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guarded to prevent political bosses from
exercising control" The Indianapolis
Star emphasizes the point that 1.-The
parties are little more than names I'M
der the primary system" and that
"blocS and interested minorities put
over. nominees for their own selfish
purposes"
Assuming that the chief interest is
in presidential primaries, the Roanoke
World-News recalls the 1928 campaign.
when the nominations were practically
settled before the conventions met" and
a previous Republican campaign in
which immense sums were spent for
OIL candidate" while "the fallacv OF
the system was shown when the non1i-
nation went to one who had not been
candidate in the presidential pri-
mar1eS except in his own State" The
World-NewS also argues: 1T must be
confessed that results so far obtained
have not justified the high hopes OF
woodrow Wilson and others that this
method Of making party nominations
would bring control closer to the peo-
pie. 1t frequently means that a State
casts its primary votes for favorite
son. and that after the first few ballots
when that candidate is eliminated. its
N1StS5OO~0 eAV 1ANC w bldOC dso bIley SEE
fit"
With all its faults" preclaims the
Columbus Ohio State Journal. I'VE will
continue to love the primary system OF
nominating candidates until a better
one is devised, and by better we do not
mean one which will take the nominal
j power out of the hands of the
people. Far from perfect, the primary
system Is better than the convention
system, even as it has been doctored
up for presentation to the legislature
and, If that body is willing, to the
voters. When delegates to a conven-
ton hold in their hands the power to
say who shall and who shall not run
for any Office, from United States Sena
tor to coroner, the power of the people
has been usurped. The old convention
system has not been dead so long that
It's evils have been forgotten. It must
be Omitted that the convention system
Is more efficient if by efficiency is
meant ease in making nominations, but
such efficiency is hardly the goal II
democracy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19
Asks Children to Plant
Trees for Washington
80 the Editor OF The Star

Az tuS 14o4LOI OI ne STAR
Every school child in America has
been asked by the teachers and schools
Of the United States to plant a tree this
year for George Washington. These
trees are to be dedicated as a part of
the patriotic program in celebration of
George Washington's first birthday, 200
years ago. What glorious thing for
the school children of America to be
given such high honor in this great
celebration in memory of our peerless
chieftain-to help plant trees-"Wash-
ington" trees-to beautify, glorify and
adorn their homes, parks, highways, by
ways and avenues of their respective
cities! Just trees, trees trees; trees that
only God can make" named for a
cody man and peerless leader--George
Washington.
oh, children! What gladness and Joy
must be yours, planting trees, beloved
trees, Washington" trees, in memory
of our beloved and revered father Of
his country! But for him we would
have no country and no flag. Think of
watching them grow and give beauty
and shade. sweetness and fruit, and
shelter to the birds-birds to sing their
songs and help you to sing America"
and "The Star Spangled Banner!'
Royal palms and lofty redwoods, stately
pines and gothic elms, oaks and acacias,
magnolias and cedars, laurels and myr-
ties and cherry trees-yes, cherry trees,
immortalizing the character building
story of childhood and truth.
Children of America, how proud
and happy you must be to show to the
world your lofty ideals of truth, that
stand for strength and power, in your
planting of washington" treesl
Every child in America will some
day, I am sure, visit Mount Vernon, his
home, and our sacred shrine. The first
thing they will see will be the glorious
treasures planted by Washington
himself.
- MRS MARTHA q. QIMoWs
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Mexican Residents Warned
To Beware of ImpoStors.
Interpretation of Law
By Juries Is Condemned
From the Chicago Daily News.

