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A HOLIDAY for the Recalcitrants.

When Mayor Walker called his official
henchmen before him the othIt day
and told them that, under penalty OF
dismissal from office, they must 60 be-
fore the grand jury and, waving I'M
ynunity. give their testimony on matters
in inquiry, he granted them twenty
four hours for compliance. That period
expired at four o'clock yesterday after
noon, and at that hour not one OF the
seven recalcitrants had appeared at the
Grand Jury room. When the mayor was
asked about this, he said that he had,
without public notice. IN effect granted
an extension Of twenty-four hours.
This was because Of the fact that yes
terday was Jewish holiday, and he
would not take any man who is OBJ
serving q religious holiday and say he
must stop that and go down to the
grand jury and present himself" The
mayor was unsatisfactory in his reply
to questioners when asked whether this
extension of time limit applied to all
seven of the office holders, whose names
are Charles H. Kohler, Michael Cos
grove, William Kavanagh, Terence Nc
Kcever, John J. Dietz, Clarence Neal and
Solomon Goldenkranz, although he did
say that whether they all knew that the
day was Jewish holiday or not, he, the
mayor, knew it. SO, ut any rate, lie
gave them twenty-four hours more, to
include day that was not on any cal
ender of religious observance. And it
is reported that while explaining this
interesting grant of grace he kept his
face just as straight as he did when
he admonished the seven "insulted"
ones that they must waive and testify
under pain Of official death.
Whatever may be the outcome, the
Ewald case and its ramifcations will
have given New York more entertain
ment than any revue that has been
presented on Broadway for years.
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his generation" The Rockland Arsus
appraises him as "a credit to his home
State and to the Southland" and as
possessing personal qualities which en-.
deared him to his associates In Con.
gress and In private life"
X
Historians may not yet appreciate"
suggests the Louisville Courier Journal.
the beneht to the country Of having
tingent Of men who had fought on both
sides. The national Spokesman and
leaders are assayed as to their infiu-
ences and assigned to their places of
importance in the restoration Of jus-
t1ce and popular government. But these
veterans were district leaders, close TO
the source Of power in the electorate,
and this comradeship, established be-
tween men who had tested one an.
others mettle and respected it. perhaps
was more potent than perceptible. Had
the South been permitted to send its
br1gadiers and colonies to Congress In
1856 the wounds would have healed 20
years sooner than they did. No more
worthy representative than Maj. Sted-
man could have remained on the stage
OF public affairs TO take the last bow for
that gallant roster of soldier-statesmen
on both sides of the House"
1AAONA ID LiAC OIQ MAI Oh
North Carolina" remarks the Annis-
ton Star, Maj. Stedman was beloved by
the people of his own State and gener-
ally esteemed and admired as q true
Southern gentleman and patriot" Re-
ferring to MesSrs. Stedman and Warren,
the Boston Transcript holds that "the
boys Of the Blue and the Gray could not
have selected more admirable repre-
sentatives to carry on their work 70
the last" The st. Paul Pioneer Press
asserts that 1.-The contributions Of that
generation, in the field and in the
forum, reached an aggregate which
staggers any modern conception Of devo-
ton to public service"
There Is pathos," thinks the ea-
vannah Morning News, "in the feeling
that, so far as congressional member
ship Is concerned, the war Il indeed
over. The passing Of Congressman
Stedman of North Carolina, who was Of
Jackson's command In the early part
of the war and who for many years
represented his district in the House of
Representatives, attracts special atten-
ton, not only because of his fine char
acter and his standing In Washington
and his long service as q Congressman.
but also because, of the small army Of
veterans who have been members, he
was the last. He was fine type Of
Southern statesman His passing drops
the curtain on an era"
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diction or advance Judgment regarding
the worth Of testimony to be submit
ted by % man named Groh" call on
the inquiry? Would any witness dare
insinuate that the man named Groh"
was a mere red herring drawn across
the trail?
The importance Of "a man named
droh" depends upon the nature Of the
afidavits. The relevance of charge
depends upon whose telephone wires
have been tapped. and the degree Of
libel is measured by identity Of the per-
son who Is libeled. Such Is the law
in the year Of our Lord 1880 and OF
the independence of the Republic the
154th,
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"a Man Named Groh."

