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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Rubber tires for milk wagons and
rubber bottomed bottles were advo-
Gated by this column eighteen years
ago.
Last week the Associated Press car
ried q dispatch from London telling
of the silencing of delivery trucks by
rubber tires and soundproof1ng OF
bottles, "even when they're bounced" "
The whole world has risen to the
need for soundproofing.
We hear a lot about air-condition-
ing being the business Of the future.
but soundproofing is going to give 1t
a close run.
Little has been done in this regard,
surprisingly little, in view Of the plain
fact that urban noises have increased
amazingly over the years, together
with a proportionate increase in
NERVES" on the part Of the metro
politan populaces.
Every one, up until the last few
years, took the rather simple view
that no one ought to be offended or
hurt or discounted by noise.
Why, noise was natural, was it not?
X y X y
About five years ago metropolitan
New York began to be noise conscious.
Not much has been done, even
there, to mitigate such nuisances, but
beginning has been made.
About IS per cent of possible silenc-
ing still has to be carried into effect.
Consider the airplane alone. Such
vast noise out Of the sky is something
new on earth, except in a cataclysm
of some sort.
1t is so new, in fact, that nothing
has been done about it yet, although no
doubt something will be, sooner or
later, not so much for the benefit of
nervous humanity, of course. as for
the gain of transport and air service
in general.
Consider the dust, dirt and cinders
aboard trains.
These nuisances continued I'M
abated until just a few years ago,
although every one understood them,
and most deprecated them.
They were held to be an inseparable
part Of train journey.
Now we know better.
X y X K
The intense racket of the night
fight will some day be abandoned,
and folks will wonder why the world
ever put up with it.
The keen-eared person will wonder
why such noise Is tolerated for mill
tary reasons.
Surely silent planes would be more
effective.
If they could be silenced (and We
understand they CAM airplanes would
be in a strategic position for camou-
| fiage. What finer concealment could
be imagined than a cloud? Almost
any painter could rig up plane to re-
semble a cloud. it would seem, espe-
| cially at the distance they fly.
The world has grown into its planes
SO gradually that few persons stop
to realize what the night noise will
be, say so years from now, unless
something is done about it.
Milk wagons won't be in it, as the
idiom has it.
Noise control of the future will be
Waged on three fronts:
! l. Mental.
2. Physical
3. House soundproofing.
Education is the fancy name for
! the first front, because the big job
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13

Widespread approval of the Gov
ernment's issue OF "baby bonds Is
indicated by press comment. While
some object on the ground that 1t
competes with banks and insurance
companies, most observers think the
distribution Of Government BONDS in
denominations that permit the small
investor to become q Government
bond holder will create a universal
interest in the financial stability of
the country.
eft is felt" says the Burlington
Daily Hawk-Eye Gazette, that the
simplicity and ease of an investment
like this will appeal to the public
According to the Danbury News
Times, THESE baby bonds will have
a position about half way between
currency and the usual investment
bond. Government will redeem
dollar at any time. 1t will redeem a
baby bond at any time beyond six
months after the issue date"
More valuable than all this. how
ever" believes the La Crosse Tribune
and Leader-Press, "is the fact that
widespread ownership Of these bonds
should add, as France and England
long ago discovered, to the citizens
sense of identity with his country
Similarly, the Green Bay Press
Gazette says, ut will make the little
fellow feel the swelling pride and
honor of proprietorship in his country.
and the care, too. that must be ex-
ercised in keeping it solvent and clean
and seeing to it that it receives 100
cents on the dollar for what it
spends" According to the Milwaukee
journal, ut will be a reminder that
the Federal Santa Claus does not get
his money from the North Pole. but
from savings of earners."
"This change in ownership OF
securities" thinks the Newark Evening
News, could give to literally millions
of citizens in peace time sense Of
partnership in Government they have
not had since the days OF Liberty
bonds and thrift stamps"
On the other hand, the Indiana
polls News declares: How the Gov
eminent can force savings interest
rates down through one agency. and
then propose to use the low rates to
drain money from the banks through
the Treasury without confeSsing q
squeezing operation is not clear" The
Rock Island Argus brings out: Some
banks may be glad to get rid of cash
because of their over-liquid condition.
Other banks may not react so favor
ably to the Morgenthau plan of
financing the New Deal"
however, in connection with the
attitude Of some of the banks, the
Council Bluffs uowa) Nonpareil says:
This administrations policy rs to
banks has been constructive and
sound. It has bailed them out of
their frozen loans by loaning to land
owners and to some owners who owed
the banks. It has stopped the panic
and completely removed fear among
depositors by insuring their deposits
in banks. It has strengthened banks
and enabled them to write off their
losses out of their own capital by
putting new capital into banks, so
that one borrower should refund his
current debt to banks by borrowing
| long time money from his own stock
holders. we, the people Of the United
| States"
"Nor would they compete with the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13

