Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1930, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR ~__ With Sunda; Edition. . WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.......October 20, 1930 'THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Si Busi 111 d New th 85¢ ner month Sc Ler copy the Sf sach morth, t in by matl o telephons Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Ffl' and Sunday only .. y only All Other States and Canada. 'y and BE fl{‘. 7., $12 00: 1 mo.. 81,00 $8.00: 1 mo.. 5.00; 1 mo.. Member of the Associated Press. # Associated Press is cxclusively entitled “to the use for republication of all news Cis- tches credited to it or not otherwise cred- i news ts of publication of also rererved. 30 Dead But Still Kicking. Granting that the Commissioners are wictims of circumstance and must en- force the law so long as any semblance of it remains on the statute books, the complicated situation brought about by court decisions relating to the Borland amendment leaves the municipality in # ridiculous light, In the opinion of the corporation counsel there is little, it anything, deft of the Borland law. If the District Court of Appeals upholds the decision of the lower courts in the so-called Dodge c--e, “so much prop- erty that has be ) assessed for high- way paving wii be exempted from assessments under this ruling that it would be inequitable to require other and less numerous properties to bear the burden of these assessments,” and there seems little doubt that the Court of Appeals will agree with the findings of the lower court. The corporation counsel goes 5o far as to say that it is “almost a foregone conclusion” that the Court of Appeals will decide the case as the District Supreme Court decided it, and that practically no assessable property would be left for further ap- plication of remnants of the Borland law. Yet the District must solemnly con- tinue to enforce the law, proceed to eontinue the lengthy and dilatory liti- gation that has marked its enforce- ment heretofore, collect assessments where it can while sagely .admitting that the assessments are, in all prob- ability, invalid. It will'continue to hold moneys that obviously have been col- lected under methods that are un- constitutional and split hairs to justify its course. There are, admittedly, no other alternatives, unless the Commis- sioners were willing to take the blame for administering the final death blow to & law that will continue to wag its tail feebly untll the courts have formally pronounced life extinct. This the Commissioners are unwilling to do, and one cannot hold them to blame. ‘They must show diligent regard for the formalities. In the meantime it is to be hoped that Congress will find time to pay more attention to the proposed substi- tute for the Borland law than it did in the last session. The principle in the Borland law that recognized a direct property benefit accruing to abutting property owners in the improvement of & street may be sound. The Borland Jaw was unsound and even vicious in the discrimination resulting from at- tempts to enforce it and in the case of the Capital, with its unique and magnificent plan of streets, was unfair to the property owner by placing upon his shoulders a grossly excessive propor- tion of the burden of expense of the improvement, thereby enabling the Pederal Government, which made the original street plans with the under- standing that it would assist largely in carrying them out, to reduce its con- tribution from one-half of the total cost to one-fourth, and later to reduce it far under the one-fourth. Proposed substitutes to the Borland law would place a fixed maximum assessment on property recelving benefits from street paving, this maximum bearing no rela- tion to the cost of the whole. The sbutting property owner would pay what is construed to be a fair benefit assessment, computed on a front foot or square foot basis. But the balance of cost of the project would be drawn from the general revenues to which the tax- payers and the Federal Government contribute. The substitute for the Bor- land law would also take cognizance of and remedy the difficulties arising from lots of unequal depth or shape and prevent the double assessments possi- ble under the original Borland act in the case of triangular property fronting on two streets. ‘The parts of the substitute legislation relating to the amount of benefit assess- ments are to be thoroughly studied. But the old Borland law, whether or not the Commissioners are willing to take the view officially, is off the books, Con- gress must make the substitute legisla- tion & matter of immediate concern at its next session. e Both the Harvard and Princeton geo- | Jogical expeditions are back after their Summer trips with glowing tales of ‘Western dinosaur d=posits. The sons of El have not yet been heard from, pro- vided they went. However, it is not fossils which produce among the Big Three “Locomotives,” “Long Cheers” or the intimidating “Brecky-Co-ex.” Drought and Insects. Nature seems espccially malicious toward the farmers of Virginia and Maryland this Fall, heaping upon their heads misfortune after misfortune until many of them hardly can avoid read- ing into her behavior a purposive per- versity. . . Through the Summer they. suffered equally with the rest of the country from the unprecedented drought. But, with pastures burned and corn With- ered, they fought on courageously against the unkind elements: Sooner or later rain would come. There would be & chance for Winter wheat and rye. Perhaps a little late corn could be saved. The months pasced. From the blight- ‘ed hilisides of Kentucky and Southern In mid- { position outlined. The parking situa- Uncle Eben, “feels mighty comfortable, ©hio the drought was lifted. green mantle of jtion In the congestion mmm'umunmmm < | live. hungry herds fessted in the meadows. | Virginia and Maryland waited and hoped in vain. Burning week after burning week no rain fell. Upon this innocent countryside the demon of the drought, baffled elsewhere, seemed to be cc:entrating its fury. Now, we learn, it is accompanied by a retinue of ‘minor demons, each doing its part to make the situation worse. Such & violent variation from the normal course of nature as is involved in & rainless Summer has wide, ramifica- tions. The balance is upset and nobody can predict what will happen. The latest pest to