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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

The church is by no means immune
to these tendencies. New cults and
systems are being evolved out of the
present chaotic thinking, and any
clever exponent Of a new theory gets,
at least for brief space, a large and
favorable hearing 1t Is little wonder
that the great mass Of the people, In
the face Of these conditions, are con-
fused and that some seem to lose both
their courage and their faith. Even
some OF our older institutions, politi-
cal, social and religious, are falling
under the spell of these modern teach
ers Of new and original ways, and one
finds 1t difficult to discover in what
direction to look for sound counsel
and an authoritative expression. This
leads us to wonder whether we are not
in the near future to regain our mental
poise and Fediscover 10 ourselves those
basic and elemental things that make
for normal and healthful living. We
also wonder whether, for the tendencies
to division and insular ways and
habits OF thinking and living, we are
not to presently find certain grounds
Of agreement that are worthy of our
adherence and support. Where two
honest, open-minded men sit together
and fairly consider their differences.
they often find that they have more
points of agreement than disagree
ment. Where high-minded men who
believe in the deep fundamentals of
religion discuss dispassionately their
conclusions and convictions, they in
evitably discover that there Is more of
unity than disunity in what they hold
of faith and practice. 1t grows in
creasingly clear that little progress in
the direction Of unity is to be gained
In high sounding resolutions or care
fully drawn concordats. In the main
we do not like to sign on the dotted
line. On the other hand. where we
are honest and fair minded we are
willing to recognize that there are
certain fundamental things about
which We commonly agree. If we
could give over our habits of contro-
versy and criticism, and II we could
dispossess those original thinkers"
who are confusing the world with their
original ideas, we should usher in a
day of finer fellowship, broader charity
and more wholesome ways. A classic
phrase comes to mind:
IN essentials, unity:
In non essentials, liberty;
In all things, charity"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
REVENUES IN HOTELS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

1000 hotels in Illinois, the exact num-
Der which answered the Governments
QUESTIONABLE was 986. These include
only such houses as have as or more
guest rooms. Apartment houses, clubs,
Boarding houses and such room renting
organizations as the Y. M. c. A.. Y. w.
@. A. and Y. M. H. A. are not included.
The answering list includes both the
European and American plan hotels,
ranging in size and pretentiousness
from the grand hotel type to the drum
mers' refuge at the railroad junction.
1t is interesting to note the American
plan hotel no longer is typically Ameri-
can. The American plan hotel makes
a nat rate for room and meals, the Eu-
ropean plan hotel has a room rate and
the guest buys his meals tndependAnUy
in or out of the hotel as he chooses.
Some hotels have both systems and the
guest may elect his choice. In Illinois
there are s0l European plan hotels. ~
American plan and Al operating both
plans.
OF the sos, 10000 which these I'LL
nols hotels take in during a year SSH
$4,000 Is for rooms, by far the largest
item. The next item Is for meals, $1s,-
$4,000. Hotel dining rooms do very
large restaurant business with persons
other than occupants of their rooms as
customers. The Illinois hotels have
capacity to permit 36.842 diners to sit
down at one time. Hotels are favorite
places for business mems lunches.
Clubs, such as the Rotary and Kiwanis,
have their regular luncheons in hotels,
and the hotel restaurant is q favorite
social rendezvous.
Permanent Guests.
Hotels are attracting an increasing
number of permanent residents OF the
e86 Illinois hotels 1872 of them report
that three quarters of their guests are
permanent residents. Every hotel has
some permanent guests who have no
other residence. Nor do these perma-
nent hotel jewellers stay especially In
American plan hotels. Hotels offer q
freedom from household worries, and
many permanent residents do not even
want to be bound to routine Of din
ing at the same place.
Any hotel employe will tell you that
the permanent resident is not so free
spender as the transient, however, and
these new statistics 60 to prove the
assertion. The hotels having mainly
transient trade collect a total revenue
OF $35, 295 900, of which $6,312,000
springs from incidental revenues. Ho-
tells with mainly a permanent guest list
collect total of s18,597 900, of which
only 81 ,432 900 comes from incidentals.
The transients are sufficiently free
handed in the incidental expenditures
to make up more than one-siXth of the
total revenues, while the transient pays
but one-thirteenth in this way. It is
one of those inexplicabIe oddities of
human nature that the hotel guest who
may never see a certain waiter again
will give him larger tip than he gives
the one who serves him every day.
Justice would seem to dictate that the
regular faithful serVitOr he the more
generously rewarded, but justice is not
found very frequently. The hotel gets
1t anyway in many cases, usually in the
cases where the tips are the larger.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
A "Knaveproof" Tariff.

