Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1930, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY......December 19, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th 8t and New York Office: Englan Rate by Carrier Within the City. Evenine Star. 8¢ per month ening and s 180c per month 66¢ per month Sc per copy nth Collection made @ end of each month. by mail or 'elephoneé i ders may be sent in fAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. d Virginia, -1 yr., $10. only 1y inday only * All Other States and Canad: Ir., $12.00; 1 m ly and Sunday..l ily only .. 1yrl $8.00: 1 m ay only L15r, $5.00; 1 m Member of the Associated Press, ‘The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled $o the use for republication of all tews Oig- atches o 1 o 15 Sifs baper and. aleo the Tocal Bews published herein. All rights of publication of svecial dispatches herein are also reserved. -— ‘Washington’s Adequate Taxes. A question put with persistent regu- larity to nearly every witness appear- ing before the House Fiscal Committee has been worded substantially as fol- Jows: “Do you believe the residents of the District ‘should have a tax burden comparable to the tax burdens of other ecities of like size?” Occasionally “tax rate” has been sub- stituted for “tax burden,” but one pre- fers to belleve the substitution is more | in the nature of a slip of the tongue than anything else. “Tax rate,” of course, is no measure of the tax bur- den. Without taking into considera- tion the rate of assessment, the tax rate alone i8 as meaningless & figure in econnection with the tax burden as is any other multiplier, used alone and ‘without mention of the multiplicand or the result. ‘The answer to the first question has been “Yes" and it is the correct and obvious answer. It might have been taken for granted in the first place, as no other answer could be substantiated on any reasonable grounds. But as in the case of the classic categorical ques- tion—"Have you stopped beating your wife?"—a categorical yes or no carries implications lending themselves easily to capitalization. It is to be believed that the committee has no intention of resorting to trick questions. The important question is whether the District is now adequately taxed and whether the residents of the Dis- trict already have a tax burden com- parable to other cities of like size. The only witness before the commit- tee who could qualify as an expert in comparative tax burdens has been Mr. Murphy of the Bureau of Efficiency. His testimony and the exhibits offered in the form of extensive tables and the report of the Bureau of Efficiency rep- resent exhaustive and careful investi- gation of the subject. They show that the District is already adequately taxed, that the tax burden in Washington compares favorably with the tax burden not only of cities of approximately the same size, but of vastly larger and richer cities. Should the people of the District pay adequately in taxes irrespective of the the affirmative by the witnesses. Of course they should pay adequately, and of course they do. ‘The important factor in this connec- tion, however, is that the extent of the District’s tax burden ecannot, for pur- Pposes of comparison with those of other cities, be measured without taking into consideration the Federal holdings, which, in the case of Washington, rep- resent vast tax-exempt properties. In the other cities comparable real estate holdings yleld property taxes, and the holders of such real estate pay heavily on their intangibles. The tax-paying fraction of Washington without govern- ment holdings already ylelds a general property per capita levy that exceeds the per capita general property levy of the whole of Baltimore or St. Louls or New Orleans. When the comparison is reduced to city taxes alone, including county taxes, and further reduced to taxes for current maintenance—which do not include the portion of taxes that 80 to pay debts, representing past ex- penditures for permanent improvements not enjoyed in Washington—the per eapita burden of the tax-paying frac- tlon of Washington exceeds the com- parable burden of nine of the fourteen eities selected for ‘comparison by the| Bureau of Efficiency. But when comparisons are made on the basis of per capitas, it is necessery to include the Federal holdings, or tax- exempt property here, that is far in! excess of tax exemptions anywhere else. When they are included and the city taxes for current maintenance com- pared, Washington's per capita excecds | all except one of the per capitas of | other cities. | And comparisons of this kind, tak- | ing into account only approximate similarity in population, make no al- lowances for such important considera= tions as efficiency or economy in city governments. They include the effi-| clently governed, progressive cities along | with those whose expensive city gov- ernments are notorious. ‘Washington should pay taxes com- parable to those of other cities. But to make them comparable the effort must be to reduce, and not to increase, the existing tax burden. ———e— ‘The new school of legislative discus- #lon seeks unity of purpose and not & shetorical display calculated to empha-~ size differences of opinion. Triumphant Simplicity. It will come as a sense of rellef to most Washingtonians that the plan for eonstructing an elaborate sunken garden 8t the Washington Monument has been deemed impractical by no less an au- thority than Lieut. Col. U, 8. Grant, 3d. ‘The head of the Office of Public . Buildings and Public Parks expressed this opinion at & meeting of the Monument Advisory Committee. As director of the National