Senator Nye, explaining his own view
Of that libeious matter concerning the
committees alleged overlapping activ-
tiles, says Mrs. McCormick's agents
wanted TO present two afidavits which
asserted that the makers Of the afhdavits
had bsen approached by q man named
Groh" with the proposal TO tap Mrs.
MeCormick's telephone wires. AS no
one by the name Of Groh was employed
by the Senate committee, and as the
committee never intended to tap any
body's telephone wires. the anidavits
could have no value. If the committee
allowed these afidavits TO be presented,
many more Of the same kind would fol-
low, and the committees time would
be wasted on irrelevant afidavits.
Therefore the committee refused to ac-
cept the affidavits and would not hear
such testimony, and anybody who talks
about 1t any more is apt to find him
self defending a suit for libel.
The only thing that apparently does
not occur TO Mr. Nye must have oc-
CURED to every other citizen who has
been interested enough to follow the
proceedings OF any Senate investiga-
ton. Suppose that any Senate COM
mittee-not Including, Of course, the
Nye commlttee-weIe pursuing a hot
tip that somebody was doing something
that did not conform . the senatorial
view of ethics In general Suppose
some witness, after being raked over
the Goals and admitting that his an
cestors were expelled from Scotland for
sheep stealing, carelessly mentioned the
existence Of an afidavit containing
mention Of . man named Groh" and
rejecting on the character OF the wit
ness under investigation. Imagine the
hustle and stir in the committee room
the hasty dispatch of committee inves'
tigators, the subpoena Of telegraph files
the search Of correspondence, the dasf
hither and yon Of Department of Jus.
| tice agents on the trail of "a mar
named Groh." Would any thought o.
irrelevancies deter the committee in 1t.
pursuit Of the man named Groh",
Would any ti,cug'lt o. coi.iili -.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-03

Every one should take some pains
with his letters, for no one can be sure
that some day he will not be famous.
This is the pleasant expectation which
cheers many a man through life. He
looks upon 1t, not so much as a forelorn
probability.
Like its foundation, hope, it is an
expectation which hurts no one, and
possesses in itself fine mental tonic
qualities.
The expectation Of being famous, in
one way or another, Is an intellectual
antiseptic. Those few who desire to be
notorious, at any price, have succumbed
to a taste for too much pepper.
The fame of which we speak Is that
good fame which an honorable person
desires, whether he admits it or not.
Tnere may be man, here and there,
who honestly covets no notice from the
world, but the majority are not so.
X
In writing letters, even the most per-
sonal ones, the average letter writer
may well feel that some day his epistles
may be collected in book form.
If this possibility, remote, If you will,
does no more than cause him to form
his sentences q bit better than he
might ordinarily. the belief has done q
great deal for him.
Or perhaps 1t may make him leave
out of his slight narrative the most un-
necessary details. Many private letters
are hurdened with them. It may be
necessary to make distinction here
between the letters Of men and the
letters Of women.
The feminine letter writer, as a rule,
is better able to include the trivial with
some attempt at charm. There are
some men. however, who are blessed
with the same. gift. Then their letters
may be devoted to something other
than politics.
Just how intimate q letter may be
must be left to the individual writer,
who will know better than any one else
In most cases it will be better to
omit the details of the too intimate
kind. There are certain topics which
do not look well in writing, either with
pen. pencil or typewriter
These topics may do very we'll for
conversation, but somehow in writing
they seem too close for inspection, es-
pecially by the possible third person.
Some time or other one may come
across In street or alley q letter which
has blown out of trash basket, or been
dropped by the trash collector. Curiosity
demands that one start reading 1t, but
a certain amount Of good breeding
causes one to throw it away again, as
he realizes that what he reads was not
meant for him.
The greatest fault Of the average
letter Is that absolutely no thought was
put on it before the writer began. It is
just a hodge-podge of thoughts, or
rather Ats Of starting and stopping.
A good letter preferably knows what
1t wants to say and says 1t. 1t pays
some attention TO the letter to which
1t Is an answer. The best natural
Introduction is plain statement that
the writer received the last letter, and
acknowledges the good points in it.
