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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
Pleads for Specific
Veteran Aid Action
To the Editor of The Star:

| To the Editor of The Star:
Legislation pending and proposed in
| the veterans interest should be favor
ably enacted at this session of Con-
greSs, as no doubt of the Governments
| intention to quickly relieve the needs
/ of World War veterans as the neces-
sity arises should be remotely enter
| tanned.
The opportunity is presented to Con-
gress to act upon the ex-soldiers' cash
| bonus measure: remove the unfair tech
nicality in the veterans act of 1924
that deprives compensation to a dis
abled veteran on proofs of disability
| shown after 1924, and a change that
| will erase the unusually drastic and
| harsh structures in the system that per-
mits war veterans to be confined in in
| situations for the rest of their DAYS on
evidence that they had a mental or
nervous disability.
Legislation that will effect the great
est oenefit to the greatest number of
| the men who fought In the late war
should be the aim of Congress at the
present time for reasons that are
economical and Just,
| IL would be a measure of economy
IN an administration of veterans af-
airs. already overloaded with a heavy
overhead cost, to liberate veterans per-
manently confined in institutions and
| put them on compensation. The cost
OF maintaining veterans that have come
under this classification is adding un-
necessary expense that could be avoided.
i The passage of the johnson Rankin
| Dill, now under consideration by the
Tnsnce committee in the Senate, will
compensate veterans suffering from
any form OF nervous ailments, as we'll as
aiding many tubercular veterans now
deprived of Government relief, and will
ne the means of efTecting reduction
in the personnel of the Veterans Bu-
reau IN departments now employed in
contestlng veterans claims. The sue
cessful passage of this bill In the in
terest Of disabled veterans should he
| speeded through Congress. The con-
sideration that medical experts cannot
agree in the matter of time when a
veterans disability commenced should
be guiding factor of the finance COM
mlttee i'll removing the time limit set in
the act OF 1924, and extend the time
OF service connection for all disabilities
| to 1880.
The pledge to pay the ex-service men
the bonus was made at the conclusion
OF the war. The insurance plan Of the
| Government passed in 1925 that makes
THIS bonus payable In 1915, is not quite
| Just to the former service men. At the
| time thousands of unemployed ex-
service men who would be aided by the
cash bonus are living without the bare
| necessities of life. The country is now
going through an industrial depression
That is creating an exceptional hard
ship to the. former service man who
came out of the service showing the
| physical effects of the grind they en-
| dured during the war time service.
The fact that very few wounded or
diseased veterans will live to 1945 to
ENJOY the bonus money the people of
tnls Nation intended every man should
have who served the country in the late
war, should actuate Congress in pass
ing the ex-soldiers' cash bonus at this
session OF Congress. JOHN JONES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

He must hate one?
Not a bit of 1t! Hatred often de-
mands deepness of nature, and there Is
no depth to this sad fool.
He is so shallow that nothing that
one says makes any impression upon
him.
You are a heating engineer, for in
stance. Say you are a heating engi-
neer; it makes no difference really.
You venture a statement as to the
adequacy of a certain boiler and
radiator system.
Does the fact that you are supposed
to know your business, and are making
nice living out of it, thank you,
weigh In the scale of his mind?
Not at all. He knows you are
wrong on general principle; whatever
you say, he says the opposite. BY no
means will he admit you are right
even If he knows you are.
* X **
1t is more profitable, in considering
this type, which has the widest dis
tribution. and is well known to all
peoples and races. to study its opposite.
The open-minded man has nothing
up his sleeve nor does he suspect that
you have. II you give him your opin-
ion of some other person. for instance,
he does not mentally draw back, fear
Ing that you have some underlying
reason for disappearing the fellow.
On the contrary he believes you i'm
plicitly, because he has observed you
IN action before, and knows that he
can put trust in your opinion. Thus
he saves himself a great deal of need
less experimentation, perhaps some
heartache, and Is the gamer all around,
ia he
what others tell him.
As we have said, this state of mind
is entirely different from gullibility, the
tendency to swallow anything that any
one says.
Gullibility involves the desire of
human beings TO believe what they
want to believe, even though their in
telligence tells them that they care
wrong.
Men and women are often swayed by
their emotions to the exclusion of any
thing else: just what proportion of hui
man beings are so affected one would
hesitate to say. but 1t Is very large
Nor is there anything inimical in this {;
we are not sure that the heart, after
all, is not a better guide than the
brain, especially in hundreds of matters
wherein heart and mind are inSepa-
rably woven. In such cases probably
more tears are shed when the head
takes the lead than when the heart
dictates; We do not know, for sure; it
is large question.
The point is that the guillible person
swallows anything: the good man or
woman of whom we write is willing to
believe others until they find them
wrong
Such person is the gamer, from
every standpoint, one may we'll believe,
although the suspicious may call them
fools, and point to a money loss here or
there. After all. money is just money,
but the integrity of ones disposition.
II it may be put that way, is beyond
price, and must suffer when one con-
tradictS, argues, says mo" all the
time. From these aspects one had bet
ter be "yes-yes" man, than 90
through life perpetually refusing to be-
lieve what others tell him. and thus
suffering from hardening Of the
mental arteries and coarsening of the
heart chords.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

