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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06
The Chief Justices

Cnarles Evans Hughes, whose con-
hrmation by the Senate as Chief JUS
uce VIII undoubtedly occur next week,
VIII be the eleventh man to occupy that
position. His predecessors have been
Ionn Jay, John Rutledge, Oliver Els
WORTH John Marshall Roger g. fancy,
salmon T. Chase, Morrison r. Waite,
Melville w. Fuller, Edward D. White
ana William H. Taft. One of these,
John Rutledge, served only a very short
PERIOD a few months during the recess
OF Congress, and his nomination was
not confirmed by the Senate owing to
the failure Of his health. Thus there
have practically been only nine pre-
ceding Chief Justices, in a span Of
about one hundred and forty years,
John Jay having taken the robes of
the office in 1889. That would indicate
an average period of service of be-
tween thirteen and fourteen years. The
longest service was that of John
Marshall, who presided over the court
from 1901 to 1884. His was not only
the longest but, in respect to the char
acter OF the services rendered, the most
important term Of Office. Marshall's
third OF century Of judicial duty COW
cred a period of vital questions sub
United to the highest court for decision.
He and his associates of the court wrote
American history in their rulings upon
issues of fundamental character. The
second longest term was that of Roger
B. fancy, who succeeded Marshall, and
who presided over the court for twenty
eight years. Thus these two men off,
ciated as Chief Justice from 1901 to
1854, and between them they compassed
nearly half the span Of the courts ex-
istence, to this date. fancy, like
Marshall, was called upon to participate
in and perhaps to determine the rulings
OF the court In cases of the highest i'm
portance. The pre-war issues affecting
slavery fell within his range Of service.
Justice Fuller scored the third longest
term, twenty-five years, and Justice
White the fourth, eleven years. John
Marshall had retired from active duty
when he died. fancy, Chase, Waite,
Fuller and White, five succeeding Chief
Justices, were still in active service
when they passed away. Judge Taft's
resignation breaks this sequence, he
leaving the ONCE on account of his
health. His successor takes Office at
the age of nearly sixty-eight years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06
Shorter School Day
Appeal Is Endorsed
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor of The Star:
May I add my Endorsement of a
shorter school day for children under 9
years to the sensible letter of Mrs. F. p.
White, which appeared In The Star
January 81? agree with every word
she said. It seems to me that the par
ents OF these small children should have
something to say in this important mat
ter. Five hours Of school are too much
Tor children 6, z and years old. There
are still a few parents who desire to
prolong rather than shorten the all-too-
brief period of childhood. AS one Of
those, I strongly urge that children I'M
der be kept in school only three or
three and half hours day, and that
they have the rest of the time free for
out-of-door play.
The teachers of these lower grades
need more time for relaxation, and also
for preparation Of material for the chill
dren'S use. My 6-year-old daughter
brings home work which indicates that
her teacher spent many hours In prepa-
ration for the days activities.
don't know who was responsible for
the lengthening Of the school day for
first and second grades, but believe
that it was q mistake which should be
rectified as soon as possible.
ADA H. CoE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06
Holds Hatless Heads
Are Not Conspicuous
To the Editor Of The star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Anent your recent editorial regarding
HatleSS SheikS," permit a person who
regularly goes "hatless" and further
more one who has never been consid-
cred In the sheik class a word in your
columns: The editorial failed to point
out that the mayor Of Wilkes-Barre.
"a, desired to Stimulate the sales of
naCS not Summer hats, mind you, for
the famous resolution" to which you
REFER concerned itself with the wearing
OF Winter hatSl Note the p. s. to the
resolution to the effect that it is o. K.
TO go "hatless" In Summer. But sup
pose the straw hat interests" come
along ana "reSolute" us lunatics if we
pare our "domeS" in Summer? The
patriotic" mayor of Wilkes-Ba pro-
poses to keep the home fires burning
py stimulating the sale of home prod
uctS; no doubt said mayor is counted
among the 100 per centers, boosting the
oio nome town, even though it takes
Hoerty away from free citizens" The
category!
The writer has gone hatless for the
past ftve yearS-it is not a sheikish fad
with hlm-rlor with many others-as
your editorial wrongly insinuated. AS
a matter OF fact, respectful, dignified,
elderly gentlemen have adopted this
convenient custom. Hatless heads are
so common on the streets that they are
no longer conspicuous. Even bald pates
may be seen thusly "undressed." (But
alas and alack, 1t is too late for them;
too late to save their crownsD Calling
attention to this "healthful hatless
habit" hope, will make the sensible
custom more popular,
So, too, our hat is of to the young
SCerS VINO dare the falling snowfakes
with uncovered heads"
EDWARD MULLINS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

