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Honoring Motherhood.

The Daughters OF 1912 are awarding
medals to the mothers Of illustrious sons
and they are to be congratulated on the
choice Of Mrs. Elinor Boiling Flood
Byrd and Mrs. Mary p. Hardy Mac
Arthur as the first two recipients whose
decorations inaugurate the custom. In
the years to come there will be interest
IN the selection Of mothers for the
proud citation, I'm recognition OF
motherhood
Ones thoughts somehow turn, how
ever, to the mothers who will receive nc
medals Of gold, whose little Toms, Dicks
Harrys and Douglases make no flights
IN airplanes and who never become
Governor or Chief OF Stan Of the United
States Army; the mothers whose boys
turn out bad" and the mothers who
sit alone through the dark years with
only the candle that shines in the win
dow to of er them light. or hope. These
IN the mundane weighing Of talents
must take a back seat and remain
silent while motherhood is honored
Yet a lot Of the stars that shine or
these clear evenings are probably being
saved for their crowns alone. Anc
many stars will be needed.
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A Bow and a King.

The Fates were up to their tricks last
March.
Thursday, the nineteenth, was IN
eventful day in the little kingdom OF
Siam on the other side Of the world
The King and his Queen we're taking
leave of their people for long jour
ney. Holiday was declared, the SOL
diers were turned out, cannon doomed
and there was much ceremony as the
Descendant Of the Great God Buddha
Supreme Arbiter Of the Ebb and Flow
of the Tide, Brother Of the Moon, Half
Brother Of the Sum-" stepped aboard
ship to sail away.
Thursday. the twenty-sixth. week
later was cold and snowy day out in
Towner, Colorado. There must have
been much talk around breakfast tables
in the dark Of early morning about
whether the children should 60 to
school There was much ado about
the wraps and the old blankets for
the children and q great scurrying
around to be ready for the school bus.
There was much tramping about in the
binding snow that evening, and wav-
Ing of lanterns, and mothers left
the stoves to stand by the windows
when the bus did not return. Lamps
were burning all night long in Bryan
Untiedt's home, and in many other
homes.
Yesterday the paths that led from
Siam and from Towner crossed at the
White House From an upstairs win
dow q thirteen-year- boy in brand
new store clothes watched q King and
Queen, attended by men in respondent
uniforms get out Of big. shiny auto
mobiles and walk in to shake the
Presidents hand. Later the boy peeped
through q half-open door as the King
and the Queen sat down to dinner with
the President and Mrs. Hoover and a
great company around a huge table,
heavy and glittering with gold.
Later still, Bryan and the King were
sleeping, for both must have been tired.
And today each is following the paths
that Will never cross again. The King.
with health restored, will go back to
Siam, on the other side of the world.
and one wishes him long and pleasant
reign. Bryan, with his head full Of more
things than ever before crammed the
Uranium OF any thirteen-year-old boy.
will go back to Towner. Some day. in
some other place. they may meet again
and talk it over. And. on comparing
notes, the King will surely admit that
his path through this little world never
reached the heights that Bryans did.
The King was merely a King. But
Bryan was the boy who saw the King.
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Disasters Overseas.

-Four hundred dead in Transcaucasia
from an earthquake, and forty dead In
Egypt from railroad train FIRE! Disas-
tiers so far distant STIR the American
pulse but little, yet they are terrible in
their happening. The tremor Of the
earth in Russian Armenia will probably
mount to greater heights OF tragedy as
the reports are more fully gathered.
The Egyptian train horror will perhaps
itself reach . larger score of casualties
as the bodies Of the victims strewn
along the railroad track are found.
The area of the Russian Armenian
quake Is notoriously unstable, yet II
has not been the scene Of q major dis
aster in recent years. It is not densely
populated, otherwise the results Of this
quake would have been more costly. The
people are herdsmen and farmers. living
In slight dwellings that can be easily
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30

