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Evening star., 1931-06-26

him to meet Mrs. Hyde on her i'm
pending return from the Philippines.
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Anybody who doesn't think that the
Southern gentleman knows how to
meet Negro should have seen Senator
Pat Harrison, Democrat of Mississippi
hobnobbing with Eddie Savoy, historic
colored messenger in the State Depart
ment. Senator Pat was there one day
this week to confer with Secretary
StimSon on the debt holiday. Eddie
has desk just outside Col. Stimson's
office, access to which Is hardly pos
sible without certain diplomatic for
malities with the S5-year-old Servitor
who has been there for 81 years and
waited on 81 different Secretaries of
State. Savoy was in the State Depart
ment IL years before Pat Harrison
was born.
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Representative John q. Tilson Of
Connecticut, who may be Speaker of
the next House If the @. o. p. has the
say, IS now motoring across the CONT
nent with his wife and three children
on a Summer vacation that will last
until September /. The entire Tilson
family was entertained at the White
House by the President and Mrs. Hoo
yer for two days and nights on the eve
of starting for the open spaces. The
House majority leader Is due in the
Grand Canyon National Park, In Ari-
zona, next week. President Hoover is
not taking sides in the coming Speak
ership contest, but his devotion to and
confidence in Tilson Is everybody's Sc
cret. The Connecticut Tennessee YAM
kee is not known to be fighting shy of
any 1892 Republican vice presidential
honors that may be going.
"Charlie" Williams, veteran meSsen-
ger at the White House, has a unique
claim to distinction. He was the dis
coverer of the fires that twice in con-
temporary history threatened to de-
Stroy the Executive Mansion. The first
occasion was during the Taft admins
tration and the other was the blaze
that broke out In the Executive Offices
on Christmas eve, 1929. Williams is
about to celebrate his twenty-flfth an
niversary at No. 1900 Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. He began as a stoker in the furnace
room under President Roosevelt. Joe
Tumulty promoted him to a messengers s
Job during the Wilson regime.
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A Chicago multimillionaire captain
of industry was a Washington hotel
guest during the recent hot spell. To
cool OF one evening he decided to
take walk down Connecticut avenue.
In the course Of 1t he pulled of his
coat and threw it over his arm. When
he returned to the hotel he found that
his set of false teeth had dropped out
of the pocket. A search party was
sent out and patrolled the path the
Chicagoan had taken, but the missing
molars couldn't be retrieved. The ho-
tel prides itself upon filling guests
every want, but the night clerk had to
confess that emergency teeth weren't
on the list.
tCopyright. 1o3i.)
Evening star., 1931-06-26
Another Atlantic Crossing.

For the second time in two days an
American plane has spanned the Allan
tic, and when Otto Hillig and his pilot,
Holger Hoiriis, touched the earth at
Krefeld Airport, near Dusseldorf, Ger
many, after a thirty-two-hour flight
from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, 1t
marked the thirteenth successful con-
quest Of that great expanse of water by
airplane in the history Of mankind.
To Wiley Post and Harold Gatty the
crossing of the ocean was merely an
incident in their contemplated speedy
journey around the world. To Hillig
and Hoiriis, who hoped to reach Copen.
hagen in a nonstop flight, the landing
at Krefeld meant disappointment on q
projected pleasure trip. Hillig was re-
turning to his native Denmark in the
most modern way as the hoy who made
good" in America, with Hoiriis as his
pilot, and it was his own machine, built
especially for him, in which they made
the transoceanic fight. Unfortunately,
however, for the Danes triumph at
Copenhagen, where more than one
hundred thousand of their fellow coun-
trymen waited to welcome them home,
they became lost over Europe and after
coming down at Krefeld with empty
tanks were too fatigued to ny the re-
naming two hundred and forty miles TO
the Danish capital. The journey was re-
sumed early this morning for the be-
lated ceremonies.