Park and Planning Commis- slon, no one is in a better position to understand the case than Col. Grant. base to the Monumen! tingly commemorat Country, is In plicity of the great shaft. Millions of persons from every nook and cranny of the Nation have walked up the .cfule, wide slope of green- sward which lies llke a benediction around the mighty” Monument. Something In that sheer stretch of grass has met the approbation of them all. The approach, girt by majestic trees, has prepared their hearts and minds for the reverence which every one feels. Oonstruction of a sunken garden is an old proposal, but only recently were tests taken to show the nature of the drilling which would have to be .done. The soil has been found to contain much water, and the rock on which the Mon- ument rests extends to & great depth. Construction work would be difficult and dangerous. The position of the Washington Monument in relation to the Lincoln Memorial and theé Mall demarids further consideration of plans to beautify the grounds, however, and this study prop- erly will continue. In all such study 1 is to be honed and it is now believed that every effort will be made to keep to the rigid simplicity which marks the present satisfactory scheme of things there. The Monument is a type of structure which tolerates nothing of the baroque. The National Capital breathes a sigh of relief at the pronouncement of Col. Grant. o Laying Aside Politics. Laying aside “politics” temporarily at least, the Congress is pressing for- ward to complete a program of relief legislation before Christmas. The criti- cisms delivered in the Senate of the President of the United States—some of which have gone so far as to attack his honesty and even to suggest that he has been an embezzler of public funds intrusted to him—have simmered down. A suspicion is gaining ground that the fury of the attacks upon thé President, delivered by Democratic Senators, after all merely proves what the President has said—that some of the members of Congress were engaged in playing politics at the expense of human misery. The Democrats who have indulged in vitriolic criticism of the President at this juncture, when the casting aside of partisan feeling irf order to speed relief legislation was needed, have not aided their party with the people of the country. More and more the wisdom of the statement issued by the seven leaders of the democracy soon after the elec- tion, in which they pledged the party to “co-operation” in rellef measures to aid in the depressed condition of the country, is becoming evident. An effort has been made in certain Democratic quarters to show that the statement of hese Democratic leaders was an “apology” to the people for having won many victorles in the recent congres- sional elections. Yet there was no apology therein. It was a politically sound statement and at the same time it proposed a course which was in line with the best interests of the country. Its critics were nristaken. For the sake of the Demccratic party the continu- ance of a leadership that senses the demand of the people for action rather than for political maneuvering should be contihued. No one expects the Dem- ocratic party in Congress to yield its principles or its beliefs in dealing even with & relief program. But it may well be expected that hours of the Senate’s time and that of the House will not be consumed merely for the purpose of removing, if possible, some of the presidential epidermis. ‘The Senate properly has receded from its amendment to the $116,000,000 emer- gency appropriation bill for public works to help relieve unemployment which would have denied to the Presi- dent the right to allocate funds to those projects, already authorized by Con- gress, which could provide the greatest amount of work the most quickly. The conferees of the Senate and House on the drought relief bill have reached a compromise between the $60,000,000 demanded in the Senate bill and the $30,000,000 approved by the House, mak- ing the sum $45,000,000. Most legisla- tion in Congress is the result of com- promise. The conferees have eliminated the “dole” feature of the Senate bill. In addition, the House has passed and sent to the Senate s bill providing an additional $150,000,000 for the use of the Federal Farm Board in stabilizing the prices of farm products. Politics have not been laid aside per- manently by the Congress. That would be too much to expect. And they should not be laid aside permanently by that body. The Congress offers a forum in which the minority may express itself, may make itself felt, often for the bene- fit of the country. There are times, however, when politics in Congress are merely a clog in the country’s machin- ery. This is one of them. B A’ snowfall that corresponds in vol- ume to one of the infrequent showers | ot Summer is contemplated by farmers, as well as by city residents, as bringing little more than an increase in the skidding propensities of the average motor car . Salary Injustice. The Senate seems determined to have sustice done in the departmental ap- propriation bills to those Government employes whose salaries are recognized as being lower than the average for their class and grade of work through- out the service, and to provide increases pledged to them by the administration and by Congress under the classifica- tion act through a three-year program. Chairman Wood of the House Appro- priations Committee has been using all the power of his chairmanship to thwart the recommendations of the budget that approximately 30 per cent of the $14,400,000 estimated as re- quired to bring all under-average sal- aries up to