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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
Sororitu to Meet

Miss Evelyn Wysong. pit West
Thirty4fifth street. will be hostess
fos meeting Of Theta Chi Omega
sorority at her home tonight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
Slate ReQular Meetinq

Members of the Ciildren's Sum
shine Club of Sunnyside will hold
their regular meeting at 2 Wednes-
day in the ladies' parlor Of the
Fletcher Americas bank.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
Entertdins Members

Mrs J. A. Mahoney, 4526 East
Washington street. entertained
members Of the Olde Tyne Friend
ship Club with q luncheon at
today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
w. B. A. Picnic Slated

Members Of Francis Review No. 8.
". B. A.. will have a picnic Tues
day at Camp Harding. Mrs. George
Phillips will be hostess. Mrs. Dora
Henry h chairman in charge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11
Meetinq Is Scheduled

Weekly meeting Of Theta Rho
Sigma sorority Will be held at the
sphinx Arms tonight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-11

Following Is the first Of series Of
dispatches to The Times. Surveying the
winter fashion showlngs in Paris shops.
Evening star., 1930-12-08

Or, rather, It disappeared.
Usually one hears the evasive article
strike the floor, but this time it made
no sound at all. Evidently 1t had not
struck wood. Perhaps it had dropped
on the rug.
A close search failed to reveal it.
The gentleman dropped on his knees
| peered under the various articles OF
| furniture, rolled back rugs. looked into
the usual hiding places of his favorite
button. for he was onto its tricks.
From long experience he knew Just
about where his button should be hid
ing. But this time the small bit OF
shaped and plated metal put one over
on him." to use the popular phrase.
X X X \
Carefully our Washingtonian shook
his shirt sleeves, felt into the cuffs OF
his trousers, and examined various
other pitfalls where the button might
have landed.
He could not find it.
There was nothing to do, Of course,
except to haul forth his second button,
poor thing Of bone, but splendid ex-
ample Of foresight.
He congratulated himself noiselessly.
Few men were so beforehanded.
1t was with some pride that he wore
his second button, but all through the
day his thoughts reverted to his faith
full old button.
1t was like losing a dog or something.
stood beneath his chin, In all weather,
cold or hot. And now it was gone.
4 *
He had run for his bus, ramified
around town all morning, engaged in
unit ottr
ring up the button.
But exactly at 11:15 o'clock, as he
was standing in the corridor, talking to
friend, he heard slight clink, and,
looking down, there was the Old Button
on the floor!
But the next days venture was even
stranger. 1t does not take the North
Pole to make for adventure. The diff
ference is one of degree, that is all.
Greeted with cries of JOY, the Old
Button was carefully placed in a vest
pocket, and later exhibited at hons
with great pride.
The lost was found. It's whereabouts
during the day was a mystery into
which 1t would not do to pry too close
ly, else the button might not take 1t
into its head to hide away so snugly the
next time.
The next morning, just as the button
was being put into place, 1t again dis
appeared. This time caustic comments
followed the concealed button. Wide
search, both Of the room and garments,
found 1t not
Late in the afternoon, when the
Washingtonian met his wife downtown,
, she asked him If he had found the Old
Button.
NO" he said, with a mournful shake
Of his head. "It is gone this time. This
time it is gone for good"
wouldn't it be queer" she comment
ed, pointing to his left hand, which he
had slightly elevated, "if it should be
there in the cuff Of your shirt?"
And she touched the cuff, and found
the button in the fold.
Evening star., 1930-12-08
A World Court Referendum.

On the eve of President Hoover's
submission of the World Court protocol
to the Senate, there has been made
available the result of an impressive
referendum on the question of Amer
ican entry into the international tri-
bunal. The referendum consists OF a
Nationwide poll of the country's news
papers, conducted by the American
Foundation, an organization which owes
its creation and sustenance mainly to
the late Edward w. Box.
There is little doubt of the peoples
attitude toward American adhesion to
the World Court, If the Nations news
papers are a true reflection Of public
opinion. Ratification Of the protocol Is
definitely favored by 1857 daily papers
and opposed by only 2e5. A total Of
2,0S6 editors or publishers was asked
for "a considered opinion" OF that
number, only 342 failed to reply: fifty-
eight registered mo stand" and four
tsen could not be categoricaIly classified.
Evening star., 1930-12-08
Aviation Industries
Feel No Depression
FROM the Pasadena star-News.

