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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
BY DIR. JULIUS KLEIN,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce Of the
United States.

THIS Is the day of vigorous, sus-
tanned and varied efforts to keep
business on an even keel-to
Il stimulate and stabilize all phases
of the economic effort of this
country. Construction Is being ac-
tolerated. Problems of unemployment
are being theoretically attacked. Credit
methods are being strengthened or over
hauled. A determined drive is under
way to remedy the admitted faults in
our system of distribution.
Definite success is evidently attending
most of these efforts now-but this is
Enthusiastically time for each Of us to
utilize fully every medium or device
that promises to contribute to the at
tainment of the desired end. The
manufacturer can do much by keeping
his machinery and equipment absolutely
up to date, by giving job till June
opening, and by acquainting the buying
public with the merits of the productive
processes In his plant. The merchant
can play a vital role by striving to
achieve a maximum of efficiency and
pleasing service And the consumer,
too, can do his bit, through shrewder,
more judicious, more adequately in
formed buying.
There is one marvellous new device
that can aid materially in all this
though we would not ordinarily asso-
ciate it with such matters. I mean
the talking motion picture. The po-
tential benefits of the talking picture
have been only imperfectly realized as
yet. In the non-entertainment field to
which am combining these observations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11

the distribution operation-namely, the
buying-is well done. This does not
necessarily imply that we should buy
more, but rather that we should buy
more Understandings than we do now.
Anything that contributes to more SEN
sible buying-as to what we are buying
and why's an indisputable good. And
the industrial talking picture, especially
in the latest improved technique, is
exactly that kind of contribution.
When we buy anything nowadays-
from tractor to fountain pen-we
must take much ION faith" We can
see how the article looks, we can tell
whether 1t is pretty or ugly, from our
point of view, but as far as its inner
quality is concerned it is often exceed
ingly difficult to determine whether it
is good, bad or Indifferent. Some of
the most important parts" so to speak,
are not before us at all as we examine
the merchandise in the showcase or on
the display room floor. They lie far
behind it. I mean. Of course, the repu-
tation of the firm, the relative excel
lence of its methods, the rigors of its
standards and tests, and, above all, its
equipment for servicing its products.
w. cannot buy intelligently unless we
know a great deal about these hitherto
invisible elements.
Fortunately they are coming to be
both visible and audible. The indus
trial talking picture now takes us be-
hind the scenes of business. Most of
us have shown rather keen interest in
the silent industrial films, revealing,
shall we say, the emotional life of a
gasoline engine, or the evolution of an
electric bulb from the embryonic state.
or those delightful glimpses of the really
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
STRATEGIC STROKE is SEEN
IN NEW JAPANESE TARIFF
Agreement With Marking Is Regarded
as Brilliant Move by Toxic for
Peaceful Economic Rule.