the average be appropriated for the fiscal year beginning July 1 next. He has gone further than that and endeavored, through a rider on an appropriation bill, to prohibit the pay- ment of any increases in salary within grades known as “administrative pro- motions.” When this so-called “Wood amend- ment” first came before the House as a rider on the Treasury-Post Office His skepticism over the proposed plan will be indorsed by all lovers of the beautiful in this great city, which is destined to be the peer of all beautiful cities the world over. n*u.m«uumm appropriation bill it was a blanket pro- vision to cover all departmental and independent establishment appropria- tion bills. This was knocked out on @ point of order, but the same prohibi- tion as applying to the two depart. ments, Treasury and Post Office, was approved by a rather decisive vote. Before the second appropriation bill (for the Interior Departmént) came out the House members had been educated to & clearer conception of what was attempted and by a record vote the Wood amendment was knocked out of the bill. When the third appropriation bill (for the Department of Agriculture) came out on Tuesday the Wood amend- ment was omitted, but the report em- phasized that some $223,820 required for salary increases to start the three- year program had not been included. Meanwhile, the Senate had eliminated the Wood amendment and included the necessary amount to grant the salary increases in the Treasury-Post Office bill, and the Senate committee had similarly included the amounts neces- sary for salary increases in the Interior Department appropriation bill. Con- ferees for the Senate and House are ex- pected to reach a decision today on the salary increases as included by the Sen- ate in the Treasury-Post Office bill. It should be clearly understood that there were two moves made by Chair- man Wood—one, to leave out the amounts for the increases to bring all salaries up to an average for grade under a three-year program; and the other to further tighten up by taking away from administrative officers a power they now have of granting ad- ministrative promotions to the limit of funds that may be available for that purpose. ‘The House action on the Interior De- partment appropriation bill and the House Appropriation Committee’s action on the agricultural appropriation bill have defeated this second objective of Chairman Wood. But until the amounts for the salary increases under the three- year program are actually included in the appropriation bills, Mr. Wood's first objective has not been decisively de- feated. This is an even more important issue. That is what the Senate is doing— putting the money into these appropria- tion bills to pay the increases that were promised by the administration and Congress and recommended by the President and the Budget Bureau. Conclusive action is expected today in the session of the conferees for the House and those for the Senate to thrash out differences in the Treasury-Post Office bill. ‘The Senate is determined that these salary increases shall be allowed. Chair- man Wood of the House committee, who will be one of the conferees, is authority for the statement that whatever the decision may be on that bill will be adopted as a palicy for all the appro- priation bills because it would be pre- posterous to further multiply the salary inequalities by having such a limitation on any one department and not on all. Friends of the employes feel certain that the Senate will win and that the three-year program to wipe out pay in- equalities will be put in operation. R T e “Dear to our hearts are the scenes of our childhood.” Huey Long is ap- parently reluctant to turn his back on the old home, even for the sake of the life in Washington. ———— Unless James Hamilton Lewis is more lieral with his repartee than he has been of recent weeks, he will, in leg- islative life, disappoint many of his friends. ————————— Boviet Russia is in a situation fre- quently observed when politiclans have promised so liberally that the task of fulfillment becomes one of conspicuous difficulty, SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Seasonable Remarks. In the Merry Christmas season There is every sort of reason To avold indignant thought of any kind. You must not be grim or surly. You must learn to say, “Shop Early,” And sometimes you must murmur, “Never mind!” When the streets lead on to skidding, ‘When the manners are forbidding Of the gangsters who are wholly un- refined, You will often feel you've got to Add_ another Christmas motto To the list and keep repeating, “Never mind!” Seeing Double. “I have heard,” remarked Senator Sorghum, “that alcohol makes & man see double.” “Well known fact,” agreed the friend. “After seeing some of my friends who are taking the wet and the dry view, both at once, I have decided that pro- hibition politics may do the same thing.” Jud Tunkins says one way to avoid & market slump is to step out and spend your money for something of genuine value, Home Delivery. ‘To Congress once I longed to go. But now as speeches men bestow As gifts to mortals here below, I sit beside the hearth aglow And am oontent because I know Il hear them on the Radio! Idealized Jail. “I hear that Crimson Guich has a brand-new jail.” “And it's a beauty,” replied Cactus Joe. “We've put in fine furniture and hired a good cook.” “Isn’t that rather extravagant?” “On the contrary, it pays. Rich boot- leggers who have business here prefer to get arrested for a little while and make liberal contributions rather than have to put up at the hotel.” 