is to induce millions Of persons to
admit that noise Is a noise.
To them q noise Is nothing at all.
They love noises, as q matter OF
fact, and would not admit that any
sort Of noise, however compelling
could do them any harm.
II you were to confront such Q
person with the sworn statement OF
the best physicians, that noises oft
cause disease, they would laugh.
Such laughter, of course, Is no new
thing in the world.
The world ought to know how to
handle the laughter of ignorance fy
this time, but it Is as helpless today
as ever 1t was.
Hence the need for education. as
some say; propaganda, as others
put it.
The needlessneSs of noise must be
impressed upon them all. until the
demand for their suppression Is over
whelming.
It Is impossible to believe that
noise could not be put to some better
use than Just to escape as noise.
Surely all those disturbances OF air
waves, which we call collectively
noise" might be used to run motors,
or do some usual work.
| The fretting of noise sufferers, after
all, is Of little use to themselves, but
they cannot help 1t, because they are
the advance guard Of a new civili-
zation, unless the old one breaks
down completely. 1t Is sad thing
to contemplate, the disregard for
noise on the part Of so many sturdy
souls. Is it possible that this dis
regard is a sign of the impossibility
of really civilizing mankind?
\ X ~
The second front, that OF the
physical noise itself, can be put into
operation only after more persons
begin to realize, and to complain
We have just shown the plain dim
culties standing in the way OF this.
But no one who believes most Of our
modern noises useless and needless,
and therefore a vast economic waste,
should lose heart, for as goes the
advance guard so will 60 the army
in time.
Suppression OF noises will come
about, not because those with sensi-
\ tive natures demand it, but be-
cause every one in time will come to
see their needlesSneSs and their harm
Then will come an honest effort
/ to do away with them, and when this
time arrives a tremendous advance
will be made toward a restoration OF
the old-time sanity of civilization.
Is there any one who can say that
civilization today is as sane as it was
a quarter of century ago?
The third front, that OF house
soundproofng, is surely on the way.
1t has been rather absurd, come
to think of it, that all these cen
turtles have gone by without the con-
struction of homes that would bar
out almost all, If not all, outside
noises.
This is a step that is bound tc
come, not only as soundproofing. but
as useful in many ways, notably air
conditioning. Really soundproofed
homes would be warmer in Winter
and cooler in Summer. They woulc
permit others to live as they please
without thus often preventing other;
from living as they pleased. If ther.
is any civilization left in hundred
years. it Is going to be a much quietel
one. and happier and pleasanter fol
all. We hail the soundless Utopial
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

