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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24
MIAMI PUBLISHER HELD
Posts Bond Pending Appeal o
Sentence for IihaI.

MIAMI. Fla, August 2S CP-J. II.
Wendler, publisher Of two local weekly
papers. was ut liberty under $1,000
bond today pending appeal Of sentence
of criminal libel.
Wendler was sentenced by Criminal
Court Judge w. p. Brown to serve three
months at hard labor on the county
chain gang as the jurist invoked a SEN
tence suspended at the time Of Wend-
ler's conviction, subject to good be-
havior. The action was taken on COM
plant that the publisher recently had
parole with disrespectfu1 references IN
one Of his papers to the late Glenn n.
Curtiss.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24
SEA RULE DEMAND
OF BRITAIN DENIED
Admiral Sir Herbert Rich.
moi1d Tells Institute Phrase
Is of Poets.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
WIILIAMSTOWN, Mass, August %
Dominion Of the sea is "a phrase OF
the poets" and never has been de-
manded by Great Britain, Admiral Sir
Herbert Richmond, former president oi
the British Imperial Defense College
told the Institute Of Politics today.
Great Britain's demand in naval
armament came UP at the round table
Thomas c. Kinkaid of Washington
secretary of the General Board Of the
Navy Department, said he could not
conceive of any suostantiation for the
British theory of absolute needs" of
naval ornaments for security.
He pointed to British demands at the
Geneva Conference for seventy cruisers
totaling 100000 tons, to fuifn their
absolute needs" regardless Of the
relative strength Of other nations.
Apparent British Object.
THE British object" he said, sap
peared to be expansion rather than
limitation
Admiral Richmond replied that
Great Britain demanded only sufiicient
naval armament to provide 1.-The es-
sentials Of security" and that the
United States demanded much more
than these essentials. He said several
British admirals had substantiated the
theory OF absolute needs" on the basis
OF requirements Of naval strategy.
Comdr. Kinkaid thought that in
event of war between Breat Britain
and the United States, this country.
with an equal feet, would be unable
to cut of England's food lines to Eu-
rope or the British dominions.
Suggestion OF Committee.
At the conference on the Far East
ern situation Charles G. Batchelder,
former commercial attacfe of the
United States in China, suggested that
. League Of Nations committee formu-
late plans for improving Chinese con-
ditions: Similar work has already been
done BY DR.. Edwin r. Kemmerer's
finance commission and other techni-
clans In China, George Sokolsky of
Shanghai, editor Of the Far Eastern
Review, pointed out.
DR.. p. G. Chang, vice president of
Marking University, said the moderni-
cation OF China would be accomplished
chiefly through Q careful study Of
western ideas to determine their
adaptability TO Chinese needs, and
through revaluation of Chinese cul-
tural forms.
Tonight Prof. Paul Mantoux. direc-
tor Of the School of Higher Interna-
tional Studies ct Genoa, told the i'm
stitute the limitation Of war materials
was more important than that of
armies. The question Of private manu-
facture of arms, discussed ct the 1925
Geneva Arms Conference. cannot be
settled as long as the United States
remains the cause Of the deadlock"
he said.
aNrnf%t,~~ A. -n....s..A.. - "a,
expectation Of war materials can be
regulated, as long as she stands aside.
and her ahstention or opposition is
also . pretext by all those who SUD-
port . reactionary policy In other
countries"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24
INJUNCTION Is ASKED
TO HALT LAND LEASING
Secretary of Interior Wilbur Is
Among Others Named In Protest
Involving Oklahoma Mines.

Injunction to prevent the leasing OF
certain lands in Oklahoma was asked
Of the District Of Columbia Supreme
Court by Iva A. v. Wilson, George v.
Hampton and Ruth B. Dellams, all OF
Miami, Okla. They ask that Ray Ly-
man Wilbur. Secretary of the Interior;
Joseph NJ. Dixon, First Assistant Sec
rotary: Charles j. Rhodes, Commission
er of Indian Affairs, and j. Henry Scat
tergood, Assistant Commissioner, be
prevented from leasing to the Shelton
Lead and Zinc Co. certain mineral
lands.
The lands involved are embraced In
the tracts formerly constituting the
allotment Of Mary j. Calf, now de-
ceased. In the Quapaw Agency, Okla.
and are being mined under O lease to
the Shelton Lead and Zinc Co. The
proposed new lease is said to be In
valid because Of alleged failure 70 notify
all owners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03
Whalen's Difficulties.