From the Pasadena Star-News.
There is no depression in air trans
port industries and development. Quite
the contrary. Thirty million dollars, it
is authoritatively stated, will be ex-
pended during 1891 for establishment
and improvement of airports In cities of
California, the Middle West and the
South. Plans and projects for present
needs and future expansion of air
transport are being carried forward on
nuge scale. Great landing fields are
being constructed and some of the most
modern air terminals in the world viii
be ready for use by the end of 1881.
The greatest American project of the
KIND so Tar Is that &c Chicago. It Is a
combined sea and lard plane harbor on
Lake Michigan, to cost $4,000. 600 "A
great air terminal at New Orleans win
cost 81 100000. And Milwaukee also
wlu have great airport costing the
same amount as that at New Orleans.
California. in particular, Is progress~
ing remarkably In the development Of air 7
transport terminal facilities. The State
STANDS among the foremost In air trans
port. Because of its normally stable
meteorlogic and atmospheric conditions,
California Is destined to be the foremost
state IN the Union In volume Of air
transport.
Evening star., 1930-12-08

the actors through the final scene?
Or, when the last scene is being shown,
will the actors themselves be speeding
somewhere toward safe retirement, with
dummies taking their places In front
of the firing squadp
The trial of the conspirators in Mos
COW was staged for home consumption
before an audience that is none too
critical. Such fictitious characters as
Lord Churchill of England" were in
troduced in spirit as representing the
forces Of capitalism with which the arch
villains conspired to throw monkey
wrenches into the Five-Year Plan. The
long confessions of the conspirators
themselves, laboriously read for hours
into microphones, detailed the steps
that had been taken to wreck the pro-
gram and prevent the realization of the
millennium toward which the masses of
Russian people have been striving with
a degree of self sacrifice that passes
understanding.
The way is being carefully prepared
from the Kremlin to break the news
gradually that the Five-Year Plan may
not be a flve-year plan after all; but
a twenty, or a thirty, or fifty year
plan. The trial that has Just been
completed is one step in preparation.
Edwin L. James, the New York Times
correspondent for many years in Lon
don, recently returned from Russia
with series of uncensored articles on
conditions there that suggest other
steps. The plaque before the tomb of
Lenin proclaims that Religion Is the
Opium of the People" The Soviet has
taken away one opiate, substituting
another - the Five-Year Plan in its
place. Mr.. James believes the people
are becoming restless as the effects of
the new drug wears off, New injec-
tions are needed. The trial of the
conspirators against the Five-Year Plan
is one; it has furnished tangible scape-
goats who explain tangible reasons for
the failure of the bitter medicine that
the Russians have been swallowing as
promised cure-all. There will be other
and stronger doses. No man can
prophesy as to their efficacy. They
may produce the deep sleep that is
sought, but they may turn the patient
into a delirious, raving maniac, intent
not only on destroying the medicine,
but the doctors as well.
Evening star., 1930-12-08

The question leveled at the newspapers
was direct and specific: Does your
paper favor or oppose ratification of
the World Court protocol?"
Senators Of the United States. who
are not unused to letting their ears as
sumo horizontal posture on the DO
litical ground, cannot logically fail to
heed this subterranean reverberation Of
popular sentiment. It shows 66.65 uer
cent favorable and 1901 opposed, among
those who replied. OF editors and
publishers who expressed themselves, the
majority of pro-court to anti-court
sentiment was, in other words, in the
ratio Of more than five to one. The
Senate would have a perfect alibi If it
proceeded to approve Uncle Sans en-
try into the court without further ado
and blamed it on the press of the
country. There could hardly be any
surer guarantee Of good press" than
these referendum figures supply.
1t is suggested that any attempt to
obtain Senate action now on the eight
year-old World Court proposal would
precipitate a controversy prejudicial to
the conduct of the sessions other busi-
ness. The menace of a special session,
which nearly everybody wants to avoid,
is conjured up by opponents of prompt
action. If the World Court project
were something new, sprung suddenly
upon Congress and the American peo-
pie, there would be rhyme and reason
in protracted discussion of it, and, per-
hapS, even some justification for q
Senate filibuster against it. But it is
not a new proposal. It Is getting to
be as old as the hills. 1t ramifies back
into the hoary Harding regime. It
pestered Washington throughout five
years of the Coolidge administration.
Herbert Hoover has been in ONCE near
ly two years, and the issue, like unem-
ployment itself, Is still with us.
Has not the time come, in the in
terest Of the Senate's own reputation
as an efficient legislative body, to quit
dillying and dallying with the World
Court protocol and dispose Of 1t? The
opposition to our adhesion is q noto-
riously minority opposition. It should
not be permitted indefinitely to thwart
the will Of the majority Of the Senate
and the Nation.
Evening star., 1930-12-08
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

