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ST Dilemma, It may ening to the fact that they prefer their nature unadorned save through the art Were every roadside and field billboand « veritable masterplece by Corot or Innes, Sargent or Melchers, “grand prizes” thousands of contests of all sorts, but Grand prizes sometimes take the form | strategically and esthetically chosen thé | of loving cups, which _perhaps serve | location, no matter how conservative | their purpose at the time of presenta- 7| and appealing the claim and pleasing | tion, but ever afterward cause ‘consid- | the lettering, the billboard must go.| erable worry as to their proper place- | Americans are slowly but steadily awak- | ment in the homte, to say nothing of the labor of keeping them shined. Upon occasion a medal is a grand |of the forester or the landscape gar-|prize, Here again the presentation ends * | dener, the utility of the prize, Thereafter it remains ensconced in its little box on the library table, to be brought forth Senator Simeon D. Fess, chairman of | these still would be out of place. The|for inspection from (ime to time by the Republican National Committee, docks rather darkly upon the future of | the G. O. P. when considered in con- Aection with the prohiition issue. Him- | self an ardent diy, Mr Fess insists that | the Republican party must come out| squargly in Ms platf dentiad electfor To do other- | insists, would be sui- ! recent campaign, | however, o . declaration of the Repnblicans in e of the most pop- ulous Statec of tne Union, an out and out stend ir favor of the continuance of the dry laws as they now exist might | ‘be as perilous for the Republican party. Indecd, the wet Representative Fred A, Britten of Ilinois, and the no less wet former Senator James W. Wads- warts of New York, have immediately repiled to Mr. Fess' proposal that the Q. O. P. become the dry party of the Nation, calling attention to the very «arge number of Republican wets. Mr. Britten makes a demand for the prompt etirement of Senator Fess from the halrmanship of the Repuolican party. it sppears that Mr. Pess has “started something.” In the vast the Republicans have been sble to minimize the prohibition issue o their party. ‘They have been able to sapvince the voters, even those with wet sentiments, that other issues were para- mount—particularly prosperity under sontinuance of Republican rule. In their party platforms they have declared for strict law enforcement, which has satisficd the drys. But during the pres- ent ysor prosperity ceased to be & ral- lying ¢y for the Republicans. The wet and dry ssue, agitated more and mpre 9y opponents of ition, forced its. way b 'tne fore. In Illinois, the Repub- lYcans i State convention and many of unelr candidates for congressional offtes 15 declared they would vote in accordes.ce with the views expressed by the vote’s ivi a wet and dry feferendum. sworZly agatnst netional prohibition. New Yoit Republicans in State conven- wise, Mr. Fo oldal In lew example already set by certain com- munities and certain States is bound to becrme a progressively successful one. ———rwe——————— The Round Table on India. Americans sufficiently internationally on another historic transoceanic broad- cast, as the short-wave brought to these 'shores the address 'of King George ai the formal opening of the Round Table on India. In the royal gallery of the House of Lords, at Lon- don, where, in January of this year, the King-Emperor inaugurated the five power naval conference, there began the conclave fraught with so immeas- urable consequences for the British Empire. Nearly a hundred representatives of Great Britain, the dominions and the Indian states are to pool their views in a concerted effort to gratify what George V termed India’s * ble aspirations for netionhood.” That is as far ss the King-Emperor went in referring to the independence move- ment latterly dramatized into world- wide prominence by Gandhi and his fanatical adherents. The British have consistently held out “dominion self- government” as the ideal to which In- dia might legitimately aspire and which London eventually would gratify. But Gandhi’s aims far outrun any “inde- pendence” circumscribed by the frame- work of the empire. He and his people want an India for the Indians. Thus an irreconcllable situation peril- ously suggestive of an impasse presents itself at’ the Round Table, though Gandhi does not appear formally to be gepresented there. The Indians in London are almost exclusively princes of the scvereign states, or their spokes- men, whose loyalty to Britain is never called into question and whose complete independence is virtually unchal- en slso came out for repeal. True, the | suffered defeat at the hands of a wet Democrat. Senator