Commissioner Whalen seems to be
having a time of it with New York's
seventeen thousand taxi drivers. Some
time ago the commissioner. himself sar-
torially perfect, decided that something
should be done about the nondescript
apparel of those who have taken up
hacking as profession. Accordingly,
he issued orders that after the fifteenth
of February every driver should attire
himself in a cap and buster, or have his
license suspended. To make 1t easy and
inexpensive for the men, the commits
sioner made arrangements with cloth
ing firm to supply the OUTFIT at some
thing over three dollars. And then came
the hitch.
While the drivers were not averse to
improving their appearance even at
some cost to themselves, they did not
feel that they should be compelled to
buy from only one firm, inasmuch as
competition had sprung up and clothing
companies were bidding for the bust
ness. In fact hackers have taken the
case to court, claiming that they were
refused licenses, although they had
bought caps and busters, because the
outfit did not agree with that prescribed
by the commissioner. Some of them
have won support in their stand, one
Judge stating that to him it did not
make any difference what the men wore
and another that the plaintiff could go
and get his license in 'pajamas" II
he chose and the court would back
him up.
After all, it would seem an easy mat
ter for the commissioner to settle these
difficulties. The big thing is that the
drivers are willing to attire themselves
properly. All that would seem to be
necessary now is for the commissioner
to specify the general color scheme and
let the drivers buy where they choose.
1t is desirable regulation. but one that
should be reasonably enforced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03

Of Pennsylvania which authorizes ap-
preparation Of 100000 for the altera-
ton and repair Of this old-time play
house as a repository for this special
collection and also for other appropriate
Civil War mementoes. These would by
no means I'LL the renovated building,
and 1t is proposed also to provide there
in suitable rooms for official headquar-
tiers for various patriotic organizations.
Responsibility for the care and the
maintenance Of the building would be
vested in the director Of public build
ings and public grounds.
At present the old theater, substan-
tial enough and not too greatly altered
in appearance, stands vacant. Across
the street, in the little house wherein
Lincoln breathed his last, the collection
Is still installed, badly crowded and
subject to various hazards. The old
play house could, with practically no
alteration in its appearance, be made
fireproof, or nearly so, and rearranged
as to interior so that these treasures
could be properly shown. There Is no
better place in the world for them.
The Government was long enough in
acquiring Col. Oldroyd's treasures, but
finally did so. Now it is somewhat like
a man who, after years of elaboration,
has bought a Stradivarius violin and
carries it around in a too-small PASTE
board box. The house which was the
scene Of Lincoln's passing should, Of
course, also be preserved and should be
simply refurnished in the style of the
sixth decade of the last century.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03

successive year as the Responsible mead
of the Irish government. Postwar his
tory in no country in either hemisphere
has witnessed so signal an exhibition Of
political equilibrium. It augurs well for
the Emerald Isle.
1t is the Dali, and not the popular
votes, which elects the Free State Presi-
dent, who Is not the chief magistrate
of the nation in the sense our Presi-
dents are, but, rather, is prime minister,
with supreme administrative authority.
He depends, under the Free States con-
stitution, upon a parliamentary major
'ty in the Lower House for retention of
Office. The Government party has a
working, but not an overwhelming, mar
gin of strength in the Dali. Mr.. Co.'S
grave was sustained in the presidency
yesterday by a vote of only 80 to IS.
The bulk of the ballots cast against
the Government party came from the
supporters of canon de Valera, one
time self-constituted president of the
Irish Republic" Mr.. de Valera is now
in the United States in the course of
one of his periodical campaigns among
American citizens of Irish extraction.
The Republican leader himself was in
the presidential running in the Dali.
but succumbed to an adverse vote of
90 to 81. Only de Valera's own adj
herents, a formidable fighting minority
of 81, rallied to his cause.
The Irish Free State, under a pro-
longed Cosgrave government, will pro-
coed to work out Erin's destinies under
the virtually unrestricted sovereignty
it enjoys within the framework of the
British commonwealth. 1t is confronted
by manifold and grave problems. The
demonstration of solidity, which Its
popular parliamentary branch has just
given, is an assurance to Ireland's
friends throughout the world that the
Free States future is secure, in SO far
as wise craftsmanship can make 1t SO.
Myriads of those friends are in this
country. They are not confined to men
and women of Gaelic blood. Americans
of whatever origin rejoice in independ-
emit Ireland's welfare and hope for its
continuance in ever-increasing measure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03

