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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

Moscow. He delivered speech Satur-
day night at a meeting given In his
honor at the Concert Hall of Columns
on the occasion of his seventy-fifth
birthday anniversary. No one could
ask more definite evidence of Shaw's
Communism and his filth in the Rus
sian experiment. He is quoted In the
dispatches as follows:
When you have succeeded in your
Communist revolution, which feel con-
fident you will, the other countries will
follow you fast. 1t is for you to carry
out your lead to an absolutely triumphal
conclusion, to a conclusion which will
make 1t absolutely impossible for other
countries not to follow you. AS an old
Socialist, see in your faces new look
which one does not find in the West
and which I hope we will see there.
Why didn't England begin the Com
muniSt revolution instead of Russia?
Karl Marx would have said that Russia
was the last place in the world for it
to begin. The English ought to be
ashamed of themselves for not having
been the first.
Vociferous cheering greeted these
words. That was the stuff the Mos
covians wanted to hear. But what
about England? There will be diff
ferent reaction there. Does Shaw care
whoop about what England thinks?
Probably not. He never has, just so
long as it thought about him at all.
The worst punishment that could be in
Elected upon &c. B. S." would be in
attention. If the English people and
those Americans who are addicted to
Shaw were to declare moratorium on
him for few years he would be very
sad indeed.
1t really is of no moment whatever
to anybody except perhaps the Rus
slams that Shaw thinks well of the
Russian experiment. His prediction of
Russian success and Of world Com
munism following it is but the idle
breath Of a professional humorist,
utterly lacking in qualifications as a
political economist or as an historian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
Where Criminals Are Bred.

The WickerSham Commission 5 re-
port on penal institutions, probation
and parole can only be read as scar
ing indictment of a penal system that
has developed through the centuries
without intelligent aim or guidance, that
has accumulated its ills as 1t went along
and which has heretofore attempted TO
solve its problems by the mere building
of more jails. The result Is system
that, in the words of the commissions
report, lis Anticipated and inethclent.
1t does not reform the criminal. IL
fails to protect society. There Is rea-
son to believe that it contributes to the
increase of crime by hardening the
prisoner" And the only solution is the
development of "a new type OF penal
institution-one that is nsw In spirit
in method and in objective
The penal system has been subject
from time immemorial to recurrent
waves of we'll meant reform. Some OF
these have left their mark and others
have come to nothing Most OF them,
it is feared, have been actuated more
by emotionalism and misguided senti-
ment than by any lasting or Intelligent
effort to initiate new methods after
persistent and continued study Of the
roots of the problem. Some of the nat
ural results are pointed out by the ccm-
mission. which emphasizes the picture
of some three thousand penal institu-
tons including Federal and State pris-
ons and reformatories, warehouses,
farms, chain gangs, city and county
jails, representing as many different
methods of administration and control
and policy in dealing with the reforma-
ton of the human beings for whom
they are maintained. Some OF them, 1t
is fair TO conclude, may represent the
result of intelligent thought, careful
planning and sympathetic administra-
ton. Others are perpetuating traditions
carried forward from the Middle Ages.
The whole stands, as the report points
out, las an unwieldy, unorganized, hit
or-miss system which has grown up over
hundreds of years of local policy max
ing, local tradition and looNl objective"
Through their gates there passes for
lorn army of 400 900 persons each year,
so much grist to be ground and shaped
to the pattern of the jailbird.
Any new system, which can only be
developed through years of intelligent
planning and organization, must at the
outset be guided by the commissions
conception of the functions of
priscn-"to find the means to reshape
the interests. attitudes, habits the total
character of the individual, as to
release him both competent and willing
to find way Of adjusting himself to
the community without further law
violation"
Such a conception may become uni
versal in time. 1t is doubtful whether
it will be fastened by appeal to
humanitarian instincts. But crime
ridden Nation may seize upon it as
means of self-protection, as a method
of eradicating what obviously have be-
come the chief breeding places for
criminals The sad feature of the bust
ness is that the Wickersham report,
having made its brief splash in the
headlines, now takes its place in the
Government archives as another inter-
esting document.
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The "Warrantless Raids

