Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1930, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR . With Sunday Morning Edition. _ " WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. ..November 13, 1930 Editor he flew, hopelessly ‘vainly for a spot to “set” his No good pilot, and Merrill is & one, with more than six thousand hours iper Company | to his credit, likes to lose his ship, and | Holmes 14 it 8t.. Londos Easnd Rate by Carrier Within the City. Sta 45¢ per mnn| e e e . v-mns:.n;"sm{d-y Biaro P 'when § Indas ng A : may be sent 1 tional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia, jy and Sunday. only . iy only 'l All Other States 7 and Sunday..ly Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled he use for republication of all ted in this paper and also the loc s Published herein. Al rights of publication of #pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. -— - Special Session. The co-operation that the Republi- can administration secks of the Demo- crats, in response to the offer made by the $itular leaders of the party, is in putting through emergency legis- lation to meet distress in the country this Winter, if the need of national legislation becomes evident, and in dis- posing of the annual appropriation bills promptly. The Democrats and the insurgent Republicans in the Senate are in a position to delay in the coming short session both the appropriation bills and such emergency legislation as may be necessary. By the simple—for the Sen- ate—-process of talk and more talk they might prevent the passage of one or more of these essential measures for the conduct of the Government and force a call of a special session of the mew Congress. In the Congress which comes into being after March 4, 1931, it is quite clear ‘that actual control in both houses will be in the hands of & coalition of Democrats and insurgent Republicans, provided these groups wish to continue to co-operate against the administration, President Hoover, if published reports are correct, has appealed to the Demo- cratic leader of the Senate, Robinson of Arkansas, for aid in getting the annual supply bills and emergency legislation through promptly at the short session of Congress, so as to avoid a special session of the new Congress. e nearing the ground. natural one of & disinclination to “step out” into a black night to stake life itself on a silken umbrella. So, for four hours he cruised helplessly around straining his eyes for landmarks. Finally, with his gas almost exhausted, he zoomed upward to gain the maxi- Wth, | mum altitude before his motor died, and at five thousand feet, with his plane in & spin, clixibed out of the cockpit and allowed hinself to be blown off into the all-er.veloping darkness, a darkness so complete that he had difficulty in finding the ripcord of his parachute and was unable to tell when fie was Considering the fact that he was entirely unprepared for the shock of landing, his escape with only a sprained ankle can be con- sidered an especially fortunate ending to a potential tragedy. No; flying the night airmail is not a mundane occupation, and with con- gratulations to Merrill for the com- paratively happy finish of his trip the other night should go the best wishes of the entire country to those who fly the skies in darkness in order that the mail shall get through. —————— Shackles for Printers. An order of Public Printer Carter that apprentices at the Government Printing Office shall not pursue profes- sional studies—medicine, law, etc.— seems bound to arouse vigorous discus- sion. Of no great significance in itself, since the number affected is few, the order involves such far-reaching prin- ciples that it is not likely to escape ‘without challenge. On its face it ap- pears directly contrary to the Ameri- can tradition. Sympathetic interpre- tation is necessary to absolve Mr. Car- ter from the charge of almost unprece- dented autocracy. ‘The public printer is quoted as ex- plaining, “We hold the bellef that their acceptance of pay to learn printing tends to become an act of accepting money under false pretenses when they turn to professional studies also.” The reasoning is difficult to follow. In fair- ness, it probably must be assumed that there were more valid freasons under- lying the order. . Ordinarily what & man does with his time outside working hours—so long as his activities are legal, not scanda- lous and not calculated to injure his mental and physical efficiency—is his are set.forth with what Gilbert and Sullivan describe as that “corroborative detall” necessary to bolster up “an otherwise bald and unconvincing nar- rative” The war was to have been launched last Summer, with Rumania leading in the attack across Bessarabia. But current events in Europe have post- poned hostilities until 1931. And so on, ad libitum et ad nauseam. Perhaps the Moscow detective story was hatched at this time to bulwark M. Litvinoff's fight for disarmament at Geneva and his savage onslaughts against capitalistic states which remain foolish enough to take seriously Rus- sia's plans for “world revolution.” The more likely explanation of the war-on- Russia myth is the necessity felt by the Communist czars to take the minds of the oppressed Russian people off their enslavement beneath the Soviet yoke. At the present moment the noses of 160,000,000 souls are being held to the grindstone, at the point of the bayonet and the tip of the