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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29
Gaming Table" Defined.

The casual reader of the latest bill
20 tighten up the anti-gambling laws
Of the District, introduced recently in
the Senate. will discover that section
865 of the Code is amended as follows:
Whoever shall in the District operate
any gaming table, or any house, vessel,
or place, on land or water, for the
purpose of gaming, or gambling device
commonly called ABC, faro bank. go,
roulette, equality keno, thmbles, or
little joker. or any kind of gaming
table or gambling device adapted, de-
vised. and designed for the purpose
OF playing any game of chance for
money or. property, or shall induce.
enttce and permit any person to bet
or play at or upon any such gaming
table or gambling device, or on the side
OF or against the keeper thereof, shall
be punished by imprisonment for a
term OF not more than five years, and
fined not more than $4,000.
And, having perused this section, the
casual reader who believes that the
gambling evil can at least be curbed
by drastic legislation will applaud the
measure and regard with satisfaction
the heavy penalties of imprisonment
and fine that await the malefactor.
But. continuing the study Of the
bill, the casual reader will discover
with some emot on akin to nervous
ness that section s68 defines q
gaming table" as follows:
All f@mes, devices. contrivanceS,
S--:..9I::-s or plans at vhic.l money or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29
, would be glad 70 have washington

nee would be glad TO have Washington
60 along in the interest Of uniformity.
It 10 quite clear In reading Of the
code of the conference, produced after
intensive study by the greatest body Of
traf1c experts ever gathered together,
TIT the two" turns are one and the
same, except that it Is left to local
option whether the turn should be made
around the button in the middle Of the
street or in front Of it. Both are iden-
teal in fundamentals, but no general
conference on trafic rules can evolve q
turn that in It's entirety will ut every
intersection in every city in the United
States. General principles only can be
laid down, and these principles must
be used as the basis for regulations ac-
cording to city's requirements.
The general principle of the correct
left-hand turn, principle that Is never
confusing and is always right, whether
traffic is uncontrolled or is handled by
policemen or automatic lights, is that
it shall be made from the center of the
street, where only the lane OF tratt1c
facing the driver shall be crossed. That
is why the rotary turn used In Wash
ington is fundamentally wrong. BY the
local rule now in force motorists cross
not only the lane of trafic facing them,
but that which is in their rear.
OF course, the national conference
will not take action again on the left
hand-turn question. The left-hand
turn as prescribed by the conference is
in its model traffic code. and there Is
no occasion for reiteration. 1t Is Wash
ington, however, that must bring the
question up again and must recede from
Its untenable position regarding a
vitality important phase of traffic
control
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29
ID. c. and Most States
Show Wedding Growth
From the New Castle News.

From the New Castle News.
Reports from one-third of the "a
States show that the marriage rate in
creased for 1929 in a dozen and declined
IN four. 1t gained, too, III the District
OF Columbia. In nine States and the
District divorce also increased. Penn
sylvania IS not included in the prel: nj
nary returns; but Delaware and New
Jersey both registered marriage gains
and divorce recessions.
Until a complete summary Is available
little can be definitely told about the
trend In the whole country. Local con-
ditionS which operate favorably in one
community may have an adverse influ-
ence on neighboring territory. The
marked rise in the matrimonial rate for
Nevada, for instance, which is the most
notorious divorce center in the Union,
may probably be explained by the mt
grafton of couples from California,
where 1t Is now necessary to obtain a
license several days in advance of the
ceremony. Similarly South Carolina,
which grants no divorces, has increased
the burden for North Carolina and
Georgia, where South Carolinlans 60 to
seek separation.
Students of social conditions are not
much encouraged at discovering z rise
IN the marriage curve II 1t is at the same
time accompanied by a rise in the di-
vorce curve. But there Is evidence In
the present statistics of a net gain that
may be later reflected hopefully for the
whole United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29