Juggled between the conflicting state
ments of police witnesses and the i'm
passioned pleas to the jury by defense
attorneys not to endanger the sanctity
Of the American home, its manhood,
womanhood and childhood by coun-
tenancing> such tactics, the first of the
series of "warrantless raids" of gam
bling and other establishments have
fallen to earth with dull and rather
sickening thud. While the Police Court
judges refused to throw the cases out
on the plea of illegal entry, thus as
surfing trial on their merits, the juries
have lost little time in acquitting de-
PENDANTS who, through counsel, laid
ct nearly so much stress upon concealirg
TIC nature OF their cr:p.c :lnent as in
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attacking the methods OF the raiding
officers. Three of the nine cases have
been lost by the police. There seems
little prospect of victory in the re-
manning six cases.
If the series of "warrantless raids"
launched with such spectacular fury
by the police were thus to end police
effort to wipe out gambling and liquor
resorts in washington. the fate Of the
test cases could be viewed with some
thing akin to alarm.
But unless the police are chiefly in
tercsscd in idle gestures, the. fate of
the cases should serve to spur them on
to greater activity and mark the be-
ginning of long and persistent cam
paign.
The police know pretty well where
the illegal establishments are, when
they are running and when they are
closed. That much has been admitted
by officials who at the same time, plead
an inability legally to do anything about
it. The fact remains, however, that the
police may continue to appear at the
right place at the right time on a
ceaseless hunt for couple of fellows"
And If one law continues to protect
felonS in the violation of another law,
the police should so advertise that fact,
that the full import of an illogical con-
diticn will lead to proper remedy. Such
advertisement can be gained by con-
tinuing to harrass and to bedevil illegal
establishments, by special police patrols
and by other methods, until there are
positive results.
If the police have found that their
efforts are, in fact, futile and that
brazen disregard of the laws is possible
because of the ease with which tech
nical barriers can be erected to shield
the violators, nothing that they couN
do would be of more value than to
undertake campaign of demonstrating
the facts. If the police admit they are
licked now, the proper remedy is new
police force that will admit no such
thing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

Herbert Janvrin Browne, Washing
ton long-range weather forecaSter, gets
along without a telephone, or at least
without listed one The theory is that
he found his existence made unbear-
able by people who rang him up at all
hours of the day and night to know
what the weather was going to be like
next week, next month or next year.
Mr.. Browne has just burst forth with
the cheerful news that the Eastern
United States is going to be cool from
now until September, due to breezes
periodically originating in the North
west. There'll be two or three of these
salubrious waves, each spreading slowly
southwark and eastward to the Gulf
Coast and the Atlantic seaboard from
five to seven days later Herbert
Janvrin Browne deserves the Nobel
prize-the noblest Of them all.
y
Washington's latest international
worry is the gold situation in Europe,
especially the TRANSMISSION of yellow
blood which France is perpetrating at
the expense of Great Britain. Paris
took Sl5OOOO,O 900 out of London be-
tween July IL and July IS, causing
near-panic in Threadneedle Street.
There is $500 100000 or 100000, 900
more standing to Frances credit in
the Bank of England. Washington
interest In gold developments is wheth-
err the French might not suddenly de-
eide to tap their big hoard in this
country, which some estimates place as
high as 600,000,000. Uncle Sam could
stand its shrinkage UNNECESSARILY bet
ter than John Bull can put up with
similar drains. The United States an6
France between them now own rs per
IF tho trnrld'c uO1d-Q hOIIt 60 and
25 per cent, respectively. Their ag-
gregate population of 165,o00,C00 az
counts for only about an eighth of
Mother Earth's offspring.
Secretary of the Navy Charles Fran
els Adams is Summer vacationing near
Boston and drops into Beantown &C.
casionally' to attend to private affairs.
At MONDAY he can usually be encoun-
tered eating from a stool at a lunch
counter in State street 1t appears that
Skipper Adams has something to do
with the Bunker Hill Monument
grounds. Recently he was asked if
there would be any objection to the
erection Of a tablet by the Breed fam
lily, attesting the fact that Bunker Hill
was fought on Breeds Hill. Il don't
give hoot," was the naval chiefs re-
ply (onJy boot wasn't the world, "as
long as you let the monument stand"
X y * X
Let's not abandon hope OF European
economic recovery just because the
Seven-Power Conference at London
was bit of a flop The Carnegie En-
6owment for International Peace,
which has rendered notable service in
recent years by promoting visits of
American editors to foreign parts, has
Just dispatched nine university pro-
fessors of economics to find out just
what's wrong in Europe. Three will
survey the British Isles, three will tour
Central Europe and the others South
eastern Europe.
(Copyrisht. 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

