Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1930, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR Wi Sunday Merning Edition. Edition. _WABHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY, September 24, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star N 8t and «Editor iper Company Rate by Carrier Within the City. ine Star... iS¢ per ironth hen 4 BuRGaTs) - o\ 60c per month The Eveni d_Sun i 5 ndays) per month c_per en - 85g ‘The Sund ; de per copy tion made at the end of each mont) ders may tional Rate %MIII—PI!:N;“II Alsnllet. E.‘:r ang_Sund; o 'E:.g -}m e das”"only X $400° 1 mo.. 46¢ All Other Sta iz and Sunda ay only " dent, in his capacity of commander in|so secluded had been his life for two chief of the republic’s military forces, | decades. On Monday he died on his Long only recently returned from their an-|Isiand estate on the eve of his ninety- nual maneuvers. The Reichswehr would | first birthday. Now come the accounts probably cut a pitiable figure in ajof his career, all dealing in the main clash with almost any of Germany's|with happenings of thirty, forty and neighbors with big standing armies. pe sent in by mail or elePNCRE | should dispel it. Wit! Germany's own borders its lead- ers apparently think they can cope with any emergencies they are likely to have to meet. That the old field marshal now at the helm in Berlin would hurl his men and guns ruthlessly against the enemies of the republic is beyond all question. If the Fascists are in any doubt on that score, proceedings in the German Supreme Court at Leipzig this week A couple of young officers of the Reichswehr are on trial for treason in connection with a project- ed military revolt against the state. Herr Hitler, the Fascist dictator, has been subpoenaed as a witness, and the cables report tha: his indictment for treason will also be sought, presumably on sup- llmle( with that of Andrew Carnegie, fifty years ago, like chapters of early American history. For Henry Phipps was one of the pioneers in organized American industry. His name was and his fame was somewhat obscured by the note attaching to his Scottish partner. Not that Carnegie was a more pushing person, but that Phipps was a remarkably self-obscuring individual. He disliked publicity. He chrank from contacts with large numbers of people. On one occasion, when one of his bene- factions was being celebrated at an “opening” in Pittsburgh and he was necessarily present, he hid himself in a conservatory for four hours to avoid en- countering the crowd. Like Andrew Carnegie, Henry Phipps sprang from an humble origin. He was THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘The felt hat is the official Autumn and Winter headdress for the men of the world. % Caps, derbies, ;'hllh hats,” berets are all strictly secondary. A mnn’rnust wear a felt if he wishes to escape the covert glances of his mates. Let him stick to & cap, he is “strange.” If he affects a silk hat, he is “queer.” If he wears a beret, he is a “nut.” If he insists on going without any hat at all, he is simply crazy, or very, very young. }}’eyml?r‘be an eccentric of the first water, but so long as he wears a felt hat he will get by. o Just how the ubiquitous felt got its prestige is a matter for the historian of clothes, rather than for the commen- tator on general human nature. Millions of rabbits are slain every year to provide the soft hairs which go ‘Why should custom force one to wear & felt hat, or & straw hat, or an “iron hat,” as the derby was once known? in nothing is the absurdity of cus- tom more apparent, he feels, than in the unwritten law that the comfortable straw must be discarded on the stroke of September 15. Here is a Septémber with weather almost as warm as the last well r membered August, a month in which a | straw would be as seasonable as iheh. Yet. scores of thousands of men | throughout the United States solemnly laid away their well worn straws and donned equally well worn felts. ‘Well may the rebel ask why. *o kR The believing world does not ask that | & man look well in a felt, but merely | that he wear it. “He may, as he often does, look like {an owl, a fool or an ass, but so long as it |is a felt he is American Inventors Are Checked by Patent Office To the Editor of The 8! In Star of September 10 I note a letfer by Joseph Rossman, bearing the caption “American Inventors Work for Humanity.” The subject matter of the Rossman I have often wondered why the com- munity insists upon making the way of the inventor so hard at every step. I suppose it is largely due to the fact that most people fear and distrust all innowations. They hate to change their customary ways of doing things, be- cause a new way requires more thought than jogging along in the well worn ruts of habit. But even 50, one would naturally ex- pect that a Government institution or- ganized to encourage inventors and the production of inventions would not de- liberately add to the handicaps and hardships of the inventor. And that at least in the Patent Office would be found a recognition of the value of in- ventors to the community, and also a ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. This great service is maintained by The Evening Star for the benefit of its readers, who may use it every day with- out cost to themselves. to do is ask for any in: and they Q. What part of Kentucky is knb yll the Purchase and why L. K. A. According to the Kentucky Proge Al they hIV!‘ ress Magazine, the Purchase, usually formation desired | described as the Jackson Purchase, is, 80 will receive prompt answers | far as Kentucky is concerned, the west hyitzlll. dQuemons must be clearly | tip-end of the State, composed of eight ‘;"l n;n stated as briefly as possible. | counties that were once all Hickman n(éoudd-cem stamp for return pstage County and almost surrounded by water. Tatiocress The Evening Star Infor- Twenty counties in Tennessee were & ;l;:hznwurfiru. Frederic J. Haskin, di- | part of the original purchase. The , Washingtor . | whole section is only about aonn1 square . Is it on H miles in area, and all the section be- | tisdbe Bon .,‘}‘,’,‘::’{he Nl Aypiseh®r® | longing to Kentucky, a little more than hour conducted by Walter Damrosens | 2000 square miles. is west of the Ten- A.D. H. essee River, south and east of the Ohio A. We quote froj and Mississippi Rivers, respectively, and | Walter Damrosch in " a publiation | ) Part north of Reelfoot Lake. 