Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1930, Page 46

THE EVENING STAR —With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY......December 14, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Edito The Evening Star N per Company Lt st and Pennsyivania Ave New Yo E hiva Bal l’jg:. Cake Mic Hd.lurm St.. Lon England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. +4; 2 - 45¢ Der month 3 60c per month 3 Bune (when 5 Sunday: “65¢ per month THe Bundas Biat . “5¢ jection made at the e 3 T8 may be sent in by mail Ational 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgin s and Sunday All Other States and Canada. d 8 i . %fl:fln’mi Member of the Associated Press. Associated Press is exclusively entitled use for republication of all - tches credited to it or not oth B MMH m‘n‘ ’f’“filfldl hs. Y ’ui.""u""i ul erein. rights of publication of &pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. X mo., 5.00; 1 mo.. House Versus Senate. The battle over President Hoover's emergency relief legislation program, raging for several days in the Senate, has apparently entered a new phase. ‘The Senate, having revised the Presi- dent's program to suit itself, now finds itself face to face with the House. It is one thing to defy the President, but quite another thing to compel the House to accept the Senate's will. The House is backing up the President, who has charged certain members of Congress, apparently members of the Senate, with ! proposing raids on the Federal Treas- ury for relief of unemployment and the drought, raids intended to make political capital. Instead of accepting the Sen- ate amendments to its emergency ap- propriation bill for governmental con- struction work, the House has turned them down and sent the bill to con- Zference. One of the Senate amendments takes away from-the President the right to aliocate the money provided to the va- rious projects for river and harbor im- provement, highway construction, flood relief work, etc., as need demands. This Sseems a particularly stupid amendment, brought about in part by the resentment of the Senators whose feelings were ruffied the other day when Mr. Hoover issued a statement charging that some of them were “playing politics at the expense of human misery.” The Demo- cratic New York World, which cannot conceivably be called a supporter of Mr. ‘Hoover, says editorially: “The result—of the Senate’s amendment—is thoroughly unsatisfactory. An essential factor in any effective system of emergency relief is flexibility of funds. This flexibility the Senate has destroyed, apperently |ODe of the independent Republicans who reason except to show that it quite as angry as the President.” thing to be angry and an- méke mistakes. The Senate & mistake. It is the part of House to rectify it. President Hoover recommended to the Congress that a sum of $25,000,000 be set up for relief of the drought-stricken aress of the country. The Senate has put through a bill for $60,000,000. The House is about to consider & measure for $30,000,000, laying aside the Senate bill for its own. Here again the Senate and the House may come into violent con- tions originate in the te may block legisla- ‘will not agree to the spproved by the House. But blocking legislation designed to relieve suffering from unemployment and drought is not likely to be popular threughout the country. Prof. Einstein is the recipient of sincere but embarrassing compliment ‘when asked to explain his ideas. It is estimated that half a dozen persons are competent to understand them. This half dozen might be organized into & corps of instructors who would, by an “endless chain” system, render other instructors competent to convey the. coveted information to the general public. An Unbeatable Combination. The unbeatable combination of luck and skill bobbed up last Tuesday and to 1t & score of persons probably owe their lves. It came as the official opening to & mew passenger airplane service be- tween Atlanta and New York and it sugurs well for the future operations of the line. Eighteen persons and a crew of two left Washington in a big two- motored transport ship for the cere- monies of the Georgia terminal. Two stops were made en route, one at Greensboro, N. C., and the other at Spartansburg, 8. C. It was after the second stop that old Lady Luck first peered into the cozy inclosed cabin. None of the passengers except one was aware of the fleeting visit of fortune. They were enjoying themselves hugely and knew that the end of a delightful air trip was only an hour and one-half away. ‘The passenger that the Goddess o(! Luck brushed past as she vanished from | mind was, however, an air-minded and observant young man. His post was next to the pilot's compartment, where sat a fiyer who was to be the other fac- tor in the unbeatable combination. The passenger casually glanced out of the window. What he saw might well have not been apparent to a person without specialized knowledge of aircraft con- struction, but its significance was not lo6t on him. One of the huge landing ‘wheels was loose in its strut, an unusual mishap, but one fraught with danger. He wasted no time, but quickly notified | have been considered in the arrange- ture star?” the pilots of the predicament. And now the skill takes its place with danger of a normal landing under the circumstances. The chief pllot knew what he had to do and likewise lew that it was one of the most difficult c | Near-tragedy into a slight mishap. membered that one of Col. Lindbergh's few accidents was brought about by the same cause and that the colonel, land- ing his light plane on its one good wheel and tail skid, suffered a broken arm in the crash. So, all in all, it was the good old combination of luck and skill that saved the passengers and pilots from injury or death on the now famous trip. Luck that the passenger was versed in the intricacies of airplane construction and that he was sitting in the particular position that enabled him to observe the trouble. Nine out of ten other men or women might never have noticed it and a normal landing under the circumstances would have been potentially fatal. Skill because the pilot was able, even with the terrific handi- cap of a heavy ship, to put it down with damage only to the plane. Many other pilots might not have been able to ac- complish it. It was a great combina- tlon, indeed, that co-operated to turn a ‘When Democrats Fall Out. President Hoover's appointees to the new Federal Power Commission have been heard by the Senate Interstate Commerce Commission, which is con- sidering the nominations. Action