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The Washington times., 1930-09-30

the great popularity Of the
hooked rug. Or the carpeting
in hooked rug designs.
Early American furniture was
the product of pioneer days.
Provincial furniture is a peas
ant product. They're rough
hewn and sturdy in line-origi-
nally, of course, made by hand.
Hooked rugs were a handi-
craft product, too. their de-
signs and colors merely follow.
ing the fancy of the maker.
So these rugs and these types
of furniture just naturally en-
Semble well.
Oriental Patterns
Good rugs to use with delicate
mahogany furniture are the
more delicate Oriental patterns
The Washington times., 1930-09-30
Tiny Animals Of Blown
Glass. 25 and 80 Gents.

Tiny Animals Of Blown
Glass, 25 and 80 Gents.
Many collectors these days
are interested in these very
modern and ultra smart ami
mails Of German blown glass.
They are 11a to 3 inches tall
and in delightful colors. If
you know them at all, you
know that they usually sell for
a great deal more than this,
but one store is specializing on
them now at these low prices.
Suit With Lapin
Jacket, $65
This is quite the smartest
little suit we've seen of its kind.
The jacket is of fine quality
soft Lain which is that Shirred
rabbit fur. With it comes a
skirt and beret of soft suede
cloth. The jacket is satin-lined
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-03
Coach Gordon of Avalon
Proves Sportsmanship

From the Portland (oregD Journal.
He is only basket ball coach. But
he is a great soul.
HIS team at Avalon, Pa, and the Sc
Wlckley quintet were struggling for
mastery IN crucial interhigh school
game. Ihere was great crowd of spec
tatorS and feeling ran high.
Inc score stood 81 to 81 at the end of
the last half. The referee ordered an
extra period. At its conclusion the score
was still 1881. Another extra neriod
was started with players on both teams
at tne point of exhaustion. The SUBJ
stitutes of the Sewickley five were out
OF the game. Then one Of the SeWickley
team had to be helped to the bench.
There was nobody to put in. The Sc
Wlckley team had to go on with four
players or forfeit the game. Another
period was begun, one team with Ave,
the other with only four men.
Then out in the middle of the arena
appeared Coach Gordon of the Avalon
team. Victory for him was almost GER
tain, with five men to the visitors four
But he was more than a basket bali
coach. He was true sportsman. ''Mav
I take one of my men out?" he shouted
to the referee. Il don't want to beat
a four-man team"
The referee consented The left
guard of Gordon's team was sent tn
the bench. The spectators booed and
howled and protested, but the game
went on.
Now it was four men against four and
within two minutes Sewickley looped a
two-pointer and won the game.
What's victory in the score COM
pared with the victory of Gordon as a
hero of athletics, as q moral example
to every coach in every sport, as a great
instructor and noble soul, for players on
every field to emulate?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-03
Moscow's Red Hand,

Until their authenticity is clearly dis
proved, the documents just brought 10
light by Police Commissioner Whalen
IN New York, respecting Soviet-directed
Communist activities in this country,
must be regarded as disclosures of grave
Importance. Official denials" by Mos
cows American agents will hardly be
accepted as prinna facie evidence that
the papers are 'forgeries" devised by
"disgruntled Russian enigres." It could
not be expected that Soviet spokesman
here would acknowledge the genuine
ness of evidence categorically incrimi-
mating the Communist international in
riots, strikes and other plots to under
mine the existing order on these cap
italistic" shores.
The most arresting fact revealed by
the Whalen documents is the connec-
ton they purport to establish between
Communist activities and the Amtorg
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-03
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

