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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
Come On! Saw It Again /!

An envelope addressed to The Star
contains the following ringing, II
anonymous, challenge:
do not know your name,
But every year about this time.
When the pages OF your paper have
ceased to bear
Long lists Of victims stricken by the
heat,
You grab your trusty pen and write
OF Washington's glorioua runners,
Its growing fame as q rescr..
We haven't heard q peep this year
And time is slipping fast.
Come on. I dare you.
Dare whom7
Despite the hottest. dryest and alto
gether sosh.darndest Summer in the
memory Of the oldest inhabitant, those
remembering more than nifty years
back, washington continues to rank
high as one Of the best places in the
United States to spend a vacation. The
hottest and most disasreeable days OF
the Summer continued to produce
crowds at the ball park. The golf links
were damned as usual. The rivers
cooling breezes were sought by scores OF
canoeist. motor boatmen, yAchtsmen,
while the riverside drives were packed
to suffocation with thousands of auto
mobilists. Moving picture theaters did
q rush business during the dull season
many of them permitting their Gus
toners to stand in lines for an hour or
more to work up suitable fever of
anticipation before sitting down and
looking at the picture, this being noble
on the part Of the movies. The many
public buildings were thronged with
armies of pop-eyed tourists and the
guides at the Capitol say that this talk
Of depression is q lot Of bunk. what
with the clink OF tips ringing In their
ears.
But the surprising proof OF the pud-
ding is contained in the fact that every
vacAtiorist who foolishly left the Cap
ital for Maine or other nosquito-ir-
tested spots this Summer has come
back to town this Fan, breathed long
sigh of relief. found that none of the
silverware has been stolen, stretched out
in the easy chair and made the follow
ing statement:
well, home is the best place after
ALI"
And, in addition, those who remained
in Washington this Summer were as
happy as those who went away. If that
Is sour grapes. remember that a rolling
stone gathers no MOST
Put that in your pipe and smoke il,
Mr.. Challenger!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
COOPERATION
BY THE RIGHT REV JAMES E. FREEMAN D. d, L. D.
Bishop Of Washington.

Tert: IAN the body ftly framed
and knit together through that
iDhtch every Joint supptteth. "-Ephe-
slams, tr.f6.
The author of the above passage is
not writing Of q machine that functions
with unfailing precision, whose every
movement is carefully planned; he is
speaking rather of human society and
the relation of its members one to
another IN making 1t orderly and happy.
In other place he has said, mo
man liveth to himself" HIS argument
concerns the whole scheme of life and
the relation that one part of the human
mechanism bears to every other part.
Insular living, kind of hermit life, is
impractical and unworthy. No situation
Is conceivable where a man or wom-
an can reserve to themselves the right
to live irreSponsibly or Independently OF
those about them. Neither exalted po-
sition nor wealth, knowledge or igno-
rance, Joy Of sorrow. success or failure
confers upon its recipient the right to
. separate and lonely existence. Society
could not endure II such conditions
terent tastes and aptitudes, we are not
all Of one mind, politically, religiously
or industrially. Were this not So life
would be deadly dull and all progress
arrested. We readily acknowledge the
advantages that accrue to diversity Of
gifts. It IL quite another thing to be-
lieve that our home, being our castle
our position honorably gained and a
comfortable competence assured, we can
regard ourselves as immune to social
responsibilities and obligations. A state
without a highly developed social con-
seriousness faces anarchy and ultimate
dissolution. 1nsistence upon mem
ber'S responsibility to all the other
members. of q just recognition OF his
obligations in all human relations, is
indispensable to orderly living. A
mechanism that functions effectively il
made up OF many members and all the
members have their particular place
and their particular duty to perform
The one thing that can impair It and
destroy its efilciency Is friction. Eric
ton wears the bearings. This holds
true of the great human machine
Every member of it must have a def
mite function and, in discharging it, 1t
must be In cordial and willing cooper
alton with every other member. Let Il
fail through carelessness or Selfishness
to make It's contribution to the good OF
the other members to which 1t is related
and presently situation ensues that
cauSes arrested motion and, unless
speedily corrected, issues in suspension
OF operation. Argue as we may con-
corning our freedom to do as we please,
urge as we frequently do our inalienable
right to independent action, we thereby
only create a situation in which we be-
come the victims of our own folly, and
in doing so bring misfortune upon those
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
strombOli's Strange Freak.