Perhaps most letters so begin. It Is
at once natural and gracious introduce
ton, qualities which ought to be found
In every good letter.
The kittenish letter, we believe, is
the form which ought to be avoided
most. Men as well as women are given
to 1t. The desire to be clever is
modern disease, one from which few
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-03
The Mackmen's March of Triumph.

While the world series of 1880 Is un-
finished, it looks decidedly as If the
trend of the past few years in these
post-season interleague contests is to
be continued. Philadelphia has taken
the first two games and has now to win
two more. to entitle it to the supreme
honors of the land in base ball for an
other year. AS the two teams move west
ward, to resume their contest tomorrow
In St. Louis, the prospect is that Mr..
Cornelius McGillicuddy and his merry
men will triumph once more. If they
continue at their present pace, winning
four straight, they will leave the Ma
tional League in a sorry state as to
the record Of the past four years. In
Guiding the world series of 1927, 1928
and 1929, the National League pennant
winners and world series contenders
have won only one game out of thirteen
played, that single success being scored
by Chicago last year in the series with
Philadelphia. Thus TO date. reckoning
from and including the series Of 1927,
the so-called Junior circuit, the Amer
lean League, has taken fourteen Of
fifteen games.
This record, which of course may
- broken by -. II - .aking q, re-
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Variable brace and playing winning
BAN. on its home field, goes unmis-
takably to show that the American
League is comprised of better base ball
teams than the National. Washing
tons performance during the past sea-
son, though not rs good a. that of
Philadelphia In percentage reckoning,
was better than that Of st. Louis, its
winning record being higher than that
of the Car dinals. And the loyal sup
porters Of the Washington aggregation
believe that they could take the meas
ure of the National League champions
now battling so ineffeetively against the
Athletics, this belief being supported
by the fact that the Senators took
majority Of the games played this -ea-
son with Philadelphia.
But base ball is q tricksy sport, and
the play of the next few days may
completely upset the apple cart. Cases
have been known where world series con-
tenders have suddenly turned from ap-
parent defeat to ultimate triumph. Man.
ager Streets pitchers may regain their
form, his batters their eyes, his fielders
their cunning. To date all of them
have fallen short. Or, rather, the superb
team play Of the Athletics and their
at making their hits count
for the utmost have made the series
a repetition Of the Americas Cup races,
with Enterprise decidedly outclassing
And this is much to the
sorrow of those Washingtonians who,
for auld lang syne. have hoped for the
success Of their old friend and team
playmate, the battery partner Of the
beloved Walter johnson.
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Ocean Treasure Hunt
Difficulties Are Cited

FROM the New York Herald Tribune.
II the Italian divers now at work Off
5rest succeed in recovering the s8. 600 :
vUU worth OF treasure reputed to lie in
Sne wreck Of the Egypt, that will be
DOM reward for patience and courage
un9er almost uncomfortable difficulties
Ano promise Of adding hundreds of
millions more of gold and other precious
OBJECTS to the worlds useful store; for
enere is probably no aSsemblage of
treasure in present human possession
winch approaches quantity that
which lies lost in sunken ships. For
more than 80 centuries the ocean has
taken It's toll OF treasure shipped by sea.
There are two difficulties pressure
and visibility. Ordinary diving methods
use dresses, diving bells or other devices
from which the water is kept out by q
greater air pressure inside. There Is
NJ mechanical reason why such devices
might not be sent down thousands Of
feet instead of 800 or less, but there Is
a biological reason why no diver could
inhabit them. The nan body will not
endure the high air pressure which
then would be necessary to keep out
the water. The equipment in use at
the wreck of the Egypt is of a different
type, resembling in fundamental prin-
ciple the Theoretically sealed diving
sphere in which DR.. Beebe and Mr..
Barton recently descended over a quar-
ter Of mile. These devices contain
air at ordinary pressure. The water Is
kept out by chinklesS construction and
by mechanical strength of walls SUM-
cient to withstand the water pressure,
as it would be kept out of q bottle
tightly corked and sealed. DR.. Beebes
diving sphere permits nothing to its
occupants but obj walton. The italian
apparatus in use on the Egypt has
mechanical arms and other contriv-
ances by which the diver, although
sealed inside his case, can manipulate
hooks and other tools outside.