So much has been said about law dis
obedience that it may be profitable to
consider law obedience.
One of the most striking of these
manifestations is the way motorists stop
and start at traffic lights and signs in
the early morning, when there is no
one around to see whether they do or
do not.
1t is encouraging to take an early
morning ride just to watch them obey
the edicts of official command. Surely
they do not have to do it.
Yet they will solemnly halt at the
the command of invisible powers, the
will of themselves the people.
1t is encouraging, to say the least.
X X X
Paris is said to have the most docile
residents in this respect.
Their veneration for authority, as seen
in uniforms and as read in signs and
other forms of official command, Is de-
clared to be unequaled in the world.
This is all the more curious, since
these same Parisians have a lengthy
record for turbulence. The ancestors
of these sign-obeyers overturned the
Bastille and joined in the Commune
They staged street riots many time,
even upon occasions of reverence.
Today their sons and grandsonS bow
low before the brass buttons of the
gendarme or other insignia of au-
thority.
Yet these Parisians act little differ
entity from Washingtonians or the resi-
dents of other cities, where close living
demands certain rules and their OBJ
servance.
It was the great Napoleon who once
IN woods than in community with
out law"
The likes of one man clash against
the likes of another. These are aug
mented by the battle of like against
dislike. These mixtures are compli-
Gated by thousand different ideals and
million different thoughts.
Uniformity of action, as manifested
in rules and regulations, is necessary if
the muddle of living is to be anything
except a rout.
City people, as a rule, accept without
question and obey the injunctions in
the parks. Keep Off the Grass"
IL Is SelOOItl JIldL OIle sees even DOyS
cutting across such plots of ground.
Out at the Zoo the command to re-
frain from feeding foods to certain ami
mails is more generally obeyed than
one might imagine, since this is about
the only way that the spectator has
of coming into any real contact with
the creatures
Every one loves to feed animals. at
least upon occasion. A small boy may
not care for the steady day-in-and-
day-out job of giving Fido his supper,
but he loves to feed peanuts to the
monkeys at the Zoo.
1t takes, therefore, considerable will
power and, above all, genuine respect
Tor authority for spectators to resist the
lure of so natural an action.
Yet somehow most of them do resist
1t, and it is respect for constituted law
which does the trick.
X X y
1t is the fashion today in some quar-
tiers to sheer at the sanctity of the law,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-03
Lowering the Rates.

The House yesterday definitely deter
mined to adopt the lower sugar duties
of the tariff bill as it passed the Sen
ate. The Senate rate is higher than
the rate in existing law, but it marks
a compromise between the rate original
ly put through the House and the law
as it stands. Under the parliamentary
rules which govern, the House was COM
PEELED to accept the Senate duty or ad-
here to the original House duty on
sugar, or accept rate Of duty some
where between the rates fixed by the
two houses. 1t could not return to the
rate of existing law. The disposition
Of the House, however, apparently has
changed markedly since the tariff bill
was originally before that body, year
ago. With congressional election in the
ohing, 1t is apparent that members OF
the House have been impressed with
the attacks which have been leveled
against higher tariff duties. Sugar was
not the only item on which the House
yesterday voted for lower rates. The
House voted to restore lumber shingles
logs and silver to the free list.
The lower tariff forces in the House
gathered strength with succeeding
votes. The prediction, however, had
been made in the past that the House
would not stand for the lumber duties
imposed in the Senate bill and that, in
the end, the lower rate on sugar, pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-03

vided In the Senate, would be agreed
to. These predictions have apparently
been fulfilled. The House has agreed
to a Scent duty on cement, the duty
fixed in the Senate bill, which Is 2
cents less than the rate voted when
the House had the bill before it. The
House, however, struck out the Blease
amendment, adopted by the Senate,
which would have admitted free of duty
cement to be used In public works.
The general trend as evidenced in
the House itself. and in the conference
report on the bill, has been toward
lower duties on major items in the bill.
The hope has been expressed in many
quarters that out of the conference
stage of the tariff bill consideration a
measure which more nearly comported
with the recommendations of the
President for a Limited revision" of
the tariff, with aid especially for farm
products and those industries which
have been hard hit by the importations
of foreign goods in recent years, would
emerge. Judging from the action of
the conferees and also Of the House
itself, such bill is now being shaped
for submission to Mr.. Hoover. 1t is
true that the duties on lumber, silver
and several other items, acted upon by
the House, must again go back to con-
ference. But the House has settled
definitely the sugar duty in accepting
the Senate rate. Furthermore, the
Senate has been given due notice that
the House does not propose to agree to
duties on lumber and shingles, for ex-
ample, nor on silver.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-03
Spirited Warfare Develops
Over Federal Canal Scheme