on the nominations may be taken by the committee Monday. In the cases af two of the appointees, contest in the committee is the aftermath of political Tows among the Democrats in Loulsi- ana and North Carolina. Marcel Gar- caud of New Orleans, appointed by the President as one of the minority party members of the commission, is opposed by Gov. Huey Long, recently elected Senator of Louisiana. Gov. Long sent emissaries to appear before the com- mittee yesterday in opposition to Col. Garcaud. The other minority party member of the commission selected by the President is Frank R. McNinch of Charlotte, N. C., who opposed the elec- tion of Alfred E. Smith, Democratic nominee for President in 1928. The Democrats in North Carolina who re- mained regular in that election are seeking in every way to prevent con- firmation of the appointment. Mr. Mc- Ninch told the committee that he voted for President Hoover in 1928, but sup- ported all the rest of the Democratic ticket that year, including the candi- date for Congress. He classes himself as an “independent Democrat.” Whether President Hoover can ap- point an “independent Democrat” to the Power- Commission and get away with it remains to be seen. The late President Woodrow Wilson appointed several “independent Republicans” to Federal commissions as Republicans who in 1912 did not support Mr. Taft, Republican nominee for Presi- dent. Indeed, one of Mp, Wilson's appointees, Edward Costigan, placed upon the Tariff Commission as & mi- nority party member, was at that time l l did not favor the Taft candidacy, but did favor Mr. Wilson. Mr. Costigan is now Senator-elect from Colorado, where he made the race as a Democrat. Democrats in the Senate take the posifion that President Hoover is in duty bound to appoint the regular Democrats to the Power Commission. It has been pointed out, however, that the law does not state that Democrats or Republicans shall be appointed, but merely restricts the appointments to not more than three of the same po- litical party. Mr. McNinch asserts em- phatically that he has been a Demo- crat all his life until the bolt in 1928, when he supported Mr. Hoover. He went into the Democratic senatorial primary this year and voted for Sena- tor Simmons. He admitted that in the general election he did not vote for the Democratic nominee for Sen- ator, Josiah W. Bailey, who had de- | feated Senator Simmons, and also that he voted for Representative Jonas, Re- publican member of the House from his congressional district. So far as the remainder of the ticket was con- cerned, he voted Democratic, he told the committee. His support of Mr. Jonas was support given to an old friend. He did not campaign for him. ‘Under the terms of the law it appears clear that President Hoover, if he so desired, might appoint three Repub- licans, one Farmer-Laborite and one Socialist to the Power Commfssion. It remains to be seen whether the dom- inant factor in the Democratic party in North Carolina, represented by Senator- eiect Bailey, is to be successful in its contest to prevent the confirmation of Mr. McNinch. The same situation ex- ists with regard to the Louisiana ap- pointment. Huey Long has reached out to stop the confirmation of Garcaud, a political foe. e A cheaper street rallway fare for school children may mean many car- loads of civic intelligence for the future. N Traffic at the Zoo. It is altogether probable that the bison, the elk, the bears and the yak have quit gossiping about the new reptile house at the Zoo this morning and are feverishly discussing the diffi- culties that confront the completion of; the Rock Creek-Potomac driveway be- | cause of the ciosing off of that portion | of the drive that runs through their ! own reservation. One of these difficul- ties is that heavy traffic through the Zoo, especially at night, would keep the animals awake. The animals at the Zoo are naturally pleased that, of all the inhabitants of the District of Columbia who have no voice in the government of their own affairs, they, | and they alone, are about the only ones | whose rest and sweet repose at night | ment of trac highways. | | But it is altogether probable that Dr. | Mann is more concerned Wwith the| physical difficulties of handling traffic within the reservation of the Zoo- logical Park than he is about the re-| sulting disturbance to the sleep of the animals. The animals at the Zoo, like, their human friends, may get used to| pieces of airmanship known to fiyers. He must bring his big ship down on the tall wheel and the remaining good . It had never been done suc- cessfully before with so heavily loaded nerves, and with superb dell- his craft down on the rough although the landing gear was up through one of the motors «right wing badly damaged as & ground loop, not a single Jbore when 1 1 re- it in time and be able to sleep through | the clang and the clatter of automo- biles. But there is a real problem connected with traffic through the Zoo. ‘The new road south of the Zoo that lows Rock Creek as far as Massachu- setts avenue, is a fine, wide highway. THE SUN‘iE)AY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 14, 1930—PART TWO. congestion within the Zoological Park can easily be imagined. One of the purppses pf the Rock | Creek-Potomac parkway 8 %o offer an unimpeded boulevard that skirts the city traffic and in future will permit a relatively free run from the Maryland suburbs beyond Sixteenth street to Potomac Park. In addition to a scenic drive, it offers the advantages of a boulevard. Dr. Mann's refusal to lift the blockade that now prevents use of that part of the connecting parkway now completed will serve the useful purpose of center- ing public attention on the trafic prob- lem in the Zoo—a problem that will be, of course, satisfactorily solved in time, either by construction of a new road, which is already planned but not appropriated for, or by widening the Zoo road. s Einstein, One of the sprightly accounts of Prof. Albert Einstein’s arrival in New York last Thursday began as follows: “Surrounded by & small mob of reporters, publicity men, photogra- phers and movie operators in the drawing room of the liner Belgenland, which brought him here from Ant- werp for his second visit to the United States in ten years, Prof. Einstein was called upon within the brief quarter of an hour to define the fourth dimension in one word, state his theory of relativity in one sentence, give his views on prohibi- tion, comment on politics and re- ligion, and discuss virtues of his violin. He was also ested to answer many other quest , some of which