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avenue. BY the same token, the western
extension Of that thorouehfare into the
Potomac Park area, is officially styled
Riverside Drive" and not "The Speed
way" as many have come to term It.
The word speedway" was somehow
adopted long ago for the parks princi-
pal travel lane. perhaps with the notion
that it was to be used for exhibitions
of rapid driving. As q matter Of fact
it has never been o speedway, in any
sense. and on occasions Of heavy use,
as when the cherry blossoms are out,
1t is quite the reverse Of that. So let it
be known as Riverside Drive" even
though that name suggests a coneourse
in another city!
In Potomac Park likewise is another
feature that the public persists in
styling by a wrong name. That is the
body Of water lying within the park,
formed by the inletting of the river
stream at its high stage, in order to
permit an outflow into the Washington
Channel on the ebb, to keep that chan
mel clear. To many Washingtonians
that is the Tidal Basin" Ofiicially
1t is "Twining Lake" so called in honor
OF an engineer officer who had much to
do with the development of Washing
ton long time ago. So let it be
"Twining Lake" in common speech as
we'll as oficiallyl
Just SO there Is the great viaduct
across Rock Greek ct Connecticut ave-
nue.. Soon after It was completed
somebody thoughtlessly spoke of 1t as
the Million Dollar Bridge" and that
name became attached to 1t, despite
the absurdity and the impropriety OF
calling so noble a structure after q
sum Of money. 1t was semi officially
known as the Connecticut Avenue
Bridge, but 1t did not have a formal
ly bestowed name until recently, when
it was, by decree Of the District Com
missioners. given the name of the late
Chief Justice OF the United States, who
loved it and who used it frequently iii
his walks about the city. So it is the
william Howard Taft Bridge, and by
that name 1t should always be men.
toned Let there be no lapse from
that fitting title!
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WHAT is LIFE?
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., LII. D,
BiShoD of WdshirQton.

TeTt:: "This Is Hte eternal, that
they might kno,p Thee the only true
God, and Jesus Christ, tUhont Thou
hast sent."-St. John, Eptf.3.
Life" is the word which was con-
stantly on the lips Of the great Master
In all His teachings He was ever speak
ing to men Of life, the larger, fuller
life. He declared Himself to be the
author OF the more abundant life.
Again He said, "I am the way, the
truth and the life" He never speaks
of life without identifying it with an
eternal existence. He says that "he
that hath the Son hath life" Again
addressing Himself to a stranger by
the Sychar's well, He speaks of living
waters "springing up into eternal life"
In another case he says, Hes passed
from death unto life" He could not
limited, bounded by horizons Man
was an eternal becoming" and 80 i'm
pressed with His words was st. John
that he says, ut doth not yet appear
what we shall be-; and again, He that
doeth the will OF God abideth forever" !"
The New Testament might properly
be called "The Book Of Life" Every
one has some conception OF what life
means to him, we have an ideal or
conception of what we would like 1t
to be. To the sick 1t means restored
health and fulness Of strength. To the
ambitious 1t means gifts and talents
Of one kind and another. To another,
home, family and friends, a perfect
and ideal domestic condition with
fratefnal intercourse unhindered and
unbroken. To others life means a COM
posite of all these. II we think Of
ne at lee ftllaef Of fnrf1lnSt Y10fa
and then couple with 1t the thought
IF an unbroken and uninterrupted ex-
istence, we get some conception Of
what Jesus meant. His ideal cuntem-
plated a happy and radiant life, with
our best and highest hopes fully
realized. What a contrast this fur
nishas tn that other cnnception Of life
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ell too common among iis--a conception
that thinks Of 1t solely in terms Of the
gratification of desire, the satisfaction
of the 1usts and passions, the attain
ment OF selfish endsi Omar, the
voluptuafy. the self-indulgent. says:
"Ah love! could you and with him
conspire
To grasp this sorry scheme of things
entire,
Would not we shatter 1t to bits, and
then
Remold 1t nearer to the hearts desire?"
In his conceit the Persian poet thinks
of life solely in terms of the gratifica-
ton Of desire. One could hardly wish
for extended being Of such q kind. To
live on with only selfish ends to serve
Is hardly worthy of us. 1t must re-
suit in safety, dull 'sensibilities, dis
illusionment and dissatisfaction" Life in
its higher aspects has other ends to
serve, and in our better moments we
think of 1t as attaining nobler ends.
