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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
Statuary Hall.

The time is fast approaching when
Congress will have to consider making
more ample provision for statuary Hall
in the Capitol. in which the available
space for additional statues is steadily
diminishing.
This hall, which was originally the
meeting place of the House of Repre-
sentatives before the House wing was
added to the Capitol. now contains sixty
bronze and marble statues, and another
has arrived and is TO be put In position
soon. There are several more statues
scheduled to be received, probably dur
ing the coming year.
Under the legislation governing statu-
airy Hall, Congress has invited each
State to send two statues. II every
State exercises the invitation fully, there
would be thirty-f1ve additional statues
that could be received. It is obvious
to any one who visits the hall Of fame
that there is nothing like sufficient room
left in the chamber for that many more.
The main corridor through the Capitol
Building passes through the center Of
Ststuary Hall, so that the statues must
be grouped in semi-circles on the two
sides.
The question of avoiding future over
crowding of the hall has been considered
by officials at the Capitol at various
times, and a number of alternative sug-
gestions have been advanced. One is
that a separate building be erected near
the Capitol. in which each State would
have an alcove in which to piece its
two statues.
While the question may not call for
immediate attention, it is one that will
have to be taken up in the not distant
future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
ID. C. Called Backward
In Juvenile Research

To the Editor OF The Star:
Earl White, the 13-year old lad who
played truant from the Dent School in
1927 and continually shows an abb
private tutor, is decidedly case for
psychic research, rather than for the
assistant corporation counsel.
One thing seems apparent-that If 1t
is hatred Earl has for school, no form
of punishment will alter the reason for
it. He may, in addition, develop a
hatred toward any form of authority
and eventually look for revengeful mo-
tives to get even.
Chicago, which some people know
only as a city of corrupt politicians,
bootleggers, gangsters and murderers,
has a most wonderful institution for
Juvenile research, where delinquent
child can be brought for a careful eX-
animation, physical and mental, in con-
nection with any behavior problem.
Washington, the Capital of the Nation,
with its greater number of schools per
capita than perhaps any other city in
the world, is decidedly backward in this
movement, which is of such great inn
portance to the development of the race
Four hundred Chicagoans-men ana
women from all walks of life-have
pledged to give from $40 to $4,000 a
year to provide the means for group
of distinguished scholars, in a program
of research on human behavior. And
the Institute of Juvenile Research, late
ly under. the leadership of DR.. H. M.
Adler, is part of that work.
Washington, with its wonderful in
tellectural resources, Government CO.
operation and white-collar citizen, can
easily establish some such institution.
Whatever treatment Earl White Will re-
ceiye should be recommended by a
competent psychiatrist after a careful
study of his case. A. BLUSTEIN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
Political Apathy.