thinks the Chicago Daily Tribune,
would be to develop and operate them
as carriers from the lakes to the East
ern markets, with export facilities such
as will be provided at the outlet of the
Illinois Mississippi waterway. New Eng
land and New York are large importers
and consumers of grain, and water rate
to these markets can be more profitable
TO Western growers than a dubious ex-
port trade by way of the projected St.
Lawrence way, which has Canadian
factions against it."
X X Il X
Considering the possibility that the
New York barge canal plan is SUCCESS
full, the Detroit Free Press warns: IF
that leads to the development of the
st. Lawrence waterway as an all-Cana-
dian route, we shall be left with a barge
canal, while Canada will be in posses
sion OF deep waterway permitting
ocean vessels to reach her inland ports,
which will be available to American
shipping only by her courtesy. That
would be too high price to pay" con-
tinueS the Free Press, for easing the
taxpayers of New York of the load
'ClintonS ditch shouldered upon them
more than century ago, and from
under which they have ever since been
trying to escape" The Beloit Daily
News declares that sit is questionable
whether New York and Chicago will
be the gamers in the long run by pool
ing their own selfish metropolitan con-
slderations against the urgent needs of
the vast midland producing area"
Iaklng over that white elephant and
saddllng it on the Nation" maintains
the Columbus Ohio State Journal, sis
the worst display of unthinking poll
tics the House has supplied during the
session. The bill should be revised and
fumigated," The Toledo Blade sees
another official vote of approval and
confidence for the Santa Claus theory
of government"
This raid on the Treasury" Is viewed
by the Milwaukee Journal as against
the interests of the Midwest. The ST
Paul Pioneer Press calls it 1.-The rich
est and ripest piece of pork in the his
tory OF Treasury raiding." The Kala-
mazoo Gazette condemns the action as
AN effort to defeat the Great Lakes-St
Lawrence waterway movement"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-03

| and to regard the sneerers as clever, as
| If all good and fine things had not been
laughed at by certain types of human
beings since life began.
Laws and regulations are, after all
| only the people trying to protect them
selves from themselves, or from certain
traits and deeds which any man recog-
| nizes as inimical to the higher good, in
his saner moments.
It should be pointed out that few
men and women are precisely sane all
the time. Even the most rational have
moments of alteration. AS the Quaker
gentleman said to his wife, Every one
is just little queer but me and thee
and even thee art just little queer"
4 X 4 X
Schools might profitably teach chill
dren the real meaning of laws, their
history. what they stand for, what they
attempt to do, and why human nature
is such that it demands them.
We are aware that the subjects Of
ethics and civics, so called, attempt tc
do precisely these things, but we submit
that they fail miserably, in that they
make the entire teachings theoretical
| instead of practical.
The time has come for firm division
| of subjects, to divorce those which are
practical from those which are theo-
retical, and where they are both prac-
| tical and theoretical to teach one side
of each at a time, instead of mixing
them all up so that the average student
has no real idea of what he is trying
| to do in his studies. And, worse, stu
dents are all too young, anyway.
The reasons for laws, and the beauty
of laws, their place in living groups Of
human beings, and the normal obServ-
ance Of them, with celebrated cases
would DO much to prevent the false
| hippant impression which too many
persons have today of these matters.
X X X x
The trouble with this generation, as
we see it, is that it is the victim Of
too easy living.
1t has not cut down forests and made
its own houses out of the logs.
1t buys a speculative built house and
calls it quits
1t has not hewn railroad out of a
wilderness. but when it wants to &c
travelling it does so without once get
ting its feet wet.
1t has not toiled, in sense, neither
has it spun, in another, but whole
battery of Solomons were not arrayed
boy.
How can such people be expected to
have any respect for law?
Law has dignity. they have none.
Law requires brains, they have-well,
II this be treason to ones fellow men,
make the most of it.
The law is just according to its ideal,
miserably unjust too often, in actual
practice. but its sanctity is neverthe-
less sure, because it represents immu-
table principle in action.
Its aim is justice, and so great an
aim cannot be defeated, in the long run.
At various times and in various
places, subterfuge. ignorance, caprice
crookedness of mind and spirit may
seem to win the day
But justice at last will come out tri-
umphant although it may take CEN
turtles. And this need of justice will
not be my idea, or your idea, but the
common property of every honest man
Look around and consider law obedi-
ence; it is the hopeful sign in the
wilderness of disobedience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-03
Salesmanship Needed
For Muscle Shoals

