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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13
Rock Greek Culvert
Plan Distasteful
To the Editor Of The Star:

10 the Editor OF The Star:
First we get proposal to put roofs
over the parks in the city, and now we
get a proposal TO put a roof over Rock
Creek There is no smell so sweet as
no smell at ALL" The way to get this is
not to put roof over bad odors but
remove the cause Of the pollution.
Mr.. Henry Ford Is a lover of antiques,
and an able man. wonder II he or
some lover of the National Capital could
not devise some method Of having large
quantity of fresh water flow through
Rock Greek all TIE time. Mr.. Rookie
Teller, you are restoring Williamsburg;
please restore Rock Creek to the Ma
tional Capital.
Possibly the bed OF Rock Greek, paved
with cobblestones, might please a utili-
tartan engineer, but 1t would be a very
poor imitation of the beautiful natural
bed of Rock Creek, with It's huge
boulderS in the upper part of the park.
It certainly would not please beauty
lovers.
If Maj. Gotwals is interested in in
closing streams in culverts, introduce
him to the culvert monstrosity that is
now desecrating one OF the ravines in
Rock Greek Park. Mr. Rockefeller,
please give a million to have that cul-
vert monstrosity destroyed.
Gov. Richie of Maryland ought to
be interested in preserving the beauty
OF Rock Greek for posterity by prevent
ing the sewage of Maryland from
flowing into Rock Greek. The present
District of Columbia was once part OF
Maryland. We want to see our National
Capital become the most beautiful CAPT.
tai in the world
In regard to the ctasm between two
ash dumps, -ase leave Rock Creek in
the chasrn and, beautify the ash dumps
instead Of putting Q roof over Rock
Greek. BLXECHE O. HOWLETT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13
Pumping Proposed to
End Creek Pollution
TO the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
was MT h interested in reading the
editorial in a recent issue OF your val
ued paper with reference to the present
condition of the water along the course
Of Rock Creek, resulting from the pres
ent drought, which renders this stream
so essential in complementing the set
ting of one of the most natural public
parks extant. It is really most unfor-
tunate that conditions are such that
youngsters cannot avail themselves Of
the healthful and pleasant pastime Of
wading these waters.
In order that a mean level now be
maintained at all times, would sug-
gest the installation OF a pump OF
ample capacity at q point above the
Great Falls of the Potomac River that
would discharge directly into Rock
Creek, just above the Geological Park,
or provide there an impounding reser-
voir, whereby water could be released
in sufficient quaint ties as occasion re-
quired to effect and sustain a uniform
flow of water in Rock Creek, which
would not only prevent the pollution
resulting from an insufficient now, but,
what Is also important, conserve the
beauty Of the whole setting.
J. =. DAVIS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Appreciation.
We don't pretend to have much fun at
Pohick on the Crick.
We don't 60 round to health resorts,
cause none of us is sick.
We don't rush round in motor cars.
Wed rather sit serene
At home and not be pestered with the
smell Of gasoline.
We don't have no explosions. nor col
lisionS in the street,
Nor get appendicitis from the fancy
things we eat.
We're free to say existence isn't movin'
very quick.
We're Twin safe and easy. down to
Pohick on the Crick.
We're Twin safe and easy; an our
families isn't vexed
With a social item one day an q
funeral note the next.
We've got our feet to walk with an
we've got our hands fur toll,
An we're happy an contented with the
blessin's of the soil.
We're different from some people,
cause We feel we wasn't born
To 60 through life a-spinnin' to the
tootin' of q horn.
If I looked the whole map over, with
a chance to take my pick,
I'd settle down in jes' one town-thatS
Pohick on the Crick.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13

White Plains, N. Y, certainly can
locate the spotlight. The latest wrinkle
up there is judge who provides pillows
for jurymen and even lets them smoke.
times asks a gloomy-looking talesman
what he had for breakfast, fearing sub
sequent drowsiness. irritation, inatten-
ton and possible miscarriage Of justice.
There is no doubt as to the frame Of
mind of q smoker who has sat al day
without his pipe listening to tiresome
witnesses. Most persons would prefer
to be tried not only by jury of their
peers. but of their peers entirely COM
Portable, natural and at ease.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13
Effect of the Fare Boost.