replaced. But their losses are heavy in
terms Of stock, large numbers of cattle
having been destroyed by the earth's
tremor.
1t would have been far more sig
niflcant in respect to the morale Of the
Russian people under rigid soviet rule
II this disaster had occurred in a Sec
ton more distinctly and typically Rus
sian than the area of the quake. The
sufferers ere not closely akin to the
jewellers in Central or Greater Russia
or White Russia. They are Of the
Kalmuk and Cossack branches of the
Muscovite family. The region Is or
ganized into a separate republic, one of
the several comprising the so-called
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
which is broadly known as Communist
Russia
The Egyptian disaster is unique in
history A railroad coach catches fire
from q hotbox and the flames, famed
by the breeze caused by the trains
speed spread until three cars are in
volved. The people in them cannot
communicate with the engineer. who
carries on without knowledge of the
horror that is being enacted behind
him. Not until a town is reached and
a signal is given is the train halted,
and then it is too late to save the en-
trapped people. forty of whom have been
burned to death and many others killed
by leaping from the cars. The second
and third class carriages on the Egyp-
tian railroad are of the flimsiest type
and yesterday were but finder for the
flames that sprang up from the over
heated journal.
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Highlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

their own natures before they can rise
to their duty or opportunity-yet many
like these have disciplined themselves
until they never longer hesitate to seize
oanger by the skin of the neck! That
is sort of heroism that is doubly peril
GUS and painful. Who, then, is the real
hero? One who is continually looking
for chance, and taking every precau-
ton to be a hero, or the man who is a
hero either unintentionally or in spite
of himself?
u. S. Criticized for
Conditions in Nicaragua.
La Noticia, Managua May,
1927, the cohorts Of SANDING and guer-
rilla bandits have been Staying men
and women in Nicaragua How many?
1t Is not possible to hazard an exact
total but it is conservative to say that
two have been slain each day. Con-
sidering the elapsed period as 1910
days, 1t is seen that no less than $3.50
Nicaraguan citizens have fallen at the
hands of outlaws.
The Guardia Nacional, reorganized
and strengthened to combat the bandits
of Segovia "a river in Nicaragua, has
killed in a. months GIG Nicaraguan
outlaws. A few of these were killed by
Isolated cases of banditry, on the
part of individual outlaws acting indie
pendently Of the organized desperadoes,
have been demanding an average Of
eight victims month. Altogether 288
citizens have lost their lives through
these outrageS.
The Guardia Nacional, with its i'm
perialiStic orders to shoot all who raise
their voices or point their fingers at the
government, in three years has termi-
mated the existence of 200 persons.
Summarized, this means that since
May, 1927, at least 1854 Nicaraguans
have been slaughtered by the machetes
of the outlaws or by the bullets of the
Guardia Nacional and of the foreign
invader
The United States is supposed to be
caring for and protecting our country,
but the American people have been per-
siStently Indifferent to this indiScrimi-
nate slaughter until. just recently, eight
North American Marines were slain in
an ambuScade contrived by the outlaws
OF Pedron Altamirano, when great con-
Sternation and grief were aroused In
that country. But what of our own
bloody experiences and tribulations?
Do not the people of the United States
know that Nicaragua's peace and order
are In the hands of their Government?
1t would seem not, yet If the great
North American people do know these
facts, why do they not remedy such
terrible conditions. or at least give us
the opportunity to defend and help our
selves?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30
The Case for High Wages.

