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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
The Oracles Sneak.

| Through no fault of their own, Henry
Ford and Thomas Edison have become
oracles. They answer questions. Their
answers are gobbled up and swallowed
like grains of corn thrown in the
poultry yard. Why this should be is no
great mystery. Both Henry Ford and
Thomas Edison are extraordinarily sue
cessful men. Nearly everybody wants
to be successful and the slightest hint
that Mr.. Ford and MIR. Edison are going
to divulge the secret Of success draws
crowd.
| remains hidden after the interview.
The man who would like to be a
Henry Ford or a Thomas Edison feels
that something has been left out He
has asked for bread and received some
homely philosophy that leaves him
still hungry.
Mr.. Fords solution "of business diff
fculties," for instance. is new indus
trial leaders, leaders who will sense
| what the people need and give 1t to
them cheaply What are the needs? In
my particular case, motor cars. am
in the business of making automobiles
because I believe / can do more good
that way than any other. And there
are many other needs. For instance,
only about one family in ten has a
bathtub. They should be made cheap
er so that everybody could have one"
Mr.. Ford may be in the business of
making automobiles because he be-
lieves he can do more good that way
than in any other, though that fact
might be debated. And $3.50 bath
tubs would help. But his solution "of
business difficulties is not worth as
much as a 1914 Model It, because Mr..
Ford fails to produce the new indus
trial leaders who find out what the peo-
pie want land give it to them cheaply."
He might have suggested like remedy
for the drought. 1t consists, simply,
in giving us rain.
Mr.. Edison says that development of
the machine age will affect the average
individual by increasing his opportuni-
ties and increasing his leisure and he
| will be likely to use this leisure wisely
IF he shuns whisky" Undoubtedly the
machine age is increasing leisure, but to
say that it will be used wisely by the
individual who "shuns whisky" sets up
rule that Is too simple TO work. Shun-
ming whisky is one of the easiest things
to do, but using leisure prof1tably or
wisely is the hardest. So many people
have so much leisure nowadays that a
great many of them are wondering II
leisure is not Cutting the market.
One should not blame Mr.. Ford and
Mr.. Edison for silly answers, however.
The questions, most of them, are silly.
What the people want to know from
! Mr. Ford is whether he ever intends to
make a six-cylinder automobile, an
eight, or is the Model A here to stay.
And from Mr.. Edison some further talk
along the subject of making rubber
! from American weeds, which he said
was the scientific problem of most inter-
est to him. If Mr.. Ford and Mr.. Edison
would confine their oracular utterances
to themselves and their work they
would both speak with authority. Every
body admits that they certainly know
their stuff.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31

reported. Han Fu-chu, commander of
the Nationalist Army In Eastern Shan
tung, supporting the forces now night
ing for the recapture Of Tsinan, has
quit his command and announced his
intention TO go abroad" abandoning
Tsingtao, which he was defending, to
the Northerners. This leaves a gap in
the rear of the Nationalist Army and
exposes the vitality important rail port
Of Tsingtao to capture by the insurgents.
Unless this situation can be quickly
corrected the Shantung campaign Of
the Nationalist is imperiled. The loss
of Shantung by the Nationalist would
give the Northerners control of four of
the most important provinces of that
part of China, Shensi Shansi, Chi4-
in which Peking and Tientsin are To-
cated-and Shantung, with Honan in
the balance, but in large measure &C.
cupied by Northern forces.
Thus pressed in the north by the in
surgents, who are bent upon splitting
OF a large section of the country, and
in the south by the Communists, who
are bent upon destroying Nationalist
government in Fukien, Kiangsi, Human,
Kwangsi and Kwangtung. the govern
ment of Chang Kai-Shek is in a pre-
carious position. It's chief advantage
thus far has been the possession of an
interior" position, from which it could
fight on two fronts simultaneously. But
If Tsingtau is lost, great part of
this advantage passes, for it will then
no longer be possible to ship troops and
munitions for the shantung campaign
by sea
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
Highligghts on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