From the Chicago Daily News.
The Senate second time has passed
the Norris bill for Government opera
ton Of Muscle Shoals. Previously the
bill failed by reason of President Cool
ldge's pocket Veto The House has still
70 pass upon the revised measure.
Normally Americans are skeptical of
expensive and unnecessary experiments
In governmental undertakings in BUSH
ness on large scale. Many have
hoped that Muscle Shoals would be
leased advantageously to a competent
private concern. Failure of private
concerns to submit a satisfactory bid,
together with disclosures of improper
Ioooylng activities conducted by rep
resentat1veS OF private bidders, has inn
proved the chances of the renewed Nor
rls proposal, Residents of the South
complain that under the present
termlnable lease to a power company
only one-fourth of the available power
at the Wilson dam is used, and that
on terms none too profitable to the
Government. On the other hand,
offers by other Interests have been
ridiculously inadequate.
1t is not BILE that valuable ma
tional resources should lie dormant.
For potentially Muscle Shoals means
not only water power in Alabama, but
fertilizer on Illinois acres and crank
cases and automobile bodies for Amer
lean use, and aluminium parts in air.
planes taking off from American air.
ports. Muscle Shoals potentially offers
electric energy developed from a dis
charge of 100000 cubic feet of water a
second, or three times the maximum
discharge OF the st. Lawrence in the in
ternational section. In fair proximity to
that great source of electrical energy
are the bauxite deposits of Georgia and
Alabama. Electric ovens are REQUIRED
for the smelling of bauxite ore for
aluminium. The use of aluminium
products in automotive and airplane
manufacture, and the use of oxide
aluminium in modern fertilizer produce
ton. augment the Importance of these
undeveloped national resources.
The Norris bill does not merit enact
ment If private enterprise will furnish
an acceptable substitute for Govern
ment operation It embodies SERIOUSLY
Objectionable features. But a reason.
able offer by representatives Of private
capital thus far has been sought in
vain. A little intelligently, wide-awake
craftsmanship by the Government at
this time Is desirable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-03

Trading Corporation, official purchasing
agent for the Soviet Union in the
United States A letter on Amtorg sta
tionery and signed by one of its on
Gals lists thirty persons said to have
been sent here as Soviet agents and
who would be hard to replace"
Among the indispensables named are
Peter A. Bogdanov, recently elected
chairman Of Amtorg, and Boris E.
Skvirsky, director of the Soviet informa-
ton bureau at Washington.
Another document on it's face is a
mandate from Moscow ordering G.
Grafpen, the Amtorg functionary whose
signature is attached to the Bogdanov-
Skvirsky letter, to take general charge of
the Soviet secret criminal police" in
this country. Skvirsky, the document
alleges, would finance operations, and
Bogdanov would advise on business mat
tiers.
Amtorg in New York corresponds to
"Arcos" in London, the Soviet trading
agency in Great Britain. Six years ago,
shortly after the first Labor government
had established diplomatic relations
with Moscow, ARGOS House, in the heart
OF the city" of London, was raided and
found to be the center not only of
Soviet commercial activities, but the
headquarters from which Russian Com
munist Vaccinations throughout the
British Isles were being secretly directed
The ARGOS raid speedily led to the
breaking of of the short-lived official
agreement between London and Mos
COW. The present Labor government re-
established relations last Winter, but on
the definite understanding that Red
propaganda In the British Empire must
cease.
The Amtorg chairman in New York
demands a thorough investigation of
Mr.. Whalen's damning dossier. He
protests, as apparent proof of the
Soviet trading concerns innocence,
that in 1929 it did $150,00O,0O0 worth
of business with American firms. When
Moscow three or four years ago re-
sumed its increasing desire for Ameri-
can diplomatic recognition, and its
friends here were harping on the
benefits which would accrue to Ameri-
can business, President Coolidge rebuked
the suggestion in becoming terms. He
said, in effect, that We are not disposed
to barter American ideals for Russian
trade-that the United States could not
consider licensing subversive propa-
gsnda within its territory in exchange
for Red gold paid to limited number
of American exporting companies.
Four administrations in succession
those of Wilson, Harding, Coolidge
and Hoover-have consistently declined
diplomatic dealings with Soviet Russia.
The rock on which Moscow's craving
for our friendship has always gone to
smash is its unwillingness to pledge
Abandonment of the Communist In
ternational's crusade for world revo-
luton" Ample evidence exists that this
crusade is incessant, intensive and i'm
pudent. Governments in Europe which
were persuaded to take Moscow on trust
have had constantly recurring cause to
rue the confidence they reposed In So
Wet assurances.
The American people will be disposed,
in light of developments at New York,
to rejoice afresh that their Government
remains resolutely opposed to official
traffic with Soviet Russia, however valu-
able our traders may find it to do bust
ness with MOSCOW =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-03
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKIN.