Wes§ expresses the opinion ghat the Democratic party in 1932 will elpm\ulhea-nolnpnlutml zighteenth amendment and that the Re- | publicans will be forced to meet the| the. Democratic perty is not out of the woofs on this sssue. ' There still remalyis oratie solid South, devetsd to the cause of prohibition in the past, to be reck- oned- With on the other side of the political fence. However, Democratic lemdars for the most part sppear, like Fess, to be convinced that their powi ninate for President aiq tn 1928, snd that the | ¢ will have t» attack the present; s and thelr lack of enferoement | Table's deliberations and decisions with interest not unmixed with anxiety, His majesty knows the “momentous charac- Ef g romise, which Tevealed invoked as maze, ise is a bilateral proposition. i is yield, Mahatma Gandhi will have to give way at points, . Otherw] e grave business now before the Round Table on India is to remain not only unfinished, but cumulatively explosive and danger- ous, business. g i ——— Tt s evidently the belief of Stalin that Russians have finally been reduced to |such a state of discontent that they would rather undertake to fight an in- dignant Europe than remain as they are. The assumption that a plot against the Soviet exists 1s nothing new in his- fory. A country determined on con- guests of the household. Such prizes as these, appropriate enough in ‘their way, pale into insignifi- cance in comparison with such a gift as a lawn mower in a lawn contest. Every man who massages a grass plot in the presi- | minded to twirl radio dials at 7 o'clock | With loving care for the Summer sea- 1933, In SUPDOTt | this morning were privileged to listen in | 500 knows the value of a good lawn mower. ‘Too often householders struggle along with mowers which ought to be retired, but which nevertheless are kept in com- mission, despite their dull blades and general air of decrepitude. There can be but one fault found with a bright, new, sharp lawn mowar pre- sented at this time of the year. The proud winner will not be able to use it for many months, in all likelihood. ——t———— All honor to the seven outstanding Democratic leaders who have promised, in effect, not to rock the boat just to frighten and embarrass the presidential coxswain who sits in the stern-sheets. Certain hybrid politicians—they will mot be statesmen even after they are dead—might well take a leal from their book. — ———— Mankind is so forgetful and fickle; one even hears a few scattered com- plaints about the cold weather. Give us a three-day rain and a number of good citizens will devote themselves to giving their neighbors an ———— ‘When unemployment becomes a prob- lem in industry it is not unreasonable to expect the efficlency expert to pro- ceed with caution in arranging pro- grams for dismissals and wage reduc- tions. —————— . The Nobel prize for literature is to come to the United States for the first time. And no one seems more pleased than the former Mrs. Sinclair Yewis, who has promptly asked for a goodly loses its verdure in the Autumn and almost overnight. Very much like some fresbmen, SHOOTING STARS. May make & helpful hit, Recall the intellectual style Of our forefathers wise ‘When you have something that’s worth ‘while— ¥'s Time to Advertise. By modesty be not compelled, ‘When Duty brings a call. ‘The light beneath a bushel held Is worse than none at all. ‘With greeting to his fellow men Let each of us arise, And be alert in knowing when It's Time to Advertise. Averting Controversy. “I always allow my accomplished wife to carve the roast or the fowl when we dine,” said Senator Sorghum. “Aren’t you able to do it yourself?” “Oh, yes. But in that way I avoid any doubts, so far as my own house- | quest usually looks for a pretext to| hold is concerned, as to who is to country grow- | CAuse some one else to appear to be the | occupy the place of distinction at the failure to suppress the | uor has convineed | iy opposed to the | the domination of poli- pisces, by the liquor be.some change. | . whether within | rs some plan for the | thy liquor traffic can 13 acceptable o 8 great tevs, the lquor issue i nal campaign n more stropgly than it has sampaign just closed. Ay Lé used gunmen W sway suggest that Al Cas w25 gatieved o much momentum in a cume career that he could not stop even if he wished to. b e Somas friendly arrangement is confi- p¥pecied thab will persuade rival atcs and Congressmen to let one private correspondence alone. B ‘Better, but Doomed. L A noticesbie improvement in recent years in the artistic conception, tech- nique end geod taste of biliboard and other letge outdeor advertising is ed- mitted by & who tour in motor cars of trave! jn weins. Where once was uch a plan s de- | | @ggressor. r—— A plot to overthrow the Soviet re- gime implies the necessity of more mechanism than it was at first believed would be required for the termination of so perilous and unstable a governmental system Its. proprietors resent having the old | vlay house known as Poli's demolished, {in spite of the fact that theaters are now complaining that they have more bulldings than productions to keep them busy. o ———— ! Souvenirs of Caesar. { Excavation of ancient Roman ruins and relies goes on apace throughout Europe. Setting the pace for other countries, the present Italian govern- ment has been active in unearthing many new amphitheaters, arches and | other monuments of the glory of her country. 