Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1929, Page 8

8 T HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1929. THE EVENING STAR |cstimted tor cument wuaged, 21~ With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. .December 4, 1929 THEODORE W. NOYES.. nin_Ave uilding. London. Regent. &. epent 8. o Rate by Carrier Within “;: City. e Jrenine Star ver month Ec ing and ar when 4 Sundary The Evening and Sundas Eisr ‘when 5 Sundavs) § unday Star 3¢ per copy jeetion made af the end of each mon'h mav be sent in by mail or telephone onal 8000, Rate bv Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland & d Virginia. 1yr.$10.00:1mo. 88 yr. 54.00: 1 mo. 4cc All Other States and Canada. $5°00: 1 mo.. Member of the Associated Press. 10 Associated Press is exclusively entitled uge for republication of all news cis- ited o it or not othermita cred. n_this paper and also . h lshed herein Al rizhts of ru sl dixpatches herein are als 80c to the tches credi The District's 1931 Budget. As explained in detail elsewhere in ‘The Star, the size of the District's budg- et submitted to Congress today merks & significant and a welcome changs of | who have already demonstrated their peliey cn the part of the Budget. Instead of attempting to curtafl the Commissioners’ estimates to a figure ap- proximating th: amount of the preced- ing year's appropriations, the burcau this yvear has based the size of the budget upon the District's revenue availability. This change of policy, ably contended for by the Commiszioners Bureau of the end Auditor Doroven, will have thel yro) of the national legislative body than effect of placing before the appropria- tions committees of Congress an accu- Tate picture of those municipal needs| o gistinctly different situation with re- that ean be paid for with funds already in hand, plus revenue to be raised by taxation during the fiscal year 1031. It will prevent the acerual of an unneces- sarlly large surplus ‘of District tax money in the Treasurv—a surplus that presents an ever-ready temptation to 8 gometimes whimsically minded Con- gress—and it will come nearer enabling the residents of this city to obtain the nseded improvements and benefits for which they ere to be taxed. Last July the Commissionsrs submit- ted their tentative estimatés to the Budget Bureau, asking for a total of $48,215,627. turned these estimates, ordering that| M°2RS toward this end, it is suggested J | | they be cut to a maximum of $46,337.. 656, but suggesting that these item: which could not be included in thi maximum might be sent along as sup- | Important committees be set aside. The The Commis-| work of the Distriet committee is dif- sioners sent back their final estimates,| ferent from the work of any other com- plemental estimates. insisting on a total figure of $48.460,- 868, but suggesting that an item of about $2,000,000, representing surplus Tevenues to be expended on the munic- ipal center, might bs designated as supplemental. The final figure approved by the Budget Bureau and sent to Con- gress today is $47,880,228, which is a cut of about haif a million dollars under the original figure suggested by the Commissioners. Of special interest to Washingtonians 15 the treatment accorded the public school system by the Budget Bureau. During the past Summer and Fall the condition of the dilapidated and per- manently “temporary” portable schools, which rhould have been eliminated by the five-; school program, has re- ceived uch unfavorable publicity. This year the Budget Bureau has not cnly fincreased the fund for school bullding and site pur-hase over that suggested by the Commissioners, but has inaugurated a policy that should serve to replace the portables with per- manent buildings. This policy is to provide funds for the construction of four-room extensible buildings in those communities that are growing but have not reached a size to warrant the con- struetion of the eight-room buildings, heretofore the smallest school units built. As the communities grow the four-room buildings will be enlarged to eight, sixteen and twenty-four rooms. This is & wise policy and in a manner answers the problem of providing the smaller communities with adequate and sound school buildings while they are growing. It is disappointing, but not unexpected, that the Budget Bureau failed to grant the Commissioners’ request that funds for water system extension be provided out of the general revenues of the Dis- trict instead of from the Water Depart- ment revenues—revenues that repre- sent, for the most part, receipts from water rents or water taxes. The hope of the Commissioners wes to offset the necessity for an increase in water rents to pay for these extensions. Such an increase is unjust and the financial sys- tem that requires it is illogieal. It m:ns that the larger the system grows and the more money that water tax- payers invest in that system the higher their water taxes will be. The reverse should be true. As the number of water rent payers increases, the cost of ‘water should be lowered. Th: ideal de- sideratum should be free water, but the | existing system works only to increase the cost of water, already high. As the Budget Bureau does not initiate legisla- lation, its refusal of the Commissioners' | Congress request is understandable, should see to it that a remedy is forth- coming before another increase in water taxes is foisted on the people of the District. As & whole, this year's budget pre- sents & satisfying outline of those most needed improvements that can be financed under the existing tax rate. It is the largest municipal budget ever submitfed to Congress. But about $3,- 000,000 represents surplus revenues from local taxes that have been lying idle in the Treasury. And the increasing size of the budget merely reflects the in- creasing taxes collected from the Dis- trict in the last few years, Since the fiscal year 1924 Congress has departed from the lawfully provided system of sharing in fixed ratio the expenses of maintaining and improving the municipality. The annual contri- bution of the Federal Government has remained arbitrarily fixed at the lump sum of $9,000,000. In the mean time, the District has been paying, in taxes and tax penalties, the amounts which follow: . . Editor The lvnlu'sur Newspaper Company usin 2 60c per month | mittees of the House and the Demo- - 85¢ per month | cratic members of the House ways and . 