1 “One who seeks a reason for every action,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, “becomes less reliable for effort because of the time he devotes to re- search.” Laying Down the Law. ‘The legal mind is very plain. When it has once laid down the law Some one will pick it up again And new conclusions boldly draw. “A good banjo player,” said Uncle Eben, “is_kind o’ lucky. Even if unem- ployment hits 'im, he kin while away de tige an’ mebbe call attention to hisse' in & way dat'll help. De truth is, dat | a5 a payin’ implement de banjo allus did have considerable de best of de shovel an' de hos.” " THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, Where do the squirrels and the rab- bits and the birds live during Winter? ‘This is an old question which has oc- curred to all Nature lovers and one they seldom answer satisfactorily. 1t is easy enough to declare, “Oh, live very well!” or “Oh, they are so warm-biooded; they never suffer!” Yet when a man or woman of & cer- tain temperament looks out of the window on a freezing Winter morning, when the ground creaks and the smoke blows obliquely from chimneys, he is Iikely to give an uneasy thought to the small creatures around. Those who live in the suburbs feel this more acutely than their full-fledged city cousins, for they have the furred animals with them every day. Even as they watch, a squirrel will dart across the street and up an oak tree. In popular imagination all squir- rels are fat and have stores of acorns in_hidden places. Yes, but yonder fellow isnot fat. He is very lean, and his tail, instead of being robustly bushy, is long and at- tenuated. Perhaps he is an old squirrel nearing the end of his days. Life has been kind to him; no dog or cat has crunched him between its jaws; no automobile has run him down. Now in the Winter of his life he comes to his last days. Suns rise and set and young squirrels frisk and play, but he retires to a place he knows, and the next morning he does not get up. He will be just one of the thousands of smaller things which die unregarded and unsung. * ok ok ok Perhaps our opening question should have been, “How do they live during the Winter?"” The question is peculiarly pertinent this year on account of the long drought. You do not hear so much about the dryness now as during the hot weather, but there is just as much drought as ever. Y Practically eight full months have gone by now without rain in any real sense. Every week into Winter makes the possibility of it more remote. 'he only hope now of breaking the drought is snow. Yes, snow is water after And as disagreeable as snow can be to the city person, it would be a :‘l‘:l Tellef to the growing things of ea A good, heavy snow, while it might tie up traffic and cause no end of con- fusion and -expense, would be welcomed by the trees and the shrubs and the evergreens and the grass. Snow would be the best form of water, now, since it is the natural sort for this time of the year, and its blanketing effect would put the sofl and growing things in the right state for recelving the water. Melting snow would be absorbed easily by all growing things, and would be precisely the right tempera- ture, in relation to the atmosphere, to water trees, etc, without -causing them to think of growing. No tree in its right mind would dare attempt growth on snow water. It might get foolhardy on rain water, but snow water would be its proper liquid for the times, and would set up a universal rejoicing among all the growing things. el It is still months too early to pre- dict what the ultimate effect of the continued dry g)ell will be upon plant and animal life. Home owners can observe hurt done to evergreens, per- WASHINGTON ‘They're_bet! 100 to 1 in Washing- ton that Judge William Clark’s decision denaturizing the eighteenth amendment will not be sustained by the Supreme Court. At least those are the prevailing odds in the Senate wing of the Capitol. Bets are not being accepted on those terms, even after would-be gamblers int out that the Jersey Federal judge K:‘ been sustained by the United States Circuit Court in appeals from 30 deci- slons in cases of all kinds. Only in three patent suits have Clark’s findings been reversed. The 39-year-old jurist who is now pirouetting across the front pages trained for the World War just over the Potomac from Washington in 1917—at Fort Myer, Va.—and then went to France. Clark emerged from his overseas service with the rank of a Field Artillery major and a citation for “gallantry in action.” The judge is ac- cused by some of his detractors of hav- ing a passion for the limelight—a weak- ness not unknown even in these parts. His home is amid the classic shades of Princeton, whence he commutes to his bench at Newark. *x x» “Here lies & gentleman and & pa- triot” would not be an inappropriate epitaph for the late Senator Frank L. Greene of Vermont, in light of one not-widely-remembered angle of the nsouuxhxf' affray which eventually cost him life. In May, 1924, three months after Greene was struck by a stray bullet in the streets of Washing- ton, the Senate passed, without debate or dissent, a bill to pay the Senator $7,500 for the costs of his medical and hospital treatment. The Vermonter was & man of the most modest means. His long illness put & cruel crimp in his fortune. But Greene wouldn't ac- cept & penny of compensation from the public . He argued that his mishap might just as easily have over- taken the most ordinary private citi- zen, and he didn't see why being a Senator entitled him to special consid- eration. The funds are still in the Treasury. Greene had a hobby he was fond of indulging in an intimate circle. He'd mastered a smattering of Indian