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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

Thousands OF Government experts
are working constantly for the beneht
of all citizens of the United States
They will work directly for YOU If you
will call for the fruits Of their labors
through our Washington bureau. State
your inquiry briefly, write clearly. and,
inclosing 2-cent stamp fer q personal
letter in reply. address The Evening
Star Information Bureau. Frederic j.
HaSkin, director, Washington, d. c.
@. Did the Do-X make fight over
Miami, Fla, before leaving for New
York;. T. S.
A. The Miami Chamber of Com
nerce SAYS that the Do-X made a
fight over Miami. on its arrival from
South America. before landing at Din
ner Key. This was its first landing in
the United States.
@. When is the United States going
to build legation building in Canada?
"A. f.
A. Work on the erection Of the new
United States legation building to be
built on Wellington street, Ottawa, Is
expected to begin in few weeks. The
site of the building is directly opposite
the Canadian Houses Of Parliament and
will overlook the whole of Parliament
Hill The new building will cost about
$500. 900. 1t will be large enough to ac-
commodate all officials of the United
States Government in the Canadian
capital-diplomatic, commercial and
consular.
@. Didn't Kepplestone beat Jack
Highs record for a mile race?--W. B. S
A. Jack Highs record of minute IS
seconds is the United States record
II 1AcfA al de he - -
l minute 80 AS seconds, made at the
Brighton track, England These horses
were racing in competition, not against
time.
@. Please give up-to-date information
as to the number of banks which have
closed in the United States In the
calendar year 1881 to date. Also the
number in New England which have
closed this year and the number in New
England which have reopened.-D
w. H.
A. The Department of the Treasury
says that there were 1924 bank failures
during the first nine months of the
calendar year 1881. Two banks have
closed In New England this year. Three
banks in New England have reopened
Q. How fast do ducks and geese fly?
II. r.
A. Many conflicting reports have
been made. Since the advent of the
automobile and airplane it is possible
to time them more accurately. Ducks
and geese co not usually travel at 0
rate OF more than 90 miles an hour. A
duck hawk has been timed, however
which few at speed of i65 to 18C
miles an hour when chasing prey
Canada geese were timed at "a miles
an hour and a brant at As miles an
hour.
G. OF what material is the Victoria
Cross made?-L. D. j.
A. 1t is made from cannon captured
in the Crimean War, principally al
Sebastopol, and is inscribed For Valor."
@. Can any one procure postal say
ingS bonds ?-W w.
A. Any one over 10 years of age may
make postal savings deposits and Ia
sums as low as 81, but no one may
have on deposit more than $500. The
deposit bears 2 per cent interest. On
January / and July each year 20-year
postal savings bonds that bear ga per
cent interest are issued by the Treasury
for purchase by the postal savings
certificate holders. Any holder may
subscribe for the bonds, but can pay
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

For the present, Al Smith will devote
his energies as leader largely to show
ing the way to distinguished visitors
who are naturally more interested in
the tall buildings than in the sidewalks
of New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

Einstein is accounted a genius So
was Edison. Einstein's discoveries are
not popularity understood. Those of
Edison make themselves known in ways
that everybody can comprehend and
utilize.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

Distinguished visitors from abroad
are to be sincerely welcomed for the
especial reason that when they go home
they almost invariably assist In correct
ing the unfavorable impressions OF
America created by some of the most
industrious American writer's.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

England has enjoyed laughing with
several self-styled Socialists but has
decided to run no risk of allowing lit
erary pleasure to interfere with bust
hess
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

Ease with which the Federal court at
Chicago got results makes 1t a matter
Of regret that circumstances do not per-
NIT Judge Wilkerson to make tour of
the larger cities in his oficial capacity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

Without waiting for Lavars formal
communication, the Council of Minis
tiers already has the satisfaction Of
knowing through reliable press that
he will be able to report progress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
Demoralizing.

IF you don't look out" said the
salesman, this fruit juice will develop
alcohol
That's why I fear it as a demoraliz-
ing influence" commented Uncle Bill
Bottletop. Its going to tempt a whole
lot of people to be careless and for
getful."
Ancient books said Hi Ho, the sage
Of Chinatown, have this advantage
they tell untruths sometimes, but never
In q way to make them popularity in
teresting"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

Ten years ago Mussolini was strug-
many forms Of expression, as asserted
by different individuals. Mussolini also
must be recognized as a genius.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

So far as personal success is con-
cerned, Ramsay Macdonald finds 1t
distributed in variety Of forms over
past, present and future. 1t is sue
cess. none the less.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

Polish patriotism regards what is
straight aud narrow way which inter
national righteousness must view with
respect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
A Fiction NTasterpiece.

n lCtA0H M1AGeTpIeCE.
An authors works may haunt the shelf
In neglect alarming;
But in descriptions of himself
His style remains most charming.
His praise reflexeS show a sum
OF most impressive diction,
Until it's plain he has become
His favorite work of fiction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
Member a. m, As.ocia,ed Press.

