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Name Styles on the Golden Horn.
(New York Times.) )

| The public will soon be reading dispatches from Isthanbul, but the will be more intermittent and less important than the cables that used to come from Constantinople The two are the same. Several years before the city officially shed its his toric name it lost it's position as capital of the Turkish State. Renal transferred the seat of gov ernment to Angora for the same reason that the Soviet Government removed from St. Petersburg lPetrograd-Leningrad to Moscow In both cases the frontier was too near for comfort.
 Of all the cities which have undergone rebaptism since the World War the latest name to go is by far the most deeply embedded in history. With the exception of Russia the change of geographical names has been most often return to older forms. All over Central Europe the Sav nomenclature has emerged above the ruin of the Hapsburg empire land the defeat of the Hohenzoern, Cobh for Queenstown and Oslo for Christiania in the same case But Istanb0ul is much the newer name.
 For eleven hundred years before the Crescent was raised above St. Sophia the city had been Constantinople, and for another thousand years be- fore this it had been Byzantum. Compared with this record Leningrad is infant and even Peking Peiping late arrival
 Only scholars may find consolation in the thought that Istanbu is after all the Greek phrase eis ten polin-"to The City
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Hereafter the famous American racing classic must be pronounced Kentucky Darby just like the Epsom Downs event is the English Darby This is one of the results of the presence of Lord Derby (pronounced Darby) at Churchill Downs when the last Kentucky Derby raced
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ever that his friends will not become active until after the Congressional elections next fall.
 It is generally conceded that if the Democrats win the next Congress or make substantial gains activity in Democraeic circles the 1912 nom nations and platform will become lively next winter
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-18

How long will it be before an Anti-Saoon League endorsement will be passport to certain defeat at the polls?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-18

successful takie comedy is that keeps the audience laughing so you can't hear anything to laugh at.-(Buffalo Evening NewsD
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What seems now in demand is the popular cleo ton of Supreme Court Judges. That would get them on level with the Senate.-(Atlanta Consti- tution)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
''Ricksha Boy" Happy
On EmperOr's Birthday

One OF the happiest men in Japan on
April 20, the Emperors birthday ami
versary, was Chojiro Kojima, q retired
ricksha coolie, who about 20 years ago
drew the future ruler Of Japan in his
two-wheeled vehicle. The emperor-to-
be, then Prince Michi-no-Miya Hiro-
hito, was put in the care Of Count Ka-
wamura's family in Toxic for the first
four years of his life, and the rtcksha
man we employed by them to transport
the young prince whenever he went out.
The old ricksha man was interviewed
for the first time in his life on April %.
He was much overcome with emotion In
recalling his past experience, aifid 1t was
with dificulty that he could be per-
suaded to speak of his recollections OF
the present Emperor. One day, he said,
he wa5 sweeping in the garden when the
young prince came out and spoke to
him in his childish vocabulary. later
handing the coolie bag Of candy which
he had. From time to time he was
given to burn toys OF which the prince
had tired. This he did every time, with
one exception. Once there was a toy
sword, which he could not destroy. He
took 1t to his humble home and placed
1t in q special box. Every year since
that time he has worshiped before the
toy sword on the Emperor's birthday
anniversary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
Toxic Chief of Police
Probes Cafe Situation

Bound to get at the bottom Of the
evils Of Tokio's modern cafe civiliza-
ton" which has sprung up since the
great earthquake six years ago, Tsu-
kichi Maruyama, the capitals new chief
OF police, has been visiting various
dance halls and cafes in disguise, ac-
cording to reports in the vernacular
press. and seeing for himself just how
much the city is going to the dogs. a."
Drastic regulations to curb the many
cares which are coming into existence
Without proper licenses are absolutely
necessary, he is quoted as saying, but he
desires some first-hand information to
help him In conducting the impending
clean-up campaign. There are now
1000 bars and cafes in Toxic, employ
ing some $4,000 girls. Maruyama feels
tnat this is cancer in the life of the
capital and that no good can be done
ny allowing more of these institutions
70 De established. CruSades against
dance halls and cafes conducted sue
ceSs1ully in Kobe and Osaka and COM
plants lodged directly with the home
ministry as to the bad effects they have
on the cityS moral life have resulted
IN the decision of the Toxic police to
act, and act quickly. in improving con-
dttions here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
Scientific Color Naming Contributes
Many Words to VOcabularies of Poets