The fact that E1illig and Hoiriis
fell short of their goal takes none Of
the luster away from their thirty-two-
hour flight from Harbor Grace, in the
eyes of Americans, at least. Any one
who thinks it is child's play to sit at
the controls of plane for that length
Of time with the twin duties Of pilot
ing and navigating, or to ride as q
passenger for that period, does not
know very much about the strain of
flying. AS with Post and Gatty when
they reached Berlin, overpowering fa-
tigue Was evident in the bearing Of
Hillg and Hoiriis when they came to
Evening star., 1931-06-26
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

/ is aware that his signature Is to occupy
q prominent position and Is to be seen
of men, he will take more care OF II
than on the bottom of check.
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Ones entire life comes reeling back
as the booklover turns over the pages
of old books and sees again the sigma
lures which he placed there 5 years
ago. 10 years ago. is years ago, 20 years
ago. rs years ago.
| How these signatures vary over the
years. increasing in hrnness and char
| acter as the years rolled oni Here is
the childish signature of grade-sehool
days. with the transition Of certain cap
ital letters and the wabbly strokes on
certain uprights.
Here IS the signature Of high-school
days, when for a brief period one de-
liberately changed ones name without
consent Of law and spelled 1t as one
pleased.
All the time. as these pages prove,
the signature was becoming what II
later was to take on-a definite char
acter.
Signatures which include the date and
the place, If different from the usual
are a great help and interest in later
years.
Through these pages the booklover
finds himself wandering as he previously
wandered through life itself.
Here Is a copy of Herbert Spencer's
Education" showing that 1t was puR-
| chased in Atlantic City in 1928. I'M
mediately a flood of sensation sweeps
| him to the very end of the Steel Pier
and he is sitting again in the sun with
strong, sweet ocean breeze fluttering
the pages.
All the time, as the booklover Idly
looks through these old books. the sig
natures are growing older, and better.
too.
Human beings may or may not grow
better as they grow older, but sigma
lures, as writings, undoubtedly do. They
become set. fixed with certain f1nality
which banks recognize.
What the bank clerk does not know
nor care about is what lies behind that
fixing.
Life lies there-life with all its ups
and downs, its victories and defeats.
Every signature that Is worthy to be
called such and which is not Just the
idle dashing of pen for q necessary
nuisance, as many signatures seem to
be, Is filed with life as it has been lived.
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This IS true to such a large extent
that certain persons who have studied
such matters claim to be able to read
q mans entire character from q few
words In his handwriting
However this may be, there can be no
doubt at all that q human signature IS
a provocative, interesting thing. and
that none is more so than the name we
have written in q book.
The favorite place Is on the first fly-
leaf. but many booklover adopts the
back of that sheet, or even the top of
the title page, the last as offering less
chance for elimination by the simple
expedient Of tearing out.
A few write their names on the back
of the cover. as perhaps the surest place
OF all, but there Is something about this
position that strikes us as not so good.
The inside Of the front cover is the
place for the book plate, not for q
signature.
Let the signature in book be modest
yet firm, indicative of the man and as
much a part of the book as one can
make it, for it may be living in the
world hundreds of years after the man
who wrote it there is gone.
Evening star., 1931-06-26
Radio Announcement
Brevity Is Seen Need

To the Editor Of The Star:
As aviation in recent years, radio
likewise has progressed with tremen-
dous leaps and bounds. Today at q
twist Of the dial we are privileged
to listen to strains Of the finest music
from the best instruments in the hands
of the most skillful artists, or to hear
speeches being delivered by the coun-
try's foremost men and women.
Radio offers US the best at our own
convenience. It also serves other pur-
poses IN connection with airplanes,
ships, etc., and plays an important part
in human affairs.
However, there, is room for improve
ment.
True. static has become almost q
thing OF the past. except in q few
isolated cases. But there Is something
equally bad TO take its place
Certain manufacturing companies
have taken advantage Of the opportu-
nifty offered by radio to "cry their wares"
in terms and tones loud and eager.
In the midst of cn entertaining pro-
gram we must listen to a harangue on
the merits of some particular article.
OF course, we realize that sponsored
programs are often the very best of
the days offerings. Yet how much
more we should appreciate the enter
CdulnenC II the announcer IN lnLrO0uC-
tionS would simply state. The artists
tonight perform under the auspices Of
the - company, makers of such and
SUCH" instead Of entering into q useless
and uninteresting explanation of the
peculiar features and unusual qualities
of the products manufactured!
