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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-10
Civilization and the Can
Opener.

From the New York Times.
An estate of more than $100, 000, 600
credited to the founder of one of the
principal canned-food concerns in the
country serves to measure the revolu-
ton in a nations food habits, which Is
often described as social revolution.
On the merits of the change opinions
continue to differ.
It Is still maintained that the exodus
of the American woman from the
kitchen has been not only for her own
good, but for the good of the Nation
and its institutions It Is still charged
that the home and the Nation, which
rests on the home, are being sapped by
housewives who feed their families out
Of can. The conservatives, however,
are having the worst of the argument.
They must fall back on such ultimate
distractions as family and country and
race. They cannot deny the visible
mitigation of drudgery over the kitchen
stove and the kitchen sink which has
come with the prepared food package
in can, jar or paper carton.
If the stamina of the race Is being
undermined when the delicatessen store
makes life too soft for the housewives,
it is part of a degenerative process en-
bracing our entire civilization. With all
her new houSekeepir--- conveniences-
electric washing machine and vacuum
cleaner and mechanical refrigeration
and motor sewing machine and the can
opener-the woman of the house has
won less relief from toll than her wage
earning husband over his automatic
machinery in his modern factory.
Closer examination may further allay
anxiety over whittier are we going with
our canned goods and packages. The
revolution in food habits is not quite
the cataclysm which the name suggests.
In the year 1927 the output of the can
ming and preserving establishments in
the United States was valued at $685.
100000, or, roughly, two-thirds of a
billion. But the food manufacturing in
dustry, as whole, had a product valued
at $11, 900, 100000. Even allowing for
and milk which went into preserved
milk, the vast bulk of the food output
was still prepared in the consumer S
home. This would be notably true of
meat to the value of $4,000 900 900, of
which a comparatively small proportion
represented the sliced bacon in a jar
and the roadside hot dog. The bulk
of meat tonnage still means house.
wives bending over hot stoves.
Finally, 1t should be recalled, in Won
dering what grandmother, over her pots,
would think OF granddaughter, over her
delicatessen cans, that grandmother,
too, lived to considerable degree out
of cans, or at least out of glass-pre-
serving jars. The only difference is
that grandmother herself put up and
sealed the jars. which she opened in
the course of the long Winter, whereas
granddaughter has them put up for her
by billion-dollar food manufacturing
concerns. But intrinsically Immoral
can of soup is not. 1T is too often as
sumed that the modern wife opens a
can of vegetables or fruit because she
is lazy. Frequently. most frequently.
she does it to provide her family with
out-of-season vegetables and fruits and
delicacies otherwise unattainable. The
delicatessen container in this sense sig
nalizes rise in the standard of living.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-10
Motors and Crime.

While it has proved boon In the
matter Of anording speedy and COM
Portable transportation TO multitudes,
the motor car has at the same time
complicated life considerably and has
aided In the commission OF crime. 1t
has proved valuable accessory TO the
aavbreaker, enabling him TO escape,
Affording him q chance to execute
criminal operations with lessened risk
OF detection and capture.
Recently In this region two cases have
occurred Of men grievously injured, one
fatally, by being thrown from motor
ears In transit. One Of these cases has
led to arrests, but with small chance OF
che conclusive proof Of guilt. The other
N Just lately developing. The injured
men were In both instances evidently
"taken for a ride" as the Chicago
phrase runs, and flung overheard and
left TO perish, If they might, without
any thought for their welfare.
The Chicago method Is more direct
The victim is kidnapped by motor car
slain in the car, or at remote place
and the body tossed aside TO be found
eventually by police or others. Identifi-
cation Of the cars is d.nicult, usually
impossible, owing to the manipulation
81 license tags. just so thieying gang
use motors for raids upon money de-
positaries In small cities. the robbers
working swiftly and escaping with theii
loot before alarm can be given.
y zaAzRive the gangster. the benk rob
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-10
From the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.