This provides, it appears, sufficient
solution for the difficulty of diving
pressure. but experience on the Egypt
seems still more to emphasize the other
difficulty, that OF poor visibility. We
think OF water as a transparent mate
rial, just as we think similarly of glass,
because we commonly see water by the
tumblerful and glass by the pane. Any
great thickness of either has consider
able opacito Added to this natural
dimming Of undersea vision, even by
clear water, many Of the gold-laden
wrecks that men will wish to find lie,
doubtless, in places where currents or
other disturbances make the water tur-
bid with bottom mud. A diver en- the
sea bottom is not like an explorer on
land, able to see around him for miles.
His view is more likely to be limited to
inches; at most, to q few feet. This is
a handicap even in working on a wreck
when it has been found. The handicap
is much greater in the preliminary Job
of finding the wreck. There is oppor-
tunity here for some inventor to devise
either a way of seeing for greater dis
tances under water or some different
method of wreck-finding from the sur
face; some electric or magnetic detec-
tor, for example, that would respond to
metal of cargo or hui.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-03
1923 Auto Drivers Lose
Permits i'm 3-Week Period

From the Des Moines Tribune Capital.
The New York state commissioner of
motor vehicles has announced the
names of Automobiles whose car reg
istrations and whose licenses TO drive
were taken away from them in that
State in the three weeks ending Au-
gust 80.
The number Of them was 723.
Reasons for loss Of license included
driving while intcxicated, leaving an
accident without reporting, third speed.
ing offense, reckless driving and several
other more technical offenses.
That is an indication that this kind
OF penalty-revocation or Suspension Of
license-is one that can be enforced.
1t Is an irresistible assumption that
in New York State the fact that licenses
can be and are taken away for serious
enough offenses deters many an other
wise careless driver.
Still another benefit from imposition
of this kind of penalty Is obvious.
It Is the fact that the hundreds Of
thousands Of other drivers on New York
roads and streets are spared the d9nger
OF competing for room with the 523
who have BEEN given the hocks"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-03
Our Increasing Budgets.

Senator Kings alarm over the up
ward trend Of District budgets is shared
by the taxpayers Of Washington, who
have more reason to fear the conse-
quences than he has. The taxpayers of
Washington are the ones who have been
affected by the annual increases. The
national partner In Capital nfAinte-
nance and development, who also desig-
mates the purpose and controls the size
of expenditures, has come of pretty
well. Despite the yearly growth of the
budgets, the national contribution has
remained stationary until the half mil
lion increase that resulted last Spring
from the Senateis fight against the in
adequacy of the lump sum.
The rising tide of municipal expendi-
lures is problem that Is not confined
to Washington. AS Senator King says,
most cities are experiencing the same
thing. And Neutrality-suspicious. who have
protested against the unfair division of
expenses In connection with the Fed
eral City have not sought to escape their
just obligations by seeking q cut either
IN the size Of the budget or in the amount
Of their tax burden. Their petition has
been that the controlling partner in this
task OF maintaining and building the
Capital City recognize its obligations
to the extent Of increasing its lawfully
imposed and neveh repealed proportion
ate contribution: that as Capital City
expenses mount. the Federal contribu-
ton should be larger in the same pro-
portion that the local contribution has
become and continues to grow larger.
One reason why this city's budgets
are increasing, however, Is that the
legislators who control the purse strings
have obtained the power, unique In
America, Of spending other peoples
money without the necessity of con-
sulting them as to how it should be
spent. The lid is of. The wise checks
and balances on the generosity, not to
say the whimsical impulses, of Congress
that lay in the fixed proportion system
Of appropriating for the Capital with
out representation from the taxpayers
have been set aside from year to year,
not by the deliberate action of the
Congress, but by legislative expedient
successfully resorted to by the House.
Senator King would render invaluable
service, not only to the unrepresented
taxpayers Of the city, but to the up
building Of the American Capital, by
lending his valuable efforts to a con-
tinuaticn Of the Senate's fine night for
fiscal equity In District affairs.