dialect and loved airing it. * Xk K Senator Otis F. Glenn, Republican, of Tlinois, who does not often orate, reeled off & genuine speech yesterday in_ de- fense of President Hoover ul_‘lnst Sen- ator McKellar's “embezzling” charge. the Midwesterner called spades spades and hit out straight from the shoulder in the Tennessee Democrat’s direction. Glenn made his reputation in Illinois as a special assistant attorney general in prosecuting the Herrin massacre cases in 1922. He is & husky, broad- shouldered citizen, just turned 50. To date his championing of the Hoover cause is the most red-blooded perform- ance in that line to which Congress has been treated during the ng un- pleasantness. Undoubtedly it had something to do with the 42-to-39 vote by which the Senate almost immediate- ly afterward receded from its earller decision $o deprive the President of authority to supervise the $116,000,000 unemployment ‘rel:el‘m:ld. It the alleged Illinois campaign cus- tom of hflp!ng telephone wires were the vogue ‘Washington, it's said that eavesdroppers this week might have listened in on some sizzling conversa- tion between Senator McNary of Oregon and Secretary of Agriculture Hyde. The chairman of the Senate Agriculture ‘Committee, who sponsored the $60,000,- 000 drought bill on the understanding it bore the administration trade mark, had it out hot and heavy with Hyde-—- 50 the story goes. There were rumblings of “a frame,” and of “double-crossing,” and such like. McNary’s loyalty to the Hoover cause during the and a half has been mesar’s wife. Sometimes it had to be rendered under delicate circumstances. The Oregonian didn’t relish being put in the position what he was led to belleve was & White House program and then fihding hlmsel(‘dl:-vgw:d. When_Senator “Jim” Watson was at bat for Hoover in the Senate the other day, something about the dole was understood to fall from the G. O. P. leader's lips. <The alert and acetic Caraway of Arkansas caught insisted that Watson had said evet.lu ln:;‘ tll‘l; g‘l:tnaln denied héu Well,” draw statésman, , been called the keenest and man in the Senate, “I hope the it and “dole,” haps, -K:mly those which were not in any and Summer. trees not even an “expert” can tell as yet. It may be that with seasonal rains next Spring they will come out all right. The effect upon the life of the smaller animals and the birds is problematical, Probably the birds have suffered the most. The State of Virginia has of- fered prizes for the best Winter feed- ing of the birds, but all those inter- ested in this form of wild life should make special efforts this Winter to help them over the next few months, prizes or no prizes. After all, the birds are the best prizes. Suet is birds’ meat. It may be placed in shelters erected for their benefit. Seeds of certain kinds, placed on raised platforms, will do a great deal in mak- ing them feel at home. It is lkely that such birds as re- In Support of Court To the Editor of The Star: ‘The results of the recent poll of the members of the National Economic League and of the editors of the coun- try on the question of our adherence to good condition last Spring | the World Court throw a striking and e certainl: most enco light upon ly uraging age has been done to | the national intelligence and the na- conscience. It would be hard to name two bodies which more worthily or more correctly represent what is best in.American public opinion. The 2,000 members of the National Economic League are recognized leaders in their mecflve States of the well informed well balanced sentiment in social and political affairs. Their quality is well represented by the list of "the Massachusetts men—leaders in Massa- chusetts life—recently published in the Boston newspapers, showing that 124 of these men voted for the court and 5 against it. In New England alto- gether the vote was 344 to 10. In the whole country the percentage vote was 94 to 6, showing an overwhelming senti- mzmé in favor of our adherence to the court. The vote of the newspaper editors of main in the District of Columbia and |the country was if possible more im- nearby States will be grateful to an extra degree this Winter for whatever help is given them. The e season already | culiarly ger?slve; and 1t is more representative, touch with the currents is proving a cold one, & peculiarly dis- | of public thought and feeling. Here, concerting cold one, on ‘%:tm' of the | too, the verdict for the mug‘ is over- wide variation, one week intensely| Whelming. Practically all the leading cold, the next warm. newspapers of the country declare for Such weather is difficult not only for | the court, the journals which really human beings but for the animals and | count with thoughtful and serious men birds as well. Despite their fur and |and women. The circulation of the pa- feathers, they must react to tempera- | Ders opposed to our adherence to the ture changes somewhat as we do. It is | court is almost entirely made up of the true that they have no heated houses | Hearst papers to render them sensitive to cold, but d the Chicago Tribune. an The pulpits of the country and they must face the weather 24 hours | university professors have already vig- a day. forget that. * Kk X The only tears one finds in Nature, however, are man's tears. The animals, fortunately for them, Nature lovers should never |orously declared themselves, and the Chambers of Commerce are with them. The “plain people” have spoken and dre speaking every day with righteous emphasis. What ‘does this all mean? It means that the conscience and in- know no speculative sorrow as we | telligence of the American people are know