From the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
The reply of the Senate "slush fund"
committee to Mrs Ruth Hanna McCo--
mick's intimations and assertions that
its agents have violated law in spying
upon her is that Mrs. Mccormick
statements are false and that she must
know them to be false. Senators Nye
Dale, Dill and Wagner characterize her
charges as false no less than half a
dozen times N their brief statement,
and "libelous" almost as many times,
not to mention their use of Islander
Gus" and malicious" and various other
adjectives. If Mrs. Mccormick wishes
any answer to her question, What is
Senator Nye going to do about it?" she
has 1t now.
AS an example in tart rhetoric, the
committees statement has its points.
In that respect it measures up to any
thing that Mrs. Mccormick, herself no
gentle spirit when it comes to political
statements, has said. But If this Is to
be the end of the whole business of the
spying and counter-spying charges, it
lacks q good deal of clarifying the at
mosphere.
The public has believed hitherto that
both parties are honorable men and
women, and it would be loath now to
accept the view which either holds and
expresses of the other. This is a mis-
cradle performance all around. What
is needed is not further statements, but
evidence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-10

the United States" are quoted by the
Springfield Union. with the conclusion
that wherever the principles Of acci-
dent prevention are applied in an in
telligent and thorough manner the iIt-
jurieS and losses are much less severe"
As an illustration of effective meas
ures, the Seattle Daily Times refers to
the experience Of Rear Admiral Byrd's
company Of explorers at the South Pole
as "a brilliant example of careful plan
ning," and argues: ut proves beyond
question that when human beings real
ize fully the dangers that beset them
they can triumph over ordinary perils.
The usual causes of accident, inatten-
ton to duty and recklessness, were not
present during the long months Rear
Admiral Byrd and his men were in the
Polar region 1t permits the hope that
ultimately we can use similar rules Of
safety nearer home"
The further comment on Admiral
Byrd'S achievement Is made by the San
Antonio Daily News in considering the
work of the Safety Congress: mo
phase of his achievement-not even the
dramatic flight over the South Pole
gave him greater pride than the expe-
dition's return without the loss of a
man and without one in the party hav-
ing suffered permanent disability. That
could not have been accomplished but
for rare skill and foresight in prepar-
ing against every probable contingency.
Lacking such preparation in minute de-
tail, the fight over either Pole easily
might have ended in disaster. COL
Lindbergh attributes the overseas flight
of the Spirit of st. Louis and his sub
Sequent featS, with never an accident,
to similar care in looking after details"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-10
nucal DELAYS.

The registry Of the recently arrived
princess, daughter of the Duke and
Duchess of York. would seem to con-
travene two fairly prevalent impress
sions. One is that nobility and royalty
should be the leaders Of and examples
TO their people in so far as 1t lies
within their province and ability. The
ether Is that superstitious people are,
in general, pretty narrow between the
ears.
All who have perused the public
prints lately have been informed OF the
fact that the birth Of little Princess
Margaret Rose Of York was not regis
tered at Glamis until some time after
the happy event. and that this was
done in order that the young lady
might escape the fate Of being number
thirteen on the village registration list.
The royal couple waited patiently until
another baby was born and registered
and by this means the newest scion OF
the house Of Windsor became number
fourteen.
To see members Of ruling house OF
great empire not only apparently en-
pertaining a superstition as senseless a.
"unlucky thirteen" but advertising tc
the kingdom and TO the world at large
that they do believe in It, Is. in these
times. highly surprising 10 thoughtfu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-10
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Mabel Walker willebrandt has now
added radio to those other legal spe-
Characterization and grapeS-to which
she has devoted herself since leaving
the Government service. During the
busy october sessions Of the Federal
Radio Commission, the California Portia
has appeared on behalf of important
broadcasting interests in quest OF con-
csSsionS on the wave lengths. Another
former Federal official, ex-AsSistant
Secretary of Commerce bill" Mac
Cracker, has also added radio to avia-
ton as law practice speciality.
Virginia Mackay Boy-Ed, widow of
Capt Boy-Ed of the German Navy, and
a former Washington belle, has just
published protest against alleged
aspersions on her late husband. It
doesn't refer to what she calls the
"cruelties" to which he was subjected
by war propaganda" but to the i'm
preston, widespread since the captains
demise, that his father was a Turk
Writing to the New York Times, Frau
Boy-Ed says:
Because have little daughter
to bear his name, and because he
was proud of being a German, I
wish to say that the statement that
my husbands father was a Turkish
merchant Is only another one of the
false stories published about him
during the war. The captains father
was a German. born in the city of
Lubbock of German parents belonging
to an old Lubbock family, in which
there is not nor ever has been a drop
Of Turkish blood.
X X X
keep Ruth Mccormick out of the
Senate and We'll keep out Josiah
Bailey" is the new Republican threat
in the pending senatorial campaign. 1t
has reference, of course, to the Nye
committees inquiry into Mrs McCor-
mick's political philanthropies in Illinois
and the G. o. P's intention to look
into John j. Raskob's alleged munifi-
cence in destroying SENATOR Simmons at
the North Carolina Democratic primary
Bailey was the veteran Tar Heels sue
cesSful rival. Senator Patterson of
Missouri, one Of the regular Republican
members of the Nye sleuthing board
has taken the bit in his teeth and
determined to probe North Carolina
primary affairs TO the depths.
tCopyrisht, ls3OO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-10
Thirteenth Street.