'The issued by the National Broadcasting| COUNties comprising it now are Graves, g?e‘ b 5on of 1930-31 will mark e ;;}Igowfl Marshall, McCracken, lBfll- third year of my Music A |lard, Carlisle, Hickman and Fulton. | hour “over the Tadio. for schoots. od The whole section is named the Pur; colleges. * * * Beginning two year chase because it was the last portion of with about 2,000,000 Hs‘lcnel‘nynl\'!l'):isll3 | the State ceded by the Chickasaw In- the country as far West as the Rocky | ians to the United States, and is called m a foreword by 3 all right. % A position of the accused officers’ col-|tpe son of & i sajor He “belongs.” system facilitating inventors’ efforts and | Mountains, this number was more than | Jackson Purchase because of the activ- republication of all pitches credited to it or not otherwise cred d in_this paper and aiso the local 1ews Published herein. All rights of publication of #pec’s’ Aspatches herein wiso rescrved. The Highway Program. Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst, the Dis- frict's efficient highway engineer, has done a good job in outlining in ad- vance a street repair and construciion program for the next five years and work 10 be done in the next decade in bridge replacement. Allowing for the minor changes that unexpected devel- opments may bring about, there is no reason why the Commissioners and Congress should not commit themselves formally to such a program and follow 1t through, It presents the advantages of co-ordiniting in advance the con- struction work of the various utiliiies involved in rozd building and repair and it sheds light on the demands for revenue that highway building and bridge replacement will entail during ‘the next few years. If the total ex- penditure proposed over a period of five years for streets and ten years for bridges appears large, the $27,500,000 estimated by Capt. Whitehurst is prob- ably less than what otherwise would be spent without the economies that usu- ally accompany well planned programs. Under the program mapped by Capt. ‘Whitehurst the District would replace six of its ageing bridges with new struc- tures during the next ten years, these being, in the order named, the Klingle Bridge, the Benning Bridge over the Eastern Branch, the P Street Bridge, the Calvert Street Bridge, Chain Bridge and the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge. The last two projects would be under- taken some time in 1937 and 1939, and in connection with the Chain Bridge— the cost of which Virginia undoubtedly ‘will share—plans now in mind contem- plate raising its level to the proposed riverside drive that some day will skirt the bluffs along the Canal to the Dis- trict line and proceed north along the Maryland side of the river to Great Falls. Of the bridges to be replaced, one of them, the Klingle Bridge on Connecticut avenue, has already re- ceived appropriations to pay for the frst year's work. Another interesting feature of the program lies in the proposed work for elimination of the remaining grade crossings, and in the next five years, beginning with the year 1932, for which Congress will appropriate in the com- ing short session, Capt. Whitehurst plans te wipe out the Michigan avenue, Eastern avenue, New Hampshire ave- nue and the Varnum street or Kansas svenue. crossings. As Congress has slready approved the principle of steady grade crossing elimination, it is to be hoped that the necessary appro- priations will be forthcoming without the undue delay that has characterized this feature of District appropriations in the past. The District long since passed the time when it could afford to put up with the menace of open grade crossings. ‘The program contemplates s separa- &ion of the grades of East Potomac drive and Fourteenth street, and sug- gests that this work begin in the fiscal year 1933. Such a project has become nece:sary. Any one familiar with the hopeless tangle that now results near the Bureau of Engraving when High- way Bridge traffic meets Hains Point traffic realizes that radical treatment i8 the only thing to prevent congestion sure to increase within the next few years. The plan, as understood from the program. would be to separate the two lanes of trafic by an underpass carrying west-bound Hains Point traf- fic beneath Fourteenth street. ‘The completion of the Memorial Bridge may divert much traffic from Four- teenth street and mitigate the neces- sity for the underpass as early as 1933. But it is a future step that must be taken, and 1933 may be none too soon to begin. ————— lusion with Fascist plotters. Hitler is an Austrian citizen, and it is not quite clear how an alien can be tried for treason. But the mere suggestion that the Reich government does not shrink from the thought of prosecuting him is proof that Berlin is not overawed by the Fascist flood which has swept Hit- lerism into menacing prominence. — Political Window Dressing. ‘The New York Democratic State Con- vention, to be held in Syracuse Monday, is to be graced by the party’s topliners. Two former presidential candidates are to play principal parts. And, if many of the party leaders are to be believed, the nominee of the convention for Gover- nor of New York will be the party’s presi- dential candidate in 1932, Certsinly everything possible 1s being done to give the Kew York Stete Convention an impressive and national prominence which, under ordinary ecircumstances, would scarcely be warranted when it is known in advance just who the nominee will be and what the party platform will contain. John W. Davis, the party standard bearer in 1924, has been selected to be permanent chairman of the State con- vention. Alfred E. Smith, the party's nominee for President in 1928, is draft- ing the spesch with which he will nom- inate Franklin D. Roosevelt for re-elec- tion as Governor. And Roosevelt him- self, if he wins the yubernatorial elec- tion in November, will be the most talked-of porsibility for the presidential nomination two years hence. 