Q: What is salt marsh land2-
w. T. T. r.
A. It is land which is either con-
stantly or at intervals covered with sea
water or brackish water from estuaries
so that normal upland vegetation will
not flourish, and distinctive salt-resist-
ing plants can grow.
@. Please give the limerick which
was said to have been composed by
President Wilson.-H. e. w.
A. For beauty am not star, There
are others more handsome by far. My
face I don't mind it, For I am behind
it, It's the people in front that / jar"
@. What sort of work did the Canary
Girls of England perform?-R. E. M.
A. You probably have reference to
the munition workers in England who
suffered from toxic jaundice which was
contracted by working with INT.
In many cases the skin Of the sufferers
turned yellow.
@. What language did the ancient
Ethiopians speak?-J. L. T.
A. They spoke a language known as
Ethiopic, also called lesana Ge'ez (the
tonge of Ge'ez). 1t is closely allied with
the languages of Southern Arabia and
represents the southwestern branch OF
the southern division of the Sem
languages.
Q. Does alcohol create smoke when
burned in lamp? Does it give of as
much heat as oil?-F. j. S.
A. It does not make smoke and does
not give of as much heat as oil does.
O. What is the population of Soviet
Russia Pm. NJ. G.
A. In ls26-7 the population was
147,0l3600.
@. What is the most common first
name in Ireland?-S. G.. E.
A. It is said that there are one-third
more Irishmen by the name OF Patrick
in Ireland than by any other name.
@. Has the letter A always been the
first In the ALPHABETICAL. F.
A. It has stood at the beginning OF
the alphabet as far back as its history
can be traced.
@. What was the original name Of
Isle of Wight County, Va?-W. G.
A. 1t FIRST bore the Indian name
Of Warrosquoyacke.
@. How can I make indelible some
autographs that are written in pencil?
N. T.
A. The Bureau of Standards sug.
gests spraying with the fixative used by
artists for preventing the smudging Of
crayon and charcoal drawings. The
fxative is a weak solution Of bleached
shellac in alcohol. The color is so
pale and the film of shellac left on
the paper Is so thin that it cannot
be noticed. Be careful not to close
the book or turn the pages before the
alcohol evaporates and the shellac loses
its tackiness. Artists supply houses
sell a cheap tin sprayer, but an old
atomizer for spraying the throat can
be used The solution should be well
rinsed out Of the tubes with alcohol If
you wish to use the atomiZer again.
@. Where is the building which Is a
memorial to women of the World
War?--O. M. G.
A. The memorial building which
commentaries the services and sacri-
fees of women in the World War adj
joins the Red Cross memorial to
the women of the Civil War. The new
structure is handsome marble building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03
Clash of the Engineers!

