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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-29
'L|NDBERGHS WATCH
TRANSPORT EVENTS
Expect to Fly to Detroit This
Afternoon-German Flyers
on Way to Chicago.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 29.-Bulky trans
port planes went through their PAGES
at the national air races today with
Col and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
among the enlookers.
Two major events for large ships
were designed to develop q combination
Of speed and larger carrying capacities
One event, the Detroit News air trans
port trophy. was open to civilians fly
ing single motor ships with at least
1000 pounds Of pay load, either pas
sengers or freight. The second was the
Aviation Town and Country Club
trophy race.
The Lindberghs expected to take of
in late afternoon for Detroit, but the
parade of notables continued to roll
along. Race-going thousands were as
sured by officials that Capt. WolfganR
Won Gronau and his companions, who
last week scared over the icebound
North Atlantic, would be here for the
week end events.
The midget ships shared, too, In the
program of thrills. The tiny-morored
planes took the air for the free for-all,
| limited to motors of 276-cubic- inch
piston displacement.
There were two more dashes around
the pylonS for women today, enc for
cabin ships of 350-cubic-inch dis
placement and another for larger, more
powerful open planes.
May HaIzIip Wins Race.
Lloyd O'Donnell, Long Beach, Calf,
whose wife won the Pacific Powder
Puff" Derby, won a 25-mile race yes
| terday for ships of 800-inch cubic dis
| placement with an average Of 152.05
| miles an hour.
May Haizlip, Kansas City, won the
| first closed course race for women, at
| tanning a speed OF 121.08 miles an hour
Vera Dawn Walker, Los Angeles, was
second, and Laura ingalls, of st. Louis
| third. The race was for open ships OF
| 500-cubic-inch piston displacement.
E. B. Heath of Chicago, in IS
mile free-for-all civilian race for civ
yer" planes of 110-cubic-inch piston
displacement, averaged 1913 miles an
hour to win. Delbert Koerner, Kanka-
kee, ILL.,, was second; Gus Palmquist
Chicago, third.
SunfIash Air Beacon.
A sunflash air beacon, whose re-
| fiected and magnif1ed rays are visible
100 miles away, beckoned flyers to Chi
cago today.
The beacon, atop the new 44-story
La Salle-Wacker Building, is q new
venture in aerial guidance. Sun rays
are reflected in eight directions, magni-
fed by 36-inch mirrors. A. N. Rebori
Is the designer.
At night, the beacon shoots 5000, 900
candlepower beams in eight directions.
Dedicated yesterday by Mrs. Gladys
O'Donnell winner of the Wornen'g Pa
ciic Derby Of the National Air Races
the beacon was the second powerful
guidepost put in operation in Chicago
within two days.
North across the Chicago River, atop
the Palmolive Building, the 1000 900,
600 candlepower Lindbergh light was
turned on the previous night, and was
seen through the extreme haze and
murk by flyers as far away as Mil
waukee.
| FOREIGNERS GET ACOUATNTEn
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Pershing Resumes Duties Here.

Gen. John j. Pershing today resumed
his duties at the War Department as
chairman Of the American Battle
Monuments Commission after an alb
sence of several months in supervising
the works in progress at various Ameri-
can cemeteries In France and collecting
data for his memoirs of the World
Wap
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-29
ASKS $4,000 DAMAGES
Woman Claims Canned Fish She
Bought inflicted Injuries.

The Great Atlantic e. Pacific Tea
Co. and the Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co.
of Gloucester. Mass, were sued jointly
today in the District Supreme Court for
$4,000 damages by Dorothy Kober,
1870 E street northeast, for alleged per-
sonal injuries. She says she bought a
can of faxed fish from the local A. g.
p. Co. store May and found it to con-
tain crystalline substance, which cut
and infected her mouth and gums, re-
curing large expenditure for medical
and dental treatments. The fish is said
to have been canned by the Gorton-Pew
Co. Attorney Ralph A. Cusick appears
for the plaintiff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-29
seaplane Forced Down.