The first twenty days Of street car
operation under the new rates Of fare
may not prove anything conclusively,
as the time has been short. The taxi
cab situation is, If anything, more con-
fusing than ever and this Is the time
Of year wllsn many people are out Of
town. But Mr.. Hams statement con-
corning the results so far under the
higher rate Of fare cannot contain
much encouragement for the street
railway corporations. Returns are APP
proximately $1,000 q day higher under
the new fare tran they were under the
old. But the loss In revenue this year
as compared to last year continues, In
spite of this 81 ,000-a-day boost, and the
new fare has failed to make up for the
reduction in passengers.
Beginning March l of this year. Wnen
the cheap taxicab service descended on
washington and took the city by
storm, the Washington Railway q
Electric Co. was losing revenue Mt the
rate of $1,157 a day, compared TO the
same period of the preceding year.
1929. The new rate Of fare has cut
down the loss to only $l4S day. But
there is still loss. The gain under
higher fare has been merely to recoup
part of it. The loss remains.
The companies based their petitions
for higher fare on returns that were
held inadequate prior to 1890. Mr..
Hams statement, therefore, shows that
for the first twenty days Of operation
the higher fares are producing return
that is still less than the return held
inadequate by the courts.
Mr.. Ham lays the blame for this fall
ing of of revenue passengers mainly on
unregulated taxicab service and to some
extent Ito the general business depres-
sion" Taxicabs will be regulated even
tually, of course, and business viii not
always be depressed. But there Is no
proof that cheap. fiat-rate taxicabs,
with or without regulation, are not here
to stay. And in Washington, particu-
larry, the effect of business depression
upon the number of street car pas
sengers Is probably small. In other
words, it is yet to be demonstrated that
the car companies loss of revenue
caused by a declining number Of pas
sengers is not q permanent loss. The
next few months should tell whether
the higher fares will mean a remedy for
this loss. Higher fares were demanded
to boost revenue. So far they have not
permitted the car companies to break
even with last years revenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13
Are they writing great short stories

Are they writing great short stories
any more?
Peculiarly an American medium, al
though this country has no unique
claim to it, the short story had Powered
vividly in the United States.
Those who love the brief tale will be
interested in a new volume just issued
in the venerable and beloved Everyman
Library-"American Short Stories OF
the Nineteenth Century" with an in
PRODUCTION by John Cournos.
Only three of the stories are by even
such "moderns" as Richard Harding
Davis, Jack London and o. Henry. The
remainder hearken back to the classic
DAYS of Poe C'The TelI-Tale HEARTH ;
of Irving Grip Van Winkle'D Of Aid
rich ("Marjorie DawO; and a few
others of the same renowned stamp, In
Guiding Henry James, Hawthorne, Mel
vile, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.
Such books of selections, even when
made by an authority, always leave one
seems to be that there are a great deal
more than a handful Of stories which
properly belong in any such selection.
A "noSegay" of stories such as this
can represent only one mans ideas OF
the best, and his only at certain time,
and maybe even place. If he were
residing in Switzerland, and had to do
the job all over again. the probability
is that he would throw out some that
he included, and put in few that he
omitted.
There still are good short stories being
written.
On every hand American life vibrates
with greed, passion, love, honesty,
decency, crookednesS, these and o thou
sand more, all thrown together into as
complex q civilization as the world has
ever known.
Short stories are written by the thou
sands every year. Several worthwhile
collections of the best" are made each
twelve months, by those who ought to
be able to select the winners.
There are so many stories, in fact,
that the average reader by no means can
keep up with them, even with the books
containing the cream.
Only as friends recommend one or
another of them from their own per-
Sonal reading Is 1t possible for the So
called average reader to begin to keep
up with them
Perhaps word may come that rs. 8.
Pedro" in the current number of
Scribner's is great story" One looks
1t up, finds 1t good. But Is 1t great?
viii posterity put 1t into q collection?
Then there is Ernest Hemingway's
Wine OF Wyoming" in the same mag
izine. The reader may wonder whether
it Is short story" ia the average
meaning Of the term.
To one reader at least it seems rather
an impresSionistic presentation of q
conversation, or set Of conversations,
depending, for such effect as 1t has,
upon the present vogue which the
liquor question has acquired. When
this vogue has declined, will Wine of
Wyoming" seem anything except q set
of speeches?
The true short story, as we see 1t, has
to achieve one thing, an effect.
What this effect is no one can say.
1t may be different in each case, but
its authentic urge, If one may put it
that way, is unmiStakable.
Such an effect may not be produced
upon every reader, and If such Is the
case, the story does not possess that
effect for that reader. That is all.
Thus we apply mathematics to cul-
tural proposition, making each reader
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13