Many people give over the effort al
together, esp 2cially in smaller plots, and
try one of the various ground covers,
as they are called, such as Pachysandra
This makes everything green, it must
be admitted. but one can scarce get
over the feeling that serpents will crawl
out sooner or .Gtcr.
Grass must remain the desirable
thing. Concrete courts and the like,
while they have their places, cannot
displace the beautiful lawn.
Its place is fixed There is no sub
stitute for 1t in the best sense Grass
is at once the frame and background of
house and garden: its color is un-
equaled, its texture unrivaled.
It will therefore remain the most de-
sired and the most discussed adjunct
of the garden.
This reminds us that many experts
declare that there Is no time of the
year quite so good for lawn making as
Autumn.
The heat of year is over and there is
plenty moisture, in the shape of heavy
dews.
There is, above all. enough of time
for the grass roots to get large and
strong. Although the tops will die
down, the roots are there. ready for an
immediate start at the first touch of
Spring.
This is the theory. and as far as most
people know it is correct enough, but
it takes a great deal of determination
to carry the program into effect.
One help Is that there are not as
many birds in the Fall to eat up the
fresh seed Plant it as carefully as
you may. well raked in, and all that,
the birds are able to get to it. and
every one knows how much a flock of
English sparrows can eat in day.
It is questionable whether SO per cent
of the seed put into the ground is ever
permitted to terminate.
X X *
Try, try again!
That must be the motto of the small
landowner who wants good grass but
who does not possess it as he wants it..
Facts are stubborn things.
We know an amateur gardener who
spent large number of dollars in the
Spring, putting in seed in shady yard.
He used humus carefully treated the
whole to bonemeal, lay back and waited
for the season 10 do Its stuff.
It did.
Within six or seven weeks he had
much superior grass. With the advent
of June it got better still
During the first week of July it was
in beautiful condition, but the next
cutting revealed some of it dying out
Today that lawn is not as he would
have 1t, nor as it promised to be, or
should be. Lack of sun and too much
rain-that Is the diagnosis.
More seed will go in in September,
however. More will go in next Spring.
Instead of all shady mixtures, he will
try half-and-half. one part ordinary
grass seed, one part seed for shady
situations.
This may give a better balance.
There IS likelihood that lawns are
as temperamental as human beings,
and that to take advantage of their
pecularitieS is better than forcing them
to a certain preconceived program.
If one must resort to trickery to get
splendid lawn, trickery is shall be
For good grass is worth little juggling
Of the elements of success. These are
varieties of grass seed. sunshine, water
fertilizer. care. With them one ought
TO be able to work wonders, with the
aid Of one other element-time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
Shaw Shoots His Stuff.

When George Bernard Shaw got to
Russia on his vacation tour he began
in a way that completely
puzzled his Communist hearers, who
doubted whether he was really quite as
much of a Communist as he had been
understood to be. OF course, nobody
expected that the Russians would I'M
derstand Shaw. Few people do. Even
he himself is believed by many to fail
in this respect. However, he has now
made Acca With his Soviet friends at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Warm Weather Astronomy.

Warm Weather Astronomy.
Miss Moon she done got jealous,
She mos fohgot to shine
She heard dc people talkin'
Bout de sun dat look so fine.
But now she's smilin' happy,
AS happy as kin be-
If you has yoh doubts about it,
You kin look yohse'f an see.
When dc hot bug been a-singin'
An a-laughin' bout de heat,
An de world is jes' an oven
Whah ives roas'in, like de meat,
Miss Neon she comes a-s2ilin'
On de breezes OF de night,
An she can't hep lookin' pleasant,
Cause we treats her so polite.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

Suggestions have been made that all
political candidates should be required
to take physical examinations. de-
mand for mental tests is not regarded
as necessary. Before he has a chance
to be a candidate a man naturally
establishes conclusively his status as a
quick thinker
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

A term in the penitentiary gives
McGurn, machine gunner for the
Capone forces, chance for restful i'm
munity from taking his turn at being
put on the spot. If he is wisely appre-
ciative of an opportunity to give his
nerves a vacation, he will not try to
escape
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

Airplanes render 1t no longer prac-
teal for bandits to rely on the protec-
ton of a jungle in devising an ambush
Aviation has accomplished something
toward bringing a fight into the open,
and making it at least a little more
decent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

Bread is a precious article of which
civilization has often had to take heed.
When wheat causes uncertainty as to
the laws of supply and demand, the
situation must be carefully handled to
prevent bread from doing likewise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
College Grammar.

Father" said small boy, sis it i'm
proper to use the word ''taint?"
Yes, my SON. And it is especially
improper if you are at the head of a
college that is hoping for some rich
mans money"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
Not Standing Committee.

From the Ann Arbor Daily News.
The transfer of chairs from the Wick
ersham Commission Office to the White
House does not indicate, we hope. that
it is to be one of those standing COM
mitteeS
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Real Troubles.

THE base ball umpire has his trou-
bles," said the grandstand enthusiast.
YES" answered the friend, with a
patient look, 'he has troubles, but he
never was chairman of a golf club
house committee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

New experiences are abundantly en-
joyed by the Siamese King and Queen.
Siam may reasonably expect some new
and valuable ideas when these dis
back home.
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Sapphira.