Now there are people who are willing
| to believe what other people tell them,
| and there are people who are not.
We refer not, in the first category,
to those who are gullible, but simply to
those men and women who accept what
another tells them, If they trust him.
The second group contains all those
! unhappy persons who are suspicious,
who are argumentative, who firmly be-
| iieve that any positive statement by
| another shows that he thinks he
knows it ALL"
We call these persons unhappy, be-
| cause they are, even though they do not
know it themselves.
And even worse is the fact that they
| tend to make those they talk with
unhappy. There are more cases of mild
| blues" caused by these unfortunates
than from any one source whatever, in
our opinion.
The conduct of life, as Emerson
| called it, involves no more simple yet
complex relationship than this, II a
paradox may be pardoned.
1t is simple. because when honestly
| made statements are accepted by others
in the same spirit of good will there
is no Subterfuge involved.
1t is complex, because when such
honesty is met with mistruSt there is
no telling what will be the result. Per-
hapS more than one entire nation has
gone to its doom since history began
because some one man in It, highly
placed, was unable to be simple, direct
and above all intellectually honest with
some other man, maybe of another
nation.
The ordinary relationships of human
beings fortunately involve no states
manship or diplomatic pow-wow, but
simply a fair give and take. an even
exchange of verbal and mental values.
The square DEAL" once so widely
talked about by a master publicist,
is really the heart of this matter. No
one gives another man a square deal
unless he is willing TO believe what the
other tells him.
This does not mean that he cannot
accept 1t with grain of salt, as the
saying 1t, but 1t does mean that he
must not openly show that he is think
ing about his slight doubt.
1t Is only when the doubt is per-
mitted to show itself, either by tone
OF voice, argument or positive con-
tradiction, that the poorer phases of
this matter become involved.
y X
Who is more unsatisfactory to talk
to IN this world than the man or
woman-and particularly the woman
who Is forever arguing about every
thing that one says?
If you say that, of two houses, one
stone and one brick, you think the
stone is the more artistic, she imme-
diately pops forth with: "Oh, I don't
think so at all! think the brick one
is by far the most artistic"
Knowing the lady from old. of course,
you realize that il YOU had said the
exact opposite. she would have taken
the precisely opposite standpoint, and,
instead Of an advocate of brick, would
have come out as a hot defender of
stone.
What can one do with such people,
except to leave them alone?
Then there is the argumentative fell
low to whom nothing that one saws
can by any possibility be right.
1t might seem that once a year one
might hit upon some topic that would
win approval. but no, there is no pleas
ing this fellow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
Mrs. Mccormick Not the
First Woman Candidate
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
In connection with Mrs. Ruth Hanna
McCormick's successful candidacy for
the United States Senate In the re-
cent Illinois primary, I have several
times seen the statement that she
is the first and only woman who has
won a primary election as such can
didate.
In the interest Of the facts, want
to correct that statement. In the
primary of 1922, Mrs. Ben Hooper of
Oshkosh, Wis, who is now recording
secretary of the Conference on the
Cause and Cure of War, won the NOM
nation to the United States Senate on
the Democratic ticket, but lost in the
election where she was opposed on the
Republican ticket by the elder Robert
M. La Toilette. At that time it was a
foregone conclusion that neither man
nor woman could defeat Mr.. La Fol-
lette. However, in the election Mrs
Hooper had the satisfaction of polling
$4,000 more votes in the State than
the man who ran for governor on her
ticket, and 5000 more votes than he
In the city OF Milwaukee.
In that same year, Mrs. Olson of
Minnesota was also a candidate for .
election to the United States Senate,
but the details of her candidacy are
not known to me.
would not wish to detract In the
smallest degree from Mrs. McCormick's
victory, and I feel sure that no one
Is more anxious to give credit for the
FIRST attempt where 1t is due than she.
Rose G. sWARzs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