Radio itself Is not at fault. The
advertisers are the guilty party, cling
ing as they do to the old-faShioned
idea that "the longer We yell the more
goods We SELL" and the poor announcer
is forced to pour out valuable breath
on a deaf microphone.
No company Is content to have It said,
I'VE make - cigarettes. antisep-
tic, etc." and let it go at that. Rather,
the advertisers actually believe that
people are interested in hearing all
their hullabaloo. They are wrong.
Such superduous advertising Is unfair,
the manufacturers gain no new sales %,
the listeners suffer inconvenience and
the poor ney-tongued announcer
wastes his valuable breath!
Long live the radio advertiSersl And
may they all be blessed with short
windl WINSTON PUGH.
Evening star., 1931-06-26
u. s. Pamphlet on Lands
! Draws Second Protest
70 the Editor Of The star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Representative H. H. Peavey Of wis
consin, who says that the fact that
there are more than 100000 persons in
his district living confortably in homes
ana sustaining farms that were made
on land formerly heavily timbered,
proves that these "cut-over lands" are
suitable for settlement. Mr.. Peavey has
protested TO the Department Of Agriclil-
lure against recent circular Of 81
pages issued by It. and he describes the
major part Of the book as statistical
drahness." The final pages Of the book.
he says, are "unwarranted and Q libel
against the three States of wisconsin,
Minnesota and Michigan"
In asking that the book be suspended
by the department., the Representative
informs the Secretary that prospective
settlers will be kept out Of the areas
bordering the Great Lakes IL they be-
lteve the department circular, which he
describes as filled with "reactionaFy pes-
simism" and literary gloom" He sug-
gests q presentation of "the other side
OF the picture" which he says should
give the facts about the character and
manner OF the people who have sue
ceeded IN reOlaiming homes from among
States.
He asks: why not recount the sue
cesses along with the failures?" He
very appropriately suggests that the
authors of this pamphlet appear never
TO have found single, happy, content
ed, we'll -to-do settler in ali these vast
areas" This is a very good reason why
representative Peavey doesn't seem to
think much Of authors" who express
their pessimistic personal opinions to
bolster up" their statistics.
The person who is the writer Of this
item happens to be a native son Of the
cut-over districts which have suffered
from the attack" which has drawn the
criticism Of Representative Peavey, and,
having read the booklet, this writer
agrees with the Representative in his
condemnation Of the ofIlciaI publica-
ton. The Department of Agriculture,
which has done more than any agency
in the world to advance agricultural in
terestS, has, apparently, erred in giving
approval to document that is as full
Of holes as sieve, and the book should
be suspended" as Representative
Peavey suggests. j. E. JONES.
Evening star., 1931-06-26
MussOlini and the Pope.

Those two great powers on the Italian
peninsula, Mnssolini and Plus XXI, are
to hold = peace conference with a view
to friendly settlement Of the contro-
versy which has arisen between the
italian government and the Vatican.
To q not0 from tha church authorities
protesting the suppression Of Roman
Catholic societies, Italy has returned a
reply offering to negotiate over Article
XILII Of the Italo-Vatican concordat.
Under that section OF their treaty, the
papal state claims the rights SO dras-
tically curtailed by the Fascist regime.
On its face. Italy's readiness to talk
matters over with the Pope indicates a
certain sweet reasonableness. In fact,
hopes Of an adjudication satisfactory to
the Vatican seem illusory, for MuSsclini
reveals not the slightest inclination to
Withdraw from the position he has
hitherto, assumed. The Catholic Action
clubs for laymen, the italian govern
ment continues to hold, are political.
AS such, they conflict with the Fascist
state and must 60.