What may be regarded as the Hoover
administrations attitude toward the
prevailing agitation for wage cuts, as a
means to trade recovery, was succinctly
set forth at Atlantic City yesterday by
Robert P. Lamont, Secretary Of Com
merce. Addressing the opening session
Of the United States Chamber OF Com
merce, the cabinet spokesman reminded
the Nations business leaders that the
most prosperous periods Of American
Industrial history have been those "co-
incident with high wages and shorter
hours"
Thereupon Secretary Lamont pro-
eeeded to argue that sterilization OF
income for workers is essential to main
tenance Of that purchasing power which
Is the bedrock of prosperity. IF mil
hons Of workers are out of employment
for q year through loss of wages, their
buying power is cut by billions Of dol
lars" the Secretary said. If the in
come Of the remaining millions who are
still employed is cut ten per cent
through shorter hours and part-time
work, the loss amounts to several more
billions. Add to this great loss in buy
ing power the retrenchment due to the
fears and uncertainties Of such period,
and the total loss of purchasing power
becomes a staggering amount"
Mr. Lamont paid q deserved tribute
to the high-mindedness and sense Of
esponsibility-perhaps it would be fair
to call it enlightened self-interest-
which have characterized the conduct
Of industry during zone Of the most
severe depressions OF our business his
tory" Industry generally. he declared,
has shown an interest In its workers Of
. quality never before seen in this or
any other country. Labor's attitude has
been no less intelligent and helpful.
The net result has been an astonishing
absence Of strife and stress amid condi-
lions which, had heads less cool been
ut the helm Of capital and labor, might
have easily led to grave eruptionS.
Secretary Lamont does not indulge in
idle or sxtravagant words when he says
that the type Of cooperative spirit and
collective effort" witnessed in the
United States during the past year and
q half holds out the best hope Of the
future" Pending the actual and visible
swing Of the economic pendulum In the
right direction, such self-control on the
part of employer and employe is a boon
Of inestimable advantage. 1t comes near
TO being the silver lining to the cloud.
From what has just been said in At
lantic City, 1t is certain that the Fed
eral authorities are sternly opposed to
anything like wage reduction that might
overcast the economic heavens afreSh.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHrLANDER JoHNsoN.
As Time Passes.

As Time Passes.
Truth is stranger than fiction-you've
heard it OF yore.
once knew youngster so small
His presence I'd scarcely take note OF
before.
I forgot he existed at all!
And now he has grown to be taller than
me,
And a certain respect is his due.
Since he's manly and honest and frank
as can be.
It's exceedingly strange, but it's true
The acorn is nothing at all like the oak
And the grub from the moth differs
far.
I looked on him once as bit Of joke
How sadly mistaken we are!
I envy his earnestness, also his mirth.
And I know that he thinks am due
To make room for him and get of the
earth!
The things that seem strangest are
true
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-30
Americans Unable to Agree /
On Policy Toward Honduras

Revolution in Honduras soon after
the announcement Of the American
Government as to its policy in Central
America causes much discussion. There
is fairly strong belief that limited pro-
lection in disturbed countries may be
best, but the question is raised as to
what should be done for Americans in
the interior and for nationals of other
countries who may be influenced by the
requirements Of the Monroe Doctrine.
"Clean-cut restatement of American
policy Is demanded by the Cincinnati
Times-Star, observing that the Cool
idge policy of guaranteeing full protec-
ton to American lives and property has
been altered" and drawing the con-
clusion, IF American lives are endan-
gered in the interior of Honduras. will
we call out adequate forces to protect
them, or will we adhere to the Mica
raguan policy and limit protection to
the coastal towns? In view of the rich
possibility of further trouble in Central
America, an answer to this question is
urgently called for"
IF the policy of the Hoover admins
tration Is adhered to and its results
prove satisfactory" says the Houston
Chronicle, st should have very bene-
fetal effect on Pan American relations
and the world sentiment for peace in
general. With five Central
American nations we are committed to
a policy of OF position to revolutions.
Yet adherence to that policy virtually
forces us to some kind of intervention
when crisis comes. How we then can
adhere to the new policy of strict nom
Intervention in case of a major revo-
luton in any Of the five countries it
Is not easy to see. The best we can
hope Is that the situation will not force
us to drastic action. We have no de-
sire to exploit these little countries, and
no desire to force our will on them.
We would not have, even though we
were forced to intervene in their affairs,
but We can best demonstrate our mo-
tives to the world, and to Pan-Ameri-
canism in particular, by refraining from
Intervention"
X X
That Hondurans "are held in con-
tempt by the eXploiters of their coun-
try's natural resources" is pointed out
by the Rochester TimeS-Union, with
the suggestions that ANY rebel leader
backed by some financial support is
likely to find man for every rifle he
can furnish" and that under such
conditions the raw material for a re-
bellion Is always existent" While hold
ing that absolute neutrality is the more
uuACuiI pecauSe ILLS country Is GULL
mitted by treaty against the recogni-
ton Of revolutionary government" the
ST. Paul Pioneer Press feels that 1.-The
settlement of this internal quarrel
should be left to the warning factions"
The Chicago Daily News feels that
recent experience has shown that I'M
der present conditions it is not difficult
to recruit forces in Latin American
countries for an instruction; that
Honduras, in fact, is the eleventh
Southern republic to experience armed
rebellion due to the unrest caused large
ly by the worldwide industrial depreS-
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Undiplomatic Criticism.