1t is entirely fitting that former Gov. Smith should place Gov. Roosevelt in nomination. On three ~ccasions, in 1920, 1924 and 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt has placed before Democratic National Conventions the name of Alfred E. Smith for the presidential nomination, the last time successfully, It was at the behest of Gov. Smith two years ago that Roosevelt finally agreed to become can- didate for Governor in New York. That Roosevelt won while New York was go- ipg for Herbert Hoover is one of the eccentricities of politics. Although the party nomination for President is still two years in the future, it is becoming increasingly apparent that_the leaders of the Democratic na- tional organization are in sympathy with the selection of a candidate who favors repeal or modification of the eighteenth amendment. This does not mean that the dry Democrats are to take the sit- uation lying down. Indeed, slready there is the suggestion that Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader of the Senate and vice presidential nom- inee in 1928, is to be the rallying post of the drys at the Democratic convention in 1932. The drys lacked such a leader at Houston in 1928. There was a pleth- ora of minor candidates, but none on whom all the dry forces could center to head off the nomination of the wet Mr. Smith. Senator Robinson’s hat has al- ready been cast in the ring by the Dem- ocratic State Convention of Arkansas. The prominence now being given the coming nomination of Gov. Roosevelf at Syracuse may be taken as the reply of the wets to the first blow, struck by the drys at Little Rock not so long ago Outside of Senator Robinson no dry Democrats are prominently mentioned for the presidency in 1932. When the time rolls around there may be others. For example, Cordell Hull, formber Na- tional Committes chairman, will be a member of the Senate from Tennessee at the time. He may have a following. It :s somewhat unfortunate for the dry wing of the Democratic party that the feeling still exists that the nomination of a Southerner for President would be little short of political suicide for the party. The drys in the party appear to be concentrat:d just now in the South. Even in the West the Democratic or- ganizations are as a general thing “wet” in sentiment. If the momination of a Southerner is ruled out practically at | the start, there seems little chance for a | met the implied situation with trium- dry nomination for President in 1932. Arkansas is Western, hut it is also con- Mussolini sneers at threais of assas- sination. Not having any underworld ' complications, he retains the spotlight boldly without fear of being “put on the spot.” ————— All's Well on the Spree. All's well on the Spree, and the gov- ernment at Berlin still lives. So runs, at any rate, the manifesto just issued in President Hindenburg’s name and conveyed to the American people in an official statement through the Asso- ciated Press. It is the first expression to emanate from the old soldier-states- man since the cyclonic political up- heaval which blew Fascism and Com- munism into high places ten days ago. The ultra-radical successes at the elec- tions of September 14, President Hin- denburg declares, have not shaken his confidence in the continued stability and tranquillity of the German Republic. Chancellor Bruening, who made known the chief executive's views, was authorized to say that the responsible heeds of the Reich see whatever” of another “putsch” in any _part of the country. If the victory- drunk cohorts of Herr Hitler, who now strut proudly in the raiment of the Reichstag’s second strongest existing “no danger party, should venture to transform their elec- tion triumphs into revolutionary ex- government is sure “that the of law would be wholly sidered Southern, when the roll of | States is called. ) On the other hand, the proponents of repeal have already a considerable Jlist from which to choose their presi- dentiul candidate—Roosevelt of New York, Ritchie of Maryland, Reed of Missouri, Bulkley of Ohio, provided he be elected Senator this year, and, finally, Smith of New York. The for- | mer Governor still holds a warm place {in the affections of the Democratic party. It is to be remembered. too, that even though he lost he polled up- ward of fifteen million votes in the last election. Gov. Smith, whose views on prohibition have now been echoed by Gov. Roosevelt, may prefer to back his old friend and supporter for the nomination, rather than make the race again himself. Certainly Mr. Smith is likely to have a good deal to say in the next national convention when it comes to picking the presi- dential nominee. It is true that Ben- ator Robinson, who fought loyally and shoulder to shoulder with Smith in the 1928 campaign, may have a call upon |the gratitude of the former Governor |of New York as well as Gov. Roosevelt. " | son. truly “lifted himself by his own boot- He was & striking example of the self-made man. Gifted with an ex- traordinary talent for business organi- zation, with a shrewd ability in valua- tion, he brought to success all the en- terprises with which he was associated. A man of small stature—he was even shorter than his partner, Carnegie—he was endowed with untiring energy. He Was an inspiration to all with whom he was associated. Some day perhaps a full record will be written of Henry Phipps’ philan- thropies. He was personally averse to any publicity regarding his gifts and benefactions. Certain of them were necessarily made known and those, which are matters of public record, amounted to seven million dollars. But this was only a small part of his actual contributions for public benefits, which were mainly in the line of the improve- ment of the health of people, through the fighting of disease and through the provision of better living conditions. More than a quarter of a century ago, for example, he gave a million dollars to a commission for the erection of model tenements in New York City. The next year he gave half a million for a psychiatric clinic at Johns Hop- kins University and six years ago this was followed with a million for an extension of the work. These were examples of the Phipps gifts. While his partner, Andrew Carnegle, was in- terested in libraries, Mr. Phipps was more concerned along the line of the physical betterment of the people, for whom he regarded himself as trustee. ————s Russians who thought they could end political difficulty by killing the royal family nave learned an old historic les- Assassination instead of solving one problem replaces it with many new ones. N A “United States of Eurove” would bring an immediate clash over the ques- tion of which beautiful and historic city is to enjoy the distinction of being the capital of so wonderful a republic. - A Secretary of Agriculture is now ex- pected to be an expert financier and a profound economist as well as a plain- spoken, straightforward friend of the farmer. ——— With all his experiments with Sham- rocks, Sir Thomas Lipton was never lucky enough to vary his botany slightly and pick a four-leaf clover. ——— et Plans to put Reed of Missouri for- ward as a presidential candidate hold out a promise of an