronomical authorities agree
that the temperature of the Jupiter
it too low for life as we know it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-08
The Fear of Unemployment

Fear probably is the most deadly disease that
afnicts the human race. 1t doesn't kill its victims
as spectacularly as do cancer, consumption, heart
disease, diabetes and pneumonia but it gets there
just the same.
Those that it kills get into the mortality statistics
under some other name-diseases brought on in a
physical body whose resistance has been worn down
by the mental worry induced by fear.
But it makes unhappy miserable and mentally
disturbed millions whom it does not kill Immediately
dramatically.
Fear attacks US in many forms. One of its most
mon forms is fear Of losing your job, and that
lads cut into many other fears. What VIII happen
the wife and children? Where viii the money
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-08
Goggles Save Sight Of Hundreds

were struck by flying tools ~"~'
seventy-seven men had both lenses
shattered or pierced by flying tools
or heavy objects.
No one can estimate the value of
human sight, but the courts
have set an award of about $1,000
for the loss of one eye or $500 for
the loss of both eyes. On this basis
583 plants saved almost 100000
by saving their employees from
blindness.
Google lenses made of non-shat-
terable glass are one of the most
valuable devices thus far developed
for prevention of injury to the eyes
and for prevention of loss of sight.
So important is this hazard that
several great industries demand
regular examination of the eyesight
of all employees, and refuse to use
in any type employe whose eyes are
defective.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-08
%%ZZEtxXSa
H7d0AEF lB1TII?e.(
| ANNIVERSARY
.t43S21t.:
BIRTH OF JOHN HAY
Oct. 8

ON Oct. 8, 1888, John Hay, an
" American statesman, author
and journalist, famed for his feats
in diplomacy, was born at Salem
Ind.
Graduated from Brown university
at 20, he studied law at Springfield
ILL.,, where he became acquainted
with Abraham Lincoln, then the
leader of his profession and Of the
Republican party in Illinois. In 1861
he went to Washington as one OF
Lincoln's secretaries.
After Lincoln's death, Hay en-
tered the diplomatic service and
was stationed successfully at Paris
Vienna and Madrid. In 1897, after
he had spent five years on the
editorial staff of New York paper
Hay was appointed by President Nc
Kinley ambassador to England.
In this capacity he did notable
work in that he did much to cement
relations with Great Britain and tc
increase the diplomatic prestige Of
the United States.
Later, as secretary of state, Hay
inauglrated the open door" policy
for all nations, in China, and laic
the foundation for subsequent
diplomatic relations with the Orient
When the United States begar
negotiations to build the Panama
canal, he negotiated a treaty with
England that made this possible.
In all, he brought about more
than fifty treaties. He was chosen
one Of the seven original members
of the American Academy of Arts
and Letters. He died in 1905.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-08
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

1900 Industrial concerns, represent
ing metal, chemical. quarrying, au-
tomotive, steel, railroad, cement
and mining industries. Obviously,
if the men had not worn goggles,
their eyes would have been dam
aged by the flying objects.
During 1927, in 583 plants, 1856
men and women had one lens in
their goggles shattered or pierced
by flying metal.
Two hundred eighty-thre men
had the even more terrifying ex-
perience of being struck by large
piece of metal that caused both
lenses of the goggles to be shattered
or pierced.
There were 1908 instances of one
lens being splattered with molten
metal or chemicals, and 1914 cases
in men and women when both
lenses were thus affected.
Two hundred ninety-one employees
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-08
We're Not Original

IT is impossible to contemplate the
Il innocent, unfermented extract
of grapes, fruit and grain without
being reminded of its harder blood
relation and what Stupendous part
the latter has played in the affairs
and fate OF man.
Written history does not go back
far enough to tell lis when the art
Of letting nature take her course
with certain liquids was discovered
but it certainly caused as much
trouble as Ewes apple, if not more.
From the dawn of consciousness,
men have turned to alcohol as nat
urally as ducks turn to water, and
then repented of the result. When
on the steppes of Tartary or in these
United States, human progress has
been marked by nothing so dis
tinctly as just one Souse after an
other, interlarded with periods OF
reform and bootlegging. The ex-
pertinent We are making may be
noble, but it is not original.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-08
Drunk on Power

WE are going over lot of we'll
w trampled ground with our
eighteenth amendment. Anti-Saloon
League, rum fleets, rackets, and
gang rule and the saddest phase Of
the performance is that we don't
seem to realize it.
AS a general proposition, temper
ance has gained during those sea-
sons when some one has not been
trying to force it on folks, but they
have been all too few and far be-
tween. Temperance goes with law
as well as liquor and whenever it
has come to a showdown, people
generally have preferred to take
chances with Incorporate use of the
latter than of tho former.
No one Endorses drunkenness, but
there is such a thing as getting
drunk on power, on the idea of
making other folks good by COM
pulsion, on the theory that moral
convictions justify force, even to the
extent of killing human beings, and
there is such a thing as revolt
against this form of intemperance,
even though 1t puts people in the
position of sanctioning vices which
they oppose and Of condemning
virtues in which they believe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-08
come from for food, rent and other necessaries OF
life? Where viii you get another job?


That's tough enough, but it's tougher still with
the man who has lost his job. Especially if he has
a family Fear that he won't get another soon
enough to keep his loved ones healthy and happy is
enough to drive a sensitive man to distraction, some
times to crime.
Compared with prohibition, the problem Of unem-
ployment is vastly vital to the life of the
nation Few people will go crazy or die if they can't
get drink Of beer wine or hard liquor It's differ
ent with food and shelter.
Yet more thought is given to prohibition than
to unemployment. One may be that got
prohibition through politics and will have to get rid
of it through politics.
Unemployment is social problem More law or
less law won't solve it. 1t will have to be solved by
industry generally.
A comparative few among our captains of industry
see the problem and doing the best they know
how to solve 1t. But all of us will have to get our
minds it and collectively responsibility for
seeing that every individual who wants to work will
have job, and steady job.
Solving this most important of problems will
solve other problems, social industrial and political
We haven't the slightest conception of the effect
human happiness and health of taking away from
the minds of men the fear of unemployment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-08
Questions and
AnSzOeYS

How many miles of railway are
there in the United States?
There are 249, 30948 miles.
When did the steamer Merida
sink in Lake Erie, and how many
lives were lost?
Oct. 20, 1918. Twenty lives were
lost.
What are anchovies?
Tiny fish preserved in oil. They
may be in strips or rolled. They are
served as a relish like sardines.
Are the EskimoS the only people
that rub their noses together as a
sign of greeting and affections?
The PolynesianS and LaplanderS
and natives of Tahiti also use this
form Of greeting.
What makes horse a thorough
bred?
Ancestry from noted stock, re-
corded in the stud-book for several
generationS-five in America anc
seven in England.