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v in front and short knotted ends
at the back.
1t is sewed down like a draped
yoke and really is a scarf-yoke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19

Aboard a battleship only one man
is allowed to whistle. He is the
boatswain, who signals the crew
with his pipe"
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toque or on the tricorne.
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- PAGE Z
HANDKERCHIEF is
USED As SCARF
PAGE

schiaparelli. who makes some OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
Feathers Are Smart

The feather in your cap doesn't
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19

Troop 81. elected the following patrol
leaders at its last meeting: Troop Peg
ev Sunninahau leader: Dorothy Harring-
ton CORPORAL: .. Virgie Hammans leader:
GLADYS Howe corporal: 3. EVELYN Williams
dates were Anna Francis Benton, Dolores
Newmier. and Mary Ellen Wethersld.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19

Troop Sc had its first meeting Wednes-
dav. Oct. Z. with Mrs. Paul Smith as
CAPTAIN. The following new patrol cad
McKamy: 2. Louise Cradle. and 8. Jane
Riggs The troop plans to go on a hike
ana have q marShmallow roast next week
n weather is favorable. All girls that
have not passed fire building will have a
chance to do So
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19

First meeting of Troop 80 was held last
week at Third Christian church. The get
acquainted program featured games and
songs Important announcements we're
made for the coming months. Immediate
plans included a Halloween party. The
patrol leaders plan to have a program
around the campfire at coming meeting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-03
Clydeside Clamor in Commons.

Such scene as that enacted in the
House of Commons yesterday is a grave
shock to the pride of the British people,
who regard their Parliament as verita-
bly, a glass Of fashion and mold Of
form" On a few occasions the rules
have been broken and human tempers
have famed into outrageous demon
strations, but these have been rare and
have been so severely rebuked that there
has never been the least suggestion of
tolerance or forgiveness. Yesterday the
proprieties were outraged as never be-
fore in the memory of man. A Scotch
Socialist asked a. question regarding
the Imprisonment of some lay preachers
for holding meetings on Glasgow green.
He was told by the secretary for Scot
land that, an inquiry was in progress to
determine whether these preachers had
had any difficulty in getting the neces-
sary permits for the holding Of such
meetings. The Scotch member was not
content with this reply. He proceeded
to expostulate and was Joined by a
group of other "Clydeside" men, some of
them notable insurgents against the
established order. One of them, indeed,
gained unsavory prominence year ago
by running away with the mace, the
sacred synlbol of the Speakers author
ity over the House. The disorder con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-03
Patriotism Proves
Boon of Public Life

from the Pasadena Star-News.
In the action of the trustees of STAN
ford University in extending until De-
cember 81, 1882, the leave of DR.. Ray
Lyman Wilbur as president of the uni
Versity, so that he may continue to
serve as Secretary of the Interior in
PRESIDENT Hoover's cabinet, the coun-
try is given a notable example of re-
nunciation and sacrifice for the benefit
OF the Nation. DR.. Wilbur is needed
at Stanford. Everybody conversant
with the institution realizes this. But,
DR.. Wilbur is needed more widely and
more pressingly as Secretary of the In
terror. President Hoover sent an urgent
request to the trustees of his alma
mater to make this sacrifice for the
national good. This plea was needed
In broad-minded fashion. The an
nouncement of Stanford trustees men
lions. their recognition 'of the outstand-
ing importance to the Nation of con-
OF the services of DR.. Wilbur as Secre-
tary of the Interior"
Inc American people too lightly es-
TEEN the sacrifices thus made by men
OF great talents in giving services be-
yond ejaculation in value to the public
Tor mere pittance. During the World
war many such men of diverse talents
literally gave their services to the Ma
ton as "dollar-a-year" men.
Dr. wilbur is an important coadjutor
OF President Hoover in graphing with
a number of very serious problems con-
fronting the Department of the In
terror: 1t Is significant and gratifying
that DR.. Wilbur Is willing to renounce
the more agreeable duties of president
OF Stanford University that he may go
on with these public services. This is
the spirit which makes and keeps the
United States surprisingly great among
the nations Of the world
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-03
When Death Takes the Wheel,

