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scornful tones the now famous words:
"But, my dear sir, who ever heard Of
writing for the English horn in a SYM
phony?" It is that horn, incidentally.
which echoes one Of the loveliest Of the
themes.
The soloist for the afternoon was
Efrem Zimbalist. Warmly greeted, and
even more warmly applauded, he played
the Tschaikowsky Concerto in d
Major" with verve and technical pre-
cision
Mr. Gabrilowitsch closed the concert
with the Second Hungarian Rhapsody
of List, which spirited selection, no
matter how 1t is treated, invariably
sends the audience home with genuine
satisfaction and the impression that
they have just heard very fine band
concert. e. M.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-19

Gay enamel cases, black, apple
green, or coral, handkerchief
in sharply contraSted colors. In
side you'll find the handy loose
powder compartment and rouge
of generous size. The powder
pun is conveniently reversible.
PALAIS ROYAL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-19
DELAY In BUILDING
GYMNASIUM ASKED
Citizens Petition Commissioner tt
First Decide on Showing of
Films.

Delay in construction of the proposed
combination auditorium gymnasium at
the John Eaton School in Cleveland
Park was requested today in a petition
sent to the District Commissioners by
the John Eaton Parent Teacher AsSo-
citation and the Cathedral Heights
Cleveland Park Citizens Association.
They ask the Commissioners first to
reach a definite decision on use Of the
combination rooms for motion picture
performances as long as they are equip
ped with movable seats. The decision
TO seek the delay, 1t was explained, was
reached jointly Monday -
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WALLER TO SPEAK.
Baroness Korff to Preside at Uni
versitv Women's Dinner.

Bolton Waller, secretary of the Irish
league of Nations Union and winner of
the Fflene peace award, viii be honor
guest and speaker at the international
relations dinner of the American AsSo-
citation of University Women at the or
ganization's club house Thursday eve
ming. Mr.. Waller will discuss Ireland'S
views on international relations.
Baroness Korff will preside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-19
See? Gle Saws See!

OKLAHOMA CITY, February 10 up.
M. Gle, who keeps an eye on the
shekels paid by folks anxious to see
the knockout stun of the rambling Sig
nor Camera, prefers to be known as
Mister See. The pronunciation is the
same
Evening star., 1930-12-09
Capt. Hawks Glider.

1t was an impressive ceremony yes
terday when Capt. Frank Hawks Eaglet
glider was presented to the Smithsonian
Institution TO take its place among his
torical objects. And while the tiny
glider can probably never compare in
interest with the plane of Prof. Langley
and Col. Lindbergh's Spirit Of ST. Louis
1t will mark for the generations to come
4 new and highly successful study of
the air by mankind. When Capt
Hawks was towed from San Diego TO
New York in the Eaglet, the first and
only trip of its kind ever to be made, 1t
demonstrated that the small motorless
craft possessed airworthy qualities of a
high degree, and it is fitting that this
veteran Of the skies should take its
place in the Museum.
Additional interest was given the cere-
mony by the presence Of Capt. Hawks
himself. who, at the present time, Is
the undisputed speed champion Of svia-
iion. While 1t took the well known
flyer six and one-half days to cover
Evening star., 1930-12-09
The Disarmament Dream.