The Haitian Minister evidently is not
very fond Of Gen. Smedley Butler, the
lighting Marine, who frankly admits
that he gets into the worst messes. &"
This feeling for Gen. Butler on the part
OF the Minister obviously goes back q
long way, but 1t was not publicly made
known until the past few weeks when
the Haitian representative sought to
embarraSs Gen. Butler, apparently for
no reason at all, by claiming that he
had never heard OF Fort REVERE. for
the capture Of which the Marine officer
received the Congressional Medal Of
Honor. Gen. Butler promptly protested
to the State Department and asked that
his record be cleared. Irreiutable evi-
dence was quickly dug up to chow that
Fort REVERE was actually captured and
blown up by Marine force headed by
Butler, and that closed that incident.
Not content with the outcome of his
first public sortie against Butler, the
Minister has again burst into print TO
belittle the medal given to the Marine
oficer by the Haitian government for
the same feat. According to the Min
ister the Haitian cabinet was surprised
and scandalized" at this award, but was
assured by the President of Haiti that
1t was merely q Salve to the United
States to remove pressure upon Haiti to
pass a law prohibiting gold importation
into that country, and who later with
great laughter exclaimed, well, what
is the matter? The liberty Of the gold
importation is worth a medal Gen.
Butler will not carry back to the State
Department anything but this toy. Let
us hope that it will be sufficient"
Just what the Minister hopes 10 gain
from these attacks on Gen. Butler IS
difficult TO understand. In criticizing
the presentation Of the Congressional
Medal Of Honor he was certainly going
far afield. The United states does not
need advice as to the bestoval Of this
medal. There can be little argument
that both attacks were of questionable
propriety and contrary to the eStab-
lished diplomatic usage.
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ing the Commissioners, ut the sugges-
ton Of the superintendent Of weights
and measures, order an investigation.
On April 10 the corporation counsels
office is asked for an opinion as to
whether the law is being violated. On
April % it is learned that the opinion
has been written, but is being held up
until the pros and cons of the matter
are discussed with the corporation
counsel by q representative of the mer-
chants and by a member Of Congress
who took part in framing the law. On
April 20 the Commissioners request for
legal opinion is returned, with the
suggestion that "in view of the public
agitation over this question and the po-
sition taken by Representative Crosser
Of Ohio, who assisted in drafting this
legislation" legal proceedings should be
instituted to find out what the law says
and what it means, or vice versa.
Eventually, but not now, succeeding
chapters will be written ad infinitum.
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SION but fortunately the present out
break has little chance to succeed"
Our country may help weaker
neighbors strengthen police forces, but
it should not deprive them Of the right
nor relieve" them of the duty of main
tanning order in the Judgment Of the
Newark Evening News, which adds:
This countrys policy toward Latin
America has not been so consistent and
clear that the meaning Of change
would be quickly digeSted. Still intima-
tons of an impending change were
given upon President Hoover's return
from his Caribbean trip. The change
and the test of the new policy have
come suddenly. more quickly, perhaps,
than even the administration expected.
Every opportunity should be given Mr..
Stimson to work it out"
X X
There will be revolutions as long as
there Is oppression to generate them"
asserts the Dayton Daily News, EN-
phasizing the point that 1.-The transition
from peonage to more liberal rule has
not been GENTLE The Kalamazoo
Gazette says that st was only through
the friendly Intervention of President
Coolidge that the conflicting political
ambitions OF the various factions in
Honduras were Smoothed over and O
Cleveland Plain Dealer thinks that
though the danger of an overthrow of
the government may be small, the dan
ger to Americans in the banana states
of San Pedro and Atlantida is real
Should the radical Liberal, Ferrara.
occupy the principal ports" according
to the San Antonio Express, "he could
collect enough customs to pay numerous
troops" That paper observes mo con-
nection between the Honduran revolt
and Sandino's raids in Nicaragua" The
Texarkana Gazette advises that IF this
country keeps its hands of Honduran
internal affairs Americans there will be
reasonably safe" The Meridian Star.
contending that 1--WE are halfway in
and halfway out" maintains that I'VE
ought to get all the way in or get out
and stay out" The San Francisco
Chronicle asks, what preparation has
Secretary StimSon made to avoid the
consequences likely to follow from with
drawal of our protection from Euro
pean nationalist"
THE Honduran situation" declares
the Boston Transcript, renders the
more imperative the question which
had already been raised all over the
country as to the wisdom or the logic
of Secretary Stimson'S declaration with
regard to Nicaragua. which Is to the eff
feet that only American citizens in the
ports are to be protected against what
he himself calls murder and aSsassi-
nation and against the destruction of
the property and industry which they
have been invited to establish in Gen.
trail American countries. The nine
Americans who have been killed in
Nicaragua were all in the interior"
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Mere Fancy-and Fact.

