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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

A N IMMIGRATION case which may
"A develop into national Importance
with wide consequences has arisen
through the application of Miss Ella
Young, Irish author and authority on
ancient Celtic mythology, for admis-
sion to the United States with the
intention Of becoming an American
citizen.
Miss Young, who in recent years has
lectured at Vassar, Smith and Mills
colleges, made application for visa
in November, 1880, at Victoria, B. G.;
where she is now living, but 1t was re-
fused or held In allegiance on the
ground that she had not demonstrated
satisfactorily to the American con-
sulate that she might not become
public charge, based upon the view
that Miss Young, being sixty-six years
of age. without Independent means
and a writer, might not always be
self-supporting.
Notwithstanding appeals from prom
inent educators, financiers and law
yers the State department refused to
take cognizance of the case. 1t simply
stated, what it has said without ex-
ception since the immigration act of
1924 was amended In 1927, that the
American consul who passes upon ap-
pllcations for visas is the court Of
first and last resort in such matters.
Miss Young was resident Of this
country from October Is. 1925. until
November IS, 1880. She arrived upon
a visitors permit which was repeated
ly extended, upon suitable bond being
posted, but left the country at Seattle
on November IS, 1880, although her
permit had been extended to July 1.
1881, and went to Victoria.
1t was her intention to make her
permanent home in California and
write a book on Irish mythology. In
addition, friends were arranging for
a chair in Irish mythology to be es-
tablished for her at some California
university.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

bur, secretary of the interior, William
D. Mitchell, attorney general, and
Andrew Mellon, secretary of the treas
ury.
For the last year there have been
rumors that Hyde was DESTROYS of get
ting out of the cabinet, as the duties
Of secretary of agriculture have placed
a severe strain on his health. There
also have been reports he would be-
come chairman of the Republican ma
tional committee, and that he planned
to run for senator in Missouri next
year. To his friends he has denied
both reports.
Wilbur's leave OF absence as presi-
dent of Leland Stanford university
expires this year, it is understood, but
undoubtedly it will be extended.
Mitchell has been reported to be con-
sidering a New York law partner
ship, and also has been mentioned as
possible appointee when the next
Supreme court vacancy occurs.
Since Hoover entered the White
House. Secretary Mellon has been re-
ported to be preparing to resign and
Henry M. Robinson Of Los Angeles
selected as his successor. Mellon is
the only holdover of the Coolidge cab.
met.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

G ENATOR BIN G.
~ hams remedy for
governmental extray-
agance" is more tax
alton. He would re-
vive nuisance taxes
and slap on other lev
les SO thick that the
people who are now
demanding always
greater government
expenditures, which
t--ey fondly think
some one else is pay
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

Canadian ministers. The appointment
was announced from Ottawa, not from
London.
Early governors general of Canada
were actual as well as official heads of
government. They took direct part
in the administration of public af-
fairs. One negotiated treaty with the
United States, another plunged d.
rectly into political campaign,
third was attacked with eggs in Mont
real when he signed what was known
as the rebellion losses bill. Thirty
years ago a governor general blocked
a list of appointments being rushed
through by a defeated government.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17


the malady was the speakers wife,
Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
Born to wealth and position on
November 5, 1869, in Cincinnati, Ohio,
his home ever since, AIR. Longworth,
after attending Franklin school there,
was graduated in 1891 from Harvard.
He spent one year in Harvard law
school, then transferred to the Gin
cinnati law school, graduating from
that institution In 1894.
Although admitted to the bar, he
did not practice to any extent. In
stead, he became interested in civic
affairs and soon was immersed in pol
itics in the city over which Boss"
Cox then held sway. Despite his per-
sistent inclination to remain regular"
in political controversies, he declined
to take dictation from the Cox or
Ranization and never was closely iden-
tilted with it.
A six year term as speaker culmi-
mated the service of Nicholas Long
worth in the house Of representatives
during thirteen congresses.
But three speakers in the history OF
the house occupied longer the chair
to which Mr.. Longworth was elevated
by his Republican colleagues after
twenty years apprenticeship as a
"boy" representative from Ohio, dis
tinguished service on the powerful
ways and means committee and one
term as majority floor leader.
He was the Republican candidate
for speaker of the next house. in which
that party now holds majority OF
only one.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

THOSE who ex-
4 pected, that Adolf
Hitler would arise in
offended might and
defy the recent dlcta.
torial decree Of Presi-
dent Paul Won Hin
denburg were not
fully acquainted with
Hitler. The Fascists
are enraged both at
being suppressed and
at being classed with
the hated Commun-
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