The answers TO questions printed here
each day are specimens picked from
the mass Of inquiries handled by our
great Information Bureau maintained
in Washington. d. G. This valuable
service Is for the free use of the pub
lie. Ask any question Of fact YOU NAV
want TO know, and you will get an i'm
mediate reply. Write plainly, inclose 2
cents in coin or stamps for return post
| age and address The Evening Star In
formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin
director, Washington. d. C.
@. Has contract bridge become as
fixed In methods Of play as auction?--
w. w.
A. BY no means. Contract is still in
its infancy. While the general rules
will probably have little revision. meth
DDS and counts for bidding will prob
ably be. amended or simplifed as the
expert bridge players compile results OF
the study of thousands Of hands actu-
ally observed in play.
O. When do fresh almonds, peanuts,
walnuts and pecans come on the mar
ket?-E. l..
A. The almonds are harvested the
latter part of August and the first of
September. Peanuts are harvested In
September; walnutS and pecans the last
OF october and the first of November.
@. How should q paper pattern be
shortened for a small person?-T. L. B.
A. Fold tuck in 1t half way be-
tween the armSeye and the waistline,
and another tuck half way between
the waistline and the bottom. In cut
! ting. Straightsn the seamlines as nec-
essary. If shorter sleeve Is required
Ahak Nf INn AL
half way between the elbow and arms
eye and half way between the elbow
and wrist, so that the elbow always re-
mains in the correct position.
O. Has more than one President
lacked a plurality Of the popular vote7
j. H. H.
A. There have been two such in
stances. Rutherford B. Hayes and Ben
jamin Harrison.
Q. Who played "Lovey Mary" in the
original production Of "Mrs. Wigs of
/ the Cabbage Patch"?-A. S. d.
A. Mabel Taliaferro.
@. Are homicide and murder one
and the same?-S. L.
A. Homicide is q broader term. 1t
signifies the killing of one person by
another. Murder is intentional and un-
| lawful homicide.
@. Who said "a single breaker may
recede but the tide is evidently coming
| in"?-A. G.
A. Macaulay wrote this in 1880 dur
ing a period Of stress in England.
Q. How does Washington, d. c.,
rank in population according to the
new census?-H. w.
A. Washington is still fourteenth in
I, population among American cities but
the District of Columbia has moved up
one place in rank among the States.
1t IS now forty-f1rst in rank, having
passed New Hampshire in the decade
since the last census.
Q. What was the Simon Report?-
L. Z.
A. 1t was the findings Of q survey by
commission sent by King George of
England to India to investigate condi-
tions In that county and to advise q
plan for the better government Of the
country, looking to ultimate self-gov-
ernment OF India as an autonomous
Evening star., 1930-12-08