The Associated Press So exclusively entitled
20 the use for republication OF all aewa Git-
patches credited to ~ or not otherwise erfd-
TIED IN this paper and also the local news
published herein All rights OF publication Of
special dispatches herein are alHo reserved,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Opponents OF mail rate increase de-
clare 1t would cut postal revenues. II
it would also cut down the amount CT
trash in our mail box we could curb our
fegret.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
An Omen Field.

From the Omaha Evening World-Herald.
If New York gets tired Of him, Jimmy
Walker could easily become mayor OF
any one of a half dozen European cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
Give Them a Chance.

Prom the Harrisburg telegraph.
Public libraries OF the country are
planning for ChiIdren's week, Novem :
Der S, and q little later they might turn
their attention to an Adults week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
Promising Politicians.

From the worcester Daily Telegram.
Police found three Everett boys play
ing catch with sticks of dynamite.
Promising candidates for future polit-
ical honors, these.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
Large W aiting List.

From the Duluth Herald.
There is talk OF solving the problem
Of oyercrow6ed prisonh by the parole
method. Account, Of arse, has 70 be
taken of the large waiting list
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
Economics in DAYLIGHT.

From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.
Now that the saving" period Us over
have you noticed any difference IN the
amount Of daylight n etrculationl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
Present Interest,

Your name will resound through the
corridors of time
II don't care anything about the cor
ridors," answered Senator Sorghum.
What I am cultivating now is ap-
plause from the galleries"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

Jud Tunkins says the only profess
sional Communist he ever knew hadn't
any money to divide around and only
wanted to share his worries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
Band Wagon Music.

The old band wagon rolls along
Some tuneful artist tries
To figure out a campaign song
That's bound to harmonic.
That old band wagon on its way
or music shows a lack:
It's motor horn with raucous lay
just bellows. Clear the track"
''Old Man Worry" said Uncle Eben,
may be like one o. desc Halloween
hants Cat looks terrible az first but
turns out to be a friend wkSa he takes
ed his disguise"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

An Other States and Canada.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

@. What was the Appian Way paved
with?-R. p. J.
A It was paved with hexagonal
blocks of lava, exactly fitted to one an
other, resting on substructure of con-
siderable depth. There may still be seen
important remains which prove It's ex-
cellent workmanship
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

citis been in use?-F. T.
A. The first use of the word cannot
be dated, but appendicitis was consid-
cred so rare and obscure word In 1888
that it was not included in the New
English Dictionary published in that
wear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

@. Didn't Kepplestone beat Jack
Highs record for a mile race?--W. B. S.
A. Jack Highs record of minute IS
seconds is the United States record
Kepplestone holds the world record of
l minute 80 AS seconds, made at the
Brighton track England These horses
were racing in competition, not against
time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

A reader of these observations writes
in to say that not merely two. but three.
umpireS Of the German American
Mixed Claims Commission have passed
away in succession since that body was
organized in 1921. The first umpire,
former Associate Justice William r.
Day. of the United States Supreme
Court. did not long survive his service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

@. Did the Do-x make a fight over
Miami, Fla, before leaving for New
York ?--J. Z. S.
A. The Miami Chamber OF Com
merce saws that the Do-X made a
fight over Miami on its arrival from
South America. before landing at Din
ner Key. This was its first landing in
the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30

@. Where was the Charter Oak To-
cated?-D. r.
A. 1t was in Hartford, Conn. This
tree was computed to be about a thou
sand years old when it was blown down.
August 81, 1856.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-30
Could Curb Regrets.