The white frocked scientist in his
evil-smelling, bottle filled laboratory
while discovering the spectrum Of light,
developing natural history and original
ing analine dyes has furnished a vo-
cabulary for the dreamy-eyed poet
chewing pencils in his attic room.
This latest acknowledgment of the
worlds debt to science has just been
made by George r. Stewart, jr., assist
ant professor of the department OF Eng
lish at the University of California, in
an article for the Scientific Monthly.
Prof. Stewart points out that early
poets found the English language almost
devoid Of names for colors other than
white, blue, red and yellow. They UNI
doubtedly were able to distinguish the
difference between various delicate tints
and shades of the primary colors, but
they could not describe them in words
that others would understand.
Science Aid TO Poetry.
With the rise of modern science, how
ever, Prof. Stewart states, this fault in
the language was remedied. He says:
How comes it that in our day colors
may glow a dozen to the page, while in
former ages that number would have
exhausted the poets whole hoard? A
complete exposition of cause and effect
is, Of course, impossible. I wish, how
ever, to point out the workings Of one
important agency-nothing more or less
than that old enemy of poetry, science.
"Our age in nothing differs more
from medieval and the classical than
in our organized and always successfully
advancing science. In one way or an
other, 1t Is to this scientific research,
beginning In the seventeenth century,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
Former German Kaiser
Is Nations Richest Man

Thanks to the generosity Of the Ger
man people in deciding by plebescite
that most Of the former crown proper
ties should be considered IS the per-
sonal property of the ex-dynasties, the
former German rulers are the richest
men In Germany, with. naturally, the
ex-kaiser leading the list According
to q news agency, the following are
the values of the fortunes of Germanys
richest men: /. William Won Hohenzol-
lern, ex-kaiser, $102 .O00, 900; 2, Krupp
ven Bohlen, industrialist, $4,000, 600;
8, Won Thurn und Taxis, ex-prince,
$40, 600 900; 4, Zu Hohenlohe Oering-
en-, ex-prince; Zu Fuerstenberg, ex-
prince; Henkel III Donnersmarck, ex-
prince: Jacob Michael, industrialist;
Won Pless, ex-prince, each, $4,000, 900;
S, Fritz Thyssen, Otto WolfG, Ottoman
Strauss. Ernst Petscheck, Karl Petscheck
Paul Petscheek, all industrialists, and
Alfred Hugenberg, publisher, and the
Ave Ullstein brothers, publishers, $l2,-
100000 each: 8, Franz Won Mendles-
shon, Jacob Goldschmidt, Max War
burg. Oppenhein, all bankers; Louis
Hagen, industrialist and Albert Loesche,
each Ss,7SO,0oO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
Dublin Has Only One
Foreign Ambassador

So far Dublin has only one foreign
representative of ambassadorial rank.
1t has many conSuls general from sew
eral European countries, but Frederick
Sterling of the United states is the
only foreign Minister. AS the Free
state has sent diplomatic representa-
lives to France, Belgium, Germany and
the Vatican. 1t Is expected that shortly
the representatives of those states In
Dublin will either be supplemented by
regular Ministers or will be raised to
ministerial rank. Since the war the
German consul general in Dublin has
been Herr Won Dehn, who has displayed
exceptional abilities In his country's in
terest, neglecting no opportunity Tor
strengthening the relations between
Germany and the Free State. The great
national scheme for supplying cleo"
tricity from the River Shannon has been
entirely carried out by q German firm:
Herr Won Dehn Is likely to be promoted
to ministerial rank. France Is repre-
sented by Consul General Blanche
who may also be promoted. The vat.
lean envoy to the Free state has not
yet been named, though the Free state
Minister at the Vatican, Charles BeW-
ley, X. O.. was received in Rome some
months ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
Problem of Philippines
Most Vexing in Pacific