From the Chicago Daily News.
With but one dissenting vote, the
Illinois Supreme Court, in a test case
that should have been brought many
years ago, has just decided that the
State law permitting juries in criminal
and to disregard the instructions OF the
presiding judges on the same points is
repugnant to the constitutional prin-
ciple of separation of governmental
powers, and therefore is invalid
If jurieS are judges of law as well as
Of the issues of fact. what function of
Importance. the opinion asks, is left to
the court in the trial of criminal cases?
What indeed? 1t cannot be commended
convincingly that the trainers of the
Illinois constitution intended judges to
be mere umpires while juries, devoid Of
legal training, interpreted and applied
the law In accordance with such knowl-
edge or lack Of knowledge, as they might
chance to possess. Yet for a whole cen.
fury Illinois has adhered to a law mani
testify illogical and mischievous in prac-
tice. Now that law is declared of no
effect. Thus ends its long and dubious
career.
1t is strange that no effort to test the
validity of the statute was made prior
TO the recent determination of Cook
County'S judicial advisory council to
get rid, if possible, of serious obstacle
to the administration of justice in GRIM
1nal cases. However, late is better than
never. The clear-cut decision by the
Supreme Court now has made it un-
necessary to seek, as was planned, leg
islation depriving juries of a power and
responsibility they did not possess at
common law, a power which they GER
tainly did not obtain as a result Of any
express provision Of the State constitu-
ton.
The effect Of the decision should Be
distinctly helpful In clarifying the minds
Of conscientious Jurors IS to their ou0es.
essNsasss -
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Silent, and soft, and slow,
DescendS the snow.

-hOlklS4lON.
1t was the most considerate snow
Washington ana environs ever expert
enced.
Not a fake stayed on streets ano
sidewalks, but Immediately melted, sc
that householders we're saved vast ex-
penditure of energy and the municipal,
government large sum of money.
Yet for She. beauty few SHOWS OF
recent years have excelled it.
Especially was the landscape in for
tunate suburbs unsurpassed on Tuesday
morning, when the light revealed q
fairyland.
Trees and fence posts were coated on
their northern sides, while branches
boughs and limbs were completely COW
cred with mantle Of fleecy white.
X X y =
The effect of a snow is to draw all
objects nearer while shutting them out
completely.
1t was this which Emerson had in
mind when he wrote:
"All friends shut out, the housemates sit
Around the radiant foreplace, enclosed
BY the tumultuous privacy O. storm"
Washington's snowstorm could not
have been called tumultuous in any
sense, but it did snow right "smartly.
as some say, and it did give to house
holders the sense spoken of above.
The privacy of the storm is snug
warmth mare manifest. The yellow cat
sits in the window and looks out UNI
knowingly at the scene of its latest
explicit. 1t no longer remembers that
two AiredaleS, made frisky by the fall
ing snow, had chased it up a slippery
Normandy poplar, down which it later
vas afraid to come.
There, aloft in the snow and rain ii
had meoWed to come down. Eut nov,
safe indoors. it has forgotten that mo
ment and now meows to be out again
Such evit ,tly is life, for cats as well
as for human beings.
X
Poets have loved the snow. but have
not shown much originality in dealing
with it. Most OF them use the adjec-
tives soft" and "slow" because they
fit. "Silert," too, is seldom left out in
snow poems.
In the two lines which lead this
column today Longfellow has said about
all that can be said by way Of physical
description of a snowfall. A little re-
membered poet, one James w. Watson
began his famous poem thus:
"Oh the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and the earth below. y
Shakespeare mentions snow in Win
ter's Tale" as would be expected, and
also in Romeo and Juliet" and King
john" to our knowledge. No doubt he
speaks of it elsewhere.
1t remained for the French Villon
however, to write the most quoted line
concerning snow:
But where are the SHOWS Of yester-
year?"
4 X
We never Sc fresh snow clinging
lovingly to roof lines and to every tiny
branch and spray of shrubs and bushes
without thinking it far better than all
the SHOWS Of years gone.
M. Villon was in reminiscent mood
over a misspent life.
A less exciting life may not be so
da. ing especially as a theme for prose
or verse, but it is a better sort Of life
to live with, year after year, and it
carries far fewer regrets in its winged
flight.
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The President in the Caribbean.