The other day the Volcano Stromboli
!aupted and caused several deaths and
many injuries to persons and much
damage to property on the little Med
iterranean island of which 1t is the
principal feature and Of which indeed
1t occupies almost the entire area The
5000 inhabitants of the island might
readily have been wholly eliminated by
the eruption, which was merely the
latest Of long series of seismic dis
gorgements.
Stromboli Is one of the most persistently
active Of all the earths vents and has
a sinister record of destruction. This
latest eruption appears to have been Of
an unusual character. When the blast
came, the volcano blew of its cone.
This ordinarily would sufice to furnish
an outlet for the pent-up forces within
the chimney leading down to the inner
fires of the earth. But in this case
Stromboli needed more freedom than
That gained through the blasting out Of
the plug at the crest. An opening
was forced through the earth at the
base of the great cone, and from this
poured lava and burning sand. which
reached the villages in the coastal plains
even before the lava from the crater
itself. This is an extraordinary phenom-
enon. In many cases OF volcanic ac-
tivity vents have been formed on the
higher slopes of the mountain mass
near the central crater, but rarely II
ever have they occurred at the base.
Etna, which dominates the island Of
Sicily, not many miles south of the
Aeolian Islands, of which Stromboli /:
a feature, has in the course of its cen.
turtles of eruptions pitted its sides will
craters and cones as the lava has beer
forced through weaker seams of thu
structure in various directions. Strom.
boil, however, has been hitherto as 4
rule consistent in voiding its defect;
from the central crater. This outburs
from near the base of the mountain i
particularly unu~ual In the case of tii
ancient fury OF the Mediterranean.
The Aeolian Islands. from the fac
that they were the scene of violen
storms in long ago times, as now, wer
so called by the ancients because o
their belief that Aeolus, the god OF tn
winds, resided there. As Etna was at
= tributed TO be the home Of Vulcan, o
6trombon was the seat OF the grea
wind god, who could be benefcent o
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
Public Timekeeners

Before many months have passed
Washington will lose another of its
landmarks. the tower of the Post once
Department Building, which is to be
RACED TO make room for the completion
Of the Internal Revenue unit Of Gov
eminent constructions This tower has
been dominating feature of the land
scape of downtown Washington for
more than thirty years, and for the
greater part of that time the clock
which is its most familiar feature, has
been the subject Of perennial jest. OF
late years the clock has been doing
better than in the earlier period, when
its vagaries were a chronic subject of Joke
among Washingtonians But for the
lack of bell it might have been an
exemplar of that clock of Jerome K
Jerome's which. according to that
veracious Britisher, signified twenty
minutes past three when the hands
pointed to six-forty and the gong struck
nine. Washingtonians often wished that
the Post once clock had a striking
apparatus just to add TO the public
entertainment. Latterly, as suggested
the clock mas BEN doing better. 1t:
mechanism has been improved and II
is a reasonably accurate tinnepiece
though it would never do to rely upor
it exclusively for catching trains.
In recent letter to the London Time:
Sir Frank Dyson. the astronomer roya
of Great Britain, has called attention
TO q remarkable performance on thu
part Of what is perhaps the most ia
nous clock in the world, Big Ben,
which is housed in the tower Of the par
lament houses at Westminster. On onl,
twenty-one days out of two hundre'
and lightweight last year did Big Gen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
Mrs. Mccormick Gains Votes in Illinois
AS Result of Nye Committees Actions

That in the atmosphere OF illegality
thus created there was q criminal tap
ping of the telephone wires leading TO
MRS. McCormick's farm home at Byron,
Ill, and a criminal forcible entrance
effected into her farm ONCE and into
the files of papers located In that ONCE.
y y II
That these illegalities and invasions
of private rights represent O gradual
growth which for many years has been
fostered and developed by successive
Senatorial Investigations Committees
and that formal reputation and pro-
hibition OF them by the courts or by the
Senate is demanded by the public In
terest in harmony with the decision of
the United States Supreme Court to the
effect that: Few, If any, of the rights
of the people guarded by the funda-
mental law are of greater Importance
/. to their happiness and safety than the
right to be exempt from all arbitrary
closures in respect of their personal and
private Affairs
* Il 4
It is to be noted that the Mccormick
forces do not claim that they can con-
meet the Nye, Committee with the illegal
invasions of Mrs. McCormick's privacy
at Byron. They assert only that those
invasions happened in the midst OF
what they term senatorial terrorism. TO
illustrate that terrorism they proffered
testimony (Which Mr.. Nye declined in
Chicago to hear establishing, as they
contend, the fact that information used
by him in committee hearings was
gained on the committees behalf by
David Groh. whom they identify as al,
ex-convict indicted and sentenced for
manslaughter.
1t is realized in Washington that Mr.
Nye has acted with no really exceptional
ruthlessness and only essentially in the
customary modern manner of an ad-
venturous Senator on an investigating
expedition. The Senator's normally on
this point Is, indeed, the wohle i'm
portance OF the controversy in being
ana IN prospect. Mrs. Mccormick
has declined to appear further before
the committee or In any way further
to cooperate with 1t till, as she and he
say, the Objectionable features of the
investigation are corrected and discon-
tlnued." When, therefore, the commit
tee reconveneS in Chicago In Noyem-
Der, II 1t summons Mrs. Mccormick ia
appear before 1t and she refuses to do
so. an action for contempt of the Sen
ate against her may bring the issue OF
senatorial privileges and private rights
before the country in full form. Mr. Nye
and Mrs. Mccormick would then pro-
tract their contest as the symbols of two
opposing ideals, for each Of which strong
arguments will be made, all through
next Winter on into the special Sprinc
Senate session for the seating of new
Senators.
(Copyrisht. 1907
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Your Uncle Sam.