Modern conditions have brought an
inevitable association between holidays
and tragic death on the highways.
This afternoon, when Offices throughout
the land close their doors, tens of
thousands Of families will take to the
road for week end outings. Around
Washington every road, especially those
leading to the many water-side re-
sorts, will be damned with machines.
BY Sunday evening the casualty lists
will begin to unfold the complete story.
II the fools and the reckless drivers
were the victims, one might find JUS
tice of sort in the fate that waits
for them around some pleasant curve.
The hazards of driving on holiday
damned roads. however, are not merely
those that ones self creates by speed
ing or taking foolhardy chances. The
careful driver, observing the rules of
the road and taking the extraordinary
precautions that conditions demand, is
as apt as not to be the sufferer. For
the fools, seeking to pass cars on a
hill or curve, darting around long lanes
of slow-moving vehicles or skidding on
turns, constitute merely the party of
the first part, and two or more parties
are usually required to make a bang-up
smashing accident.
Maryland road police and compar-
able efficient bodies in other States
do all in their power to furnish the
patrols necessary on holidays. But one
must look beyond the powers of the
police, no matter how many there are
or how well disbursed, for the ultimate
degree of highway safety that will come
with future years. There will always
be great numbers Of incapable drivers
on the roads. The only practical solu-
ton Of the problem of dealing with
them lies in making the construction
Of the highways themselves as fool
proof as engineering skill can devise
Any one familiar with the roads lead
ing out Of Washington knows how
much there remains to be done in this
direction before the highways are safe
Only one of the roads, the Washington
Baltimore Boulevard, even resembles
the sort Of highway that motorists will
know in the years to come. That road,
as recently rebuilt and repaved, is fair
ly safe because of its extra width and
absence of sharp turns Other high
ways, no matter how adequate under
the ordinary conditions of normal traf-
fic, become Nightmares on holidays,
with every curve and narrow culvert
reckoning some one to danger.
Mere speed, under the right condi-
tons, has never been shown to be the
cause of many accidents. But speed,
combined with crowded roads, poorly
banked curves and disregard of ordinary
safety rules, will account for many
tragedies in the next few days. If
you venture on the highways today,
watch your own speedometer! And be
more watchful still Of the other driver!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-03
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHrLANDER JOHNSON.

Reflection.
When you think that life Is mournful
and the world is going wrong,
And everybody's of the key who tries
to sing song:
When the Sorrow seems to nnger as the
Happiness takes flight,
It's unpleasant to admit it. but the
chances are, you're right.
When you think the skies are cleaning
as they never did before,
And the hours are golden treasures that
the future holds in store;
When the object of existence is the
joy it can bestow,
You may go your way serenely, for the
chances are, it's so.
Through the changing circumstances
the impressions that we find
Are largely in the nature Of personal
state Of mind.
This world is like a mirror, where
reflected moods we see.
The way you think about it is the way
it's going to be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-03

Is to the best interest Of the wheat
growers that this surplus wheat be dis
posed of finally. The Farm Board is
seeking to handle this surplus wheat in
an orderly manner and so as not to in
jure the farmers. If 1t can dispose Of
some of the wheat this year at reason
able prices and at the same time not
have a bad effect on the market, 1t Is
clear that it would be the better part
of wisdom to do so. The board in an
nouncing its policy did not say that 1t
proposed to sell 100000 bushels Of
wheat q month. It merely said that it
would not sell more than that amount
in any given month.
The underlying reason for the enact
ment of the law setting up the Fed
eral Farm Board was a desire to aid
the farmers to help themselves. The
wheat farmers particularly have been
at the mercy of the grain trade and
the spectators In grain. The wheat
farmer has been compelled always to
take what he was offered for his wheat.
He could not fix an offering price him.
self, as do merchants of other COM
modities. 1t was to put him in a posi-
ton to do his own bargaining that the
Government enacted the law and set
up a governmental machinery to aid
the farm co-operatives. The grain
trade is In the business to make money.
1t has made huge fortunes for the mid
die men. But the farmer who has
made a fortune out of his wheat and
other grain is rarity. Any upset to
the old policy whereby the traders grew
wealthy was sure to stir up their re-
sentiment. Former Chairman Legge of
the Farm Board charged the grain
trade with efforts to undermine the
usefulness Of the board. And now
Chairman Stone has made charges
equally severe. The grain trade has
benefited in its attacks on the Farm
Board from the agitation, much of it
political, on the part of persons who
have urged other kinds of Federal aid
to the wheat farmers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-03
Red Tape Keeps Balchen
From u. S. Citizenship