part OF the British Empire. The com.
mission was headed by Sir John Simon.
@. How much land did washington
own at the time Of the Revolutionary
WARM. q.
A. He owned approximately 10000
acres in detached areas, mostly in the
Ohio Valley, besides the Mount Vernon
estate. which embraced 5000 acres,
more or less.
g. Is it true that hens seldom lay
well in the Winter?--A. c, Y.
A. The Poultry Item SAYS: "The
passing OF this myth is what has made
poultry culture one OF the leading in
dustries OF the world. Take the VIM
ter egg crop away and this mighty in
oustry would fall to the ground In one
| year. It was discovered half a century
ago that II hens are kept out OF the
snow and in other ways duly protected
against the rigors of Winter they will
as at 80 in the shade This is the basis
OF all profits in poultry culture"
q. Have you any record Of extraordi-
nary increases In realty values during
the Florida land boom?-S. w. T.
A. In the "reminiscences Of the late
e. w. Barron, published under the
title. They Told Barron" there is such
record. According to 1t, G. W. Bing-
ham bought tract of 2.S73 feet 'front.'
age near Palm Beach in 1896 at s4.65
per front foot. In 1915 he sold part
OF 1t at $27.50 foot. In 1917 Paris
singer bought another part of the Bing-
nam tract at $50 foot and sold 1t to
Or. w. l.. Kingsley the next year Mt
$3.50 a front foot. Mrs. Horace Dodge
pousht part of that In 1924 at $3.50 a
front foot and sold II to SPECTATORS the
Following year at $500 front foot.
They failed and Mrs Dodge resold the
property at 81 400 a front foot. At the
maximum sale price of $4,000 this was
an increase OF more than 700 times the
f1rst sale price.
Q. How much money was spent last
year by the Government for pencils
and paper?-F. L. Meg.
A. The general supply Office Of the
treasury states that 81, ,362 $1,000 w.
spent In 1880, fiscal year, for all -&E
things as pencils, erasers, paper, f6id-
ers, stationery, etc.
9. Are Chinese temples oder than
Egyptian ones?-D. M.
A. Chinese temples are rarely very
old. Being built Of wood, they have not
had the lasting qualities of marble and
granite.
FleaSe explain about Lincoln Inn
In London.--M. l.. r.
A. Lincoln Inn is one of the four
great guilds or societies of lawyers In
England known as inns of court. :"
wnich enjoy the exclusive power of
calling persons to the bar. Il derives
its name from the fact that the groups
OF buildings in London occupied by it
belonged to the Earl of Lincoln in the
reign OF Edward II. 1t became an inn
OF court soon after his death, in 1910.
q. How many congressional medals
nave been awarded to World War par-
! ticipants?-R. G. j.
A. OF q total of 1928 Congressional
Medals Of Honor awarded, l,723 have
been Issued to World War veterans.
Q. Can you give me that "tonaue.
twister" about Peter, the pear-pickcr!
IS. A. r.
"A. Peter Prangle, the prickly prsn-
gly pear-picker, picked three pecks of
prlckly prangly pears from the pranely
prairies."
Evening star., 1930-12-08

From Chicago comes word Of an up
to-date wisecrack by Albert D. Lasker,
advertising king and former chairman
Of the United States Shipping Board.
He says that what the country Is suf-
fering from is "overprediction."
y
How to pronounce the name Of the
new Secretary Of Labor is causing some
difficulty in Washington. Mr.. Doak's
surname Is uttered as If it rhymed with
smoke" 1t Is monosyllable, and not
pronounced, as some are saying it,
''Doe-ack."
Eyes have been raised In Washington
over the disclosure before the House
Committee on Communism that the War
Department sold 400 Army airplane en-
gines to Soviet Russia. It appears to
be certain that the engines did even
tually find their way to the Moscow
military establishment, but they were
purchased by an Intermediary" for
the Amtorg Trading Corporation (the
Soviet buying agency in New York; Z.
Moreover, it Is claimed, the engines were
nothing but junk, from our War De-
partment's standpoint, such as might
nave been picked up in almost any
country. Two years ago the United
States Shipping Board sold q big fleet
OF cargo boats to an intermediary" in
the knowledge that the vessels were des-
tined for Russia.
Here's a good one: Col. L. w. Aims
worth OF Des Moines, who's ilst been
appointed agricultural director of the
Republican National Committee, was
an A-Smith-for-P President farm leader
IN 1873. Alnsworth was at one time
intimately associated with George N
Peek and Chester Davis, original
spearheads Of the McNary -Haugen cru
sade, and was with them in the farm
neadquarters set up by the Democrats
at Chicago in the Hoover Smith cam
paign. Col. Ainsworth had special
charge Of the Iowa wing Of the Inflated
effort to carry the corn and wheat
country for the Democratic ticket. This,
at least, is the pedigree of the colonel
on nIe IN quarters at Washington,
which claim to know.
Copyright, 1930)
Evening star., 1930-12-08
Scotland Yard Supreme
In Solution of Crime
From the Atlanta journal.