Delegates to the recent Institute Of
Pacific Relations meeting in Kioto, ia
pan, returned to Honolulu with the feel
ing that the Philippine problem u
one Of the most pressing in the Pacific
area. 1t occupies much Of the attention
Of the Kioto meeting and apparently
will continue to figure in deliberations OF
various committees and departments Of
the institute for the next few years.
Chester Rowell Of California has pro-
posed plan for the creation of mixed
commission TO study the problem. This
commission would be ronofIicial, but
representative, to study the present sit
uation and problems of Philippine adj
mlniStration with O view to recommends
ing certain changes in the political
status OF the islands, though not neces-
sarily independence. The commission
would be made up of one member from
each of the following organizations:
United States Chamber of Commerce,
American Federation of Labor. National
Education Association, Federation of
Womens Clubs, National Farm Bureau
Federation, American Political Science
Academy, American Bar Association:
Board Of Regents of the University of
the Philippines, Philippine National
Federation Of Teachers, Philippine
chamber OF Commerce, Philippine Ma
LlonaI Federation of Women's Clubs,
Pnillppine National Agricultural Con-
gress and Philippine Bar Association.
me american and the Philippine gem
era! groups as above specified would
each elect an eighth member to act a
chairman: Many details of the plan re-
main to be worked out, including that
OF financing the mixed commissions
WORK It Is still in academic form and
wnetner 1t VIII get further remains 10
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
Mental Hygiene Societies of World
To Map Program at Gathering Here

Ia concerned, therefore, with the con-
servation of the mental health of every
body, not merely with the reclamation
of those who have already become men
tally i'll.
One purpose Of the congress Is to
survey mental hygiene development In
the various countries and to arrive, II
possible at q list of detectives and
standards to be aimed at throughout
the world.
President Hoover is honorary presi-
dent of the congress, of which DR.. Will
liam A. white of Washington is the
active president. Thomas W. Lamont Is
treasurer and Mr.. Beers secretary gen.
eral. Honorary vice presidents are the
presidents of the is national mental
hygiene societies and other designated
individuals in countries not having
such societies.
Many Subjects on Program.
The program will include discussions
Of treatment of mental patients in
hospitals, mental hygiene and educa-
ton, mental hygiene IN social work,
schools and elsewhere and other phases
of mental hygiene work. The relations
Of mental hygiene to industry will be
discussed. So will the importance of
psychiatry in treating offenders and
persons coming to charitable societies
FOR help. Special mental problems OF
adolescence and the college youth Will
be dealt with. and the parent child
relationship will be important on the
program. 1t is the purpose Of the pro-
gram makers TO dwell upon both the
administrative and therapeutic aspects
of mental hygiene work, as well IS
nroblennS of research.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
Business Storm Passing