From the Charleston Is. c. News and
Courier.
Bernt Balchen wishes to be an Amer
lean citizen, but he is still a foreigner
This is the Balchen who crossed the
North Atlantic with Admiral Byrd in
an airplanc and who flew with Byrd
over the South Pole. Balchen entered
the country June %, 1926, and con-
tends that his five-year period has ex-
pired.
The commissioner Of naturalization
in Washington holds that Balcheu's
stay with Byrd at Little America. ia
Antarctica, does not count in his con-
tlnuous American residence. I'VE in
tend at the proper time" be says, ito
give to the court all the data we have
on the Balchen case, and to call spe-
chic attention to the fact that Balchen
was out of this country with Admiral
Byrd during the five years since his
entry"
Byrd claimed Little America for the
United States by virtue of discovery.
exploration and possession. The United
States has not conceded British claim
to the region in Antarctica. Balchen
went TO and from Little America with
an American expedition. The whole
glory of the Byrd enterprise is Amer
lean. Balchen contributed an important
share to the success Of the expedition.
1t Is not that the United States.
through its Commission Of Naturaliza-
ton, Is opposed to Balchen as q citizen.
but that technicalities are being assidu-
ously pursued. These techuicalities con-
stitute what is popularity known as "red
tape" and the miles on miles of ''red
tape" furnish employment for small
army of men and women. The average
citizen wearies Of the petty knots Ia
''red tape," but the makers CT the Knots
seem to Ind pleasure n ,hsir tying.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-03
Debt Moratorium
Plan Is Masterful
TO the Editor Of The star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The proposal Of President Hoover for
a war debt moratorium of one year on
all payments Of intergoyernmental debts
and reparations, due to the allies from
Germany and due from the allies to the
United States, is bold, masterful and
unprecedented stroke, but we think it is
inadequate, in SO far as calculating
what Germany needs-permanent in
| stead of temporary relief
| At the threshold, the German pay
| ments for rehabilitation and indemnities
/ of about $425, 600 900 annually are far
In excess OF what Germany is able to
pay continuously, and should be re-
duced. A reduction of one-fifth, or 20
per cent, would reduce the annual pay
nent to $40, 900 900, or $85. 900 900 less
than Germany is paying each year until
the whole debt is liquidated.
The $245 100000 that the debtor ma
tions owe annually to the United States
is independent of the payment of the
German reparations debt to the allies,
,, and after one years postponement no
reduction should be made in the annual
payments.
Should the next Congress enact legis-
lation authorizing the payment of the
balance OF the soldiers bonus, and legiS-
lation authorizing the payment of old
age pensions and unemployment insur-
ance, the Government probably will
need all of the money and much more
than its revenues and what Is due from
debtor nations.
Temporary relief for Germany will be
great help, but permanent relief is
what Is actually needed after the post
ponement of the reparations payments
for one year; therefore, reduce Ger
many'S annual payments from $425,-
100000 to $340, 100000 or less, and give
Germany a chance to exist and meet
her obligations as she Is willing to do
Should President Herbert Hoover,
"the engineer" "the World War food
administrator" "the Republican party's
rescuer in 1925" 1.-THE champion cleo
toral vote getter" and 1.-The man of
destiny" succeed in lifting the world
| wide depression by the postponement
Of the payment of reparations and in
tergovernmental debts and stabilize the
economic condition of the world, he
will be justly. universally and vocif-
erously proclaimed the worlds redeem
Fer" and 1.-The Nations savior"
H. A. CLARKE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-03
Motorists Selfish,
Pedestrian States