48100 1 mo. 3% | jegislative proposals for the municipality 88} mio- 41,001 are to be filled. Already there ai e local rews | trict's regret, that they desire to be re- Dlirasionys’ | lieved from further duty on the Dis- 248,000 1f equity and logic play any part in drafting the District's appropriation bill this year, Congress will through its ac- tion admit that a lump sum of $9,000,~ 000, considered a fair contribution in relation to the District’s general tax burden of $16,000,000 in 1925, is an al- together inadequate eontribution to the ;nmmvs general tax burden of $27,- 000,000 in 1931. rotes Wanted: A Strong D. C. Committee. The Republican committee on com- means committee are now holding meetings to decide upon their respective slates of assignment of members to the various House committees. The Dis- trict committee, which will consider all { of the Distriet of Columbia, is one of the committees on which many vacancies ix vacancies caused by death, withdrawal from Congress, or defeat in elections. 1 In addition there are three hold-over | members who have said, to the Dis- { trict committee. The more than half a million resi- dents of the National Capital are hope- ful that these two party groups in making up their slate of committee as- signments will draft outstanding men, ability as good legislators, to serve on| the District committee. Because the citizens of the Capital City occupy a unique position toward Congress and the District committee, it is appropriate to call this matter to the attention of the party leaders. Here &re more than half a million people, who have no voice in legislation, but, who are more directly under the eon- any other group throughout the entire country. Thus District legislation is in spect to committee consideration and legislative action than any other which comes before Congress. Congress, having exclusive jurisdietion over the Federsl City, should feel L special obligation to exercise th's power most carefully. ‘The Star suggests to these two party committees that each proposal for assignment to the House Distriet com- | mittee be most thoughtfully serutinized. It suggests that some half-dogen vet- erans of high standing among their | colleagues be drafted for this commit- The Budget Bureau re.| (e to stabilize its activities. | | | | own constituents ars espécially inter- As a that the ruie which now prevents & man serving on the District committee | rom also serving on one of the more mittee and the District committee has a direct and important claim on the House membership given by the Con- stitution itself, which intrusts Congress | with exclusive jurisdiction over the Capital City. t Some of the ablest legislators in the House have stated that if they were not prevented from serving on other important committees in which their ested they would be glad to assist in the work of the District eommittee, On behalf of the half million resi- dents of the Federal City, The Star| appeals to the party leaders in the | House to give us a strong District com- | mittee. ———————————— Polar exploration is a new and sat- isfactory enterprise. Radio and motion | pictures do not lessen the heroism re- | quired, but they eontribute mecha- nistic assistance that makes possible | marvelous results. —————r o Even a gang leader has his troubles. Capone could not take.a short tims off to go to jail without finding that an envious rival had gypped him out of his job. ——————— The five-hundred-dollar poker game that ended in the murder of Rothstein makes the quiet little home game of penny ante seem sensible and joyous entertainment. ———rtns. An explosion, such as happens once in a great while, serves to call attention to the h-avy responsibility resting on the man who tends the furnace. e = A snowstorm used to delight the schoolboy. That was before so many schoolboys depended on automciiles, ———— Senator Gillett's Announcement. Senator Frederick H. Gillett's de- termination not to be a candidate for election to the Senate again will re- move from Congress in 1931 a veteran | of wide experience in legislative mat- ters, whose services to his State and country have been of a high order. At the close of his present term of office Senator Glllett will have served con- tinuously in Congress for thirty-eight years. For the first thirty-two years of this long public service the Massa- chusetts Senator was a member of the House. During three Congresses before he came to the Senate, he was Speaker of the House, 2 The reason assigned by Senator Gil- lett for his decision not again to seek | election is that he has reached the age | of seventy-eight and that he would be nearly eighty years old when he began & new six-vear term as Senator, if he were re-elected. Fortunately his health is excellent. But he acknowledges that at his time of life “capacity for pro- tracted and sustained work has begun to diminith.” His own ecomfort and pride, as well as justice to his con- stituents, he continues, demand that he should not undertake to serve six years more in the Senate. Further, he says that it had been his purpose since the day of his election to the Senate in 1924 not to seek another term and he had never wavered-in that determi- nation. In making his anncuncement Senator Gillett points out that he has “neglected innumerable opportunities for publicily which this forum offers and which a candidate for re-election would have been apt to grasp.” He asserts that the Senate is a “splendid sounding board and for an ambitious man most attrac- tive.” To thoss members cf the Senate who refer with pride to the fact that the | rumors that william M. Butler, former that the Senator from Massachusetts has spoken rarely during his tenure of office. When he has spoken, it has been briefly and to the point. If his example were followed more closely in this mat- ter, the Senate's average for construc- tive work might be higher even than its reputation as a deliberative body. The voluntary retirement of Senator Gillett from the ficld is likely to be followed by a scramble for the Repub- liean nomination next year, Massa- chusetts does not hold its senatorial primary election until September, 1930, but there have been signs already that a eontest for the nomination is brewing. Former Gov. Fuller is credited with senatorial ambitions. There have been Senator and former chairman of the Republican national committee, would not be averse to entering the lists. There has been a campaign, too, in one section of the Massachusetts press, for the election