tects of the Treasury and Post once
Departments simplified their ordinary
procedure to advance by weeks ana
months the actual work on new post
offices And the Post once Department
also expediated its decisions on ocean
mail contracts in order that BIDS 1or
the necessary new ships might be aoVer-
tised earlier.
American business met the Govern
ment. move by move The major divi-
sions of industry, notably the railroads
and the utilities, scaled up their con-
Struction plans for the new year. When
a final recapitulation of these pledges
was possible the Nation learned that
construction in the entire Nation, which
normally runs about $4,000 ,OOOOO
year, would mount toward the $4,000
O0O, 900 mark in 1880.
One important factor in maintaining
the equilibrium" during this trying Win
ter has been the truce reached by capi-
tai and labor Unemployment has been
used throughout all history as the occa-
sion for reducing wages. In America
wage scales are manifestly higher than
anywhere else in the world. Yet bust
ness leadership, actuated by q new phi
loSophy of economics and by very human
and sympathic motives voluntarily ex-
pressed q desire to maintain those high
withhold demands for increased wages
or for changed conditions Of employ
ment.
Reluctant 10 Cut Wages.
There has been no deviation from this
policy on the part of business leadership
throughout all its complex fields. There
may be some industries which believe
wage cuts are necessary, but they have
been reluctant to take such action in the
face of q general understanding among
business men. In individual cases cor
poration earnings may temporarily SUI
fer because employers have not applied
the old-fashioned remedies for tempo
rary depression, but it Is long-range
craftsmanship not to cut. The sound
ness of the economic structure as q
whole takes precedence over the distress
of the individual factory. Again we
must take What Is" without definite
knowledge Of the What might have
BEEN"
In all these steps the great gain has
been growing confidence that business
can largely solve its own problems. in
voluntary cooperation with agencies OF
government. Americas living standards
are above the world level; its machinery
of production is more extended and more
delicate. Its towering structures OF
manifold industry are, of course, more
subject to shock Recession, If it came
unchecked, might run to extremes.
But the social fabric of America. by its
very character, rests on foundation Of
general information and knowledge
Americans have both the education and
the intelligence generally to comprehend
, something OF finance, Of manufacture
of transportation, of sound economic
law. This effort has been to inform each
American in and out Of business of the
basic and current facts, and then to
trust enlightened, prudent judgment to
act in intelligent self-interest. 1t looks
as II it has been justified by results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
Notorious Gem Thief
Is Fined 50 in Berlin

A notorious international Jewel thief.
who stole pearls ana precious stones To
the tune Of several million dollars In
the United States, was condemned to a
fine Of 50 by Berlin court. The Jewels
were conf1scated by the German rsich.
This astonishing decision, which
Furnishes the owners Of the Jewels In
America instead of the thief, is based
upon chain of intricate circuInstances
The accused Is q Lettish sailor. Her
bert Sandowski. He was BROUGHT into
Berlin hospital in 1926 stricken by
typhoid fever. He carried bulky box,
which ne carefully slowed away UNI
der his bed. He watched 1t even dur
ing his fever dreams. Subsequently, it
was found that the box contained Jewels
and pearls of enormous value. ~.
Police began to get interested and
started Investigations. But now the
strangeSt thing happened. In spite of
all endeavors the rightful owners Of the
jewels could not be located either in
America, England or France. The
treasures were even shown at the in
ternational police exhibition in Berlin.
but nobody claimed any Of them; there
fore the police could bring UP no case
against the thief. Sandowski was dis
missed from the hospital. Some years
later he was taken by the police for
burglary. He had committed numerous
burglaries In the States and had been
sentenced to seven years hard labor.
but he escaped from Sing Sing, and
after being taken again in Palm Beach,
Fla he made his second escape as q
sailor on an English freight steamer
bound for Bremen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