In less than four weeks the enfran-
chised electorate Of the United States
that more fortunate segment of the
people beyond the District Of Columbia,
which the law wholly Americanizes-
will choose the 6eyenty-second Con-
gresS. At least, it will have the oppor-
tunity Of making that choice. VIII it
a-ail itself in full degree or anything
experimenting full degree of the price
less privilege?
At the presidential election Of 1928,
r1undly 100000 men and women
roted. The bitterness Of the issues in
viewed produced the highest total ma
tional vote on record. Yet it was only
some sixty per cent Of the aggregate
number of enfranchised persons. In
other words, nearly forty per cent OF
the people who might have voted did
not 60 TO the polls. They were stay-at-
home slackers.
Political leaders in both parties arr
encountering considerable apathy in the
present congressional campaign, though
they never expect such turnout OF
election day in "off years" as ordinarily
] takes place at a presidential poll. BIZ
things are at stake in the 1880 election
The Democrats are p-e,,aecd to regard
Its catcomc as ll2nssr'-iing On The 81
for 1874 though Is. VS.. Is n-tuTc,l.
father tDthe tiscusht. in It's cShlcc'
ton.
~ eumplexiOu & ths Congress 1
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This hurts me more than it does you,
darling" says the distracted mother as
she applies the slipper to destructive
child
When society looks upon fiogging OBJ
jectively, sternly putting aside its own
false sentimertality, there is much to
recommend this form of punishment.
1t is not ideal--but it comes about as
near being ideal as is possible, consid-
ering the demonstrated processes of the
human mind.
The object of punishment is to pre-
vent repetition Of an offense. A mega
lively conditioned response must be
built up in the mind of the culprit.
Now the mechanism of the conditioned
response has been one CT the outStand-
ing contributions Of science in recent
years. Pleasure associated with an act,
provided the proper technique is used,
tends to bring about repetition of the
act. Pain does exactly the opposite.
The fundamental requirement is that
there must be a direct, strong associa-
ton between the condemned act and
the pain. Every moment that separates
the two tends to weaken this aSsocia-
ton. A severe fiogging administered to
bandit within few minutes of a
hold-up would be LEGAL, If it can be
administered within day or week
the lash may prove an effective deter
rent.
But If the punishment is delayed, by
legal procedure and otherwise, the bond
in the neural system of the criminal be-
tween the pain and the crime almost
entirely disappears. To be of much
benefit the punishment must be made
to result Immediately and directly from
the crime.
Otherwise 1t is easy to sse what hap
pens, This pain does not form q neu-
ronic bond with the crime, but solely
with the inf1ictor of the punishment.
The effect is not to make the culprit
avoid such condemned behavior in the
future, but to hate the officer of the
law who Furnishes him, the judge who
condemns him, the law, society itself.
In the good old flogging days in the
schools literally millions of boys were
not conditioned against rlischievous
behavior, but, quite to the contrary,
were conditioned into lifelong hate
Of the schoolmaster.
And that is exactly what happens
with respect TO the lcng-delayed, am
biguous punishments which the law
employs today. Very few men ever
were reformed by jail sentence. They
emerge hating, not crime, but society.
Flogging has the Infinitely great adj
vantage, from the viewpoint of modern
psychology, that it is sharply defined.
1t can be administered quickly enough
to establish the desired conditioned re-
Spouse. Unless this can be established
any punishment is worse than useless.
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quite as vital a matter for the country
as the complexion OF the presidency.
Capitol Hill and White HOUSE are con-
stitutionally coordinate branches of the
Government - the balance and-check
system of the founding fathers. There
is no logic in ignoring congressional
elections and bsssowing major promi-
hence on the presidential contest. Each
is of the most essential Importance.
Now and then the view is advanced
that voting should be made duty, and
not be allowed to remain merely a
privilege. A surtax on income tax has
been proposed as salutary method Of
inducing vote-slackers to live up to
their suffrage obligations. Representa-
tive Government is an institution more
hororcd in the breach than in the OBJ
servance if, as frequently happens in
the United States, only about half o:
tbs voters vote.
The world is not looking to Germany
nowadays for political light and lead
ing But the spectacle the Reich az
forded last month, when ninety per cent
Of its enfranchised citizens marched to
the ballot box, is an inspiring thing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
The Marines in Haiti.

Critics of our occasional policy of
sending United States Marines into
Central America and the Caribbean
region should read with interest what
happened in Haiti yesterday. There,
while the Devil Dogs remained in bar
racks, the people of the Negro Republic
held without disorder their first par
liamentary election since American
intervention in the islands affairs in
1915. 1t is probably the first "free
election" in the ccuntry's cont:mpo-
rary history.
The Marines were in barracks, but
they were also in readiness to take
well in hand any situation that might
have arisen. The fact that they did
not have to clear for action is strik-
ing tribute to the era of tranquility
that has come over Haitian affairs,
thanks to the long, patient and re-
strained program which the United
States, as guide, philosopher and friend,
has carried out on behalf of the island
people.
Last Winter President Hoover sent
a commission to Haiti, to make a
thorough survey of political and eco
ronic conditions. The commission was
headed by w. Cameron Forbes, subse-
quently appointed American Ambas-
sador to Japan, and included Henry P.
Fletcher, now chairman of the United
States Tariff Commission. Messrs.
Forbes, Fletcher and their colleagues
worked out a scheme for the govern
mental reconstruction of the island, in
GLIDING ways and means for electing a
successor to President Louis Borno,
whose eight-year tenure of ONCE ended
last May. Since then Haiti has been
ruled by a provisional President, Eugene
Roy. A permanent successor viii be
elected by the Senate and Chamber
Of Deputies chosen at the polls yes
terday-chosen in as orderly fashion,
it appears, as we here in the United
States 90 about the business of elect
ing Congress.
Considering that rum was distributed
among the voters during the campaign,
as the Associated Press dispatches from
Port au Prince point out, election day
was a conspicuously peaceful occasion.
Among other returns" from the polling
places is chronicled the satisfactory
fact that only fifteen men were arrested
on charges of attempted repeating "
while only thirty succumbed to political
exuberance and were locked up for
drunkenness.
1t is said of the Texas Rangers that
the mere news that they're starting for
q trouble zone is sufficient to quell a
riot. Evidently the Marines in Haiti
have come to exercise the same kind Of
wholesome and modifying influence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
North Beach Registry
Concerns TAXPAYERS