descend upon the fields is the Fall army worm which has appeared by the millions, in some places completely destroying any green patches of field, lawn or pasture which the drought has left. Ordinarily it l\vcul({ not be a serious menace, for it ‘would find sustenance in the waste places, consuming food no other' crea- | ture wanted. But insects must eat to In this caterpillar there seems an ;e.pecmly potent inherent drive to eat all the time. It must seize its food wherever it can find it, and the lawns and gardens alone offer it any sustenance. And, competent entomologists say, insects of other sorts will cause un- usual damage. There are many which ordinarily fit into the balance of nature in this locality. They feed on fruit trees, but do little damage. The trees are strong enough to resist them. But this year the vitality of the trees is greatly lowered. What is ordinarily innocuous may well be fatal. Can the farmer, his hopes blasted so often and from so many directions, be blamed for applying & teleological in- terpretation to his misfortunes—for attributing to the forces of ne‘ure & purposive malignity? ——o——e. Chancellor Bruening's Victory. All 15 not quiet on the German front, but the Hindenburg-Bruening line has withstood the first onslaught of the Fascist-Communist enemy and held its own. In the early hours of Sunday morning, following a tumultuous session of the Reichstag, the government achleved a sweeping vote of confidence. The count was 318 to 236, a majority of 82. The margin was at least 40 more than the most optimistic supporters of the government hs= lcoked for. Chancellor Bruen:=<3 is now in position to carry out his plans for res~<lng Ger- man economic depression and reforming the Reich’s tangled finances. The gov- ernment is not out of the woods. But it has removed from its path the first obstacles which lay athwart it. The Reichstag has adjourned until December: 3. A needed breathing spell following the past few weeks of political turbu? lence should enable the government to make genuine progress toward its ap- pointed goal. ‘The international credit bill, which will provide the Reich with 400,000,000 marks—Ilargely to come from the Amer- ican money market—has now been ap- proved. The Reichstag voted & 20 per cent cuf in the monthly pay of its own members and a 50 per cent cut in the fee for attending special committees. These reductions were an integral part of the government’s program. In marks they do not represent anything very substantial. In point of setting a retrenchment example to the Ger- man people they are worth many times their actual value in money. ‘That, obviously, was the chancellor’s object in proposing them. Of paramount interest abroad are the significant references to the Young plan which were made by Herr Bruening when asking approval of the government's economic scheme. He definitely suggested that the time may come when Germany would find it necessary to take advantage of the pro- visions designed to protect the Reich “in time of emergency.” Before Ger- many can ask for 2ny modification of her reparation obligations, the chan- cellor emphasized that she must first set her house in order along the lines which the Reichstag has just ratified. Herr Bruening points out that the framers of the Young plan based their whole assumption of Germany's “ca- pacity to pay” upon the steady growth of world trade. This trade having, since the plan's adoption, slumped inordi- | nately,. the Reich—the chancellor ar- | gued—naturally faces the possibility of utilizing its rights tff ask an eventual reparations moratorium. It is idle to prophesy what the im- |mediate future has in store, econom- | fcally, either for the world or for Ger- | many. Germany is obligated at pres- ent to find the enormous sum of $425,- 000,000 & year for reparation payments. |Her record of fulfillment under the Dawes plan was untarnished, but the world business depression did not show its head during the period in question. Unless international times improve within & reasonable interval, it seems inevitable that Germany, sooner or later, will ask her creditors to face the facts and grant the Reich an era of grace. Of one thing the Hindenburg-Breun- | ing regime and the outside world may !rest assured —the Fascist-Communist | bloc in the Reichstag will omit no op- | portunity to remind the Berlin govern- ment of the iniquities and inequities of the Young plan. The repudiationists |ahd wreckers who between them now count 184 Reichstag seats will during the next six weeks gain in wind what the government hopes to gain in time. The drive for revisign of reparations is not ended. It has only temporarily | subsided. e ‘There is said to be a prospect that | new Prench coins will bear the portrait | of famous authors, Suppose the United States should embark on such an in- novation—just what coin would Will | Rogers adorn? | v | Congested Section Parking. | A definite indication of the trend of traffic thought in regard to parking was given by committee deliberations at the sixth International Road Congress which has recently ended its scssions {in this city when the conclusion was | reached that growing traffic demands spell the doom of congested district parking in large cities. Recognizing that parking is a secondary and inferior use of public streets, it was generally agreed that it may be restricted or prohibited when it interferes with traffic requirements and that the day is not far distant when each city will have to face the situation squarely. ‘Washington s now in exactly the section should be at the present time. It cannot be put off much longer, and the sooner the ques- tion is tackled the sooner will condi- tions show improvement.