or equipment. The depredations of
these little pigeons" have necessitated
the stationing of police in the district
mentioned to watch those who watch
the cars. The police are now respon-
sible for any damages sustained by the
vehicles.
Brick Wall
Ruins Natural Scenery.
Falastin, Jaffa.-In Palestine we
have all the attractions, spiritual, nat
ural and archaeological for drawing
tourists, but instead of exploiting these
pleasant and interesting features we
rather compel the tourist to cut short
his stay. Sarona, for instance. is a
suburb OF Jaffa and a very pleasant
place to walk in the evening. Close by
flows a river the Auja, winding and
making waterfalls, but a saunter upon
its bank is ruined by finding before us
an ugly 3-foot single brick wall, hide
ously painted, and on it the offensive
announcement, mo Permission"
One could hardly refrain from de-
molishing that disfiguring bit of cheap
bricks and lime which denied access to
scene of natural and historic beauty:
We should make all the attractions OF
our country, whether of historic, re-
ligious, architectural or scenic nature
accessible and free. Antiquities and
natural scenery should not be spoiled by
commercial enterprise and disfigure-
ment. 1t is the rural and esthetic
amenities that benefit most the wearied
ones OF other countries that travel here
for rest and change.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
A Dangerous Road.

The serious injury in an automobile
accident of young Virginian on the
Baltimore washington road draws at
tention to the dangers Of this highway,
especially for night driving, while 1t Is
in the process Of being widcned. Much
Of the work has already been completed
and soon a fine forty-foot boulevard
will be available for travel between the
two cities. In the meantime, however,
great care should be exercised by mo-
florists and by the workmen in orcer
that a tragic list of casualties will not
be the price of the new road. Blinded
by the headlights of an approaching
car, Robert Mackey drove headlong into
wileelbarrow and barrel of tar that
had evidently been left too near the
right of way by careless workmen. 1t
was just the kind of accident to be
expected under such conditions as have
obtained on this road during the WIDEN
ing work.
While there Is no disposition to chide
Maryland authorities for the manner in
which they go about their highway i'm
proyement construction, because Mary
land has one of the best systems Of
roads OF any State and is CONSTANT,
seeking to improve it, it does appear
that with the widening scheduled be-
tween Washington and Laurel 1t was
not an especially good policy to
close of. or practically so, the onl!
other road by which Laurel can be con
veniently reached from Washington
This Is the sO-calIed back" road which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
The Chinese Tragedy.

DEVELOPMENTS in China most re-
Gently reported are of a character to
distress grievously those who wish well
for that unhappy land. Violent out
breaks of savagery in Human Province,
centering in Changsha, the capital,
have cost many native lives, count
less values in property and infinite
damage to the prestige of orderly gov
eminent The foreigners located there,
with the possible exception Of four
who persist in remaining despite the
perik, have been safely evacuated by
the foreign warships, which managed
to make their way up the Slang, one
OF the afiuents of the Yangtze, and to
escape before the fall of the water left
them stranded. An American river
gunboat, engaged in this service, re-
turned with an exceptional rise in the
water and was fired upon by Com
munists, five sailors being wounded.
This is but the latest instance of the
violence that is raging in the interior
of the southern and central portion
of China. The war" in that region
is being carried on by the Communists
whose slogans are TRANSACTIONS from the
Russian. In the north campaign is
being bitterly fought, with the usual
Chinese intervals for recuperation, be-
tween armies of the Nationalist gov
eminent at Marking and those of the
Northern war lords, Yen Hsi-shan anc
Feng Yu-hsiang. The immediate felc
of the campaign is in Shantung, peren'
NAL fighting ground of the revolutions
The Northerners recently captured
Tsinan, the provincial capital, and art
now holding it against the forces o.
Chang Kai-Shek, the Nationalist Presi
dent.
Two serious misfortunes have recent
1y occurred TO the Nationalist cause
one political and the other military
The former is the joining of the North.
erners by Wang Ching-wei leade
of the left wing of the Kuomintang
which is the party-government of China
He has been abroad" for some time
which means an exile of security Il
Japan, and now unites with Yen an
Rene and viii aid them in establish
ing an independent government .
leeking.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
Trade With Russia.