that we owe much of the color richness
of English poetry"
New Nomenclature Developed.
AS examples of this scientific contri-
button to color description, Prof. Stew
art cites the discovery Of the rainbow
like spectrum of light seen through
a prism by Sir Isaac Newton in 1871 or
ologists is Linnaeus, Brisson, Button,
Borowski, Pallas, Latham, Pennant,
Goldsmith, White and others to de-
scribe accurately and infinitely the col
ors of birds, flowers and all living
things in nature, and finally the dis
covery Of our multicolored aniline dyes,
each Of which required name, by Per-
kins, in 1866, and q score OF other SCI
entists later.
Newton, in naming the colors Of the
spectrum, coined the term violet and
put into recognized use orange and In
digo. Biologists, in attempting to de-
scribe brilliant colored birds. butter
flies and flowers, coined hundreds OF
phrases. Latham, for example, in his
efforts to describe birds used such terms
as pea green, lilac, birthstone, vermil-
ion, chestnut, ash, cinerous, peach
blossom, luteous, rufous and fulvous,
and used as many as 20 other shades
and tints to describe one bird. Then,
Will Vic IOAAAl6 Va 14AS AAuAAlC OAo0NNt
for the first aniline dye, a limitless
number Of terms came into use to de-
scribe color creations Of the chemist.
Many Words Coined.
Many of these, Prof. Stewart states,
may be found in the verse of poets
shortly after science originated them.
In conclusion he says: THE very stand
ardization produced by science, so often
bewailed as having given the coup de
grace to poetry, has also by q curious
back twist really aided poetry. AS long
as q certain shade of yellowiSh pink
existed only in the flesh of an apricot,
in q momentary shade of the morning
sky and in an occasional gown, language
could never afford to have a special
word for 1t. But when by modern meth
DDS of color production the same exact
shade may glow a million scarfs in one
month, q word becomes to some neces-
sary, and to all convenient"
Thus We get such names as queen
blue, navy, orchid, palmetto, Athena,
nude, cyclamen pink, flesh, peach,
Chinese yellow, monkey skin, cocoa,
Goya red, Alamanda green, Sistine blue,
praline, which appear on a single page
Of q mail-order house catalogue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
Powerful, Prosperous Irish Race Found
By St. Patrick on Thriving Emerald Isle

the time of the saint we can call upon
Tacitus from the same Life of Agri-
cola" He says:
I'm extent Ireland, compared with
Britain, is narrower, but exceeds that
of any island Of our seas. The soil anc
climate, as well as the genius and hab-
its of the people, do not much dinel
from those of Britain. Its channels anc
harbors are better known to commerce
and to merchants, ETC."
Here is an important item which VIII
be worth remembering by the skeptic
It proves clearly that the country car
ried on commerce to such extent that
It was well known to merchants, evil
IDENTIFY foreign.
When we find such an author as
TacituS tells us that the channels and
harbors of Ireland were better known ia
merchants than those Of Britain we get
some idea how the wheel of fortune, or
misfortune, has changed the fate OF
ireland. If this commerce had been
carried on at the time of the Roman
writer, it is not unreasonable to come
to the conclusion that 1t was also In
vogue in st. Patrick's time-300 years
later.
Credit Where Credit Is Due.
The reversed situation of the two
countries as now evident will give us
occasion to study the histories of ma
tons that were once eminent and Justly
proud of their achievements. Our men
tai vision viii show us many nations
that have risen and fallen away. and
We will observe that when a nation has
become completely extinct and has
therefore, no enemies to combat, there
Is a general tendency to accent the
claims of the historians who give credit
where credit is due.
For hundreds of years Ireland has
had no chance to speak of to write her
tul story. She has been deprived az Ali
credit to anything Of value to her Az a
nation. She has had q powerful ma
ton to deal with and host Of masked
opponents In late years, for
to betray." s''N' NS"A -
The mills of the gods grind slowly.
put they grind exceedingly fine," and
we may live in the hope that, as Charles
Makay says:
Truth will triumph in the end,
And ever the right comes oyernnost.
For round and round we sn,In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16
German Peasants Sue
Witch Finding Wizard

Germany is doubtless an extremely
modern country, yet not quite as pro-
gressive as might be surmised. At pres
ent the criminal court Of q small place
in Mecklenburg has to decide medieval
witch trial.
For several years the small village on
the Baltic has been pursued by evil for
tune. Cattle have died and the har-
vests destroyed by storms. The peasants
could not explain all these ills except
by the belief in witchcraft.
They therefore engaged the services of
q renowned wizard of Rostock, who. for
considerable remuneration, promised to
exercise the malignant witch. Panic
struck the poor peasants when, after
weird lamentations, an old woman was
really found in small wood and de-
clared by the omnipotent wizard to be
the haieful witch.
Mere chance later disclosed tnax thea
old woman had been carefully brought
along by the wizard on hts motor cycle,
The peasants recognised that they hal
been duped and,, proving themselvsS
fairly Modern after Ill, went 70 eouY9