Some one says that there's not a man
that lives that has not known his
Godlike hours" This means the at
tainment of life's highest and holiest
being. Jesus laid down as a condition
of such attainment the knowledge Of
the will and purposes OF God. A life
uNeu III tune WIFI CIle 1nIlnlCes CO.
operating with the definite ends and
purposes Of God, has for each one Of
us, II we rightly conceive 1t, design
and plan worthy Of our best and high
est endeavors. Life Is attainment, the
attainment Of all that is best and
noblest. TO know God. to be in har-
mony with the Source of all life, con-
sciously helping in the outworking Of
His mighty plaIl-this Is life eternal.
It is normal life because it is life in
harmony with Him who rules and gN-
erns the universe. When we thus thin
OF our own life 1t lends dignity ana
power to 1t, 1t lifts 1t above mean and
sordid things and inflames it with a
passion to reach its highest and truest
fulfillmhnt
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Evolution of Supreme Court Justices
Into 'Liberals' and "Anti.LiberaIs''

previous decision was on a MasSachu-
sets tax case in which Mr.. Stone wrote
a dissenting opinion OF vigorous quail
ity. The new case was a New York tax
case. of identical practical meaning, in
which Mr.. Stone without at all chang
ing his views, wrote the majority
opinion. 1t became the opinion of the
ma aiority through the votes Of the new
brethren" Mr.. Hughes and Mr..
Roberts.
This writer is reminded Of the de-
lightful moment when a Supreme Court
justice, upon being asked what he was
writing so busily, answered:
Il am writing a minority opinion
which therefore is not the law. but I
EN- writing II becausa 1t will sCmc day
have majority in the court and be-
come law"
The betting is probably along about
two TO enc that Mr. Hughes and Mr..
Roberts will gravitate often enough
into the Supreme Courts liberal"
csmp, simultaneously to produce not
only large number Of liberal" de-
cisions but also a considerable number
OF 'reversals" of previous "anti-liberal''
positions.
The serious moral is that people do
not lose their personalities, after all,
simply because they have become Su-
pfeme Court justices. Mr.. Justice But
Ter IVES great harrier of all objectcrs
to the late great war back in Mime
sofa. He this month wrote the dissent
ing opinion in the California .red
flag" case, in which ma jority of the
court. speaking through Mr.. Hughes,
declared that The maintenance of the
opportunity fer free political discussion
is fundamental principle of our con-
stitutional system" Mr.. Butler could
not summon up any controlling passion
for free political discussion"
Mr.. Stone, ccntrariwise, agreed with
Mr.. Hughes about the potential per-
instability of red flags and also agreed
with him last Monday about the pro-
prlety OF allowing Douglas Clyde Mac
lntosh to become an American citizen
even If he might thereafter think that
some war OF ours was bad idea. Mr..
stone during the late great war was a
member Of Newton D. Bakers commits
sion to deal with conscientious objec-
tors. Sergeant Yorke. who captured SO
many Germans single e-handed. began by
being conscientious objector and by
refusing to fight. The man who con-
verted him to being willing to fight and
thereupon was really the psychological
cspturer of all those Germans was Mr..
Stone.
II Presidents would study prospective
supreme Court justices not as i,Irists
but as personalities. they would come
closer to correct anticipation of their
subsequent juristic conduct.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The PHILOSOPHER,

The Philosopher.
The bird that sits upon the fence
Is singing sweet and clear
To welcome with Joy intense
The blossoming OF the year.
He builds his nest where best he may
He fees when foes draw nigh,
And dimes where berries grow each day
Nor thinks of How" or why"
But we, Of human wisdom vast.
Who tame the lightning's pace
We have no songs Our fears o'ercast
With shadows every place.
While moods mysterious we explore
With longings all intense.
He asks the present joy-no more
The bird upon the fence.
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the canal, for the waterway obviously
iS only as certain as its highest course.
The mean monthly discharge OF the
Chagres River this year Is running
around 781 cubic feet per second. This
is 2 per cent above the average for 30
years and Is regarded as q safe flow,
but one which cannot be depended upon
year IN and year out, as last year
proved
Gatun Lake has varied this Spring
from 84.69 feet to 1919 feet In depth.
This Is satisfactory situation, pro-
viding adequate draught for the lower
reaches of the canal as well as the lake
channel itself.