SEASIDE PARK, N. j., August 20
R).-A seaplane flying the regular route
between New York and Atlantic City
was forced down Wednesday night,
landing in the ocean about 200 yards
from shore. A woman passenger was
brought ashore by Coast Guards and
the plane TAXED oouth under It's own
power.
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FOREIGNERS GET ACQUAINTED.
European Flyers Have Correct Slant on
-.,.. American Aviation.
nv Jo9EpH a. EnGERToN.
SVDHEH D BUNEAAUN'
star Cnrresnnndant Of The Star

CURTISS REYNOLDS AIRPORT,
Chicago, August 29.-One of the most
important features of the national air
races now in progress here, from the
standpoint of future progress of aero
nauticS throughout the world, in the
opinion of many of the great leaders
Of aeronautics gathered here, Is the
participation for the first time of crack
foreign pilots.
As q result of the enterprise Of Lieut.
Afford J. williams former Navy racing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-29
GERMANS CHICAGO BOUND.

Take-On for Buffalo on Way to Air
Races.
NEW YORK, August 20 (P).-Capt.
Wolfgang Won Gronau, German trans
atlantic flyer, took on this morning
with his three companions for Buffalo
en- route to the air races at Chicago.
The huge Whale, which Won Gronau
flew here from Germany, rose from the
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Victory for Principles.

Long before the end Of tbs fight
over the amount OF the lump sum the
battle between House and Senate had
narrowed TO one that concerned prtn-
ciples more than mere figures. For this
reason the settlements on the District
bill can be counted as q distinct VIC
tory for the Senate, and some Of the
fruits Of that victory will accrue TO the
District, which in the fight has been
the Senate's silent ally.
The principle, as far as the House
and Senate alone were concerned, az
fected the fundamental rights Of the
latter body as a copartner In the busi-
ness of legislating. The Senate has
demonstrated that it Is not TO be
bluffed or buIldozed.
As far as the District was concerned
the principle narrowed down to the old
point Of whether q few members Of
the House, disregarding considerations
Of equity and fair treatment, would con-
tinue indefinitely and without rhyme
or reason to allot as the Federal share
an arbitrary and fixed sum to Capita
maintenance without regard to TIT
number, nature or cost of Capital CITY
projects to be charged to the taxpayer;
by an alien legislative body.
The protracted Tight between the SEN
-n-ma.~
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No Pedestrian Safety in
Red Lights or Zones

To the Editor Of The Star:
Is 1t lawful for autos and cabs to run
through safety zones? We have al
ways been told that this was not lawful
and that the red light meant safety
and we could cross while it was on. But
it seems that the public must have been
miSinformed, for few days since
came within few inches of being run
down crossing directly before my home,
1886 Connecticut avenue northwest,
from one platform and on the red light,
when an auto came daSl1ing through
and almost ran me down. Several peo-
pie saw this. A poor woman who has
to earn her living shortly before this
was run down early before dark in an
other place-(safety zone)-and was so
badly injured that she was taken to q
hospital with a badly hurt hip from
which she Is still suffering The
offender told the policeman he either
had to run into her or another auto
mobile. Has 1t come to this pass, that
a human life Is worth much less than
thing Of iron without feeling? Some
times 10 and Is cars will pass between
these safety zones, in a few moments,
and when getting of a car it Is i'm
possible to see them running through
behind the car. Every one is talking
about this point and we would be glad
to know definitely what we are to ex-
pect, as to the law upon this point
MADGE I. MCLAUGHLIN.
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plus the arrogant refusal Of the House
to compromise until the last minute Of
q long session, makes the Senate VIC
tory more pronounced. The $500, OoC
yielded by the House is o relatively small
sum. The main thing is that the House
and not the Senate, yielded at the end
and that the lump sum, fixed and un-
changing for the last six years, has
been changed and revised upward tr
favor of the District.
At one time the District was placed
In the position Of losing the 1881 ap-
preparation or Of seeing the Senate
yield once more to the domination Of
the House. If the appropriation had
failed the District would have been
forced to undergo actual hardship and
development Of the Capital would have
been seriously retarded. If the Senate
had yielded the long fight by the Dis
trict for fiscal equity would have been
fruitleSs, and small hope would have
remained for a new deal.
The agreement. however, changes ali
this. The deadlock, and with 1t the
fixed amount Of the lump sum, has been
broken. The Senate has ably demon
strated that there is spirit as well as
strength in the Districts contention,
and the attention OF the Nation has
been conferred on problem for which
Congress in self-defense alone must pro-
vide a sensible and permanent solution.
Once again the Senate, taking the
part Of the unrepresented citizens of the
District, has waged a good fight. But
this time the Senate has won.
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Telegram, "the American public will
reel easily justified In believing in Santa
Claus once more" The New York
world Is convinced that "the snarl which
mas arisen over the appropriation for
tne commissions work is a natural ra-
suit OF the confusion of its policies.
Inc curtatlment of funds was Virtually
tne genial OF vote of full confidence"
NO one has been able to give aYlv
assurance" says the New Orleans
Item, that the commission has q
cnance TO render greater service in the
future than 1t has already rendered
Inc evidence indicates that It has been
an important agency and is likely to
continue so. Why, then, spend $3.50 600
more upon lt?" The Birmingham News
voices the view that findings of a com.
mission financed by private and not bv
public funds may become legally cloud.
ed. The Lynchburg Advance offerS
the criticism, THE people Of the United
states are vastly more interested in the
dry question than they are in q study
OF general crime, and had the commits
sion followed the general purpose for
winch 1t was created, the country might
nave We Deen on the way to a solution Of
THAT the Wickersham commission
should be adequately financed in the
complexion OF the work on the broad
lines hitherto projected seems a per-
fectly reasonable proposal" states the
Springfield Republican, expressing its
sympathy with the Presidents purpose
70 hnance by means of private funds the
commissions requirements in complete
ing its program unhampered by the
limitations which the Senate would
impose on it." The Louisville Times
comments: THE results of the work
may be or may not be worth the OUTLAY.
or worth farthing. But why investi.
gate one form of crime only?"
The Asheville Times finds itself In
sympathy, speaking In general. with
the Presidents defense of his Commits
sion," but adds, "It must be confessed
that 1t Is not difficult to understand
the impatience that marks the criti-
cisms. In the Senate and elsewhere of
the law commissions necessarily slow
labors."
Since the commission has UNDER
taken" according to the Erie Dispatch
Herald, ''the huge task of Investigating
the whole subject of law obedience and
enforcement, with special reference TO
the prohibition problem, it should 20
through with it. The commission has
accomplished something substantial.
giving hope of a final constructive
report"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-04