of former President Calvin Coolidge to the Senate. Mr. Coolidge, however, has so far evinced no interest in the suggestion and his friends insist that he will not become a candidate for this office. The Democrats now have one fen- ator from Massachusetts, David I. ‘Walsh, who was triumphantly re-elected last yeer. Massachusetts is looked upon by them as a fertile fleld. Assuredly they will make a strong effort next year to place a second Democratic Senator in the Senate. —r————— Russia Rejects, but Makes Peace. Russia’s response to the American note, sent simultaneously to Moscow, through the Paris government, and to Nanking, 15, as was perhaps to have been expected, a rebuke to the United States for intervening in the affairs of a government with which it has no dip- lomatie relations. There is no occasion for surprise that this contretemps has occurred. But any official chagrin that may be felt on the scors of the Russian rejection of American influence is al- layed by the assurance, given in the Moscow reply, that negotiations for the settlement of the differences between Russia and China have been opened with Manchuria direct. It is now more than likely that the dispute will be set- tled and that peace will prevail. Reports that Mukden—meaning the tri-provincial government of Manchu- ria—was negotiating direetly with Mos- cow for a settlement of the trouble had reached Washington before the Ameri- can note was dispatched to the two gov- ernments of China and Russia. But it was not assured that Nanking, or the Nationalist government of China, had | approved this procedure on the part of its officially subordinate subdivision. The United States eannot recognize Man- | churia as an independent power, can- not in the slightest degree lean toward such recognition when in official fact Manchuria remains as an integral part of China. The gratifying feature of the case is that hostilities have been suspended | ment of the differences. The danger of a conflict that might spread to a wide area and involve others than the initial | parties has apparently been averted. ‘The United States has not lost in pres- tige through having addressed itself to this question only to have its good | offices of reminder rejected. It has not | laid itself open to the charge of mixing | into Asiatic affairs, for its action has been merely one of admonition to the two powers that were drifting into war despite their-participation in the Kel- | logg treaty agreement, for which this country is sponsor. e Even an earthquake does not pre- vent life and affairs from proceeding eventually on accustomed ways. Since th> disturbance on the Stock Exchange, the ticker is recording a steady pulse | and general improvement, ————. The luxury of civilization has be- come such that no one carss to see anything that looks like s snowstorm, except on a Christmas card. s wrea Initiative is more needed than ever. There must bs new and vigorous enter- prises to provide for the mergers of the future. —————— People who used to laugh at Henry ! Ford now hrar of his upward revision | of wages with an approving smile, — SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Simplified Desires. In days that went a course too- swift, I waited in my glee Full many a long-expected gift Upon the Christmas tree. The sleds and skates, and garments gay, and dealings ave under way for a settle- | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘The other section of our friend's library of peculiar interest was that devoted Prench literature. In another article the translations of the ancient authors were described. Here we found the most representative list of French books we had ever seen. These, too, were in translation, for the owner, though a man of unusual intellect, had always found the mastery of foreign languages extremely difficult. This is a matter in which continental peaple excel. It is no trouble at all for a Frenchm or a Pole or an Italian to learn to speak and read a half-dozen languages. e average American finds the case entirely different. It has bsen charged against us as a people that we are too egotistic to make any real effort to master the language of any other race. The criticism is beside the point. There is a constitutional defect of the mind, if it may be so called, which acquisition of a foreign lan American an extremely difficult task. ‘We speak, of course, of the great bulk. Every high school and college sees sev- eral men who take to foreign languages like bathing girls to water. Most of us, however, are content if we can speak, write and read English tol*rably well. Ignorance of a foreign tongue, how- ever, does not prevent one from enjoy- ing and appreciating the best literary, work of other nations. Not nowadays. The melting-pot activities of Am-rica have made sure that many of our pub- lishers are of foreign parentage and these specialize in presenting the best literary work of their native lands in good translations. The success of these ventures has led other publishers to i seek out the works of the best forei, authors, so that today a book is pub- lished in New York as soon as in Paris, London or Berlin. American publishers ransack the world for novelties. A striking instance of the present cosmo- politan aspects in letters was the simultaneous publication recently in five countries, in each in the language of the country, of the eollected plays of Ferenc Molnar, declared by David Belasco to be the greatest living play- wright, * kK % A superficial knowledge of French did not keep our friend from’knowing and enjoying the literature of that country, He had no sympathy with the view that 1t is impossible for a trans. | lation to be as good as the original. The little knowledge which he had of French made him sure that an ade- quate translation to be preferred t> a laborious reading in the original. He had plowed his way through sev. eral collections of French short stories, including those of Daudet, and all he got out of iv was the knowledge that such first-hand reading must be left to those better equipped. He saw, however, that here was delightful reading. He bought the same work in translation, and found 1t good. Here was the beginning of his enthusiasm for French literature. From this humble beginning he *went on tt the great novelists, Balzac, Zols, France, Proust, Dumas, and so on. In his colleetion he had possibly more Dumas in English than could be found in any other library in the Na- | Herbert