The governments communication, in
viting a discussion Of the tmbroglio,
actually repeats the charge that the
dissolved organizations pursued political
ends and thus deserved the suppreSsive
measures invoked against them. AS yet
another omen that the proposed peace
conference may end in acrimony rather
than in amity, Mussolini revamps
Italys indignation over the Vatican's
alleged attempt to interfere in what is
termed q purely bilateral Italo-Vnttcan
controversy. The Pope's desire TO re-
open Catholic Action clubs, pending a
final decision, is fatty refused,
Under all these circumstances Vat
lean City's sadness over the situation Is
comprehensive Soon after the Rome
governments note was delivered on
Wednesday, Pope Plus addressed q
group OF Neapolitan pilgrims. Things
are not in order" lamented the Holy
Father, things are not normal, and we
must say that they do not appear 70 be
about to return to normal. We have
very little faith left in men,"
Leaving entirely on one side the mer-
its of the churchs case, the controversy
bares one aspect to the world, the sig-
nificance Of which is not to he mis-
taken. That Is Fascism's abiding de-
termination to brook no interference,
direct or indirect, with its stranglehold
on Italian life and politics. Mussolini
In another year will celebrate the tenth
anniversary OF the Black Shirt march
on Rome and his accession to autocratic
power on the hills Of the ether Caesars.
II Duce means all concerned to know
that there is no room for any compro-
mise that could weaken or even leopard
lie his authority.
There Is but one Rome en- the Tiber,
the peace conference" proposal to the
Pope sets forth in effect, If not in ter
minology, and 1t Il the Rome Of
FaScism.
Evening star., 1931-06-26
The Spanish Elections.

Next Sunday it is expected that no
fewer than six million voters will troop
to the polls throughout SPANS nifty
provinces and elect the new republics
first constituent CoTtes. The future
status of the peninsula VIII be deter
mined by the days results.
A parliamentary majority favorable
to the policies of the Republican-Demo-
Gratis headed by Provisional President
Alcala Zamora and Miguel Maura Is
confidently anticipated The chaotic
state of politics in Spain has churned
up exactly two dozen parties. Among
them all, 1,015 candidates for the Cortes
are up for election. In house Of 470
members, Senor zamora counts upon
marshaling a coalition total of more
than 400. The combined opposition, If
these figures eventuate from Sundays
balloting, would be powerless to frus-
trate zamorian programs. The Social
lists appear likely to emerge as the coali-
tons strongest individual group.
As soon as the Constituent Assembly
is in Office, Deputies will proceed to elect
a President of the republic. They are
almost certain to choose zamora. The
President will intrust a Deputy, prob
ably Senior Lerroux, with the task of Sc
lecting a cabinet. Then Spain viii be
formally launched upon the high seas
of parliamentary government. With
such a combination of crosS-currentS as
already perturb the political waters at
Madrid, it is safe to prognosticate tenn
pestuous going for the bark zamora win
have to steer.
Several grave problems clamor for
solution in the new Spain. Relations
with the Roman Catholic Church, still
nominally a state establishment pre-
sent probably the toughest nut to be
cracked. Catalonia, with her lurking
Separatist tendencies, will always re-
quire Madrid to keep an eye peeled on
Barcelona, though Col. Macia, the Cata-
lonian leader, is now said to be IN Ia
mora's tow. The nobility, as a land
owning class, constitutes yet another
tribulation for the republican regime.
What place the army, so dominant and
domineering under the lately dethroned
Bourbons, is to have conJureS UP one
more anxiety.
And, finally, there is the crushed,
but militant, monarchical element to
be reckoned with. "The king busi-
ness" all accounts agree, is pretty well
finished in Spain-for the time being,
at any rate. Exiled Alfonso will listen
in vain for a call back from exile, as
election returns reach him in Fontaine-
bleau Nor will Don Jaime, the pre-
tender to the toppled throne, be able
to extract from the message Of the bal
lot-box any indication that Spaniards
banker any more to hail him as king
than they crave the return Of the un-
happy monarch they discarded on
April IA.
The republic at Madrid seems to be
we'll founded, even though it is bound
to experience shocks and perils in the
formative days now just ahead.
Evening star., 1931-06-26
Grain Futures Approved.