copyriEht. 1917
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-21

relief is anticipated when the corner is round ed and prosperity CD returns The whole trouble lies in the fact that too many of us are waiting for the good old inflated stock market days. We aren't concerned SO much with stability as with ability to make fortune overnight. It would be well for the entire nation if such times never returned.
 Of course into this melee we hesitate to precipitate the prohibition issue. but frankly speaking it may be the crux of the situa- ton. We are ready to admit that repeal of the 18th amendment might not be the fi- nancial salvation of the nation. That's too extravagant a statement. But we do insist that it would be revivifier in more than one sense of the world. It would act as definite stimulus in many branches of busi- ness. It would give steady employment to thousands Last. but not least, it would provide source of revenue for state or government. proportionate amount of which. we presume. might be allocated to cities and towns.
 Secretary Mellon hopes to raise $800.- 100000 by new taxation. Prohibition ought to pay its share of that rather than constitute the largest drain the treasury now has. Intsead of costing Uncle Sam thou sands each day to enforce the dry laws. they should be revoked and in their place revenue producing ones substituted. The consequent removal of the heavy appropriations made in prohibitions behalf and the revenue from liquor taxes would go far towards spreading form of taxation not dstasteful to the rank and file of the populace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-21
To Learn Polar Secrets

Though it has no direct connection with the price of wheat or the war in Manchuria, nevertheless, the International Polar Year of 1932-33 is expected to result in diseov- cries of great importance to mankind. Sci entists of all nations will occupy 50 stations in the Arctic and Antarctic for an intensive, simultaneous study of unexplained happen ings there that affect life in the temperate zones.
 There will be daily weather reports by radio. There will be tests of the tempera- ture of the high ozone layer that is believed to influence radio transmission. There will be measurement of earth currents and a lot of other phenomena which seem remote from human needs in this era but which may prove to be of vast importance. and rer- tainly of much scientific interest. The na- tions of the earth cooperate more and more successfully in matters of scientific research and study. One of these days. won't they cooperate equally we'll in promoting peace and other desirable ends?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-21
International Business

The list of 161 leading Americans who signed letter to President Hoover expressing their approval of his recent co-operation with the League of Nations is Illuminating. It represents men and women of many oe- equations many shades of political faith.
 A good many of the signers are strongly opposed to American membership in the league. All of them join in realizing that concerted international action of some sort is necessary in this close-knit modern world, and that with our eountrys vast foreign ir- terests. it is foolish not to avail ourselves of any practical form of eo-operation to fur ther peace. prosperity and progress.
 In many matters it is easier and more effee- tive to work with the League directly than to work separately with the governments composing it. Happily. as the bitter Ameri- can controversy over league membership fades into the past it is easier to adopt this businesslike procedure in international crises.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-21
Enroll In Red Cross

The annual Red Cross roll call will begin as usual on November II. This year the organization plans to enroll 5,00O.0O0 members. It needs the money their member ship dollars will supply to carry on the re- lief work which is considered the special field of the Red Cross.
 There will be many other demands on the public this year, but this familiar one must not be slighted. President Hoover has said the Red Cross represents both the com mon impulse of sympathetic help and the mechanism for its practical expression"
 The organization accomplished fine piece of work in the drouth areas last year and this. Yearly its experience increases. fitting it to meet new situations promptly and effectively. Without funds. however. experience. personnel and organization can- not function successfully.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-21
AN OLD ARMY ERA PASSES
fNew Haven Journal courier)

(New Haven Journal Courier)
 News that the war department is abandoning some fifty-three army
 posts in the far west now, or in the near future, emphasizes again the
 way in which the nation has done an about face in the last few dec- ades. The change that has come
 over the army mirrors a change that has come over the whole country. These posts are surviving relics of the old days of Indian warfare-the days of the winning of the west" when the frontier was close at hand and America had no attention to spare for anything out side of its own borders. New trails
 were being made into hostile will
 dernesses, new settlements were springing up amid distant noun tains and on remote plains; army posts were needed for their protec- ton, and the fifty-three that are soon to be decommissioned were. In their day, havens of safety for pio- neer families.
 Their very names speak of the color and romance of the old west.
 Fort Laramie, Fort Bridger, Fort Learned, Fort Phil KearnGy-they excite memories of day that never found its poet, a day when adven- ture, danger and bloodshed were abundant in the land and the red Indian was something more than a picturesque figure in story books.
 The army was devised to meet those conditions. It did the job well. Little more than a constab- ulary force, from European stand
 ards, it was precisely the kind of army America needed. It was scat tered all up and down the far west in small attachments, platoon
 here and a platoon there; and the bravery and ability of the men in these attachments have given the army some of it's brightest laurels. when the Spanish-American war , broke out it was discovered that there was not on officer in the
 army. except for Q few CIVIL war
 veterans, who had ever seen a body
 of troops as large as a brigade as-
 sembled in one spot. As prepa- ration for war with European power, this was almost disastrous; but it meant, really, that the army
 had been doing its job very well
 Dispersion of its units had been es-
 sential. There had been no need to hold large-scale maneuvers. But
 1t is all different now, and the bending abandonment of the old posts proves it. The nation to-day
 has finished its frontier skirmishes;
 now it trains its army for war on
 d large scale, providing skeleton
 ized commands that can be en. larged rapidly. making sure that il
 will never again be caught unpre. pared as it was in 1898. That fact
 is a measure of the change that has come over the country. The end of the army's western forts
 marks the disappearance of the last vestiges of an old era in American history.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-21