80 widespread were the conquests of imperisl Rome, however, that im- pressive remains coutinually are being brought to light in other, countries. England recently a:fine specimen of amphitbeater was uncarthed near Ches- ter. | ‘The queerest discovery, however, is | that ofs laborer in Portugal, who, | while digging in @ field, broke open what he thought was a crock, but which ’umua out to be a genulne urn, filled algns many of which are not hard to| Although Julius Caesar gave ok at.and some of which are positively | name to as the latter named himself, banquet board.” Jud Tunkins says he could give the Government a lot of good advice; but what's the use of trying, with every- body talking at once. The Old, Old Tune. There’s a tune that holds prominent re fame. “Calamity Howl” is its name, Each year it is due. 1t's unpopular, too. And it always sounds nearly the same. 3 Locating a Bad Man. “The sheriff says he's looking for “He isn't exactly lookin’ for me,” re- plied Cactus Joe, “But he wants to keep knowin’ where I am, ‘so’s he'll be able to step on the gas and get to somewhere else.” A Career Disdained. ©h Russia, since you've reached the hoart With music strange that’s all your own, We wish that you had clung to art And let rough politics alone. “We admire the ancients,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “because they said s0 many things that entirely | 1aqt agree with our own opinions.” J. Hamilton and Huey. 1t politicians set the style Il try to do thelr bidding well. alone are interested in so-called house- wares. The truth is that no man alive played there. . A man let loose in such a , Wi place goes a woman, pos- practical mind, tight purse, Her husband, the chances are, will g‘m one or more trick articles use he cannot resist the appeal to his mechanical fancy. least handy man has a theoretical knowledge, at least, of machinery. He knows the good points of a new gadget on sight; if he cannot be sure that the thing will work as glowingly #s the clerk says it will, he also real- izes that the only way to find out is to buy the thing and take it home. Just as there are some men who are unable to pass an auction sale (this day, as the signs say), so there are others who by no means should be permitted to enter a housewares de- partment. * ok ok ok i Entering to buy one thing, whatever it is, the enthusiast will return with his arms burdened with packages, And each packet will contain one or more devices of approved pattern for lighten- ing housework, for making the home fires burn more brightly, for inducing something or other to function better than it has in the past. Evidently thousands of inventors are staying up nights to figure out ways and means of helping the American housewife. They have read articles ewhere to the effect that she holds the strings to the pocketbook—that she is, in fact, the American purchasing .‘e'l'!l"l‘.l desir hy eir desire to help her spend is ap- palling. Here, they say, is f' neat lltfie article which will peel your potatoes in one-fourth to one-tenth the time the task formerly took. Think, lady, of the hours upon hours you spent peeling potatoes! fourths to nine-tenths of that time was wasted. During that wasted time it would have been possible for you to have learned the French language, mastered the latest in bridge, or given your children a liberal education. Here, for a small sum, so small as to be unworthy of mention, is the Great iglorious Potato Peeler, approved by all the approving plants in the world, and triple guaranteed by the maker, All you have to do, lady, is to ease this cutter up to the side of the un- VB i el eves 1t i e otally Ger eyes tof de- loes Gran work that one-thirty-second o;”gxolnch of potato is saved with every peeling. This may not seem large, at the time, but when you take into consideration that the average home consumes 10,- 965 potatoes a year, and that the total amount of pure potato saved by this device comes to two full bushels of potatoes, the advisability of purchasing One or more of these peelers is mani- fest. * ok ok % Here is & man who has come