Yesterday at Geneva six years OF
fervent but futile efforts came to an
end with the final session of the League
Of Nations Preparatory Disarmament
Commission. Since 1924 the comn1is-
sion has INST periodically, debated
protractedly and achieved nothing.
Perhaps that is not quite a fair de-
scription of its labors. It did accom-
plish something. That was to deter
mine with disconcerting definitenesS
that Europe and Asia are not disarna-
meat-minded In the present troublous
state of the world.
The commission came to one positive
decision. 1t arranged to convene a
general disarmament conference in 1882.
Viscount Cecil, invincible millenarian,
predicting that the conference will last
a year, opines for it "even mora i'm
portant and fsr-reaching" consequences
than those which followed the Paris
Peace Conference.
Before stacking arms at League head
quarters, the Preparatory Commission
drew up a draft treaty which proposes
to lay before the conference two years
hence an admittedly scanty program
out of which, it is hop-d, some kind
of disarmament scheme can be evolved.
League members are gropirg to give
form and substance to Article VIII OF
the Covenant, which imposes upon tn m
the obligation to turn swords into
ploughshares.
It is not the least significant result
Of the Preparatory Commissions six
years of conversation that it is now
known as the Commission for Limita-
ton and Reduction of Armaments As
Far As Possible" The Einstsinian
theory of relativity thus has entered
into the picture. Evidently the discur-
sive era 1924-1930 has taught Viscount
Cecil and his colleagues at Gencva that
no country considers debatable at this
time the question of any considerable
demobilizstion of its defensive estab-
HShnfent.
Perhaps in the two years now to
intervene before a general conference
statesmen and nations will have 1t
driven home to them that until causes
for war are eradicated, weapons for
waging wars cannot be dispensed with.
Possibly in that interval, too, the system
Of the limited disarmament confer
ence-hmited in both the number of
participants and the nature of its
business-wfI recommend itself to the
world
Since the World War there have besn
two armament conferences which got
somewhere. For both of them the
United States was mainly responsible
the Washington Conference of 1922,
which effected capital-ship limitation,
and the London Conference Of 1880,
which brought about a three-power
limitation Of all other class:s of fight
ing craft. If at either Washington q
London any attempt had been made to
deal with general disarmament" the
result unquestionably would have been.
as barren as these six years of talk ct
Geneva.
Evening star., 1930-12-09

the distance between the two coasts In
the Eaglet, he startled the world q few
months later by zooning over the same
route by plane in q trife more than
twelve hours. And, having got the bit
in his teeth" so to speak, he has pro-
ceeded to smash practically every speed
record between cities in the United
States.
Twenty minutes from PHILADELPHIA to
New York! Fifty-three minutes from
Washington to New York! Eight hours
from New York to Eavanal Detroit to
New York, a distance Of six hundred
and forty miles, in two hours and forty
one minutes! What record to conjure
with, and what does 1t all mean?
1t means simply that Capt Hawks has
probably done more than any flyer tn
make the American public realize the
speed potentialities of the airplane. and
this realization will do much To bring
about faster transportation. Airports
OF necessity must be situated some dis
tance from congested centers of popu-
lation, and it follows that the time lost
in reaching landing fields must be made
up in the air. No better Illustration
was probably ever given of this fact
than Capt. Hawks fifty -three-minute
fight from Washington to the Newark
terminal 1t took the flyer sixty-three
minutes to reach his hotel in New York
after he landed.
So it behooves plane builders to work
out better streamlining for their ships
and engine builders to develop motors
OF greater horsepower but less weieht
The radial air-cooied motor marked n
great advance in design, but even this
type OF engine. which carried Lind
bereh to Paris. Byrd to the North and
South Poles and practically all other
flyers on their breaking taunts
through the sky, must be perfected.
Its frontal area is so great that speed
is materially cut down. Both motors
and plane structure have been brought
to high state Of reliability, but the
cry is for speed and more speed. Cowl-
ings have been put over the air-cooled
motor and approximately 20 miles an
hour added to planes capability.
Pants" have been developed to cover
landing gear wheels and five miles an
hour more has been added. These, how
ever, are not enough. Other ways, more
fundamental in character, must be
found. The pace Of civilization Is ever
on the increase. Aviation, mans
new-found method of defying the laws
of nature, must keep up with 1t.
Evening star., 1930-12-09
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