any other thing shall be bet or wagered
shall be deemed gaming table within
the meaning Of these sections; and the
courts shall construe the preceding
sections literally, so as to prevent the
mischief intended to be guarded
against.
Can it be that the hostess Of the Fri
day Afternoon Bridge Club, whose men,
bers devilishly wager q tenth Of a cent
a point, is :ulpable under this act and
liable to q fine of $4,000 plus q jail
term Of flve years or less? And II the
courts construe literally" the provisions
of the act, is 1t possible that the bridge
prize-oh, what prizes!-would be con-
sidered as property" and therefore
make the donor of the prize equally
culpable? Or are the members of the
Piker Poker Players, an amateur or
ganizatien that gathers around dining
room table once a month and bets a
limit of ten cents, with cheese sand
witches and near beer waiting in the ice
box for the stroke of twelve, to face
arrest If its members are caught?
1t is possible, but, of course, highly
The professional gamblers
have been able so successfully to evade
the law that the law must be written to
plug every loophole. But 1t remains
that the definition of a gaming table
could apply to the dining room table,
or the old bridge table, and whoever"
is q term that embraces large proper
ton of humanity. Like other laws, the
mitigating circumstances are left for
determination by the application Of
common sense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29
Kohler Case Starts Debate
On High Cost of Elections

rich or poor, TO aspire 10 public otncep"
comes out Of the trial still governoE.
No suspicion has attached to him %
having spent money corruptly. But
there Is little credit in the mess 70.
vealed, little to suggest that he showed
proper concern for sound public policy
on the part Of q candidate with wealth
and q position Of influence. Here, there
and everywhere money was being spent
until 1t must have been Is evident to
Mr.. Kohler as it was to any one else
that the total was very large"
The Milwaukee Sentinel, on the other
hand, expresses its condemnation Of the
court action with the statement: "It|
may be said now that the proceeding|
from its inception has been resented bY|
great majority Of Wisconsin people,
who regarded 1t as an unwarranted and|
indefensible persecution. Gov. Kohler'a|
reputation for probity and high integ-
rity was so well known as 10 precludeI
any general belief that he would en-
gage In or permit unlawful or improper1
practices on his behalf"
Approval OF the verdict is voiced BY
the Davenport Democrat and the James,
Vile Gazette, while the Green Bay
Press Gazette contends that Gov. Koh-
Iers campaign was q marvel of re-
stratnt or poverty, as the case may neI
In the use Of money, when compared
with the records in other States" The.
Madison (Wis) State Journal looks for
ward to September, when another jufy|
will try the casa jury composed of'
all the voters of the State Of Wisconsin
That the corrupt practices act needs
to be liberalised and rendered sensibleI
and practical" is the verdict of theI
,sytaf AIa sNR|
the legal proceedings, "It will be 81
great mistake and the State will suffer-
IL this outcome is interpreted as APP
proval for unlimited expenditure oil
money in any future Wisconsin POLITICAL
campaign"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29
Highlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands.

a pretty and elegantly dressed woman
in the Police Court, while not an I'M
precedented event, Is sufficiently rare TO
cause the complete transformation Of
that dingy apartment. Melancholy in
dividuals, who moment before showed
by their faces how surely ths@ neheld
stonewalls confronting them, Bright
ened up and smiled. Even the Judge
upon his enlinence is not immune to
the presence Of the bewildering appari-
ton, and as for the court stenographers,
they omit from their notes five interro-
cations and six answers. Lawyers who
lose hours every day in the week In the
hope Of getting q case from one of the
defendants arraigned before the tri-
bunal forget all their disappointments
when young and pretty woman enters
the court room. Then the next day you
can hear them inquire Of their coll
leagues:
''Were you here yesterday Mo-
Bah!li You don't know what you
missedl Just little before the Judge
was concluding the hearings, q most
enchanting woman came in You should
have seen her!"
Carmencita the Marvelousi! Too
bad that Beauty is not always Good
Conscience Holds
individuals From Excuses.
FL Concrete, Lima.-There Is an es-
thetic instinct in human nature which
Is the safeguard Of the race. Regard
less of our individual opinions, desires
and struggles, there is a directing force
and plan in life which makes for unity
and progress. The race does not adj
vance all In one direction, but all the
myriad impulses, good and bad, which
mean so much to individual elements,
are moderated until, If we do not make
as rapid progress as we should toward
what is good, at least we do not drift
more rapidly, in the final analysis, to
what Is bad. Few are the men, indeed,
who do not have within them a spark
of compunction or of conscience, which
holds them individually from the worst
excuses. even if they do not contribute
to the spiritual development of society.
At least this tardy check upon them
selves raises the average accomplish
ment of those whose lives are spent In
service and self-sacrifice. The COM
posite conscience of the race may be
trusted to lead humanity eventually to
the towering heights of purity and
peace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29
The Beginning of the End.