World War seems as far away almost
rs II it had never happened.
Suggestions are forthcoming that s.
Parker Gilbert, young American wizard
OF finance, may be invited by President
Hoover to take the chairmanship Of the
reconstructed United States Tariff Com
mission. Gtlbert's Job as agent general
for reparation payments at Berlin came
to an end few weeks ago with the In
ception Of the Young plan. He can
have his pick of q dozen New York
banking Jobs at fancy salaries and may
prefer that kind of a career to con-
tinued public service. Gilbert, who Is
only 81, would meet with Mr.. Hoover's
requirements for a tariff chief, wholly
isolated from politics and political en-
tanglements. His four years in Europe
have given him deep insight into eco
nomic conditions lover there" AS
these will be the bedrock of tariff re-
vision under the flexible system, Gil
bert, in many respects, Is ready-made
for the Job in question.
~
Dean Roscoe Pound Of the Harvard
Law School and one Of the members of
the Wickersham Law Enforcement
Commission has gone to ireland for a
walking tour. Perhaps he wants to as
certain at first-hand just what 1t was
that st. Patrick did to drive the snakes
from the Emerald Isle and see how far
the methods OF ErinS legendary hero
can be invoked for certain purposes in
the United States. Pound Is an inde-
fatigable knight of the road. He made
himself an authority on Civil War bat
tlefields by tramping over them.
\ X
Representative Robert Luce, Repub-
l1can, OF Massachusetts, ranking menu
Der of the House Committee on World
War Veterans Legislation, receives the
lions share OF credit on Capitol Hill for
the final termination Of the recent scrap
along lines satisfactory to the admins
tration. The cultured author OF "Legis-
latlve Procedure" and Congress: An
Explanation" rates as the strategist who
evolved the rapid-fire scheme of sustain
ing the Hoover veto of the first veterans
bill and then trotting out the johnson
substitute, which now Is law. There's
notnlng In recent annals to equal the
dizziness with which the White House
race was saved and Congress extricated
from predicament by one and the
same token. Luce is a past master of
the ms and outs of legislative magic, and
ne drew triumphantly on his storehouse
OF knowledge in the veterans mess.
X
WINE veterans legislation is still fresh
In mind comes the story that Represent
alive John E. Rankin, Democrat, of
Mississippi, sponsor of the original
House bill, aspires to be majority floor
leader If and when the Democrats or
ganize the lower branch and name
Jack" Garner Speaker. Rankin is a
world War service man himself. To
him Is credited the grandiose plan of
seeking to wrest for the Democratic
party the leadership Of all veterans
legislation, In order that 1t may reap the
power and the glory so long enjoyed by
the Republicans as the political spon-
sors OF the Grand Army of the Republic.
(Copyright, 193o.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-04
Absurd Parking Light
Rule Enforcement