President Hoover is afloat today
en- route to his working holiday in the
Caribbean. The whole Nation, regard
less of political bias, wishes him bon
voyage and happy experience in the
Antilles, whence he betakes himself to
inspect Porto Rico and the Virgin
Islands.
Mr.. Hoover is ACCOMPANIED by Sec
rotary or War Hurley and Secretary OF
the Interior Wilbur, circumstance
that carries more than social sig
nif1cance. These cabinet officers are at
the heads of the Federal departments
which, between them. conduct our
Colonial administration. The War De-
partment has jurisdiction over the Phil
ippines, Porto Rico and the Canal Zone
In the Interior Department is lodged
the supervision of Alaskan and Ha-
waiian affairs. The Virgin Islands have
Just been transferred to the Interior
Department Guam, our lonely patch
in mid-Pacifc, naturally, comes under
the Navy.
The President is credited with a
plan to centralize the governance OF
our various overseas possessions in the
hands of some single Federal agency
at Washington. In nearly every other
country in the world with outlying ter
ritory like ours it is administered by a
government department charged with
no other duties. The Colonial Office
is its historic name in Great Britain,
though the Importance Of that cabinet
portfolio is no longer what it was in
the days of Joseph Chamberlain, Brit
aims most famous colonial secretary,
and since the motherland set up the
daughter nations" in business for
themselves.
Lands as remote from each other
as the Philippines and Porto Rico, as
divergent in interests as Alaska and
the Virgin Islands, as different in their
particular problems as the Canal Zone
and Hawaii, call for highly diversified
treatment. Yet they do have certain
aspects in common which would lend
themselves to consideration on some
common basis. MI Hoover is an
avowed enemy of overlapping in our
complicated Federal mechanism. He
probably sees as little rhyme or reason
in letting three separate Government
departments run our overseas terri
tories as he did, while Secretary of
Commerce, when he discovered the
anomaly Of "the three bears" The
President-to-be could never understand
why polar bears are Interior Department
charges, grizzly bears are responsible
to the War Department and plain little
bears the wards Of the Department of
Agriculture.
Mr.. Hoover cannot, of course, in a
hurried sojourn of mere hours in our
Caribbean possessions, come to any
settled conclusions on a reorganization
Of our insular and territorial govern
ment. But he will absorb some useful
ideas down there and, being an expert
1igsaw-puzzle player, the President will
know how to At those particular pieces
Of the problem into the whole, if such
q thing is possible and feasible.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PH1ANDER JOHNSON.

Lingering Labels.
Since at old drinks In righteousness we
SCOT,
oh why not take the old-time labels on
That are reminders Of our wicked
youth
"Budweiser," SHERRY Tonic" or "Ver-
mouth"l
The TASKS thus ornamented, after all,
Contain no further trace Of alcohol.
Why gid his past and give this Demon
Rum
Hope that there may be glories yet to
come.
There is a melancholy most profound
In shops where beauteous printing may
be found.
II might prove merciful and for the best
To Danish all the labels with the rest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19

Well informed Americans do not find
dificulty in securing an interview with
Mussolinl, who, however. is likely to
leave an impression that the Italian
premier, eager to be informed, is in
reality the one who has been doing the
interviewing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19

Demolition work in carrying out pro-
grams of public improvement give visitors
to washington, D. c., an opportunity to
observe what some portions Of the town
could do In competition with some an
cient and more or less picturesque ruins
of the Old World.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19