The Madden Dam project will con-
sist OF the main dam, impounding the
flow OF the Chagres River; the left
ridge dam and 13 subsidiary saddle
dams. Also there will be huge hydro
electric power plant which will provide
power for lock operation and for trans
mission to other parts of the Canal
Zone. including the cities. where power
and light will be supplied.
The dam is located Just above Al
hajuela. The majestic structure will
rise 220 feet above the river bed In its
main portion. The toe of the dam will
extend 100 feet downstream.
Whether the dam will be built by
contract or directly by the Govern
ment itself will be determined bv the
authorities on the basis Of the char.
acter OF the bids received. In either
case the Government plans and speci-
flcations will be followed. They pro-
vide for construction in sections Sc
feet in length. Each section of con-
crete and steel will be keyed into the
next. There will be three of these
sections, giving breadth to the main
dam Of 1853 feet.
The spillway will be divided into
four openings by three piers. Steel
drum gates. l8 by 100 feet. will be in
stalled ct the top Of the spillway. In
addition there will be huge plate steel
discharge pipes Gates and discharge
pipes will be operated with valves Of
great power and the flow Of water may
be thus controlled as the needs die
tate
The power plant will be erected Just
below and as a part of the dam and
will consist Of three units, each having
5000 kilowatt capacity.
Across the crest of the dam viii
extend the Madden road. one of the
finest highways of Central America. It
will cross the gate openings of the
dam itself on concrete bridges and
sweep along the river side above and
below the structure.
This upland country above Gatun
Lake is of great scenic beauty and the
Madden road leads into a Jungle will
derness of surprising interest. Sensible
of this fact, the Governor of the Pam
anna Canal has set aside an extensive
tract Of mountain land above Alhajuela
as national timber preserve No cul-
tivation will be permitted in this pre-
serve, the idea being to retain the
area in native jungle wildness. The
Zone authorities will supervise such
cutting and trimming Of trees as Is
allowed.
Construction will require some time,
but work will be pushed and ulti-
mately the Madden Dam, road and
forest reserve will be one more addi-
tion to the fine and beautiful projects
brought into being by the United
States on the Isthmus of Panama.
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Work to Begin on Madden Dam
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

The Madden Dam, the latest i'm
provement In the Panama Canal Zone,
| Is to be added to the huge Federal
building program this Summer. 1t will
| furnish a further contribution toward
making the Panama Canal the greatest
engineering enterprise IN the world;
In addition to controlling Hood waters
of the often tlnruly Chagres River, reg
ulating water supply not only for the
| locks Of the Canal, but for the munich
pal uses of the Zont. and irrigation of
| adjacent l'gds, 1t will provide for stor-
age of vSter for emergency use in
maintaining the level in the great
The great drought Of 1880 did not
| spare the Panama Canal Zone. The
shortage of rainfall was so great that
the retention Of high enough water
| level in the canal to accommodate large
ships became a matter Of grave con-
Germ. AS week succeeded week, with q
constantly lowering level and absence
| of fresh supplies Of water, the most
drastic economies were resorted to.
The locks were operated only when
! 1t became necessary, ships being punched
and put through several at q transit
in order to prevent wastage of billions
| Of gallons OF water into the sea each
| time the locks opened.
Plans already had been made for the
construction Of dam on the ChagreS
River, but the drought emergency
caused them to be pressed forward with
unusual haste. The plans now. are
completed, and 1t is expected that bids
will be asked for about July /.
| The present estimates for the cost
of the Madden Dam call for the ex-
penditure of $13,500,000.
! The Panama Canal, being lock
rather than a sea-level canal, is as de-
pendent on rainfall and watershed as
| the land itself. The fact that the two
/ seward ends are fed from the sea does
not help to fill the upper reaches.
In part of the world where there
| are alternations of rainy and dry sea-
! sens and which, as last year proved, Is
| by no means immune from drought. it
is necessary to take the utmost precau-
| tions tc maintain steady water sup
| ply where the navigation of one Of the
most important waterways in the world
| Is at stake.
Insurance Against Drought.
| Some idea of the vagaries Of the
Chagres River, the principal feeder for
Gatum Lake. which, in turn, feeds the
main channels of the canal, may be OBJ
| tanned from an examination of the dis
charge figures. The range Of f1uctua-
1
cubic feet per second as maximum to
only 3S2 cubic feet per second as a
minimum.