THE earl of Bess-
L borough. G a n
ada's new governor
general, comes to the
Dominion heralded as
the wealthiest man
ever to hold the office.
He is also the first
governor general to be
chosen by the Can
a dian government.
Under the new Do
minion status he was
appointed by the king
on the advice of his
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

n FFICIAL denial
" that Arthur NJ.
Hyde, secretary of
agriculture, would re-
sign, and that Presi-
dent Hoover would
shortly reorganize his
cabinet, seemingly
sets at rest recent
widespread reports of
dissension in the
Presidents 0 fficia l
family, since the de-
NAL also extended to
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

d EAR ADMIRAL
IN Thomas G. Hart
has been appointed
superintendent of the
Naval academy. sue
ceeding Rear Admiral
S. S. Robson, retired.
Admiral Robson has
had a career of 43
years in the navy.
His official retirement
starts June 1, but in
the meanwhile he has
planned to take a va
m ito. ~ hfC nnnnnfI-
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

PRACTICALLY every disaster af-
fords a test of the heroic mold
Of its participants. 1t is heartening
to reflect that the test usually is met.
In no instance Of tragedy in recent
years has there been better display
Of courage, presence of mind and in
telligent action than in the Colorado
school bus catastrophe, which meant
the death of five children from expos
ure to the severe cold. All of the if
teen children who survived this terri
BILE ordeal must have been possessed
Of unusual endurance; but the behav-
Tor of one alone, of thirteen-year-old
Bryan Untiedt, was most heroic and
admirable. 1t is worthy of all the
attention 1t has attracted, including
the invitation received by Bryan from
President Hoover to visit the White
House and the citation of his record
to the Carnegie hero fund. But great
er than any recognition that may come
of the event is the reminder the ex-
ample affords to humanity everywhere
that, in spite of all its weakness and
seeming helplessness at times, there is
within it an element of the heroic
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

NICHOLAS LONG
~ worth, speaker
of the house of repre-
sentatives, v e terra n
Ohio congressman.
and son-in-law of
Theodore Roosevelt,
died Of pneumonia at
Aiken, S. c., where he
was spending a spring
vacation.
Aiding the three
physicians and staff
of nurses who sought
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-04-17

LaPlata, Md.
HughesviIIe, Nd.
Indian Head, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
The Last of the Wendels

In these days Of ostentation and
display, Of social self advancement and
exploitation, the career Of the last Of
the Wendell family, who was buried in
New York Sunday with the simplest
Of ceremonies, is worthy of attention
and consideration. Ella Wendell, the
final survivor Of a large family whose
wealth has for the better part of a
century b en- great enough to mark it
as one of New York's richest, was
veritably a recluse. One by one her
sisters and her only brother had passed
on leaving no void in Manhattan'S
social life, for they had nev:r taken
any part In the activities of the
metropolis. To the end she found her
sole ccmpanionship and perhaps her
only friendship in little dog, or rather
a serbs Of little dogs, one following the
other as canine nature took its toll
That little dog. first and last, figured
somewhat in New York real estate
history, for a richly valuable lot ada
cent to the family mansion on Fifth
avenue was held unimprovsd, so it was
formally declared by representative
of the family, as an exercise ground
for the pet poodle.
The Wendels> lived rigid, old-fash-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17

toned life, eschewing all modern i'm
provements, such as the telephone and
the electric light At the very end Of
Miss Elias life, however, a telephone
was installed for the use of the physi-
clans and nurses attending her in her
illness. Probably the spirit of John
Gottleib Wendell, whose austere char
acter dominated the lives of all of the
family even after his death, was greatly
grieved at this innovation. He had
imposed upon his descendants a strict
injunction to invest the family fortune
in real estate and never to SELL This
instruction proved profitable, for as a
result of a consistent course Of buying
and holding the Wendell wealth is now
estimated at hundred millions at the
least
Now, with the last of the Wendels
gone. with no descendants to share in
the estate, the accunula ton Of virtually
three generations will go to charity"
as the word is used on such occasions
to institutions of welfare, or succor. or
instruction. The terms of the will of
Miss Ella Wendell are not disclosed.
When they are made public, there will
perhaps be some surprises, and maybe
a contest will ensue. The immediate
interest of New Workers, however, re-
lates to the family home on Fifth ave-
nue., with it's dog run" lot adjacent,
which has been held out of the market
for many years and which is rated as
one of the most valuable pieces OF real
estate in the world. In one respect the
sale of this mansion and its boarded-in
side yard will be a disappointment, for
it will remove a landmark that Man
hattanites never tire of showing to
strangers with explanation Of the pc
culiar circumstances Of its retention for
residential use during decades OF in
tensive commercial building.
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lation is favored over the Blaine legis-
lation, q real effort should be made in
behalf of the Capper legislation, &C
companied by q careful appraisal of
the weaknesses or unjust provision Of
the Blaine bills. In other words,
washington interests whose business
will be affected by passage of the legis-
lation should take the leadership in the
next Congress in any movement de-
signed to bring about its enaction.
Their opposition to some sections Of
the Blaine bills is readily understood.
But their espousal Of the type Of legis-
lation considered most desirable should
be emphasized over and above their
opposition to legislation considered less
desirable. The alternative will be to
accept what Congress chooses to give.
And unless Congress is otherwise con-
vinced by carefully drawn argument
it may give the community form of
protection against the crooks and the
scoundrels that will work undue and
unfair hardship on the business con-
Quoted by honest men. A plan of cam
paign should be drawn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
Highlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

