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The Washington times., 1930-02-24
Dodge Heiress Takes
Up Job In Book Store

NEW YORK. Feb. "a GN.SJ.-
Society lost another member to
the business world today when
Miss Pauline Dodge, daughter of
Mrs. Marshall j. Dodge, took a
position in book store.
She is a debutante of 1928 and
engaged to marty Frederick Pratt,
son of Henry l.. Pratt, president
of the Standard Oil Company.
Young Pratt is student at Am
herSt,
The Washington times., 1930-02-24

followed by night of peaceful
Slumber.
Mrs. Gray died while sitting
in the chair about II years ago.
Immediately after her demise the
chair began its remarkable carry
ing on" neighbors declared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07
Political Crime in Mexico.

Persistent questioning by the Mexican
police has failed to elicit from the youth
who the other day shot and severely
wounded President Rubio any informa-
ton as to his motive or association in
the plot to murder Members of his family
and others, to the number of twenty, have
been arrested and are being held under
inquisition, but so far without any re-
suit in the way of disclosure of the
true nature of the crime. Meanwhile
the incoming and outgoing mayors of
small city near Tampico have been
political plot. There is no present in
dication of a connection between the
crimes there and in Mexico City.
President Rubio escaped death by the
slenderest Of margins. That his death
was sought, just as Gen. Obregon was
slain on the eve of his Inauguration, is
obvious. Threats to kill him had been
uttered. A conspiracy to that end had
been discovered and those party to it
had been arrested. Yet despite all
G1lC doodSouI ISdC1lCO
and but for the barest chance of mis-
direction, though wounding him in a
possibly vital place, he failed of his
purpose.
It was believed that Obregon's as
sassin was prompted by religious emo
ton to take the life of the President
elect. In the case of Rubio it is indi-
Gated that his assailant is the agent
of political enemies just as in the case
of the killings near Tampico. Attempts
to organize revolution following the
election of Rubio as President, which
were plainly indicated, by partisans of
the defeated candidate have failed. An
organized revolt, however disturbing
and costly, is preferable to assassina-
ton. If political reprisals in Mexico
are to take the form of murder, then
indeed is Mexico in a lamentable
condition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07

there were no sheets to cover the cots
provided for these children, and the
medical devices, supposed to have been
provided, had not been delivered. To-
day there are only five cots for fifteen
pupils in the Magruder School. The
pupils share the cots at intervals to
obtain the necessary rest and relaxa-
ton.
Ten days before the Christmas holi-
days the Magruder School was closed.
An old heating plant, similar to the
one. in the Weightman School, refused
to function, and while a white-hot fire
roared in the furnace the school rooms
remained unheated. Although the plant
had been inspected and pronounced IN
good order during the Summer, the
necessary repairs deprived the children
Of school. ALI of the medical equip
ment ordered for the schools has not
yet been put in place. While the
school children are brought to class in
BUSES, the District apparently lacks
money to buy them the milk and other
nourishment they need during the
school day. There have been cases
where teachers bought food for the
children out of their own earnings
Washington's first schools for cripples
have not been marked with any great
success.
An interesting coincidence in connec-
ton with the fire in the Weightman
School yesterday lies in the fact that
the inadequacy of the heating plant was
emphasized in the final article OF
series on the schools that appeared in
The Star the day before. 1T is heated
by four old-fashioned hot-air furnaces"
said this article. 1.-The heat is very I'M
even. Sometimes parts of the building
are too hot or too cold. Frequently the
air in the class rooms is blue with
smoke and the teachers and pupils find
difficulty in breathing" The Stars
articles have mentioned similar condi-
tons in other schools. 1t would not be
amiss to order a thorough program of
in Washington's Anticipated
school structures to accompany the con-
struction of fine new buildings now go
ing forward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07