Fudge" Heffelfinger, yes. the same Fudge" who won All-American guard honors for Yale back around 1888, doesn't think much of the way the modern college football team trains In recent article in the Yale Daily News he says that To-day on offense and defense a player is put in a fixed position and he must almost always stay there. What foolish idea! Why not allow a man with intellect and physique and with speed and strength to use his own judg- ment? A boxer who could operate only in one direction and with the same motion would not be match for an experienced fighter. =" Sorry we can't agree with Mr Heffelfinger. but we find modern day football quite different from the old days of mass tactics when brute strength was quite a requisite for any player. Train team along prizefighter lines. as Mir Heffelfinger suggests. and we Il wager that nine out of ten times the team trained along the more scientific lines of the day would emerge the victor. Whether or not football is de- generating into a combination of football, basketball. and soccer is not in our argument. We simply believe that the bone-erushins game of Heffelfinger's time is not the spec taele that present day fans crave during the fall of the year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-21
Economy Or Higher Taxes?

Faced by another billion dollar treasury deficit congressional leaders have the unenvi- able task of raising taxes. Both demoeratic and republican leaders admit that an increase is in immediate prospect. Secretary Mellon was the first to sound the warning about u. President Hoover will undoubtedly second the motion. Congress is expected to vote a resounding "aye''. The poor taxpayer Will do nothing more than worry his head over where he can procure the mounting taxes that a municipality. state. and federal gov- ernment impose upon him. The problem is the same one that confronts chief exeeu- tives of Connecticut cities and towns today. It has caused number of them to band to- gether in an effort to find ways and means of relieving the poeketbook of the taxpayer
 National leaders believe that large in- comes - those from S20.000 upward - should be the first focal point of any tax. Inheritances are also expected to figure prom inently in any tax increase. sales tax mainly on luxuries. has been predicted tor many months past. With the latest mani festo from Washington we are likely to see some legislation dealing with this produced in Congress before the 72nd session ends. There is only one bugbear in the whole proposition. And strangely enough that doesn't concern the ability Cor even the ir- sbility) of the taxpayer to bear the burden of increased taxes. That bugbear is the presidential election next year.
 However. it may be some consolation to the republicans to realize that if the demo. crats organize the House next month any bill Co increase taxes will be of their making. as such a measure must eonstitutionally originate in this body. Everybody is tak' ing into consideration the fact that present conditions account for chaotic financial conditions h all governmental bodies. Some
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-21

washington. - Taxicabs appear to have done more than anything toward solving the capitals unerh- ployment problems.
 No figures are available. but vir- tually every unemployed Washing tonian who had an automobile with a back seat seems to have convert ed 1t into taxi. Streets and ave nues swarm with them and they soon became so plentiful that they drove the prevailing rate or rare down to 20 cents for almost any place in the District of Columbia that you care to go.
 A friend and admirer of Supreme court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes saw him alight from his car the other day, assisted across the sidewalk and up the step of his home by two other persons--one on each side. Greatly worried, he made extensive inquiries to learn whether the veteran jurist's health was poorer than commonly sup posed. Finally he telephones the residence and got Holmes himself on the wire.
 Holmes laughed. He said he had been out riding. The weather was cold and his legs had become stiff for that reason and no other Hence the assistance.
 "You know, young man." ne said, "I'm 91 years old and I'm not as spry as used to be-"
 Charles Pergler, the American born professor of law here who used to be a Czecho-slovak states man and would be leading the Ma tional League faction in the parlia- ment at Prague if the Benes ad- ministration hadn't jared him from his seat, thinks President Hoover gets off lightly when his critics merely accuse him of "abys- maj ignorance" Although virtually exiled. Pergler and his ticket were overwhelmingly elected in the Prague municipal elections recent ly depite the ruling that Pergler was an American and not Q Czech citizen. He displays copy of Pri' tomnost, a national weekly friendly to Foreign Minister Benes, which attacks him at length and con cludes:. .,,
 eve wish him everything evil and a miserably just end"
 As if the next congress were no, sure to be chaotic enough In any event, this capital is now consid. ering the possibility that 1t VII once more hear Tom Heflin ol Alabama on the floor of the senate The complicating factor IS tna, Tom is no longer senator. He