lash, while the pro- digious five-year plan is being speeded up. That plan, which calls for bent backs and sweated brows on a scale hitherto unrecorded in human history, is not one designed to quiet the nerves of the helpless victims of the Soviet system. It is therefore highly probable that the cunning doctors in the Krem- lin have prescribed the old-fashioned, time-tried medicine—the menace of a foreign war—as the sedative which the situation on the Russian home front requires. On that front all is far from quiet. POERRE S o Distress in various parts of the coun- try again demands the attention of the U. 8. A. to the call of need. This time the call comes from the Nation’s own people who have helped to contribute in building up systems of rellef for others in the hour of necessity. The task is large, but experience enables the country to act promptly and effectually. oo Genoa recently paid tribute to the memory of one of her illustrious sons, Paganini, the composer-violinist. It is not regarded as probable that there will ever be any national or municipal celebration of the birth of any saxo- phonist or writer of “blues.” —d———————— Morocco has an annual festival If a special session of the new Con- [OWn business. Mr. Carter's objections, | wherein & “student sultan” is selected gress be forced upon the country by any | it is possible, are that night school stu- | as mock ruler of the realm. His reign group in the Senate, or by a coalition of | dents in Government departments are | lasts but ten days. Some of those ambi- groups, it is quite clear that the purpose | more interested in their school work |tious South American “patriots” should would be to bring a renewed struggle | than in their jobs and have an in- | read up on this interesting custom. over the tariff and another effort to fasten upon the country the so-called escapable temptation to study during working hours. This doubtless inter- It is but natural that each nation debenture plan of farm relief. In view feres with efficiency. It is & problem | should have especially clear ideas as of the industrial situation, there Httle more reason today to give the farmers of the country a bounty out of the with which department chiefs have wrestled for many years. But the order is not stated in that to how other nations ought to proceed with disarmament programs. Treasury than the man | Way. The implication is that Mr. Carter| Real estate experts declare that twenty who is engaged in the production of (holds that a person who sccepts the per cent of the value in & modern dwell- manufactured articles. pay of an apprentice is receiving con- ing lies in the basement, Not always; “The Democratic and insurgent Repub- | slderably greater compensation than the | some prefer the attic. Mean members of the Senate must de- termine whether they are willing to force a special session of Congress on the country. It is quite apparent that e only purpose of a special session ‘bé to work in opposition to the administration, thereby bringing about 8 probable deadlock. The opponents of the administration, however, may regard the recent congressional elections as a “mandate” from the voters to overthrow the legislation so far put through under the leadership of President Hoover. In this connection the pronouncements already made by a number of Demo- cratic Senators, including Glass of Vir- ginia, McKellar of Tennessee and Walsh of Montana, attacking the Smoot-Haw- ley tariff act, may be taken as an in- dioation. On the other hand, there is some doubt that the repeal of the Smoot; - Hawley tariff act could be brought about, even in the new Con- gress. There were Democratic votes in Congress for the passage of the tariff bill, and there are Democrats who have Do wish to take from the industries in their States the duties which they ob- fained under the new law. Senator Glass chides Alfred E. Smith, John W. Davis, James V. Cox, all Demo- cratic presidential candidates in the past, and Senator Robinson and Repre- sentative Garner, Democratic leaders in Senate and House, and Chairman Ras- kob of the Democratic National Com- mittee, and Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Executive Committee, for issuing| thelr promise of co-operation with the | Hoover administration to help straighten out business and improve conditions in this country. The Virginia Senator takes the position that these distin- guished Democrats were in a way apolo- glzing for the party's victorles at the polls last week. But there may be read into the Virginia Senator's pronounce- ment a virtual declination to co-operate | with the administration. And the state- ment of Senator Glass appears to repre- sent the sentiments of a considerable number of other Democrats. —_—aeee Much thought has doubtless been given to G. Bernard Shaw's explana- tlon of relativity during a banquet fntroduction of Einstein. Einstein tact- fully refrains from stating positively whether his own views on the subject are in full agreement with Mr. Shaw's. —————— A certain type of financial expery is inclined to feel pretty sure that the Soviet government is due for a shock 1f 1t keeps on experimenting with Wall Street and the Chicago Board of Trade. | —atee— “The Mail Must Get Through.” Another night airmail pilot has been forced to jump from his plane in mid- alr, and once more is the danger and romance of nocturnal flying brought home to those who benefit from the fast | postal service