It Is doubtless gratifying to many
Washingtonians that the traffic Office
Is at last beginning - waver in its
Steadfast support of the unorthodox and
confusing rotary left-hand turn for
automobiles. For more than two years
motorists Of this city and visitors have
been forced to struggle with an i'm
portant traffic maneuver that is fIinda-
mentally wrong in conception and at
variance with the turn used in every
other community in the country en-
cept Cleveland. Despite the fact that
the studied judgment of traffic experts
proclaim the Washington turn to be
confusing, congesting and promotive
Of bad driving habits, the traffic office
has persistently championed it. But
now there appears to be a change and
Director Harland is reported to be con-
stdertng the adoption of the Hoover
turn, which is in universal use, to bring
the National Capital TO the forefront In
uniformity.
There is still one point, however. on
which the traffic Office appears to be
setting UP smoke screen" With the
intimation that change is being con-
sidered traffic officials have in effect
confused the issue by claiming that the
Hoover turn prescribed by the Hoover
Conference on Street and Highway
Safety, which is meeting again in this city
this week, contains two separate pro-
visions for the left-hand turn, but that
II the conference would adopt one or
the other Of these turns, the tame of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29

Necessity may be the mother Of IN
vention, but it does not necessarily
produce the best workers.
There is business man in this town
who declares that young boys who seek
after-sehool work for the fun and ex-
perience Of the thing prove steadier
employees than boys who say they must
work to help support the family.
This rather upsets the general notion
but 1t points once more to the supreme
part that sports play in this Nation.
Ours is an amateur country.
The United States Is very young, as
nations 60, and its inhabitants are in
cltned, as group, to adopt as a motto
the old saying. "All work and no play
makes Jack dull boy"
In other words, the play-boy attitude
Is carried not only into business, but
also into all the departments of living
We no longer believe that earth Is a
desert drear, no matter how much we
may hope Heaven will be our home.
We like the EARTH especially In the
Springtime, when roses bloom, flaming
youth streaks down the road at SO miles
an hour and Dan Cupid strings up his
ready bow.
Work should not be a matter of dis
agreeable necessity, either primarily or
incidentally.
Life. in its various departments, Is
largely a state of mind.
Being created as We are, men can do
nothing without thinking about it.
This thinking may not be either deep
or long, but thinking it is, no matter
what its depth or length.
The old sad, solemn attitude is being
given up for more sprightly outlook.
Fathers no longer send their sons out
to seek their fortunes with a purse Of
gold and lecture filled with maxims
and rules of conduct.
Instead, the modern daddy begins in
the child's infancy to lay away a sum
sufficient to send. him through college
by which time the young fellow will
have made his own rules and regula-
tiens.
Bruce Barton, in one of his religious
books, tells an anecdote which striking
ly shows the new attitude toward seri-
Gus things. Answering letter from a
priest, he did not argue, but asked the
question, Father, what ] am interested
In Is whether there will be any golf
courses in Heaven"
The father replied, in equal spirit,
MY son, am sure that there viii be,
and hope to meet you there"
Modern business can be and often is.
an adventure, and it is happy sign of
the times that youngsters are learning
to look upon it in this light.
To countless men the daily labor Is as
exciting a proposition as going to the
South Pole with Byrd. and great deal
more comfortable.
Man must earn his daily bread In the
sweat of his brow, but that is no reason
why he cannot use any one of the many
excellent soaps advertised and keep
himself sweet and clean about it.
So the very attitude with which one
approaches work may be kept clean and
sweet, in the best senses of those words.
If one possesses the ability to apply the
soap Of intelligence with the water Of
the amateur-sportsman attitude.
\
Not every one, it may be argued, is
in a position to apply this attitude.
Long hours. low pay, nasty tempers all
along the line, tedious work-these are
but few of the problems which thou
sands of workers face.
1t is right here that the amateur,
rather than the professional, attitude is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29