The woman in the street made q
horrible face at the bus driver.
The driver and his two passengers
grinned.
What facet" exclaimed the driver.
"She was scared" said the man.
'She couldn't afford to scowl like
that" said the woman passenger.
"She was in no danger at ALL" went
on the man. But she got scared"
X
It was q small, inconsequential hap
pening, scarcely worthy Of note, except
that it showed the problem Of the Pc
destrian TO perfection.
If one is afraid, then one is afraid,
that is all, but it is fact that many
motorists fail to keep in mind.
There is too large a tendency on the
part of all Of us to lump human beings
OF into two main masses in this mat
ter and call one pedestrians" and the
other motorists"
All pedestrians are motorists at some
time, however, and all car drivers are
upon occasion pedestrians, so that there
is no occasion for one forgetting the
state Of the other.
Just as mileage is the chief commod-
ity of the automobile, so speed Is the
desire of every rider. There can be
no getting away from it. The pedestrian
wants safety.
X u X
The main desire of the two bus pas
sengers of our homely story of the every
day was to get down to their Offices as
speedily as possible. Each had paid
two and half times the street car
fare dor this was so-called "de luxe"
bus) and each wanted to get his
moneys worth.
But neither could see any occasion
for the bus driver to scare a fellow
human being to do it. Nor was he to
blame. The lady in question had
spleen against all automobiliSts, and
against BIS drivers in particular, as
many people do.
When she got to the intersection she
expected the big vehicle to crush her
to atoms, If she got 100 far into the
street.
She did not comprehend that here
was one driver who was willing to slow
up for her. She was as safe in that
street, with that driver, as If she mad
remained on the curb.
He slowed up, when she started
across. and had his bus SO well in hand
that he could have stopped instantly,
had there been any demand.
The pedestrian, however, did not
know this, and when she got well past,
out Of harms way, she turned her head
sideways and made a tremendously
ugly but instantly effective face at the
driver, with the result aforementioned.
n
Almost every one who has ridden in
a motor car, either as driver or pas
senger. has remarked upon the strange
of character which
seems to overtake persons IN cars.
Sweet women viii yell and swear
yes, some of them do--at every driver
who happens to cross their path, or who
slows up the veriest trifie, or who in
any way hampers their progress.
Speed Is what every one wants, and
every driver puts the brakes, to some
extent. upon every ether driver.
This leaves the pedestrian out on a
limb as 1t were, for nobody is going to
watch out for him, except the driver
Evening star., 1930-12-09
Chance for Superior Movies
Created by Court Decision

Action by the United States Supreme
court against q combination Of motion
picture producers and distributors is
| accepted by Americans as offering q
prospect Of improvement In the films
through ban ON methods of making
contracts for the pictures at individual
theaterS. The court by its decision Cii-
rectS attention, IN the Judgment of q
part Of the public, to the continued
effectiveness Of the antitrust laws.
"A momentouS decision" is recognized
by the Houston Chronicle, which thinks
that 1T may very well have great effect
upon the future production Of films and
indirectly upon the cultural and moral
standards Of the people Of America. ;"
The Chronicle adds: "The citizens Of
this Nation as a whole will be more
than satisfied with the judgment of
their highest tribunal The Sherman
law is good law. 1t had and has for
its purpose the prevention OF monop-
olies. 1t encourages competition. The
so-called trusts which have been at
tackled by the Federal Government In
the past have as q rule been those
which furnished the general public with
food. light heat, clothing. The Attor-
ney General of the United States during
liberal and progressive administrations
has tried to shield the people from the
unceasing aggression of privilege. He
has sought to insure material comfort
for the many against the greed Of the
few"
"The unlawful practices in restraint
OF trade" according to the Worcester
Evening Gazette. win now be aban-
doned. But If the producers and dis
tributors who control % per cent Of the
countrys films want to keep their
stranglehold on the motion picture busi-
ness they probably can devise some
legal way to do 1t. And as long as the
Hays group or any other group exer-
slight hope OF speedy improvement in
the quality of the pictures which the
public Is permitted TO see."
X y y
"The business, because of its highly
influential place in American life" con-
eludeS the Morgantown Dominion News,
'is on the brink Of governmental regu-
lation. The industry alone can keep
itself out of this status. And it can
do so only by ceasing it's efforts at
monopoly for financial purposes and
other abuses incident to centralized
control. While 1t is expected that the
industry will continue to be conducted
primarily for profit, those In charge
must realize that the public interest
has risen to place Of equal Importance
and must receive equal consideration.
Unless the motion picture interests do
recognize this fact, by their acts as
well as by their professions, they are
heading toward further regulation"
1t Is held by the Louisville Courier
journal that what the art requires
and the public Is entitled to Is a meth
Cd whereby the local exhibitor can ex-
ercise discriminating taste in Selecting
programs, so that the millions residing |
In thousands of one-theater towns NAV
see the best the studios produce, and by |
patronizing it encourage the artistic |
side of the industry"
We hear much of racketeering now |
adays, remarks the Kansas City Star. |
The term has become significant of |
oppression. Yet the monopoly which
Evening star., 1930-12-09