prizes" A scale Of rewards Is indicat-
ed: one-step promotion for every Of
ficer who induces his men to surrender,
twenty dollars TO each private sur
rendering with arms, five hundred dol
lars to each officer with machine gun,
and one thousand dollars to each Of
ficer with field gun.
Thus the silver bullet,J which has
been fired so often in Chinese warfare
in the past, is again in use. Not many
months ago Feng himself was brought
down by such missile in the preceding
campaign, retiring from the field on
pavment of several million dollars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13

In Mark Twain's "a Connecticut
Yankee at King Arthur's Court" one OF
the characters, an ignorant serf, states
his conviction that II all kings and
princes were stripped naked one could
NOT distinguish them from common
folk. The same thing seems to be true
of them when they don flying suits and
helmets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13

Habits Of systematic saving are now
regularly taught in Russian schools,
as exemplified by rotogravure pictures
II chubby bloused youngsters each hold
ing aloft his handbook Is not the
ideal over there communism, everybody
to own everything? Why save, then2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13

1t is curious thing that so many
murderers hrst successfully, accurately
and often repeatedly shoot the COM
panion of the opposite sex; then turn
the gun against themselves to take
their own lives and-faill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13
NTemher NJ the Associated Press

e Associated Press is exclusively entitled
TO the use for republication OF all news Cis-
patches credited to it or not otherwise cred
tied in this paper and also the local ews
published herein All rights of publication of
special dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13

Amos n Andy have signed up for
I'VE years more. This will make the
satisfaction over Babe Ruths three
year contract seem in comparison like
general gloom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13

Bryan University is to open this Fall
at Dayton, Tenn. Here is q fine chance
for the composer Of the college yell to
ring in the word "Boru."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13
Audience ut Fault.

I'VE haven't the orators we once
had" said the man who Is habitually
regretful.
+. Yes, we have" answered Senator
Sorghum. THE trouble is that the pub
lie nowadays is too busy to listen. to
EN-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13
And What Mergersl

From the Ithaca Journal-News
In other days life in the big town was
mostly movie and in the small town
mostly talkie. Then came the mergers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13
A Parody.

All situations stand in need
OF great reforms to right EN-
And these reforms need new reforms,
And so ad infinitum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13

From the Harrisburg TelesrAph.
Now comes the season when ore de-
cides whether 70 enjoy q holiday or
order coal for next Winter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13
A SubterfuRe.

"Bliggins says that some one has
tried to make him pay money to keep
things out Of print"
NONSENSE" rejoined. Miss Cayenne.
"Mr. Bliggins is trying to convey the
impression that he Is in the smart set"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13

when a man stahts in braggin'
bout how honest he is" said Uncle
Eben, 1T allus kind o. sounds to me
like he was 'pologiztn' fob not bein'
mo- -"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13

why don't you save up your money!"
asked the thrifty man.
I'm going to. I am merely looking
around to make sure am not putting
1t In the hands of some concern willing
to take bigger risks with 1t than I am"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13
q Interrogation.

This world of freaks contains a host;
Each day a new one will disclose,
And oh, the thought that haunts me
most
Is, maybe am one of those!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13
Courageous.

Are the Americans courageous as a
rule?" asked the foreign visitor.
Il should say sol" answered the
patriotic citizen. You should see the
way the average American eats sardines
and pie at a picnic"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13
And No Water Waves.