it. They are not able to regard them- practically a unit in behalf of our ad- herence to the World Court and that selves, in the abstract, and to realize | the country is being held up by a little that the Summer was hard, the will be harder. Winter | coterie of oliticians, chiefly at Wash- gton, who for reasons hard for plain What happens to them happens |DPeople to fathom are endeavoring to without flourish of trumpets or of pen. | thwart the President in the perform- ‘They have no hardships, or to tell m;ltmpmnt Summers. . \ history of the human race there have ts to write up their | ance of his mmm o?thelr prompt adherence to the court. clear duty to secure ouxx‘; lves themsel ‘unmistakal been men and women interested in | Dby their Senators at Washington with their brute neighbors. ‘These have written. Always it has been uphill work. The greater mass of the human beings has no interest in the‘brute creations except as possi- bilities of gain. . Hunters and trappers find no appeal to their emotions in wild game. Nor can those of us who do censure them. God made all of us, and if He made us different, who are we to dispute about it? This fact, however, makes it all the more incumbent upcn us who do find our emotions aroused by the plight of the animals to stand steadfast for what we think and believe. ‘We will be cailed sentimentalists and worse, but it makes no difference. To us a fox is not something to be broken in a trap, but an integral part of the beauty of Nature. A rabbit is not a mark to shoot at, but a fellow creature in a curious world which we could wish better for his sake, as well as our own. The sentence, “This is the Winter of our discontent.” has peculiar applica- tion to the animals, the birds, the grow- ing things of lawn and fleld. OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. l reporters got it into the Record, and that nobody will be permitted to take it out.” That was & dig at.the habit of Senators and Representatives to “edit” their remarks before publication commanding power, that time is now. EDWIN D. MEAD. R ] Rate Revision Is Seen Handicap to Norfolk From the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. _Decision of the Virginia railroads to diccontinue, beginning April 1, the Bal- timore basis of rates on shipments from C. F. A. territory to Hampton Roads upsets a parity between Norfolk and Baltimore that has been in effect half a century and creates a definite handi- cap for Norfolk in its competition with the Maryland port for business. The old parity will continue as to shipments moving in the import, export and coast- | set of wise trade, but in respect to all other traffic Norfolk will be handicapped in its competition with Baltimore for business moving to and from the Middle West by a freight differential as high as 11 cents per 100 pounds for first-class freight to e T u the sixth class and rcmh p;:' 100 pounds in the fourth. Comparable differen- tials will handicap the port in its com- petition with Baltimore. as regards freight mo to and from Detroit and is proposed ap- Eastern class rates de- cision will do to this wn s open to conjecture. The Stal 'Ow?onthm Commission’s commerce counsel, H. E. Ketner, thinks the damage will be seri- (‘)g:.lso does H. J. ", director of 0 in the Congressional Record. They can | A take things out or put them in at will, whether they ever echoed across the floor or mot in actual utterance. “Jim” Reed of Missouri, on & famous occaslon, | jg cut out his admission that he hadn't read the Four-Power Pacific treaty, hours! though he'd been attacking it for two llyguz‘h.g it might be it if the * % x ¥ y Prederick H. Payne of Massachu- |ginia railroads fiy setts, the Assistant Secretary of War, |are the Chesapeal 1s one of those iron men who scom an | & X | overcoat even in the coldest weather. | seaboard-to-Middle-West from the picture, but views will prove the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. she married?—M. M. G. A. Josephine Baker fi appeared at | c| the Folles Bergere and later in a Mont- martre Tecent nt club. Her more ngmumumumomnnd.hfll. She is married to an Italian count. Q. What was Napoleon’s eomment the death of equality.” ?—R. | ington, D. C. Q. How Smith?—W. C. E. A. He has five. His son, Arthur, has Mrs. John A. Do many States prohibit the writ- | Wi Q. ing of prescriptions for liquor by physi- cians?—T. P, B. A. Twenty-two States do not permit g:fillw to give prescriptions for alco- o Q. Will the Holland Vehicular Tunnel ever pay for itself>—E. N, - A. The cost-of the Holland Vehicular ‘Tunnel was $48,000,000. When the tun- nel was finished, it was estimated that it would pay for itself in tolls within 12 years. The tunnel was completed and opened in 1927, Q. What kind of a weapon does & London policeman carry?—H. M. D. A A len t.runch:on. or staff, station officer for subsequent inspection, Who can belong to the “F. F. rior capacity previous to 1620. Q. By when was “A Long ‘Way to Tipperary” written?—J. F. O'B. A. Henry James Willlams, an Eng- lishman, was one of those obscure art- ists who fit aogenl to jingle for the ;r!lt music hall industry of England. n 1913 Jack Judge brought Willlams & that seemed likely. set out the homesickness of a .stage Irishman who was tired of London. The idea was good but old. The pub- lishers were tired of exiled Celts. The song grew solled in the post, unaccepted. At last a singer agreed to it at a small local hall in the Isle of Man. So ‘e " was first heard by holiday- ing e mill hands at Douglas in July, 1913. Country D | race Belongs in the curly- These | panicles, or tops the Yokohama?