In Its attempt TO arrive at 2 calculation
of the Feaeral Governments intangibles.
when it was forced to make use of q
theory and a superstition. If there are
errors, they are those Of omission. 1t
has given the House Fiscal Inquiry
Committee sound foundation upon
which to build fair conclusions con-
cerning the just amount that should be
appropriated by the Federal Govern
nnent to its Capital, and it Las per-
formed real public service, and per-
formed it we'll
Evening star., 1930-12-09
A Princely Christmas Story.

Many have been the stories told Of
the Prince of Wales which have en-
deared him to the peoples of the world
in that peculiar way which the world
and his wife have of taking to their
hearts personable young men the world
around.
No story, however, has been any
more charming than the latest which
comes from London concerning the
Princes favorite dog, Cora, a Cairn
terrier. Since her youth Cora has en-
joyed the privilege Of sleeping on the
Princes bed.
All those who love dogs and who
may have had dogs of their own to
sleep on their own beds feel a wave of
fellowship with the royal young man
when they read of Cora's smuggling
down at the foot other masters couch.
Now comes the crowning touch. Re-
Gently the Prince noticed that Cora
was suffering from rheumatism and
was having some difficulty in getting TO
her favorite perch.
So what did the Prince of Wales do
but have a small fight Of steps con-
structed, which, leaned against the
side of his bed, enables Cora to mount
to her snug roost as easily as ever!
And there Is the Princes Christmas
story to the world, tale of love for
animals which will not go unheeded,
which VIII be read to little children, and
win blossom forth in their own lives
in deeds OF k kndness.
Not every one, of course, can have
Cog TO build steps for, but every one
can be kindgto them, and help them as
much as possible. And this pity, ex-
tending to horses, and to cats, and TO
the other creatures, seems particularly
appropriate at this time OF the year.
One of the benefits of Christmas is
that it makes even the least sentimental
recognize the clutch Of the helpless
upon the heartstrings of humanity.
Evening star., 1930-12-09
Farm Boards Wheat
Policy Raises HOPES

From the Topeka Daily Capital.
Everybody in this part of the country
hopes Chairman Legge, is right in hold
ing that by the Farm Boards interven-
ton the price Of wheat can be held
around the present figure (poor as that
Isl Of 76 cents at Chicago, 20 cents
above Liverpool Mr.. Legge is ap-
parently convinced that with feeding
wheat to live stock the gap between the
aggregate crop and human consump-
ton at home will be closed. II this
proves to be the case the price can be
maintained. since the tariff of AZ cents
will keep imports out at that figure.
But with this conceded, in the long run,
or over six or II months, what benefit
would Stabilizing purchases have? The
price of wheat will be determined by
economic demand and supply. That is
one Of those certainties that nobody
can dispute, and when that Is granted
there Is no room left normally for
stabilizing purchases.
There is point, however, for emerg-
ency stabilizing purchf ses, which
throws demand and supply out alto
gether, and that was probably the con-
alteration when the corporation ell
tered the market at the two times it
came in. That point is that emergency
situations may occur when the market
for one cause or another has gone COM
pletely out of hand. Such occasions
might be times of actual panic. Supply
and demand as stabilizers are then mo-
mentarily paralyzed and do not operate.
Such occasions offer special opportuni-
ties of manipulation. It Is conceivable
that both in the Fall Of 1929 and thiS
month the stabilization corporation was
put into the market on just that the
ory, that supply and demand were not
operating II so. events did not bear
out the judgment year ago. for there
Evening star., 1930-12-09