From the Butte Daily Post
Heat waves In the East are getting
70 be permanenta
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Rate by Mail-PayabIe in Advance.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-13

Will II. Hays, motion picture car,
who is just back from a seven-week
fruitful sojourn in Europe, sends word
to Washington friends that he's en-
route to Cody, Wyo.. for the first vaca-
ton he's had since the war. -Four
years ago." writes the former Postmas-
ter General and G. o. p. chairman, II
told Bill Hays, then aged 10. that II he
would 60 TO Culver Military Academy
for the next four Summers and grad
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
5 SENTENCED IN
CRIMINAL court
Gas Station Bandit Is Given
10 Years in Prison.

Five youths are in the county jail
today awaiting transportation to
penal institution to serve sentences
given them Wednesday by Criminal
Judge James A. Collins.
Arno Ross, SO, Marshheld. Wis,
confessed bandit, drew a sentence
of ten years at the Indiana state
prison when convicted of holding
up a Shell filling station at Prospect
street and Madison avenue, Jan. 70,
taking $50 from the attendant
Ross companion, Theodore Edge,
10, tried also for the same offense,
is to be held pending further in
yestigation Norman Crutcher, %,
and James Healy, %, GA East Mar
ket street. were sentenced to the
Indiana reformatory for three TO
ten years on burglary charges. They
admitted entering twelve Indian
apoHs business establishments.
Roy w. Adkins, 81, was given a
one to ten-year reformatory SEN
tence on an auto banditry charge.
He was convicted of stealing 5000 in
merchandise from the drug store OF
Albert Michael, 2143 Prospect street,
Jan. "a. Ernest Thompson was
given a one-year farm sentence on
a burglary charge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06

Grapes and curtains also were in
Guided.
On Sept. 80, 1929, Leslie also APP
proved a voucher for S3.38240 for
Grapes, curtains and spreads.
The same date shows the approval
of a voucher for S99.18-one pair
book-end candle holders, 918; recon-.
ditioning and recovering chair in
main hall, S45, an piano bench,
S45.
The Governors approval is at
tached to a voucher dated Sept. II,
1929, for $60.50, tea sets and one
dozen plates, gold encrusted.
Another voucher dated Aug. 26,
1929 for S36483 is in payment for
five dozen crystal ash trays; two
dozen 14-gallon jugs; five dozen
gold ihcrusted plates; four dozen
gold encrusted goblets. two dozen
frosted tumblers; two dozen finger
bowls and two dozen finger bowl
plates.
On Aug. 26, 1929. Leslie approved
a voucher for $4,99585 for carpents
and linOleum. including S174L50
for oriental rugs.
Leslie approved another voucher
on May 10, 1929, for a washer, $3.50
and two sets of pie forks $18.
Numerous other vouchers will be
found by the accountants.
During the expenditures of this
money from the emergency con-
tingent fund Governor Leslie each
month drew 1888 for maintenance Of
the household.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06

that, the encouragement bring
suit. Likewise. salary of Gaylord
Morton, the undersecretary, should
be returned.
I'VE put 100000 a year in the
emergency fund for use in real
emergencies, such as the recent
flood, with the understanding that
it would be used in a careful man
ner and that all not thus spent
would stay in the treasury.
Likewise. the Governor was al
lowed $4,000 a year for mainte-
nance of the state-owned Cover
nor's mansion and his household,
with like understanding for eco
nomical use" Niblack said
"Of course, the state and its leg
islature expects to support its Gov
ernor in a worthy manner, but We
never intended to pay him $4,000
a year cash and in addition allow
him to spend SIS 900 from the emer-
gency fund for furniture, ash trays
and golden comnrodes that cost $315.
The budget committee had no
authority to approve such use of
state funds.
"Our 1929 budget law Is good
one and specific. If its spirit is
carried out, there would be no COM
plant. 1t goes to prove that we
have a government of men and not
of laws. That is, laws are put in
force by men.
The sad part of such affairs, y
Niblack concluded, lis the loss of
public confidence in officials"
When the board of accounts
makes the audit of the emergency
fund, it will find among other items
that Leslie on Jan. IA, 1880, ap-
proved the expenditure of $123.75
for the following items: One plate,
$3.50; portfolio, $25; dresser set,
$3.50; mirror tray. SIS; cigaret box,
SIS; match box, $3.50; vanity set,
$3.50; another mirror tray, $40. The
total bill was $13O.50, but a perfume
bottle marked $3.50 was returned,
lowering the total to $12375.
The accountant also will find that
on Nov. IL, 1929, a voucher for
S1,132.66 also was approved by
Governor Leslie. Items on this bill
included: Cabinet, $83 remodeling
of dining room table. 500; II side
chairs, $50; table runner, antique
colored lace" $40; guest room, one
coffee table with inlaid top $3.50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06
CHARGE STREET
WIDENING OF NO
USE TO HOMES
Capitol Avenue Residents
Fight Assessments
by City.