formed her last desperate attempt in
the post-armistice' period to carry out
the policy of the 81 demands by an
expenditure of cash. which left on her
hands several hundred million yen OF
worthless securities.
Reciprocity Is Won.
In consenting to the levy OF maxi
mum tariff at places within her grasp,
such as at Dairen in the leased terri
tory and at Antung on the Corean
frontier, where special land rates as
opposed to maritime rates ruled, sne
has secured that the liquidation Of her
debt will be carried out by allocatlng
to her a moiety of these collections.
Reciprocity, which is the next best
thing to that ultimate dream, a
Chinese-Japanese Zoliverein, holds out
promise of such returns that all mis-
takes of the past quinquennium 1aoe
into insignifcance.
It is the political implications which
are particularly interesting at this
juneture. Ostensibly Japan has packed
Chang Kai-shek by carrying through
this stroke with the recognized govern
ment when its fortunes are at low ebb,
a point of view which seems reinforced
by the outcry in the Chinese press at
the new and worse unequal" treaty
which has replaced the old. Only os-
tensibly, however, for Japan is not
backing Chang Kai-shek. On the con-
trary, indirectly she will compel him to
back down.
Bargaining Power Acquired.
She has now something to bargain
with before giving her recognition to
any new experimentation instance, the
government which is suoken
of as imminent in Peking. Before that
will be granted, before there
can be any question Of its permanence,
all her Marking arrangements will have
to be ratified and perhaps extended.
For there Is still the question of her
general commercial treaty to cover ex-
Intentionally and concessions and
cognate matters to be dealt with. That
gives her new diplomacy infinite scope.
While England and America, naively
taking things at their face value and
trying to translate the sentiments of
their own good will into Sun Yat-Sen's
grammar of anarchy, wish to surrender
their rights, Japan, made a rover" by
the developments of 1922, extends
hers by adaptation.
There you have the keynote-adapta
ton. Carrying out to the best Of her
ability her sole duty-her duty to her
own electorate, and to no one else
tactics change the principles of STRAIT
egg remain unaltered. 1t would GER
tainly seem that leaf should be taken
out Of her book. Perhaps, now that we
are not likely to hear so much about
the spirit of Locarno in Europe, some
one may think of doing that in the
Far East.
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its possibilities are still long way from
being plumbed.
We have been engrossed with the
purely dramatic and amusing qualities
Of this magical new medium. Many of
us have looked upon (and listened to-
it merely as thrilling, flashing, capti-
waiting toy to thrill our senses agreeably
for couple of hours of our leisure
time. We have been too prone to re-
gard it as an affair principally of dance
routines and emotional crisis still at
times a bit raucous and remote from
living music"
Overlook Possibilities.
Most of us are so entranced with the
entertainment phases of the device that
we have given insufficient thought to
its other possibilities-the helpful uses
to which the new talking pictures may
be put in the interests of better busi-
ness. We have, it is true, been startled
into some degree of recognition by the
recent press accounts of the use of
talking pictures by certain of our most
distinguished scientists to demonstrate
experiments in most Illuminating and
convincing way We gained some con-
ception, then, of how the materials and
processes of the experiment, magnified,
simplified and clarified by means of
"close-ups," may be made vastly more
vivid and effective than they would be,
even in the actual class room-and how,
along with the indispensable oral COM
ment Of the eminent instructor, they
can be multiplied countless times and
distributed to students and general
audiences throughout the world. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11

The British government announces
that 226,000 troops are being held in
readiness In Great Britain for dispatch
to India If required.
The area of India is about 1900, 900
square miles (area of continental
United States, exclusive of Alaska,
about 100000 square miles, and the
population is about 320000,000. The
area Of the British provinces" of India.
/. E., the provinces under direct British
rule, is about 100000 square miles;
population about 247,000,000. The area
of the native states" (under native
potentates, with British protection and
effective though unobtrusive super
vision) is about 100000 square miles,
population about 100000. The total
number of British civilian officials in
India Is about 1000. The British troops
in India number about $1,000 and the
Indian army (natives, mostly officered
by Britons) numbers about 147,00e.
The police are mostly natives. In con-
sidering the British experiment toward
educating the Indian people for self
government, remember that the Central
Parliament at Delhi and the provincial
Parliaments post-date the great war.
The British Raj Is at present supported
by native princes, by the Mohamme-
dams on the whole, by the untouch-
ables on the whole and probably by
the Sikhs on the whole.
The Mohammedans number about
20, 100000, the untouchables about 3d.
100000, the inhabitants Of the states
ruled by Indian princes about 10000
600 and the Sikhs about 100000. OF
the 320,000,000 inhabitants of India,
then, the British authorities are apt to
reckon about 100000 Indifferent or
hostile to the nationalist propaganda.
OF the remaining 150,000,000 only S
per cent are literate. To what extent
those nliterate masses will prove them
selves susceptible to the nationalist
propaganda and, granting their sus-
ceptibility, capable Of effective action,
remains to be seen. It is well known
that Of the literates many, perhaps the
majority, are inclined to moderation.
But history shows that, revolution once
In full swing, the moderates are likely
to be submerged If not "iquidated.'
X X X X
CHINA.-War is definitely Joined be-
tween forces of the Marking government
on the one part and those of the alli-
ance headed by Yen Hai-Shang, with
Feng Yu-Hsiang as generalissimo on
the other. Dispatches Of May tell of
nghttng on considerable scale along
the line Of the Lunghai Railroad about
% miles west Of Suchow Gin Northern
kiangsi Province, held by the Marking
troops.
An agreement has been signed pro-
Vlolng Tor REIMBURSEMENT by the British
government Of its Wei-Hai-Wei conces-
sion before October /. The British gar
rison w1lkbe withdrawn before that date.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11

