davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-07

according to Phil w. knights, city
engineer, and the curbing and side
walks are expected to be in place
from SandaIwood Drive to Adams
avenue by the middle Of next week.
Some difficulty was experienced
Imperial Valley press., 1930-05-07
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results
Los Angeles 10, Missions IL.
Oakland I. Sacramento ].
San Francisco y, Hollywood J.
Seattle and Portland, rain.
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has just been tested and pronounced

has just been tested and pronounced
successful.
This demonstration was made before
q meeting Of illuminating engineers in
Boston. A model Of prison wall was
set up, parallel to which o ray Of light
was directed into the electric eye"
The model Of prisoner bent upon
escape was propelled up the wall. When
1t came within the range of the light
shining into the "eye," q revolver was
fred and bell started to ring. The
interposition Of the moving model in
the path Of the light ray actuated the
cell to bring about series Of relays
of current, pulling the revolver trigger
ana ringing the alarm. This was all
done in flash.
Application of the same principle
would safeguard buildings against
burglars. would record temperatures Of
steel and brass furnaces, would turn Oil
lights on the approach of darkness.
would grade materials according to
color and would do many other things
OF . diverse nature, with the precision
OF exact machinery and without the
exercise Of fallible human judgment.
In short, the electric eye may become
one Of the most important factors ever
introduced into the mechanics Of living.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-25
sSOUR SOCIAL HABIT
BY THE RIGHT REv. JAMES 3. FREEMAN. D. D. IL. D.
Bishop OF Washington.

whose life has been detected from ways
Of wholesome living has been given the
first impulse to unwiholesome indul-
gences by one whose daily practice was
out Of consonance with his Sunday pro-
fession. It is undoubtedly true that
much of the deflectiors Of our youth to-
day from the church and from an open
traceable to the inconsistency or habit
disclosed by those who should be con-
spicuous examples Of this ancient In
stitution. They would say, in the Ian
euage Of Emerson, What you are
speaks so loud I cannot hear what you
say"
No matter what the changing conven-
lions Of social habit may be, no matter
what popular practice and usage may
dictate, there are principles of life that
inlnere in a consistent profession OF
Christian belief that refuse to compro.
mise or abdicate. There is standard
of practice for the Christian that neces-
sarily differentiates him from those who
recognize no such standard. It may be
costly to maintain such q practice, 1t
may render us for the while un..
popular or lacking In the so-called
modern point Of yiew," but to forego II
the Christian religion stands. Matthew
Arnold maintained that conduct Is
three-fourths Of life. We can hardly be-
lieve that the other fourth is the re.
served area for Christian faith and
practice. II these cannot be brought to
bear upon our social relations, II they
cannot play O conspicuous part in rem
dering them really wholesome, sound and
satisfactory; In fine, II they cannot lit
the standard OF living in all It's multi
form contacts to higher levels. then we
might might as well adopt system OF
ethics we have long since forgotten
Some one has said that the art Of living
is learned in the school Of the crlcifled
The art Of living has been the quest OF
men through the long ages. We have
yet to attain 1t In its perfection. No
one has taught and exemplified II with
such persuasiyeness and compelling
power as did the Master. The disciplines
he imposed were designed for our great
est good. To be Christian in theory Ia
one thing, to be Christians In daily prac-
tice means to enrich and ennoble the
lives Of those with whom we have daily
contact
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-25
Weeping Bad Men.

Writ IS and readers of wild and
woolly Western fiction will alike be suf-
ferers from the prevalence of a new
technique which has come into being
in connection with the capture alive OF
the desperate armed and barricaded
villain.
In the old days when the bad two
gun man." equipped not only with the
proverbial twin SKIES" but also re-
peating rife. bowie knife and whatnot,
was cornered by the hastily raised
posse, his apprehension was considered
bound to cost one or more innocent
and valuable lives. Finally the noble
and self-sacrificing sheriff and q brave
deputy or two would make up their
minds to tight 1t out, with an ;nvaria-
BILE CORY and deplorable result.
Times have changed. Today, a. ex-
emplified by q recent dispatch from
Arizona, the posse. having cornered its
man, sits safely around behind protect
ing boulders and awaits the arrival of
. consignment Of tear gas bombs from,
the nearest police depot. They can play
pedro, fry bacon, take maps and sing
Sweet Adeline," knowing that, save
for an unexpected sally Of the criminal,
they are probably as safe as II ct home.
The tear gas arrives; q couple Of con-
tanners are tossed in where they viii
do the most good and the bandit
promptly comes out. He not only comes
out, but Is glad TO come out, and he
emerges weeping copiously and entirely
harmless, to be Invested alike Of his
weapons and his dread reputation.
Think what romantic literature would
have been lost had such procedure been
in vogue back in the days Of Jesse and
Frank James, Cole and Jim Younger,
the Apache Kid, Billy the Kid and
Sladel The owners Of these terrifying
names and bloody records would have
been at the mercy Of good average
QUOT pitcher or shortstop. 30 would
Red Cloud, Rain-in-the-Face. tina Mo-
doc Capt. Jack, and even Sitting Bull.
Well, It IL all for the best. But those
who can remember when "Cap" Arson
played first base will hesve wistful
sigh, Just the same. "a
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Bureaus Are Busy in Final Stage of
The Slowly Evolving Tariff Law