but who are inclined | forget that night after night daring fiyers are risking their lives in abiding pitchblack darkness to work justifies and that he is morally bound to become a printer because of this. He seems to believe that a man mortgages his future, that he sells not only his time but his life. Presumably he would have no ob- Jection to an apprentice pursuing any other studies, however rigorous and time-consuming, which did not lead di- rectly to a profession. His objection, as stated, is not to the possible inter- ference of school with work, but to the horrible prospect of a man trained as & printer deserting this craft for a more agreeable means of livelihood—of using printing as a stepping stone. However pressing may be the need of trained craftsmen, the doctrine is likely to meet scant public approval, In effect, of course, the order might be Interpreted as prohibiting printer apprentices from studying anything whatsoever—for any line of study, in the present complexity of civilization, may lead to a profession. Mr, Carter objects to the apprentices learning law, for he seems to hold that they are morally bound to become printers and not lawyers. Would he object to one of them taking violin lessons-—holding that the acceptance of an apprentice- ship morally obligates a man to for- swear all aspirations toward becoming ® second Kreisler? Would he object to the study of Anglo-Saxon prosody or Chinese philosophy? He would, if he is consistent. A general acceptance of what appears to be Mr. Carter'’s philosophy might— although this is doubtful—result in better craftsmen. But it would mean a hard stratification of society com- parable to that of the worst prewar autocracies of the Old World and utterly unacceptable on this side of the Atlantic where we still cling to the idea that there is no inherent objec- tlon or unpassable obstacle to a printer becoming President. It is to be hoped that Mr. restates his order—or recalls it, revolutionary precedent is not lightly established, e Carter Such a to be India possesses enormous wealth, but affords an example of the unsatisfac- tory conditions which must arise when great resources are not managed with wise regard to public economies, —— “War on the Soviet,” It has long been a device of old World statesmen, though the practice has lost a good deal of its former vogue, to create so-called external diversions 85 & means of distracting attention from ugly internal situations, marck was & past master at that sort of thing. Once upon & time it was thought that his puny successor, William Ir, and the Prussian militarists resorted to war in 1914 as a supposedly certain antidote against the rising tide of Ger- man. social democracy. Long before 1914 Germany's rulers systematically harped upon the “encirclement policy” which threatened the Fatherland’s ex- | istence, warning Germans the while against pursuing the false gods of Moscow's latest™ thrill—discovery of an international plot to overthrow SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Old Fashions. Old-fashioned dances and old-fashioned songs Are only demanded by old-fashioned throngs. No delicate phrase can throw senti- ment fine 'Round the hat and the garb that are ancient in line. For a horse swift and young our re- spect we reveal, But who wants an old-fashioned auto- mobfle? And even the scientists cheerfully say We must all learn to live in a new- fashioned way. A new-fashioned statesman strange things may relate. A new-fashioned party will last very late, And many will spend rather more than they're worth In keeping the pace with this new- fashioned earth. And even the stars, that seemed once so secure, Gravitation's restraints have refused to endure, And Einstein refers, with a confident smile To an old-fashioned universe, all out of style. Asking But Little. “History will do justice to your busy life. “I don't want to stir up too much history,” said Senator Sorghum, “I'd like the customary kind words whether I deserve them or not—and then I'd be satisfied if history will let bygones be bygones. Jud Tunkins says people used to be asked not to make jokes about prohibi- tion. Now they are being requested not to teke it so tragical. Sustaining Influence. The gangster in mysterious pride Enjoys this mortal lot, Till some one takes him for a ride Or puts him on the spot. And vanity its part will play ‘To bring him human cheer. He knows that somewhere on its way ‘The camera man is near. Being a Cowboy. “Is it hard to be & cowboy?” “It depends on which department of the profession you take up,” answered Cactus Joe. “If you ride the range, #t’s hard work, but if you sit for pic- tures for films and the billboards, all you have to put up with is a little tem- peramental strain.” A Golfer's Confession. A most peculiar mén was he ‘Who wandered out of doors And said, “‘Pajamas’ seem to me No funnier than ‘Plus-fours.’ " “A great man's words," said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, generations by men who believe they first thought of them.” 'THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. i across seas. n, as with housewares de- there is a mistaken idea wmnu are the chief pur- nts, around, however, will show that many men shop for foods in such & place, and that most of them are unable to resist the lure of the fancy biscuits, and the marmalade and the a:.ndreg and one eatables in fancy and packages, A sure road to & man's heart, as to that of a dog, is by way of his stomach. Probably the author of’the new book, “Through the Alimentary Canal,” had that fact in mind when he used his pen and camera. ‘While women also like to eat, we be- lieve, despite their pretensions to be fairy creatures, the male side of hu- manity has & more unblushing-ap- proach to the subject of food, as any one is aware who caught one eat- ing a stack of pancakes on a cold and frosty morning. 5 ‘Women manage to hide their appe- tites better, or eat in a more dainty manner, whichever way you choose to put it. Even their handling of corn on the cob is a masterplece of wit and humor, compared with the rough and somewhat ready attack of the male of the species. * ok ok x It is comical to watch the face of & man let loose in a fancy grocery. He is goggle-eyed. He sees so many thiings to eat, and fain would eat them all, if not at once, then day by day. He sees so many intriguing food- stuffs that he does not know where to begin. purchase a k After he has given his order, he be- gins to let his eyes rove around. On Konder table is an assortment of English biscuit, as they call them over there. Really they are cakes. Packages and wrappings are in the most charming tones imaginable; one would dislike to disturb them, even to eat their contents. The pictures on the boxes represent English hunting scenes. There are timbered cottages on them, and little girls with the thick waving hair for which English children are famous. ‘The biscuits themselves give a hearty invitation for one and all to eat them. The pink ones have a peculiarly ap- pealing look about them. They ~~me in fancy and plain shapes, with : sorts of creams and other fillings, These things are confections ; and cooky form. After all, w. better to eat than the old time-hc cooky? His life is the poorer why 1s not brought up on cookies, and = d not his fair share of soda crackers. There was an era in this country when the plain soda cracker suffered much adverse propaganda, but the tide of time has permitted this innocent foodstuff to occupy the place it for- finerly held in the affection of the mil- ons. Crackers and milk make a fine lunch- eon, not only for the busy executive, but for the child. For a midnight lunch, there is scarcely a ing bet- than s glass of liberally wil broken-up crackers, of the soda, salted or so-called oyster variety. § i 8 ke is d RISH INDEPENDENT, Dublin— Should owners of clocks ent- ly displayed outside business premises the clocks do not r the right time? This question is raised by the e: inary variations in the time recorfed by the numerous public clocks in Dublin, much to the inconvenience of citizens and visi- tors to the m&m ‘The conflict between the publicly dis- played clocks of the city also, on & number of occasions, has been the occa- sion of a much more serious conflict of opinion between employer and employe, as well as responsible for many travel- ers missing their trains. ‘Within a space of 20 yards, in parts of the city, on= can see at least some six or eight clocks, no two of which show the same time. They vary in most cases from three to ten minutes, and some- times much more. As “listeners-in” can now get the correct Greenwich time three time a day, there should not be such a general divergence of times re- E’M’ded by the different clocks of the city. Present conditions relative to the city’s chronometry are not only annoying. ‘They are sometimes very absurd and disconcerting. A gentleman with a commercial establishment near the cen- ter of the city informed us the other day that he left home at 8:30, passed the Dublin post office at 8:16 and ar- rived at his office at 8 o'clock sharp. This well {llustrates the anomalies into which eur irreconcilable clocks have gotten us. * k¥ X Silence Is Eloguent When Drawn Into Argument. El Diario, La Paz.—There is no more powerful argument, when sinister influ- ences would draw us into controversies, than “the eloquence of silence.” He who debates his position in any matter, whether it be political, religious or philosophical, only furnishes further ammunition to the z?posmon, for it is not in the nature of man to yleld his point, no matter how untenable it may -pg_eur to neutral minds. '0 assume & stand and to maintain it with dignity and without vociferation is the opportunity to win far more converts to one's views than could ever be ac- quired through ridicule and calumny of one’s opponents, and their opinions. Actions have ever expressed them- selves more forcibly than utterances, and the best indorsement any man can have of the rectitude of his convictions is the favorable impression created by his vis- ible personality. Too many who would win us to their way of thinking publish ideals in their utterances and omissions in their lives. * x % % Low Salaries Of Teachers Lamented. Imparcial, Montevideo—It is & most unfortunate circumstance that the sal- aries d so many teachers, both in public and private schools, are not suffi- clent for them to lay aside a competence for their declining yea their Temuneration is scarcely sufficient for their needs in the years they are em- ployed, inasmu- " .s their positions make 80 many demands on them for clothes, + books and the nses of living in an atmosphere of culture and refinement. Our readers are fa with the plight of La Senora Erlinda de Fernan- dez, lor nearly 30 years a teacher in the schools of Montevideo. When age ter- minated her labors in behalf of the com- ing generations, she had been able to save from her long years of work barely enough to sustain herself a few months. We are glad to say that the subscrip- tion we have sponsored in her behalf is being liberally responded to by many who feel they owe their success to her wise precepts and instruction. The sum 80 far collected is 58 pesos (about $53.50). * ok ok re | domestic strife while their national ex- | gotten. They will be repeated through | One British ‘Newspa) Equivalent to Six l-.gor-ny. London.