educational vistas that are thus opened
UP would have been simply incon-
ceivable a few short years ago.
We may readily imagine what the
extension Of such methods to medical
science may involve-how the clinical
practices of the most skillful and sue
cessful surgeons may be illustrated to
even the most remote or obscure Of
their colleagues. The hitherto battling
and obstructive factor Of inaccessible
ity to the fountainheads of knowledge"
promises to be wiped out in great part
through the agency of talking pictures.
The narrow confines of the small, steep
banked clinic auditorium, where some
great surgeon is performing his miracles
of dexterity, have thus been broadened
in one prodigious sweep to take in eager
medical students from Buenos Aires to
Bucharest, from Calcutta to California.
Now, what can such pictures do for
businesS-for industry and trade? That
question, I believe, Is fascinating and
important. Surely the audible films
should be able to contribute much to
commerce.
These days our major business prob
lem is to improve distribution methods,
to bring them up to the level Of the
recognized superiority Of our production
efficiency; In other words, to cut the
cost Of selling things.
Need Understanding Buying.
This involves, of course, the elimina-
ton Of many costly, wasteful practices
by the distributor, but 1t also means a
new responsibility for US consumers
We have got to be sure that our part of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
'Papiamento' Embraces
Quintet of Tongues

The most peculiar sounding language
in the West Indies and one involving
the use of words from five languages
is spoken by the natives of Curacao in
this small important Dutch island, less
than 100 miles from the mainland of
Venezuela. A peculiar feature of this
native "patois'' is that, to be spoken
correctly, the words must be manned
and crippled with the exception of the
Portuguese words; otherwise it Is not
"papiamento," as it has been termed.
This language consists principally Of q
virtual mixture of French, Spanish,
Portuguese, Dutch and English words,
and to speak it fiuently one must make
as many assaults upon the words as pos
sible, besides dropping the lower jaw
to give lazy expression to the tone.
An occasional gesture is necessary, es-
pecially so when one makes love or
passes complimentary remarks This
strange language has its idionls and
proverbs like any other language. It
lends itself especially to epigrams. Pap
iamento" is really the language Of the
native Negroes and it Is used entirely
for their needs, including their songs
and dances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11

be recalled that his incarceration a few
years ago dashed the zeal Of his fol-
lowers.
On May 2 Lord Irwin prorogued be III
the executive council and the central
legislative assembly, a move of great
importance. Presumably there will be
no meeting of the latter prior to gen.
eral elections, scheduled for the end of
the year.
extraordinary precautions are being
taken by the government, including
blvouacking Of troops in cities, posting
OF machine guns at important points,
etc.
On May widespread rioting and
clashes--at Calcutta, Delhi and else
where. Estimated total of 20 d--d, over
a hundred injured. A mob of several
thousand attack a detachment Of 81
police In Calcutta suburb; the latter,
turlously stoned. are compelled to use
pistols. AT Delhi a huge mob attack
two high government officials and the
police are compelled to fire. The latter
use buckshot at first, but at last are
constrained to resort to ball cartridges.
Thirty persons are injured in clashes re-
sulting from the "Hartal" in Jullunder
(Punjab). At Bombay great demon
stration is held without serious dis
order. Two-thirds Of the spindles in
Bombay are idle.
On the It'll there was serious af-
fair at Chittagong in which two Britons
and seven natives were killed, and there
were clashes at Calcutta, Ranaghat and
Bombay, involving numerous injuries.
A serious affair on the 9th at Shot,
apur, town og 10000 or SO, about 200
miles from Bombay. It will be recalled
that fortnight ago Gandhi ordered his
followers to cut down the toddy-palms
whose fermented sap furnishes one of
the commonest Intoxicating drinks of
India (arrack is distilled from it,. On
the date mentioned a great mob set
themselves to obey the behest. A small
police detachment babe them desist.
They replied with stones, bricks and the
like. The police finally answered with
rifle fire, and battle on these terms
ragged for hours. Some 20 persons Gin
Guiding three policemen) were killed
and over a hundred were injured, in
Guiding every member of the small police
detachment not killed. The populace
dispersed only upon arrival of troops
from the camp at Ahmadnagar Now
here is a circumstance of particular
note. The mob showed special luminosity
against the police as being Moslems.
The bodies of the three slain policemen
were treated with indignity.
Throughout India industry and trade
are desperately depressed.
Schools and colleges are closed the
students demonstrating. The growing
strength Of the boycott against foreign
goods causes great uneasiness in Great
Britain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
Berolina Loses Favor
In Evolution of STYLES