To the Editor of The Star:
A short time ago there was a letter
on the editorial page Of The Evening
Star, in which the blame was all put
on the pedestrian for accidents and
holding up traffic. How about the
motorists who park themselves and
their machines on the pedestrians right
of way and impel the pedestrian to
walk out of his way to get across the
street, and how about the motorist who
starts his machine on the yellow light
instead of waiting for the green light?
Isn't the pedestrians time and nerves
just as valuable as the motorists?
Why the mad rush? Why have hui
mans lost all altruism and common
sense? . The writer is one of the many
pedestrians who cross the streets Of
Washington, D. c., every day, and
notices the indifference and selfishness
of the motorist.
M. r. STOTTLEMEYER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-03
Proper Fundamentals
Held Citizenship Need
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Everybody who uses his head for
clear thinking knows that there is some
thing very wrong in our economic con-
dition. With 100000 of us seeking
employment and 100000 clinging
desperately to the edge of respectable
1ty, that wrong is fast becoming in
tolerable and unless we take heed the
flag that shelters it will not command
the respect We urge for it. The ut
most in patriotic endeavor lies not in
Fourth of July oratory, but in every
day cooperation with some logical and
sane endeavor ito lift so high the in
comparable standards of the common
interests and the common Justice that
all men with vision, all men with hope,
all men with the convictions of America
in their hearts, will crowd to that
standard and new day of achievement
may come for the liberty we love"
Such practical endeavor must be re-
lated to fundamental ideas of economic
Righteousness, and political economy can
only be discussed as a science when
such fundamental ideas are accepted as
tenets, taking the place of the axioms
which are fundamental to the other
sciences. The principles, the accepted
standards Of right and wrong, obvious
in the simplest relations of men, should
prevail throughout the intricate and
complicated affairs of our social de-
velopment. Moreover, the Government
is under the same moral obligation to
be honest that is incumbent on the in
dividual and legislation ignoring such
principles and obligations, of which we
have much, is faulty and should be re-
vised.
1t should comprehend the natural
rights of men and their equities. The
legislation that Is best for one of Us is
best for all of us because it would be
honest legislation giving to every man
the equivalent of the services he rem
ders and access to natural opportunities
which are controlled by monopolistic
enterprises. j. B. CHAMBERLAIN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-03
MacDonald's Gracious Tribute.

When a British prime minister adj
dresses an Independence day dinner in
London and acclaims America in the
glowing terms used by Mr.. Macdonald
last night it may safely be concluded
that 1.-THE ancient grudge" has vanished
into John Bulls limbo of the forgotten.
Not within living memory, probably, has
a foreign statesman Invested himself
of so generous a tribute. To be told
from such quarter that we have built
up the greatest Nation that now eX-
lists on the face OF the earth" brings
the blush of pride to the cheek even of
q modest people.
Mr. Macdonald is good enough to say
that the United States has reached the
lofty pinnacle upon which he places us
by patient labor, by courage and by
self-rSSpect." He will pardon Ameri-
cans for retorting that, in their estima-
ton. those qualities are precisely the
ones with which they traditionally en-
dow the tight little islands and the
people who, from that patch in the
North Sea, have evolved an empire on
which the sun never sets. Recurring
Fourths of July should remind us that
it was from British loins that our in
situations sprang, full panoplied and
sturdy, century and half ago.
Uttered on the Immediate threshold
of what happily seems to be the sue
cessful termination of Franco-American
negotiations over the debt holiday, Mr..
MacDonald's references to President
Hoover evoke the iveliest echo and ap-
probation in this country. Describing
the Presidents moratorium proposal as
IAN action of great wisdom, of great
courage and of deep insight" the prime
minister eulogiZes it as an event which
causes world statesmen, cropping for
peace and international contentment.
ito lift up our heads, to seek a way
out, to see hope and to get new courage
and new energy to face our problems"
In those few words the silver-tongued
Scotsman who rules at No. 10 Downing
street epitomizes the true inwardness
of President Hoover's gesture. For Ger
many, the half billion dollars involved,
more or less, are, of course, priceless
boon. For France, Britain, the United
States and the rest of US, the mere
money at stake in the debt suspension
is Of relative insignifcance. What is
paramount is the thing Mr. Macdonald
so accurately stresses-the psyche
logical effect upon a shattered and de-
spairing world which will flow from
the Hoover plan as surely as tomorrow's
sun will rise upon another glorious
Fourth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-03