If Col. Grant and Maj. Somervell,
both distinguished officers of the Corps
of Engineers, fought their battle over
the future of the Potomac River and
Great Falls in words and phrases to be
found only in their text books, the gen.
eral public would be left pretty much in
the dark as to what they were arguing
about.
Fortunately, both of them seem pos
sessed of certain sense Of humor that
adds popular enjoyment to their duels
in figures over esthetics and economics.
Mai. Somervell evidently quoted
part of the National Capital Park and
Planning Commissions report on the
Potomac River park project with malice
aforethought when he read to Senators
of the District committee the follow
ing excerpt:
The gorge of the Potomac Is unusual
from the biological viewpoint and has
a continuous nature laboratory record
of unusual length in the United states.
In the cool shades below the steep cll11s
on the south bank are to be found AMI
mails, insects and plants in unusual va
riety. Here the fauna and the nora
of the upland mountain regions meet
and hobnob with those of the coastal
plain. The river has brought the seeds
and animals from the hills and cut a
cool gorge for them to develop In. Capt.
John Smith found in this vicinity
"Beares Deere and other beasts" {.
and Argoll described an animal which
presumably was bison"
Whether it was bisor. or not re-
mains a mystery and Maj. Somervell
merely added his own comment that
under the proposed park-power develop
ment of the river, the flora and the
fauna could continue to hobnob on the
shores as in the past, while the river
was developed commercially.
But neither Goes Col. Grant, in his
reply to Maj. Somervell's statement, rest
on statistics and intricate computations
in compound interest to amplify his
argument.
He says, for instance, that Maj.
Somervell is as sincere. and convinced
himself as prospector with q newly
discovered gold mine," but his figures
are all wrong. The obvious difficulty In
making the statistics compiled by Gen.
Jadwin jibe with those presented by
Mai. Somervell reminds Col. Grant OF
the arithmetic of the harried husband
who spoke Grossly to his wife about
the delay in breakfast: I want my
breakfast now. have had nothing to
eat since yesterday and tomorrow will
be the third day."
If these were two ordinary mortals
debating the future of Great Falls,
there would be nothing extraordinary in
the barbed shafts of friendly ridicule
that both use. But they are Army
engineers-both of them!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03
Kentucky Rouses Criticism
In New BaIlOt-COunt Method

delay on a question of national impor-
lance"
The Savannah Press cannot see
where there is very much TO be gained
by such measure" That paper COM
ments also, emphasizing the disadvan.
tages "Now it will be impossible to tell
how Kentucky has gone on the night
of elections if the new law remains in
force through the campaign and the
voting days of the future. In national
contests, newspapers cannot flash the
returns from Kentucky because they
will not be made known until the day
after the election, and then quite late
in the day because the counting OF the
ballots and the tabulating of results
throughout the State will require much
time"
1T would look like pretty good guess
that the Kentuckians, having reason
able share of curiosity, would tire OF this
new scheme after one or two expert
ences with its workings" suggests the
Manchester Union, while the Davenport
Democrat says of the new arrangement:
I'm days when the public is demanding
its election news hot off the griddle,
such law seems to be step backward.
Other States are providing voting ma
chimes that make the results of the
voting available within few minutes,
or at the most q few hours, after the
polls are closed. Davenporters can look
back upon the all-night and next-day
vigils of the election judges in the
Bloody Fifth, three or four decades ago,
when it required "a hours to take the
tally of the big paper blanket ballots,
and allow the judges and clerks sufft-
Gent time for disputation, but we should
not want to go back to that system now.
Here We could now circulate morning
paper with the complete Scott County
vote before they had unlocked the bal
lot boxes in Kentucky, under the new
law. 1t would seem as if the folks down
there ought to wake up"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03
Farley on Whales Opens
As Navy Conference Ends

From the Atlanta Journal.
1t is only coincidence, Of course, that
the international conference on the
preservation Of whales is to begin at
time when the naval limitation parley
is waning. But this new and large
question involves, too, matter of arma-
ment reduction, and since the essence
of the difficulty is economic rather than
political, indications are that something
practical will be accomplished.
For no matter how lightly non-whale-
conscious folk are inclined to treat the
warning anent a diminishing supply.
the simple fact is that whales cannot
last forever-not at the present rate Of
determination. The public has an in
tereSt in the matter, whether that in
tereSt is realized or not. A multitude
OF fine products, soaps and face creams
and lotions, derive some of their pri-
mary ingredients from whale oil. 1t is
not Suff1cient for the playful citizen to
say, "All right, I promise not to kill
any more whales. I'll deny myself that
much" This is welcome and legiti-
mate little piece of humor. Let us en-
Joy the incongruouS aspects of con-
ference on whale preservation, by all
means. Smiles are all right.
But nations face the really serious
problem of regulating whale slaughter.
Thirty thousand of them were killed
last year, many more than the prob
able natural increase. Cannon shot,
harpoons and swift boats. even air
planes, have been drafted into the
merciless war on the huge mammals
whose carcasses, unlike many, are as
valuable as their size would indicate.
Thoughtful scientists, "mammalogists,"
in the new phrase, will discuss the
salient methods of regulation and ar
rive at a set of conclusions which no
nation involved in the whale-oil indus
try can afford to disregard. Just be-
cause we are learning to be concerned
nowadays about small things, there is
no reason why the big things, such as
whales, should be wholly neglected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03
Higghlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