Since time immemorial this classic
land of Protection has been led to be-
lieve that tariff laws are conceived In
iniquity and born in injustice. The
higher their rates, the greater the
crimes which accompanied them into
existence, according to those who would
have log-rolled the schedules In other
directions.
Addressing a meeting Of his political
constituents in England Friday night,
Mr.. Stanley Baldwin, who thinks the
Conservatives will inherit the earth at
the next general election, promised that
when the Tories take ofice-as he Is
sure they will-they will proceed not
only to enact q protective tariff for
John Bulls tight little island, but that
1t will be the product OF pure economics
undef1led by special interests.
In no circumstances" said the Con-
sentative leader, am I going TO be re-
sponsible for making this country q
profiteers' paradise or converting the
British Parliament into a crooks cor
ner. We have, so far as we can, to
make the tariff knayeproof, and 1t can
be done. The scientific adjustment and
adaptation of the tariff should be taken
out of politics"
Mr.. Baldwin's millennial plan for
purifying the incubation of a tariff
contemplates the setting up Of q COM
mission-he must have been reading
Herbert Hoover-which shall lift the
question above the stress of party poll
tics" We have heard about that kind
of tariff making in this country for 10,
these many years! II Mr.. Baldwin can
bring about for the benefit and glory
Of the other branch of the English
speaking race a customs system without
having it soiled at any stage by the
mire of politics, he will prove that the
age Of miracles is not past
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
INDISPENSABLE UNITY
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES Z. FREEMAN D. D, Ill. D.
Bishop of Washington.

Some 16 or II years ago, when
started to write little sermons for the
press. the then distinguished editor of
q leading metropolitan journal said to
me: I'm writing these little editorial
sermons may / suggest that you write
them In such a way that they will be
quite free from UNCONVENTIONAL or sec
tartan bias-in other words, write them
so that they may have q reasonable
appeal to the various types Of readers
our paper serves" He was making q
consistent appeal that, in the presen-
tatlon of truth. as We apprehended 1t,
we should attempt to put II In such
form as to be comprehensive OF all
kinds and conditions of men, ire
speetive Of their religious and political
faith or bias. We submit that 1t is q
difncult task To express truth In such
vivid way that 1t Is always irresistible
IN It's appeal. In the face Of this, 1t
becomes more and more evident to US,
rs we come to see life more fully and
10 understand II more accurately, that
there are certain elemental imperatives
that, irrespective of our religious az
fiiiation or lack of It, we commonly
recognize, OF all the great concerns
OF lite those that have to do with the
integrity of the home are primary.
The ma jority of us hold that there are
conventions and usages in social prac-
tiee that are not only legitimate, but
really indispensable to decent and
orderly living. We have long since
held that honesty is the best policy In
all commercial and other relations.
While many OF us arc indifferent to
the claims of the church, Jewish,
Catholic and Protestant, we do believe
that 1t occupies an essential place in
our corporate life and that 1t stabilizes
us and promotes among us spirit OF
reverence. There are also certain
principles OF education that We believe
, are basic. We used to speak OF them
as the three RS" but latterly, espe-
cially in the postwar period, we have
disclosed a passion for change. Those
who want to think themselves alto
gether original speak Glsparaeingly OF
old conventions and habits that have
stood the test of many generations.
The whole world is In ferment today
over maladies that have largely come
to it out of the World War and one
of the most serious aspects of the
situation Is in the many doctors who
have original formulas to cure the
evils from which We are suffering.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
Absurdities of Law.