To the Editor of The star:
Your article headed, 1910 Voters in
Town of l07," referring to North Beach,
Md. needs some explanation. You
speak Of the strange phenomena of
town with an oficial census population
of LOT having $40 registered voters ;.
I have been identified with the town
of North Beach from the time 1t was
chartered by the State; have made sew
eral assessments and served on regis
tration and election boards without
number. ] have no reference to State
or county elections, but as far as North
Beach town elections are concerned
can show you how. even though the
census returns might show no actual
residents of North Beach, a man can
be legally elected and serve as mayor
or councilman of North Beach and at
the same time hold the same office in
Mount Rainier or any other town, and
this for the simple reason that no resi-
dence Is required to vote or hold office
under the law, and the people do not
vote as residents, but merely as property
owners.
Under the original charter any male
person 81 years of age or older owning
any interest in $500 feet Of real estate
could vote and hold Office, even though
he had no residence there and had
AlSNCA oSG AOOb Oh Tie ldIlQ ana mao
never seen 1t even and there was no
registration. Later the law was changed
so that voter has to register, the re-
quirement being the recorded deed to at
least 1000 feet of land and receipt
showing that the local taxes for the
current year have been paid, and the
owner and his wife, or husband, as the
case may be, were then legal voters, and
no residence or improvements of any
kind were required on the land.
Another popularity about North
Beach Is this: That while civil service
employees ale barred from holding Office
or taking active part in elections, this
was waived by Executive order in the
case of Mount Rainier. Hyattsville,
Takoma Park and several other places
near Washington on account OF the
population consisting of Government
employees principally, with the proviso
that they must be actual residents of
the place" but through the efforts of
the late E. F. Pywell and myself an
Executive order was issued by President
Wilson including North Beach in the
exemptions, but specifying without
reference to residence" and North
Beach is the only town in the United
States that is exempt from this civil
service embaig go without reference to
residence" BENZ. B. F. GRAVES,
1905 Street Northeast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
Deplores Receptivity
To Ready-Made Ideas
TO the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Although Mr.. Giaich in a recent issue
of The star seems to be as far astray
on the more money" proposition as
Henry Ford and the others in their
more production" stimulant, we should
all take off our hats to him because he
Is giving attention and thought and
sincerity to the most important sub
ject that confronts us. The greatest
weakness in our Government is the
thoughtless acceptance of ready-made
ideas and the liberation of those in
high places who supply them. The pre-
dicament in which we are all submerged
is the result of that inattention and
thoughtlessness.
At the outset he asks, What bad
influence keeps the best minds from
continuing to where logic leads?" The
answer Is simple. There is no logical
place to go because there was no logical
starting place. Why should any one
lament low wages or advocate high
wages? Why not relate the discussion
to some universally accepted principle
rather than to the deplorable existing
conditions?
Society in its most highly developed
form is but an elaboration of society
in its crude beginning, and the 'prin-
ciples" which are obvious in the simplest
relations of men are not abrogated in
the more intricate relations resulting
from the use of complex tools and
methods. These best minds" always
discuss expedients and never suggest
honest wages, which are neither high
nor low, but the equivalent of what
labor produces or contributes.
Inasmuch as the contributions and
distributions just balance, it is obvious
that the many cannot enjoy honest
wages when an influential few absorb
far more than their share. If we start
with such automatic suggestion. we can
go where logic leads and arrive at a
solution for all our economic ills More
over, we will stop the game" which
Mr.. Giaich thinks requires more
counters" j. B. CHAMBERLAIN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