The Board of Trades determined
fight to keep Thirteenth street from
being closed below the Avenue by the
Governments public building program
is to be waged to a finish, and this de-
cision will win the practically unani-
nous support Of the city. Begun more
than a year ago, the move to have the
Government reconsider the plans which
call for the shutting of this main traffic
artery has SO far made little progress,
although data have been obtained which
demonstrates clearly the traffic chaos
that will result il reconsideration is not
given. At the present time more than
three thousand vehicles pass the inter-
section of Thirteenth street and Penn
sylvania avenue at the peak periods.
With the concentration of workers in
the new buildings below the Avenue
this figure will probably be greatly
increased, and it can be readily
realized that dangerous congestion will
develop. 1t is certainly up to the Gov
eminent to proceed cautiously lest
Washington's already aggravated traffic
situation becomes intolerable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-10
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKIN.

dustrial plants when chemicals are In
use?-F. p. p.
A. A report made to the American
Chemical Society says that few years
ago in many branches Of the chemical
industry gas masks were rarely used in
daily work. Today there are gas masks
available providing respiratory protec-
poisonous gases. 3s#
@. How many law schools are there
in the United States?-H. II. H.
A. Statistics for 1890 are not yet
available in as accurate form as for
1929, when there were l78 in all--80
full-time and 80 part-time schools.
During 1880 at least one Of the latter
group has been discontinued. The 1929
Autumn registration in the law schools
of the country was 45,150. The gradu-
ates in 1929 numbered $3.50.
@. What is lights. T.
A. Light Is radiant energy. Modern
scientists say there are many lines Of
evidence showing that light is simply
electrical waves. The waves which are
called light because they happen to
affect our eyes are not eSsentianlly An-
ferent from the longer and the shorter
ones, which We make use of in other
ways.
@. How long has Mexico been in
habited by a civilized people?-C. r.
A. Recent excavations in Mexico and
other parts of Central America have
led scientists to believe that possibly
there were extant in that part OF the
world civilizations older than those of
China and similar nations. At Gull
cuilco, Mexico. excavations revealed
temple and some skeletons which indi-
cate that 1t was probably constructed
nearly 5000 years ago.
lar furs ranks as to durability?--A.
D. L.
A. 1t is said that If otter. the strong
est fur. Is given 100 per cent dura-
bility rating, others of the furs rank
thus: Beaver. 90; chinchilla, Is: hare,
5: natural fox, 40; dyed fox. u.s. baum
or pine marten, 60; dyed marten, IS;
mink, 10; dyed mink, IS; raccoon. IS:
dyed raccoon. so; sable. so; dyed sable,
As; skunk, 20; tipped skunk, so: hal
seal, so; dyed seal, rs: fur seal, To-
20; lynx, Is; mole, 4; fnuskrat, As, and
dyed muskrat, IS.
9. win Gallant Fox race next year3
r.. H.
A. Gallant Fox, owned by william
WOOQNdIus I1fS DCCL ICJAACAt anu 40 W
be shipped to the Claiborne Stud, near
Paris, KY. He has won the most money
Of any horse that ever raced. HIS
earnings were close to 1925, 600.
@. How many people are there in the
insane asyluns Of the country?-M.
v. G.
A. There are about 264.250 patients
in the hospitals for the insane.
@. II fea were the size Of q man,
how far could it jump?--M. @.
A. Prof. William Heckler, who has
trained f1eas, says that healthy fiea
would jump what would TO US be the
equivalent Of half mile.
@. What was the date of the last
draft in this country for the World War
from age 10 and up?-C. B.
A. September IL, 1918.
@. What is sir Thomas Lipton's adj
dress in England?-L. N.
A. It is Osidge, Southgate, Middlesex,
England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-10
More Cash Needed TO
Cure Economic Ills