A report submitted by the Wicker
sham Crimes Commission, in a discus
sion of faults in criminal procedure,
suggested that the Mooney-Biilings case
in California has been handled In q
manner Shocking to ones sense OF
Justice" because of q weakness in the
California law which does not allow a
motion for O new trial on the ground
of newly discovered evidence or upon
evidence Of perjury committed by ma
terial witnesses discovered after judg-
ment. The only remedy In this case
is the exercise of executive clemency.
But a pardon is not the equivalent OF an
acquittal 1t necessarily implies recog-
milton of guilt and grants conformation.
In the Mooney Billings case guilt is
denied, and now the law is accused OF
fault in preventing the establishment
of innocence.
Assuredly such legal fault should
be corrected. It is palpably q failure
of justice to estop the demonstration
of innocence on the technically that
the discovery Of perjury comes after
conviction. If . man has been found
guilty upon perjured testimony, he is
entitled to clearance, no matter how
long the lapse of time.
Another case Of somewhat the same
kind is now in evidence in New York,
with techpicality preventing full JUS
tice. In this instance. however, pre-
sumably guilty man is shielded by the
strict letter Of the law. This is the case
of the notorious Legs" Diamond, who
was acquittSd at Troy the other day OF
torturing q truck driver. His acquittal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

Uncle Sam has been curious about
how much the incidental operations OF
hotel are worth to 1t. His Census
Bureau has just found out. Nearly
one-eighth Of the entire receipts OF q
typical American hotel arises from
sources other than the direct renting
Of rooms and the serving of meals,
When you spend q dime to buy your
hat back from the brunette at the
check room, you ere adding to this
tidy percentage. When you buy q dol
lars worth Of cigars, a magazine or
newspaper from the blond at the cigar
stand in the lobby, there Is another
contribution. The barber shop In the
basement takes its toll, the manicurist
and the bootblack.
That suit which you have pressed
by the hotel valet while you sleep or
pace the floor waiting for it and the
laundry sent out, whether or not 1t is
returned after your train time. all go
to swell these incidental revenues.
Practices differ as to the manner In
which the revenue comes to the hotel
proprietor. In some cases the hat
check tips, the cigar stand profits and
all such revenues come direct to the
hotel, the proprietcrs paying regular
salaries to the servitors. In other
cases concessions are given. For ex-
ample, If the hotel be one in large
city and with fashionable trade, a
man viii pay the hotel proprietor as
high as $4,000 a year rent for the
privilege of running the hat check
rooms. The eoncessionaire will hire
the check girls at regular salaries. The
tips handed to these smiling young
ladies all go into the cash register OF
the boss.
The same system Of renting conces-
sions goes all the way through in
many cases. The valet pays regular
sum to be designated as hotel valet
and for the privilege OF obtaining the
guests business. He may rent space
inside the hotel or may have a shop
outside. There are many ramifications
to the renting of these privileges.
Some hotels are paid as high as 10000
a year for the privilege of removing
their garbage. The purchasers obtain
valuable products from it. soap-making
material being one Of the chief.
Survey Of Typical State.
In satisfying his curiosity about how
hotels are run, Uncle Sam has taken
Illinois as a typical State and found
that the thousand hostelries of that
Midwestern Commonwealth collect $l2,-
0l6060 from these incidental sources
How important these seemingly neg
ligible side issues are in the hotel bust
ness Is realized when the total receipts
are compared. Receipts from all
sources amount to $93, 126,000 a year.
so the s12,000.000 from incidental
sources accounts for nearly an eighth
of the entire hotel revenue.
Hotel dining rooms, as a class, are
the most expensive. Restaurant price!
ordinarily are lower and lunch room,
and tea room prices much lower Yet
only about twice as much is collected
in the course of year from meal
service, compared with the $4,000, 900
item for the incidentals.
While there are a few more than
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
The Profession of Greeting.