have the Job of redistricting the State,
which loses a couple of congressional
districts under reapportionment. Ii
there's going to be any gerrymandering
the @. o. p. INTENDS to see that 1t
doesn't work to Republican disadvan-
tage.
Edward Price Bell, dean Of the Chi
cago Daily News foreign service, is be-
ing strongly supported as a candidate
for this years Nobel peace prize. The
authorities of Northwestern University,
at Evanston, ILL.,, where Bell lives, have
taken the initiative in bringing his
claims to the attention of the award au-
thorities in Sweden. The specific
achievement which Bells friends think
entitle him to consideration is the part
he played in bringing Prime Minister
Ramsay MasDonald to America a year
ago and in the converting of the Lon
don Naval Conference. ]. L. Garvin,
eminent London journalist, and former
Premier Mackenzie King of Canada
have joined a distinguished roster of
Bells American boosters in eulogizing
his 80 years of activity on the news
paper firing line in the war for peace.
X x
One Of Washington'S beloved and
venerable figures, John H. Carroll of
the District of Columbia Bar, is back
from Ohio. where he was honoreS on
an unusual occasion In 1854 as a lad
Of 5. Carroll was turned out of a small
hotel in Cleveland, where his mother
had left him, and became newsboy.
His sleeping place was big dry goods
box in an alley, until kindly Quaker
found him and gave him shelter in the
Childrens Home. Carroll was a man
of 80 before his identity was established
and his mothers tragic story revealed.
Then it came to light that his father,
soldier in the Union Army, had been
wounded In battle, and his mother,
taking her son with her, left Toledo,
husband in a military hospital in Ken
lucky. Mr.. Carroll, now hale septua-
genarian of means and distinction, was
queen Maries official chaperoh when
the beauty of Budapest swung around
the American circle in 1926. At Cleve-
land this week he dedicated a new
wing of the Children's Home, which has
been named after him.
Charles r. Crane, one-time American
Minister to China, has arrived in Japan
at the outset of a personally conducted
commission of inquiry into the mystic
rieS Of Buddhism. What he intends to
do about it, when his explorations are
complete, has not been disclosed. Mr..
Crane knows the mystic East through
and through. He is almost as much at
home in Japan, China, India, Siam,
Russia, Persia and Turkey as he, is in
Chicago. Now and then, his friends
say. his hometown reminds him of
other parts of the world in which he
has survived hah-raiSing experiences.
y X
One of the country's leading farm
journals recently asked 100000 readers
to express themselves about prohibition.
Only 13.000-odd replied. OF that num-
Der, 9,792 (78 per cent? said they "fa-
vor the existing Federal prohibition
laws and believe they should be en-
forced to the letter." Those who re-
piled 81 favor amendment or repeal"
numbered 2,607 (22 per cent?.
(CopyriRht. lQ30)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
Prevention Needed
To Curb Fire Losses

From the New Orleans States.
According to the National Industrial
Conference Board the national wealth
of the United States amounts TO $780,
loo, 100000. Yet it would be even larger
IL the annual fire loss could be reduced.
The term national wealth" as applied
in this estimate represents tangible,
physical assets only. 1t excludes credits
and currency, but specifically includes
lands and structures and other improve
ments thereon, the equipment OF indus
trial enterprises and farms, i've stock
and equipment, personal property, motor
and other vehicles.
In the neighborhood OF three-qllar-
ters of the Nations total wealth Is In
the nature of fixed assets, but the
greater part of all this material wealth
is subject to dissolution through de-
struction by fire. Every year approx
imately $500 900 900 goes up in smoke
in the United States, and the deplorable
fact is that some 30 per cent OF this
huge loss is recorded as occurring from
causes that are preyentable. In other
words, there is inexcusable waste OF
$500, 600, 900 annually.
Moreover, this sum represents the
initial loss only 1t is greatly aug
mented by consequent losses, which af-
feet all business through economic rela-
tionship and dependence of one business
upon another, due TO interrupted BUSH
ness operations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15