—Statistics Morning Post, have an evil way of being as much mis- leading es are representative of facts. Lord Burnham's of the different Here are all sorts of novelties in the food line, 50 many, in fact, that the cas- ual observer wonders who purchases them all. Then he stops to realize that if he buys one, and the next customer & second, and the next a third, and so on, soon every one of them will have gone gver the counter before the day or week over. ‘The ramifications of trade always per- plex such a customer, if he stops think about them. Probably they would worry the merchant himself, if he began musing over the thousands of men who grew, manufactured and put up the articles, and of the thousends engaged in the transportation of them over ocean and land. This shining store is perplexing, too. It reminds one of a busy power station, where brass is shined until it glows, where hardwood floors are spotless, where linoleum is waxed to a mirror, where there is never a spot of dust or grease, despite the hum of machinery and the mechanical look of the entire place. Here is rather a food display, than & grocery store, as such. It is entirely different from the corner grocery with which we are all familiar. There the cat sleeps in a bagket, and there may be bits of celery top and spinach scattered around. There one bumps into small Johnny, 4 years, importuning mother to buy him a bag of candy. The butcher, fat and red, cleaves into a side of beef, scattering a few drops over his white coat. This place has no visible confusion. Its trade progresses in an orderly, gen- tlemanly fashion, as if too much noise and hurry were unworthy of the high purpose of feeding humanity. * ok % Its clerks are rather high priests of foodstuffs. ~They are exponents of service, rather than sellers of anything. ‘They stand around in frock coats, or what seem to be frock coats, awalt- ing the pleasure of monsieur and ma- dam e. Timidly we ask what Is in yonder glistening jar. We are told, with an air of mild surprise that we did not know, that the jar contains olives from Spain herself, and that they are freshly im- ported. ‘We do not like olives, but are afraid to say o, under the circumstances. We do not wish to offend. Were we con- fronted with genuine Bermuda onlons, fresh from Bermuda, we might get up enough courage to declare that we do not like onions. The onion is used to being sneered at. It can stand it, but we do not know whether the gentleman in the frock coat could or not. little woven baskets of fancy figs, the Jjade green vases of tea bearing the seal of the Republic of China, the packets, the boxes, the tins of candy, nuts, bas- kets of fruit, ‘We came in for a mixture of teas, and we will stick to that, else we go bank- rupt sampling all these tasty-looking things. We ask for 12 ounces of Oolong, 2 of Young Hyson, and 2 of Gunpowder, Even the unmitiated will recognize a mixture of black and green here, ‘The elderly gentleman dressed for a party informs us, with something of pity in his voice, that the store has no Young Hyson. We gather, although he does not say so, that Young Hyson is rather on the store’s blacklist. We end by taking 12 ounces of Oolong and 4 of Gunpowder, as the gentleman thought we would all along. He smiles, We smile. We have met his approval, and we feel better, Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands m is the equivalent on the average to f a dozen German papers, as regards circulation, size and influence, Some German dailies do not have a circnla~ tion equal to that of a respectable par- ish magazine. Owners of them are some- times editors, chief reporters, composi- tors and machine hands, all in one. There are hundreds of village new. sheets in Germany, vet the newspaper- reading public is much greater in Eng- land than in Germany. * Kk ¥ Mexico to Provide Free Marriage Ceremonials, El Universal. Mexico City.—Entirely without fees or charges of any sort will be the marriages solemnized this year before local tribunals of the civil re try in the federsl district. | parties to a matrimonial union will sim. ply meet together before one of these | civil courts, and be duly united at the 1Puhll¢ expense. This innovation is ex- pected to be of particular benefit to | poor people, many of whom have dis- | pensed with this formality altogether in the past because of the assessments de- manded for the papers, etc. Besides these free marriages, func- tions will be ratified by government offi- cers at the home of one of the uniting parties, at & time suiting the official con- venience, for 30 pesos (about $15), and weddings within the federal district, at extraordinary or special hours, will be authorized and confirmed at a charge of 60 pesos. * kxR “Clergymen Fiddle ‘While Church Burns.” Weekly Scotsman, Edinburgh—C. E. M. Joad, the author and commentator, speaking at Cambridge before the Na- tional Students’ Union, painted vividly the