Doubtless it would be cutting off our
nose to spite our own face If embar-
goes on Russian lumber. coal and man
ganese were to result in curtailing our
100000, 900 export trade with the So
Wet But in light of some unblush-
ing testimony given in New York yes
terday By Arthur Garfield Hays, de-
scribed as counsel for the Revolutionary
Age and the Communist Party, United
States Of iority group
there is a strong temptation to tell
Red Russia to go hang with its business.
Mr. Hays said in Federal Court that
the aim of the Communist party even
tually' is to overthrow the Government
of the United States. The Communist
counsel was good enough to admit that
overthrow "at present" is out of the
question, because the leaders ARE not
foolish enough to believe it could be
accomplished except by force" Then
Mr. Hays made the naive plea that the
post ONCE authorities ought not to pre-
vent dissemination of Communist lit
erature, any danger involved through
its distribution being remote!
President Hoover has just proclaimed
that there is no intention of barring
Russian imports into the United States
on the mere ground that the American
people do not happen to like the So
Wet form of government. 1t was added
at the White House that, after all, our
farmers. merchants, manufacturers and
exporters are profiting from the big
rest volume of business America ever
did with Russia. If there is any inter-
ference with goods of Russian origin
at the customs houses, it will be only
because they run counter to prohibit
lions, like the ban on convict-made
wares, which apply to all countries and
to interstate commerce within our own
domain. The United States, in other
words. will engage in no discrimination
against products sent us by the Soviet
1t will strike many observers as
very timely coincidence that Communist
spokesmen have disclosed Communist
designs on American institutions at the
same moment that the question of Rus
sian trade with the United States Is
under discussion. Over and over
again Moscow reafirms its unfiagging
allegiance to the principle Of world
revolution" That revolution is sys-
tematically fomented and definitely fl
nanced in and by Russia. The sinews
Of the soviet's projected war on "capi-
talism" are derived to no inconsiderable
extent from profits on Russian trade,
domestic and foreign. which is ex-
clusively under government-Communist
Kovernment-control.
Every dollar of profit on Russian
trade In or with the United States Is
dollar for the ar-chest of the world
revolution" We now have it on In
disputable authority that it is in par
ticular a dollar for overthrow Of Amer
lean institutions.
1t was Calvin Coolidge who said
when the Soviet launched one OF Its
drives for American diplomatic recog-
milton, that the United States would
not barter American principles for trade
advantages"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
"OrthOdOx" Left Turn
Is Rated as Unsafe

To the Editor of The Star:
The writer of the article about the
adjustment of the safe and sane rotary
left turn, now in use here, has very
aptly described the orthodox" left turn
TO be adopted soon. He states:
The driver would advance on a green
light to the center of the intersection,
turning sharp into the stream of traffic
proceeding on his left"
into the stream of traff1cl" What
happens, then, when he turns into a
stream OF motorists advancing, as they
have right to do, on a green light?
Does he have the right of way, even
though he Is breaking one OF the car
dinal principles of safe travelling, going
against red light?
YOU might also have added that he
turns INTO the stream of deluded pedeS-
TRANS who think that a green light
means that 1t is safe to cross.
Wnen the Orthodox turn goes into
enect' october l, you had better reserve
some OF your valuable space to recount
tne increased accidents to both motor
ISIS ana pedestrians which will result
Wnat DO few deaths or broken limbs
aInounI 10, though, as long as we are
oElloooX'? A. M. LEVERS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
Instinct Challenges Science
In Baby Problem at Chicago