a difhcult task. For in the translitera-
ton of titles numerous confusing re-
semblances appear. Slight differences
in terminals or in vowel placements may
cause errors of location amounting to
scores, even hundreds of miles.
Take for an instance the name OF
the city mentioned as the concentration
point of the Nationalist forces, Suchow.
There are three places of generally this
same name within a radius of $50 miles
OF Marking. On map which is sold
In China to tourists for their guidance,
British publication approved by Chi
nese authorities, they are spelled 500
chow" "Suchow" and "Suchowfu." The
dispatches locate the place, however, as
in Northern Kiangsu and this I'M
doubtedly indicates "Suchowfu," the
final "fu" of the name being a tradi-
tional designation of an earlier distinc-
ton as the seat of a local authority.
Plain "Suchow" is about thirty miles to
the south, on the railroad line, while
"Soochow" is a large city in Southern
Kiangsu, about fifty miles west of Shay
hal
Take again the matter of the names
of provinces. This present fighting is
in Kiangsu. which lies along the shore
of the Yellow Sea north of Shanghai.
To the southwest of Shanghai is the
province of Kiangsi. scene recently of
savage bandit raids and Communistic
outbreaks, while a little farther south
west is the province of Kwangsi. Then
in the north are the adjoining provinces
of Shansi and Shensi. Numerous other
close resemblance in provincial and town
and city names occur. the differences in
spelling and in pronunciation being so
slight that to the Western eye and the
ear they are virtually identical, though
of course plainly different to the
Chinese.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
American Invasion
Of Sports Renewed

From the Atlanta journal.
The annual drive of the American
sports royalty toward foreign honors is
now in full swing. When Bobby Jones
and his Walker Cup defenders land in
England few days hence the formi-
dable lineup representing the United
States will be complete. Chiefly. there
will be Bobby, his proves at peak, lead
ing team of brilliant American golfers
against the challengers of Britain, who
have considerable pluck but little ap-
parent chance OF victory in the struggle
for the Walker Cup for another wear.
Also, Atlanta's golf king will have at
the major titles of the United King
dom, both the amateur and the open.
with several competent fellow country
men ready to carry on against the stars
of other nations, should the greatest of
them all run afoul of that Whimsical
tyrant of the links, Old Man Par.
Helen Wills Moody Is turning her
magical rackets for a tilt at various
tennis laurels in England and France
and Glenna Collett Is guiding a team of
feminine golfers in their encounters
with the best among the ladies of the
British Isles. Being given to interna
tional sports, England doubtless an
preciates this enthusiastic competition
from American men and women upon
the links and courts. Certainly n
would be no particular fun to have big
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
the Treasury and some Of the leading
jewelry organizations.

the Treasury and some Of the leading
jewelry organizations.
@. Who first thought of erecting q
monument to Christopher Columbus?-
G.. w.
A. Nearly 80 years ago Santo Domin-
lean Don Antonio Delmonte y Tejada
conceived the idea of fitting memorial
to Columbus. His proposal was: Let us
erect in the most visible and notable
place in America, in a central point and
where 1t may be visited by travellers as
they approach her shores, the statue
that his greatness and remembrance de-
mand. Let this statue be colossus like
that of Rhodes, and let it be designed
by the best sculptor available and with
funds raised by popular subscription in
all the cities of Europe and America,
and let this statue have its arms ex-
tended and pointing to one and the
other OF the American continents"
@. Are United States sailors who die
on shipboard buried at Sea?-T. A. F..
A. The Department of the Navy says
that there have been few burials at sea
during recent years. All large ships are
supplied with apparatus for embalming
the bodies Of men who die on shipboard.
Q. How old must furniture be to be
called antique?-M. E. T.
A. The most general definition of an
tlque furniture is any furniture 100 years
old and at least 80 per cent original.
@. Where and when did Benedict
Arnold die?-R. j.
A. Benedict Arnold died in London,
England, June Ia, 1901.
End" chosen for the play with that
! titleo-R w
"A A. R. g Sheriff., author, while
| searching for a title, was reminded Of
a dugout on the Western front on the
walls of which had been crudely
! scrawled, Journeys End" He decided
that this was the title for which he had
been cropping.
ST. g How many people are employed in
A. More than 100000 workers are
employed in the $4,000 hotels of this
| country.
@. Please give some information
about the Wythe House In Williams
| burg, Va.--H. w.
A. This fine colonial mansion was
| the home Of George Wythe, one Of the
signers of the Declaration of Inde-
| pendence. He was the first professor
| of law in America, teaching at the
NOllCBC VI Whl1hHt MARY. AMONG
| his pupils were John Marshall, Thomas
Jefferson and James Monroe. It was
in the George Wythe House that George
Washington, with Lafayette and Ro.
| chambeau, planned the Battle of York.
town.
Q. How many oarsmen did it take
| to man trireme?-H. j.
A. This war vessel had three banks
of oars and was often manned by over
| 200 men.
Q. What was the fur cap called
which was worn by some of the Amer
can soldiers in the Revolution? It was
made of a squirrel skin with the tail
! left on.-H. T. M.
A. Such cap was called a SQUIRREL
! tail and the soldiers wearing such head
gear were called squirreltails.
Q. What is person called who fears
Russia. its influence or its policy?-J.H.
A. He is called Russophobe or
Russophobist.
@. What city has the largest number
OF Phi Beta Kappas?-A. B. L.
A. In proportion to population Prince
ton, N. j., has the largest number of
members Of Phi Beta Kappa in the
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