destrian.
now. of course, there are thousands
who do remember, and it is lucky for
humanity that this is so, else traffic ac-
cidents would be nnlltiplied a thonSar1J-
fold. '''-
There is no one who has not ridden
with a humanitarian driver of an au-
tomobile. Such man or woman will
slow up to give children, dogs. cats and
squirrels, and the occasional bunny
a chance to get across the road.
Such driver will always slow down
for the pedestrian, and even come to a
complete halt to enable him to get over
the way, even when the other gfares at
him in misunderstanding at such I'M
expected courtesy.
Truly courtesy is the only solution of
the whole automobile problem.
We can have traffic lights until the
streets and avenues blink like Christ
mas trees on Christmas morning.
We can have traffic rules until the
Police Manual takes on the appearance
OF the Postal Laws and Regulations.
(And If you have ever seen a copy of
that book you will understand)
We can put up stop" signs until we
are blue in the face, as they say out
where we come from, but the acci-
dents will keep on happening.
We can increase speeds one place and
decrease them another, but so long as
we, as o Nation, have no courtesy, we
will continue to kill and MAIN with our
automobiles.
rather Utopian, and we rather think it
is ourself, but 1t is not q bad idea, is 1t?
Maybe we will have to amend human
nature to do 1t, but it would be worth
trying. A real attempt at universal
courtesy has never been made in
America.
For too long we have had the idea
that pcl1teness was for Europeans, not
for us. We are to be bold. brusque,
elbowing, but never charming, polite,
courteous, except when we are at aft
ernoon teas and such like.
What we need in this country is not,
as the late Vice President Marshall
said, good scent cigar, but birth Of
Nationwide politeness.
AS q people we have always put our
best foot forward, as we say.
Most Of us display more courtesy TO
strangers than we do to the home folks
If we bump into some one on the
sidewalk we apologize nightly, but If
we bump into him with a motor car
we say It Is his fault.
Polite enough, as a general rule,
when on show and display, why do we
fan down so hard when on wheels?
It is a national mystery, CT course,
but perhaps not indigenous to this
country. Read Alexandra Dumas Ball
of Snow" and learn about the Tartar
horsemen, who loved to ride over peo-
PIE on fair days.
We have no Suggestions to offer as to
how to bring about this glorious state
of national politeness. We are not a
commission, and do not know how to
bring in q report.
But we do insist that National Cour-
tesy day, or week, or year, would be a
good thing.
Evening star., 1930-12-09
Higghlights ON the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

ing cheap graphophone on INSTALL
ments. He purchased the instrument
for E2 It's Sd. On January he paid
the IS deposit and on January 81 the
first installment of Is Sd. Since then
he served the Sc days In Glasgow Prison
because he would not deliver the graph
ophone on which several payments were
due.
Return Of Antiquated
Fire Signaling Urged.
EI Comercio. Lima-We believe It
would be good practice to return TO the
antiquated system of signaling in cases
OF fire, used when the guardians of the
public peace communicated from one
post to another the breaking out of q
conhagration. The telegrapfic signals
which have been installed for some
years are inadequate and unreliable.
The recent fire IN the Gale de Bill
nnghurst Is an impressive example of
the defects Of the present system What
was small affair at first, and easy to
extinguish, became a serious and costly
event because the corps Of fremen did
not get information in time. The per-
son who first disco cred the blaze could
not Immediately locate q key to unlock
the hrebox and when one was procured
the fact that the apparatus was Sit.
uated upon pole some distance from
the scene and upon the side of the pole
shadowed from the street light in
creased the delay.
When Los BomberoS (the pumpmen)
finally did arrive, the flames had spread
to adjoining buildings.
After all, the personal definite signal
is better than any message conveyed to
the engine houses by faulty and un-
certain mechanism, and instead of rely
ing upon a contrivance which may or
may not convey the alarm, and which
even when reporting does not indicate
the locality with any degree of precise
ness, the police should be again equip
ped with hre-whistles or anything else
that is necessary to relay the alarm
from one of these vigilant protectors to
another. A code could easily be devised
to acquaint the flremen with the stu
alton Of the pace where their services
are needed. In such matters the hu-
man factor Is much more Trustworthy
than communication by an insensihle
instrument, which, due to deterioration
from exposure and the meddling of
street idlers, can never be depended
upon in emergencies.
The restoration of fire-whistles to
the municipal guardians will save both
lives and property in Lima.