Steamers sailing on scheduled time
! and ships of war moving on their i'm
| portant occasions should not be de-
| pendent on the moods of nature and,
| therefore. the Madden Dam is the an
ever of the Government of the United
States to these vicissitudes of drainage.
This year the rainfall on the hills
draining into the Chagres River and
Gatun Lake has been ample and the
deficit occasioned by the great drought
Of 1880 is being made up. but the
| drought was a threat which empha-
sized the imperative necessity for great
! er storage space rs insurance against
! the running dry Of the canal. For the
lake level to be lowered by a water
! shortage would stop all trafic through
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Twentv.Four Hours to Europe.

The long projected scheme of Ed
ward r. Armstrong to dot the Atlantic
with floating islands to be used as land
ing fields for airplanes appears to be
taking tangible form. with construction
already started on the first four-mil-
iion-dollar airdrome. One year from to-
day. barring unexpected complications,
Mr.. Armstrong hopes to have the first
Of his creations anchored two hundred
and fifty miles out at sea between New
York and Bermuda. The huge island
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using narcotics and to profit by the
indifference Of certain governments
which seem to have an eye to the
revenue flowing from the business. This
ring" according to the secretary gen.
eral Of the World Conference on Narcotic
Education. Capt. Richard Pearson Hob
son, is utilizing many factories all over
the world. except in the United States,
to produce from 80 to 40 times the
quantities required for legitimate scien-
tific and medical needs. At a recent
conference of this International Narcotic
Educational Association-which was at:
tended by representatives of all the
American States and 81 foreign coun-
tries-it was stated that less than one
half of per cent of the narcotics
seized by Federal agents are Of Amer
ican manufacture.
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Geneva Conference
On Narcotics Traffic
BY HARDEN COLEAx-

tightening Of an economic burden of
millions OF dollars q year in illicit drug
traf1ic and war upon q major source of
crime are objectives of a conferences
which began this week at Geneva under
the formidable title international Con-
ference on the Limitation of Manufac-
ture OF Narcotic Drugs"
Inc plan Is to limit traffic in narcotics
70 medical and scientific purposes.
eltner by agreeing upon q quota among
tne manufacturing states or setting up
soVe[nment monopolies with an under
stanolng as to production. In accord :
ance with Congressional resolution
adopted during the last session. the
United States is participating. President
Hoover appointed as delegates, Consul
General John K. Caldwell, REPRESENTING
the Department of State, chairman:
Harry j. Anslinger commissioner Of
narcotics; DR.. w. L. Treadway assistant,
surgeon general of the Public Health
service and head OF the Bureau Of
Mental Hygiene, and Sanborn Young A
member OF the Senate Of the State of
California. ~
At the first session of the conference
tne oelegate from Canada referred to
the United States as an example of
what q narcotics s-manufactllriog co,,n-
IIy can DO In preventing drugs from
reaching the Illicit trade in other
countries" The quantity Of narcotic
orugs manufactured in the United
states Is already limited by law, There
lore, the direct interest of this country
IN the conference lies in the fact that
tne greater the surplus stocks of these
orugs made abroad, the greater the
quantity that finds its way through the
Illicit traft1c to be smuggled into
American ports.
y 4 4
The Bureau of Narcotics in the Treas
ury Department Is devoting its atten-
Ton toward detecting and preventing
tne smuggling OF narcotic drugs into
the country and then endeavoring to
cooperate with various State authorities
70 control the trafhc within their own
borders as well as to aid In the treat
ment and cure of drug addicts.
At present the Illicit traffic in narN
cotics seems to be showing signs of
growing vigor. All over the world
factories are being established to nrc-
duce these drugs and, in some nations
which have not accepted the system of
control imposed by the League of
Nations, factories are pouring out enor-
nous quantities of morphine and
heroin. Smuggling is easy, risks are
slight and the profits very large. It is
agreed that the need for drastic action
has come.
There seems to be evidence that there
is an international ring" which has
been organized to foster the habit Of
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Experts are experimenting with doped
bullets with which to take deer alive
in sections overcrowded with that spe-
cies OF game. Shall We expect to see
our peddlers working the rural sections
disguised as hunters, all decked out
with red caps. shining license badges
and bandoliers?
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The Tariff Under Fire.