in on the hunt of an ash can cart. Rolling the family ash can—filled with ashes— from the house to the alley gate is ‘whe! ash man’s mellow voice rol in from the far alley. simple a problem of the household. No, they have not f ten. Here are several admirable tricks, wherewith one can waft a big can of ashes from house to back gate m no time at all. The busy investigator’s fancy’ fixes on a cart of iron, with two hooks at the bottom to come up under the rim of the bottom of the can, and a sliding bar at the top to grasp the upper rim gently, soothingly, appealingly. ‘With this strangle hold on the full can, the gadget rolls as neatly as you please, with a sound like thunder. If steps intervene, the thing to do is to lean back on the handle and pull up. ‘Then the two small wheels slip neatly enough over the steps, and be- fore one knows it the whole affair is at the top of the flight. This, of course, if the can is not too full of ashes. Ashes, for all their impalpable, flying qualities, are amazingly heavy. We would advise beginners to try eut their ash carts with cans half-filled. It is a great deal easler that way, and more in line with the wishes of the unknown inventor. * ok % ‘Trick egg beaters gleam down yonder aisle. Hete is a display ,of kitchen clocks, here a table with fancy ther- mometers, and small “hourglasses” for timing hard-boiled eggs. ° One sidles away from that table, knowing that he will never be able to resist the appeal of the tiny minute glasses. Ever since a child one has had a hankering for an hour glass, but someway or other never got around to purchasing one. Surely there must be something charming about one of the old hour- glasses, such as George Washington used, or did he use one? Well, it makes no difference. One always has had a suspicion that they did not tell time accurately, It will do no harm to stop by this table and examine them. This little fellow is intended to run for three minutes, and this larger one for five minutes, Let's elevate the thing, and watch the sand run through. Who but the Germans could have had the patience to have formed that tiny neck, and to have .measured out this red sand until they got it to tell time almost to the ond? Oné of these would look rather well in the space between the kitchen door and the window. What if one does know that, after the novelty has worn off, no one will ever look at’the space between the door and the window, but will turn instead to the alarm clock siiting on the top of the kitchen cabinet. Habit is a terrible thing! XKitchen clocks, spring or electric, are as easy to watch as the sand running down a tube. Old things cempete with new things, and almost invariably lose— at wlmt in klllfch!na, ‘e warn all wives to keep their hus- bands out of housewares departments, else they will come home loaded down with innbumerable tricks which may or may not work, but which will at least add to the gayety of home, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Dry Forces, . Wash! .” No such advertisement has been published, but everybody knows the job is open and that there is urgeni need, from the woh&fimht standpoint, big Navy 71-ship program & couple of years ago. * ok % One of the explanations for the fiound.\nco!thgdrycnnuum to be is notoriously not nearly so richly up- holstered as in the Wheeler days. In- during the past two or three years have s0_ busy paying off debts that active, aggressive campaign they used to wage. Also, it is explained, the Vol- = that the Sahara cause was ‘majorities in both houses of Congress and treated the wet agitation with con- have fallen from their eyes with a ven- leaders now confess that November 4. The war for a liquorless America is not lost, but they know it Sheridan, who can rally a somewhat into another tri- man the drys are looking for, If the unemployed lists contain any such, a * ok % % Henry J. Allen of Kansas— Congress assembles on December 2—is in Washingion, wearing the most in- vincible smile that e'er ‘The White House of funds, The exchequer deed, to an insider, the drys been they've lacked money for the kind of steadians have been reluctant till now 1o realize ‘They surveyed their “safe” tempt. During the past week the scales geance, Dry a “battle of Lexington” was fought on has now begun in eamest. A Phil lemoralized army umphant and irresistible host, is the good job awaits him. Senator the title is s his, and will be until o'erspread a loser’s countenance, senatorial spokesman and captain of the Hoover Young Guard on Capitol Hill insists he is not a candidate for lame duck consolation, that the President might make Allen of Labor or Republican na- Becretary tional chairman make no appeal to the Napoleonlike statesman from Wichita h per. the Kansas City con- Henry was