Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1931, Page 8

'HE EVENING ‘With Sunday Morning WASHINGTON, D. C. PHURSDAY..... March 19, 1631 THEODORE W. NOYES Edito; tar Newspaper Company STAR Edition., ui] .+ Londor Rate by Carrier Within the City. e 8t . 45c per month B0 s B s agd Sun ays! ¢ uf Wie 65¢ per m::u,x id ot esch month t in by mail or telephone Rate by Mafl—Payable in Advance. mr,hml n;: Virginia. v and Sund: B Member of the Associated Press. Tt aper and also the I foth " Il riehts of o es herein are also ‘Why Not Talk It Over? Another proposal for & union bus ter- minal in Washington, one of about two-score such schemes discussed in the last few years, has been laid before the Public Utilities Commission. Accord- ing to the reports, the latest proposi- tion has small chance of getting any- where. The commission takes the view, on advice of counsel, that it could youte busses past such a terminal, but eould not compel its use by the various competing lines serving Washingtori. Until {.ere is some definite guarantee that these lines would use the terminal, the project will not attract the invest- ment of private capital, upon which de- pends its realization. It is unfortunste and in some respects disgraceful that the bus terminal ques- tion has been allowed to drag along as long as it has. Several separate agencies, representing the Government in one form or anoth re, or should be, in- terested parties. The Public Utllitles Commissicn, the traffic department, the Park and Planning Commission, the Public Buildings Commission, have something to gain by the establishment of an adequate bus terminal in Wash- ington. Yet none of them has seen fit to take the necessary leadership in a movement designed to establish the ter- minsl. Busses ccngest the trafc at loading points and in their movements, willy nilly, through the streets. The bus eompanies themselves, engaged in a eompetitive enterprise, give little thought to the convenienge of any but their own patrcns. Bus company men ean tell stories of means resorted to in an effort to prevent a passenger from riding on any but their own vehicles. And of cours: the city and the bus riding public suffer in eonsequence. One difMculty has been in finding eapital interested in the bus terminal project. Another has been the ill-de- fined amount of control possessed by companies themselves were of & downtown Wi central terminal, eonvenient to the chief difi- fic problems or the transportation prob- lems has apparently seen fit to take the first atep to bring the ous companies into line. The first step, obviously, should be a conference between the in- ferested governmental bodies in Wash- ington and the bus companies. At such & conference the representatives of the Government could outline some of the conditions to result with progress on the great public building program; the strest changes, the shifting center of the working population, the desirability of making most available to this public the necessary means of transportation. ‘The bus companies could be asked to eo-operate. And it is unreasonable to suppose that there is no method left to the Publie Utilities Commission and the municipality for getting rid of a situa- tion that under present conditions is becoming intolerable, or that the use of force is denied, if persuasion fails. It is ridiculous to believe thai busses are going to be permitted indefinitely to establish their curbstone stations in congested districts, to the detriment of smooth-running traffic and to the in- eon ence of everybody who wants to ride 2 bus, provided they are given a ehance to go somewhere else. As an experiment, such a conference should be called, either by the Public Utllities Commission or the District Commissioners. Nothing is to be gained by letting the matter slide alorg forever, with constant emphasis being placed upon the difficulties, —_——— One of the irritations associated with 8an income tax return is the recurring thought that the tax might be less if the bootleggers would do their share toward providing funds for the busi- mess of the Government. ——o—— Plain and Other English. An unfortunate misinterpretation of the English language as used in letters - | the ranks of the British Labor party. fairs, three major achievements, on. any company explained: d out in our letter of m&u consid- | alleged failure in mormlnz contrary, it is our fixed pol adjustments promptly and whenever it 1s possible to make ry of the need therefor in the interest of good service and satisfied customers. It is incom- prehensible how any other interpreta- tion could be fa laced upon what we wrote when we said in the lett:r of March 4, after stating methods we were g for inspection, that such work ntirely aside from the cost in- As the cost s not a prohibitive factor, nothing is to prevent the gas company from proceeding to make adjustments of all appliances in every area where pressure has been increased, which should have been done in the first place, - The British Labor Party. Schism, not yet disastrous, but ncver- theless