he took seriously, but most of which he parried with a jest. He faced the interview bewildered, but with good nature.” ‘The American people are confident— they at least sincerely hope—that the eminent German mathematician, whose mind works in terms of immeasurable time and space, does not mistake his tumultuous welcome at New York for just another circus greeting to a celebrity by our paper-throwing me- tropolis. It is far more than that. It has a deep and a significant meaning. It denotes the very lively interest that is felt in this country in science*and all its inscrutable wonders and mysteries. The theory of relativity is, of course, millions of miles beyond the grasp of the average American. He is not con- cerned with it per se. What does fas- cinate the average man, woman and child is the consciousness that in Al- bert Einstein there has come to our shores a person whom posterity may rank with Aristotle, Copernicus and Newton—among whom G. Bernard Shaw, indeed, has already stationed him. Because Americans feel that Ein- stein’s place among the world’s im- mortal and truly great is already as- sured, they are devouringly concerned in all he is and says and does. He must be prepared for a continuance in crescendo of our keen enthusiasm over him. It i a form of hero-worship that reflects a worthy appreciation of brain at the hands of a Nation a little too prone now and then to glorify mere brawn. = ————— Some Congressmen remember their Bible as well as the United States Constitution, and in discussing the pay of Government workers believe that the laborer is worthy of his hire. Awarding the Nobel prize is a ceremonial process which calls upon an author to forget his “Main Street” and assume dignities befitting the oc- casion. ———— The Senate is compelled to admit that United States statesmanship has an abundance of things to worry about besides the eighteenth amendment. ———at- Economic conditions have attained a degree of industrial complication that can no longer be measured off by the ticker tape in the stock broker's office. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Misnomer. There comes a substance very strange About this time of year Whose name they surely ought to change. They call it “Christmas cheer.” Nobody seems to know at all ‘What its ingredients are. They're possibly wood alcohol And kerosene and tar. They have decided it's a sin ‘These human lives to waste. 8o they will put some garlic in, Which should improve the taste. But what brings forth a serious sigh And seems surpassing queer, It is this great baffling question: “Why Is it called ‘Christmas cheer'?” Favorite Sport. “What is your favorite sport?” “Miniature golf,” answered Senator Sorghum. “It makes me think of some of these investigations in which so much ingenuity is shown in devising some new twists that will make the game of poli- tics just a little bit harder.” Jud Tunkins says the airplane gets you where you're goin’ at tremendous speed, even if it happens to be the next world. Grand ’l‘;lnllor-tlol. And 50 the good old story goes, As politics a spell extends, They who were friends have turned to | wh, foes, And, later, foes are seen as friends. Modern Art. “How do you like being a motion pic- “Pirst rate,” answered Cactus Joe. “It makes you glad you was once & cowboy where you could think undis- turbed and develop ideas on real modern art for the benefit of the public.” “We are all myths in some degree,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “as we disguise ourselves and our feelings in order to appear apart from common hu- manity.” Business Expert. We look for business brisk because ‘The Christmas present brings good cheer And Santa Claus wins our applause As a successful financler. At the Zoo boundary it connects with | the relatively narrow road that for years Das served the purpuses of carrylug traffic through the grounds. The Zoo & tcratch. The splendid | road is too narrow to accommodate the | son, dat when you hides away f'um to accomplish this traffic that will be routed over the Rock goin’ to school, e b secied “Dar is a lgap o' folks,” said Uncle Eben, “dat never did learn to read an’ write. Every one of 'em will tell you, you ain’ doln’ gohse’t no 2 COST OF ATTAINMENT BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. P, " Bishop of “Work out your own life; for it iz God that worketh in you.”—Phil- ippians, 1.12,13. Attainment of any sort is & costly thing. Shortly before his death in an interview with the late Chief Justice Taft the question was asked as to what he traced his own remarkable career. With characteristic modesty, he an- swered the query by quoting the aphor- ism: “A man gets out of life precisely what he puts into it.” He then went cn to say to the young interviewer, in tracing his career as well as the careers of other men, that he had always observed attainment of any Kkind was bought at a high price. This is made evident in any study of those whose lives have measurably achieved the thing they sought. From the beginning to the end to at- tain distinction, or even to reach the higher levels, calls for painstaking study and self-imposed discipline. “There 8 no royal road to knowledge.” We may wish to secu'~ a place of advantage of one kind or :no'‘her, but preparation is two-thirds of t1e battle. If prepared- ness is good -r 1/ 2 Nation, it is better for the indiv.aual. The artist must needs spend long hours in the study of the masters. The writer must needs study those whose genius has been widely recognized. The athlete who would fit himself for the contest must endure hardness and follow rules of ab- stinence and self-control that fit him for the struggle. The musician, even thnu{‘h he have the genius of a Pade- rewski, cannot relax if he would hold his public. There are no exceptions. All forms of attainment in any sphere have their price, and it is & h . There are no easy byways that lead to distinction of any sort. Now and again we discover one whose natural genius fits him to adjust himself to certain op- portunities, but he is the exception and not the rule. The development of character, like the development of any other gift or quality of mind, is conditioned; it is not attained simply beeause we wish for it. Aspiration is an indispensable ele- ment in it, but aspiration is fulfilled Washington. only in so far as we obey the rules. Writing to his young converts, the great apostle tells them that salvation, which is the attainment of life here as well as hereafter, is a thing that calls for work. It may be a laudable thing to “To be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease,” but