the tarin matter. TO fall into two
classes. .
A host Of the smaller owners have
been down here personally or through
agents eagerly requesting increased pro-
lection and are greatly delighted in
many cases to have got 1t. In many
cases their demands were fully sup
ported by Tariff Commission statistics.
The industrial increases in the bill
were most Of them granted to meet the
requirements Of this class Of owners.
These increases were some TOO in num-
Der: and, in certain individual in
stances, they were very steep.
They are attacked now by agencies
like the Raleigh Tariff Bureau as con-
cessions to relative inef1ciency. Such
attacks, Just or unjust, are fortified by
the behavior Of very large part OF
our highest and richest industrial and
financial element. That element Is
sometimes charged with having written
the present bill. It, in fact, wrote al
most none Of It. The opinion Of most
Of Wall Street has been vehemently ex-
declaring that the present bill makes
the American people into "the economic
gunner of the world" The opinion of
our most altitudinous manufacturers of
the supreme sort Is in large degree rep
resented by Henry Ford, who has de-
nounced the present bill specifically,
and by Owen d. Young of the General
Electric Co., who has chosen the pres
ent moment for q denunciation Of tar
III barriers in general.
Many people here thereupon argue as
follows:
Basic farming and big business are
of the tariff, because both are at pres
ent interesting In foreign trade: and
the President will infallibly veto the
bill unless 1t contains O flexible pro-
vision through which he can promptly
reduce whatever excuses the present
bill may contain.
Copyright, is3o)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-25

thousand Nationalist soldiers, stationed
at swatow, have nutinied, murdered the
commanding oficer and fed 10 the
mountains.
Nationalist government endeavors to
check the Communist activities In Fu.
kien Province have been counter
checked by the reds, who have halted
an official drive to close red activity in
South China by threatening reprisals on
individual members Of the government
organization. At Annoy, where recently
raids on Communist headquarters were
conducted, the Marking authority has
eeen set ct naught.
II the campaign In the North is won
and the armies Of Feng and Yen are de-
feated and their adherents commanding
smaller forces induced" to return to
the Nationalist camp, It will be next
in order for the Marking government
to turn its attention to the red menace
in the South.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-25

also be connected with the i've existing
central Offices and with every phone
listed In those districts.
X u
The Treasury Department has made
1t clear that arguments and disserta-
lions by bank consultations and group
banking, chain banking and unit bank
ing may be interesting subjectively, but
that Collectively they are all subject to
the law of diminishing returns. For
example. the largest bank In the world,
which attained to that position through
amalgamation, Is reported to have lost
some 80 per cent Of Its State cor
respondents. Formerly those corre-
spondents were forced to 80 70 New
York to obtain funds SUFFICIENT to
finance local industrial building and
commercial operations. To-day the local
banks have consolidated to such an ex-
tent that they are entirely able to pro-
vide for the financial needs OF their own
districts without appeal to the Federal
Reserve cities.
It is realization of these facts which
has kept down anxiety with regard 70
the Couzens bill, now before Congress:
which would prevent consoicauon OF
railroads under the Interstate COM
rnerce Commission plan until Iurtnes
legislation is passed. Economists say
it cannot supersede or veto or nullify
the basic economy law Of diminishing
returns and that consequently no rail-
road monopoly can exist, whether Con-
gress permits it or refuses to permit It.
In other words, economists today de-
clare that entire monopoly OF any line
of business endeavor is a Pigment OF the
imagination. and If such q monopoly
we're possible 1t would eventually de-
feat its own aim. They add mat the
law of dirainishing returns" should be
posted over every business establish
inent alongside that sterling motto.
Competition u the life Of trade.'
fOopyrisht. 1eS0t1 -J III
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Electric Eye Guardians.

