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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
ANSWERS TO. QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. H.ASKIN.

Have we had the pleasure Of serving
you through our washington Informa-
ton Bureau? Can't we be of some help
TO you In your problems? Our business
is to furnish you with authoritative in
/ formation, and we invite you TO ask us
any question of fact in which you are
interested. Send your inquiry to The
! Frederic j. HaSkin, director, Washing
ton. D. c. Inclose 2 cents In coin or
stamps for return postage.
@. How long has cricket been played
In England?-N. D.
A. Cricket seems to have evolved
slowly from an older game. 1t Is prob
was certainly being played under the
name Of cricket by boys of the Free
School Of Guildford as early as 1850.
@. Whose stable does the horse Pro-
tector. which broke the worlds record
at the Bay State circuit races in Wind
sor. Conn. belong to, and who was the
driver?-A. S.
A. The horse Protector is owned by
Ralph r. Keller. proprietor Of the K.
Stable. Auburn, N. Y, and Is trained
and driven by Mr.. Cation.
@. What is Paul Muni's real name?--
C. L.
A. MUM Wisenfrend is known In mo-
ton pictures as Paul NUM-.
@. Is it true that the Government
will accept private donations for the
National Institute Of Health?--M. NJ
A. The Secretary of the Treasury has
recently accepted gift Of 100000 Of
fered by the Chemical Foundation, Inc,
through its president, Francis p. Gar
van, under the provisions Of the act Of
May rs, 1880, which authorizes the Gov
eminent to accept donations and to
create system of fellowshipS. etc. in
the National Institute of Health. The
object is to encourage post-graduates of
extraordinary ability, and to ala them
to follow permanently their scientific
bent in the interests OF humanity.
@. Is the Summer extremely hot in
Jacksonville, Flat. B. w.
A. The temperature Of Jacksonville
Is said to avoid the extreme of many
more Northern seasons. The highest
temperature recorded for the month of
July is 104, while the average tempera-
ture for the months Uf July and August
for SO years has been 81.
Q. How many divisions Of Negro
troops had We during the war?-B. H.
can troops durin~ the war. OF these 40
were white divisions, and two, the 92d
and 93d, were Negro divisions.
Q. Who was Susan Coolidge?-M s.
A. She was the author of many
books, largely for young people, espe-
cially girls. Her real name was Sarah
Chauncey 'Woolsey, and she was born
in 1885 and died In 1905.
@. Why does a well sometimes seem
to whistle and the water pressure
change?-L. B. j.
A. The phenomena are largely the
result Of disturbance of the balance be-
tween two forces-air pressure and hy-
drostatic pressure. So delicate Is the
balance that some wells show daily
fluctuations, according to the daily
barometric changes. Around 3 am. and
pm, when atmospheric pressure is
usually least, such wells exhale air, the
water table tends to = and flows tend
to increase. Around 10 am. and 9 pm,
when atmospheric pressure is usually
greatest. such wells inhale air, the
water table tends to drop and flows tend
to lessen.
O. What Is the purpose Of the good
luck box often seen in Jewish home?
w. j.
A. Among Orthodox Jews 1t is a COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
Assessment and Population.

Assessor Richards injects an inter-
esting theory into the discussion OF
what ratio there is between the increase
in population and the increase OF as
sessment. He believes that in comput-
ing the number of dollars of increased
assessment that normally should follow
the increase Of the number Of inhani-
tants, the population Of Metropolitan
washington and not Of the District OF
Columbia should be used. This would,
Of course, tend to lower the per capita
assessment as usually applied TO WASH
ington.
Mr.. Richards points out, with truth
that to all intents and purposes the
district served by the city Of Wash
tneton extends beyond the geographical
limits of the District Of Columbia, and
that additional residents of Chevy
Chase, Md. are. in effect, additional
residents OF Washington. Thus, II
higher assessments are a natural &C
compartment Of increased population
part Of the higher assessments In
washington are due to the growth Of
population in the area adjacent TO the
city.
This theory may be applied as COM
forting balm for those who search thu
explanation Of the tremendous incress'
Ia assessments in the last six years o.
compared TO the increase IN the DIS
trict's population.
But for practical purposes he theor,
is useless. Per capita comparisons be
tween washington and other cities VII
continue to be based on the popuia
tion of the District and the attractiv
corners Of Maryland and Virginia can
not be combed for addi ionai citizens
For taxes IN the District s2c paid b
tl,cse who live in the District. and nc
sy those who live in Maryland an
vir.aiaa These taxes are based pp Is
-sssusnk IN the District. and MOI Q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
The Questions of Labor Day.