Lying in a hammock
On a Summer day
That is how he finds her
AS he walks that way.
Thinks she is an angel
Lettering here below,
And she smiles demurely;
Keeps him thinking so.
A men6acious Cupid
Hovers DER the spot.
Half of what she says in June
In August is forgot.
Says the same to others
When he's gone away,
Lying in a hammock
On a Summer day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

Mirrors" of one kind or another in
current literature revive a superstition.
Public men may not admire the reflec-
ton, but hesitate at an effort to smash
them for fear of inviting bad luck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27

Fashions for women are more dis
cussed, but are not nearly as impor-
tant as comfortable Summer attire for
policemen whose duty it is to work hard
and keep their tempers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
Mexican Consul Has His Life.

From the Fort Wayne News-sentmeL
One can't blame that Mexican consul
for being peeved at being jailed In, Cnl.
cago: but still and all, he really ought
to be grateful that he wasn't SHOT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
Alphabet Cut.

FROM the Milwaukee Sentinel.
BAIL will dispose of three letters Of
its alphabet, runs news item. In the
United States a movement to dispense
with o and U might receive consider
able popular support.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
Open Arms to Be Expected.

From the Goshen Daily News-Tlmes.
What President Hoover hopes VIII re-
suit from the disarmament conference;
as we see It, is that t tne p INNS Will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
A Primer Mnftn-

I'm God we trust" It's printed fair
Upon each silver dollar new.
With grafters lurking everywhere,
IT'S all an honest coin can do.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
Truth at Last.

From the Charlotte IN. CO. News.
At Palm Beach a bathing beach vas
sold under the hammer. That's one
time the auctionccr didn't mind ois-
closing that the lot was covered ".A
TatsS.
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A Change.

"Is Tim SINNERS still paying atten-
ton to Mandy Tompkins?" asked the
man who had been away from home
for some time.
NO answered Farmer Corntossel.
"They don't either of 'em pay any ten
ton to the ether. They're married"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-27
Chair of Humor Desired.

From the Dayton Daily News.
A chair of hurnor is suggested 1or col
geS. It seems the abscnt-m'n1ea pro
fcssors no longer provide enough iuh'
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Handicapped.

HdHuICdpUeu.
What's de reason" inquired Loiter-
ing Luke, dat you can't go ahead an
git yourself reformed?"
Its jes' hard luck" replied Flooding
Pete. Il never could manage to git
arrested in a way dat would give me de
advantages of de right kind OF peni-
Tertiary"
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de man dat alluS wants his own
way" said Uncle Eben, "tal-es heap
O. 'sponsibility an gifts mighty few
thanlaA"
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Wheat still is a cloud which hangs
over Republican prospects in the great
States of the West and the Northwest.
If the wheat farmers, who have plenty
of wheat this year in those States,
could get better prices; If many of them
could afford to hold on to their wheat
until an upturn comes, 1t would GER
tainly revive dropping Republican
spirits in those sections. At present the
farmers of Missouri, not to mention the
grain trade. are very sore, and in Kan
wheat crop is beginning now to be
harvested in the Northwest, Washing
ton and Oregon for example. Com
plants from those States where Spring
wheat is now coming into the market
may swell the protests which already
have ccme from the Winter wheat
country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-03
EGGS CHEAPEST
 IN MANY YEARS
Cooks Sometimes Fail to Realize Possibilities of
 This Food
A FLUFFY OMELET
Bv GRACE WALL GRAY

The majority of home-makers think of eggs as something for breakfast without realizing the vast possibilities of this wholesome food as luncheon or dinner dish. Righr now. because they are the cheapest they have been in many years, eggs can be used as the basis of many delightful meal. They can be used plentifully in the diet with saving of nourishment.
 With little imagination. the home maker will find that she can from soup to dessert. Eggs for dinner, for example, can be present ed the family in many guises, such as Eggs Beauregard, Eggs Benedict. Baked Eggs and Cheese, Creamed Eggs on Toast, Hot Deviled Eggs or Eggs and Asparagus au Gratin.
 One of the most appetizing lunch con or dinner egg dishes is the omelet. The family can be given omelets every day of it's life and never tire of them because there are so many omelet variations. They can be made with almost any kind celery or cooked asparagus, with grated cheese, chopped chicken, ham or bacon or with cooked mush- rooms. The water in which veget- ables have been cooked may be used as the liquid in making omelet. giv- ing the dish an appetiZing flavor Jelly is also very. good folded into an omelet. Tomato sauce. brown sauce, with or without vegetables, or Spanish sauce poured over the omelet after 1t is turned onto the platter, suggest other variations.
 There are two kinds of omelets-- flat ones and fluffy ones. Flat omelets as the French make them are little easier and quicker to handle than fluffy omelets, because the yolks and whites of eggs are beaten together, not separated. There really is just one secret that the housewife should know about omelets. The secret of a perfect omelet is to cook it at a moderate