the gospel plan of attainment does not contemplate such a method. Much has been said and written—too much— concerning a ‘“‘comfortable gospel.” No reading that we have done, no experi- ence or observation that we have had sustains such a conviction. The gospel way, as conceived by Christ, is an ex- acting one. It calls for something more than creedal profession, something more than an act of worship occasion- ally indulged in. We know of nothing that calls for more of self-imposed dis- cipline, self-sacrifice and persistent ef- fort than that which lea nt of Christian character. The proof of the value of Christian faith and practice is inevitably disclosed in what it produces in the way of re- If to be a Christian does not mean to differentiate us from those who are governed by no such rules of conduct, then it is a thing valueless and unworthy of our high en- deavor. Conversion, that marks a transition in life, may be an abnormal experience; it may be identified with a definite period; but conversion means more than a turning about. It means the assiduous and unchanging prosecution of a new way of life. Conversion rightly conceived is a process that has a be- ginning, but has no climax until the end of the way is reached. It is an evolution, an unfolding, a maturing and ripening of character. That this evo- lution contemplates an obligation is clearly evident. The element of hope in the apostle’s dictum is in the words “It is God which worketh in you.” The implication of this is that in the out- working of the fine things of character we may have the assurance of divine assistance. Life rightly conceived is partnership with God. Co-operation That Embarrasses Is Manipulated by Democrats BY WILLIAM HARD. “Tempestuous teapots” would be a fairly accurate description of the legis- lative politics of this congressional session down to the present week end. Such a summary would cover all the furores over both of the main pieces of emergency legislation—the drought relief bill and the unemployment relief bill. In both cases the scope and cost of the projects themselves are negli- gible, in comparison with the efforts being put forth by local governments and by private committeees of busi- ness men, while, on the other hand, the amount of politics produced out of them would seem sufficient to pro- vide palaver for a dozen presidential candidacies in 1932. Dispute Over $6,000,000. ‘The drought relief bill, which helped to draw forth the President’s fulmi- nation against “playing politics with human misery,” is at bottom a dispute over about $6,000,000. The adminis- tration and the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives want the appropriation in the bill kept down to $30,000,000. The Senate has d the bill with an appropriation of $60. 000,000. Numerous Democrats in_the House, led by Representative Aswell of Louisiana, wish to concur with the Senate. The difference between $60,- 000,000 and $30,000,000 is on the sur- face $30,000,000. In practice, as the bill would work, it is not. ‘The money is to be given to drought sufferers in the form of loans. The experience of the Federal Government with such loans is that 80 per cent of the money comes back. Twenty per cent—at the most—is lost. If, then, the appropriation in the present drought relief bill is to be $60,000,000, the ultimate cost to the Federal Gov- ernment will be only $12,000,000. If the appropriation is $30,000,000, the ultimate cost will be only $6,000,000. The difference between $12,000,000 and $6,000,000 is $6,000,000. This is the e?ulvllem of approximately one-third of the cost of each of the new six-inch- gun cruisers that we are going to build under the London Naval Limitation Treaty. Pinancially it is a flea-bite. Politically it is a meal for wild lions. It leads right on to the colossal question— colossal for the presidential politics of 1932: Is Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader of the Senate, really 5% rating” with President Hoover to save the country? Is and Is Not Co-operating. The answer is that he politically wisely is and politically wisely is not. This helpful fact has fully emerged to view in the course of the Senate’s con- sideration last week of the unemploy- ment relief bill. That bill has three {nr'.!: Ordinary roads, roads in national forests and in national parks, and rivers and harbors. For roads in national forests and in national parks it originally contained an appropriation of $4,500,000. By, amendment in the Senate this amount was increased by $8,000,000 to be de- voted to more roads in national forests and to roads on the general Federal landed domain and on Indian reser~ vations. These sums can be put to one side. They have only the most indirect rela- tion to unemployment. ‘The national forests, the national parks, the general Federal landed domain and the Indian Teservations are precisely where, gen- erally speaking, the unemployed are not. More may be anticipated on behalf of the unemployed from the appropria- Hon which the bill contains for or- dinary roads somewhere near the cen- ters in which the mass of the unem- wgcg th:.h 'I;l"lfi :pproprhtlon con- ed in e for such roads is $80,000,000. Many Senators complained that this appropriation represents - .act: contribution by the Federa! Govern- ment. They called it, and it is, only an advance, or loan, to the States. The States are to pay it all back h curtailments of their future allotments out of the Federal Government's regu- lar ordinary State-aid road funds. It simply permits the States to get_now at in any case they would get later. Its new ultimate cost to ral in- come taxpayers is nothing. The alleged stinginess and selfishness thus about to be exhibited by the Federal income taxpayers was vehemently denounced on the Senate floor by Democrats and by Republican insurgents, Then came two roll calls on motions to compel the Federal income taxpayers to carry the burden of all, or of half, of the proposed $80,000,000, which was said to be a tiny burden in' view of the alleged and established fact that the State and county governments of the country are now spending on roads the Aml of more than $1,500,000,000 an- nually. Democrats Saved Administration. On both roll calls the administra- tion itlon was to leave the burden on the States and counties and the anti-administration position was to put it upon the Federal Income taxpayers. On both roll calls the administration would have been defeated had it not been for Democrats. On the first roll call 10 Democrats and on the second roll call 8 Democrats