Labor observes its annual day" THU
year in a questioning mood. Will the
depression that has prevailed in bust
ness and trade for the past ten months
and has greatly increased the ranks OF
the unemployed lift and be succeeded
by return Of prosperous times? Will
the numbers of the idle workers, now
controverted in dispute, be lessened be-
yond tho point of doubt within the year
to come? Will the tendency toward
wage reduction, observable in q few
lines, but fortunately not widely preva-
lent. spread to precipitate q secondary
industrial disaster?
These questions are the natural re-
suit of the experience of the working
population of this country during the
greater part of the past year. 1t was
shortly after Labor day in 1929 that
the reverse in business conditions be-
gan. It was due in no measure to
any part played by organized labor, but
It was the result of the reaction nat
urally following protracted period Of
imitation and speculation. The "house
of cards" of false-basis booming fell
by force of economic gravity. Contrac-
ton suddenly succeeded expansion.
Pessimism succeeded optimism. Every
thing was suddenly reversed.
It is q tribute to the constitutional
scundness Of American organized labor
that the members Of the groups, large
and small, into which the workers Of
the country are formed, did not STAN
pede into foolish movements in this
crisis. They were hard hit by the
straitening conditions. Works were sus-
pended, employment was diminished by
an untold percentage, but labor held its
confidence in the fundamental sound
ness Of economic conditions, though
they were temporarily disturbed. 1t did
not go bolshevik,". as had been pre-
dicted by pessimists and hoped by the
advocates Of a trial in America OF the
Russian experiment in Communism.
Now the turn of the tide is clearly
observable. The results Of the protec-
tive measures adopted by the groups OF
citizens assembled for conference by
President Hoover when disaster was i'm
minsnt are now evident. There has
been an increase in employment, with
out any lowering of the wage scale. A
spirit of confidence is prevalent in the
country. Happy answers to the ques-
tions labor is today asking are expected
to be returned.
In the experience Of this past year
has been demonstrated anew the prln-
ciple of partnership between worker
and employer. The utmost considera-
ton has been paid in the main by en-
ployers to the people whom they engaged
Ia perform the tasks necessary TO the
conduct of business, the production OF
material and the transaction of trade.
For the losses inci6.nt to the depres-
sion of business were shared alike.
Capital" was hit as hard as labor.
Now in the recovery that 10 indicated
by all signs both will share in the re-
turns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
More Laws, More Felons.

In his annual report the superintend-
ent OF police asks for legislation to
make drug addiction in the District OF
Columbia a felony, and for amend
ments to the medical practice act $50
as to provide for adequate regulation
OF persons practicing as chiropractors
and osteopaths and all other persons
who attempt to treat disease, injury or
deformity."
The purpose of a law making drug
addiction a felony is, presumably, to
provide the police with power to place
drug addicts behind the bars and, pre-
sumably, to treat them while they are
behind the bars. Certainly the police
do not believe that any person con-
templatine the choice between being
and not being a drug addict will rest
his decision on the fact that drug ad-
diction is or is not felony. But are
Ahere no other ways of providing the
drug addict with curative treatment
than to make him a felon and put him
in jail? The man who becomes insane
does not thereby commit a felony. nor
is the mere act of becoming hopelessly
intoxicated felony. Why make a
felon out of a depraved and helpless
creature who needs all the care and
aid that society and medical science
can supply? Why not concentrate the
full power of the police on apprehend-
ing the illicit purveyors of the drugs
that make the addicts, and treat the
addicts as wards of society who may
be saved? Are there not enough
felons, under our array Of laws. with
out manufacturing more of them by
statute?
AS for the adequate regulation of
persons practicing as chiropractors and
osteopaths ones sympathy goes
out to the police superintendent who
singles out these schools of healing by
name-does the police superintendent
report denote that the recently amended
medical practice act is failure and is
inadequate? Is it not being enforced or
is it impossible to enforce it? If not,
the discrepancies in the law should be
pointed out. The community has been
led to believe that all healers, urder
this law, were subject to strict ex-
animation and license. Has the COM
munity been misled?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
Two Lessons From the Fire.