Grover Whalen of New York, the
Nations pioneer Greeter. must know
exactly how the drivers of covered
wagons felt when they saw the first
locomotive, belching smoke and steam,
dash across the prairies and over the
hind. The good old days were gone.
new era had dawned. And in Chi
cago, George D. Cav is to the greeting
profession what the locomotive and
train of cars were to the covered
wagons.
There is touching symbolism in the
sweetly quaint little ceremony with
which Mr.. Cav has tnaugurated him.
self as the citys Official Greeter. In all
this big, wide, lonely, cold. bleak and
bitter world who was the first whom he
should wish, In that big, tender heart
of his, to greet? Mother, OF course.
No one else but mother. Mother! A
beautiful thought, that. Mother
So mother, who makes her home with
Mr.. Cav In Chicago, was sent back to
Greensboro, KY, where stands the old
homestead, in order that she could
come to Chicago and be greeted
There, in La Sale Street Station, she
stepped from the platform to the out
stretched arms of George D. Cav. Nc
one witnessed the touching scene-no
one except several thousand curious
onlookers. a small army of photogra-
pliers and reporters, large squad OF
police And the kiss that George d
planted on his mothers cheek was
heard around the world. The snow
white automobile which Greeter Cav
is later to use in ofhcial greetings
has not been completed. So the rest
Of the ceremony Of this first greeting
was carried out with q plain blaci
limousine, and an escort OF motor cycles
and automobiles filled with reporter:
and photographers. Screaming siren'
and warning horns blasted a path
through teeming thousands as Greeter
Cav and mother visited the principal
points of interest OF Chicago. Think
what it will be when the snow white
automobile and SNOWY white motor cycles
take part in the greetings which are to
follow.
George D. Cav has set a rapid pace
for the infant strides OF the new pro-
fession Of greeting. But the rest OF
the world, in time, will catch up. There
will be, Of course, q Code of Ethics.
Every greeter must begin his ofiicial life
by greeting his mother. If ones own
mother is not available, somebody else 5
mother will have to do. For hence
forth the sweet word Mother" will
be linked with that sweeter word
"Greeter."
The only fly in the ointment is
whether anybody but mother will stand
for being greeted. And the only way
to remedy that will be to hire Greeter
Whelan of New York to visit Greeter
Cav OF Chicago. The greeting from
Mr.. Cav to Mr. Whalen should really
be arranged. 1t would naturally be an
event Of tremendous historical i'm
portance and should no longer be de-
layed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

Business depression in Midsummer
Is nothing unusual. Business revival Is
f'ways to be expected when vacations
are over. and the Fall season slim
ulstes the buyer and cheers the re-
tail merchant. 1t Is human custom to
look for mysterious explanations OF
phenomena which are, In large degree,
only ordinary experiences.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

At . rather extravagant cost, Berlin
manages to maintain a certain gloomy
prestige as one of the great news CEN
tiers of the world. Its publicity experts
show the same industrious candor In
making known a nations unhappiness
as they did In announcing its ambitions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

Siberia was once known to history
and romance as a bleak and dreary
waste. Thanks to aviation it now con-
templates a series of landing fields and
the development Of disposition to be-
come positively hospitable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Sound for Its Own Sake.
De robin hab mighty voice,
He lets 1t sweetly SCUM.
Fun early mornin' he'll rejoice
Until de sun goes down.
He doesn' nebber seem to try
To tell you anything
An mebbe dat's de reason why
We likes to hear him sing.
Fun tree to tree he fits along
AS happy as kin be;
He allus sings de same old song
An in de same old key.
He's like some folks dat you could name
Whose voices never balk.
Dey don't say much; but jes de same
We likes to hear EN- talk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

carefully tried the trigger ana then re-
turned and took q seat in the ladies'
waiting room, and, as soon rs the Presi-
dent entered, advanced behind him and
fired two shots.
These facts. think, can be relied
upon as accurate and 1 give them to
the public to contradict certain false
Tlnors In connection with this most
atyeciols Of atrocious crimes"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