The American public is frank in ad-
uniting when it has been wrong. Henry
Ford is now accepted as man Of most
serious attachments as a hnancier, and
Charlie Chaplin is saluted as a comedian
of distinguished attainments. The
jokes Of yesteryear vanish, even as the
SHOWS.
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them they would render great service.
They could be constantly behind the
abuserS of the rights of driving and a
little sanity might begin to reign on
our highways. Motor cycle police would
be a great protection against some of
the fools now infesting traffic. OF
course, these police chaufieurs must
driver from the careful person who Is
travelling little fast. In the latter
case 1t will be necessary, perhaps, only
to take the number Of the vehicle.
X X
Governor Of Rome Plans
To Drive Cats From Forum.
A B G Madrid. A colony Of cats
has inhabited the Roman Forum,
nestle and political events, for 1000
years. They have been a sort of tradi-
ton and feature-especially in more
recent centurieS-of these ruined tenn
Piles and payements. 1t has now been
proposed by the italian government,
however, to drive all these cats away
from the Forum precincts. Such an
exile from their habitation Of the
creatures holding probably the most
ancient tenancy in Europe is a grave
iniquity. But in this instance, as in
l4AC kOhG41IOI VI IbO1tlC PIODOSGSs
without mercy. and for most puerile
considerations, to Danish these cats
from the Forum of Trajan, with all the
tyranny of Fascist might. In former
days all these cats were regularly fed
by the municipality.
X X
Mexican Residents Warned
To Beware of ImpOstOrs.
vi
partment of police has issued a warn
ing to all occupants of private dwellings
in the capital and federal district to be
cautious whom they admit to their
premises as inspectors of electrical and
telephonic equipment. Persons with
forged credentials have already gained
admittance to number of private
houses, and have employed this decep-
ton to perpetrate number of robberies.
Others pretend to be busy examining
wires on the tops of houses, and gain
ingress to the apartments in this way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19

An exceptionally mild Winter has made
the cost of fuel less formidable than
usual during the season Of cold weather.
1t may be feared that any saving in this
respect will be more than lost when
prices caused by scarcties due to
drought are felt at their worst.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19

II will be necessary for Einstein to
report to Germany that he did not find
very many Americans able to under
stand his theories. However, by way Of
evening matters up. there were numer-
Gus ideas and customs over here which
Einstein found beyond his comprehen-
sion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19
Engagement Rings.

"You promised that you would let me
give you an engagement ring"
"Jewelry doesn't signify much"
answered Miss Cayenne. when de-
eide that I wish to be engaged, I'll give
you the ring, as feminine independence
now has the right to do. And If I give
you a ring on the telephone, it'll really
mean something"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19
Genius.

Homer and Dante, it is said,
Sometimes must sing for needed bread
True Genius" now with modern art
In an invention makes a start.
He works with superior skill
And sends us each and all bill.
1t costs some millions, experts VOW,
To figure as Genius" noWl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19

"Progressives" In politics are not al
WAYS able to go on unanimously pro-
crossing toward the same objective
point. A progressive movement is al
most invariably hampered by its own
yersatility
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19

New York is a large and in some re-
spects a representative city. Its latter
aspect is hardly great enough to war
rant making its local political scandals
subjects Of minute local discussion in
ali American cities.
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All other States and Canada.
Member Of One Associated Press.

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled
to the use for republication of all news dis
patches credited to 1t or not otherwise cred
tied in this paper and also the local news
published herein All rights of publication Of
special dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19
Popularity.
AOPuAoAASy
Popularity is a great asset"

Popularity is a great asset"
ut is" agreed Senator Sorghum. But
it's q misfortune to acquire too much OF
1t early in life. The most popular young
man I know remained a ukulele player
the rest Of his days"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19
Bourbons Follow Bourbons.