- Some contro- versy probably exists as the bound- aries of the area in which parking should be banned but little, if any, as to the indisputable fact that conditions here have just about reached the acute stage and that the time is ripe for action. Trafic in downtown Washington moves at a snail's pace, particularly at peak periods. The curbs, except where restrictions are placed, are lined with parked vehicles, Would-be parkers cruise slowly around in an effort to find a space, delaying the traffic stream. Double parking is prevalent and despite its wide streets the National Capital can hardly boast of the speed of its moving traffic In comparison with far more congested citles, Unquestionably, all-day parkers must bear the brunt of the blame for the situation and in this connection the Commissioners’ Traffic Committee has recommended that all parking be banned in the business section from eight until nine-thirty am. This rec- ommendation is based on the theory that most of those who use the public thoroughfares as a daytime garage must be in their offiees before nihe-thirty and that consequently the new rule will break up the practice. Regardless of the success of this re- striction, if it is accepted by the Com- missioners, the streets will still be lined with parked cars during the daytime when traffic is at its heaviest and steps should be taken to work out a logical solution to the problem. The traffic office has already gone ahead on the theory that when conditions become in- tolerabie the parkers must go, and when this occurred on the south side of F street between Thirteenth and Four- teenth the street was promptly swept clean of standing vehicles. Whether this procedure should be followed block by block or whether by & drastic ruling parking should be prohibited in a desig- nated area is & moot question. In any event, no time should be lost in seek- ing a solution to an increasingly diffi- cult problem. —r—————— A spokesman of the German Fascist party declares that his country’s salva- tion lies in the abrogation of the treaty of Versailles, which he declares both immoral and void. Disorderly human Lcharacters sometimes are favored by the suspension of their sentences, but nations scarcely ever. This treaty may be immoral, although that is debatable, but if it is void then the Notre Dame ball carriers run backward. b According to the latest statistics woman drivers compose about twenty- four per cent of the total and are re- sponsible for about six per cent of mo- tor accidents. That is, while actually at the wheel. As back-seat drivers and as temptresses toward one-arm ex- hibitions, the figure may be muitiplied by ten. Leopold and Loeb have been de- moted” from their soft snaps out in Joliet Prison and have been put to hard work, due to various derelictions. Perhaps eventually they will perform some act so heinous that they will be executed for it. . ‘The memory of Nero, like that of so many other past villains, is being thor- oughly whitewashed by certain histo- rians. The next thing we will hear is that he was honorary chief of the Rome Fire Department. ——————— Henri Matisse, whom many acclaim as the world's greatest living painter, states that there is more respect for art in America than in France. Pos- sibly it is more respectable over here. -t Up in Troy, N. Y., a man was sued for $3,000 for hugging his sweetie s0 hard that two of her ribs were broken. That is & “boy friend” to boast sbout, not hale into court. - SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Pessimism. How fond illusions are dispelled As years go fleeting by! Our good old hero, Santa Claus, He was the first to fly. Then, one by one, deceptions fled ‘Till nearly all we know Is comprehended in a list Of things that aren't so. How brave in youth we seek the truth! And when at last ’tis found 'Tis of a blossom rudely touched ‘Whose petals strew the ground. ‘The wisdom that is vaunted most By mortals here below Is but a recognition of The things that aren’t so. Another Servant Problem. “Remember,” said the serious friend, “that you are a servant of the people.” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “The trouble is that nowadays you are expected to serve the people without accepting any tips.” Time Saved. “Charlie, dear,” saild young Mrs. Torkins, “I dreamed of a race horse last night.” “You don't think of following any such tips as that!” “I don't know. They seem to me Just as reliable as yours, and it doesn't take nearly so much time to figure them out.” High Cost of Hobgobbling. As merry Halloween draws near, And sprites pretend to treat us rough, A pumpkin seems a bit too dear ‘To use for that hobgoblin stuff. Jud Tunkins says one thing that makes the help problem worse is that 80 few people are willing to help them- selves. Perfumes the Past. “Did you ever notice that even so subtle a thing as a passing perfume will suddenly bring vivid memories of the past?” “Many a time,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop, “’specially when I happened to step into a mint patch.” Proper Procedure. The falling Autumn leaf, I'l say, Deserves no mournful song; It it did not perform that way, ‘There would be something wrong. “De man wif & clean conscience,” said but he doesn’ do near de ' of de man wif no couscience at Every one knows how a new word, once it strikes one's fancy, crops up half a dozen times within a few days. The explanation is not that the word is being used more, all of a sudden, but that one simply never it m"x?hre % thing applies to hobbis e same applies obbies. Let a man become interested in sail- boating, Iimmediately he discovers chosen lglfl?‘ everywhere. Men he never imagined knew a “sheet” from an anchor to talk glowingly of the joys of taking & small boat out in a blow. * K K K Like a gun, like fishing tackle, & sail- boat lprnls to the primitive in man, that solid primitive which still makes the human world go round. It does not matter, either, whether the boat be small or large. A very small one will do. We know a staid city man who was riding around East Potomac Park. He came to the Washington Channel. There were several beautiful yachts there, one of which seemed ready for a trip to any seas. But this boat did not interest him. What caught his eye was a tiny sail- boat, not more than 20 feet long, with one big sail. “Look at that boat!” he sald to his companion. ‘The other looked. His glance said, llts?"well as glance can, “Well, what of o el ‘The enthusiast leaned forward. “Isn’t she a beauty!” he breathed. “‘Very nice,” commented the other. “Look at her go through the water.” “Very pretty.” The enthusiast sighed. “111 bet you could have a lot of fun with that boat,” he said. ‘“‘How much do_you suppose it cost?” When one begins to inquire costs, he is in danger of purchase. s ‘The other, with the usual tender so- licitude for another man's money, re- Pl go::\'q'nly, “Oh, you wouldn't want a sa ! “Why not?” “You would rather have a motor %*oh ok “Not on your life,” said the other, rallying at once to the defense of all boats with salls. “There is something elemental about a sailboat. I always wanted to sall a boat, but I never got around to it.” ow could you run it?” "Oh, I would have to have some one to teach me for a while, of course, but I don't imagine there is anything espe- cially difficult about sailing! I dont mean to win rates, but just to have pleasure. What do you think that boat would cost?” “That boat?” The other spoke with some contempt. “It is nothing but a fat rowboat with a centerboard. I should say about $80.” x K % X ‘The next day the gentleman as- tonished his friends by announcing to all and sundry that he was going to buy a boat. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. ry surrounding the finan- ‘The myste: “You buy a boat!” was the univer-|cial assistance given Grocer George W. sal cry, sometimes in horror, sometimes y, but always in "vz';gln do you know about sail~ came the cheerful re- sponse. “You'll fall in.” “Not with a small boat. They are built so that you can't turn ’em over.” “Who told you that?” “A sallor friend of mine.” “Some sailor!” “Ten years on the old Texas.” This established the authority of the sallor friend, who knew his cutters and his sloops. * . “What you want,” said the sailor from the old Texas, “is a Star boat.” “Good name. What's a Star boat?™ “Small sloop, 221, feet long, built ex- actly the same the world around; raced in the Chesapeake, in the Mediterra- nean.” “Sounds great. Was that little boat I saw in the channel a Star boat?” “No,” said Barnacle Bill. “There mfip'&nny around here. But there soon “I wouldn't be surprised,” smiled the enthusiast. * % %k % Later he got to thinking that a boat 221, feet is a pretty long boat for a man who has never sailed one. His mind kept golng back to the small craft in the channel. As far as he knew, she might be that long, for distances are difficult to judge on the water, but she seemed shorter. H= pictured himself going for a sail, some cool Autumn day. with a breeze blowing, but not too sharply, ruffling the water, but not too much. The little boat leaned over, as the wind struck the big sail. He would go tacking around, first one way and then another. b ‘The Dklnrm of the international yachts would have nothing on him. when it came to the pure essence:of sailing. His theoretical mind told him that the essence of sailboating was in. s small boat, as well as In a big boat. * Kk % Boat, water, sail, wind, man. Those were the five essentials. Blue skies, white clouds, sunshine— these might be thrown in for perfect measure, but they were not necessary. If one wanted to sail a boat, how- ever, he had to have the boat—and the boat had to have water to sail in, sails to catch the wind, a wind to be caught, and & man to handle sails and tiller. He recalled, almost with a tremor of anticipation, the pictures of sailboats which he had drawn by the hundred during grade school days. ‘They were all schooner yachts, child- hood’s favorite rig. He had never had & boat—never been near a boat—when suddenly the sight of a tiny affair in the channel had set his mind and heart at work. ‘Would he ever own a boat? Neptune alone knew. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC In underlining the speeding up building operations as an antidote to unemployment, President Hoover is in full agreement with finan- cial interests chiefly concerned with large-scale construction. An outstand- ing leader in that field, Samuel J. Tilden Straus of 8. W. Straus & Co., declares t “the employment of building Jabor will be the mmng of the end of ex- isting depr ” He contends that labor of all kinds constitutes approxi- mately 90 per cent of the Nation’s pur- chasing power in all commodities required for living and business purposes. Mr. Straus calls attention to an “issue” at the November elections, of which prac- tically complete tht has been lost in the shuffie of prohibition and other con- troversies. The issue is the approval of innumerable bond issues, on which voters in many States must pass judg- ment. The people should be made to understand, while there is yet time, he says, that disapproval of bond projects will mean the defeat of public improve- ments. By just that extent to which these enterprises—State or municipal— are held up, according to Mr. Straus, the return of prosperity will be delayed. * kK Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, former presi- dent of the German Reichsbank, who was received at the White House today, narrowly escaped becoming an Ameri- can citizen and being bmufiht up in this country. His parents lived in the United States a time, but took their son back to Germany while he was still a lad. Dr. Schacht, even in the fatherland, grew up in something of an American atmosphere, for his father for many years was the resident Berlin actuary of the Equitable Life Assurance Soclety of the United States and practically conducted its business in Germany. 8 lation is rife in Wall Street as to Dr. Schacht's real mission in this part of the world. Early this year rumors circulated that he was going to be offered a partner- ship in one of New York's leading in- ternational banking houses. * k x % ‘The score of the foot ball game at Annapolis on Saturday was, Duke, 18; Navy, swabo. “Swabo,” it appears, is Navy language for zero. Many thou- sands of people who saw the Carolinian Huskies torpedo the Middies made the acquaintance of “swabo” for the first time. Throughout the afternoon the an- nouncer at the fleld scoreboard, who was_bulletining results of other games, would amplify things like this: “Army, 6; Harvard, swabo” tre Dame, 12; Carnegie Tech, “Cornell, ' 6; Princeton, swabo,” etc., etc. This ob- server asked an Annapolis man what “swabo,” symbolizing zero, means. The explanation was that it comes from “swab,” the last word In nothingness aboard ship—ie., “swabbing” a deck. After the game, in the shower room in which the Duke team was swabbing itself of the mud in battle, the welkin rang with ribald shouts of “Swabo!” at poor old Nn;y'n‘ expense. * * importance of Americanization authorities at Wash- ington are scanning the season’s foot ball line-ups with particular interest and noting that the melting pot and the gridiron have met at last. Saturday Schereschewski played right halfback for Harvard, Suarez was at right tackle for West Point, Ro- senzweig held down left end for Car- negie Tech. Savoldi starred, as usual, for 'Notre Dame: Viviano from right halfback carried the Cornell ball through the Princeton line, Reinmund was at left