future, in endeavoring to persuade the
planters to till fewer acres, it by no
means follows that a reduced acreage
In itself will settle the excess produce
ton problem. Conceivably, there could
be larger crop next season on 100000.
600 acres than there premises to be
this year on nearly $4,000, 900 acres.
Natures layishness or niggardliness in
any given year Is an unpredictable
factor"
Recognition of the fact that Gin the
held Of dress goods for all seasons the
Cotton Textile Institute, with the CO.
operation Of progressive merchants
throughout America, is doing notable
work." is given by the Atlanta Journal,
which observes that "weaves and pat
terms of rare charm are now produced
from this material" and that paper
concludes: Long hailed as king Of
Southern agriculture, cotton may yet
be known as queen in wide and varied
realm OF fashion. Once commended
for economy, it is now sought for
beauty. What this betokens for the
interests Of the South, for our manu-
featuring and merchandising, as well
as for agriculture, needs no further
expounding
ITO widen and strengthen the market
for this basic product Is to build up
and inyigorate our entire economic sys-
tenn" in the opiBaon of the Augusta
Chronicle, while the Columbia State
points out that largely through the
activities of the Cotton Textile Insti-
tute cottons have recently so enhanced
in attractiveness that little urging Is
needed to induce women to buy them,
especially as they have come so mani
testify into vogue among the leaders OF
American fashion" The Wall Street
Journal, discussing Government report
on quality as factor in the situation,
contends: Purchasers will go wherever
they can get the quality they want at
the best price, and they will never pay
top prices for lower grades. If money
and time are to be used to help the
cotton farmers, a reasonable proportion
might be employed in efforts to reduce
the percentage Of uncomfortable cotton
in every CROP"
The importance Of developing the use
of cotton as road material is upheld by
the Charlotte News and the Dallas
Journal. The San Antonio Evening
News records that, contrary to expec-
tations, Texas cotton crop will be less
than it was last year." and comments,
Again diversifieation has saved the
day." The Savannah Morning News
holds that "the only way there can be
cotton acreage reduction is by agree
ment," and concludes: 1.-THE whole
problem on the farm, whether of wheat
or of cotton, or whatnot, has to be
considered from a very practical point
of view. Special medicines, like acreage
reducing legislation. like the buy-a-bale
suggestion, may serve political expedi-
ency for a short time, but they do not
serve the cotton farmer"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
The Lash for Gunner.

George w. Wickcrsham, chairman Of
President Hcover's Law Enforcement
Commission, suggests that "a careful
inquiry into the results of hogging as
punishment may we'll be made to
determine the desirability of employ
ing it in the war against banditry and
racke.eers."
Somehow or other, the idea has got
into the popular mind that the lash is
a relic of barbarism. Objections to its
use by the law are almost entirely SEN
timental Ostensibly 1t is condemned
as cruel--because it hurts the criminal
Flogging is attended by lusty screams.
Ugly red welts appear. Blood flows.
Outrageous" says a hypocritically
tender-hearted society, turning smugly
to forms of punishment thousand
times more cruel End not tliou-andth
..'.e..t as cf,c1 i"e.
Ac n-.,ia, tl;.c is Ge.rc .esscn 70
;,c'icve. TIM unse.igalg rrason for In
condemnation CT this p-a.tiee is net
because 1t hurts tlis criminal hut be.
cause II hurts society 70 inlet z
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-15
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

An Influence.
There's folks that chide their neigh
bors
An there's folks that pass you by;
There's folks that tell their troubles
Till you nearly want to cry.
There's folks to crush the weakiings
And there's folks to curb the strong,
An now an then there's folks that
likes
To jolly folks along.
They're better than the blossoms
That come snilin' in the Spring;
They sound q cheerier greeting
Than the birds that love to sing;
And oft when heroes falter
An when wiser men go wrong,
Some genial fellow keeps things straight
BY jollyin' folks along.