took the admin- istration view of correct policy. For this reason, and for this reason the administration was victorious. ‘Thus “co-operation” triumphed. Sen- stor Robinson himself, however, on one of the two roll calls, was absent and on the other cast his vote against the saministration’s position. le Democratic political sue~ accordingly achieved. In the A doub! eess was first place, the Democratic senatorial leadership proved that it was not “dom- inated” by the Republican President. In the second place there was no “frustra- tion” of President Hoover's basic pro- gram and he was left to get all possible credit for it from the contented—and all possible blame from the discontented. What will now proceed to happen is fi;aclnly what_happened about the tar- . _Enough Democrats voted for the tariff in the Senate to pass it; and then the Democratic leadership used the pas- sage of it as a prime argument against the Republicans in the ensuing cam- paign. If that outcome was luck, it is repeating itself. The policy of the reg- ular Republicans in not coming further to the relief of the States in the matter of road building at this time has been brought to legislative success with the help of Democratic votes; and it will be used against the Republicans by the Democratic leadership in every State end in every county in 1932 as an as- serted proof of Republican bondage to Federal income-tax-paying millionaires. Remaining Part Unchallenged. The remaining part of the unemploy- ment relief bill—the part appropriating $25,500,000 for rivers and harbors, in the matter of navigation and in the mat- ter of flood control—went through the Senate unchanged and virtually unde- . It is the one part of the bill that represents both real additional ex- pense to the Federal income taxpayers |8nd real opportunity of enlarged em- | ployment. In cost, it is approximately equal to the emergency expenditures | now about to be made on new bufld- |ing_for unemployment relief by the ;!hroe universities, Harvard, Chi | and esota. The Democratic sena- | torial leadership did not join Senator | Shipstead of Minnesota in’ pressing for | immediate completion of our authorized | but procrastinatingly pursued gigantic | waterways plans. It remained with | President Hoover on the side of econ- |omy and cauties. It financially agreed | with him. Politically, it rescued the | country from his czaristic “despotism.” bill originally provided, for in- stance, that the President could take a million dollars assigned to the bill to bettering a road and could shift it to bettering a river, if the river plan seemed immediately more feasible than the road plan. This projected exercise of legislative power by the President was struck from his grasp by an amend- ment proposed by “Co-operator” Robin- son himself. The money must now be spent within the partitions legislatively :Imcunne:'. 1‘h§” Pmlder;f's ‘‘usurpa- ons" ve n challenged and checked. 5 In summary: The relief bills are providing a mini- | mum of Federal cost and a maximum [#f Democratic campaign argumentation without any Democratic responsibility for any actual grief to the Federal in- come taxpayers. Co-operatively and non-co-operatively, Senator Robinson ends the week a successful Democrat. (Copyrizht. 1930.) r——— Manufacturers Find Home Markets Best BY HARDEN COLFAX. The forelgn trade of the United States has not suffered materially from the depression which has existed in all countries since last October. But in | that interval the attitude of the United States has changed materially with re- gard to foreign trade. A year ago “Sell the surplus abroad” was slogan. To- day it is a bromide. can manufacturers and mer- chants have come 1> the conclusion that this country is uhe best and surest cus- tomer that any merchant can have. In- ual | stead of trying to develop new foreign markets, the trend has been to press sales in domestic markets and let the foreign trade go. This has been most apparent in the reports of foreign gov- ernmental representatives to the De- partment of ‘The radio m zlcucnlly obsolete sold in Europe, ‘where cmmflflvely few houses are wired for electricity. This worked out for a time, but these same radio manu- facturers found that an equal amount of sales effort devoted to local fields yielded sl’oflh which could not be ap- proached in foreign countries. Some radio manufacturers are opening Euro- pean factories and branches, but every one of them has been subsidized in one carrying the expense bag. The same thing upfllu to automobiles. ‘Two of the leading producers of au- iles have extensive foreign fac- tories. But their sales forces have not been able to report the same volume of business, relative to the investment in- curred, that the domestic factories have produced. The manufacturers are not abandon! the foreign field, but they are curtailing their expenses in foreign territory for they realize that the same money here will yield better returns. ‘The banking fraternity, both here and , is all excited over the move- ment of golds The producers of this are ignoring the movement of gol and are asking, “How about the mo ment_ of Gold is pegged at $20.67 an ounce and has been for years. This is & fictitious value, since in' most instances gold is produced in conjunc- tion with other metals and costs more than $20.67 to put into the mints. The Mg. old has been toward e o |ative in care of way or another, and some one else is| Poignai Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. ‘The organizations of veterans, the boys who “carried on” during the World War, are nothing if not loyal to those who have fought their battles in Con- gress and who have consecrated their best efforts to improve in every way ible the condition of those who elped to democracy.” For example—on Monday a banquet isto be given by the Yankee Division Club of Washington in honor of Representa- tive Willlam P. Connery of Massachu- setts, who was regimental color sergeant, serving 19 months in France, taking part in all major operations, engage- [ments and battles of the 101st Regi- ment Infantry of the Yankee Division. So he’s one of their own and they are about to honor him for his zeal to pro- mote all their interests with a banquet | in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps Country Club, in Arlington, Va. Then there's Representative Edith N. | Rogers, also of Massachusetts, who served overseas herself, was with the American Red Cross in care of the disabled and who was appointed personal represent- disabled veterans by Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, who