—8. A. A. The vr-d-’lrnmmld.mwrm of 6 days, 19 hours, 43 minutes, time, lowering the previous record by about 20 hours. Q. In dividing the human race into groups determined by the kind of hair where does the white race belong?—D. J. B. A. The three groups are the straight- haired people, the woolly-haired people, and the curly-haired people. The white gToup. Q. What is the commercial language of the world?>—W. J. O. A. The most Russian. Many consider Span- ish unquestionably the most important foreign language for citizens of the United States. It depends, however, chiefly upon i:!w nature of in will depend to a future position of t country in the commercial world. Q. Of what fibers are common house brooms, street-sweeping brooms and snow brooms made?—F. C. A, Common brooms are made of of broom corn bound together, and were also formerly made of the twigs of the fi‘,‘"" broom. coarse brooms used street sweeping are manufaetured r_hleflg from the twigs of the Cohune palm. Brooms are also made of Piassaba fiber and other mate- rials. Snow brooms and sometimes yard brooms are made of wire or much coarser material, and are much larger than house brooms. Debates Question Of Politics and Relief Action expense of ecisfon to | With the old Norfolk-Baltimore par- possible to preserve he. prineipas Vi cf - ring in this decision & Ohio and Norfolk “connections” for the traffic are “‘conng their concurrence. ‘Western. The! This week's first touch of Winter in |chiefly roads affliated with them—mem- Washington found the statue: Stater walking to and from snow as if it were balmy Springtime, * k% % > Allen T. Klots of Col. Stimson’s New York law firm is now in occupancy of the newly created post of “special as- sistant to the Secretary.” He is to confine his activities to legal research, for the most part. Col. Stimson’s real right-hand man (“the assistant to the Secretary” is his title) remains the in- defatigable “Bill” Beck, who, despite his youth, is serving his fifth Secreta: of State in succession. Beck began wlg niccesslon, of ‘Golby, Hughen o ., 0f Y, s, Kell and Stimson. He ranks as W-shlnnm mut“"y fi:‘fi'fli"h”" of l“e‘:"'l In Jan- Vi ave survived 11 years in the State Department. * * oK ok K Senor Don Orestes Feyrara, the Cu- ban Ambassador in Washington, who's Just rounding out his fourth year at this post, will proceed to Japan in March to establish Cuba's first diplo- matic mission on the other side of the world. He'll come back by way of Si- beria, Russia and Finland. Senor Fer- rara might have been one of Musso- lini's men. He was born in Italy, but went to Cuba as & youth and fought in the island’s war of independence against Spain, (Copyright. 1930.) National Honor Urged @ For “Hero” of Science Prom the Fort Worth Record-Telegram. While the habit of the bestowal of medals is still prevalent it is fitting to call attention to a deserving case which probably will not even be given serious consideration. ‘The name of the deserving “hero” is Dr. Frederick H. Baetjer and he is on the faculty of Johns Hopkins Medical School of Baltimore. He has lost an eye, four fingers of his right hand and his left arm in a sefies of “offensives” against disease. The “wounds” were received during a long series of experiments with X-rays as a healing agency. He created the various “cases” and applied the “rays” to them that the successive reactions might be noted, scientifically. = What citation in the name of patri- otism should be written in such a case? The usual influences that exalt partici- ants in battle were entirely absent his instance. There was not even the elemental self-preservative instinct to inject a species of des) tion into the act. He needed a “subject” for his experiments, He supplied one in his own person. It seems high time that we were stopping_the old system of specializa~ tion in “heroes.” ey should be in- cluded in t “gold” that “is where find it.” We have been doing much iness for a long time with “heroes” who have inspired poets. We should now prosaic ones. Paying the supreme sac- rifice in the name of national defense is a very fine act, indeed. But how much finer is it than paying the same g:lfiem;or the benefit When a Cook Is a Chef. Prom the Dayton Daily News. A Baltimore woman was held up by g : her cook and robbed of $10,000, but it !Prom the Omahi World-Herald. cook who can get that much money fo0d to a starvis ving_some attention to the ngm e Bay | bers with them of the Pennsylvania and e War | Van Sweringen families. Maybe, if the Department in his ordinary suit of |New disparity begins office clothes, as oblivious to wind and | this port, there will be a new family |of th to militate against consultation and a readjustment. At least it is fairly clear what “connec- tions” are to be appealed to. They have in the past loudly professed their sym- pathy with this port’s legitimate aspira- tions. Maybe, if the new rates to threaten a serious derangement of busi- r}::fi :1‘1’«:“ 'tfl Ilpn;c eon%:lons rooted in Ty of practice, ‘will ng be appealed to in vain. b 5 Henry Clay Took Lead To Aid South America From the Baltimore Evening Sun. . A statue of Henry Clay, “the father of pan-Americanism,” is to be unveiled shortly in Caracas, the capital of Vene- zuela, Was Henry Clay the father of - Americanism? He was a buzlmnm,nn dabbler in all sorts of things, but it will Wns" or ot the eatilost chavapions ¢ of the earliest champlons of the South American republics. % Clay was the first influential Ameri- can to support the cause of South American independence in the days gollfin those heroes, Sllnnul‘\'lamn and var, were engaged ir_struggle to free the continent from European domination. It was back