failure of religion to hold its in- fluence with the young people of this generation. Mr. Joad said, in part: “Clergymen fiddle while the church burns. Churchmen are absorbed in con- troversies over dogmatic matters of no interest to laymen. The times admit- tedly are difficult, but when people seek consolation in reliigion they ard regaled with arguments over reservation, and patter about aumbries (lockers in churches for vestments, vessels and the like). Science professes to have no bear- ing on the spiritual truths of religion, but even without this interference the spiritual truths of Christianity are tangled up in a mass of absurd and obsolete forms and liturgies that repel those who would be glad to grasp the truth in its essence and purity. “Many young men and women find it impossible to accept the old-fashioned view of religion. While they might ac- cept a religion shorn of all its useless and ceremonial incumbrances, they do not care to embrace creeds in which so many trivial points are emphasized to the exclusion of the vital truths alone possessing a saving grace. “It seems unlikely that the present decline in organized religion will be ar- rested. Christianity, in fact, in its tra- ditional form, will not soon recover its influence. Meanwhile, a generation is frowing up to maturity which is to 11 ntents and purposes without religion. They do not believe, they do not want to Helieve, and the subject with all its hair-splitting canons, tenets an.. doc- trines, bores them. This new generation, however, will have to fill for itself, in some way, the vacuum it has made in its life and thought.” * K K K y Be Electrified. B C, Madrid—A commission of the Empresa Central Electrica (Central Electrical Co.) is inspecting the entir railway system of the Perrocarriles del Sur de Espana (Southern Spain Rail- road), with a view to changing the mo- tive power from steam to electricity. A commission of the Chamber of Com- merce also is leln?nplr! in the inspec- tion with a view ucennnu?- low the freight and passenger tariffs will dex”the prolect of slechien) bperstion T roject o trical jon, ‘which, Aghr & cost of installation, cheaper than steam. g - Why Genius Is Rare. From the Buffalo Evening Ne ‘Why is genius rare? Well, if foxes rabbits, they'd run Spanish Railwa; Ma A over | were short With regret we pass up the jars, the | fimuon would force itself to the Rg‘ei: el tor Fess of hio, of the blican Na- uanfommlmwmm g ect that g; icans ve to espouse m of the eighteenth amendment and not straddle on the issue, in the 1932 campalgn, set off the fireworks. chairman of the G. O. P. national or- ganization. That, of course, is no way for them to get rid of Mr. Fess. In the first place, it is evident that Chair- man would not resign under such a barrage from the wets. And as for his being removed—that is quite as much out of the question. * k% % Furthermore, if Mr. Fess should be eliminated from the picture at this time as chairman of the Republican National Committee, who would be selected in his place? Would he be a wet or dry? To deliberately replace Mr. Fess with a wet Republican would be like throwing a ton of dynamite into & situation that already has enough pit- falls for the Republicans. It appears that by demanding the resignation of Mr. Fess, Representative Britten of Illi- nois, wet Republican leader the House, has fastened the chairman to his job. It is a job that Mr. Fess did relinquish after the campaign now closed. He was drafted to take the chairmanship of the National Commit- tee after the Claudius H. Huston episode. * ok ok % The Republican drys from Western and Middle Western States are hoping for something to turn up to take the minds of the public off the wet and dry issue by the time the presidential elec- tion rolls around in 1932, ‘Some of them frankly admit they do not know what the position of the Republican party will be or should be in this prohibition issue. But they are hoping that business conditions will improve, unemployment will diminish and that other issues will blot the liquor problem from the picture before the next Republican national conven- tion is held to draft a party platform and nominate a presidential candidate. The demand for the resignation of wets, recalls vividly the demand by drys, notably Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy in the Wilson administration, for the resigna- tion of John J. Raskob, the wet chair- man of the Democratic National Com:. mittee. Mr. Raskob, it may be men. tioned, is still on the job. EE Unless all signs are wrong; the Dem- ocrats are to nominate for President in 1932 a man who favors repeal of the | eighteenth amendment, or, at least, the modification of the present national dry laws in marked respect. But when it comes to writing a platform dealing with the liquor question, the Demo- crats, in national convention, are head- ed for sure trouble. The States of the South, the Democratic traditional &tronghold, have not yet abandoned their prohibition stand. The writing of the prohibition plank, if there is to be one, will surely afford the Democrats plenty of excitement two years hence, whether they meet in; sunny South, the arid wm’or‘uu‘ "lt East. i Sendtor Millard E. Tydings of Mary- land, chairman of the Democratic Sen- atorial Committee, came a good deal nearer to winning for his party an ac- tual majority of the Senate than many persons believed péssible. TUnder his leadership the Democrats