1922. But what we want especially to
call attention to are the alliances OF
those between the ages OF go and 10
years, which enumerate no less than
6T7.
There is no longer any doubt that the
older people are becoming more and
more Of an unknown quantity.
A curious feature Of some OF these
cases Is that many of these ancient
brides and bridegrooms had not been
previously married. It is as If they
are unwilling. or afraid. after living in
single bleSsedneSs so long, to pass the
remainder Of their lives without COM
partnership.
Life Of Auto
In Europe Is Six Years.
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna.-Hov
long lives an auto? There are, unfor-
tunately, no reliable European statistics
in regard to the life of an auto truck
or motor car, but we should say that, to
the best of our knowledge, derived from
the opinions of drivers and dealers, the
average life of an automobile in Austria
and in other European countries as we'll
is five or six years.
In the United States, where the in
dustry is such an important one, these
COAIlpuOdOAOAAo AAdNO 1OCAA SUM A1AVO NOA y
carefully. and the following table shows
the result of scientific investigation
in regard to the matter. OF every 10C
cars marketed in the United States
After ~ years there were still in
use 90.
After az years there were still in
use 81.
After 31a years there were still in
use Sc.
After Az years there were still in
use 70.
After 5h years there were still In
use 60.
After 6h years there were still In
use So.
After ~ years there were still in
use 43.
After s1a years there were still in
use 80.
After 91z years there were still in
use 81.
After 10h years there were still in
use IS.
After 11h years there were still in
use Z.
After 1917 years there were still in
use AZ cars.
We believe the average longevity OF
cars is greater in Europe and that we
use them longer and drive them far
ther, but this assumption is not borne
out by the statistics given in the above
table, which imply an average life OF
seven years for an auto.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03
The Bermuda Flight.

The encouraging feature of the New
York Bermuda flight attempt is that
while it was failure it was very much
of a success so far as the lives Of the
flyers were concerned. When Lewis
Yancey, William Alexander and Zen
Bouck decided to attempt the Bermuda
hop-a feat of extreme difficulty due to
the nicely of navigation required to
pick up the tiny islands seven hundred
miles out on the broad Atlantic-they
did not, as so many have done be-
fore them, climb into land plane and
say to themselves, 1--WE will make 1t or
bust; if we fall in the ocean that Is just
too bad" They first found the plane
they thought would serve the purpose
and sensibly attached pontoons to it for
q possible water landing. That their
caution was rewarded is history now.
Sixty miles short of their goal darkness
descended upon them and, again dis
playing the same good sense, they "sat
down" on a smooth ocean to wait for
daylight. When morning came they
were able to rise under their own power
and make triumphant entry at their
destination.
Although Yancey and his associates
on their initial trip failed to demon
strate the feasibility of regular airplane
passenger service between New York and
Bermuda, there appears to be no reason
to believe that within a few years such
a service will not be in regular opera
ton. It takes approximately forty
eight hours to travel from New York
to the islands by ship. BY plane 1t can
be made in eight hours or less.
The difficulty of a New York-Ber-
muda service lies in the delicate navi-
CATION required, and in this connec-
ton it might be pointed out that Mr.
Yancey has few equals as navigator
If every plane that took off from New
York could have Yancey aboard as
a steersman the trip to Bermuda would
simply be an easy eight-hour hop and
nothing more. But even without navi-
gators of his ability an air service tc
Bermuda is well within the realm Of
possibilities during the next few years