Seldom since its enactment wear
ago has the Hawley -Smoot tariff come
under so raking a fire as that poured
upon it at last weeks convention of
the National Foreign Trade Council at
New York. Faced by the doleful
realization that our total dollar volume
OF imports and exports in 1880 was
slashed by about two and three-quarter
billions, compared to the high figures
OF 1929, the captains of what Ia left
OF American overseas commerce did not
mince words. Business leaders charged
that the United States has been guilty
OF launching the greatest world. wide
tariff war in history" Until some of
the barriers come down, they ASSERT
ed. international trade recovery is
impossible. In almost identical terms
British Foreign Secretary Henderson
assailed tariffs at Geneva last week
The foreign trade authorities in New
York heard some straight talk from
South America. Ambassador Malbran
of Argentina warned the convention
that his country might be forced to
embark upon high-tariff policy in
defense against the skyscraper duties
now imposed upon imports by the
United States and other countries.
Two years ago American exports 10
Argentina represented forty per cent
of all our sales in South America.
During the first three months OF 1881
Argentinians bought about sixty per
cent less in the United States than in
the same period of 1880, the figures
for which were twenty-nine per cent
under 1929.
The spokesman of the Buenos Aires
government left it to be understood that
Argentinians are simply not going to
trade in markets which are plainly in
hospitable to Argentinian produce. They
will do business with theirIfriends. The
Prince Of Wales was recently in Argen-
tina for the purpose of arranging to
have that country henceforward look
upon the British as its friends. 1t Is
an open secret that his mission was
rendered relatively easy by Argentina S
bitter resentment Of the policy expressed
by the Hawley-Smoot law. Canada is
as wroth over that legislation as Argen-
tina Is.
Peter Fletcher, president OF the Ma
tional Council of American Importers
and Traders, demanded before the For
eign Trade Council that Congress be
called in extra session, not to overhaul
the tariff schedule by schedule. but to
enact sweeping twenty-five and fifty
per cent cuts. A good dsal of wind
would be jammed on Capitol Hill before
anything SO drastic as that sort of re-
vision downward could be achieved.
But that Congress, in regular session
next Winter, is going to ring with stem
torian calls for some kind of tampering
with the Hawley-Smoot law Is q GER
tainty.
President Hoover will be on consistent
ground If he takes the lead in the re-
vision movement. Congress in 1880 rode
roughshod over the Presidents appeal to
have q decent regard for the rights and
interests Of other countries in revising
our own tariff laws. Since then Amer
ica's foreign trade has gone steadily
from bad to worse.
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Various outstanding authorities who
participated have frankly written of the
doings Of the World War 1t is to be
hoped that one or more members of the
American mayoral pilgrimage to France
will do az we'll by that epoch-making
tour An accurate recital Of all the do
ings Of all these executives should de-
light posterity.
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Col Theodore Roosevelts toothy smile
is we'll remembered. but can any one
imagine the dimensions Of the grin he
would wear were he alive today and,
with something to get off his chest, ap-
preaching a we'll hooked-up micro
phone?
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The president OF one American coll
lege has been pledged to a fraternity
by a chapter in another institution as
d mark Of honor. 1t has been thought
by some that the president of a college
ought occasionally to be given the var
sity letter, he having done full as much
for the old campus as the all-America
fullback.
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ling cannot be reelected except by the
aid of the Democratic votes. These
votes cannot be had unless one of the
United States Senators is given to the
Democrats. 1t would be no 'vindica-
ton Of Mr.. Conkling to return to the
Senate with a Democratic colleague.
granted to his political opponents as
the price of his own election. The
stalwarts are still counting upon the
power of the machine to force all the
wavering Republicans over to the
Conkling side; but 1t is already made
plain that this cannot be done"
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Green Sees Hard Winter for Labor" :"
ran a recent headline. 1t is regrettable
that he does. and much more regret
table that A lot Of other so-called citi-
Winter"
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The judge who ordered the default
ing Chicago. husband to pay back ALI
mony amounting to $24,800 at the rate
of five dollars a week might, without
impairing the dignity Of the bench.
have been genial enough to add, And
I sincerely hope you live that long"
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The First Person Singular.

"The successful orator makes use Of
brief. simple language"
Yes" replied Senator Sorghum,
but that Is no excuse for his over
working q word because 1t happens to
be the shortest in our vocabulary"