From the Atlanta Journal.
The report that Britishers are losing
faith in Scotland Yard is one which
might well have been left imprinted. In
the first place we do not believe 1t. The
yards failure to solve out of hand a
lew sensational mysteries may have led
some to doubt whether modern detec-
tiveS are infallible, as all detectives of
the past are conceded to have been.
But we cannot believe that the foun-
dations Of British allegiance to a ma
tional institution would suddenly
crumple. Furthermore, If the report
be true, then consideration for Scot
land Yards universal reputation ought
to have restrained admission of the
collapse.
For Scotland Yard belongs to ro-
nance as well as to the King. The
members of that great organization owe
something TO fiction as well as to fact.
Modern writer's of detective tales have
invented few novelties for their
clientele, but they have not been able
to improve upon Scotland Yard The
yard inspector Is still clear favorite
when some tremendous imaginary crime
Is to be analyzed. To readers of every
nation who have come to depend upon
the British detective to guide them
through the mazes Of manufactured
mystery, it does not greatly matter that
several episodes out of real life remain
unexplained on the yards factual rec
ords. The readers had rather not hear
about 1t.
Some insensitive statistician has dis
covered that II homicides which have
occurred in England during the past
five years still resist Scotland Yards
sagacity. But most of them have oc-
CURED in within the past year or so,
and If those who are disturbed were as
widely read as they should be, they
would know that Scotland Yard never
admits defeat, and, in fact, rather pre-
fers to postpone victory. An old
mystery is so much more begIiling than
a fresh one, and we refuse to doubt
that those now pending will be tri-
umphantly illuminated presently. In
the meanwhile, let sedition be stamped
out, for it threatens an international
security of faith.
Evening star., 1930-12-08
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Fashion and Babies.
Some Of 'em smile with gentle grace,
And some appear with solemn face;
But every baby that we see
Seems what a baby ought to be.
We vary manners and attire.
Each passing fashion we admire.
But babies greet US, unafraid,
The creatures frank that Nature made.
As older folk appear In state,
Features and forms they decorate.
Thank Heaven as through this life we
range,
The styles in babies never change!
Evening star., 1930-12-08
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Collar buttons always have been noted
for their abilities.
The chief of these is in hiding.
A front collar button that can't roll
under the bed or the dresser or fall
down a crack in the floor Is no collar
button at all.
There is no Woe e-of-the-Day greater
than this to the Man-in-a-Hurry.
The trouble, of course. as every wife
knows, lies in the man and not in the
poor, inoffensive button.
A man who will think nothing at all
of owning two cars or buying his
cigars by the box will never purchase
collar buttons except one at a time.
Then when The Button rolls away
into hiding there is no substitute, no
alternate.
1t is either that button or nothing.
And mostly it Is nothing, small lack
which gives q most uncomfortable feel
ing around the neck, a sense Of inse-
curity at the Adams apple.
A man who happened to possess two
whole buttons at once had a queer adj
venture last week.
1t was not momentous, of course,
since it involved no one except himself
and the button.
But for button it was pretty good.
He is willing to wager that no other
button in history ever did exactly what
his button did.
In the first place, 1t is about quar-
ter Of century old. This old friend
is still shiny. still without a flaw in its
makeup. OF all the things made by
man, few outwear the honest collar
button.
On account Of its long service, 25 full
years at his neck, this gentleman had
real affection for the button. Now
this Is a peculiar thing about collar
buttons, that it is only the front button
that counts.
The back button is not so important.
Perhaps it Is just another case Of out
Of sight, out Of mind. Few men worry
about their back buttons, but most have
some favorite front button.
Our Washingtonian had been insert
ing that favorite of his between the
the two holes in his collar for 50 many
years that the act took on all the
solemnity of rite.
No day was begun properly without
the button, although mostly he never
gave it thought, but deity put it into
his fresh shirt every morning after the
following ordained scheme Of things:
First through the right-hand neck
band buttonhole, then through the left
hand side, then he snapped the right
hand collar buttonhole over the button,
then the left hand.
This sounds more complicated than 1t
Is. The morning buttoning belongs in
that class of automatic. almost u1con-
scious acts which we all do every day.
It is only when the button rolls out
Of the band before 1t is secured that
the deed becomes conscious.
Then 1t becomes very conscious, in
deedl
r 4
The first morning Of the two eventful
mornings the faithful, long-service but
ton dropped out.
Evening star., 1930-12-08
End of the PLAY.

One Of the most dramatic and daringly
staged acts Of propaganda the civilized
world has ever seen is nearing its
climax in Moscow with the sentence of
death before firing squad for five of
the eight traitorous conspirators and
imprisonment for the remaining three.
There wiz now follow brief interlude
OF darkness. When the curtain rises
Cor q momentary epilogue, the audience
WIN zee the fash and hear the distant
erack Of rifles, symbolizing the climax
and the end Of the play. The question
"a eyerybody's mind now concerns the
feality Of this epilogue. VIII the master
stage hands in Moscow actually put