The answers 10 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 public. Ask
any question Of fact you may want 70
know and you will get an immediate
reply. Write plainly, inelose cents In
coin or stamps for return postage and
address The Evening Star Information
Bureau, Frederic j. Haskin, director,
Washington, D. G.
Q. Are Julia Sanderson and Frank
Crumit married? II 30, where Is their
home?-Q. r.
A. These artists are married and 1--we
in Springfield, Mass. where Mr.. Crunit
is connected with q large investment
house.
@. How long have the cowboys of the
West held rodeos2-C. b.
A. The Prescott, AriZ., rodeo Is the
oldest cowboy contest In the world, hay
ing been held annually since 1888.
Q. About how many cats are there In
New York City?-A T. B.
A. The total cat population Of New
York City was recently estimated by the
Society for Prevention Of Cruelty to
Animals at 100000.
Q. Where is the planet Venus now
A. The planet Venus Is coming into
view In the western evening sky as it
passes from oennini into Cancer. It
viii be above the horizon for about two
hours after sunset In June.
Q. II the tax were taken on salt in
5ndi e would the people be satisfied
A. It Is only q small factor in the
present unrest In India, the object OF
the agitation being an independent
national government. The opinion of
the British government and Of much
Of the world is that India Is not at
present sufficiently advanced or sum
GENTLY consolidated TO render such
naturalization possible.
q. How many issues Of shinplastsrs
were thefe7-F. L. II.
A. ShinplasteFs, or fractional cur
rency, were issued during the Civil war
because Of the disappearance Of coin
from circulation and the shortage of
small coin. The first issue Of fractional
money was made on August /, 1852.
The last and NTH issue was made from
February rs, 1874, to February IS, 1875.
Q. Which Of the many dialects of
early England is the one upon which
the language Is based7-R. z.
A. When Chaucer used the Midland
dialect for his Canterbury Tales" he
made 1t the standard for modern Eng
lish.
q. Il the writer, Arthur Train, o
lawyer2--N j.
A. Arthur Train pfacticed law for
several years, but he now devotes all
his time 10 literary work.
@. Why do the colors in cloth ap-
pear brighter and deeper when wet?--
G.. o. E
A. Cloth appears brighter and deeper
in color when wet because the minute
droplets Of water I'LL up the spaces be-
tween the threads and refract the light.
q. What Is the origin OF the name
Rockefeller?-O. b. 8.
A. The Rockefeller Family Associa-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29
World Court Judges
Soon to Be Chosen
From the Atlanta Journal.

From the Atlanta Journal.
The problem Of judiciary appoint
ments Is not confined to the United
States. The terms of the IL judges
and deputies OF the World Court VIII
expire with the year 1890. Nominations
August l, and elections will be held In,
September.
The procedure therefor is highly In
teresting. Nominations are made by
the members Of The Hague Court os
Arbitration comforting as nationE
groups. Each group names four PEI.
sons, OF whom only two may be of IL
own nationality, and from these nonai
nees the judges are elected by the
Council and the Assembly of the League
OF Nations, acting concurently but
independently of each other" A ma jority
IN both the Council and the Assembly
Is necessary to election, and "only one
Judge Of any one nationality may be
chosen" The requirements as to ft-i
ness are that they shall be persons Of
hign moral character, who possess the
publications demanded In their par
ticuiar countries for appointment to
tne highest judicial ofnces, or are juris-
consuits OF recognised competence in
international law" Moreover. the
whole body should represent the main
forms OF civilization and the principal
legal systems Of the world" The terms
are for nine years, and the salaries,
nxed by the League Of Nations, are now
around $4,000, with an additional $40
for each day of actual work.
1t was Elihu Root, II we are right
ly informed, who advised this mode
OF election. 1t may be said to have
solved crucial problem in the creation
Of the court, for when previous efforts
were made ct the second Hague Con-
ference. in 1907 to set up such .
tribunal, they failed, largely for want Of
plan Of selecting Judges which was
satisfactory alike TO the greater and the
lesser nations. This difilculty is over
come by the present system. which
gives the Council OF the League. repre-
senting IL OF the major powers, AND
the Assembly, representing large and
small nations equally, concurrent
voice in the elections. Two Americans
have served on the ceurt-John Bassett
Moore, who resigned In 1928, and
Charles Evans Hughes, who succeeded
him. Mr.. Hughes resigned last Fehru.
airy upon his appointment rs Chief
Justice Of the Supreme Court Of the
Unit<a States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29
Macdonald Survives Again.