Hoover's first regular message to Congress contains no breath-taking surprises. Despite its length, it is a brass-tacks document. It would have been difficult to deal at greater brevity with the numerous big national sub- jects the President tackles. Some of them are dismissed with a few words. The world at large will not fail to note the fact that the President of the United States has quit calling the war- renunciation treaty the “Kellogg pact. He dubs it the “Kellogg-Briand pact ‘The message reveals at numerous points the Hooverian passion for government by commission, conference and commit- tee. The Chief Engineer proposes the creation of half a dozan new commis- sions. They include a new- Federal Power Commission, & permanent Fed- eral Radio Comm! n, a spacial Muscle Shoals Commission, a commission to investigate Haiti, and a commission to study the banking system. While sug- gesting these, Mr. Hoover reminds Con- gress of commissions, econferences and committees already organized by him. Among them are the Law Enforcement Commission, the Child Health Confer- ence, the committee on merchant marine mail contracts and the conferences on the general economic situation. The President alss announces that the Child Health Conference will be followed by conferences on housing and recreation, Cok ok ok ox Former Gov. Gifford Pinchot and Mrs. Pinchot are back at their homs in Washington after their romantic expe- dition into the South Seas on their schooner yacht. The erstwhile Penn- sylvania State executive doesn't ac- kaowledge that he timed his return to the District of Columbia for the moment when the fate of William 8. Vare is to be definitely determined by the Senate. But Pinchot happens to have struck the Capital at that very hour. The Senate hes not forgotten the remark- able certificate of election which Pinchot sent it when Vare's credentials were submitted in March, 1927. The governor informed the Senate that the Philadelphia boss “appears” to have been duly elected, which was another way of saying that Pinchot thought Vare hacdn't been elected at all. The one-time forester of the United States has been a close coadjutor of ator Norris, Republican Progressi of Nebraska, who leads the fight keep Vare out of the Senate. ve, to And books and games and toys, Old Santa carried in his sleigh For well-behaving boys. But now my very thrifty soul To Santa sighs, “Alas, T'd like another ton of ecal. And for my car, some gas!" Same Old Story. “That speech you made about the tariff was a wonderfully searching and enlightening discourse.” “It was always a favorite of mine," said Senator Sorghum. “I was delight=d when I ran across it again in an old scrapbook. Jud Tunkins says when a man makes enough money to retire, he stays up all night at a cabaret trying to enjoy it Charm of Novelty. The radio talker nearer drew, And without hesitation He gavs us some ideas new About pronunciation, Inquiring Mind. “Mr. Blobbie says he has an inquiring mind.” “No doubt,” answersd Miss Cayenne 'm informed that when he fsn't read- ing detective stories, he's doing cross- werd puzzles.” “It is often better to bear a silent penalty,” said Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, “than to make excuses that call attention to mistakes.” Dreams. I ask not that my dreams come true. * ok ok % Over at the Department of Justice nowadays they don't ask “Who's who?” but “Who's Hughes?” No fewer than three Hugheses are on Attorney Gen- eral Mitchell's staff. First, there's Charles Evans Hugl Jjr., Solicitor General; then there's W. J. Hughes, who for many years has been in the Solicitor Gener: office; finally, there's Vincent Hughes, who is chief of the division of trauds in the Bureau of In- vestigation, The other day Vincent Hughes asked W. J. Hughes to intro- duce him to the Solicitor General, with a view to sccuring the latter's indorse- ment of an application for admission to practice before the Supreme Court. The presentation duly ensued, resulting in Mr. Hughes introducing Mr. Hughes to Mr. Hughes. WS William H. Beck, well known and popular right-hand man of the Secre- tary of State, has just been designated “Assistant to the Secretary” by depart- mental order of Col. Stimson. = Presum- ably the indispensable “Bill” will ac- company his chief to the London N Conference, If he does, it'll b just an- other historic transoceanic voyage for the young foreign service man. After Beck left the Army in 1918 he was pri- vate secretary to Henry White, one of the American peace commissioners at Paris. Then “Bill” became private sec- retary to Robert Lansing at the State Department. Afterward, in succession, Beck was private secretary to Bain- bridge Colby, Charles Evans Hughes and Frank B. Kellogg. and now he is at the elbow of Henry L. Stimson. Beck accompanied Colby to South America, Secretary Hughes to the same continent two years later and to.Europe in 1924, and was taken to the Paris treaty sign- ing by Secretary Kellogg in 1928, * ok kX Japan's unwillingness to associate it- self ‘Lm. the Hoover-Stimson move to Though some of them s:em fair, Of nightmares there have been a few Senate is the ‘“greatest deliberative 1025, $16,070,143.52; 1926, $20,001,- 496.10; 1927, $22,786,315.98; 1928, $25,- 028,672.81; 1029, $25,970,25243; 1930 = Cestimated), $37,214876.86, and 1931 body” in the world this characterization of ths Senate and the speeches of many of the Eenators may come somewhat a8 & shock. *P s quite true, however, | For which I do not care, “Szme o' my neighbors,” said Uncl: Eben, mobilize world opinion against war in Manchuria is the subject of lively specu- tlation 1n the Washington diplomatic circle. The commonest view is that Tokio's nose is a little out of joint be- cause Nip, resents any action which em to igmors her prerogatives as the natural arbiter of Far B destinies. There were signs of s ruffied Japan tional ‘Capital. The collection had been the work of many years. His Dumas books were in a variety of bindings and from the presses of many publishers, He had a Dumas “Fairy Tale” book, and novels whose names are unknown to even many devoted lovers of the writer who was aptly called a “Force of Nature.” He had a complete set of the novels of Emile Zola in _translation, which he had to send to England to get. An American publisher started to put them out several years ago, but quit at the eighth, including the city trilogy, “Lourdes,” “Paris” and “Rome.” That Zola was a mechanical writer, though doing