half for the Tigers, Stef- fanides and Tschirgi were at opposite ends of the Navy line and Loeser was Yale's main tov;er*of ‘sll':nlth at center. Maj. Ferry K. Heath, Assistant Sec- retary of the Treasury in charge of public buildings, is having the devil of a time keeping pecple from calling him “Perry” Heath. Confusion arises from the fact that Perry S. Heath for many years was a Republican star of the first magnitude in Washington. He passed away in 1927, after having left an_indelible impression upon national olitics. Heath, who was a Hoosier, gld almost as much to do with Wil- liam McKinley’s nomination for the residency as Mark Hanna himself. cKinley made Heath First Assictant Postmaster General. He remained in charge of the postal patronage gull- lotine until he was drafted to become secretary of the Republican National Committee in 1904. Assistant Secre- tary of the Treasury er? Heath is an original Hoover man. He hails from Michigan and is a veteran of the Spanish-American u;d .Warld Wars. * * 1f “Barney” Baruch isn't careful Democratic Lhm‘du d .hdum a and charge him with ‘The capable head of WILLIAM WILE. ‘Woodrow Wilson's War Industries Board has just been communing with Presi- dent Hoover on ways and means for coping with unemployment and other depression problems. Baruch's loyalty to the Democratic party is beyond ques- tion. What's thought at national head- quarters of his willingness to assist in checking the “Hoover panic”’—and on the eve of election, at that—would be excellent material for one of Charley Michelson's devastating “hand-outs.” Charley is one of Barney’s duck-shoot- comrades. ing * X % % It's & safe bet that Gifford Pinchot would give a good deal just now to un- say, blot out and forever have forgotten & phrase of his in March, 1927, when, as Governor of Pennsylvania, he sent Senator-elect Vare's credentials to the United States Senate. After stating that Vare “appeared” to have been elected “on the face of the returns,” Pinchot referred to the election as “partly ht and partly stolen.” That will probably cost Gifford 200,000 nor- mal Republican votes in Philadelphia County on November 4. Washington politicians think Pinchot's neck has probably been saved by the decision of the Mellon-Reed faction in Pittsburgh to support the regular Republican ticket. The Alleghany County crowd is less anxious to reward Pinchot than to humble Vare. (Copyright, 1930.) Brokers’ Competition To the Editor of The Star: Having just read in The Star an ar- ticle headed “Farmers’ Market Protest Is Filed,” by the commission merchants, I wish to voice what, at least, one farmer thinks of such disgusting doings. The complainant brings out the infor- mation about a load of spinach recently bought in Philadelphia and sold on the | Farmers’ Market. No news, that! Everybody outside of the marketmas- ter has been wise to that racket these many . You may ask why not the marketmaster or law? Well, it's easy enough to get information in a general knowledge sort of way to con- vince the public as to the guilt or almost all wrongdoing, but getting proof suf- ficlent to satisfy a court is quite another story. The fellow who goes out to defy the law makes it a part of his business to blind the eyes of the law. Each farmer selling produce on the “Farmers’ Market” signs a contract to sell only the products of his farm. If everybody lived up to the contract, then there could be none of this “bootlegging” of produce on the market, but folks whose conscience gets out of alignment at the first sound of easy coin clinkin soon forget the importance of suc! agreements carrying their names. I've often wondered how a man could have a truckload of produce on the market every market day from an acre plot and not be detected. I'm glad the commission merchants are beginning to notice this deplorable state of af- fairs. I realize it’s not fair for them to have to pay license and rent to carry on husiness against this illegal compe- tition and I believe every fair-thinking reader will agree we nearby truck- growers are being imposed upon when we are compelled to produce under heavy expense and sell against such heartless competition. Of course, the nearby gardeners have been away short on supplying the market with choice vegetables this season and have no de- sire to stand in the way of real farmers from a distance taking advantage of such slackness, but we hate to have our business destroyed by a lot of unserupu- lous guys who never ' hesitate to buy and sell against us wherever they can get the best chance to make a profit, whether Florida or New Jersey. Since several years have been spent in getting our market removed to a suitable point—Water street—let’s hope we can cut out such destruction before mbving there. I have no quarrel with an enterprising truck owner who pre- With Growers Is Hit fers to haul produce rather than pro- duce 1t, but I do feel we are justified in holding out for our rights to the Farmers’ Market against such compe- tition. If they cannot be apprehent by law, then, at least, set aside space for them, labeled “Brokers’ Row,” or some such way to distinguish from the real farmer. Of course, many of them would be hard still to separate, but all law can be enforced if the people will work with the law. Now, farmers, let's pull with the commission merchants for our PERRY Anacostis, D. C., R. 2. Norris of Brokenbow, Nebr., when he filed for the Republican senatorial primary last Summer mflc Senator George W. Norris of M , has been cleared up—temporarily, at least. When State Treasurer Stebbins, Senator Nor- ris' apponent in the primary and a “regular” Republican, announced Sat- urday in Lincoln that he and he alone had contributed the money to be paid to Grocer Norris he rather took the wind out of the sails of Senator Norris. The latter has been charging that the power interests—the power trust—big business generally—were trying to get his political scalp because of his fre- quent assaults in the Senate upon them. 1f the Nye Slush Fund Committee could bring proof that this was the case, nat- urally it would make votes for Norris, posing as the object of a comm on the part of the big interests to a friend of the people. * Kk ok ok But it appears from Mr. Stebbins’ statement Q?lpte. after all, the “plot” was his, when Grocer Norris sought to file his name and thereby force Senator Norris to run as independent candidate for the Senate instead of running