running Hoover publicity and Ruth was bally- hooing Lowden. Now both the Kansan and the from Illinois find them- selves on the great political outside. * ok ok * Representative Britten, Republican, of | to]¢ Chicago linols, who was re-elected in ‘without ition, is busily Supreme Court Justice Florence E. Allen of Ohio carried off oratorical honors at this week’s “good will con- gress” of the World Alliance for ‘Tnter- national Friendship in Washington, She delivered a powesful address on “The Ilmplementation of the Kellogg -” A daughier of Utah and still on the sunny side of 50 by several yesx: she is & statuesque Portia who wi head of brown hair becomingly and ishly bobbed. Jus t:IJA‘I'L. ‘who a United States senatorial nomination in Ohlo as & dry Democrat, speaks feelingly about peace, for she lost two brothers in France. Music once threatened to keep Miss Allen out of the law, for she began life as a lecturer and writer on musical themes. She was a county judge in Cleveland at 35 and a State Supreme Court justice before she was 38. i * ok ok ke e captain of & famous American battleship has just been gently rapped over the knuckies by the Navy Depart- ment for violating a certein regulation of the fleet, Five or six weeks ago newspapers carried a big advertisement adorned with a picture showing biue- Jackets of U, 8. S. engaged in a blindfold test to determine the popu- larity of competing brands of cigarettes, Albert Sidney Crockett, well known New York newspaper man—but wholly unidentified with the cigarette industry -asked Secretary Adams “how come” that an American man-of-war could be thus exploited. The naval authorities pointed out that there is a definite Testriction against the taking of photo- graphs aboard ship for advertising pur- poses without special authority of the Navy Department. Mr. Crockett was informed that the skipper of U. S. S. oie boy- the infraction of the rules on the smoky cccasion in question. * ok ok ok Some one asked Justice Lquis D. Brandeis the other day if he intended yielding to the suggestion that he should beccme the head of the World Zionist Organization. The venerated liberal of the Supreme Court bench, whose Lin- colnesque aspect seems to become more anounoed as time flies, smilingly re- joined: “I will be. 74 years old on November 13.” Justice Brandeis’ phi- losophy of life has just been embodied a striking volume entitled “The Sccial and Economic Views of Mr. Justice Bramdeis.” The book is uniform with “The Du‘entln‘ Opinions of Mr., Justice Holn‘a Sees Hope for Nation In Debate on Religion To the Editor of The Star: I have just laid down your paper containing the very interesting an- nouncement of the meeting where four great religionisis are to be heard. To me this is the most hopeful sign I have seen in church circles in many & year. When Jew, Catholic, Protestant | and an unbeliever can meet together, state their views and grant that none of them has a corner on the good things of life, then there is some hope of attaining that era of good will which many of us have coveted since we were old enough to realize the folly of n- lerance. Some one said recently that thcre is no such thing as a “best religion”; that the best religion is the religion The | thet brings out of & man the best that is in him. For some this may be the Catholic ion; for others the Prot- t, the Jewish. Personally, I can- concelve that agnosticism could the best in one, but Darrow can show me to am_going sal once | inquiry into the subject that the criminate extension had had his attention called to | 1 ment. Go out'and contract for 1,000 acres of land or .putuvtemponfi'ood buildings &S AN Army wol erect, 1 ml:“k .(: y i ndl a: able wage, say per day ai erect & brick plant and start right in to erect permanent buildings, g0 to work putting .the farm in shape for crops, make roads and walks, put out fruit trees, clear yp the woodland and build & dam for power and your problem is solved. We have made a ‘study of the ecity problem \for many years conclud give every employment that every city | doul unit /& 1o start shme comm) farm plan to utilize the that every State should up to $25 and board. ‘The same plan could be \used for women. Washington is ba heavy with idle women past this could be solved. Nobody w man on his pay roll when age begin! tell on him and the same is true women. Solve it with community fa: where all can work and earn, If this is done, you will have less use for charities and it will be much better for all concerned. Unless something of this kind is started, panhandlers will overrun the rest of the people. This plan will put an end to the professional beggars— and we have millions of them. This plan could be put into action in 24 hours. All that is needed is men of_action. Rockefeller