his stint every day as the result of an elaborately worked out plan, our friend would not for a second admit. He so worked because it best fitted his temperament. He said that Zol r from being a crass materialist, was a poet, and pointed out eertain deseriptions, notably in “L'Assommoir” and “Germinal,” to prove his point. + The great feast of the goose in the former, and the march of the strik- ing miners in the latter—here was epic poetry in a prose which was but Wait Whitman's “barbaric yawp” in another form. All was put together with such skill that the months of patient col- lecting of materials were forgotten by writer and reader alike. * ok ok K Flaubert’s “S8alammbo” and ‘“Temp- tation of St. Anthony” were here, to. ether with books by Pierre Loti and audet. There was a great deal of Voitaire, and the pla; { Moliere com- plete. plays are! No one who does not know Moliere can feel that he has read plays. The compel- ling modernity of them is amazing. ‘Who remembers this one about the man who was forced to be a doctor in spite of himself? How readers the world around touch hands in this ex- cellent jest! Here was that tremendous picture ery called Balzac, standing ready day and night to open its doors to the inquiring mind. It is a gallery created by intellect, and another intellect must knock at the door. ‘The works of that sad-fated genius, Guy de Maupassant, stood next in 10 volumes. Even the worthless poems were here. These did, indeed, suffer in translation. They were poor enough in the original. They served to show Maupassant that he couldn’t do it. ‘When he turned back to prose it was the world's gain. These are the stories which knock the silliness out of the minds of those who inclined to be- lieve that sex is vul Maupassant makes it funny. There are many more, but this is enough. We envied our friend his book hobbies of the works of the ancient Greeks and Romans and of the French authors. This is the only way to collect books. Try.ng to keep up with the new ones results only in literary hash. But to catch up with the good old ones is to construct a court of last resort in books to which one may turn at any hour, secure in the knowledge that here he may find the genuinely WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. good and satisfying. feelings on this score when the United States moved to maintain peace be- tween Russia and China last Summer. Sometimes tall oaks from little diplo- matic acorns grow, and diplomatists are wondering whether the Japanese will carry their grudge to London for the naval conference. Should they do so, their demands far & 10-10-7 cruiser ratio and 80,000 tons of submarines might become c‘ou(h .pn;posmmu. * Organization of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Ascoclation, under th- | presidency of Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, retired, coincides with the stress just laid by President Hoover on the im- portance of the National Guard in the country'’s defense scheme. “In the event of another national emergency, Gen. Pries points out, “our Army would consist of the Regular Army, Na- tional Guard and Organized Reserves. The first two of these forces would constitute the first line of defenss and be called into active service at once, pending mob:lization of a great civilian army. The latter would make up nearly 85 per cent of the total land forces, were we to be called upcn to defend ourselves against any “rst-clnss power. This great civilian fores would be officered trained almost entirely by the civilian officers composing the Officers’ Reserve Corps and trained in peace time, as provided by the national defense act. About 220,000 such officers would be required in such a mobilization. We now have about one-half of that number, of which only about one-third were World War of- ficers. Therefore the Nation must look to the young men being trained in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in our leading educational institutions for its future officer material.” * % ok % Arguments were begun before the | Supreme Court yesterday, which are designed to throw a light on the Hoover admin'stration’s trust-busting policy. John Lord O'Brian, assistant to the Attorney General in charge of anti- trust prosecutions, is defending tne Pederal Trade Comm'ssion in an appeal brought by the Internatiol Shoe Co. of St. Louls. A former cabinet office:, Charles Nagel, Secretary of Commerce in the Taft administration, is the plaintifl’s counsel. The lit'gat'on arosv some years ago in consequence of the absorption of the McElwain Shoe Co. of Boston by the International Shoe Co. The Federal Trade Commission held that the merger was in violation of both the Sherman and Clayton anti- trust acts because it did away with “substantial competition.” The Intei~ national Shoe Co. denied th's conten- tion, but the Trade Commission’s dic- tum was upheld by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals for Massachusetts. Then the St. Louls corporation haa recourse to the Supreme Court. (Copyright, 1929.) — o “Third Party” Tal Is Held Idle Patter | From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Senator Caraway, Democrat, of Ar- kansas notes the talk in some circles that the present coalition of insurgent Republicans and Democrats may lead to a new party alignment. There al- ways is such talk under the circum- stances, and preceding presidential elec- tions there almost invariably are some suggestions of a third party. Of course, third parties of considerable dimen- sions have occasionally appeared, but seldom with results to give 'm per- manency. So Senator Caraway, on being asked if the South and West are to form a new party, replies: “No, indeed! In 1932 the Western States will be right back in the Repub- lican fold, where they have always been Tradition is a powerful force, you know. We are Democrats and Republicans be- cause we are born that way.” It is noted, of course, that individuals bearing the same party name may be very unlike in different sections. Fre- uently Eastern and Western Repub- finnn have difficulty in understanding the language of each other, while a New Orleans Democrat and a New York Democrat may encounter the same hardship. But it has always been pretty much that way. At any rate, national third party movements seldom sprout ti ears in advance of a presidential campaign. oo How to Attain Parity. Prom the Rechester Times-Union. If you think 1t a simple matter to es- tablish naval