device. A pessimistic friend Of mine
who had been bitten once or twice, de-
cided to take no risks when he had to
leave his car in the street during a
lodge meeting. He took OF a back
wheel and trlIndled it into the hall with
him-and not wholly as Joke either
When he came out his car was gone, the
necessary wheel having been pinched
from another car nearby!
"Jeames. Social values in Australia
are a standing source of astonishment
to on-AuStralians. Take the case OF
our recent visitor, Earl Beauchamp. He
is in all respects one of Britains most
important people; leader in the Lords
of one of the historic parties, a former
lord president Of the council, an ecclesi-
astical commissioner lord warden of the
Cirque Ports; rich, highly respectable,
and the brother -in-law Of a millionaire
duke Incidentally, as a young man, he
was governor of N S. Wales, and filled
the Job as creditably as many older
exes. Yet, socially speaking, he was
ignored, both in Sydney and Melbourne
No great club, for example, gave a din
ner in his honor. Let us suppose Sir
Dudley De Chair had returned instead
Of Lord Beauchamp. 1t is as certain
as anything can be that the clubs
would have competed to entertain him
as a representative Englishman. Yet in
his own country De Chair is as obscure
as Beauchamp is eminent. Nine Britons
out of 10 know all about Beauchamp;
not one in 10000 has ever heard of De
Chair Apropos, when the Duke of RoX-
burgh was out here with the present
King 80 years ago, lady at Government
House was heard to say TO another, Il
do hope Mrs. Blank" naming a promi-
nent solicitors wife, approves of him
1t will make all the difference to him
socially" That would seem prepos-
ferrous to Londoner To a Sydneyite
of the period it was perfectly reason
able. 1t is relevant phenomenon that
while considerable fuss was made over
Sir Otto Niemeyer, Sydney society didn't
even know when Somerset Vaughan
Gilbert Frankau, Alec Waugh and D. H
Lawrence were out here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

/ There is no breasting a moving auto
| mobile. In jumping as well as one
may, if the necessity arises, lies the
| pedestrians only salvation.
We have heard persons foolishly say,
why, If I suddenly found car bear
ing down on me, would leap for the
hood and hang on!"
DO not do it!
Jump to the right, or jump to the
| left, If you can, but never for the on
coming car.
The impact between moving car and
moving pedestrian would be too much
for human flesh to stand
A few trained athletes might get
away" with such a maneuver. but 999
persons out of 1000 simply would be
crushed by it.
The cautious pedestrian, when walk
| ing some beautiful stretch of country
road, will look ahead as he goes along
and see that he has ample means for
escape If some reckless driver should
press him too close to the side of the
| highway.
Especially will he watch out that no
car can push him into a sort of pocket
out of which there is no means of ready
| escape. Many types of pedestrian trap
will be found along a road. Some
times the roadbed skirts close to the
foot Of high rock, up which there
is no climbing. Or the winding way
comes close to a hog-tight, bull-high
fence, over which there is little chance
Of escape.
The wise pedestrian will take his
eyes away from the beauties of the
countryside long enough to seek such
traps in advance, and to so time his
approaches that will not be in them
| when a car is passing.
The man who walks along a country
road these days mostly does 1t for the
joy of the thing. The fact that he is
doing it at all shows, or ought to show,
| that he has plenty of time at his dis
| posal. This will permit him to make
leiSurely approach to such pedestrian
traps as we have described and to
wait II. he sees car approaching in
order that he may give it as wide a
berth as possible.
If one objects that such caution takes
something away from the freedom Of
the road, we readily admit it. 1t takes
away from more than the freedom, it
cuts down on the sheer pleasure Of such
hiking Not for every one, evidently,
because the man who can walk care
lessly along a thronged road Is still very
much in evidence, as we have pointed
out Careful motorists curse him and
even pray for his safety. Careless mo-
florists, one may suspect, come as near
to running over him as they dare, just
to give him lesson.
! Nine-tenths of country road walkers
will recognize the menace. of modern
| traffic. They will take the necessary
steps to minimize it. Most Of these
steps, except in emergencies, are mental.
| And this means that the road is on
ones mind all the time This means,
1 of course, that great deal Of the old
time. carefree attitude is gone.
! Much happiness yet remains. BY
showing a proper respect for the power
and might embodied in a couple Of
4 thousand of pounds of steel, wood and
glass and Is gallons of gas, the pedes-
/ trian yet may get much real JOY out
1 of such rankings.
Walt Whitman's Song Of the Road
| still rings true, although lessons in how
/ to walk along country lanes sometimes
seem very much in order.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17