Inc ralroad company having prose-
cuteo TINS case so severely, even to the
extent OF securing extradition, may not
be content to let the survivor" alone,
but may seek to charge him for the
damage done railroad equipment by the
collision.
Regardless OF the merits of this or
any, other controversy in respect to re-
sponsibility for crossing accidents, the
time should soon come when they are
eliminated entirely. There is only one
method of elimination, and that is the
removal Of all crossings. It has been
reiterated time and again that at any
point where road and rail intersect on
the same level accidents are bound to
occur Some are unquestionably due to
railroad negligence, others, however, are
just as undeniably due to motorist
carelessness. Cases are on record where
engineers have failed to sound warm
ing as they approached a crossing or
of a Waterman falling asleep on duty
but likewise on record are cases of
motorists driving through lowered gates
or OF hitting stationary trains.
Grade crossings cannot be made safe
and this fact has been learned at an
enormous cost in human life. Despite
the commendable progress that has
been made in crossing removal by
means of bridges or underpasses, the
work has not progressed nearly fast
enough. Admittedly, it is an expensive
process, but the expense is justified
There should be no let-up until grade
crossings are placed in the limbo of
forgotten things.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07

as 'the silliest imitation of the ostrich
hiding his head in the sand" and that
paper concludes: 1.-THE proper cue for
commercial aviation is not to put itself
In the position of seeming to conceal
facts, but to place all the evidence at
inspectors disposal in a sincere effort
to discover the disasters cause and pre-
vent repetition. Aviation will have to
take the public's side if it expects the
public to side with it. There's no use
copying the ostrich"
There is nothing but good sense and
sound reasoning" argues the Danbury
News, Gin Senator Bingham's demand
for full publicity for every air accident
that takes place. Nothing is to be
gained from hiding the facts. Every
crash must carry some lesson. If the
accident is due to fault of the plane,
this should be made known, must be
made known before it can be remedied.
If the accident be due to mistake on
the part of the pilot, then the nature of
the mistake should be broadcast, for
the guidance of other pilots. AS Sem
ator Bingham so we'll says, 'Airplane
crashes Should be taken out Of the
realm of unexplained mysteries
HaSty action of the sort described at
Kansas City is held by the New York
Evening Post to be essentially short
sighted and of no help to aviation" and
that paper refers to official figures as
showing that during the first half of
1929 scheduled air transport more than
doubled the mileage of the same period
in 1923, while the accident rate de-
clined from one fatel accident for $780,
922 miles to one in 1,022,371 miles. In
the whole field of commercial aviation
the changes were even more marked"
adds that paper, asserting that sin
dealing with these vital problems there
should be no evasion of the facts or
any excess of zeal in destroying or con-
cealing whatever evidence may con-
tribute to a solution
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

the express understanding that it did
not necessarily put them on record as
opposed to American adherence to the
World Court. Opinion on this trou-
blesome issue was sharply divided, and
the resolution was carefully phrased to
straddle the question.
X X X
The successor to the late Representa-
tive William w. Griest of the tenth
Pennsylvania district arrived in Wash
ington this week. He is John Roland
KinZer. In a mimeographed state
ment, distributed to the press gallery,
he informs the Washington correspond
ents that he was born on the KinZer
family farm in East Earl Township,
Lancaster County, Pa. The farm en-
braces ITO acres and has belonged to
five generations of the Kinzer family,
and member of Congress in the latter
part of the eighteenth century once oc-
cupied the farm house. Mr.. Kinzer.
besides being "dirt farmer" in small
letters. is a Prominent Attorney" in
capital letters, according to the state
ment. His wife's family and his own.
two brothers and sister are all we'll
known and prominent residents of
Lancaster County. Mr.. Kinzer was for
20 years treasurer of his local lodge
of Elks.
The American diplomatic service suf-
fers another real loss in the retirement
of DR.. Arthur j. Pearson, who has held
the post of Minister to Finland since
1925 and previously had been appointed
by President Coolidge as Minister to
Poland DR.. Pearson was a native of
Sweden who came to the United States
in infancy. He attained notable rank
as an educator and is rated as the fore
most Scandinavian scholar and linguist
in this country. Prior to his entry into
the diplomatic service he was a profess
sor at Drake University in Des Moines,
Iowa. He is replaced at Poland by Ed
ward Everett Brodie, newspaper pub
Usher of oregon City, Oreg., who once
served as Minister to Siam under Hard
ing and who lists himself in the current
edition of Who's Who in America as
diplomat"
(Copyright, 1900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07
Mrs. Owen Is Pictured
As Victim of Injustice
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Ruth Bryan Owens case will interest
every woman reader who believes in JUS
tice and every man, too, who believes in
fair play for his mother, wife or sisters.
There is before the Congress no more
important case notwithstanding that the
House is Judge of its own election. Here
of the Supreme Court. 1t is true that
the Constitution says that member
must have been citizen seven years,
but it does not say that the years shall
be consecutive. 1t is a mere guess for
man on the Hill to say that it is or it
isn't. Therefore, until the Supreme
Court decides the matter there is no
precedent as a guide for action.
1t is amazing that the American re-
public should ever have had law so
unfair and absurd. To have made Ruth
Bryan owen a British. subject without
her consent or approval without having
ever stepped foot in Britainl 1t must
be that this law was a rag Of the Code
Napoleon, but Napoleon was not the only
man IN the world who considered women
as property.
Most of the time that Mrs. owen was
abroad was war time and she was work
ing in the Red Cross for the American
Army. Therefore, wherever she was
doing that work, that was extraterri-
toriality. AS a matter Of law, it was
American soil.
After the war, when Ruth Bryan
Owen brought her invalid husband tc
Miami and earned the living for him
and his four children, it must have been
hard enough without the handicap of
being unwillingly British subject. It
is said that woman was created from a
mans rib In this case it must have
been his backbone. Besides all this, Is
it good craftsmanship to handicap the
weak? And there are still great many
men who believe that women are the
weaker sex.
The law regarding women's nation
atty always was absurd and It seems IN
take long time to teach the world that
woman is unit and that she is not an
exception to all biological law; that She
Is the weaker sex" belongs to the delu-
sions Of the dark ages
CARRIE HARRISON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07
Other Than VOlstead Law
Enforcement Is Needed
70 the Editor of The Star:

70 the Editor OF The Star:
Speaking of law enforcement, is it not
about time to offer a gentle reminder
that there are other laws besides the
Volstead act to whose enforcement 1t
might be well to give little consider
alton unless we have so lost all sense
of proportion as to think that there
is only one law in the land?
Please let me give few illustrations.
Walking up Pennsylvania avenue re-
Gently saw an apartment house Chin
ney emitting without cessation dense
clouds of thick black smoke. The nui-
sance was in direct range of vision of
the traffic policeman at the corner
whom addressed.
Are you interested in reporting law
violations, officer?"
Eyes, ma'am, what is it?"
do you see that chimney, which is
violating the anti-smoke ordinance?"
Eyes. ma'am." was the mild reply,
that is bad, isn't it? And it's been
doing that way all day, tool
Another illustration.
In virtually every well populated
block of Washington can be seen liter
ally dozens of frozen dead" automo-
biles, some of which have stood in the
same spot, for days and even weeks at
a time. Often they block entrance to
ones own front door. Most of them are
violating the 18-hour parking regula-
ton. In order that streets be thus
used for free garages we have allowed
our beautiful and valuable trees to be
ruthlessly and stupidity slaughtered.
One more illustration.
There have been very few days this
Winter in which one could walk along
the sidewalks without floundering in
slush. due to the fact that the snow
shoveling ordinance has not been en-
forced.
without desiring to become contro-
versial on the merits or dement's of
1.-The noble experiment. itself, would
it not be pertinerit at this time to ask
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07
a Tragedy AYerted.

With the vision before them of what
might have happened yesterday at the
Weightnan School for Cripples, school
authorities should take the obvious pre-
caution of ordering a thorough inspec-
ton Of all the gratings in schools heated
by hot-air furnaces, making sure that
such trash and sweepings as those that
burst into flame and endangered the
Weightman School yesterday are re-
moved. Fifty or sixty Of the Washing
ton elementary schools are heated by
hot-air plants similar to those at the
Weightman. The same conditions that
caused the fire yesterday possibly exist
elsewhere. Swift and energetic meas
ures should be taken to eliminate them.
The blaze at the Weightman School
was not serious. But the tragedy that
was threatened is fearful to contem-
plate. Given a few minutes more, the
fire sc quickly extinguished might have
gained such Roadway that the ancient
building. housing forty crippled chill
dren as well as 140 normal children on
the upper floors. would have been a
blazing furnace.
AS far as the fire at the Weightman
School for Cripples is concerned, the in
cident is merely another misfortune In
a list of those that have attended
Washington's first attempt to provide
educational facilities for the city's Grip
piles. The two schools, the Weightmar
for. white children and the Magrudel
for colored, were not opened unit
November. although their opening hac
been scheduled for the beginning of thu
school session. On the opehfng da!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07
Business Heads Prove
L. s. Opportunity Land