firm champion of the scientific deter
mination of truth"
Here are two human mites" de-
clares the Utica Observer Dispatch,
that look so nearly alike that even
their parents cannot tell them apart.
But who would dare to suggest to
either set of parents that one baby is
just as good as the other? What be-
comes of the theory that environment,
not heredity, is the deciding influence
In human character? Let some scien-
tho theoriSt try to argue with these
parents that 1t makes no difference
which baby they take; that 1t all de-
pends not OH how they were born. but
how they are brought up. Let them
undertake to prove that any child can
be shaped into any form the parents
desire; that blood and heredity have
nothing to do with it. The theory is
all right so far as the theoretical chill
dren OF theoretical parents are con-
cerned. But here are two real chill
dren OF real parents. Theory goes up
against instinct, the one unanswerable
argument"
Failure Of science in the face OF pa
rental confidence is emphasized BY the
kee journal exclaims: "A mothers
heart versus blood count under a micro
scope! That can have but one end
ing. The Cleveland Plain Dealer de-
clares: All the logic in the world has
never yet Swayed mothers intuition.
And when two intuitions clash, science
ana logic and reason might just as well
go out for walk"
In view of the human tendency to
drift into the attitude that a good sys-
tenn can never fail" suggests the Bal
timore Sun. sit may be good discipline
Tor the profession to have a mistaken
baby story once in a while. But it Is
rough on the WatkinSes and Bap'her-
gers. The indianapolis So. -.-
ments: The human equation is by no
means infallible and any let-down In
the efficiency of those intrusted with
specific tasks will produce the d.
lemn1as of which Chicago now provides
prominent example. Fortunately for
the peace of mind of most parents. she
average hospital demonstrates such
care in identifying babies that dis
tressing mistakes are seldom made"
systems approaching perfection,
which have been introduced into various
local hospitals and which involve such
devices as beads, fingerprints, foot
prints, tags and wrist clasps, are men.
toned by the Fort Wayne News-Senti-
mel, the st. Louis Post-Dispatcli and
the Allentown Call. The Albany Eve
ming News reTers to the method by
which hospital babies may be branded
by the use of violet ray" the mark of
which will last only about two
months" The Richmond News Leader
is of the opinion that the Chicago case
should inspire all maternity hospitals
TO insure against further cradle con-
fusion"
The attitude Of parents toward the
scientific tests introduced in this case
inspires the statement by the Columbus
Ohio State Journal: They can't be
blamed. 1t is a difficult thing which
they are called upon to do--to trade a
baby which they have come to look
upon as their own for another merely
because q few physicians who made
head measurements and blood test9
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31

Two women, weighing together nearly
400 pounds, have assembled a giant soak
down in North Carolina with the an
nounced intention of clinching the tree
sitting championship. 1t is believed
that two women, with each other to
talk to and neighbors to talk about, can
do it, too. Remember Stockton's char
acters, Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine,
who, suspended in nfe-preservers, plac-
idly gossiped their way nearly across
the Pacific?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31

Laurel with the Baltimore Washington
boulevard Almost simultaneously with
the reconstruction Of the latter highway,
work was likewise started on this con-
nection and motorist desiring to drive
from Washington to Baltimore can find
no direct way to reach Laurel, where the
major boulevard is completed, unless he
plows over his choice of one of two
roads under construction. OF course
there still remain the Ellicott City route
and the Ridgeville and Frederick routes
to Baltimore, but they are much longer
and not nearly as desirable. 1t does
seem that little foresight could have
avoided much public inconvenience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

get I'D tomorrow morning so early, and
to look so bright and clipper? A super
breed, evidently-the members OF
which would be the first to yell if their
own repose was interfered with.
X r X X
Well. at last everything is quieting
down, thank Heaven There ought to
be several hours of quiet, between the
present hour, whatever 1t is, and the
first coming of the first band of hardy
milkmen.
Quiet should reign for a time, at
least-but what is that? The roar OF
a motor car, away on in the distance,
but plainly coming near, and nearer
q great suffering.
oh. YES. that is the Marmadukes
coming home from a party, wild or
otherwise! Probably otherwise, for the
Marmadukes are nice young folk. One
recalls now that they had gone across
city to fetch Maybelle, a faithful
African, early in the evening.
1t was the duty of the dusky May
belle to stay with the heir of the Mar
madukes. But by the time the family
got home Maybelle long had been
sound asleep. Mr.. Marmaduke, OF
course, had his key to the front door
III Ills pOChCt, puS ~ Ne'S wv AA''SAA
trouble to walk around.
He would hammer a bit on the back
door, which was properly locked, and
resisted all his efforts to cajole 1t into
opening.
Rap! Rap! Rapl
The notes echoed like the clang of
the anvil in Robin Hood"
Rap! Rapl Rap!
One-fourth of those asleep nearby
woke up with start.
Rapl Rapl Rap!
awake.
Now Mr.. Marmaduke played his
trump card.
"Maybellep he yelled, at the top Of
his voice.
It came in long, loud and prolonged
scream. which startled babies out OF
their slumbers and made them scream,
too. ,.,,.
Again it came:
"May-be-e-e-e-elleF"
THE echoes died away, hngeringly,
caressingly. but Maybelle, carefully
guarding the Marmaduke heir, heard
them not.
So Marmaduke was forced to do what
he should nave done III Tie 4lA9S PloSS
walk around the block and open MS
own front door with his own front door
key. .-4u
Clump, clump, clump-his footsteps
proceed in orderly fashion. Now ne Is
making the turn-clump, clump, clump
off in the distance the dull rumble OF
the milk wagons is beginning-clump
clump-now he falls over scooter LETT
on the pavement.
It is the sound OF key-softly, In
the distance-it turns, a door creaks
open. Marmaduke is within. The back
door opens with protest all its own
Mrs. Marmaduke enters, after carefully
slamming the screen door.
Well, that's over!
Now it is the turn of the milkmen,
and right royalty do they enter upon
their appointed task Of dispensing the
best of all foods.
Much may be forgiven the milkmen,
after all. 1t may be asked of them,
more truly than of Omars winter. what
do they buy orie-nalf so precious as the
thing they sell?
At last the clanking of bottles and
rafting of crates ceases. He will be a
great inventor, indeed, who devises a
clankless bottle and a rattleless crate.
Silence and fatigue-these at last
conquer the heat and the effects of too
much iced tea, too much caffeine, set
ting nervous systems on edge. Just
when one goes to sleep one does not
know, for one never catches ones self
at the precise moment of falling asleep.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31