has been known as * ler” by the maimed at Walter and who has been importuning | Congress for beneficlal legislation for the veterans. ‘The Disabled American Veter: the World War have named their chap. ter here in honor of Mrs. Rogers and | are to hold a reception for her in the | Stanley Hall of the U. S. Soidiers' | Home on January 7. Their preamble extolls in most grateful terms Mrs. s’ efforts in their behalf. is not the first time Congress- man Rogers has thus been honored. In Marlboro, Mass., the Girls Cadets of the Leg “hold the world safe for s of * Kok ok Herbert Putnam, librarian of Con- gress, has just called our attention to a very interesting old manuscript map of part of the District of Columbia, the most important transfer from the Toner callection to the division of maps in the Library. This is erroneously labeled Unfinished Plat of Mount Vernon Es- tate.” The librarian emphasizes that It may have been made at the request of George Washington by Peter Charles L’Enfant. This map is 41% inches wide and 26% inches high. It shows the shore. line and the drainage before they were modified by man and indicates by hachures the topographic features of that section of the National Capital south of Florida avenue. Ten of the original houses in the present Capital City are shown, nine of them by small red squares. The loca- tion of these houses appears to be in- dicated with more precision than on &ny other map that has been preserved. The houses were probably those of Rob- ert Peter, an unnamed neighbor, John Davidson, a resident of the Ppresent Le Droit Park; Benjamin Oden, an un- named neighbor, Daniel Carroll, William Young, the Widow Wheeler &nd the Wgow Young. atermarks on the paper indicate that 1"";:4 map was drawn between 1770 and The map displays certain features are sald to be cmwruzm of which L’Enfant’s plans at this . Qne of the most important features of the map is that it shows Massa. chusetts avenue as an essentially straight line, lacking the angle in the eastern part near the present Union Station, which is shown n the familiar L'Enfant plan of ml. and reaching the neighborhood of Rocl Creek Park farther north than on the L'Enfant plan. This is taken as proof that L'Enfant should be credited with initiating certain of the major changes in the L'Enfant plan, which have oc- caslonally -been attributed to Andrew Ellicott or some other of L'Enfant's suc- cessors, * ok ok ok As & testimonial of appreciation to the Library of Congress of the services of M. Martel in organizing the cata- logue work in the Vatican Library, ma- terial covering various subjects was pre- sented by the Vatican, among which were several items on canonical law. Pope Pius XI, also, through the apostolic delegate’in Washington, Mgr, P. Fumasoni Biondi, manifested grati- tude to the Library of Congress for the hospitality according to represéntatives of the Vatican Library while studying methods of cataloging in the Library of Congress, so that it might be installed in the Vatican Library. This second gift from the Vatican consisted of beautifully executed repro- ductions of 15 of the earliest papal charters, of which the originals are still extant in certain European libraries and archives. They are preserved in a handsome portfolio with the arms of Plus XTI on the front cover in gilt. * ok ok % ‘The National Capif various little Gover shops for skilled workmanship. One of the most interesting of these is the repair shop in the Library of Congress, conducted under authority of the Pub- jlic Printer. During the past year this shop repaired 63,595 manuscripts and trimmed 157,866 photostats and mount- ed for binding 9,785 rotograph sheets procured by the Modern Language As- soclation of America. There were also 201 books made up and delivered for binding, while 110 others were made ready for binding, though not yet de- ilvered to the bindery. The division of "manuscripts has made a special effort to complete into one chronological order the arrange- ment of the great collection.of Cleve- land papers and has completed this work nearly to the end of 1886. The material thus arranged for years pre- ceding 1886 has been mounted and pre- pared for binding. They will make at least 80 volumes. The entire collection will make at least 400. This is the next collection to be nd in chronological order in the presidential series. - ———— Is Con gress Balanced? From the Indianapolis Star. The President desires a balanced bud- get, which should not be so difficult with a delicately balanced Congress. is spotted with ent - operated Wwhich the rest of the world had to buy than they had things to buy which other countries had to sell. But the fact remains that the remainder of the world has not the money to buy the surplus produced by France and the United States. With this knowledge in view, the re- luctance of American manufacturers to adventure into foreign fields is thor- oughly explained. Foreign trade is a lessening factor, because America is its own best customer. This does not mean, of course, that, foreign developments can be overlooked by the American busi- ness ma The chief foreign development of the year has been the advent of Soviet Rus- sia into the commercial field. Probably no one in the world regretted more ntly the Communistic outburst ‘Which marked the opening of sS than the Russian government. t sovcrnment now_realizes that ritain and the United States are im- mune from pr'ggmnd. of the Commu- nistic sort. ese countries have at this moment three or four of their best minds in Russia—incidentally totally opposed to the Soviet plan—engaged in '-r{llng to analyze Russia’s problems and tell the Russians how the western world thinks. “The overthrow of world govern- ments” has fallen flat as a pancake. The Moscow authorities know it, and an appeal to the pocketbook. The; not call it a threat, but they have learned from their psychologists that only in a business way can an effect be produced. They figure that if they can gain world markets by ting they can ki them when price increases meet higher openunf This is the gravest danger which the foreign trade of the United States faces ) Great { hol the the President Hayes Congress is quite evidentl; to dation. cure legislation to carry out the im- provement is concerted Go trict. Macaulay’s Prophecy for the U. S. BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. In its potency to stir the American people into (m‘:etfulnm of their im- mediate woes no stimulant is equal to an open challenge to their institutions and a warning against their political birthright. With Congress