Reports indicate that the loss Of rem,
ords In the fire of Saturday viii
Quilted the building housing the Fed
eral Trade Commission, the Children's
Bureau and the Women's Bureau is
not rs serious or extensive as first ap-
peared. Some of the records which
were burned, it is noted may be re-
| produced from the notes of the ste
| nographerS, kept in another place. This
is gratifying, but not wholly reassur-
ing in respect to the risk the Govern
ment is running daily on the score Of
the housing Of precious paper files in
lightly inflammable structures.
Doubt also has been raised as to
whether the files that were lost on Sat-
urday were of the kind that would be
placed in the Hall of Archives when such
structure is provided. These records.
it Is indicated, were more or less of
the working" type, kept within close
reach of the administrative force. If
that is 50. then again the Government
is running very grave risk in main
tanning q system of record keeping that
even In a fireproof structure would
menace files with complete destruc-
ton.
1t is well known that the filing sys-
TEN in some Of the Government ofices.
even with the use Of metal cases, is
haphazard and unsafe. Immense guam
titles Of material are accumulated be-
yond the capacity of the fireproof equip
ment. A very liberal Judgment prevails
respecting the kind of material that
should be held on the lot, so to speak,
and that liberal spirit is what involves
the Federal administration in the risk
of Gripping loss If, as and when
FIRE occurs.
Suppose a FIRE were to occur in the
Patent Once, already visited long ago
by destructive blaze. Records of q
priceless character would be exposed to
destruction. involving the titles to in
vention properties worth billions of dol
lars. Again, a fire in the Veterans
Bureau, with its mass of documents re-
lating to the military services of more
than five million men, surviving par
Elephants in our wars, would inescapabiy
do irreparable damage.
Two lessons are taught by Saturdays
FIRE. The first is that the utmost speed
should be shown in the erection of the
Hall of Archives, to put at the earliest
possible time wholly out of range of
loss or damage the precious records of
the Governments activities since its
beginning. The second is that reform
must be had in the method OF handling
and keeping what are called the current
files of the Governments work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01

hopelessly unsolvable mystery by reasnn
Of his airplane having fallen into and
been swallowed UP b. the Polar Sea-"
"In the pre-wireiess age" declares the
Richmond News Leader IAN Arctic
pathfinder was lucky If he could get
news to the world within year after
he reached his 'farthest North If he
lost his ship, every day on the ice was
a gamble with death. Now the world
knows where he is every moment as long
as his radio operates, and If he goes
down, not too far from his base, search
ers can be looking for him within 40
hours. 1t is an old story now, but those
who ere born before the age of radio
never cease to marvel at the change the
employment of that mysterious wave
has made In bringing the ice field to
Main Street."
1.-THE fact that kndree had to Aepend
on pigeons and floats to carry his mes
sages," comments the Davenport Demo-
crat, suggests the changes that have
come about in 80 years. A good radio
outfit might easily have saved the lives
of the party by keeping the world In
touch with its progress and leading
rescuers to its final camp"
"Andree was confident, but the world
feared for him" says the Oakland Trib-
une. 1.-THE North was a mystery. and
no one had ever made balloon follow
course over a long distance. He let
off. and there was no wireless to speak
of his progress. When he failed to re-
turn, romantic tales came from the
North. Messages were found. Men be-
lieved that somewhere in the wastes the
Andree Marty was alive. For months
the hopes endured. In a day when air.
planes and dirigible have crossed the
Pole and when explorers talk to the
world as they fly, the mystery of a first
aerial expedition into the North is
solved"
\ II =
The history OF exploration in the
region where Andree landed Is reviewed
by the San Antonio EXPRESS with the
statement: Several we'll equipued ex-
petitions visited there between 1898 and
1904. including those led by Prince
Luigi, Duke of the Abruzzi Walter We'll
man. Evelyn B. Baldwin and Anthony
Fia1a. The last three sailed under the
American nag, and vainly endeavored to
reach the North Pole. Capt. Umherto
Cagni, an Italian navy oficer serving
under the Duke Of the Abruzzi reached
IS degrees 80 minutes North latitude on
April rs, 1900. by journey over the
ice from the Stella Polaro. the expedi-
tons floating base. About nine years
later Comdr. Robert Z. Pearv planted
the Stars and Stripes at the Pole itself.
He had reached the goal which Andree
sought"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
Andres Diary.

Probably in few days will come from
Norway some details Of the finding Of
the bodies of Andree and his compan-
ions of the Inflated polar attempt of
thirty years ago. The steam sealer
Bratvaag, bearing the melancholy relics
of this tragedy, has reached land on
the homeward voyage and her sad cargo
will be soon discharged.
Interest chiefly centers in the story
that is told in Andree's diary, which
was found near the remains that by
this circumstance are identified rs his.
This precious volume must be examined
with the greatest care. 1t has been
exposed to three decades Of Arctic cold,
snow and ice. II u to be treated with
the delicacy required in the handling
Of relics Of the far remote past taken
from the tombs.
From this little book will probably
come the revelation Of Andree's fatal
disappointment. as the balloon in which
ne and his two comrades, went forth Sc
confidently was presumably blown back
to the south by adverse currents, and
the failure Of the expedition was
assured.
On a previous occasion Andrse, al
set for balloon flight poleward, turned
back at the last moment before his star
because he realized that the wind woult
probably be wrong for IS venture. II
q letter sent to him shortly before TIT
second attempt Fridtlof hansen, will
a wide experience in the frozen zones
implored him to have the cour'
age" TO turn back second time. Blu
Andree still believed In the possibility o
wind drift across the Pole and per
sisted. In reply to Nanssn HI
acknowledged that he did not have tn
courage for . second self-denial.
! It weulG appear from the circum
stances in which the remains wer
found on Whitc Island by Gunnar Horl
and his mates that Andree kept hi
records to the last. It will probably b
found on examination of the diary tina
he vat faithful to his last breath to tn
duty which he had set himself. eve
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01