Once again, and for the fourth or
fifth time since it resumed office q year
ago, the British Labor government has
survived a trial of strength. Challenged
in the House Of Commons last night on
its unemployment policy. the Macdonald
ministry beat back an attack on its
Labor member. J. H, Thomas, in charge
Of labor problems.
The government survived by a vote Of
2T0 to 241. As has happened before,
It's victory was of negative rather than
positive character, for it was won by
the ahstention Of practically the entire
Liberal bloc. If Mr.. Lloyd George had
voted any considerable portion of his
parliamentary strength the govern
ment's overthrow would have been easy
and altogether PROBABLE AS it is, Mac
donald Is saved once more.
How long it will survive is highly
problematical. Labor lives a tenuous
existence in Downing street. 1t can be
turned out whenever the Conservatives
and the Liberals care to cast it into the
outer darkness. They have refrained
from doing so thus far for the acknowl-
edged reason that another general cleo
ton would not be popular in Great Brit
ain so soon after the 1929 campaign,
and, If precipitated now, might rebound
more to Labor's benefit than to its hurt.
Mr.. Macdonald on his part processes
zest for another fray at the polls. But
he must have one serious mental reser-
walton about going to the country, and
that Is the growing volume of Labor's
cleft wing" with its radical program
and sullen dissatisfaction with Mac
donald's conservatism.
The prime minister convinced q ma
jority Of the House of Commons last
night that world conditions" rather
than any shortcomings on the part
Of the British government are re-
tarding John Bulls industrial recovery
and are stabilizing unemployment. Mr..
Macdonald pointed across the Atlantic
and referred to the gravity of the un-
employment problem in the United
permit Britain to retrieve some Of its
lost trade overseas, the Labor govern
ment seeks to perpetuate the workers
pension system and to carry out other
emergency relief. The prime minister
seems to have taken leaf from the
Hoover notebook in announcing the
holding Of a conference to see If mu-
inequalities cannot cooperate with the
government in public works designed to
supply work on broad scale.
Unemployment remains the Labor adj
ministration's overtowering issue. When
it took ONCE in May, 1929, there were
1.1S2,000 persons in receipt Of the dole.
The total Is now 1,73e,5OO. If there Is
a proportionate increase this year Brit
ain will be headed toward the Distress
ing figures of BLACK May" in 1921,
when % per cent of British workers
walked the streets jobless. Already the
prediction is made there will be 2000,-
900 unemployed by next Winter.
1t may be that Conservatism and
Liberalism shrink from dethroning. La
Dor because Of the realization that un-
employment presents a problem of baf-
fling magnitude. If a Baldwin or a
Lloyd George ministry were to inherit
ONCE on platform pledging a panacea
and failed to make good, Labor could
legitimately and certainly aspire to come
back from Elba, and doubtless would.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-29
Wealth In Politics.

do you object to rich man in
,2olitics?"
1T depends" answered Senator Sor-
ghun, ION what kind of rich man you
refer to. I'd feel safer with a candidate
who came into politics with money
than with one who planned to take
money out"
Jud Tunkins says he'll bet the prod
igal son put on airs over the rest Of the
family, because he had such a good
appetite.