Science is advancing 50 rapidly in
the development of devices for doing
superhuman things that there is dam
ger Of surfeit, with the consequence
of expectation of the impossible to
come. The radio Is now a common
place, accepted as an ordinary facility
of communication. Television, ths
process of transmitting pictures by
wireless, has been adapted to educa-
tional uses. In manifold ways the
new discoveries and inventions that
reduce time and space to nothing
are finding practical applications that
make Of them daily accompaniment.
Some time ago announcement was
made of the invention Of o cell popu-
larry styled the electric eye. With q
faint, almost invisible ray of light play
ing upon it. the cell remains quiescent.
Any interruption of the ray causes 1t
to become active, and thus 1t is capa.
BILE Of setting UP operative forces. Since
the perfection Of the central principle,
the inventor has been ct work upon
practical applications. One ct them
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Taft Endowment
To Provide Thinkers

From the 81. Louis Globe-Democrat
To erdow the study and teaching Of
the humanities" 100000 is given to
the University of Cincinnati by Mrs.
Taft, editor and chief owner for many
years Of the Cincinnati Times-Star.
Might not objection be made on the
ground that the terms of the trust are
too indefinite for fulfillment? Words
derived from the old name for man
have many meanings. One Of the longer
derivatives In the plural, "humanities,"
Is q word Of the old scholasticism that
described various studies held to be
secular as distinguished from theo-
logical. AS thus used it meant "belles-
lettres, elegant literature, polite litera-
ture." photographers are careful to
tell us that the humanities included
Latin in the Scotch universities, though
not In most other universities, perhaps
because Latin was long so closely allied
with theology.
However. Mrs. Taft, in letter to her
trustees, explains that she would include
and history" and even Economics and
mathematics" AS memorial to her
husband 1t will emphasize his real en-
thusiasm for those studies which relate
rather to the improvement Of the mind
than to physical and material better
ment." She speaks of "a danger Of a
lack of emphasis on the value Of thought
and conduct and character"
In other words, with the vast pro-
vision now made for training of direct
unitarian nature, she finds In our edu-
cational scheme an insuff1ciency of en-
enlargement and special incentive for
acquiring learning for its own sake, for
those studies that tend to q genuine ma
tioflal culture. Just az pure science
enriches applied science, often in unsus-
pected ways, so these cultural studies
tend to detectives Of the very highest
importance in the racial and national
viewpoint. They provide q very special
and valuable training for the mind.
They raise up scholars. They give us
thinkers and what is more important to
any people than to have thinkers?
The possibilities of conflict over the
conditions of the trust, over fulfillment
Of the precise intent of the donor, are
remote. A wide latitude In authority
is conferred on the trustees to determine
what Is meant by "humanities." Foun-
dations Of this particular character are
all too few in the United States. Doubt
less 1t will furnish suggestion to other
generous Americans as to o real Amer
lean need.
The University Of Cincinnati was one
Of the very first institutions Of higher
learning established by municipality
as the crown of its public school system.
That this foundation will augment
the prestige of school and city and open
for It's faculty an inviting and fruitful
field Is not to be doubted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-25
Capital Sidelights
BY WILL r. KENNEDY.

The 'other side" of Chicagos shield
was disclosed at surprise break
fast here the other day, given by the
leading advertising and business organi-
cations of that metropolis. One OF the
most surprising thoughts for many of
those attending was that as a center Of
operations for so many good advertising
men how Chicago could have had so
much bad advertising as the American
crime center.
Charles S. Peterson, the city treas
urer, surprised" some hundred MEM
bers of Congress and others by show
ing that Chicago is not bankrupt, and
DR.. Herman N. Bundersen, coroner of
Cook County, emphasized that In the
number of murders per 100. 500 popula-
ton during 1929 Chicago stood last In
list of 80 big cities and the murder
rate decreased 20 per cent last year,
while it increased in 1877 other American
cities.
1t was explained that, despite the
rnuch-advertised demoralized financial
condition of Chicago, the per capita
debt Is about one-third of New York's,
less than one-half of Philadelphia,s
and little more than one-half of Pitts
burgh's or Detroit's; that the total
bonded indebtedness is only $500 000, 900
against an assessed valuation Of $10,-
UUU,UuU,UuU.
stressing that Chicago is increasing
in value at the rate of $1,500,0O0 a
day-more than the production of all
the gold mines in the world in the
same limited time" DR.. Bundersen told
the national legislators, and the world
besides, that:
mo large city in the United States
has ever started its existence in such
an unpretentious manner as did Chi
cago. Less than 100 years ago It was
Just q little hamlet In which dwelled a
few adventuresome people: today it Is
the youngest large city and the largest
young city In the world, and, accord
ing to the Census Bureau, has increased
Its population more than 2,5O0 per
cent since the Civil War;
@. r. Schaeffer, chairman Of the
breakfast, added to the weight of Chi
cago's graphic defense by using as a
gavel at the meeting a stone unearthed
when the first scoopful of soil was dug
up In Chicago last Saturday for the
first Of the 1888 Fair buildings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-25
The Chinese Turmoil.