made a net gain of eight seats in the Senate, and they will have 47 seats to 48 for the Re- publicans and 1 for the Farmer-] party when the next Con; meets. The Maryland Senator, & ‘worker and aggressive, has received many con- gratulatory telegrams letters for the work done by his and himself during the campaign now closed. Tydings is only 40 years old. When the United States entered the World War he enlisted as a private, He left the Army at the close of the war as a lieutenant colonel. Practically all of the money con- tributed to the Democratic Senatorial Committee was distributed by Senator Tydings to the States where the Demo- crats were waging real battles for the election of Senators. Expenditures were made in 14 States and in 10 of these States Democratic Senators were elected. A pretty fair batting average, especially when victories were obtained in such strongly Republican States as Ohio and Mlinols and in West Virginia and Massa- chusetts, The recent campaign is not Senator | Tydings’ first experience in conducting senatorial campaigns. In 1928 he was chairman of the Senatorial Committee, too, and also of the speakers’ bureau. Despite the Hoover landslide in that vear, the Democrats elected Senators in Arizona, New York, Washington, Virginia, Utah, Tennessee, Nevada, Massachusetts, Montana and Wyoming. All of these States cast their electoral votes for Mr. Hoover except Massachu- setts. Edwin A. Halsey acted as secre- tary and treasurer of the Democratic Senatorial Committee and as ald to Senator Tydings in both the 1928 and 1930 campaigns. * ¥ k% Representative “Jack” Garner of ‘Texas, Democratic leader of the House, must look elsewhere for support for the speakership in the next Congress than from Representative Harry M. ‘Waurzbach, also of Texas, but a Repul lican. Wurzbach has been given & | rough ride in the past by the Republi- can State organization of the Lone Star State, dominated by Republican Na- tlonal Committeeman R. B. Creager. But this does not incline him to vote for Garner for Speaker, even if his vote could place Garner in the Speaker's chair. With the House so evenly d vided, 218 Republicans, 216 Democrats and 1 Farmer-Labor, the desertion of the Republicans by Wurzbach in the vote on the speakership might be a when the new Congress L ‘Wurzbach, the sole Republican | elected to Congress from Texas, ‘won | his sixth battle in his district for elec tion to the House. He wins throu Democratic as well as Republican vote But this year he had strong opposition from the Democratic leaders of the | state, including Senator Tom Con- | nally and Senator Morris Sheppard, who made speeches against his re- election. Garner did the same. Bo Mr. Wurzbach feels no urge to desert the Republican fold in order to put a Texan in the Speaker’s, chair. * oK ok % Former Senator J. “Ham” Lewis, who recently defeated Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mc- Cormick for the Senate seat now held about the prohibition tangle. He be- | lieves, 1t appears, that the States have | the right, under the constitutional amendment, to fix by their own laws | what shall be the alcoholic content in | beverages manufactured and sold with- |in their borders. The Illinois Senator, who is now at Atlantic City resting up after his strenuous campaign, insists , the second section of the eighteenth amendment gives the right to the States | to concur in enforcement of prohibition, provided it is done by the enactment of appropriate legislation, section, Mr. Lewis maintains, the indi- vidual States are permitted to fix the alcoholic content used within their borders. He says that he expects to bring this matter to the at- Senate again. He claims to have had a hand in writing the second section of not crave and one that he expected to | than one-half of 1 serfous affair for Nicholas Longworth | poth the face of France and Italy—he | says | by Senator Deneen, has his own ideas | di the elghteenth amendment when was in ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. to | The wets are aiready demanding & new | w, Q. Has any one ever invented a me screen without any glare?—M. . A. Demonstration of the Ortho- Krome, a new screen with a mud surface sald to eliminate l"c’ ), Was made._before cinema technicians front view from any angle in the thea- ter up to 80 degrees. Q. How many gifted children are there in the schools? How many of these receive adequate training?—F. T. A. According to a survey made by the White H Conference on Child Health and tection, there axe 1,500,000 gifted children of superior in- telligence in public and private schools of the Unit is is mately 6 per cent of the sch lation. these only 4,000, o developed to their Aul um’b‘l{l‘u:l%‘ e e y Soecial lasses: o Q. Where is the celebration in honor in of e to be held? Please give the of this drug.—P. A. 4 The tercentenary of the first use of quinine was held in St. Louls at Shaw’s Garden October 31 and Novem- ber 1. The earliest well authenticated instance of the medicinal use of cinchona bark is found in 1638, when the Countess of Chinchon (hence the name), the wife of the Governor of Peru, was cured of an attack of fever by its administration. The medicine was recommended in her case by the dor of Loxa, who was said to have practically fixnerlencod its su- Mr. Fess, now voiced by Republican | p,, istration of the bark by a South American In- dian. Q. What is the origin of the word “supercilious”?