as the candidate of the G. O. P. However reprehensible the voters of Nebraska may consider the tactics of the State treasurer, the whole affair is mini- mized in their eyes when the mystery and the charges of a plot by the big interests are eliminated from the pic- ture. Senator Norris has been making the most, in his speeches, of the awful attempt of sinister interests to prevent the people of Nebraska from nominat- ing him on the Republican ticket. On one occasion, at least, he is said to have been moved almost to tears when he addressed an audience of women on this subject. It is not likely, however, that Sen- ator Norris and the Nye committee, which seems to have been playing the political game for Senator Norris in Nebraska, will be satisfled with the statement made by Mr. Stebbins. Doubt- less they will insist on reopening the whole matter and calling Stebbins be- fore the committee. They will ask Mr. Stebbins if this was his idea and if it was really his money that was put up for Grocer Norris’ entry into the sena- torial primary. Mr. Stebbins undoubt- edly had considered this possibility when he made his statement. He must have known that in all probability he would be grilled by the Senate committee, which has spent weeks trying to dnd out who financed the grocer, although the grocer was ruled out of the primary by the courts on the ground tnat his petition had been filed too late. With this- knowledge, he must be prepared to show that he put up the money and how he did it. The fact that he was ready to assume all responsibility would lead to the belief that he would be able to show that he and he alone was the perpetrator ‘of the trick, which it was. * k kX Such tricks—the entry of & rank out- side candidate who bears a similar name to a prominent candidate for public office=have been played many times and some time successfully in Nebraska, where the primary law_is so written as to make it possible. If Mr. Stebbins’ story stands up, the great Norris mys- tery will be considerably deflated. Investlnt!ox:l by the s:i‘:\lx'r‘;l 1:;4) “tflc rimary campaign expen - gld.;? for the Senate, when there is evidence of excessive use of money or fraud, is entirely justified. But when a Senate Committee undertakes to ad- vance the cause of any candidate for the Senate by making an inquiry in the midst of & campaign that might have the effect of giving that candidate a real advantage, it seems that the committee has overstepped the bounds. The only reason for an inquiry by & Senate Committee is to provide the Senate with information of fraud or excessive expenditures, which may be used to deny a Senator-elect a seat in the Senate. The Senate cannot possibly pass upon the qualifications of a can- didate for the Senate until the candi- date has been elected. Under such cir- cumstances it would appear that the senatorial inquiries could well be made after an_election is held. The same facts could be turned up, and probably more readily, than in the heat of a campaign. But if a Senate Committee, for partisan political reasons, under- takes to injure the chances of a can- didate for the Senate, nd matter to which party the candidate may belong, it is going & long way beyond its proper sphere of action. B * ‘The Pittsburgh Press has made the committee—the Liberal Party m- mittee—of distinguished citizens now seeking to raise half a million dollars to defeat former Gov. Pinchot for Gov- ernor in the November election look rather sick. Pinchot is a_dry, a bone dry. The Liberal party of Pennsylvania has indorsed Hemphill, the Democratic nominee for Governor, who is running as a wet on a wet Democratic platform. In fact, the wetness of Hemphill and the dryness of Pinchot are given by the Liberal party as the sole reasons for the indorsement of Hemphill by this group of otherwise regular Republicans, The Press has published a list of the names of 23 distinguished members of the Liberal Party Committee, with their business connections and also their political records in the present cam- paign. It appears that out of the 23 a round dozen failed to register and therefore cannot vote. It appears also that mary of these public-spirited, big- hearted citizens who are now seeking to place a weight on the back of Gov. Pinchot in his race for Governor, failed to vote in the primary election this year, although the Liberal party had a candidate, Phillips, in the fleld for the gubernatorial nomination and the despised Pinchot was also a candidate in that pfimary. * K ok % The Press spreads the charge that these distinguished gentlemen of the Liberal Party Committee are not actu- ated in their present efforts to defeat Pinchot so much by their devotion to the wet cause as they are by Pinchot's determination to go after the public utilities if he is elected Governor. Pin- chot has charged that the public is being robbed by excessive rates allowed the public utllities by the present State Utilities Commission. His promise is to get rid of this commission and have another set up, an elective commis- sion. The business affiliations of the Liberal Party Committee are mentioned in the report to show their personal in- terest in the defeat of Mr. Pinchot be- yond the mere question of wet and dry. The attack by the utility interests, the railroads and the water power in- terests on Pinchot in this campaign seems quite obvious, whatever reason may be advanced openly for the opposi- tion to the former Governor. The in- creasing publicity given to these mo- tives of the Pinchot opposition is calcu- Jated to aid the Governor in his race for the place. * ok ok K If Gov. Pinchot is elected Governor of Pennsylvania, running as a bone dry against a wet, and it appears that he has an excellent chance of such victory, notwithstanding the onslaught made upon him from va Republican quarters, Pinchot becomes an outstand- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ‘Thousands of fid’,"’x"’"fi’fi. e;m are worl cons! or - ‘WOl rough our 3 gur inquiry briefly, write clearly, and, : al‘oam’g 2-cent m:mp for a personal letter ly, address Star Muflnlm(.ylon Bureau, Frederic irector, Washington, D. C. anu ‘;lu a m'mn: :hleh corre- sponds to Hol ywood ?—] . A. The motion picture suburb of Paris is De Joinville, Q. Are the Philippine Islands in- creasing in population to any great ex- tent?>—F. G. A. rding to_the 1930 census the population of the Philippines is 12,604,~ 100. In 1920 it was 10,350,640. Q. Did the “Man in the Iron Mask” actually wear & mask of iron?