To the Editor of The Star:
|, What bad influence keeps the best
minds" from continuing to go where
logic leads when the question OF the
industrial breakdown Is depatedY
All authorities agree with Henry Ford
that unless the great mass OF workers
are enabled to purchase ana consume
their share of goods production will be
crippled in such way as TO hurt all
classes of society. Ford continually
stresses the need to pay high wages.
He and other publicists unfortunately,
however, stop right there. They do
not tell us what to use for money!
Now, Ford has managed so far to
practice what he breaches. He is en-
gagged in an eminently sure-fire busi-
ness. He makes q commodity particu-
larly easy to sell. But the majority of
business men are finding 1t almost i'm
possible to meet their normal pay rolls.
They cannot even borrow the credit
to carry on What Is the trouble,
perforce? They are deluged with plenty
of psychology; they are warned to
ignore the pessimiSm Of knockers: they
are advised to spreadeagle their adj
yertiSing campaigns, and they are in
formed by inspired" writers that the
slump will soon be over-that, in fact, it
is already over.
Yet what good is all this2 No one
bOtherS TO tell Lllenu WIldt tLlcy AIc 10
use for money.
This inconceivably silly farce, it seems
to me, has gone quite far enough. 1t
Is getting sufficiently weariSome. Since
money, so far as know, hasn't been
abolished as an exchange medium, and
since all of us have about q hundred
uses for every dollar, may 1t not be
that there Is slight shortage of the
we'll known wherewithal? May 1t not
tekY he
cause there is nothing to do business
with?
Would it be altogether such crazy
procedure to issue more counters, so that
the game can go on? During the past
Is years, while making an intensive
study of the currency, I have been
offered only one adequate reply to the
above question. Here it is. There is
an enormous deficit of legal tender in
the United States. On the present in
finitesimal amount of cash-Some S.
600 900 900 or $1,000, 900 ,000-most of
which stagnateS in bank .vaults-busi-
ness cannot be done without tragic dis
turbances, and conditions cannot posi-
bly, improve unless Government hberates
several times that amount of new
money, preferably based upon improved
land or public utilities Call this Fin
flation," or call it anything you like,
facts are stronger than fancy, and 1t is
an absolute, undeniable fact that bank
credit Is a spurious circulating medium,
infinitely inferior to legal tender as an
intermediary. Bank credit is debt"
and its bad effects cannot be remedied
in the least by any other method than
drowning it with primary money or
cash!
Yes, under consumptivity causes the
present unrest. But lack Of new, pri-
mary nn0npV causes nndeT-c0nSlunn-
tivityl
defy any one, high or low, academic
or lay, to refute the above challenged
CIAICH
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-10
n the Cincinnati Enquirer.

FROM the CINCINNATI enquirer.
There is back of the new private
owned hio-Mississippi barge service.
now functioning, $500, 900 of ST. Louis
and New York capital 1t is the first
private-owned express service on these
rivers. The lows now on their way to
New Orleans are the pioneers, it is be-
lieved, Of a new commercial era, since
by this new system of transportation
shippers will effect saving of from 10
to Is per cent under all-rail rates.
These 300-ton barges will be pushed
by the most powerful towboats on any
inland waters. lows will leave Cincin-
natl and New Orleans each week. Six
days will be required for the down.
stream trip and from IL to IA days for
the upstream haul At the outset only
Cincinnati and New Orleans will be
served directly by the new barge line
company, but other cities in the Missis-
sippi Valley may profit through joint rail
and water rates. Only express service
though 1t is expected that slower freight
movements will be inaugurated within
a year.
The chief terminal, now completely
equipped, is here in Cincinnati. It is
capable of serving 90 freight cars and
40 trucks simultaneously and can I'M
load 1000 tons of freight a day The
Ohio to Cairo, Ill, except for less than
q month each year, will be open to
navigation and the Mississippi from
Cairo to New Orleans is open the year
through. From Cincinnati to Cairo is
500 miles, from Cairo to New Orleans
1000 miles.
This significant activity, the culnaina-
ton of years of earnest and indefatiga-
BILE missionary effort -on the part of
river towns and interests, Is most i'm
portant step in the development of an
extensive inland waterway system to-
ward which the Government has been
working since 1t flrst began serious ex-
Fermentation In o comprehensive
freight service on the Mississippi, more
than 10 years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-10