just swing- ing into action, facing the worst eco- nomic situation experienced in a dec- ade, with Communism a perplexity to statesmen and an annoyance to police officers and with grumblings against the order of things generally heard in | the the land, the challenge of Lord Macau- lay is worth pondering. In a letter dated at London May 23, 1857, the British peer addressed to H. S. Randall of New York, author of & life of Thomas Jefferson, a prediction concerning the future course of Ameri- can affairs which contains uncomfort- able conclusions for readers nearly a century later. The letter reads, in part: “I am certain that I never wrote a line * ] the supreme ‘authority in a state ought to be intrusted to the majority of the citizens told by the head; in other words, to the poorest and most ignorant iry | part of society. I have long been con- vinced that institutions, purely demo- cratic, must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization or both.” ‘This is strong medicine, indeed, for the 100 per cent American bred up in the belief of the innate superiority of his national institutions. Lord Macaulay, however, presents a remarkable picture in support of his views. He says: “In Europe, where the population is dense, the effect of such institutions would be almost instantaneous. What. happened lately in France is an ex- ample. In 1848 a pure democracy was established there. ring a short time there was a strong reason to expect & general spoliation, a national bank- ruptcy, a new partition of the soil, a maximum of prices, a ruinous load of taxation lald on the rich for the pur- pose of supporting the poor in idleness. Such a system would, in 20 years, have made France as poor and as barbarous as the Prance of the Carlovingians. Happily, the danger was averted; and * * indicating the opinion that | heartily monstrous iniquity that one man should have a million, while another cannot get & full meal. In bad years there is plenty of grumbling here and sometimes a little rioting. But it matters little, for here the sufferers are not the rulers. G supreme power is in the hands of a class, i\dmerous indeed, but select, of an educated class, of a class which is and knows itself to be deeply in- terested in the security of property and maintenance of order. Accordingly, the malcontents are firmly yet gent! The bad time is got over restrained. without robbing the wealthy to relieve the indigent. The springs of national prosperity soon bekgl to flow again: work is plentiful; wages rise, and all is tranquillity and cheerfulness. * * ¢ “Through such seasons the United States will have to pass in the course of the next century 1f not of this. How will you pass through them? I wish you a good deliveran But my reason and my wishes are at war, and 1 cannot help foreboding the worst. It is guite plain that your government will never be able to re- strain a distressed ana discontented majority. For with you the majority is the Government, and has the rich, who are always a minority, absolutely at its mercy. Doubted Inteiligence of Electorate. “The day will come when in the State of New York, a multitude of tg:ople. none of whom has had more n half & by ast, or expects o have more than half a dinner, will choose a legis= lature. Is it e to doubt what sort of legislature will be chosen? On one side is a statesman preac! tlence, respect for vest n&m. observance of the public . On the other is a dema le ranting about the tyranny of capitalists and usurers and asking why anybody should be permitted to drink champagne and to ride in a carriage while thousands of honest pecple are in want of neces- saries? Which of the two candidates is likely to be preferred by a working- now there is a despotism, a silent trib- une, an enslaved press, liberty is gone, but civilization has been saved. I have not the smallest doubt that if we had a purely democratic government here the effect would be the same. Either the poor would &)lunder the rich, and civill- zation would perish, or order and pnm- erty would be saved by a strong mili- hrymh[ov!mment and liberty would perish, Foresaw Change in Economic Conditions. “You may think that your country enjoys an exemption from these evils. I will frankly own to you that I am of a very different opinion. Your fate I be- lieve to be certain, though it is defer- red by physical cause. As long as you have a boundless extent -of fertile and unoccupled land your laboring popul tion be far more at ease than th laboring population of the Old World, and while that is the case the Jeffer- sonian policy may continue to exist without ca any fatal calamity. n;‘aal:ndth:m uu:: will come when New n as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams. Hundreds and thou- sands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your in- stitutions will be fairly brought to the test. Distress everywhere makes the la- borer mutinous and discontented, and inclines him to listen with eagerness to agitators, who tell him that it is & man who hears his children cry for bread? “I seriously apprehend that you will, in some such season of adversity, do h will ity next year a year not of scarcity, but of absolute famine. There will be, I fear, spoliation. The spoliation will increase distress. The distress will pro- duce fresh spoliation. “There is nothing to stay you. Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. “When soclety has entered on this downward progress, either civilization or liberty much perish. Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barba- rians in_the twentieth century as the Empire was in the fifth; with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Em- pire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your country by your own institutions. | " “Thinking thus, of course, I cannot reckon Jeflerson among the benefac tors of mankind.' These words of so long ago, written by & man of humble n who rose by his own efforts to become a peer of the realm, have a curiously ominous ring when foreshadowings of so many of the things he mentions are falling over the United States toda; Fifty Years Ago In The Star In its issue of December 11, 1880, The Star made the following editorial -com- . ment on & new means Introducing o0 rapig transit which the Herdic. was shortly to be in- troduced in Washing- ton: - “It is announced that the Herdic coaches, such as have lately come into use in Philadelphia, are shortly to be introduced in Washington. If this be done, the public will doubtless be ac- commodated in some measure, and the business may be made reasonably profit- able. If, however, the