—W. 8. A. He wore & black velvet mask. Q. Who wrote “Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight"?—C. W. H. A. It was written by Rose Hartwick . Did George Washington hunt to hofindl up to ull!e time of his death?— E.J . His last hunt to hounds was prob- ably in 1785. He was then 53 years old. . When did Whitelaw Reid become Ambassador to Great Britain?—H. G. A. Reid was a special ambassador on the occasion of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee in 1897 and again at the coronation of King Edward in 1902. In 1905 he be- came Ambassador to Great Britain. Q How is the Eusops propelled?— R. 8.2 A. The Europa is an oil-burning vesfel, Her propellers are unusual, in that two of them rotate outward, or away from the ship, and two inward, or toward the ship. It is equippéd with high-pressure steam turbines, and it is said that her engines develop 20,000 more horsepower than her sister ship, the Bremen, Q. What is water made of?—J. K. L. A. Water is & chemical combination of two gases, hydrogen and oxygen. Q. From what coyntries are most of the foreigners in Mexico?—G. B. A. The percentages of white people in Mexico of foreign birth are in the order named: Spaniards, Americans, Guate- malans, Chinese, Germans, French, English and Italians. Q. What is the length of the Roanoke River?—V. C. D, A. The Roanoke is about 400 miles in length and has a drainage ares of 9,237 square miles. Q. What color is a genuine silver fox?—V. G. A. The name silver fox, as commonly used by furriers, includes the dark phases of the ordinary red fox, vari- ously called silver, silver-gray, silver- black or black. The color of the red ‘The America varies from these extremes, between them, form four more or less distinet phases, ively, as J. HASKIN. phase of the red fox. over, with silver hairs intermixed, but not red, and the tip of the tail is gen- erally, but not always, white. The guard hairs which give the silver ap- pearance to the pelage are not entirely white, but are black with a white band, and some guard hairs are entirely black. Q. What did a plantation designate in t.shacurly days in New England?— A. A lrllm.lutm ‘was formerly in New England a small unchartered district with a local government, Q. What makes a thing burn?>—L. C, . A. A flame is the result of a chemical combination of gases with atmospheric oxygen. Q. What is table?—H. G. A. A ple-crust top is the distinguish- ing name given to a special form of decorative rim or border used around the top of more elaborate tripod-tables. ‘They preceded the carved or fretted gallery and the Chinese style. Q. How is oil loaded on a tanker at T'A“A?fi, Mexico?. ‘w‘ D. 3 le companies use a pipe line which extends about a quarter of the way into the river, and some companies have plers where tankers are loaded. ‘The steel pipes have a flexible hose on the end of them which leads directly into the ship. In this way an enormous amount of oil can be loaded in a day. Q. What is the correct pronunca of Caribbeans—J. V. 8, Dron inciation A. While English dictionaries indi- cate that the accent is on the syllable “be” in the word “Caribbean,” it is to be observed that travelers returning from the Caribbean Sea usually change their unciation to a form of local usage and accent the syllable “rib.” “g.‘ !;w n{uny J’udu-ulhln there ear from the school jour- nalism in this country?—L. M.u . A. There are 20 four-year university schools of journalism, “including the two-year schools that require two of previous college work. t graduate about 1,000 students each !me-nt by a pie-crust . Q. Did the title “Queen Heaven" originate with the mmm.:‘ ot Church, A. On the contrary, there is evidence that the in invocations to the deitles :!‘;d the term “Queen of J { In the streets of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, the children gather wood and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven;” also x1iv.17: “We will certainly perform every word that has gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven.” is the name of the town wich in - noxncAed?—Mk;‘N. G. i 4 . According to the manual of the British Broadcasting Co. there are four possible gronununumu of Bromwich— Brommich, Brummidge, Brummick, dge, Brommidge and 33 X ey el ool known, respect! red, cross or patch, silver and K. The silver fox, therefore, is a color A. Because of e Because o its eolor, Touge being State Conflict between the central govern- ment of Brazil and some of thgoprw- inces interests North Americans be- cause of the state rights involved. That this country is concerned as to the settlement of controversies is phasized because of business and in- Vestment relations between the two na- tions, but it is held that the United States had no part in the existing dis- putes. Many are inclined to the vie that business depression has led to the criticism of the Government. ‘The tendency toward lack of harmony is brought out by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, with the statement: “Here is a great people of many diverse national origins, shaped to a Portuguese tradi- tion of militant independence. Govern- r.nr:nul reverb':rlfiom in such a nation no mere tempest in the coffee pot.” As the situation is viewed by the &k~ land Tribune: “The revolutionists have been fighting a government which was in pular election last year. The rebellion is unlike some others in Latin America in that it is no attempt to overthrow a dictator, but rather an armed movement on the part of certain states where interests and Ppolicles are at variance with those of e e iarea ec! the Birmingham News that “under the eommuflon‘.hthz federal government was forbidden to interfere in the government of the states, save in carefully defined circum- stances,” but that paper records that “significantly, in 1926, these rights were extended to enable the government to intervene in order to reorganize the finances of a state which is demon- strably unable to meet its obligations.” The News concludes that “the present struggle seems to have been born of sonie such exigency; perhaps the gov- ’e’::nzle‘l;t &ow tin wgow#m:rented Tesent- i e states wl omic Wlé already thl.nurbed." s He t “the trouble started in the inflammable state of Rio Grande do Sul,” and that “these untrammeled folk turn to revolution as their more civilized country men turn to bull- fights,” the