abundant supply of the best in the way of radio monologues. ——— In spite of their assumptions of great deference to poverty, Soviets are ob- served in the Chicago grain market as possible malefactors, of great wealth. ——eattna SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Excitement in the Theater. Now when I go to see a show My thought will stray sometimes away From what appears to claim our cheers Upon the scene in mood serene, Is there a job to come and rob The fair cashier, outside so near? Will some one smart a riot start As if he'd like to call a strike? Will some one shoot a sweetle cute And bid us crawl to dodge the ball? ‘The stage has left me quite bereft— The audience is too intense! Unafraid. “Are you afraid of the Red Menace?" “No,” answered Benator Sorghum, “we've had historic fears about ‘Black Arts’ and the ‘Yellow Peril,’ not to men- tion ‘Blue Laws,’ and we have always phant intelligence. I am willing to take my troubles as they come, but I refuse to let them be complicated by any imaginary color scheme.” Jud Tunkins says the farmer is at last being taken in earnest. Talking about the weather is the most serious possible line of conversation, Hard -Earned Wisdom. And still Youth must take heart ‘To play its part And face the work anew That men must do. Each generation makes Its own mistakes. Avoiding Drudgery. “Iam told that every time the market changes you add to your enormous wealth.” “Maybe T do,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. “I don't pretend to keep tab. Where's the pleasure in affluence if you let it keep you sitting up day and night going over the books with an expert accountant?” “He who pays attention to flattery,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “must sometimes fear that he is trying to transact the business of life with ‘The success or fallure of wet candidates for office this Fall may have some- thing to do with the final judgment of the party in 1932, —e—— Occasionally a candidaie appears willing to be announced as a “dry’ adequate o restore peace and order | *MPIY by way of varlety. Henry Phipps. counterfeit meney.” Weather Warmed Over. Often weather men will say Therz's a cold wave on the way. But we always, in dismay, Get it, somehow, “rechauffay!” “IU's always easy,” said Uncle Eben, “to show yoh independence and quit to make the felt hat so pleasing to the touch. But the felt hat is more than a hat. Let us get that straight. If the felt hat were only a hat, it could be dis- missed with a nod. The world has seen all kinds of hats, from the Napoleonic to the fez. X A felt hat is, in addition to being a very good headcovering, a ticket of Imission into the normal world. It is a state of mind. The normal world, according to the mass definition, is that group of per- sons which avoids drawing attention to the individual by carefully doing as all do and scrupulously wearing what each and every member wears. * ok kK This world constitutes the delight of & certain type of man and the bane of another. If one belongs to it—and he finds plenty of company—he takes to his felt hat as naturally as a fish to water. It never enters his head to question the divine right of the felt to adorn every male head in Christendom from | September 15 to May 15 every year.| The felt wins 2 to 1 eight months to four. He belongs to clubs because every one else belongs to them. It is the thing to_do. § He drives a car because all his friends | drive cars, H His real likes and dislikes have nioth- ing_at all to do with anything. He is saved embarrassment by not knowing what his real likes and dis- likes are, since he takes them all ready- made from the hands of his mental tailors, ® * ¥k His attitude is, “And why not?” Why not, indeed? To wear a felt hat when the remain- der of the civilized world wears a felt hat is to keep in step. No one would care to be like the man ! in. the Berlin restaurant, who, when | asked by his friend how he could eat | with his knife, replied: “It does take a great deal of skill. Look around you, not one of the other diners can do it.” The hat rebel is he who, for any one of a hundred different reasons, is unable to wear a felt hat without thinking about it. * ok ok % He resents the hat, not because of itself, but because others wear it so un- thinkingly. ‘Women hLave a bit more sense in such matters. With them appearance is, or at least is supposed to be, everything. For it is not to be supposed that, living side by side with man, she will not pick up some of his superstitions. She, | despite her dress sense, often wears her | hat because other women wear the | same type of hat. Hence we see girls with large hats who ought to be wearing small ones, and women with small hats who would look better in big ones. * ok % % Many a man has held out for years against the felt hat vogue, to g0 down at last before the onslaughts of its wearers, Some felt foes have been very dis- tinguished men. One, in particular, that the world may recall, wore a cap until he got into very high office. Then he took to the felt and the silk hat. but mostly to the latter, The felt generally wins out, with these rebels, at about the fortieth year. Until that age a man can be a mental rebel, because his heart is in it, and he possesses the vim to carry on alone. But middle age causes him to “stop and think,” so the sictors declare, but he knows better. He knows that it is simply a loss of vim. * ok % ok Age soothes down the rebellious spirit. A man who once flew into an anger over nothing now keeps his tem- per very well in the face of real grievance. What is the use of fussing over nothing? He will, reserve his strength for matters worth while. So he dons a felt hat. It is no sooner on than those of his friends who know his peculiarities at- !em{: to set him straight. His hat is too big to suit one, too small ts him to suit another. The first wi to take it back and get a smaller one, the other to return it for a larger lid. 1f he finally succeeds in pleasing the. two of them he fails micerably to wear it properly, according to both. ‘The sacred hat should not be worn on the back of the head, but shopld | be pulled down well on the foreheWd, no matter how it makes one look. :h“ is one of the mysteries of the felt at. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS ‘The President continues & confirmed optimist on questions of Treasury finance. The September income tax re- ceipts have fallen far below the corre- sponding quarter of a year ago. Though customs receipts, which dwindled so tremendously during the Summer, are expected to regain some of the lost ground during the remainder of the fis- cal year, no such hope can be enter- tained for income tax payments in the immediate future. The latter must in- evitably reflect the diminishing earn- ings and profits of the present period. Meanwhile the daily outgo from Uncle Sam’s coffers continues at the highest peace-time peak ever known. Neverthe- less the word “deficit” is taboo in admin- istration circles, and Treasury officials, taking their cue from the White House, persist in disclaiming that any boost in taxes is imminent. Mr. Hoover's efforts to balance the budget by wielding the economy ax in Government expenditures are attracting scant public notice, but are none the less powerful and persist- ent. But how to curtail expenditures without hiring less to the detriment of employment, and without buying less to the detriment of business i: a riddle which taxes the ingenuity of the best engineering mind. Payments to us by our foreign debtors on their war loan ac- eounts, heretofore applied by Secretary Melion in reduction of our own public debt, can be used in a pinch toward general operating expenses. This is the President’ e which he is holding to play if the need arises rather than sub- mit the country to a tax increase. * ok % % Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, rank- ing Republican on the Finance Com- mittee, allowed himself to be quoted last week to the effect that he did not see on the face of things how the 1 per cent tax reduction voted by Con- gress last year could be continued this year. A similar view is privately en- tertained by many of Reed’s colleagues in_the Republican camp on Capitol Hill, by Congress at the December session income taxes revert to the rates in ef- fect last year, and thereby the tax- payer will pay at a higher rate than he did this year and from his stand- | point his taxes are increased. Congress deliberately made the reduction for a single year, its continuance to be con- tingent on subsequent circumstances. Mr. Hoover is already on record as anticipating the continuance of the horizontal 1 per cent reduction. But if he urges this course upon Congress some sharp repercussions are apt to ensue. i, i Philip La Follette, the next Governor of Wisconsin, 33-year-old son of old “PFighting Bob,” did not rely on the radio in making his winning fight to defeat the Republican stalwart, Gov. Kohler. He traveled over the State in a small car, meeting the voters face to face and sometimes speaking as often as nine times in one day. In the 60 days preceding the primary he claims a record total of 280 speeches. He is rated a magnetic orator, with a platform manner strongly reminiscent of his famous father. Senator Bob, jr., his older brother, but only 35 at that, got in the news last week, too, by marrying a pretty Washington girl, whom he had known from childhood and who for a time since he came to the Senate has been his secretary. * ¥ Kk X Marcus Aurelius Coolidge, Democratic senatorial nominee in Massachusetts, is not the orator that his Roman surname might ipply, nor any close kin of the He is, however, a Yankee of a inferred. exceptionally ingratiating manners, keen highbrow, and all in all an attractive ersonality who may go far in polil Even though he starts a bit late in life If elected Senator it will be his first public office, ekcept for a term a: mayor of his home city of Fitchburg He is like Gov. Franklin D. Rooseveit of New York, in that he is a lifelong Democrat_wearing the name of a Re- {uhllan President. There is the fur- her similarity in that Coolidge halls from outside of Boston and is in no way identified with the Boston ecity Democratic machine, just as Roosevelt work. Startin’ it up agin is lable to e Life Is Like&n. has been disassociated from New York . Coolidge is for repeal of the eighteenth amendment without TALNg as a rabid wet. * ok ok K his | the Unless there be affirmative action | famous Calvin Coolidge as might be | business man who has ‘amassed | a fortune in manufacturing enterprises, culturéd and cultivated without being | the old rumor” that he was shortly to relinquish his portfolio in the Hoover cabinet. This denial was prompt and unequivocal. Secretary of Labor Davis, Republican senatorial nominee in Pennsylvanis, the date of whose res- ignation from the cabinet has been a subject of speculation ever since the early Spring, may hold on until March 4 next, according to the latest back- stage talk. On that date, if all goes well, he will be sworn in as a member of the Senate. The retirement of As- sistant Secretary of the Treasury Sey- mour Lowman as an aftermath of the Campbell prohibition expose is one of those things which may come soon or late or not at all, but at the moment is being freely prophesied. * It is a subject on which Mr. Lowman and his chief, Secretary Mellon, and the White House are maintaining a profound and perhaps significant silence. * % ok K George Barr Baker of New York, vet- eran journalist and publicist, Republi- can director of publicity In the 1924 campaign at the instance of Mr. | Hoover, and potent though untitled Hoover aide in the 1928 campaign, is |once more unobtrusively in evidence |in and about the White House. | week end or so ago when Mr. Hoover | went to the Rapidan without the usual | large guest party, Mr. Baker was his companion. Their friendship dates | back many years. The dapper New | Yorker, whose home is on Park avenue, | has called the President the “Chief” | ever since the days of the American Relief Administration, He smilingly denies the soft impeachment that he is | one of the master minds of the Hoover circle of publicists. * K K ¥ Chairmdn Will Wood of the Re- | publican Congressional ~ Committee, | headliner at last week's Republican { radio rally, quotsd from one of Calvin Coolidge’s recent daily editorialettes in which the ex-President had deplored the bloc system of government anent the German electicns. It was quite impossible for the radio listeners to de- termine where the Coolidge quotation stopped and Mr. Wood's own views followed. There was no break in the continuity of the speaker’s rapid flow of words, and the short pungent sentences in praise of Republican rule were quite Coolidgesque. Wood as- serted that the tariff was above all else the issue of the campaign, that the danger is that the voters will be side- tracked from this main issue, that 80 per cent of all the bathtubs in the world are in the United States and that a vote for Democratic Congressmen is a vote