Lessons on how to walk down q coun-
try road seem to be in order.
The two men In the car so thought,
at any rate.
to a man walking along the road on the
right side.
The pedestrians back was to the car
which. of course. he could not see, but
only hear coming.
THAT man will get bumped some
day." said the man at the wheel.
"He ought to be walking on the other
side of the road in order to be facing
oncoming cars. That is the only way to
walk along a road these days"
4 X X X
Walking along a country road does
call for a technique of its own.
What used to be JOY to many people
has been rendered a somewhat dubious
pleasure by the automobile.
A country road, as every one knows,
has no sidewalk. Hence it most often
becomes necessary for the Wayfarer to
keep to the roadbed, although in some
places he will be able to walk along a
footpath to one side.
Sometimes a concrete shoulder
gives a treacherous imitation of side
walk. It looks enough like a pavement
to lure the unWary, yet 1t gives none OF
the protection Of one.
X X X X
On such a road one always should
walk facing oncoming cars.
This means that one takes to the
ones left-hand side, In either direction,
and walks facing oncoming vehicles.
On a h-and-south road, for in
stance, the country pedestrian walks
along the west side, walking north, and
the east side, walking south.
Thus he faces oncoming cars, and
has the ones at his rear to the far side,
in either event.
This not only helps him, but also the
motorist.
By Keeping his face toward the cars,
he gives the motorist something white
to see.
When a pedestrian has his back to
oncoming traffic. often he is almost in
visible, especi4lly at dusk and at night.
The prevailing somber hue Of mems
clothing makes a walker invisible.
X X
Every one who drives a car has some
memory of brushing man by the road
side, whom he never saw, as it were,
until he was we'll past.
In every such case. the man was
walking along the side of the road In
the same direction as the car was going
ana JluS pESSSutCO llO AldS Va oASAAnA W
the driver.
To walk along the wrong side Of the
road, from this standpoint, at night,
with cars whizzing past in both direc-
lions, accompanied by glazing lights, is
to seek an involuntary death.
Yet hundreds of persons still do it.
X
Probably they do so from a confused
belief that they should obey general
traffic regulations, which call for cars
mot human beings afoot-to keep to
the right.
Then they are divided in their own
mind as to which stream Of traffic is
the more dangerous, the one from be-
hind or the one from in front.
The truth is that each is equally dan
gerous If the drivers cannot see the Pc
destrlan.
The advantage, from the pedestrians
standpoint, of facing against automo-
bile traffic, in sense. is that this per-
mits the drivers of these nearest cars
to see him and give him, in his turn,
a better opportunity to jump.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
Farm Board Criticism
By BOrah Is Scored
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
We read in your paper that Senator
Borah declares the Farm Board a
failure. We ask, Who is making sue
cess?
The beard is charged with carrying
into effect the policy Of Congress as
expressed in the agriculture marketing
act. If they execute the power vested
in them, then there can be no failure ON
their part.
The Shenandoah Valley Cooperative
Marketing Association, Inc. Lacey Spring,
Va, have before the board at this very
time a request that producers in our
300-nile valley be encouraged to organ
lie into effective cooperative or market
ing units producers controlled and pro-
mote the establishment and financing
of farm-to-market system, also prod
uce owned and produce controlled.
If they do the things required of them
by Congress and the things asked Of
them by the producer, then they should
be free of condemnation. Anyway we
shall soon know the whole truth, as they
are sending us a representative to meet
our Marketing Association on March "a
in response to our appeal.
The board seems to be functioning
equal to any other department.
SHENANDOAH VALLEY COOP
ERATIVE MARKETING ASSO-
CATION, Inc, Lacey Spring.
~. BY P. E. RHINEHART.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
SHOOTING STARS.
BY pHILANDER JOHNSON.
Truth and Folly

Truth and Folly.
Little bit o. foolishness,
AS time gees slipping by!
A blizzard causes us distress,
Or sunshine gilds the sky,
And many a passing glimpse Of glee
Or vanishing distress
viii. when you think it over, be
A bit o. foolishness.
Most Of the things that haunt the mind
With an emotion great
Are but impressions of the kind
That we eXaggerate.
The joys or griefs that deeply lie,
A few true friends may guess.
What lightly bids US smile or sigh
Is only foolishness.