—N. A. J. A, In Latin, super (over) plus cillum (eyelid) formed supercilium, meaning eyebrow. Because raising the eyebrows b ;eh:rdnnm Mtnm m’k:y man, su came to mean e and supercilious, “eyebrowish,” came to mean haughty, arrogant. Directly from this Latin word comes our own super- Q. Who was Momus?—H. T. " 01;1 ridicule, ke “l:ldmmm“u mockery cel - !’i.i was finally expelled from Olympus. . Who were the men named by George Bernard Shaw as the makers of the universe?—R. G. A. In chronological order they are Aristotle, Ptolemy, c'g;' Kepler, Newton and - How miich money has been spent 1n' i g T Tan L A8 yomat are mnMyxsum have a tax on gasoline? A Since 1919 car owners have pald a ‘total of $1,470,463,654 in gas taxes, which by every State. stein. 1929, Q. How long has it been the practice | States enough game to supply the colony for nearly & week. itality was ex- tended to Massasoit, who accepted and brought 90 people with him.” Q. What is a telephone ?—R.P. P, A. Telephone companies divide cities into sections, each with several thou- sand telephone subscribers. Each sec- a_telephone city, has its own central office and a name, such as “Co- lumbia” or “Potomac,” to d-?.‘o 1. When & number is called that is within the same telephone city, the connection is made in local central. number is called telephone city, the o tw’{hoa ‘rgkthum o 'll!'phm‘: a central office e proper city. There connection is made with the subscriber wanted. . _What does “recover the ashes” mean?—H. A. B, A. It means to win in return contest after a previous defeat. It is derived from the mock epitaph published by the Sporting Times on the final defeat of the English cricket tralians—“English cricket * ¢ * st ‘The theory that early settlers may have given the bright, warm days of Autumn the f Indian are Twenty-one States increased the tax in | use and 700,000 farms in the United electric power. American -Influence Lauded In Arms Discussion Abroad The efforts of Ambassador Gibson, American envoy to Belgium, to assist France and Italy in their naval con- luminates trovy P the value and dig- nny"o?the role the United States is :‘hmg in world affairs in the opinion | to encourage &IMO& warmth of American smtude toward rsonally, layed by boththcrrzgch and | this in tions, is ized in N “The United States, which Mr. Gibson represents diplomatically and at the of Natlons Disarmament Com- mission, cannot be interpreted as hav- ing any selfish interests in the Medi- terranean, where Italian and French ambitions clash. Thus the ‘kground of the arbitrator, as well as his own capabilities, gives that the greatest present obstacle to European the Italo-French jealousy, may The Kansas City Star re- calls that 1t was Hugh Gibson who, last | the Baltimore year, made “the n that led to the London Naval duced the only toward armament effected the commis- sion came into existence.” But st that conference France and Italy refused to become signatories to the treaty which was'the result of the negotiations, and for this reason the effort is again being made to have them compose their erences, On point, the Providence Evening Bulletin says: “If Ambassador Gibson can dis- cover a formula to overcome the ticklish business of parity—in other words, save his- toric importance. For if France and Italy sign the London treaty in all the clauses, one of the sore and danger spots of Europe will be removed.” * ok %k Discussing the subject vigorously, the Hartford Daily Courant says e friendly efforts of Mr. Hugh S. Gibson, the Ambassador to Belgium, to bring about a settlement of the dispute be- tween France and Italy over naval af- fairs cannot be described as unwas ranted interference in the affairs of other nations. The United States,” it insists, “is directly interested in the differences _which have prevented France and Ttaly from agreeing upon a policy of naval limitation. Until the lifferences are reconciled, London naval treaty will lack the adherence of the continental naval powers and will thus remain an incomplete instrument,” this journal concludes. The Manchester Union, too, agrees that “the value of the London pact is conditioned upon the action of the Prench and Italian governments. These conditions render it imperative,” it goes say, “that the it signatories of the pact shall leave no opportunity untried bring these two nations will have accomplished a work Under this | is, the tention of Congress when he enters the | his =E§§§Eé! As a matter of of defense for either Fre not the dreadnaught, *the the submarine,” says Chronicle, but, rather, “it is the feeling on the part of both peoples that citizens of the other country are neigh- bors and friends. When such has been developed, it will not matter to either which has the greater num- ber of ships,” reasons this paper. * ok ox ‘That both these countries “would ey hw 1;“ inher - rgely are immediate -war period,” is the con- tention of San Antonio Express. As Sun points out: “A set- tlement of the naval question the first place, dispose of the conven- il el i e lu n naval re- duction must come first. In the second this | mere of Mr. Gibson, the of the former: is Inclined only to war talk. dictator with whom it is deal.” .. We, 0o, wish pari have to build,” NGt pessimistic note S 3 cinnati Times-Star remarks: “About the only tangible result that may be awaited from the Geneva conversa- further c!nmn: tion :‘:' the o:- stacl disarmament on Conti- e B . And they would then < Py