for foreign competition, (Copyright, 1930.) - | Straight-front Gas Rates | Are Equitable for All | To the Editor of The Star: | The consumer who uses 1,000 feet of | gas per month is entitled to_have the Tate per 1,000 fixed, and he should pay | no more. To keep him in the minimum | users' class when he is beyond it is not only illogical, but is unjust and highly | discriminatcry. It is equally unfair to discriminate ‘with preferential charges between users of from 1,000 to 4,000 feet because the difference in amount of gas consumed is in entirely too narrow a field. | The gas company is not reducing rates in the interest of the public unless the rate and the bills are uniformly less tban théy have been heretofore. When there has been fixed fairly a minimum charge that silences the outcry against unprofitable business, the excuse is gone to forage upon a still large number of gas consumers for added revenue. Unless the Public Utilities Commission shall take a view of the matter that is just to the public and non-discrimina- tory, there is a real possibility that Congress (for various rezsons) will take a hand at the coming session and fix the rate, as it did in 1916, notwithstand- ing the existence cf a Public Utilities Commi+ on. And should Congress do that. it is quite likaly that the frills and fur lows of co;gorn\on price-fix- ing will be lopped off in favor of the st. ght-front rate for all. JOSEPH W. CHEYNEY. | Rainbow Coming. Prom the Pittsburgh Post-Gasette. s, 1 B‘\lm“yb?:t will be, *“ enterprise. ‘The Patent Office, on the contrary, seems to be motivated by the idea of discouraging the inventor, for applying for a patent is one of the most com- plicated operations in_the whole range of legal procedure. It is a practical impossibility for an inventor to procure & patent without the aid of high-priced specialized legal assistance, and even then the chances are many to one against an inventor’s securing those rights supposed to be accorded to him by the patent statute: Not only are the “rules of practice” in the Patent Office utterly complicated but its antiquated conventions are based upon obsolete psychology and notions that are a hundred years behind the times. To give but one example, the patent statutes require that a device to be palentable shall fulfill three require- ments—it must be new, it must be use- ful, it must be an invention. To ordinary common sense it would seem that these seemingly simple re- quirements could easily be determined, and so far as the first two are con- cerned there is little difficulty. But when it comes to the third requirement insuperable difficulty is encountered— for nobody, whether layman, technical expert, psychologist or even the Su. preme Court of the United States, to which is referred the final determina- tion of patent issues, knows what is invention! None the less, examiners in the Patent Office, while admitting the novelty and utility of a device, refuse to grant a patent solely on the ground that it lacks “invention.” And when the ap- plicant reasonably asks just what it is that the device lacks or what the ex- aminer means when he uses the word “invention,” the Patent Office calmly ignores this reasonable request for in- formation, and patent protection is ar- an.rlrfly refused for—"lack of inven- jon. Thus the very institution organized to encourage inventors and the pro- duction of inventions deliberately cre- ates more stumbling blocks and pitfalls in the path of the inventor, and hin- ders, hampers and discourages the in- ventor’s effort to benefit humanity. 1 hope that the timely letter of Joseph Rossman may attract the attention of our lawmakers and those in the Patent Office charged with the duty of encour- aging inventors, to the end that the inventor may be relieved of at least some wholly unnecessary handicaps and hardships. WILLIAM H. SMYTHN. Berkeley, Calif. More Legal Tender Cure For Underconsumptivity To the Editor of The Star: Al to-date ‘economists agree that Al suffers . from underconsump- thy It is generally admitted that the n be no such thing as “over- production,” on the, othi hand, so long as millions still need the necessi- ties of life. Now, just what does underconsump- tivity mean? It can’ mean nothing whatever but inability to purchase. And what does inability to purchase mean? It can mean nothing whatever but lack of cash. But do not the onomists always blithely tell vs thai “‘here’s plenty of money”? Here w !~gic and con- sistency of & high degree of odorif- erousness. For what in the name of Heaven cculd inability to purchase mean except lack of the wherewithal— legal tender? Hall-marked economists and their unreflecting followers, how- ever, have 30 long preached that Amer- ica is simply saturated by a veritable flood of gold and other money tokens that now it does look asinine to be com- pelled to assert the exact ogpo-xch. dearth of legal tender something akin to that dryness so much idealized by the Anti-Saloon League. Yes, the exact opposite is the truth, since America is far from being over burdened with money. There is cer- tainly plenty of bank credit, but bank credit is “debt” to the vast majority of us—not legal tender. So absurdly small, in fact, is the volume of legal money symbols that only about one-tenth of the rightful, sclentific and ethical amount is made to do duty for th vastly larger amount needed. Too long we have listened patiently to the money lender, in spite of his obvious bias. His philosophy is now proved absurd. He claims that there is plenty of money while blowing hot, and when blowing cold declares that what we need is more gurchlslnz power. If this isn't about the rankest contradic- tion in the history of the world, then Just what is it? Must we continue to wait for such minds to solve our ever-in- creasing and ever-menacing social prob. lems? Wouldn't it be slightly more | sensible to appeal to modern monetary | sclentists for the answer? Here is that answe Only the creation of many billions of | legal tender—irrespective of the supply | of gold—can relieve matters in the| least extent. The ideal amount of new| legal tender for this country would— mirabile dictu!