A Jules Verne or a Bellamy might,
without stretching his imagination too
far. picture the scene in the Perfect
City some hundreds or thousands OF
years hence when the superintendent
OF sweights and measures is shocked
into immediate action by learning that
the local coal men have decided to sell
their coal in 2,0OO-pound units instead
of by the long ton. This official. PICK
ing up a telephone, tells his superior
officer that he believes the law Is being
violated. The superior officer picks up
another telephone and tells one OF the
expert lawyers in the employ OF the
city TO look up the law on the matter
and say whether the coal men have
violated it. The expert lawyer turns
ruffies his hair and informs the supe-
rior of1cer that he Is not certain and
the courts will have to be asked. The
superior officer dictates a statement
warning the coal men that II they per-
sist in their sale Of coal in 2,0O0-pound
units they will be hailed into court
Here the fate Of the coal men is left to
the writer's wishes. The point Is that
in this Perfect City the transaction wa
completed within few hours.
But the established routine, as laid
down now, Is about as follows:
On April Fools day the coal mer
announce they will sell their coal In
1000 pound units. On the day follow
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Marks of NOn-EducatiOn
Held More Interesting

From the Portland oregon Journal.
What are the marks of an educated
person? Nicholas Murray Butler gives
his version. THE evidences of an edu-
cation" he said, "are five: % Precision
ir speech; (2) good manners; (3) the
habit of reflection; "a the power Of
growth; (5) possession of the ability TO
do. Such is the framework" he said,
that may be filled in by scholarship,
by literary power by mechanical skill,
by professional zeal and capacity, by
business competence or by social and
political leadership" Even more in
teresting are some of the signs of nom
education as explained by another au-
thority. Among them are folks who
never get their facts straight; who are
never quite sure what to believe; who
cheerfully argue both sides of question
and do not realize it; who are never
able to make a very good living because
kept down; unframed to think, and so
OH and so on. Generally they are
easily duped and fooled by politicians,
soap-box agitators. sellers OF oil stock
and the peddlerS of gold bricks.
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against Mayor Walker of New York
City, brought by the City Affairs Com
mittee. seem to have overlooked the fact
that Gov. Roosevelt acquiesced in the
plan of the Republican State Legisla-
ture to bring about an investigation of
the government of New York City. The
Legislature never could have put
through an appropriation for such an
investigation oyer Gov. RooSevelt's veto,
it is quite clear Thelkegislative Com
mittee. armed with half D million dol
lars to conduct its inquiry is ready
now to go ahead with the investigation
Of Mayor Walker. Gov. Roosevelt now
is going South for a vacation He is
already the choice of many OF the
Southern Democrats for the presidential
nomination next year.