It lights on the face and sparkles the
eye.
And playing dogs with bark ana q
bound
snap at the crystals that eddy around.
The town is alive and its hearts in a
To welcome the coming of the beautiful
snow.
How wildly the crowd goes swaying
along,
Mailing each other with hunor and
song.
How the gay sleighs like meteors mass nv.
Bright for a moment, than lost to the
Ringing, swinging, dashins thew 40.
Over the crest of the beautiful snow
Snow so pure when it fell from the skv
AS to make one regret to see It lie
To be trampled and tracked by thou-
sands of feet,
Till it blends with the filth Of the hor-
rible street.
Once I was va; as pure as the snow, but
Fell like snowflake. from heaven to
Fell to be trampled as fifth in the street.
Fell to be scorned, to be spit on, and
beat;
Pleading, cursing, dreading to die.
Selling my soul to whoever would buy.
Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead.
Merciful Godl Have 1 fallen so low?
And yet I was once like the beautiful
snow.
once was fair as the beautiful snow.
With an eye like a crystal, a heart like
its glow,
Once was loved for my innocent grace,
Flattered and sought for the charms
of my face;
Father, mother, sister and all.
God and myself, have lost by my fall
The vilest wretch that goes shivering by
too nigh;
For all that is on or above me, I know,
There's nothing so pure as the beautiful
snow.
How strange it should be that this beau
tiful snow
Should fall on the sinner with nowhere
to 90;
How strange it should be when night
comes again
If the snow and the ice struck my des-
perate brain;
Painting, freezing, dying alone,
Too wicked for prayer, too weak to
moan.
To be heard on the streets Of crazy
town,
Gone mad with the Joy Of the snow
coming down;
To be and to die in my terrible woe,
With bed and shroud of the beau
tiful snow.
Helpless and foul as the trampled snow,
Ci1YnP AncrNnHs NNk - -
To rescue the soul that is lost in its sin
And raise it to life and enjoyment again;
Grooming. bleeding, dying for thee,
The Crucif1ed on the accursed tree,
His accents of mercy fell soft, on thine
ear,
Is there mercy for meP Will He heed
my prayer?
o Godl in the stream that for sinner.
did flow.
Wash me, and I shall be whittier thar
snow.
Tradition and ideal both are repre-
Sented in that essentially Victorian
verse, but somehow the modern reade,
is inclined to laugh, especially at tht
lines about the snowflake falling "fron
heaven to hell" Quite a journey for +;
snowflake, 1t must be admitted.
The idea OF pure womanhood is on
thing, but the tradition Of the "fallel
woman" has received something Of
jolt in this age. Men (and women, too
are beginning to see that the fall is no
quite that bad, and to thank HEAVIER
that the world no longer looks upol
any woman in such a dire light. no
makes her look upon herself SO. w
believe In the ideal, but are not s.
relentless and plain mean about tn,
tradition,
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.nere Is danger that some builder, more
lnoent upon carrying out his own
Scnemes than in co-ordinating them
Win the Governments plans, win per-
peGuaee In stone and mortar some freak
tnat wiz stand for many long day as
grim reminder of congressional delay.
Inc FINE Arts Commission, the Ma
tionai Capital Park and Planning Com
mission and the organized builders
themselves have gone on record in
favor OF restrictions, such as those gen.
eraliy set out in the Shipstead bill. It's
passage by Congress should not be held
up ANY day now and its purpose may
be defeated and permanently lost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06
Panther Hunting
By Amateurs UnWise
TO the Editor of The Star:

70 the Editor of The Star:
Your editorial entitled "Perilous PAN
ther Hunting" Is most timely. Like the
average fellow, guess I, too, have had
an itchy desire to get my old blunder-
bllss down and go big-game hunting.
but in exercising my better Judgment /
feel with you there's far more danger
in a bunch of excited, inexperienced
hunters than in any wild beast. I'm
inclined to think it's nothing more than
a stray hungry dog.
Just a few years ago stray dogs at
tackled my cattle in pasture, one night
going into stalls after them. I'm sure
they had other intentions than plav
I think it was hunger in that case, but
I know of another case where I believe
it was only the inherited killer desire
A friend Of mine had a bulldog that
seemed to delight in taking an ear or
leg of a hog. OF lot Of brood
sows, I think 20, don't believe there
deep snow he killed two cows before we
killed him. I know it wasn't hunger.
He was 1oath to come around to get his
regular food, but would stink around
as though he knew he was an outcast
Possibly he would get enough blood To
carry him from one killing to the next.
Speaking Of what may happen with a
jumpy hunter In the dark, I'll tell what
did, and wouldn't like to be called
q jUmpy hunter, at that. This same
friend just spoken of was a. "nuskrat-
ting" pal Of mine, and some one report-
ed seeing an otter on our marsh down
the Potomac. Neither of us had killed
any big game, so we got busy, each anx-
ious to Guido the other in the bir-carne
line. One night we went in opposite
directions to await incoming mallards
About daylight, about the usual time for
calling of the hunt. while drifting out
of small stream to a wider one ali
at once across the wider stream the of
ter's head popped out of sedge. It no
sooner did so than I fired. Then I
could see bit more of it. Then I
fired again. After that shot it seemed
to stand up and seemed SO much alive
fired again. Just as I fired a third
time 1t dawned on me that I was vast
ing ammunition on my shadow, A full
moon coming up over the marsh had
thrown my shadow, Just as otterlike
as you please. Well, suppose that had
been a man emerging from the sedge.
Yes, quite agree with you, it's about
time to call the hunt off. Very few
want to kill a dog anyway.
PERRY F. SKINNER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06
Mrs. Speel's Statement
On Ragetz Challenged
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
The statement of Mrs. Virginia White
Speel as quoted in The Star of January
81 that the teaching of Prof. L. D.
Ragetz OF the George Washington Uni
versity on the causes of the World War
rs part OF a plan of a campaign to
minimize the sacrifices we suffered in
the World War''-and that he is a
propaganda and "his name sounds like
he Is a RuSsian"-Should not be al
lowed to go unchallenged.
That statement Smacks too much of
the zeal Of the discredited mayor of
Chicago, William Hale Thompson, in his
perfervid patriotism to rid the histories
taught in the Chicago schools Of the
influence Of King George Of Great
Britain. Mrs. Speel should be sure of
the nationality of Prof. Ragetz and just
what he is teaching before making such
statements. If he is a Russian' that
does not necessarily mean he is propa-
gandist against our Government. There
Is chance that Mrs. Speel has been
miStnformed. Personally, prefer to
leave the selecting Of text books and
teachers to those qualified to Judge on
such matters.
1t has been quandary with me Just
why the doings of the Council for Ma
tional Defense should be given so much
A.AoAN 44S W0PdPS4 space J3ldII QlQ THOSE OI
! the Conference for the Cause and Cure
| OF War. The latter Is made UP Of or
CARNATIONS of large membership and is
representative Of the consensus of those
| organizations. Whereas, as far as the
d. A. r. is concerned, the national
board decides what the membership
shall or shall not sanction. The subject
| OF national defense was not allowed to
be discussed in the chapter of which I
was a member. I have resigned my
membership in the D. A. r. because of
the arbitrary methods used by the ma
tlonal officers In controversial matters.
It seems to me very undiplomatic of
the Council for National Defense to 90
on record in the usual drastic way
against 1essening in any way our prepa-
rationS for future war and even send
ing resolutions to the American delega-
ton to the London Naval Conference
to insist on proportional parity ship by
ship" when our Nation is joining with
four other nations in a conference to
settle the subject Of leSsening the burden
OF excessive ornaments and bring about
more confident feeling between nations.
ADA HUTCHINS DAVIDSON,
Cherrydale, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06
Says Criminals Have
Clear, Quick Minds
To the Editor of The Star:

10 the Editor OF The Star:
Apropos of the subject of crime and
criminals that fills the daily press now
adays, let me correct an impression that
seems to enjoy a certain vogue that
criminals are stupid, that they are
morons who need operations on their
heads to eradicate their criminal tend
encies. Nothing could be further from
the truth. Criminals are perhaps a
shade brighter than all but the very
brightest of men.
There is nothing the matter with
their heads. Sometimes even their
hearts are in the right place Their
trouble is that they are throwbacks to
times when members of the human race
were little removed from animals. Grim
inalS steal as dogs steal bones and mag
pies spoons. They don't feel that they
are doing wrong.
Outside Of their thieving and some
times murderous tendencies which con-
stitute criminals as criminal types,
criminals are pretty much like other
men, and have good and bad in them
like other men. If criminals are essen
TALLY bad, why did Christ say to the
thief on the cross, To-day shalt thou
be with me in Paradise? If we had
the spirit of Christ, we, too, could re-
form criminals.
In the course of my sociological
studies, I suppose I have talked with
and met intimately over a hundred
criminals of all kinds. There was moth
ing the matter with these fellows heads.
I remember one chap, who was a bur-
glar, yeggman and clever confidence man,
recount how he had purloined don't
know how many dollars from girl
cashier by paying his bill with a gold
piece and in some ineXplicable way
drawing large amount Of cash from
her by confusing her over the change.
Set thief to catch thief. This old
saying means that to catch criminals
one must know their ways. The trou-
BILE with our police and detectives is
that they won't learn anything. They
won't go to Scotland Yard and to
France to learn the methods of the
European police. We Americans know
everything. We are the greatest Nation
on earth. Therefore we keep our heads
buried in the sands all the time.
CHARLES HOOPER.
Occur d'Alene, Idaho.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06
DOllar-Basis Plan
For Peace Proposed
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Since by setting many things on a
dollar basis" this great country of
yours has efficiently succeeded in the
glorious achievement of solving politi-
cal and social problems by thorough
business methods, am sincerely Won
dering whether what has been applied
here, on national plan, could not be
extended to the international ways of
doing things"
And as the problem of peace is the
chief concern of all civilized nations
for 1t concerns nothing else but the
very future of civilization will. with
your permission, present the sketch of
plan, working along the lines of busi-
ness methods which would, I believe.
lead to the abolition of war"
In the different peace controversies
disarmament has always been consid-
cred the main factor, the piece de
resistance" so it Is absolutely innpor-
tant that the very first measure taken
against war must be to realize disarn1a-
ment In other words, limitation of
ornaments, then reduction of arma-
mentS.
For the automatic limitation of
ornaments, such steps could be taken
as the figuring between concerned m :
tons of a financial pact stipulatine
that each time a nation increases her
war and navy budget she is under
obligation to provide financially and at
her expense a proportional increase in
the other nations budget-and this as
long as the increase will be maintained
in her budget.
AS for reduction of ornaments. a
similar plan could operate, stipulatirr
that any nation reducing her arn1a-
mentS budget will be entitled to re-
ceive an amount of money representing
the proportional reduction in the other
nations ornaments budgets; unless a
proportional reduction is made In their
respective budget.
The budget 81 the signatory nations
will be placed under control of an in
ternational commission.
The nations being placed in this
manner between prosperity and ruin
will not have any trouble to choose.
e. DE LA RUFFINIERE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06
A Good Example.

Voluntary cooperation with the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission by the owners of two sites
on the north side of B street near the
Capitol regarding the plans for new
buildings to be erected there is COM
mendable. 1t sets an excellent example
for the fortunate owners of buildings
that later will be constructed in this
neighborhood, facing the Governments
Capitol plaza development, as well as
for the owners Of other private struc-
lures that will face or adjoin the Gov
ernment's triangle group of office build
jngs.
In the case of one of the new build
ingS to be erected on the north side of
B street, between Second and Third
streets, it is understood that upon the
advice Of the park and planning COM
mission original plans have been
changed and the new development will
be undertaken on larger scale in
order to conform to the Governments
plans. 1t is to be hoped that the final
| drawings VIII not be adopUed until
they have been submitted to and have
received the approval of the park and
planning commission and the Fine Arts
Commission.
The plans for the two structures, one
of them hotel and the other an office
building, with gasoline filling station
connected, draw attention to the urgent
need for congressional action on the
Shipstead bill, providing for the ap-
proval by the Commission Of Fine Arts
Of the architectural appearance Of pri-
vate buildings facing or adjoining
Government buildings or reservations.
The voluntary submission Of building
plans by the owners of the B street sites
is fortunate and indicative Of the right
spirit. But as long as the submission
Of plans remains merely voluntary,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06
Higghligghts on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