-—be some $65,000,000, 000, since this is the current total of | bank credit. For it is an absolute fact| that every dollar 'of “bank credit”| should always have been dollar of | cash. Bank credit costs an enormous, | entirely avoidable, burden of interest— | about $10,000,000.000 a year in all— and thus cyclically, in the nature of things, puts all industry on its beam ! énds. As we find it has done today. Such a weird process may be good “economics,” but it isn't good sense, good business, good politics. good eth- ics, good science, or good religion! VICTOR MARSDEN. ——— Laugh for Mussolini. From the Duluth Herald. Mussolini will be amused when he reads that it takes 50 men to rule the United States. e He Doesn’t Vote. Prom the Little Rock (Ark.) Democrat. “It 1s sald that only one man in 50 knows how to vote intelligently.” And | knowing that, he doesn’t vote. ———— Nobody Got Wet. From the Jackson Citizen Patriot, They used to say that it rained on | the just and unjust alike, but in the | Summer of 1930 it didn't seem able to rain on anybody. G r——— One Job to Evade. From the Omaha World-Herald. If you are look for a good job gont't become a South American Presi- lent. doubled last year, and with the number of new radios now being installed in our | ;"m)‘)yoo 1 cgnfldenlol.v expect ‘between | ,000.000 and 10,000,000 listen = ing this season.” s | Q. How is helium packe: b | 1y How s packed for market- | A. Tt 5 packed in cylinders having a content of 1!, cubic feet, under a pres. | sure of 2,000 pounds—equivalent to 175 cubic feet of hellum at ordinary atmos pheric pressure. The lifting power of :erl‘mm 15 92 per cent of that of hydro- en. Q:Is the amount of updeliverable mail matter increasing?—N. M. A. There were 23,079,619 undeliver- | able letters received in the dead letter | offices during the fiscal year 1929, a de- crease of 569,425, or 2.4 per cent, from the number received in the previous year. This reduction was made in spite of the fact that there was an increase | in postal receipts. ity of Andrew Jackson as commissioner with Isaac Shelby. in its purchase. Q._When were camels imported into the United States? What became of them C. O'H. A. Camels have been introduced into the Southwestern part of the United States, but without permanent economic success. The United States Govern= ment spent much money and pains ac- climating camels as an Army transport service in the dry Southwestern regions, about 1857; the Civil War interrupted the arrangements, but the: attempts made by private hands to utilize the animals wert not profitable. Many were turned loose\and remained wild along the Mexican barder, but multipjied very little, and they are now supposed to be extinct in North America. Q. Where is Betsy Ross, the woman who Is supposed to have made the first American flag, buried?—M. T. L. A. Betsy Ross and her husband, John Q. Do many students enroll i lege correspondence corsens "R " | Claypool, were first buried in the ‘Free A. They are becoming incry Agly | Quaker burying ground on the west gid popular. “In the home study mvfifl:'éyu‘"f Filtpeninth strast, souil Al NRNY {“ Columbia University more than 10,000 | NOW known as Locust street, Ph !eé students will be enrolled this Fall. Stu- |Phia. In 1857 the bodies were " dents in every State in this country and | {0 & lot in Mount Mariah Cemetery. :nwwe than 25 other nations are reg- | stered. Q. What make of railroad men?—H. A, A. There are 37 makes of watches Q. IsAlice Brady still on the stage or has she gone into the talkies?—E. B. A. She is appearing in stock at At- lanta, Ga. authorized for the use of men employed on one large railroad alone. The speci- fications for railroad watches do not | refer to the make, but to the size of tch, number of jewels and degree of accuracy. Q. Are there many places in America named after Lafayette?—K. M. A. There are said to be 150, Q. Where did base ball originate in the United States?—E. M. A, The modern game of base ball originated with the Knickerbocker Club, organized im New York City in 1845. ‘The first person to prepare a dlagram of the playing diamond was Abner Doubleday of Cooperstown, N. ¥, in 1837, Q. Where was Clemenceau born? Please explain remote control by Q. radio.—R. E. R. | Grand_Rapids Press, which considers | “ghét was his father’s occupation?— A. Georges Clemenceau was born at Mouilleron-en-Pareds, Vendee, Prance, in 1841, His father was a village doctor. Q. What is the bonded debt of the State of Indiana?—N. B. T. A. Indiana has neither bonded nor floating debt. Q. What is the smallest state in Aus- tralia?—W. T. D. A. Tasmania is the smallest state of the Australian Commonwealth. It is.an island, separated from the southeast corner of the mainland by Bass Strait. The area of Tasmania is 26,215 square miles, and it has a population of A. Remote control in radio is where the transmitting apparatus is located some distance from the operating key or microphone. . What proportion of the rabbit nk{gs imported into the United States is used in making felt for hats?—F. F. A. Approximately 175,000,000 rabbit skins a year are imported ‘into the United States. Of these, 87,000,000 are made into hat felt and the other half g02s to the fur trade. Q. When was Col. Bidar, the Mexican aviator, killed?—A, M. A. Col. Pablo Sidar, with his co-pilot, Carlo Rovirosa, was killed on May 11, 1930, when his- plane crashed into the 212,043. sea quring & storm off Costa Rica. Americans Believe Protest Is Behind German Balloting Puzzling: results of the German elec- tion are viewed by the United States with some concern because of the in- terest of Americans in the Young pla which may be affected by any over- turn in that country. Faith in the character of the German people seems sufficiently strong to dispel fear of Pascists and other radic: The extraordinary growth of the extremist parties would be, from our viewpoint, a most alarming portent if it is to be taken at its face value” says the Chicago Daily Tribune, which points out that “we in America are acquainted with what we call a vote of protest, which represents a reaction against unsatisfactory conditions rather | than efther confidence in the character | of the party benefited or approval of | its policles.” 