A reader can get the answer to
any question Of fact by writing
The Evening Star Information Bu-
reau, Frederic J. HaSkin, director,
Washington, D. c. Please incloSe
stamp for reply.
@. Why are speed records always
attempted at Daytona Beach?-C. P.
A. The hard sands Of the beach at
Daytona, Fla, make possible the fast
est automobile driving in the world.
The beach Is 200 feet wide at low
tide.
@. Who is the most conspicuous
member Of the new House Of Lords?--
A. C.
A. The Duke Of Kent. There are
now five princes Of the blood royal in
the House of Lords.
@. Do old bulbs use less electric
current?-E. w.
similar new bulbs. The old bulbs give
much less light in proportion to the
current consumed.
@. How far from the Pacific Ocean
is Death Valley?-E. S.
A. 1t is approximately 200 miles
east Of the Pacific Ocean in a straight
line.
@. Who wrote, "For when the One
Great Scorer comes to write against
your name-He marks-not that you
won or lost-but how you played the
game"?-A. D. H.
A. These are the concluding lines of
"Alumnus Foot Ball." by Grantland
Rice.
@. What wild animals are found in
Switzerland?-I. F. H.
A. Among them are bears, wolves,
chamois, goats, bears, stays. badgers,
foxes, hares, offers, squirrels. birds of
prey Of large dimensions, the snipe.
heathcock, cuckoo, blackbird and
woodpecker.
Q. How many parts has violin?
What kind of wood Is used?-H. K.
A. There are 10 parts of a violin
The back, ribs and bridge are made OF
maple or plane wood. Spruce is used
for the belly, the corners, the moldS
Innings and sound post. Ebony or rose
wood is used for the finger board
nuts, pegs, tail piece and tail-piece
button.
@. How cold is dry ice? Why does
it burn ones fingers to touch it?-
M. c.
A. The temperature of this ice is los
degrees below zero F. and it is SO cold
that it evsporates without first melt
, ing and then absorbs all the more heat
in o way that deadens the nerves and
tissue, causing symptoms and pains
identical with those brought on BY
burns.
@. What we're some of the unusual
names Of the children Of Roger Clap
of Dorchester, Mass. &c. F.
A. This Colonial parent gave such
names as the following to his IA chill
dren: Experience, Preserved, Hope
still, Waitstill. Thank, Desire, Unite
and Supply.
@. Is the theater in the Folger Lii
brary an exact reproduction of somt
theater of Shakespeake's day?-E. D
A. It is not an exact copy. 1t il
modelled after play houses of Eliza.
bethan times. 1t seats about 800 peo
pie. The ceiling stimulates the SKY
over the open-air pit.
@. Can the American citizens WHIT
went abroad to vote in the Saar pie
biscite retain their American citizen
ship?-C. E. L.
A. There is no provision in any Of
our laws which would operate to af'
| feet their United States citizenship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13

Q. am planning on visiting WASH
lngton this Spring and would like If
possible to be there when the cherry
blossoms are In bloom. What time
does this usually take placer, 8. N.
A. The single Japanese cherry bios
SONS usually bloom between April
and April is and last about 10 days.
Inc double blossoms usually bloom
between the 18th and 30th and last
ABOUT two weeks. However, the dates
depend great deal on weather con-
| ditions.
Q. What does Mediterranean mean?
H. M.
A. 1t means midland. The sea was
so named because 1t lay in the center
/ of the world as then known.
@. Is cactus juice used CONNER
cially?-B. v. R.
A Cactus Juice was introduced into
commerce about 1927 and is now used
for many substances, which include
drugs, soaps, cleaners, candy, boiler
! compounds and water SoftenerS.
@. What are the three types Of
hair?-M. j.
| A. The structure of human hair is
! threefold: Short and crisp. generally
| termed woody" always jet black in
color; straight, lank, long and coarse,
and black almost without exception;
wavy and curly or smooth and silky.
mainly fair, with black, brown, red
or tony varieties. The first is the
hair of all the black races except the
Australians and the aborigines of
India. The second is the hair Of the
| yellow races, while the third is that
of Europeans. The Australian. Pa
puan and Dravidian types exhibit
variety Of hair intermediate between
one and two, which may be called
''frizzy.''
@. What country was the first to
have workmen's compensation LAVISH
D. L.
A. Switzerland, in 1881, was the
first country to declare that for acci-
dents in certain employments the en-
ployer was to be liable without any
proof of fault.
@. What is the highest rank in the
United States Army at which Negro
officer has been retired?-G. T.
A. That Of colonel.
@. Where do waterspouts usually
occur?-W. H. G.
A. Waterspouts occur most fire.
quently in the warm seas Of the
tropics. Three waterspouts we're re-
Gently reported as having been seen
off waikiki. Honolulu. J. F. Voorhees,.
United States weather observer. esti-
mated each to be about $50 feet in
diameter.
@. How tall was Wild Bill Hickok?
"A. E.
A. James Butler Hickok has been
described as being exceptionally hand
some and fascinating. Gen. Custer.
who knew him well. said that he was
feet inch in height,
@. Did Abraham Lincoln receive a
larger popular vote at his first or sec
ond election as President?-W. H.
A. At his second, in 1850, he re-
ceived 1.866,352 votes. In 1864, he
received 2,216,067.
O. Is the trip from Cape Town to
Buenos Aires longer than the return
trip?-H. J. G.
A. The distance between Cape Town
, and Buenos Aires by great circle SAIL
ing is 1928 nautical miles, which is
roughly 1890 statute miles. This is
the course taken going east. The
course taken going west is by rhumb
line and is 1884 nautical miles, which
is approximately 4,41o statute miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