Quite controversy has developed in
Berlin and like good many contro-
versies, it has a woman for its pivot
A very hefty lady she is. too-about so
feet high, weighing a ton or more, clad
in armor and pressing a shield to her
mighty bosom. Her name is Berolina,
emblem of Berlin. She used to stand
on the Alexanderplatz, one of the city's
busiest centers, but when German
women became simmer, Berolina
seemed to lose favor, until at last the
city fathers decided that she should
descend from her pedestal. Now she 10
lodged in dreary wooden shed out
side the city. The town council has de-
cided to sell her to the highest bidder,
and. strange to relate, she has found
several admirers. One Of them wishes
to place her near his restaurant as a
sort Of gigantic advertisement. building
a small bar inside the hollow statue
1uvInvlssI 9 seQ usu SuIsIId1slue sIuI.
near the great radio sending station at
Witzleben.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
Textbooks to Teach
Japanese of Quakes

In order to increase knowledge about
earthquakes among younger students
the Japanese ministry Of education has
decided to compile a special textbook
with important seismographic facts in
simple language. DR.. Imamura, out
standing authority of the Toxic I'm
perial University faculty, has been asked
to prepare the material. The authori-
ties feel that If the younger generation
is informed of the causes of earthquakes
and the way in which to build earth
quake-proof structures they will better
serve the nation when they grow up
Following a recent shock more severe
than usual, DR.. Imamura treasured the
population by saying that there would
not be an earthquake as bad as the one
in 1923 for at least $50 years. He point
ed out that in the past history Of the
country there had been only three such
severe quakes in 1000 years. AS far as
any Of us alive today were concerned,
he pointed out, the earthquake peril
was virtually absent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
Illicit Gems Continue
To Flood the Market

Despite elaborate precautions the
leakage of diamonds from Namauua-
land continues to be virtually as great
as it was year ago. 1t is estimated
that the number Of Illicit diamonds on
the market amounts to $50 600 o00
annually. Smugglers have been driven
from the immediate area of the state
diamond diggings, but as the whole of
the Namaqualand coast, from the
mouth of the Orange River southwark.
has been found TO be diamondiferous. It
has not been difficult for the diamond
runners to find fresh fields for exuloi-
tation. Detectives have Just succeeded
in roofing out one of the haunts. a
place near Port Nolloth, known as The
Cliffs. In one cave very difficult of
access Illicit diamond diggers found
that the erosion of the sea had barred a
diamondiferous stratum several feet in
thickness. They worked the gravel for
some time before their secret leaked
out. and they gathered diamonds of
remarkable quality Their, treasure
hoard Will now go to swell tina Golfers
Of the state.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
Sugar Tariff Raise
Is Urged in Hawaii