This newspaper puts at your disposal
a corps Of trained researchers in wash
ington who will answer questions for
you. They have access to the Govern
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and to the numerous associations when
maintain headquarters in the Nations
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to you, write your question plainly ana
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The Evening Star Information Bureau,
Frederic j. Haskin director, Washing
ton, D. c.
@. Are the actors who depict the
schoolhoys IN "All Quiet on the west
ern Front" quite young?-D. M.
A. They are. 1t was the purpose OF
the Youngest men they could md with
proved dramatic ability. Lewis Ayres,
who plays Paul Banner, is 81 years OLD;
William Blackwell, who Is Albert, Is 20;
Scott Kolk (Leer) is %, as Is Walter
Browne Rogers, who plays Benin; owen
Davis, ir. (Peter) Is 81; Russell Gleas
son (Muller), %, and Ben Alexander,
who Is Kemmerich, Is only ID.
9. When were pictures first printer
H. S.
A. The first printed pictures were
from wood blocks for playing cards, run
off by an unknown printer, now called
THE Master Of Playing CARDS, IN
Basel, Switzerland, in 14S6.
@. Where Is the cemetery for which
the soil was brought from Calvary
F. E.
A. The Campo Santo Garden of the
Dead, in Pisa. was made with eartn
brought from Palestine by order OF
Archbishop Ubaldo. Fifty-three ships
we're used to transport the soil, and 1t
took five years to complete the ceme-
terry. ~
@. What city in Oklahoma has a
statue of Belle Star, the famous bandit?
A. Ponca City has this statue. 1t was
ordered by E. w. Marland, oil mag
nate, who Is quoted as saying that his
purpose was not to perpetuate the men,
ory Of Q bandit, but rather to preserve
the dress and appearance Of the first
white woman in Oklahoma Territory.
J. i i. wna' :" "ef'''0f map
A. It Is q map constructed on the
principle of Mercator'S projection. The
meridians are drawn parallel to each
other, and the parallels of latitude are
straight lines, whose distance from each
other increases with their distance from
the Equator, so that in all places the
degrees Of latitude and longitude have
to each other the same ratio as on the
sphere itself. This produces an appar-
ent enlargement of the Polar regions,
which when translated into distance Is
approximately accurate.
Q. OF the Mayfiower passengers who
was the first head Of family to dep
D. T.
A. Mr.. James Chiffon.
Q. What causes the humming Of
bees?-G. T.
A, 1t Is caused by the rapid vibra-
ton of their wings.
@. How big does q jewish grow?-
K. L. j.
A. Some species of jewish attain a
weight of 500 pounds, notably the black
sea bass and the black jewish.
Q. Are gas masks often used In in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-10
Riparian Rights.

From the New Orleans Item.
The Mississippi Supreme Court adds
another to the imposing mass of legal
decisions in riparian rights. The rul-
ing is that owners of land condemned
for levee purposes must be reimbursed
not only for the land proper, but for
sand and gravel in the river bed to the
middle of the stream.
The decision is of particular interest
now, with much river work planned
and many condemnation suits pending.
This particular controversy was between
the Board of Mississippi Levee Com
missioners and a Washington County
property owner. But the decision may
be used in other cases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-10

people. It b true that many persons
not 20 well educated or Intellectually
equipped a. the duke still do believe in
such balderdash, and doubtless some of
the residents Of Glamis and the peas
antry round about cherish the belief
And this brings forth the query of
whether or not It was a rather unfair
trick on the dukes part TO make the
daughter of one of his rural interiors
assume the hated and feared. number.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-10
SHOOTING STARS.


The Making Of Events.
Some men are hammers. and they fall
With swift relentless shock.
This life for them is, after all.
One grand persistent knock.
And some are anvils standing there
In undismayed repose.
Firm placed and solid, they must bear
The impact Of the blows.
The hammer has its work to do.
The anvil may not yield
In opposition. 'Twixt the two
The worlds work Is revealed.