small cells or chambers in the walls of
the stomach which are closed, as soon
as they are filled, by the contraction OF
ring-shaped fibers that surround their
openings.
Q. In the days of Caesar Augustus
were the feet of a person crucif1ed
always nailed to the cross?-H. z.
A. They were, instead, often tied 70
the cross.
@. Has any one ever proposed that
labor be paid by the year instead OF by
the hour, day, or week?-W. @.
A. Senator Couzens of Michigan re-
Gently referred to such an idea when he
said: IF every industry were to pay IT'S
men by the year instead of by the hour
or day, industry would find way 70
stabilize its production so that 1t got
its moneys worth"
@. How many Bibles were sold last
year?-B. S. w.
A. About 14,ooo,oo copies of Bibles
and Testaments we're sold In this coun-
try In 1929. and the total for the world
is estimated at 36,5oo,ooo.
Q. How long did Frau Wagner sur-
vive Richard Wagner and how old was
she at her death?-K. j.
A. Frau Cosima Wagner survived
Richard Wagner AZ years and was 90
years old when she died on April last.
@. Is it true that there is a chemical
that is worth $12,000,000 an ounce?--
Y. T. r.
A. The statement has been made
| that barium is worth that, but not
because of its scarcity or value-because
of the work 1t does. Barium Is a
chemical element that is used to coat
the filament Of vacuum tubes with a
saving of 100000 per gram Of bariurn
used At this rate an ounce would be
worth s12,0o0.o0o.
| @. Why are parts of the River Nile
| called the Blue Nile and the White
| Nile?-M. L.
A. The white and blue branches of
the Nile are so named from the color
of the water. The Blue Nile Is usually
clear blue. The White Nile is light
greenish gray. At the confluence at
| Khartum in the Sudan it is possible
| to see the two colors clearly defined as
the two streams meet.
@. What are the most important fac
| tors in sanitation?-P. M.
! A. The four cardinal factors arc safe
water supply, sanitary control of food
| products, control of communicable dis
eases and sanitary control and disposi.
ton of human and animal wastes.
@. Where do waterspouts occur?-
P. D.
A. They occur most frequently over
! the warm seas of the Tropics. but they
are not confined to the warmer tropical
seasons or even to low ATTITUDES.
@. Who was the first outstanding
marine painter in this country?-
F. H K.
| A. Winslow Homer was the first to
! be generally acclaimed, and many crit
| les regard him as the best of the Amer
lean marine painters.
@. Why is the stage referred to as the
| legitimate stage?-E II. r.
| "A 1t is called in the sense of its
being normal, regular, conformable to
a recognized standard type Originally
| the legitimate drama was that body of
plays, Shakespearean or other, that
have recognized theatrical and literary
| merit.
@. What is anchor ice?-M. q. C,
| A. 1t is ice formed on the bottom of
rivers and streams adhering to stones.
rocks or other debris. It occurs where
the current Is too swift for surface ice
| to FORM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-03
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Tickle Plea.
Maytime smilin'
Underneath the moon.
Breeze beguilin'
Starts a change of tune.
"Cold wave, leave us!"
That's what we would say.
Don't deceive us
Journey on your wayl"
Maytime singin'
When the sky is warm
Wish comes clingin'
For thunderstorm!
"Cold wave, find us
Once again." we say
"And remind us
OF a good, old Winter day."