From the Portland OREGON Daily Journal.
Among the so foremost business men
in the country, "a were born poor, B. C..
Forbes finds.
Seventeen were born in moderate cir
cunstances and only nine were born
rich.
Fourteen began their business careers
as store clerks. Five began as bank
clerks. Four began as grocery boys.
Forty of the fifty were born in the
United States. Now they are heading
many of the big businesses of the
country.
Every day in a hundred ways it is
proven that there are few limits to what
the young men of America can reach
who possess ability, purpose, industry
and the will to win.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07
An Odd Twist.

An odd twist has been given q grade
crossing accident. in which fortunately
no one was hurt, by the railroad COM
pany charging the motorist with reck-
less driving, haling him to court and
securing his conviction. The Offend
ing" driver was fined five dollars, but
he probably paid with pleasure in view
of the fact that he is one Of the few
survivors Of the war" at grade cross
ings between automobiles and trains. A
five-dollar fine and the loss Of car is
small price to pay for an escape of
this kind. There is still, however, one
fly in the ointment for the motorist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07

The answers to questions printed here
each day are specimens picked from
the mass of inquiries handled by our
great Information Bureau maintained
in Washington, d. G. This valuable
service is for the free use of the public
Ask any question of fact you may want
to know, and you will get an imme-
date reply. Write plainly, inclose 2
cents in coin or stamps for return
postage, and address The Evening Star
Information Bureau, Frederic j. HaSkin,
director, Washington, D. c.
@. What company is the largest pri-
vate business in the world?-H. D. L.
A. 1t is said that the American Tele-
phone &c Telegraph Co. is the largest
single private enterprise.
@. Has Bryan University at Dayton,
Tenn, ever been completed?-S. T.
A Bryan Memorial University is not
yet completed. A S250,000 administra-
ton building is now in process of con-
struction on the 30-acre campus. In or
der that the college may open next Sep
TENDER the Board of Education of Rhea
County has let the high school building
to the Memorial Association to be used
temporarily, and a new building will be
erected for use Of the high school.
O. What is the greatest depth in Lake
Erie?-R. w
A. Lake Erie has a maximum depth
Of 210 feet.
@. Are the Dolomites especially WON
A. The Dolomite Mountains are noted
for their Jagged outlines and isolated
peaks.
@ When was the sickle first used to
reap grain?-W A. A.
A. The grain sickle appears in some
of the earliest hieroglyphics, or picture
writing, and is known to have been in
cluded in a rude form in the earliest i'm
! plements used by man.
@. When will the Illinois deep water
| way project be constructed?-H. F.
| A. The Illinois deep waterway is now
! in the process of construction. It is
| being dore by the State of Illinois.
g 8. D. ~n"' Is the past tense OF dive
A. The past tense is "dived." Dove"
| is preterite sometimes used colloquially
in the United States.
Q. When did Col. Mitchell leave the
| Air Service ?-E. NJ. w.
! A. He left the service June 30, 1920
Q. Does the astronomical day begin
! at noon or at midnight?-W. S.
| A. Astronomers formerly began the
day at noon, but recently it was decided
advisable for the sake of uniformity tc
use the same day in astronomical work
as is used in civil life, and commencing
with 1925, all the national almanacs
began the day at midnight.
Q. Please give the losses in the Bat
tie of Antietam.-A. H. S.
A. In the Battle of Antietam the
Federal forces lost 1880 killed, wound
ed and missing and the Confederate
forces lost 1000 killed, wounded anc
missing. 1t was one of the bloodiest
battles of the Civil War. More mer
were killed on September II, 1852. thar
on any other one day between 1861 anc
1865.
@. What kind of toys were used by
Egyptian and Roman children in an
Gent times?-L. S.
A. Jointed wooden dolls and croco.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07