Milwaukee Sentinel says: ‘Whether it will result in the setting up of an independency by the Rio Grandistas—one of their ancient hopes —1t is still too early to say. Our guess is that the State of Rio Grande do Sul Wil yet be a department of the Bra- zillan Republic when the cattle barons are receiving more beef orders and the cowboys are set again to pursuing er- rant kine rather than their loyal fel- low_citizen: “Economic distress has accentuated the critical attitude of opponents of the government, which is alleged to have increased greatly the public debt, mismanaged public funds and manipu- lated national elections to secure con- trol for another term,” in the opinion of the St. Louls Post-Dispatch. The Grand Rapids Press states, “Whether Brazil has suffered from dishonest gov- ernment or not, the fact is that a grave depression has been inevitable aiw that Brazilian discontent goes with de- pressions.” “The agitators were emboldened and helped, no doubt,” thinks the Atlanta Journal, “by disturbances in Peru, Ar- gentina and Bolivia, all of which touch the boundaries of Brazil. Most Latin American countries,” continues that paper, “are in the business doldrums. Their export trade has sadly declined, their productive enterprises lag for want of markets, their ranks of unem- ployed men have increased; they feel the Progressive forces in the G. O. P. as well as for the drys. The Progres- however, have a terrible time g altogether behind any one can- didate. A good many of them doubt- ing leader, for the dry forces. His vic- wr‘y. if it comes, is likely to be the only dry victory of real moment in the pres- ent campaign. The drys, on the other hand, appear almost certain to meet defeat in_other important State con- tests, including Massachusetts, Ohio, and to a less degree in Illinois. Pin- chot, the dry, might rrove a ulflgm; post for the drys in 1032, if the G. O. P. as well as the Democratic party, waver in their national platforms on the sub- ject of national prohibition. Pinchot, ardent follower of Roosevelt in the days of the Bull Moose uprising, and also a militant opponent of the so-called power trust, wngrs hlem.l‘evlt down :qu-n ive. The e Republicans % ‘West are n?fmcnu to the dry cause, He might have his appeal for mominee for less will urge the nomination of George W. Norris of Nebraska for President when 1932 rolls round, particularly it he is re-elected to the Senate, as he is confidently expected to be elected. * kK X “K up with Jones” is the latest task m voters in West Virginia. Elwood Jones, millionaire coal opera is the Republican candidate for Senate in the State, ing former Senstor M. M. Neely one knows to honlous name Switchback. And even Switchback was not known to the , | useful and explain the prompts chickens to Rights Issue in Brazil Interests North Americans acutely the effects of a world-wide slump. Such conditions are ndul to smoldering fires conunu,"‘ of all manner of dis- ditions, -Herald points to the olw&::‘nnd Tesources of that country, and remarks: “‘With its 4,000 miles of Atlantic Ocean coast line, its noble tain ranges, its 40,000 miles of navigable inland waters, its fertile valleys and ains, “t’.:n!‘n land of grea eral resources, vast, developed wnter;rwer possibilities, ::d the surface of the agricultural wealth has been hardly more than scratched. It is already the greatest coffee pro- g:mru llln ;;l:: world, In': its rubber pro- grown - tions. For a time, at hl:mumwprlz must turn from the peaceful occupation of developing the latent resources of their land to arbitrating in blood the claims of two conflicting L “The issues are vague, but the revo- lution stands as_strik evidence of the fact that revolutions in Latin Amer- iea seem _indispensable to » avers the Harrisburg Patriot, Wile the tu{nu- 3 le on Worcester Evening Gazette that “there are, it appears, each side who really believe there is something involved in the quarrel that is worth fighting over,” with the re- sult that “to compromise, for either faction, means surrender.” The Buf- falo Evening News interprets the situa- tion as “an expression of the idea that the possession of governmental power is Sah win'it o (hels o enemen s for their own ich: The ‘Asheville Citizer-Times ses. back of these events the fact that “the mod- ern world is more restless, more cos- mopolitan and more prone to change than was ever the case before.” As to the military participants, the Richmond News Leader offers the theory, “The troops of the active army serve, in the main, in the states where they have lived, and as states’ rights are very strong in Brazil, it may well be that in the present uprising, many of the troops have considered that they owed their first allegiance to their state and not to the central government,” “As Americans have some heavy in- vestments in Brazil” declares the E:u:;g:mrgt—auetwmrfly the; over a that dis- turbs stability, while rec?mlflng, of course, that the people of the country have a right to shape their own govern- ment. In this connection, there is re- assurance in the revolution in .resp relationships.” Listing the various in- terests in the Unif States that are represented in Brazil, the St. Paul Dis- patch concludes, “In view of these facts, it is easy to understand the State Department's meticulous efforts to sup- port the established order in Brazil.” The Asbury Park Press holds that the successful faction “will hardly risk the intervention of this country and Great grel:;::r!, by endangering foreign invest- “The world needs ness strife,” asserts the Champaign News-Gazette, ‘“The opportunity for putting American ideals into active operation were never better than at the present time, in connection with the South American situation.” ————— Advice on Grape Juice. Prom the Florence Alabama Herald. Among the valuable services recently rendered by the Department of Agricul- ture is the distribution of a pamphlet Juice from telling how to keep grape (erme'ntln‘. It — e New Midget Golf Hazard. From the Worcester Evening Gazstte. Now that the nights are turning eool a good hazard on these minlature &o).( courses would be a brick fireplace with a warm wood fire in it. Poser for Psychoanalysts. From the Columbia South Carolina State. Psychoanalysts might do something suicidal um that rush under ear. Same Impulse Through Ages. Prom the Ashland Dally Independent. voters until it was bruited abrcad that it was the of the iblican