Recent dispatches from Shanghai in
dictate that the Marking government
forces are winning In the campaign Of
North Honan, where the armies Of
Chang Kai-Shek and Yen Hsi-Shan
have been In contact for o fortnight
past. No word comes from Peking, the
capital Of the so-called Northern gov
eminent, 10 controvert the claims Of
the Southern Nationalist that points on
the east-west railway line have been
taken and material progress made
toward the vitality important junction
Of that line and the Picking Hankow
road ut Chengchow. Unless these en-
gagements have been participated In
by only a small part Of the Northern
army 1t would appear that 1t is not a
match for the better equipped Marking
forces and that future encounters will
result In repetitions Of the southern
victories.
There Is some indication in the dis
patches that the Northern troops are
not wholly distanced In the matter Of
equipment. II was reported before the
hosttlities began that Chang Kai-shek's
posssksion Of bombing planes gave him
o distinct advantage over the forces
Of Yen and Feng. But in a Shanghai
dispatch mention is made Of the fact
that Northern bombardment by twelve
planes had checked the Marking ad-
vance westward. This is the first
specific mention of any aerial equip
ment In the Northern army.
Even with uninterrupted success in
the field in Honan. however, the Nam
king government 10 not wholly secure.
For coincidental with the hostilities In
the North. serious Communist uprisings
In the South are coupled with organized
outbreaks OF banditry. There seems to
be cooperative spirit between the
Communists and the bandits, the for
nier working on political and The lat
ter on purely Commercial" lines.
These disorders are prevalent in several
Of the southeastern provinces between
Shanghai and Canton. Some shock
ing atrocities have been committed by
bctn the reds and the brigands. a dis
DsteA frean Hcnskcns states that 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-25
This Is Like Carrying
Goals to Newcastle

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
How come that the Aga Khan, multi
millionaire Indian, is buying diamond
tiara from Paris jeweler for his pretty
Queen Mary? According to all the best
romantic history on the subject In
dia should be the worlds jewel
chest. For centuries the very name OF
India fred the imagination Of adven-
turers with dreams Of rajahs' gem
treasures filled with kohinoors and
little noors. Columbus thought about 1t
as the breezes waited him westward.
And now must midas multiest mill
lionaire turn to Paris shopkeeper Tor
baubles to bedeck Mrs. Aga? Another
Illusion shattered.
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Tert: "As re haze therefore re-
cefDed Christ Jesus the Lord, so iCdlk
ne in hfm."-Colosstdn tt.6.

cetped Christ Jesus the Lord, so waIk
ne in hfm."-Colossfdns, H.6.
A pertinent question that is insist
emily asked today is, docs a Christian
profession affect the social habit and
widespread feeling that a professed
Christian belief bears no necessary re.
lation to daily habit and practice
Many of us doubtless regard what we
hold of Christian faith as that which
is separate and apart from conduct and
quite unrelated to 1t. The church Is
the place for its expression, and posi-
bly, the regular or infrequent practice OF
prayer is one of its exclusive and pre-
In these things seriously enough and
when occupied In them display rev.
erence that appears to be deep and
real. Symbols and sacraments, holy
Offices of one kind and another, along
with lightly held creeds, or creeds &C.
cepted with mental reservations-these
constitute q conspicuous part Of our
religious habit. They belong to certain
places, and their area is restricted and
circumscribed. That all these have Q
distinct and proper relation to life. that
they have a practical value and that
they are designed for practical uses
seems, to q multitude of men and
women, to be quite improbable. Some
of the tenets of our Christian faith that
have grown out of the expressed words
Of Christ we hold to be largely cotlnsels
of perfection. They have q beauty and
Significance all their own, but in our
conception of them they are impossible
Of attainment. The result Of all this
misconception Of what Christian faith
and practice really mean works infinite
harm. not only to us, but to those with
whom we daily associate. We actually
render Christianity as o philosophy OF
life. as . system designed for mans
highest development and satisfaction
imperative by our endeavor to divorce
It from the interests in which we daily
engage. It has been well said that
example Is ever more persuasive than
precept. This is unquestionably true
when applied to the receptive minds OF
youth. An act inconsistent with pro-
fession works infinite harm to one
whose mind is still plastic and un-
formed. Many q young man or woman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-25
SHOOTING STARS.
Hy PHr.ANDER JOHNSON.
The Music Riot.

The Music Riot.
The radio tunes broke loose last nigh
In riot round the place,
with mocking birds so sweetly light
And bullfrogs singing bass.
The chattering insects everywhere
Increased the joyous din,
Each giving performance there,
The worlds applause to win.
Wen soon return to ways Of yors.
Some method there must be
To shut the music up once more
Safe under lock and key.