why the police force should be en-
powered with the right of search and
seizure, as has been advocated, to de-
Tect hypothetical violations of the
liquor law and should remain blind or
indifferent to violations of other laws
which are plain as day before any
ones eyes?
Please let me offer one concluding
observation.
1t seems not of the slightest interest
or Importance to me as an individual
or as a citizen whether the alcoholic
content of my neighbours table bever-
age be pa or 414 per cent. 1t is of
direct importance to the health and
welfare of the entire community that
sidewalks be cleaned, that streets be
kept free for traffic instead of being
used for storage purposes and that
property be protected from the dam
aging CRIME of law-violating chimneys.
MRS. CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Robin the Optimist.
The early robin came along.
He didn't pause to sing song,
But covered in the bitter blast
And sighed, How long will Winter last?
In hopefulness still persist,
Because I am an optimist.
Sometimes I wish that had stayed
In warmer regions, undismayed.
And yet I like to make it clear
know that Spring will soon draw near,
With poisoning by sunshine kissed.
I'm shivering-but an optimisti"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07

Large sums are to be spent for tele-
phone improvements in Maryland and
Virginia. Political experts say that the
news going over the wires will require
an extraordinary increase Of facilities
this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07

Porto Rico is recovering from the 1928
hurricane and is looking forward to
happy ending for as relentless a hard
luck story as patient and beautiful
island ever experienced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.'

diles with movable Jaws were among
the toys Of Egyptian children Of an
cient days. The Roman children played
with tops and hoops and probably at
chariot racing, with improvised chariots.
Q. What or who is kibitzer?-M. c.
A. Kibitzer is a word of uncertain
derivation. 1t is applied to an indi-
vidual who is always ready to give adj
vice to others on any known subject,
regardless of the fact that he may not
know anything about it himself.
@. What is necessary to change a
| tri-weekly rural mail route to a SiX-day
service?-D. M. B.
A. In order to be eligible for a SIX
day service there must be delivered and
collected $50 pieces of mail per month
per mile on the route.
O. How long will a magnet hold
magnetism?-D. S. n.
A. The Bureau of Standards says
that properly hardened and aged mag
net steel will hold its magnetism in
definitely unless subject to excessive
temperature, mechanical shocks or the
influence of magnetic fields.
O. What is the difference in food
value between white shell eggs and
those Of yellow or brownish sheil?--
B. M.
A. There is no difference.
c. What are phoebes?-P. H.
! A. The phoebes are a species of birds
among the first to arrive in the North
! as a herald of Spring. They live al
most entirely upon insects--click beetles,
May beetles and weevils.
g Is the trout fishing good in
| Switzerland?-G G. S.
A. The lakes and mountain streams
of Switzerland abound in trout, eSpe-
cially in the Upper Engandine.
O. What does N. B. c. do with mail
sent to people who broadcast for them?
F. L.
artists mail is sent to him or her direct
! without being opened. However, the
organization maintains large private
post office and mail addressed to the
! network or stations and mentioning
! individual artists is forwarded to the
artist after being read and contents
noted for future reference. Most artists
and announcers make it point, al
should, to return the most interesting
of their letters to the private post ONCE
for the information of program execu-
tives.
Q. What was done with Carrie
Nations famous hatchet?--N. A.
A. After her death. Mrs. Nations
portrait and a Ratchet which the police
/ had taken from her were placed in the
archives of the Kansas State Hlstori-
cal Society at Topeka, and a memorial
fountain was erected on the spot where
she was first arrested in Topeka.
|
Q. Does the average European train
travel as fast as the average American
train?-E. r. A.
A. The average speed in Europe is
from 25 to 80 miles per hour. The
average speed in this country is from
80 to 40 miles per hour.
@. When did Czerny, who wrote the
Etudes SO often used by students, live?
ID. K.
A: He was born in 1871 and died in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07

Thanks to the mysterious animal now
at large, hunters do not have to retire
to the distant woods in order to shoot
one another by accident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-07

Ground Hog day Is introduced by
popular superstition as a reminder of
the fact that February and March are
not to be relied on for favorable weather.