Mayor Key is getting himself in line,
apparently to be drafted as the first
candidate for the presidency on a
ticket sponsored by the League Against
the Prohibition Amendment, Mayor
Porter may be getting himself ready
to be Communicated as head of the
Anti-Saloon League of America. What
great oaks from little acorns grow!
Who would have expected that from
this little pleasure tour Of municipal
heads to the Continent there would
flower two personalities so divergent as
these? At home possibly Mayor Keys
reputation as a dry was beyond sus-
picion even of the w. c. T. q. And
who knows but that at home in Los
Angeles Mayor Porter has never yet
heckled and bedeviled Californians be-
cause OF the quite good claret for which
they produce the makings-the blushful
Hippocrene so potent that even in de-
preston times people on the Pacific
Coast laugh through their tears?"
Recognizing the force, however, Of
the denials made by the returning
mayors as to their actions abroad. the
Newark Evening News states: THE
mayora1 party filed off the lie de
France in staid reputation of the
breezy tales which had skittered along
the cable during. their absence, Amer
warm heart, that its mayors were up
holding the high traditions of dignity,
It never doubted those yarns were
made out of whole, or at least ap-
proximately whole. CLOTH" The Asbury
Park Evening Press comedies that
most of them cautiously refused LIQUOR
as they were asked to participate in
toasts abroad" and that paper hopes
they will find total abstinence lust
as easy to achieve in this country
"All in all, we have before us lust
another argument for the city-manager
form OF government" says the Nor
gantown Dominion News. The Des
Moines Tribune-Capital holds that
their critics would do well to be less
censorious," believing that ANY Amer
lean who could tour France without
little loosening of the puritanical ties
OF his home town wouldn't be quite
human" The Charlotte News argues
that the party had been shot at from
the time 1t left the dock at New York"
and states: Responsibility for the
spectacle rests with a French nation
that proceeded on a false presumption.
American mayors are by no means a
homogeneous species The only thing
they hold in common is the key to their
respective cities"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-03

tinued, the Speaker was defied and the
prime minister moved the suspension
Of the unruly member. The motion was
carried, 3l5 to 16. The suspended men,
Der was commanded to withdraw. He
refused. The sergeant at arms was
directed to remove him. He defied the
uniformed official, who retired, to re-
appear promptly with six elderly but
stalwart attendants, clad in evening
dress. They had to struggle with the
obdurato member to get him out Of
the chamber, for he had legs like the
tentacles Of an octopus and attached
himself to every article Of furniture
within range. Meanwhile the House
was in Babel Of noise and speech, a
scene of the most shocking confusion.
AT last the squirming Scot was elected,
his compatriots of the Clydeside were
reduced to order and the chamber was
restored to order. The Speaker, who
had dissolved the session-for there
can be no sitting while the air is echo
ing with lively Gaelic language-re-
turned to the chamber and the mem
bers arose and received him in respect
full silence. The incident was closed.
But the British pride in its parlia-
mentary dignity and .decorum had been
grievously wounded. What happens to
the Clydeside man who so f1agrantly
broke the peace? That must await dis
closure. The day of beheadings is past,
but doubtless there are many Britishers
who wish that the ancient punishment
could be revived and applied to this
iconoclast.