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Doubts Economy in Using
Frail Wartime Shacks
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
It is not at all surprising that the
shack which housed the Federal Trade
Commission and the Children's Bureau
of the Department Of Labor has gone
up in flame and smoke, and along with
it records compiled at enormous ex-
pense, some Of which cannot be re-
that these temporary wartime sheds
in which important governmental
agencies have been housed for more
than q decade have escaped the fate
Of Building No. 4" as long as they
have.
The purpose in using these structures
has been economy. Now that the logi-
cal fate of one of them has focused
attention upon this part of the Federal
establishment, some bright young re-
search student may be inspired to make
a study of just what kind OF economy
this has been. During the Summer it
has been necessary to dismiss the
workers who occupy these buildings, so
called by liberal poetic license, on
many occasions. They have been as
uninhabitable as baking ovens, but the
pay of the workers has necessarily gone
on just the same. And in weather that
has been tolerable in standard office
structures. the workers have been
bowed down by their enormous capacity
to attract and hold heat. With their
fiimsy and squatty construction. there
is little reason to doubt that the toll
Of sickness among those working In
them has been abnormally high. That
could probably be checked from the
Government records.
There Is no way Of telling until some
one does the necessary digging for
facts, but 1t seems a reasonable guess
that the money saved by using these
barracks has been far overbalanced by
loss Of labor efficiency and their in
evitable destruction. At any rate, the
results of an investigation Of this par
ticular phase Of governmental economy
would be interesting.
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No Comparison Between
Kaiser and MussOlini
To the Editor Of The Star /:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Under. the caption 81 Duce's Kaiser
Complex read in Q recent edition Of
The Star an editorial which has left
me In q quandary as to whether or not
the writer thereof has even q meager
understanding Of the character and
makeup" of Mussolini.
After recital of a number Of the
omniscient and omnipotent attributes
OF the former German Kaiser, the
writer compares Mussolini with him
which Is comparable to comparison Of
Roosevelt with the former Car of Rus
sla Is there any valid reason or justii-
cation Tor such comparison? Absolutely
none Tor all who know we'll both the
real Kaiser and the real Mussolini. The
Kaiser 1S-or was-an aristocrat; Mus
solini Is deeply democratic. The Kaiser
was seeking REORGANIZATION and en-
Iargement OF his empire; Mussolini is
ardently seeking only the renaissance
OF his country, serving her with deep
devotion and sacrifice. No, there is not
point of comparison between the two.
On the contrary, the difference between
them Is abySmal.
When Mussolini was simultaneously
Milling several portfolios himself, he was
cong SO simply because of the exigen-
" bAAS 1ALcIc were several
Innings that required his personal atten-
tion. When such things began to 60
along satisfactorily he filled such port
iollos with competent men. Even when
ne performed such multilateral duty
wnen he himself functioned In place of
several ministers-he received the SAL
airy OF only one minister, the salaries Of
sucn others as would have been en-
pIoyed had not he himself done the
WORK that they would have been ex-
pected to do having been returned to
the treasury. ~
AS to the appropriateness of the
aforementioned motoring episode and
exhibition of enviable Workmanship,
were they not things that almost any
one would have done with a lot of self
satisfaction? Why not? The heir to
the throne, Prince Humbert, has done
similar things to the accompaniment of
the smiling applause of all Italians.
why not? The superior horsemanship
ana tlme-saving" motoring referred to
nao the effect of showing the news
paper men that Mussolini was not Ill at
aH-as his enemies had been saving
ana publishing in foreign newspapers
ne was. See, he says, smiling and sat-
iSieo, i am a sick man-am II"
Let us be fair, even with those great
personalities who excite our admiration.
or our contempt, or our envy.
Is not the spirit Of fairness to everv-
oody one of the foundation stones on
winch our great America was reared7
MARIO BARRA.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Good Old World.
Good Old World goes rolling along
With space for q blossom and time for
a song.
The goldenrod keeps its splendor gay
And the hooking bird carols the same
old lay.
Good Old World goes hurrying on,
For every darkness there waits a dawn.
There's time for q greeting and for q
smile,
And LIES beauty Is what makes Life
worth while.