Philadelphia plan of running them on streets occu- pied or partly occypied by horse cars, or only on stated routes, be adopted here, they will not meet the require- ments of our situation. The street car | bels, service of Washington is not like that of Philadelphia. Ours is as good and as cheap as that of any city in the country, and the interchange of tickets leaves very little ground of complaint on that score. What Was n needs, and what she is bound to have before long, is a good supply of light, strong one-horse vehicles, easy of entrance and exit, which will carry one or two per. sons, and a reasonable amount of bag- gage, cheaply and quickly to any part of the city—something, in short, an- Awe‘lln'lw the ';:‘:b lymmulg; London. It is strange 't our stable-keepers and hackney-carriage owners do not realize this want and take measures to meet it, before some outside parties come in and take the business out of their hands.” * * * “The question how to abate the nui- sance of the river front,” says The Star of : December 13, 1880, River Front “has been discussed Improvepent. ard rediscussed for half a century. It has been reported upon time and again by engineer commissions, and has been written upon to the extent of thousands of yards of newspaper columns by non- experts and theorists of all sorts. It would seem that every possible light had been thrown upon the question, and that we might now proceed to ac. tion. But no sooner does it seem possi- ble that the talk may be crystallized into the shape of work, and that Con- gress m: uthorize the reclama of the malarial flats, than the familiar tribe of objectors—the veteran ‘Old Men of the Sea,’ who have in the past fastened themselves upon the shoulders of every project of improvement—come to the front again with their eternal cloud of cavil against any definite plan proposed. ‘e submit on behalf of the long-suffering public that it is quite time these objectors should be sup- pressed, and that some plan of abating the river nuisance should be under- taken at once. If it proves inadequate ! When tested, let us try another; but in the name of civilization and ‘'modern progress, let us put an end to this eter- nal dawdling, and juvenile debating so- clety style of discussion, and do some- thing. As & course as any would be to ask Congress to auf the work to be done on the plans and under the direction of Government engineers. This would do away with the possibility that the work would get into the hands of , or men with impracticable would at the same time insure the ee_xo_:om!m:m d{;b}uument of money. e nec or reclaim- ing the Potomac marshes adjacent to Capital is conclusively set forth by in his . , and the mood the President’s recommen- that is needed now to se- follow uj Al bbies, | not listen to otherwise, of river improvementk he same energy that costs. characteriged thelr successful campaign in secu from Congress the equaliza- mi! eq! expenses between the MD“ vernment the people of the Dis- Berlin in Political Row OverWar FilmProduction BY DR. GUSTAV STOLPER, Noted German Editor and Economist. Berlin last week had a political film scandal such as it had never before experienced. The American-made version of Erich Maria Remarque’s German war novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” has been running for months in Anglo- Saxon countries and in Prance, with vast success everywhere, although the { English and Prench versions had to un- dergo many alterations out of consid- eration for national feelings. When the film reached Germany sev- eral days ago there were many misgiv- ings expressed concerning it, but the state censor made no protest against it. | At ‘its second showing, however, trouble arc It was instigated by the Na- tional Socialists, the German Fascists. Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler's chief of propaganda, Dr. Paul Goeb- , some dozen young Hitlerites at- tempted to prevent the showing of the film and the police were compelled to intervene. Stink Bombs Exploded. The demonstrations were repeated the following day, with stink bombs, white mice and snakes tossed into the theater, causing & panic among tators. There were also demonstrs ons in the streets, where the as the National Socialists are called,” organized mass meetings and proces- sions. The natural result was clashes with the police. The police chief issued & decree forbidding all gatherings and meanwhile the government intervened. Several German states—significantly not, at first, those in whose govern- ments the “Nazis” are represented, but Bavaria, Saxony and Wurttemberg—ap- mled to the state censorship board to the film. This department has the independent standing of a court. It requested briefs from the foreign office and the ministries of the interior and defense. All three ministers approved the prohibition of the film and cen- sors so decided. Hitlerites Continue Aggressive, However, this does not end the con- sequences of the episode for Germany's domestic politics. The ban on the greatly increase the inflated self- confidence of the Hitlerites, swelled by revimu successes. And they will let this test of their power be followed by others. In the last analysis, the battle of the “Nazis” s directed against Dr. Wirth, Federal Minister of the Interior. Dr. Wirth represents the Center party's Left Wing. He was chancellor when his friend, Walter Rathenau, was murdered and in his first dismay on hearing of this crime he uttered a phrase which has never been forgotten: “The enemy stands;on the Right.” Incurred Hate of Right Wing. Since then Dr. Wirth has been boundlessly hated by the Right Wi parties and this hatred was in when he maintained the decree of his Socialist predecessor barring the usual Reich’s grants of ald to the “Naa" ¥"Next 1o Foreun Minister Ourty e: ter lus, Dr. Wirth is the main target of the ex- treme Right Wing parties. His surren- der in the present film affair can re- lieve the tension only momentarily. By the end of January or the of February at the latest, the storm will break over the cabinet with renewed fury, unless Dr. Curtius from Geneva with some measure of success on the question of the wpruud Ger- man minority in Polish Upper Silesia. (Copyright. 1930.) Has Swell Switch, Too. Prom the San Prancisco Chronicle, Radio: A wonderful invention that enables you to hear things you would Foot Ball Interference. Prom the Janesville Daily Gazette. Those early-to-bed folks have had to l.vzneth!nl new since night foot ball n. ———— Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, nent-wolf is being bome ’