Not until Baby Bamberger or Baby
Watkins becomes 1.-The perfect image of
his father" as pointed out by the Ann
Arbor Daily News, will the Chicago
maternity hospital mystery be solved.
The public is unable to decide on the
evidence available whether the babies
were mixed or were properly delivered
to their respective families. In the de-
velopment of the controversy 1t Is con-
ceded that science has failed to conquer
maternal instinct, and that the mothers
decline to be Influenced by the decision
Of q large majority of the learned ex-
pertS called into the case.
On the matter of resemblance between
father and son, the Ann Arbor paper
holds that while there is plenty of ex-
cuse for Impotence, there is no real
reason for despair" and that "unfortu-
nately no foolproof scheme has been
a place where infants abound" The
Cincinnati Times-Star remarks that
Judging by descriptions of the infants,
It would seem that neither family
stands to lose" for they ARE said to be
blue-eyed, pink-cheeked, curly-haired
and healthy, credits, both, to any house,
hold"
The Springfield Republican is ''im-
pressed by the new factor that has been
introduced by modern maternity hos
pitfalls into the problem of accounting
for unexpected talent, genius and great
ness of future heroes, leaders, teachers
and prophets of mankind" and that
paper continues: IF Abraham Lincoln
had been born In a maternity hospital,
the later discussion OF the hereditary
source of his ability, or genius, might
easily have been affected by the posi-
bility that he and another baby had
been snapped by their unSuSpecting
parents at the time of their birth
The thought that 100 per cent certainty
is guaranteed to no system of baby
identification may distress thousands of
adoring parents. Yet, If every one in
the future is to be born in hospitals. the
problem of making parentage secure re-
mains for science to solve"
y X
1--WE can sympathize with the feelings
of the IL gentlemen who contributed
their time and learning to the issue"
was tremendous. They have been COM
pared TO Solomon, but Solomon had
only to evoke evidence of maternity
from q mother who knew the child was
hers. Here there were two children and
two mothers, and the elements of the
problem Increased OH a geometrical
scale until the decision became, we dare
say, eight times as difficult"
AN awful doubt" is the theme of the
HaIerhill Gazette, while the New York
Herald Tribune thinks that mo known
scientific procedure or combination of
procedures Is adequate, at present, for
complete assurance" and the New York
World advises that the physicians
should do everything in their power to
dlspel doubt, to convince the mothers"
concluding that IL by some chance they
choose wrong, not so much harm Is
done as If they choose right and the
parties TO the agony do not believe
them" In criticism of this the Boston
Transcript Is surprised at "the sudden
advocacy OF professional ohscurantism"
- AlaaC mart - H. axY.rlA ss,.....II.. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31

Pictures of the interior of RICO, the
British dirigible now heading West
toward Montreal, suggest that the
day of de luxe air travel is at hand.
Until the prices of transportation are
considerably less than de luxe, however,
there is little danger of overcrowding
the air lanes.