To the Editor Of The Star:
The District police may not be able
to catch q murderer, but they are won
derfully clever at surrounding q parked
car and attaching a ticket to it for
some petty violation Of the traffic ordi-
nanceS. Mine was parked in front Of
my residence, within 20 feet Of an arc
ing vehicle is no excuse. Two thousand
other WaShingtonians are in the same
ok, which works out at $4,000 in for
feited collateral for one nights work.
Not bad!
hereby propose and offer myself as
signatory to petition to Congress for
moderniZation of the traf1c rules. Why
should cars parked under an arc light
need parking light? OF course, "it Is
the law and therefore it should be
obeyed," but why are the police so ca
PRECIOUS in enforcing it? About six
weeks ago some local business man
abandoned his car in front Of my res
tdence for three days, naturally without
parking lights, and had to call up the
police twice to notify the owner of my
innocent desire to have access to my
own house. For weeks and months
cars In my street are left without park
ing lights and there is never sign Of
a summons. Then the police flop on a
big murder case and show their au-
thority by holding a battue Of parked
automobiles.
All we can do is to petition Congress
for relief and for a recognition of the
fact that the police are not our masters,
but our servants. They exist for us and
are paid by us to protect us from each
other. Is it too much to ask Congress
to protect us from the police? I sug-
gest petition, but If any more prac-
tical method can be suggested for put
ting an end to the arbitrary exercise of
petty authority on the part Of our po-
lice servants, shall be glad to CO.
operate. JOHN CARTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-04
Error as to House of
Marshall Corrected
To the Editor of The Star:


Mr.. James w. Brooks, who wrote the
article in Sundays Star, American
History by Motor" was misinformed In
regard to Rosebank being the home
of Chief Justice Marshall and a soldier
under Lafayette naming the village of
Paris.
was born in Fauquier County, Va,
81 years ago, between Markham and
Piedmont, the latter now called Della
plane. Rosebank, which is at Mark
ham, was the home Of Gen. Turner Ash
by'S father and Turner himself was
born there. 1t was purchased from
Turner Ashby's mother after his
fathers death by Edward G. Marshall,
a descendant Of the Chief Justice. The
AShby family were my relatives.
The home of Chief Justice Marshall
was called Oak Hill, and it is still stand
ing between Delaplane and Marshall
was there many times in my youth
visiting and attending parties, and q
great-granddaughte of the Chief JUS
tice was one of my most intimate
friends. l motored over this route
three years ago and saw many Of the
old places, including both Rosebank and
Oak Hill.
A great-uncle Of mine, Thompson
Ashby, was keeping the tavern at Paris
when Lafayette stopped there and he
himself gave the village its name
Thompson Ashby was a lieutenant in
the Revolutionary War
MRS. BLANCHE ASHBY LAMBERT
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