Widening Of Capitol avenue from
Washington street north TO Six
teenth street has not enhanced the
value Of abutting property, in the
opinion Of three realtors who testi-
fed today at the trial before Su-
perior Judge William c. Dunlavy.
The court was hearing appeals Of
about 100 property owners from as
sesssments levied against them for
the improvement by the board OF
works.
The Joint action, resisting assess
ments made in August, 1923. by the
works board. involves more than
$40 900. but does not include appeals
OF abutting residents who have paid
the assessment without protest
Contesting the appeals as being
without foundation. Edward S.
Knight, city corporation counsel,
hurled barrage of cross-questions
at the witnesses, and was met with
consensus that the improvement is
Of value only to the city and to
traffic
Contestants include private prop
erty owners, many realty COM
panies the Indianapolis Street
Railway Company and Stutz Motor
Car Company.
Appraisers called to the stand to-
Gay as the trial began included Boyd
w. Templeton, head Of the realty
department Of the Indiana Trust
Company: B. w. Duck, president of
Spann Realty Company, and Walter
T. White. Indianapolis real estate
dealer. Opinions Of each were that
the widening of the avenue pro-
vides no value increase in the
property of the suit plaintiffs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-06

Doyle today IN an exclusive inter-
view.
The family preyiew' Of these
amous, or to-betamous stories, al
ways occurs in front of great fire in
the drawing room.
He's a great sport, Pop the boys
explained
Then Adrian described how it felt
20 read his fathers tales.
Il read Pops Sherlock Holmes
when I was 8 or years old he said.
L got the same thrills out Of the ad-
ventures Of Pops heroes as any other
BOY might have done.
But, of course, when had finished
reading the books had an extra
thrill, that of being the son of the
man who wrote it. It's a feeling of
immense pride, assure you.
But Sherlock Holmes is not Pops
best work by any means. We and
many others believe that his White
Company is far greater than any of
his popular detective stories.
Then, of course. there is his Tales
Of Long Ago 1t is gem. This and
other works like it are veritable little
mosiacs. They show the real artist in
of Watson always reads his manu-
l. j. u IL =
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LESLIE ORDERS
INQUIRY into
HIS SPENDING
Accounts Board to Start
Probe of Expenses for
State Mansion.
Continued From Page II

care of all expenses of the house
hold.
Il didn't think that the emer-
gency contingent fund was to be
used for maintenance of the man
sion when I voted for its passage"
Benedict declared: Il wouldn't
have voted for the 100000 emer-
gency contingent fund if I had
known it was to be used for the
mansion. Every economy should
have been exercised"
Representative Lloyd .Claycombe,
employed at a salary of 81 500 a
year as a part-time attorney for the
state bureau of criminal identif1-
cation and investigation declared:
Il would have voted for the $2000 900
emergency contingent fund If it
was explained that it was to be
used for furnishing the Governor s
mansion"
Senator Niblack's statement, an
indictment Of the expenditures
said:
"TheSe are grave charges, and II
true such conduct is reprehensible
I am shocked and bewildered at the
Governors use of the emergency
fund.
II say, and I know, the 1929 leg
islature never intended such use OF
the state emergency contingent
fund, enormously known as the
Governors, because it is in his
keeping.
IF these charges are true, I in
sist the Governor at once repay into
the treasury the $4,000 he spent on
buying this furniture, and if not