and Morgan and every other rich man would put up a mil- lion to try out this plan and that's my story. E. E. DUDDING. Emerson B. Christie Is Chief Translator To the Editor of The Star: In the always interesting and almost invariably accurate columns in your pa- per managed by Mr. Haskin, there ap- peared in last Priday's issue an error concerning the chiefship of the ‘Translating_Bureau of the State De- partment. Because I am sure Mr. kin is interested in maintaining the cor- rectness of his department, I take the liberty of stating the facts in the case. Upon the creation of the said bureau in April, 1928, Mr. Emerson B. Christle was appointed its chief, a position which he has held ever since. He has super- vision of all trlmlaflng“flone in the de- partment, including that of all diplo- matic’and ‘other correspondence in for- eign languages pertaining to its activi- ties. The importance of this positio: ‘was recently recognized by his election as an honorary member of the Panel of Expert Translgtors of .England. Mr, Christie is also president of the Society of Federal Translators, organized last March to promote the interests of the translating craft of the Government, a branch of the service whose work has never been appraised at its full value, in view of its importance not only to the more material phases of modern life and business but also to the vital matters of international comity and u 3 IS, Senior Translator, Department of State. e o i Revision Needed In Credit System From the Roanoke Times. ‘The statement that $7,500,000,000 an- nually is lost in bad accounts by de- partment, stores, specialty shops and other retail dealers is one that is of vital concern to all of us. For naturally the customers whose credit is good and who pay their bills wiih 1easonable prompt- ness must eventually make up, at Jeast to some exient, ths Josses suffered by business as a result of exiending credit where it is not deserved, ‘Che Bureau of Foreign and Domestlc is satisfled as a result of its e e indis- credit respon- sible for a large niimber of stores wind- ing up in bankruptcy. In all cases it Snsucoesstul - stores averased i cCess! stores aw mi bigher than the losses of successful stores; in the former case the percent- ages ranged from 8 to 33, while in the latter it ran only from 1 to 26. Retailers throughout the country are now engaged in to figure out whether ‘the all-cash or the credit sys- tem will be better for their particul business, One school of ht insists that the all-cash plan is the better one in the long run, while another is in- clined to helieve that ‘the credit sys- tem pays in spite of losses. Many peo- nding. ple, it is argued by those belonging to | 24 this latter school, buy things on credi and ultimately pay for t!r:em, wh!cg they would not buy at all if compelled to pay cash. That is undoubtedly true as far as it goes. Credit experts are studying the figures in an effort to ar- rive at some basis of judgment uj which to form a correct conclusion. Upon the results of their inquiry de- pend the eventual decision as to whether business shall continue to extend credit freely and indiscriminately to all who seek it, or whether there shall be mate- rial curtailment of credits. Certainly the fact @hat bad credits are responsible or an annual loss of $7,500,000,000 would argue that the credit method has been followed unwisely and recklessly by many merchants in the desire to take business away from their competitors. All stores, it should be ex) ed, have { credit_men, who arein c of the | matter of extending credit to customers. When credit is asked, the customer is usually referred to the credit man, who interviews him with a view to ascer- taining his income, the amount of prop- erty he owns, and his general credit standing. In spite of the efforts to con- fine the extension of credit to those who merit it, the bad debts of the country amount to billions every year. The De- partment of Commerce in its survey of 23,179 retall establishments finds losses on credit accounts amounting to a large pe;::nhze :1 business done, * * * Tecent years trade: into the habit of exmnd"nl"n: h!:!’edl‘"t‘g almost every one asking for it. They are beginning to realize that this pol- icy, temporarily advantageous, is a highlv dangerous one, and they are now debating among themselves ways and means of revising it without driving away customers. It is safe to predict | that the credit system is sure to under- go rather sweeping rev iicant future, * ¢ Hon n the not — Echo Answers Why? From the Detroit News, that the Farm Board's wheat be turned | over to the poor. But back to the farmer? oo b —r———— An Unfailing Test. From the Boston Evening Transeript. He who buys radio time for 15 min- utes and_tries to talk 16 1t'i8 1o have the words sas iy Joat his mouth, i Honor Yielded to Swift Breeze. From the San Antonio Express. “eviden! he is being el emu(huuyfi satisfy himse! William_Gibbs MeAdoo's solution 1 | ggaé i i i A H btful if any person has ever been ity | able to say, as to any business depres- 2o B8] gy gi NTAFR :gs e F sion in history, just what was the order = of the various causes that conmm pressions ., can be detected in advance, many cific causes identifled afterward; but the aggregate of causes in their inter~ relation to each other. baffles analysis, 10 | however expert the analyzer. Q. How many tents have been apailed for' on the automatlc tele- e?