The Worlds a Stage.
A royal pageant fills the street
With costumes most eXacting.
The good King George has done some
neat
Play acting.
'Mongst continental powers We view
Great work contracting.
Stain and Mussolini, too,
Play acting!
Herr Hitler takes a lot of blame,
Big business transacting.
He needs for his box-oftlce game
Play acting!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13
The Gravelly Point Development

The Gravelly Point Development.
The Commissioners are on solid
ground when they insist that the local
community is in no position to as
sumo heavy obligations at this time
for a National Capital airport, the
provision of which, if not, left to pri-
vate interests. is essentially a re-
sponsibility of the National Govern
ment
Mr. Hazens proposal of loan, re-
payable in about ten years by the
District and representing approx
mately fourth of the cost of develop
ing Gravelly Point as an airport, GER
tainly represents the maximum finan-
cial participation to which the District
should be committed. In view of other
needs of the community. more directly
affecting the majority Of its residents,
it is not certain that even the terms
suggested by Commissioner HaZen
would be universally acceptable to
local taxpayers It is not that the air
port is not needed, but that there are
other things more necessary.
But even before there is serious dis
cussion of the terms under which an
adequate airport should be built. the
House committee now investigating
the subject might center its energies
on Fastening development of Gravelly
Point. Gravelly Point, as usual is
again receiving the greatest indorse-
ment as an airport site The views
of the commanding officer of the
Naval Air Station at AnacoStia, to
the effect that proximity of Gravelly
Point airport to the air station would
constitute a hazard, we're voiced about
four years ago by a representative OF
the Army Air Corps in speaking of
the enlargement of Boiling Field
But, curiously enough, another Air
Corps representative has recently
voiced The opinion that little diff
Guilty should be experienced in good
weather in co-ordinating activities at
the three fields-and in bad weather
there would be minimum of activity
at any of them. The existence of
~ ~, arI 70 hn n
opinion
The Gravelly Point development
kills several birds with one stone, pro-
viding, as it does, for adequate and
long delayed dredging of the river,
making useful a now unsightly and
unusable portion of the Potomac shore
and improving flood control conditions.
Perhaps the greatest gain that could
be made now would be represented in
having Congress committed to the pro-
gram of developing Gravelly Point
more speedily and more consistently
than would be the case if the develop
ment were left to normal dredging
operations. When that program is
completed. the decision as to its use
for an airport could be based on the
actual conditions then found to exist
Gravelly Point will be developed
through years of normal dredging.
The important consideration now is
the advantage to be gained by COM
bining a greatly needed enlarged
dredging program Of the Potomac In
this vicinity with development of the
site, which will in all probability pro-
vide the solution Of the problem of
locating the airport.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13
American Liberty.