tournaments at which important cups
were merely pashed from one British
hand to another. Still, it looks as If the
American threat in sports is attaining
alarming proportions. Seldom have so
many of our celebrities been upon Brit
ish soil simultaneously. all of them bent
earnestly upon wrestling some manner
of prize from their hosts. The thing
assumes the aspect of gigantic con-
spiracy and we could hardly blame the
British if they confessed to secret
willingness for fewer American names
upon their tournament Lists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHTtANDER JOHNSON.

illumination.
see Orion in the sky
And others of celestial fame
The movie thoroughfare nearby
Shows many Respondent name,
And high and low we see a show
To educate or to refine,
The most OF which is in the glow
OF an Illuminated sign.
The starry figures We observe
Are mostly myths that we admire
Because each night they have the merry,
To advertise and never tire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

The distinguished editor, Van Lear
Black, will soon be at home in Balti-
more, after world tour by airplane.
If he can consent to chain himself to
a typewriter, he will disclose wealth
of impressions calculated to excite the
envy of every Woodworking columnist
in the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

After the accidental ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF Maine salmon presented to the
White House, and the efforts to re-
store it to proper symmetry, it may
occur to enthusiastic contributors that
President Hoover is perfectly competent
TO catch his own fish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

Prisoners are expected to think over
their offepses and repent Conditions
such as prevail in the Ohio Penitentiary
are entirely too exciting to permit a
proper spirit Of remorseful contempla-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

Even so stern an autocrat as Musso-
lini proves only human as he takes de.
light In adding social brilliance to politi.
cal power. In his affairs he permits nc
questions Of precedence to arise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

Basic stock values are not disturbed
by the fact that the ticker registers
extremes in price any more than agri-
cultural yields are permanently affected
by vagaries Of the thermometer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

Campaigning in Pennsylvania will
enable both Senator Grundy and secre-
tary Davis to show how a man may
have a great deal of money and still
remain very vital in politics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

Many conferences are likely to be
required and it might be a humane
policy to select for foreign delibera-
tons men who can show that they are
immune to seasickness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

1t has been the privilege of Judge
j. ]. Parker to assert himself in the
United States Capitol as an even more
perplexing problem than the tariff
itself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

Science accomplishes marvels, but no
hope is entertained that the law of
averages may be asserted so as to pre-
vent the climate from offering frost
one day and a sunstroke the next.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

There are certain immutable customs
In United States politics. Various
States are already beginning to put
favorite sons in line for consideration
for the presidency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

Clues are numerous in every homi-
eide mystery. Unfortunately the clues
are in conspicuous excess Of the
solutions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
Genius Born Too Soon.

Genius Born Too Soon,
There was a man named Uncle Ned.
He played the old banjo.
In poverty his life he led.
For that was long ago.
If Uncle Ned were here today,
To do his little part,
He'd surely get chance to play.
In jazZatorial art.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

Mother Jones, labor agitator, has had
a long life-much longer in fact than
some of the people who have been
agitated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

Chicago has so many gang men that
the comparatively few who are taken
for rides are never missed,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
Where and Why.

The reason that some things must be
In conversation whizzes:
'Where-aSes" frequently we see,
But seldom the "why-ises."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

Wall Street by day and Broadway
by night still stand out as the most
exciting OF New York's thoroughfares.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

When q night club is padlocked, the
music moves on. There is no silencer
for the jazz band.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09

"Gamblins wrong" said Uncle Eben
but man can't realize it when he
happens to be guessin' right"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
Radio Talker Good and Fast

From the Detroit News.
This Floyd Gibbons on the radio is
the fastest talker we've listened to since
the last canyasSer got his foot caught
in the door,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
Computations.

Computations.
Your constituents support you as if
they were one man."
Don't let that idea get around"
said Senator Sorghum. What a man
in my position needs is whole lot
of men,"
Jud Tunkins says We somehow respect
big criminals, which is why we admire
pirates and have contempt for chicken
thieves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-09
Costume

Have you ever played Hamlet in a
dress suit?"
NO. answered Stormington Barnes
I'VE have to depend on our good, old
fashioned collection of costumes. The
only dress suit is owned by the manager
who stands in front of the house along
side of the ticket taker."
1--WE boast of our ancestors" said Hi
Ho, the sage Of Chinatown, land imag-
inc that we are the grand results for
which they worked or fought"
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