FROM the pes Moines Reristar

from the DeS Motnes Register,
Trading in grain futureS-the So
called gambling phase Of grain exchange
operations-has been found q sound
and beneficial practice by royal COM
mission headed by Sir Josiah Stamp
after a careful study of all germane
aspects OF Canadian wheat production
and marketing.
Sir Josiah is as eminent an economist
as the EngliSh-speaking world has. He
was chosen for this job for the reason
that whatever his report it would COM
mand confidence. The study was made
at the initiative of Canada. 1t was
directed at the very question which its
report, now in the hands of the Ca
madam House of Commons, deals with
The finding will unquestionably be
as much reinforcement to the pro-
futures traders on this side of the line
as to the profutures traders on the
other. Indeed, the hearings of the
commission were held, some of them, in
the United States. If the sessions at
Minneapolis, Chicago and New York
were called Informal" they were seS-
sions none the less.
The reaction to the report will not
be. all gloating on the part of futures
traders and all discontinue on the part
OF their farm critics, however. If the
ACROAt dCCAuACc tl16t 1QGuIcS IIdQlQE
provides an ever-ready, convenient
means Of marketing and that it bene-
f1ts growers by furnishing insurance for
grain handling, the report also suggests
closer government observation and pos
sibly even government control.
In other words, the verdict is about
what the verdist of nine in ten fairly
well informed and unprecedented persons
who have only slight knowledge of the
grain market would be-that useful
function IS performed by futures trad
ing, but that dangerous, unfair and
anti-social tendencies can readily de-
velop in connection with it, and that
these need constant checking.
In the British nations the suggestion
Of stricter government regulation OF an
agency like the machinery of gram
marketing can be made without SEEM
ING 50 extEenA ns II seems to ".
Evening star., 1931-06-26

Ones signature In q new book Is bet
ter than a book plate.
And a great deal more fun.
A book plate Is fine, but 1t IS forever
static.
It never changes over the years,
whereas ones signature varies from
youth to old age.
A booklover may trace his entire
progress In life through his various
books If he has been careful enough to
preserve them.
1t Is not necessary perhaps to retain
every single volume In which one In
scribed ones signature.
Enough Of them must be kept, how
ever, to furnish complete diagram OF
the years.
How shall the child know enough to
be sure that his books hold his name in
his own handwriting?
1t is impossible, it Is. true, that any
boy can know at the age of years that
in future years he will value the books
Of his childhood, and especially if they
hold his signature.
Nor is 1t necessary to know.
There is a tradition among booky folk
which requires that they write their
names in their own books. Few human
beings there are of any age who do not
yield to this pleasant temptation.
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The first grade in schools sets the
pace.
The budding student sees that If he
wants to know his own books again
when he sees them he must have some
plain Identification In them.
Billy Jones, His Book" Is but one
Of the thousands of inpromptu devices
which have done duty with millions Of
school boys and girls.
There are rhymes threatening sundry
penalties upon the thief who dares to
make off with an owners book. There
are all sorts Of exhortations.
But plain signature is about as good
as anything one can do in preventing
theft, and larceny prevention is not the
sole. or even the most desirable, motive
Of the book signature, after all.
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No, the Identification Of the reader
with his own copy Of q book Is the real
thing.
He wants to do something to bring
this book closer to him, TO make 1t .
veritable part Of him.
The old practical motive holds good,
especially in an age when no one re-
turns q borrowed" book, but far above
1t stands the honest wish Of the reader
to be . part of his books.
The signature on one Of the hyleaveS,
as they are called, is the easiest way
the bulk Of readers have Of securing
this at-one-ment with q writer.
There Is . solid mental and spiritual
satisfaction experienced Immediately
after one has inscribed ones full name
in a new book.
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Most Of US develop our best signature
for this important duty.
In fact, 1t may be said that most of
US learn TO write our name properly
through the care with which we place
them in our books.
Scribbling, the result Of haste, has
made many a mans signature look for
all the world like a cross between q
hens scratch and the rawlings of an
idiot.
1t Is perhaps safe to say that most
men and women who develop these
weird signatures have never fallen~into
the most pleasant habit OF writing their
own names in their own books.
John Hancock, one may feel sure,
wrote his name In his books. when one