This bureau does not give advice, but
It gives free information on any subject
Often to be accurately informed Is to be
beyond the need of advice, and tnfor-
nation is always valuable, whereas ad-
vice may not be. In using this service
be sure to write clearly, state your in
CURRY briefly and incloSe 2-cent stamp
for reply postage. Address The Evening
Star Information Bureau, Frederic j.
HaSkin, director, washington, d. G.
O. On q hot Summer day does an
airplane ride have . cooling effect?-
H. ].
A. Aside from the motion, there is a
second reason which makes an airplane
ride cool: For every 1000 feet assembled
there is an actual drop Of 3 degrees
in temperature.
9. Are there any Negro jockeys in
the big-time races?-L. B. S.
A. Although Negro boys are employed
as exercise boys and stable boys at the
big race tracks, they are not employed
as jockeys. The number has been de-
creasing rapidly for the last five or six
years, and they do not usually ride, even
on the smaller race tracks.
Q. Did Iindbergh actually deliver the
letters of introduction which he took to
Paris?-T. w.
A. Ambassador Herrick said of this:
when greeted him he handed me his
three letters of introduction with a
/ happy smile"
@. OF the money spent by American
tourists, how much is spent in the
United States?-C. A.
A. It has been estimated that Ameri-
can tourists spent $4,000 900, 900 In 1929.
OF this, about 100000 900 was spent
in tourist resorts within the United
States, $500, 100000 went to Europe
$3.50, 100000 to Canada and $24, 0O0, 600
to Cuba.
@. Where is the famous Endicott pear
tree? How old Is FTP. L.
| A. This tree is at Danversport, near
DanverS, Mass. It was planted in 1882
by Gov. John Endicott on his land there
and Is still the property of the Endicott
family. William Crowningshield Endi-
colt, owner Of the tree, believes that ii
was planted in Gov. Endicott's garden
at Salem even before it was planted at
Danvers and that 1t was brought from
a nursery in England In 1880. The
tree bloomed this Spring preparatory to
bearing its annual crop of sugar pears
Q. What is the origin of notches in
coat lapels?-T. B. A.
A. The notch is said to have origi-
mated through the rivalry of Gen. Mo-
reau with Napoleon, Moreau's followers
having devised 1t as a secret badge OF
their partnership.
Q. Who was master of ceremonies a,
the frst tnaugural?-G. S. M.
A. Col. Smith, husband of Abigail
Adams Smith, was one.
q. What is meant by the Brattsys-
tenn OF Sweden?-M. F.
A. The BrattSystem refers to Sweden,s
system OF liquor control, organized by
DR.. Ivan Bratt. Under its workings
Sweden Is divided into l2l LIQUOR con-
troll districts, with a separate system
company to each district, the company
having the monopoly Of the retail trade
IN its district. Each of the 121 system
companies buys its liquor from a sin
gle wholesale system company which
mas the monopoly of the wholesale
business In Sweden.
Q. What Is being done to save the
Leaning Tower of Pisa?-H. K,
A. A commission of experts has been
appointed to check the increasing list
OF the famous monument. 1t was found
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-04
Better Standards
In Government

From the Chicago Daily News.
Sir Josiah Stamp, the British econ
omtst and f1nancier, in an address
before the American Academy of Po-
htical Science, expressed the hope that
before long the constructive thinkers and
business leaders Of the world would put
as much driving force behind economic
questions as they do behind chemistry
and physics. In order to do this they
must take an active part in public
affairs. Why should they not? Those
affairs have a direct and important
bearing upon business, just as do the
discoveries of the experts In physical
science.
Politicians and holders of public
office have much to do and say In re-
gard to economic matters. It would
be difficult to take economics out OF
politics. The tariff, the PREPARATIONS
question, waterway development, the
idea OF European federation and many
more illustrations OF this truth readily
come to mind. But the social sciences
are not exact. Their conclusions can
not be tested in laboratories. Hence
every person has his own notions
and emotions-about government, eco
Monies, international relations. When
ones emotions are excited, one has little
respect for expert opinions.
AS Macaulay pointed out MANY wears
ago and Spencer after him, bias, per-
sonal interest, fear and habit stand
in the way Of ready recognition OF
truth in the domain of social relations
whereas in the domain of the exact
sciences one encounters few such OBJ
stacles or none at all. Discoveries and
congratulations make their way largely
because their ultimate effects cannot
be foreseen or measured. Selfishness
and timidity may delay the use of an
invention, but cannot long prevent that
use. In the social and political sciences
the whole situation is different, Issues
are confused; appeals made deliber-
ately to prejudice and common; dema-
gogues care little for truth, sacrificine
everything to ambition, love of power
and desire for gain.
Men OF science and men of large
affairs and sound moral standards are
needed to combat these evils by going
into politics, taking Office and. at the
risk of defeat, educating the electorate
in essential, If unpopular. truths.
Where the leaders are in earnest and
have courage and integrity, truth uiti-
mately prevails.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-04

Writing in one Of the reviews that
takes a pessimistic outlook on the striv-
ings Of humanity In general, an author
recounts the fact that he never sees
the American nag proudly waving with
out experiencing q secret desire to
heave q rock ut 1t, not because Of any
subversive philosophy that he has en-
braced. but because, as a school boy, he
was once required to stay after school
and practice the Salute to the Flag
while his comrades stood around and
made merry over his shortcomings in
mastering the prescribed formula.
The other day one Of Washington'i
kindergarten teachers thought she
heard . discordant note In the class
rendition Of Three Cheers for the Red