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
The Bourbons of Spain seem about
to go the way Of the Bourbons Of Ken
E0ckJa 80 49, 44.--i--iI.--I-L
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innumerable disadvantages in
being poor Realizing some of
~ these, religions tentatively sug-
gest that the impecunious have
vested rights in the Kingdom of
Heaven.
OF this, every man must judge for
himself, but If the rich inherit bonds,
real estate, income tax and death du-
ties, it is the poor who inherit the
earth. For only the poor can travel.
The rich man merely changes the
view outside the plate glass. windows
of Pullmans and palace hotels. When
he goes abroad he takes with him as
much of England as his valet can pack
into his excellent British suit cases
Acutely aware of being somebody, he
expects his person to be recognized and
his check book appreciated. He is
afraid of talking to the man in the
street, in the train, aboard the boat,
for he does not want to give and 1t
does not occur to him that he might
receive.
Consequently he never learns the
other persons point of view, unless that
person happens to be unimpeachably
upholstered by the figures of his bank
balance or guaranteed by an official
position.
This is where the Importance of be-
ing nobody comes in. The ordinary
man, if he has enough gumption to
travel hard and to keep his eyes open
while doing so, may learn more about
England in a foreign town than Down
ing street can visualize In five years of
Office.
And probably the first thing he will
note abroad is the tendency to legiSlate
for the worker rather than the work.
less, to encourage individual initiative
rather than to shackle it with union
limitations, and to give every citizen a
stake in his own country by graded
taxation to which even the laborer
contributes, so that he is legitimately
and personally concerned in all ques-
lions of national expenditure. BY the
time the ordinary traveller returns to
Dover he will realize that, with the
exception of Russia, England is the only
country in the world which, ostrich
wise, prefers to bury its head in the
sand of uneconomic legislation instead
of clearing away the mess by the eXer-
else of common sense.
1t is time that we stopped spending
what we haven't got and piling up LA
biliries out Of all proportion to cur
assets.
It is time the nobodies raised their
voices lest, within our own generation,
the empire on which we depend for our
position among the great powers reluc-
family breaks away from rotting CEN
ter. For no great man has yet had the
courage to forget the vote in the inter
ests of the nation, and to preach hard
thinking and hard working in lieu of a
political miracle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19

Jud Tunkins says good dog will fol-
low a man, but great deal depends on
how fast the man decides it's decent to
travel.
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New England Gets Winter.

From the Duluth Herald.
New England has been having nearly
all the nations Winter. New England
is the particular region where most OF
the country's weather poems used to
20 WRITTEN. -. .-.-. .--.-.-
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Hunting Trouble.

In politics he spends his breath.
And later on his friends will sob,
When he is worried half to death,
And wonder why he took the job.
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Omclal Vacation

Vacation days at last are here.
And, what seems best,
The public it ;red by words severe
Can take a rest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19

Ode sun rises in de East" said Uncle
Eben, IAN it don need no 'stronomy to
'splatn why it has been dom dat way
since everybody kin remember. It's jes'
one o. dem powerful habits"
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Many" said Hi Ho the sage Of
Chinatown, "are courageous enough I'd
repeat the truth who are not wise
enough to discover it."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19
Motor Cycle Officers
Held Great Aid in Paris.

LIE Soir, Brussels. - Paris now has
some motor cycle police agents, whose
duty it is to take after marauders and
other delinquents seeking to escape
from justice in automotive vehicles.
Already for a long time other countries
and other cities have had such mobile
units in their departments. Here. in our
country, up until now, we have never
had any gendarmeS with motor cycles,
but We certainly need them r We bad
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-19
Ex-Kaiser's Estate to
BE Semi-Public Park,

NeueS Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna
The Holland Government has decid-
ed to convert the environment of the
estates at Doom, now occupied by the
ex-Kaiser, Wilhelm II, and his retinue
into a semi-public park. The ex-Kaiser
will still be permitted to live there, at
less expense, and in much the same
privacy as heretofore. but will not be
permitted to indulge In any Of his tree
chopping propensities.. or to interfere
with the wild life onSef1e premises. In
other words, the confines of Doom will
be turned into a sort of rural reserva-
ton, where the general public may en-
10Y the beauties and benefits of nature,
together with the present imperial
tenant.
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Higghligghts on the Wide World
: Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

ALLY MAIL, London.-There are
innumerable disadvantages in
being poor. Realizing some of
these, religions tentatively sug-
gest that the impecunious have
y-ioIfe in the KipCdof1o Of