in 1816 that the first Tepresentative of a South American country came to Washington to plead for American support and recognition. Many others followed. Although Presi- dent Monroe and John Quincy Adams, then Sccretary of State, expressed their “sympathy,” they would offer no defi- nite support or recognition, because at the time they were negotiaf with Spain for the purchase of a. Then it was that Clay stepped for- ward as the champion of South Ameri- can independence. In Congress he pleaded their cause with brilliance and fervor, but without immediate success. | Slowly, however, public opinion was won over, and when finally, in 1822, the purchase of Florida was ratified, Presi- dent Monroe began to recognize the Joar hat B emumelaiod ne Tamons e enuncia e m;t n‘ende'the M : was cal lonroe Doctrine and not the “Clay Doctrine”; but that does not alter the importance of the rt that part that Clay played in preparing the A Strange Feeling. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Many a man who has missed the ex- express ities. “Under our form of governmen! the Rochester Times-Union, “the mem- bers of the House of Representatives and | the the members of the Senate represent in than national interests. President has important role to the len! an perform. He stands where he can the the interests of the whole Nation instead e interests of particular groups.” “It is obvious that if every Congress- man, lame duck or otherwise, floods the odmdl:':i:lh nmr‘:euu,wwm wllle :&: sue col on, vetoes, eeme and in the end there will be much talk and no_relief,” according to Bt. Louis Times. The Ann Arbor Daily News adds the comment: “The danger of mixing politics with drought and un- employment relief is not to be consid- ered inconsequential. Favorite sons of drought sections might be expected to make a grab calculated to thelr own fences. The old pork barrel might play a part in making the deci- sion with respect to public improvement appropriations.” The New York Times holds it is evi- dent -“that the President will need, and ought to have, strong support outside public in his efforts keep Congress from making ducks and drakes of our public finance,” and the Newark Evening News declares: “Well inten- tioned individuals speak of the emer- gency as of war, and clamor for the same reckless outpouring of money and bond issues of Liberty Loan proportions. They have lost their heads completely and need to be held down to earth.” “It is difficult enough,” remarks the Providence Journal, “to provide the limited aid that the Government is capable of giving in behalf of economic operation are rved. measure the difficulty of supplying Gov- ernment_assistance when political de- sires take precedence over demon- strated truth?” “We are now seeing Hoover, it seems, as he really is,” states the Sioux Argus-Leader, concluding as to . the change: “When first in office he was probably induced to believe that he must give thought to political considerations in all his acts. He tried to adjust him- self to the new attitude, and found it difficult. It may be assumed now that he has realized his failure and the in- aldh broad national view and consider tmmw the | suffering is sincere,” in the judgment of N , “in_want- g to reduce distress, but Mr. Hoover would not be human if he did not con- the effect of continued depression political _future. sufficlent Bt i e M of the Government Mr. ‘Hoover has defl- advisability of a policy that was likely |of ed upon him by political advisers. ?!rsg has thrown thoughts of politics to the four winds and is trying to be the business-man President, for which he i3 s0 eminently qualified. If he con- tinues this policy, as we hope he will, he’ will learn in due course that it is not only the most efficlent policy but th ng and is armed to fret any adversary, however dreadful, which will be perience of being held up by outlaws still knows how it feels to be held down by in-laws. The Wrong Spirit. n—owmo New London Day. notion of misapplied ‘would be the md.l.ngo p()pf a FMMIM fami ith a note, open until Christmas.” Broad Meaning. of the national | Prom the Little Rock (Ark.) Democrat. ‘The objection to Sherman's descrip- tion of war is that it applies to too many things as well. X -t Serious Matter. However, the Speaker’s car must now be almost t0o0 serious & subject for Longworth and Garnes o joke about. richly |-hared and gratifying to the coun- try.” mm‘ Fort Worth Star-Telegram offers the estimate: of bein, the ndm!n'.h. istration, he is SRYS: the shoulders of farmers, workers, busi- ness men, mean definite delay for pros- perity. May the new-found Hoover coun’a be sufficlent to meet the threat and defeat it!” * “In the wrath excited by Mr. Hoover’s intemperate the wisdom and timeliness of his warn] uld not be overlooked,” avers the Louis Courer- Journal, while the Los Angelés Express holds that the rebuke “was timely and deserved,” a verdict is cause it to l.fl)efi' as if Congress is willing to be kind-hearted and liberal but the President is not. But the do want the unemployment situation dealt with intelligently and generously 80 far as Congress can accomplish that o!"oflun expect to own motives questioned,” the ‘The Topeka Dpt.lg that ‘dt is no " and the The ham News concludes, “He should have controlled his im tlence and sought, in the same lpm of co-operation which he so earnestly desires. from Congress, to arrive at an adjustment of differences as harmon. ously as possible.” Seeing Things. Prom the Grand Rapids Press. by the Cleveland News the , and the : “It is & matter of the American read be- A gossip is & person who mflgm, tween the lines when there, %