Your Uncle Sam.
"a Bit Of Pardonable Jineo.)
Your Uncle Sam will do his part,
Whatever may draw near.
He'll strive with sympathetic heart,
But not trace Of fear.
OF history both grave and gay
The pages he will turn.
And what he may not know today,
He'll undertake to learn.
Your Uncle Sam, as is we'll known,
In hardship started out.
And everything he did has shown
He knows what he's about.
We know that glory cannot fade
For those who do and dare.
He's often easy to persuade,
But mighty hard to scare.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

got an old-time thrill out of the alleged
danger. And nobody enjoys being scared
like a banker. Pershing ended that dis
play in FL Paso by parade Of troops
from Fort Bliss. which was viewed (by
invitation) by Pancho villa and all his
stan. but the FL Paso citizens had had
their thrill
Citizens of other sections are now
getting a thrill out OF viSualizinR raids
by more potent enemy than villa.
They seem to enjoy being scared. A
Middle west newspaper In the section
thought to be hit hardest by low crop
prices and drought and general business
depression instituted an inquiry. A re-
porter stopped AZ men and women and
asked them, rs business good or bad?"
Forty-four said, bad"
.. ASKED II they we're spending less
than they would If they thought BUSH
ness were good, Al of the A said they
were. They were asked whether the
business depression had decreased their
income. Again A said it had not.
Asked why. II they had not had their
income cut, they were spending less
SO could not answer, told the dues-
toner 1t was none Of his business and
the others gave convincing reasons.
4 4 n 81
AS for examples Of spending, It should
be noted that Americans spent some
$8,000,000 this year for grouse and deer
shooting and fishing rights in England
and Scotland, including salaries to
heaters, game licenses, cartridges and
equipment. Other Americans spent 10
times that amount at home for similar
purposes. The base ball world has
never had as prosperous q season as
in 1880. The golf and miniature golf
expenditures have topped any record
for sport or amusement ever known.
Once the circus was the big money
getter OF the amusement world. It has
given place to golf. Never has there
been gathering of yachts which could
compare with the boats brought from
far ports to see the Americas Cup
races OF Newport.
The Federal Reserve Board announces
that funds for the crop movement are
readily available at lower rates than IN
the last decade. Public works are pro-
crossing at a pace never before ecusied.
Government ofdcialS lay q good part
Of the pessimistic attitude of the coun-
try to the fact that 1t gives people a
convincing argument against statesmen.
Il can't AFFORD 1t in view Of the pres
ent depression" stops many q salesman,
But the producers are now providing
convincing answer to- this In the
declaration that no business man can
afford to pass by the present low level
of commodity prices.
Sooner or later the country will wake
up with new crop of millionaires and
they will tell in the magazines how thew
did 1t by not watching the clock and
by close application to the Job In hand.
The real reason viii be that they saw an
opportunity TO buy cheap, with the
surety at some time Of selling dear If
they could hold on. That in the last
analysis Is the essence OF business
success.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

malevolent, according as he blew IA
vorable and gentle or adverse and fllri-
Gus winds
The largest island Of this group
Lipari, has in late. years gained sim
lister significance with the italian peo-
pie, for upon it have been imprisoned
those convicted Of crimes against the
italian state. 1t is today the abode of
many who have been exiled for nachi-
nations against Mussolini.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

1t is reported that Sir Thomas Upton
has changed his mind and will try
again for the cup. In leisure almost
supsrabundant he must have occupation
and probably prefers yacht building to
solitaire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
History and History.

Every one in Massachusetts, remem-
bers the Boston Tea Party"
I'm not so sure" answered Senator
Sorghum. Boston is as keen about
sports as anybody, ane a lot of the
citizens there continue to think that
the real glory Of the old town rests in
the biography of John l.. Sullivan"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

There has always been great profit
IN alcohol. In political argument
about the management Of liquor. the
professional purveyor can usually re-
main neutral. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

Germany values Hindenburgs infiu-
ence. Seasoned and experienced minds
have often been more appreciated in
that part of Europe than elsewhere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

Chicago Is struggling against biz
gard. Even the reporting Of the weather
man in order to be truthful becomes
sensational. iH
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
But II Isn't a Carl

From the Omaha World-Herald.
Eight-horse state coach used by VIII
liam Hohenzollern sold to the King Of
Ahyssinia for $4,000. Good price for a
used car,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

Expert prediction intimates that it
will be possible for some time to com.
TO talk about the weather without
undue loss Of temper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

There is still no question about the
basic prosperity Of the country. But
even in connection with prosperity
there Is often a problem of distribution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
Easy for Some to Do.