Former President Herbert Hoover.
speaking at the Lincoln day dinner of
the National Republican Club, extolled
individual liberty under constitutional
safeguards. He pictured Abraham
Lincoln as a great liberal who be-
lieved that the people should be the
masters. not the paWns, of govern
ment Without making direct at
tack on the New Deal administration,
the former Chief Executive virtually
indicted it.
Mr.. Hoover told the Republican
Club and the country that whatever
violates, infringes or abrogates funda-
mental American liberty violates the
life principle of America as a Nation"
No one will doubt that Mr.. Hoover
looks upon much of the New Deal
where it seeks to control private bust
ness. to compete with it. and to die
tate what the farmers shall and shall
not produce-as infringing upon fun
dsmental American liberty. There are
many other Americans who are COM
ing more and more to the same view.
infringement upon and abrogation
of American liberties may lead IN
either of two directions-to Com
munism or to Fascism. The New Deal
administration would deny emphatic
allv that it has any intention what
ever of abrogating American liberties
or of bringing to the country a Com
n1unistic or a Fascist state. And yet,
as DR.. Glenn Frank. president OF the
University of Wisconsin, who was also
a speaker at the Lincoln day dinner.
insisted. there is an inclination on the
part of the New Dealers to compro-
mise, to turn toward sleek systems OF
political management" such as char
acterize either Fascism or Com
munism.
Under the continued drive OF the
New Dealers for a national planning
so complete as to make for govern
mental and political control of the
general activities of the people a more
FESTIVE spirit is developing. This
spirit is making itself manifest in the
Congress, which has shown signs OF
disregarding the direction and leader
ship of the administration on several
occasions since it met last month, par
ticularly in the Senate. Such an atti-
tude on the part of Congress was un-
expected, in the light of the fact that
the administration had been so
strongly upheld in elections last Fall.
But it has demonstrated itself. There
is a growing feeling that the Execu-
tive is reaching out too far.
Democrats who in the past looked
to Thomas jefferson for their politi-
cal teaching, but who have in the
past two years gone the way of the
New Dealers, are beginning to rub
their eyes. Republicans, including
some of the progressive wing of the
party, are asking questions. Still others
want to know if personal liberty is
to be the price of social security and
are wondering whether the brand of
social security proposed is worth the
exchange.
Lincoln warned the country that it
could not continue to exist half free
and half slave. The country can no
more continue to exist half Govern
ment controlled in its labor and bust
ness and farming and half private
controlled. Unless the creeping grip
of Government domination is checked
it will control all Republican speak
ers have been warning Of this danger
for months. Their warnings have
fallen on deaf ears. until recently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13

The ground hog is still respected as
a weather prophet. Although his in
fiuential shadow is only a myth. you
can not shoot it any more than you
can shoot Santa Claus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13
The Sucker Birth Rate.

From the Kansas City Times.
Sucker Trade Is Good"-headline.
It always is. It Is branch Of business
that has suffered but little throughout
the depression. Barnum has been vim.
dicated time after time. II 1t isn't
one that is born every minute it's two.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13

Closing the Stock Exchange.
"Are you a member of the Stock
Exchange?"
"I am" answered Mr.. Dustin Stax.
And proud of the fact I'm right IN
sympathy with the general public in a
demand for shorter hours and more
pay"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13

Certain professional tormalities
have their ludicrous side. Attorneys
begin by complimenting each other
and then proceed to express the most
scsthing personal opinions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13
Drastic.Step Finance.

From the Paducah (Ky.) sun-Demoerat.
Editor of q railway journal says
drastic steps" must be taken to avert
Government ownership. The first
drastic step" probably will be to Dor.
row some more money from the Gov
eminent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13

When the banking and currency
system returns for his consideration
Senator Carter Glass may be inclined
to speak kindly but firmly, as BELTS
the meeting with a prodigal son.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13

FallaciOus Phrase
What is your idea of senatorial
courtesy"
Its a fiction" said Senator Sor-
ghum, that compels untruthfulness.
I am compelled to refer to a man as
the gentleman from this State or
that when he is obviously no such
thing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13

It is obvious that the Nations
banking system. regardless OF adjust
ments and establishments, is perfectly
safe. The public is bound to need
banks In its business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13
Revolving Along.

Revolving Along.
The world, we hear, is upside down.
We need not wear a sullen frown.
This world, as any schoolboy learns,
Upon its axis swiftly turns
And executes, in neighboring space,
Some other motions with much grace.
1t can't be very long before
It will be right side up once more.
Camp meetin'." said Uncle Eben,
sis responsible fob some idea dat de
person who kin holler de loudest has
got de most religion"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13
Matrimonial Syndicate.
n the Davenport Iowa) Times.

From the Davenport OowaD Times.
A defendant in Budapest is accused
of marrying 20 women without OBJ
tanning a divorce. The problem of
what to do about holding companies
is worldwide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-13
Trial BY Publicity.

Trial by Publicity.
The air has brought opinions free
That puzzle us anew.
When radio takers disagree
What shall a jury do?