Siamese royalty is taking q great in
terest in the modern dirigible, which,
metaphoricaly speaking, was 1T one
time regarded as one of the leading
white elephants" of civilization
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

Chief among the privileges enjoyed
by the King Of Italy is that of being
absolutely secure against any intrusions
on his private life
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

In daring the disfavor Of the world
La Belle France" ignores the homely
aphorism, Handsome is as handsome
does
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

An ovation awaited Max Schmeling
the only famous warrior that Berlin
at present finds In CHEEKY frame
of mind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
A Comparison.

The microbe is the most contemplate
of living things;
He's only just an insect that is minus
legs and wings.
But, like the mischief maker in more
tangible affairs,
His seeming unimportance lets him
catch you unawares.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
Reduced Planting Is
Only Wheat Solution
BY HARDEN COLFAX.

The wheat problem has been going
through rapid changes. 1here nave
been world meetings to agree upon
restriction of acreage, world marketing
and methods OF buying and selling on
the exchange. Finally some rehel IN
the form of moratorium Is now being
sought in this country for the farmers
who cannot meet their debts, II Wneat
continues to sell as low as 70 cents
bushel.
Following the Presidents statement
condemning spectators who, IN selling
snort" are driving down commodity
prices. Vice President Curtis ana
I,un1ber of members Of Congress, IN.
ciuding Senator Capper OF Kansas ana
Senator Fletcher of Florida, are de-
msndinr that there be q congressional
investigation preliminary 70 inCroouclIs
legislation for curbing short" sales. IN
this connection, it is proposed oy the
American Farm Bureau Federatien 10
reintroduce, at the next session - Con-
press. the so-called Capper-Dlch > son
Bill. which provides for the Limitation OF
any one operator trading. to two mil
lion bushels a day, and his long" or
"short" position to similar quantity.
This idea is also favored by the grain
futures administration OF the Depart-
ment Of Agriculture.
The farmers of Kansas are asking,
who is getting this spread between the
as cents a busnel, which the farmers
receive and the 81 cents that wheat u
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
Another Crisis Postponed.

From the Flint Journal.
The latest British cabinet crisis mas
been postponed. Poor Ramsay MAJ 1on.
Donald,s career has been just one long
nnstnoned crisis!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
A Subtle Gift.

What is personal magnetism"
Personal magnetism" replied Sena-
tor Sorghum, lis what enables q man
to stand up and keep an audience in
terested without the use of moving pic
lures"
The man who complains about the
weather deserves no sympathy. A real
sufferer ventures no such effort. He
Just mutely perspires.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

Ode man dat don't trust anybody"
said Uncle Eben. rs mighty liable to
figure cut moral responsibilities in a
way datu prevent anybody PUN trustin'
him" -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
Exaggerated Impression.

Mr.. Meekton says his wife is conpe-
tent to hold any Office in the Govern
ment."
That opinion" replied Miss Cayenne,
lis the result of his vanity. He thinks
that because she can govern him she
must be able to govern the entire
Nation"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
Progress.

MY daughter is having her voice
cultivated
"Is it improving9"
Its growing stronger. She used to
be heard only two apartments away.
Now we get complaints from away on
in the next building"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

Rate by Mail-Payable In Advance.
MARYLAND ana Virginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

At that point, though. Mr.. Stimson is
encountering q modifying current Of
thought from the French. The French
think that Germany should be better
enough to be able to sit up and crochet,
but not better enough to be able to
stand up and fight. The problem, there
fore, is to put Germany somewhere be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

The Recurrent Maximum.
No Summer ever came mans way
That did not somehow raise
A most astonishing array
OF hottest-eyer days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

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