From the Toledo Blade.
If all the people couldn't be fooled all
the time in Lincoln's day 1t certainly
can't be done now that We have shorter
houyA ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

Soviet Russia, having studied the
Chicago market. decided to forget ethics
ana 90 bucket shopping. 1fe'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
Summer Of 1880.

The torrid wave would score q hit
And ample JOY return us,
II we could only bottle 1t
Securely in the furnace.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

Jud Tunkins says farm literature is
so abundant that printing presses are
beating the tractors with scarcely a
struggle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
Close Livinx,

Close Living.
AS we with care economic,
Apartments still decrease in size.
Living is more condensed today,
And "Pee-Wee" golf Is what we play.
Il has reformed" said Uncle Eben
II is convinced dat gamblin' is wrong
And, anyhow rs broke
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
Many Americans
Enjoying the Blues
BY HARDEN CoLFAX.

The AL Jolson type of song is licked
temporarily in this country. 1t has
been licked primarily not by depression
In business, but by people whom that
depression has not touched.
Present conditions are due largely to
the mental attitude of the American
people. This is clearly illustrated by
reports to Government officials. by the
messages which these officials have at
tempted to get to the public and by pri-
vate but reliable Investigations.
Many men prominently connected
With the commercial life of their vari-
Gus communities have assumed the roles
OF prophet, seer and revelator, and, like
actors, strive to make the shivers course
up and down the backbones of their
audiences
Government oflcials are making
efforts to induce the would-be oracles not
70 mlsread the signs. Secretary of
Commerce Lamont IN making a full ex-
position OF the business Situation
stressed this point The officials realize
fully that directions to look for the
silver lining" are far more popular when
the silver lining is plainly Visible. but
few of them or of the sound business
men who confer with them have much
patience with citizens who look toward
the future with anticipatory shoulders.
Much Of the blame for this attitude
Is placed on the doorstep of the bank
ers. The latter, it is alleged, have been
so taken up with the idea of convincing
the public that their banking policies are
thoroughly sound that they have man.
agsd to infect their custom srs with a
sense of insecurity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
The AIlurins Labels.

The Alluring Labels.
DO you favor prohibition?"
Certainly" answered Miss Cayenne
Il never go even so far as TO purchase
q soft beverage whose label is obviously
designed to indicate suggestion of the
old-fashione6 alcoholic kick"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
THEODORE W. MOVES. !. Editor
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One member of a delegation from
Texas, who came to Washington last
week to press for advice as TO how to re-
lieve the situation in that district ex-
pressed himself to this writer as fol-
lows:
You were in Ell Paso during the villa
raids in 1918 and 1914. FL Paso was
civilized. It had not had gun toter for
years, but every citizen / knew went out
ana Dougnt gun ana reloiced hugely
in feeling 1t bump againsk his hip. They
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

AN enemy honestly defeated" said
Hi Ho. the sage of Chinatown, lis far
less dangerous than a friend betrayed"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28

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Fifty years ago washington had not
SO much to offer visitors In the way Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-17
FUNDS DEMANDED
FOR SCHOOL ITEM
Southwest Citizens Vigorous
Iy Oppose kindergarten
Teachers Elimination.

Expressing vigorous opposition to the
action of Congress in eliminating the
$126,00o appropriation for kindergarten
teachers from the District appropriation
BILL the Southwest Citizens Association,
at a meeting last night in the Fair
brother School, Tenth and E streets
southwest, adopted a resolution calling
for the return of the provision to the
bill Due notice of the disapproval was
ordered served on the school authorities
and on the committee of the Senate in
charge of the bill.
The recent action of Congress in omit
ting the sum from the appropriations
measure would cause 10 kindergarten
teachers to be transferred to the ele-
mentary grades.
The objection of the association was
also expressed to sending children to
kindergarten in the afternoon. Young
sters of tender age should not be SUD-
jected to strenuous hours, the group
contended.
Following a discussion of plans for
the new jefferson Junior High School,
appropriations for the site of which have
ord as favoring a permanent building at
not to necessitate expansion in the fu-
ture.
The association also favored including
in the District appropriations bill an
estimate for increased playground area.
J. NJ. Schaffer, president of the associa-
ton, presided at the meeting.