Annual meetings of Hawaiian agri-
in Honolulu recently emphasized the
need for increase In the sugar tariff.
Substantial fallings of in earnings
were reported by virtually all the sugar
companies due to the low price of sugar
and it Is felt that only a raise in the
tariff rate against Cuban sugar imports
will bring domestic sugar to a price
where the Hawaiian plantations can
investments.
A number of other companies, which
are not strictly agricultural but whose
prosperity depends largely on the pros
perity of the sugar interests. showed re-
auctions in earnings. On the other
hand, each of the two pineapple COM
panies which made annual reports
showed Increases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
Political Significance Is Given to Fight
On Supreme Court for Utilities Rulings

The comedy Of the period from 1897
to the present day is only one act. Ap.
parently we are just at the beginning
Of the second act-a second act In
which the characters will again ex-
change their roles, in which the rail-
roads, on the one hand, and the radi-
Gals and liberals on the other, will
again reverse themselves, again ex-
change their respective arguments. To
say this is, Of course, to make a predic-
ton about the course of the dollar. No
prudent person makes such q predic-
ton; 1t can only be said that many
persons wise In this field believe that
hundred cents or more. If that hap
pens, we shall see, 10 years or so from
now, the interested parties again re-
versing themselves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
Radio Helps Enliven
''Mounties' - Dull Posts

The monotony Of duh Arctic night
have been broken by the radio, ofhcial.
of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
at Ottawa have been notified by mem
bers Of police detachments far OF In the
frozen north.
The radio sets are described as an
amending source Of amusement" and
enable the men to keep in touch with
the trend of world affairs. Practically
all OF the detachments have receiving
sets. Apart from these lonely police
men there are 375,068 people In Canada
owning sets. They each pay 81 fee
as license 70 the federal government.
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Continued From First Page.)

progressives and other volunteer friends
OF man, contending for that theory of
valuation which would show the roads
to be worth the smallest number of
dollars. In holding these respective
positions over a period in which the
value Of the dollar passed from SO cents
to 100 cents, both sides have reversed
themselves. Today and recently the
railroads are where Bryan was in 1897;
today and recently the present-day
Bryans are where the railroads were
in 1897. Neither side seems to think
there Is any humor or irony in their
change of position. With perfect
olemnity-indeed, with violently sin
certify, each side goes into court and
argues for the thing which in 1897 It
denounced as unfair 70 the point of
Sinfulness.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-08
|ACHILLE M. BURKLIN
DIES IN HEART ATTACK
Prominent Business Man and
World War Veteran Expires
Suddenly at His Home.

Stricken with a heart attack while
asleep, Achille Mauger Burklin died
early yesterday morning at his home,
3013 Cathedral avenue. Apparently in
the best of health, Mr.. Burklin had
returned from a party at the Congress
sional Country Club Saturday night and
had retired. He was awakened few
hours later by intense pain and died
before the arrival of a physician who
had been hastily summoned.
Mr.. Burklin, who was 80 years old,
was one of the proprietors of Lerch's
dying and cleaning establishment on
Twelfth street northwest. A son of the
late Achille E. and Mrs. Mary Burklin
and native of this city, he attended
the public schools here and was grad
uate of Central High School. He was
q member of the C Club of the latter
institution. Later he attended George
Washington University, where he be-
came AFFILIATED with the Sigma Chi
Fraternity.
At the outbreak of the World War
Mr.. Burklin enlisted in the Army and
was assigned to the Medical Corps at
tanning the rank of sergeant, and at its
close he was commissioned lieutenant
In the Reserve Officers Training Corps.
He was a member of Albert Pike Lodge
of Masons and of the Columbia Coun-
try Club.
In addition to his wife, Mrs. Mae
Burklin, and a son, Achille M. Burklin,
jr., he is survived by brother, Robert
M. Burklin of this city, and two sisters,
Mrs. Nina B. Doolittle of Buffalo, N. Y,
and Mrs. Sallie j. Graham of Wash
1ngton.
Funeral services are to be held at
his residence tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock. They will be conducted by
Rev. Charles #. Warner of st. Adams
Episcopal Church. where the family at
tends. Interment will be in Fort
Lincoln Cemetery, with Masonic rites
at the grave.