1In line with this state- ment is that of the New York Herald Tribune, which remarks that “the ‘ins’ are more powerful than the ‘outs.’ and ! that fact is the dominating one in the | German situation, aggravated though it | is by extensive unemployment and the economic_unrest which is at present a | world-wide problem. | “Germany "5 seen by the Jackson Citizen Patriot as confronted by two dangers—"either the establishment of | a Pascist dictatorship or the introduc- ion of the Soviet form of government, though that paper considers 'bollvl the: poseibilities exceedingly remote.” F ,000,000 vigorous people represent the | ;]l'lllhnf. level of general education and | capacity for organization, and they may | be depended upon to perpetuate a government which has brought them safely through some of the stormiest periods of their history. * ok % K - t Germany needs is a new elec- tlonwl‘;'.llem. making it futile for smali groups of ‘independent’ thinkers to tempt forming parties,” declares the | at “permitting any small faction ;hhlth' c‘:n gain 60,000 votes in a district to be represented in the Reichstag is inviting hopeless dissension,” and vises that “instead of electing a host of | parties and permitting them to fight it out and combine in the Reichstag, ers so that the fighting out will be Gone in the voters minds and they will choose which of two or three great inclusive parties stands nearest to their individual views.” The Lincoln State Journal, too, considers that “Germany s in for considerable political bargain- ing, due to the confusion resulting from the political organization _of the country.” The Kansas City Star finds hope in | the fact that “the Fascists and the | Communists, despite their large gains, are stil in the minority, and, more im- | portant, are widely civided on many issues,” though this paper concedes that | “faith_in the future of the German | Republic, rightly or wrongly, has been shaken.” The St. Louls Globe-Democrat finds it interesting that “whatever else the general election may mean, indica- tion of reaction toward monarchism is as the Detroit News emphasizes, “her | ) Germany will do well to arrange mat- | & Fascists a warning that parliamentary rule by majority is in serious danger; that unless they can lay aside their factional feuds they must abandon hope of great influence in directing the affairs of Germany.” The Oklahoma City Times, analyzing the political complexion of the Reichs- tag, says: “The Fascist group, with 107 seats, has risen to second rank among the numerous parties through which Germans express political preference. Socialists hold the most seats, 143, while the Communists are third with 76, the Centrists, 68, with the remainder scat- tered among the lesser parties, as dif- ferent as German Nationalists and the Peasants’ party. = Control, whichever way it goes, must be through a coali- tion,” concludes this paper. I Reviewing the situation and the fact that in the last Parliament the “task of getting ' teamwork appeared hopeless,” the Atlanta Journal suggests that now, “in the face of the new and graver peril, they may think less of parti conten. tions and more of their country’s needs. Already there are intimations that the Soclalists and Centrists will come to & functioning agreement. This would provide a potent nucleus against Fascist~ Communist-Nationalist aggressions,” as- serts the Journal, which sees “all Eu- rope and America as well deeply con~ cerned in the working out of this prob- em, which involves nothing less than the preservation of all that has been done during the last 10 years to settle the issue, heal the wounds and repair the losses of the Great War. An internaticnal aspect was given the recent election by the fact that “duri the campaign the Fascists demande immediate union with Austria, annul- ment of the treaties of Versailles and St. Germain and the abrogation of the Young_plan,” points out the Youngs- town Daily Vindicator. However, this paper goes on to say that “since the election Hitler, whose oratory and ap- peals to popular discontent built up the Fascist party, is ‘strangely silent.' It is one thing, he finds, to make promises and another to try to carry them out. Evidently they are sobered by their sur- prising strength and will be more con- servative in practice than they were in heory,” concludes the Vindicator. Although recognizing that *in case of an impasse in Parliament a dictator- ship is the only thing left,” the Wheel h’li Intelligencer thinks it “inconceive able that the German people, remem- bering what happened to them under the Hohenzollerns, wouid stand for a Fascist dictator, as it is inconceivable that they would have a Commun with the spectacle of Russia st them in the face. The dictator would have to be a moderate,” it declares. Explaining the' election, the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat says: “Moti= \'llxd. by this ‘feeling of economic de= spalr) the German people have fallen easy prey to Fascist and Communist PromLses. wild-eyed though those prom- ises have been. They sought some one to blame for their shrinking larders and quite naturally they chose the existing government,” The New Orleans Times- ing detected in its reported results. ‘Americans Who are ccustomed to| LiCAYune states that “some see deep significance in the fact that Adolf Hitler, two major parties, with a few small parties ‘also running,’ can hardly con= ceive of what a mess of parties is repre= sented in the German law-making body,” explains the Savannah Morning News, pointing out that “no party has & majority; no two parties have a ma- jority together. Imagine what the House of Representatives of the United States would be, for example, if there were 15 arties represented, with no one party Rlvlng more than one-fourth of the total strength!” exclaims this journal. The Cleveland News thirnks it “almost certain that the Reichstag's deliberative moments will be consumed in factional to the practical exclusion ot needful action—a process not unfamiliar to us in the United States” The Cin- cinnati Times-Star says of this situa- May Have to Do Own Wash. From :lh;en !:-. o;’l;-;. ‘Times-Picayune. Pre ul d § 80 many mm"mmmmn to wash her own linen—and in public, #s usual, no doubt, 2 tion, “Multi-party rule, which generall borders on misrule, will continue there until such time as election reform fafeguard, or » P destroy, mou”‘:‘l‘u hand, the New York now one of the outstanding leaders of German Fascism, is not a German at all, but an Austrian, thus forming an- other potential threat of pan-German- ism, Which cannot be lost sight of by Germany's recent foes.” And the St. Louis es concludes its editorial on the election with the words, whole, students of world politics find Germany’s situation the most interest- ing. potentially, of all the national and international subjects spread across the map of Europe.” e ———— Heard on a Peewee Course. From the Detroft. Free Press, A traveler in darkest Africa says that g;_xmekumr:h are di:xlr;l:wu there. eeps the worl nce even. ‘They certainly are increasing here. And Ginger Ale? From the San Bernardino Sun, that “it. be 8un U"lm that mod. T 1o 04 so-GaUed | Makse Now that corn is dearer than there be more demand mwmfi.n