—E, C. B. Some 1,300 patents have been ued or are pending on the automatic e. n B, Strowger in- d any of the Negro soldiers in- the Brownsville affair about tg ever get back into the Army?—T) A. ‘were declared innocent in the Brownsville riot of inquiry, and all of the Army. ‘What is the, origin of the word meaning back, and game in which the liable to be sent back. B.T.C. A. Susanna Winslow. She also the distinction of being the wife of Governor and the mother of another. ™, Q. How much money is spent in the United States for cosmetics?—A. R. A. About $500,000,000 is spent year- ly in this eountry for rouge, X bath salts, creams, lotions and their containers. Another $500,000,000 is mnt for the services of beauty special- w-.-vzrw.th:‘mmm He studied philosophy all during his life and devoted his last years en- 3 tively to that work. Q. Wi big &Ifln'-n-u i spend as much money - ing n'ern year as they have /this year? A. In a survey of 356 national ad- tion next year. tnnxy—ofnl:uinten;i‘w ‘mt, It 1930 appropriation, lecrease their expenditure, while 61 companie had not completed their phnl. Q Should such words “sister” and “uncle” Capone Believed ' Weakening When He Seeks ‘While Al Capone s Jooked upon a2 & victor over his rival gangsters in Chicago, his pioposal for & compromise with the forces of law, insolent though |, “heretofore Capone obt d immunity in all his rml’eu‘,"’" ut troubled capitalize, without delay, on the hinted eakness.” Wi 4 “Al's' offer probably means that he is tired of t{nyln: for protection,” suggests imore Sun, with the comment on Chicago conditions: “The worst of it s, no'.hlnf that has happened in Chicago Ilately justifies one in de- nouncing Capone for inaumncathe city. icago sulted by this cool proposition to sur- render civil authority in exchange for an immunity already enjoyed. It would be gratifying if Al Capone’s amazing brass should start a movement to put Chicago on a sound insultable basis But nothing of the sort is likely to ha | pen” * ok ok % “The trouble is,” in the judgment of the St. Paul Ploneer Press, “that the underworld often is interlocked with law-enforcement authority, so that it is hard to say where the one lcaves off and the other begins. . The greater enemies of society are not the Capones but the corrupt s and dishonest politicians who make the Capones pos- alble.” The Miami Daily News suspects | 560 bY that “the only difference between this deal and innumerable others he has made with public offictals is that this onachg;ln and ::l.lx'e\raA!pdm".‘b ‘lmn; port ocral :ms “ = crime has been ly hooked up with politics,” while New Standard, al g rebuke is the one en- couraging part of this extraordinary affair,” holds that “it emphasizes helplessness of th: law—at least Chicago—as against those who are organized to trample upon it.” “He feels that he has risen above ths law,” concludes the St. Louis Times, while the New York World ' states: “Chicago must d=al with its gunmen with the weapons of the law, or paint out the ‘I will’ upon the shield of wood, not steel, and inscribe in its place, ‘T can' ‘The Danbury Evening News to has answered date, nd is Jiving up to those “For brazen effrontery,” says the Roanoke Times, “Caj 's offer caps the climax, and it to Judge Me- Goorty's that he promptly de- clined it and informed Capone's - dds: only ‘T can’t,’ weasel words.” thel iy Compromise 5% fo the entorcement nlifil-ul:-n; convinced thas “inere oum“co be this iime such » xising of against this sort he is willing to make & c ‘with the forces of law and order, and does not insist upon the unconditional sur- render of those forces,” is the satirical comment of the Memphis Commercial mpe‘l. The Cleveland Plain Dealer : “We only wonder that he thinks it ‘worth while to make such & proposal. ‘Why bother?™ “Bfluthms of a sublime: farce” is the Ohio State: : Jour- that he “has law the compliment of undertaking to negotiate with them,” and eonciudes that “something has been gained now that he undertakes to bargain instead of trying to intimidate or buy.” Probably Tennis Rackets. From the Jackson Citizen Patriof. . L4