fact, to suspend the reading of the bill
on account of the uproar, the matter
thereupon being referred to the COM
mittee.
The confusion was great and the
noise stupendous. For a few minutes
the Mexican Congress itself reSembled a
real Plaza de ToroS.
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Women Work
Throughout Germany.
Cologne Gazette.-About one-fourth
of the employees of factories and
other industries in Germany are women.
Since the war and for q decade before,
women have been taking the places Of
men In trade and manual labor to an
extent never known before. This is due
In large part to the predominance Of
women in Germany, particularly since
the war. There is too much compe-
tition in the work they formerly per-
formed in the domestic lines, such as
employment as nurse girls, cooks and
housemaids. OF course, In hotels and
restaurants the majority Of the en-
ployes are women, but they are becom-
ing an essential factor in the work Of
commercial houses and in the lighter
kinds of manufacturing. AS yet they
have not obtained executive positions
In business to any great extent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06

r. l.. DICTAMEN, Vera Cruz.-Re-
- Gently new postal tariff went
into effect in Mexico, chiefly
IL revising the rates for air mail.
While rates for this service
are naturally more costly, there is great
need of reduction in postal fees for
the regular service throughout the re-
public. Compared to the United States,
our interior rates are exorbitant, all
most prohibitive for ordinary mail The
general post Office should Immediately
take under advisement reduction in
rates to make the mail service more
useful and available Business and
social correspondence in Mexico should
not be punished with high postage
rates. With cheaper postal fees we
will write more letters.
X 4 4 \
Bull-flght Plea
Starts Small Riot.
A. B. c., Madrid.-In the Cham
Der of Deputies at Mexico City the
member Luis Sotelo presented his prop
osition for the future prohibition of bull
fights throughout all the territory Of
Mexico.
During the reading of the resolution,
the other deputies made outcries and
demonstrations against him, shouting
Outside, Sotelo!" and other derisive OBJ
turgations. 1t became necessary, in
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President before appointment time, or
may be settled by the Senate at con-
firmation time If the appointment is
made, is whether, as a soldier. he quail
fies within the spirit of the law as one
of the Commissioners named from
civil life."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06

Efforts to interest Einstein in "per-
petual motion" are not likely to sue
coed. Many people do not understand
his theory Of relatively. Unlike per-
petual motion, it offers no opportuni-
ties for INSCRIPTIONS promoters to per-
suade susceptible clients to invest in it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06

1t is now said that Illicit alcohol does
not invariably kill. The census figures
show no startling decrease in popula-
ton. There is an element of protec-
ton in the fact that even the wetly
inclined citizen realizes that bad liquor
is far worse than none at all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06

Business men are not showing any
desire for the kind of profits that war
makes available. There is no pecuniary
advantage which. even In mercenary
opinion, can Offset indiscriminate de-
struction of life and property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06

A Community Chest affords opportu-
nifty to contribute to a campaign fund
with an object to which no economist,
however jealous Of moneys use, can
possibly object.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06

The fact that liquor is legally and
morally disapproved does not prevent
a sense of indignation when the pro-
prietor Of private cellar asserts that
he has been robbed,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06

In the stress of world affairs Paris
does rot neglect details. The decision
that skirts shall be longer has been
made effective in the realms Of fashion
without an argument.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06

Effort is being made to discourage
speculation in cotton. Like other mon
archs of the earth. "King Cotton" is
having his anxieties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06

Intelligent Chinese are frankly ex-
pressing doubt as to whether Soviets
are seeking to convert people or de-
moralize them.