parity, try to determin how many cows rnn\ aix e sheep. Our friend had at least 30, (% | Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. Complexities in the campaign of the Republicans to retain control of the Senate in the elections next year con- tinue to multiply. The death of the late Senator Francis E. Republican leaders. Senator Warren's term of office expires March 4, 1931, and had he lived he. would doubtless have been a candidate to succeed himself. Warren was unbeatable in Wyoming, admired and loved by the people of his States, Wyoming, however, has had Democratic _Senator, ator Kendrick, who has a great hold on the afféctions of the people. If Senator Kendrick takes up the fight for the Democratic nominee to fill the Warren vacancy and the Repubiicans should happen to be divided factiol Wyo- ming may have a second Democratic Senator. Already a host of Repub- licans have indicated they are loln{ out for the nomination, among them Charles E. Winter, former member, of the House from Wyoming, who was badly beaten last year when he sought to win the seat held by Senator Ken- drick, and former Gov. Robert D. Carey. Gov. Emerson has been mentioned as one of the Republicans who would like the nomination for the ate. And the names of former Representative Frank W. Mondell, Willlam C. Deming, president of the Civil Service Commis- sion, and resentative Vincent Carter of Wyoming have been discussed as pos- sible candidates. * ok ok ok Dispatches today say that Gov. Emer- son has appointed “‘Uncle” Pat Sullivan the Republican national committeeman of long standing, to fill th> Warren seat in the Scnate for a month's time. A special election will bs held at the end of that time to fill the remainder of the short term. Whoever wins in this fight for the short term stands a good chance for election for the long term which begins March 4, 1931. Senator Warren's son, Frederick War- ren, president of the Warren Live Stock Company, one of the biggest concerns in the State and that part of the West, is not politically minded and has con- fined himself strictly to business or he might be in line to succeed his father. Mr. Warren, who is 46 years old_and a graduate of Harvard University, has won for himself a reputation as & busi- ness man, Mr. Sullivan might, of course, a candidate for the Republican nomi- nation for the Senate Elmlelf. He is widely known and very popular in the State, and has one of the richest Irish brogues that have ever been heard in the Senate. He is expected here to take his seat within & day or two. Mr. Sul- livan's health, however, has not been good for some time. Mra. Nellie Ross, widow of a Demo- cratic governor and once governor her- self of Wyoming, has bsen suggested in £gome quarters as a possible Demecratic nominee for the Ssnate. If she should be nominated and win the election soon to be held, she would b= the first g om:n ever elected to the United States enate. become * ok ok ok The announcement of Senator Gillett of Massachusetts that he not only does not choose to run for.the Senate, but will not_do so, takes another widely known Republican leader out of the fight for the Senate next year. Senator Gillett was Speaker of the Houss, a post of high honer and dignity and power in the Government, when he was prevailed upon to take the senatorial nomination in 1924 to run against Senator David 1. Walsh, Democrat, and a great vote get- ter. He was elected by some 19,000 vetes. But so strong was Senator Walsh that he ran more than 200,000 ahead of .the Democratic national ticket in Mazsachusetts that year. Senator Walsh staged a comeback a couple of years later, beating out Willlam M. Butler, then chairman of the Republican na- | tional tommittee and sitting Senator, for the unexpired term of the late Sena- tor Lodge. * kX ‘The Democrats believe they have a real chance to pick up anothe X seat in Massachusetts next yi a little will depend, however, upon the candidates named by both parties. If the Republicans should nominate for- mer President Coolidge, former Gov. Fuller or former Gav. Channing Cox, they would in all probability wi 'hey may pick some other candidate who also can win, but they would not be as strong as any of the three men just mentioned, it is said. Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Cox, according to reports, do not wish the senatorial nomination. Mr. Fuller is flirting with it. Incidentals :i, it is sug ted that if Mr. Fuller not to lose strength he will make up his mind without further de- lay in this matter. He has already kept the voters of the State waiting for months for a decision, saying now and then things that are interpreted as showing his willingness to run for the Senate, and then qualifying them. Former President Coolidge, it is said, could win easily if he would permit him- self to be nominated. But would Mr. Coolidge be willing to come to Wash- ington as a Senator after having been for more than six years President of the United States? He would be, under such circumstances, one of the junior Senators, too. Further, how would he feel if, as Senator, he were faced with the alternative of Weeaking with his Republican successor in the White House, President Hoover, or following 1is own sweet will in legislative matters? Senator Moses, chairman of the Re- publican senatorial campa commit- tee, believes that Mr. Coolidge would make an ideal candidate for the Senate. “He would win in a walk,” was Sen- ator Moses' comment when asked what he thought about the possible candi- dacy of Mr. Coolidge for the Senate. He did not say, however, that he be- lieved the former President would ac- cept the nomination, * ok ok % Ohio and New Jersey are other pros- pective battleflelds in the senatorial campaign, with the veteran Senator nnod’ore 1'“"&" !d:ndmu':l Walter E. Edge leaving nat as Am- bassador to France The fipubflun leaders in New Jersey, however, believe they have solved their problem by win- ning the consent of Dwight W. Mérrow, Am| dor to Mexico, to run for the Senate. Mr. Morrow is an outstanding figure, & man of great capacity, with a national reputation. The Republicans are confident they can nominate him for the long term at the Jersey pri- marles next year over the opposition of former Senator Frelinghuysen or any one else, and what they can defeat any Democrat with Morrow whom the op- ?:amnn party may put up. Mr. Morrow to accept appointment to the Sen- ate after he has returned to the United States from the naval limita- t{on conference in London, which opens January 21. In the meantime David Baird, jr., is to fill the Edge vacancy. New Jersey apparently is intent on swapping a Senator for a diplomat, with the transfer of Edge to the diplomatic corps and the substitution of Ambas- sador Morrow for Edge in the Senate. * Kok ok The Republican senatorial campaign committee is to have Theodore Gary, wealthy Kansas City capitalist and Stop s minute and think about this fact. - You can ask our information bu- any question of fact and get the swer back in a personal letter. It is a great education idea introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the world—American newspaper readers. It is a part of that best pur- | pose of a newspaper—service. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Get the habit of asking questions. Address your letter to The ning Star Information Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin, director, ‘Washington, D. C. Q. What is the name of the theater in New York City which shows only news reels?—E. R. A. The Embassy, in New York City, specializes in news reels, including the sound effects. Q. How many e are there in slavery in the world?—G. T. A. It has been stated that u‘"l:l"l; being Aln wh{eh the \byssinia, :Ie;re Leone, Liberis, Q. Who won the *Doubleday Doran eunua,!( for the best religious novel?— E L K. A. The prize novel called “Bethel” is by Eli Millen, Q. Was Helen Keller aided by the Braille system?—M. L. R. A Wi in the New York Times Magazine, Miss Keller says: “So long as the memory of brave men is cherish- ed in the world, there shall be warm gratitude to Louis Braille, who was a light to stumbling feet along the paths of knowledge and intelligence, Gladly I acknowledge my own indebtedneas to Louis Braille. His system has bsen a most precious aid to me in many ways. It made my going to college possible— it was the only method by which I could take notes of lectures. All my examination papers were copied for me in this system. I use Brai :gmer uses its web—to catch thoughts at flit across my mind for speeches, mesaages and manuseripts.” Q. What denominations are repre- sented in the chaplaincy of the military service?—F. T. A. The various denominations are ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. e 83 the | the e Praser's picture, “The End of the Trall"?—M. L. G. A. The exhausted Indian and the equally exhausted pony represent physi- cal fatigue and probably nothing more. There is & story to the effect that dur- ing the childhood of James Earl Fraser, when he and his parents lived ob an isolated farm in the Far West, an In- dian on his pony rode up to the Bouse about sunset and remained motionless in the pose of “The End of the Trail.” Q. How does the Gary school ‘plan work?—D. R. A. The Gary plan platoon schap! or alternating school, as it is call di- vides the enroliment into groups and b{ an earlier and later time of drriv- al and departure the school makes ex- tended use of the bullding all day. Q. Please define the electron. the atom, and the molecule.—J, 8. B, A. The electron is the smallest known unit of electricity, It may be either positive or negative, The atom is the smallest unit of any chemical element. he | The molecule is the smallest part. which any body ‘ean’ pe.diided 10l out,_destroying its substance as Such. 1t may be identical with the stom as in the case of mercury or argon. It usually all material substances are composed atoms of a comparatively small number of kinds, all the atoms of the same kind being uniform in size and weight and other properties. The atom is to be conceived as a complex system whose Q. What was th Or:ee‘:h—‘l. Yis the flag of antient . Ancient Greece had no national flag since it was divided into separate kingdoms. The stand: Attica bore a white war horse; that the Corinthians the winged horse; letter L: u&h 2 of o 'l;.eedemon‘l:m the - Thracians a death head; b the Thessalonians the immortal horse, Xanthes; that of the Messemions tter M, ° Q. Please tell the'clty 1o be bullt in Russia by Amer. e "The Boviet govemment has agard S e vernment al ed a contract $40,000,000 ta the nd, Ohio, for the Austin Co. of Clevela bullding of a city 270 miles east of of of i represented in the Army chaplainey 88 | Moscow. The purpose of th t follows: ;th. 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He was president for 40 years, then president emeritus until his death. Q. Where can an aviation teacher take a course in order to obtain his license?—R. A. M. A. Teacher training courses are now being given at New York University. These classes in aviation are organized with Department of Commerce co-op- eration and the department will ex- amine all who eomplete the courses. Q. Do the actors in the Play at Oberammergau wear expensi: tumes?—D. C. 8. i A It s ‘sald - tha especially Vi ; which cost 800 marks A. Britannia Major, meaning Great Britain, was the name formerly given to the whole island to distinguish it frem Britannia Minor, which was the name given to Brittany, James I used the title King of Great tain, but leaut ':,;fl u’:fi;lon dg?:od riiament. was nof lef a until after the union of England with Scotland in 1707. After the union with Ireland in 1800 the me known as the Kingdom of Q. What is the meaning of James areat "Bl . real tain Almost simultaneously France and | the United States lose their most con- spicuous elder statesmen. Clemenceau as world leader and Senator Warren as builder o!’ .t.l;e Amerllcn(\_u YtulL Both are recognised examples of lifelong, pa- triotic devotion, uny&ldlng and lay-lp.w unchanging ideals in a changing world. Of the Senator from Wyoming, the Lansing State Journal, after describ- ing his youthful migration to the fron- tier, says: ““The West of that day was colorful conglomeration,of miners, co boys, fighting Indians, ticket-of-leave men and all sorts of adventurers. It took a personality to survive these con- ditions, and Prancis Warren did survive and flourish by the sheer power of per- sonality.” Of the “Tiger” of Prance, the same paper declares: “When it came tq holding a nation, by the sheer power of fierce, unrelenting personality, to the ;l:“prem“el test u{‘ “h‘;l it is difficult to out one who succeeded more strikingly than Clemenceau.” * k% % ‘Occupying a rmon like that of the ancient patriarch,” says the S8an Anto- nio Express of thesAmer Senator, ~he was also the father of a State—for the history of Wyoming is lary biography ‘of Francis