though hope Of success had long ceased
This is in keeping with the spirit Of
scientific adventure that has sent so
many courageous, unselfish men into
the forbidding spaces of the earth in
search of knowledge. Andree doubtless
knew that though he persisted the
world would be keen to read the story
of his failure, perhaps hoping that the
details of that failure would be of serv-
ice to later adventures in the North
He did not, of course, dream of the
great advance that was to be made in
pitifully short time in facilities for travel
by air to and over the goal which he
sought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

The World, Stage.
The drought has played a saddenin1
part
Where "All the worlds a stage"
Yet heroes must preserve the art
In which all men engage.
So must we meet the same demands
OF drama" in the past,
And honest hearts and willing hands
VIII save the day at last.
Such words as critics often say
We cannot fail to heed;
THE Dialogue promotes delay
And Actions what we need"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01

and to name dry candidates for Office.
In Massachusetts, Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton,
prominent prohibition advocate, has
issued warning to Republicans gen.
orally, while urging the voters to sup
port Butler, the dry candidate for the
Senate nomination, against Draper, the
wet. Mrs. Tilton insists that outside
of narrow strip Of territory along the
Eastern Seaboard, the rest of the ccun-
try Is dry, and particularly the Repub-
lican party. She fears that If the Re-
publicans Of Massachusetts,, New York
and other States IN the East, however,
adopt wet platforms and name wet
candidates this Fall, it may cause a
real split IN the Republican party in
1892. Mrs. Tilton. however, will have
to revise her view of the prohibition
situation If there are many more such
victories by the vets as Mayor Rolphs
In California and If Mrs. Mccormick
turns wet" politically in the event Illi-
nois goes wet in the Statewide
referendum there this November.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
Radios Service to Humanity
Emphasized by Andree Fate

The Arctic's cruel and easy II. :. :
over Andree three decades ago has
stirred comment on the powerful TIL
which radio has placed in the hands of
man as he battles nature. Expeditions
undertaken hardly q generation ago APP
pear primitive" compared with the
achievements of the modern adventurer.
Looking at the balloc flight which
ended so tragically on the Island Of
Fridtjof NanSen Land "in retrospect"
1t suggests to the Syracuse Herald "the
ness and hazardous folly" To the
Omaha ,.'orld-Herald u these men
Andree, Peary. intrepid.
fearless, death-defyin," as they were,
represented the primitive" explorer.
They will always be heroes for mental
courage and un lenchable thirst for
adventure in the rigorous North; they
braved perils seemingly stupendous in
comparison with the object of their
search: they seemed to daresf-. the love
OF daring, with the fascination of q
terrible, Unsuitable spell of the Unknown
upon them. In the pursuit the ordinary
precautions in the minds of human be-
ingS seemed to be waved aside and the
whole stake made on the theory that
destiny determines all, and therefore
why hold back, why be afraid?
Now the day of the dashing explorer is
ended. We have more modern, well
equipped scientific expeditions, with
every precaution observed in the PLAN
ming and motor that will roar its way
in any temperature into any unknown
land. There will always be available
warm clothing and the we'll cooked
meals will be Delmonico compared with
the rations of pemmican, fat and what
not Of the old-time Arctic explorer. The
mystery for the daring Is out of the
picture; some other undreamed-of I'm
known must provide the lure"
"Andree had no modern facilities for
flight" recalls the Newark Evening
News, but he took what was at hand
and made his bid. He failed, but he
proved himself a man. A po.Knant
story, but containing no element of
cowardice." The Evening News feels
that the discovery of those frozen bodies
on White Island in one of the most in
accessible spots in the Arctic, is like
barking back to early history" and de-
scribes 1t as "a solemn last chapter in
q thrillinr story of devotion to explora-
ton in the face Of what proved to be
certain failL.-e"
"Andree and his men" according TO
the New Orleans Morning Tribune,
"ventured as CALAMITY as any men Y no
ever lived. They assumed great risks In
cutting themselves from earth with a
hydrogen bag and trusting all to the
winds, which they hol d would take
them across the Pol and around the
earth's curve to civilization again." The
Salt Lake Deseret News views this last
development as probably the most dra-
matte of all tales of recovery, by reason
of the long silence finally broken and
particulars of he !. st lonely hours
North is the fate of the intrepid Amund-
sen, by some believed to be yet alive,
but by most regarded as involved in a