E. Warre) a) the Express described the Tiger as colossal figure of the war. who never feared defeat or compromised to gain place and power.” e Newark Eve- ning News sees the Frenchman as “a great figure of a man,” asserting that ~even in his age his roars were heeded by the timarous,” and views Warren “& man of action and of few word: whose “title of her of the Senate befitted him. ppear in the trib- Similar parallels utes of the Scranton Times, the Salt Lake Deseret News, Syracuse Herald and Altoona Mirror. lemenceau was the |llvfing representative of the ‘Marseil laise, avers the Fort Worth Record- gram, with the thought that he “is destined to succeed in history to the , “the Greatest Frenchman,” and the conclusion that “it is worth much to have the lessons of Geo: - ceau—the man who was rl‘l:.le,c{:m:ge size of his completed job, to teach the world that those who are Wworking have no time to stop and pose.” That per views Warren as one who “‘might an Eplwme of ‘the West.'” and states that those who helped to build a civiliza- tion in the West are entitled to & per- manent place among the greatest,” Aok ow % The French leader is view: Atlanta Journal as “more llkeedlbzh:‘:s acter from Balzac than a figure of our workaday world,” and the Journal adds: “Fighting duels, fighting everything, challenging emperors, going to prison, shaking ministries down, molding and leading public opinion, ‘always riding the storm, pouring his indomitable courage into the veins of a war-spent nation until glory flamed up from Hs weary flickerings and crowned him the ‘Father of Victory'—who else in the an- | nals of our age lived so strange, so eventful a history?” The Atlanta paper concludes with the tribute: “Implacable old fighter, inimitable old statesman? strange old forgiver, mysterious and sad the | Ev Two Elder _Stateéme@pfl Pass. As France and U S. — Mourn invisible there floats, we fancy, the prayer of gentle Sister Thoneste, above her rosary in the' candlelight— ‘Out of the dept] LS o -_‘plu have I eried unto * ¥ % b That Clemenceau’s name through the ages is the tho "\,alt .lg‘lmm Knickerbocker: Bree™ oae pia o L ess. ' That his sim- necessary sccompaniment tness is the uunelualos‘:: the of his Akron Beacon Joyrnal and Evening News. Ahe om::'a h;:loub upon him as one who * ‘an /and the Portland, Oreg., that “much of the mode: of Prance is & monument to his de- votion to the land of his birth and his tremendous rsonality, , bitterly ironical, brittle absorbingly interesting, he ions nor wished any to have ily Star In the better days e world should not Cease to remember that, faulty as he was, personifying in exaggerated form many of the worst failings of his period, he yet made possible the ning of the era of international co-o The Anniston Star agrees nationalism dimmed his perspective of international comity,” but the Omaha World-Herald offers the Judgment: ‘'The day of the Tiger has . No nation can claw its way to vietory. Vie- tory lles in peace. " The old order changeth. A new day dawns. sympathetic smile of a Ramsa; e donald flashes across the world” And the Great Falls Tribune recalls: “In all of Clemenceau's public activities he Dever gave, nor did he seek, quarter. Whenever he was licked, he took ths consequences without a whimper. And when he was on top, in his methogser ' B¢ W4 ruthisss L] “The Wyoming Senator's O was ;Munmi:::dcolndv“luwt:dr e won Medal for exceptional nlhntr;fzml the Topeka Daily Capital, Observin; his impartial attitude, the !hrevepor! Journal states that “he loved his poiltis cal party, but first of all he loved his country.” The New Orleans Times- ?luyune emphasizes the fatt that he enjoyed the friendship and confidenee of m‘s‘ Democratic confreres,” adding that “no native son of the -West ever served that section more faithfully, per« haps, than did this son. of Massac setts who followed ‘the star of empirer westward in the sixties." “Like the other Senator from Wyo- 2‘»"’ , th fom:fi; Texan, John B. Ken- ,"” mccore to the Hi Chronicle, "Puncfl E. Warren 'umx‘ak\;: cally American, a seif-made man of a type who lifted himself to the heights thi &u’y d, sharp in humor.m' had no illus ration.” hat “his comzontm rts are 1 L pa n rapid orbital !‘ Q Why was Great Britain:so called? ¢ » ‘ ‘ by his own efforts. Death has again removed a notable ) ate of the United Bfl':l::"mm i Jcn i “He was a notably fing old peerer, into the unknown, wherever ) example,” business man, for its treasurer, it now appears. Senator Moses of New Hamp- shire, chairman of the committee, sought to have Otto Kahn, New York er, take the job. But there was a howl in some quarters and Mr. Kahn would not accept. According to reports the offer of . Gary has gone from the committee and if he -c:cru Mr. auuz.wfll have the job of handling the funds for the campaign next year. Mr. Gary's name was put forward, it is Tstood, by Senator Patterson of )llnou:. H.t as .Mfd the mpullmc;n past campaigns not only by tions but also by acting as & kind of regional treasurer in national campaigns. Mr. Gary served as chair- man of the highway commission which | to proceed with the case instead of | From the Detroit News. built Missouri's system of roads in re- ing it until the privileges and| The latest cent years, elec committes could report on the | gine 1s remote control, * kX st Vare bv Wil- | which lanes, ships a) The outlook now is that Pennsylvania, lia Democratic op- | Dame are enabled to carry on atter being for thres yoars te | without the presence of & pilok ) thinks the Baltimore S f t! thy ghost may wander or rest today, o hat Swar the stars gitter more keenly for thy | lsted, o Sl ddd, sy oy coming, and across the vola'of 14 0oV | ne Tmestern’ ssabourd Ao o the West. They were not saintd, but amo; them were many whom men could trus second Senator, is about to have one.|And Prancis E. Warren The Senate has determined by a sub- | chief of these.” iyt antial vote to go ahead with the case ‘William 8. Vare, Senator-elect, whose right to be seated has been challenged on the ground that his nomination was obtal through excessive expenditure of money. No filibuster, however de- ———— Another Crash Benefit. Prom the Sants Row Press Demoerat. thing, stock market colipas s Tt ot} the sucker list. termined, is likely to prevent an earl; ' Gispouiton "o {his “ckee, "And thery | PEOPle’s Tames go-oft not seem to be the does that Vare will be denied hi tleularly In view of the vote yesterany| Remote Control Foot Ball.