significant, hes definitely split This week's banishment of Sir Oswald Mosley, hitherto one of Prime Minister MacDonald’s “milliondire Socialist” supporters and until last year a min- ister in the Labor cabinet, marks a cleavage for all the world to note. Sir Oswald and his part-American wife, Lady Cynthia Mosley, who has also been a Labor M. P., recently form- ed the “New party” as a protest against the MacDonald organization’s tactics. The immediate result was a manifesto on Tuesday last formally ex-communi- cating Mosley for “his act of gross disloyalty to the Labor party.” To date five supporters in Parliament have joined the mutinous Mosleys in the “New party,” It was in Midsummer, 1930, that the fomenters of the present breach in the Labor phalanx signaled sullen dissatis- faction with the MacDonald govern- ment. They accused it of falling mis- erably to deal with the paramount issue before the British people—uneniploy- ment. Instead of coming to grips with the problem on some of the Utoplan lines dangled before the country when they regained power in 1929, Sir Os- wald Mosley and his allles accused the MacDonaldiies of pursuing glory in ficlds faf remote from the critical busi- ness they faced at home. That is exactly what the Labor gov- ernment has done. It has accom- plished, in the domain of foreign af- one of which in ordinary times a Britich government would justifiably plume it self. The MacDonald cabinet brought off the London Naval Conference and the three-power treaty. Only a fort- night ago the Labor government per- formed the miracle of persuading Prance and Italy to bury the hatchet and enter the limitation pact of which, because of their parity differences, they would not hear at London last Winter. ‘Then, to cap the sheaf of his triumphs in the domain of external relations, Mr. MacDonald came to terms with Gandhi and paved the way to a bloodless peace in India. Meantime, economic eonditions in the British Isles are going remorselessly from bad to worse. The dole is Labor's only antidote for mounting unemploy- ment. The exchequer is reduced to actual borrowing to pay the jobless bounty. Already, according to the London Daily Mail, a dole debt of be- tween $360,000,000 and $375,000,000 has been incurred. Something like 2,650,000 men and women are on the unemployed register, while the unemployment fund is rising at the rate of $5,000,000 a week. Labor calls the dole “unemployment in- surance” and argues that a realm whose present gross national capital is esti- mated at $122,225,000,000 can easily afford a weekly benefit of eight dollars a.week to a family of man, wife and three children. The Labor party seems blessed with an elephantine hide, for criticisms of its inabllity to grapple with the crush- ing burden of unemployment rain upon it without effect. Mr. MacDonald re- mains tenanted at No. 10 Downing street through no fault, or default, of his own. He is fortunate in the bifur- cated character of “His Majesty’s loyal opposition.” While Mr. Baldwi Conservatives and Mr. Lloyd Georgs Liberals remain within their respective ranks houses divided among themselves, Labor, in our Yankee idiom, sits pretty. ————r———— Some of the soldiers will waste their bonus money on small luxuries. The funds made individually available are hardly large enough to encourage tempts at careers in the gilded night clubs. e The Netional Arboretum. One of the most important pieces of legislation linked in with th: Capital development program, waich will be urged for emergency action when Con- gress reassembles in December, is the measure authorizing an additional $300,000 to purchase needed land for the National Arboretum, which is to adorn the northeast entrance to the National Capital. This proposal, with many other im- portant measures, was laid aside by Congress for future consideration dur- ing the closing jam, and not because there is any serious opposition to it. When the measure was called up on a motion to suspend the rules, which requires a two-thirds vote, it received majority to the Public Utilities Commission has been cleared away with resultirg credit to the gas company. The gas company does not care how much it costs to make adjustments on gas appliances and jts recent citation of the cost was not intended to convey the Jupression that it did care. On March 4 the gas compary wrote to the Public Utllities Commission out- lining verious and sundry views on pressure and appliance adjustment, stating that the company was carefully sdjusting appliances “in all new cases and upon specific customers’ complaints. support even though the merits of the proposition were not discussed and it came in the path of a filibuster on immigration. The particular merits of the case are that the Government scientists in the Department of Agriculture need this area as an outdoor laboratory, that when the substantive law was passed creating a National Arboretum it was then estimated that this additional amount would be required to complete the area desired. The Department of Agriculture has purchased about one-half of the land charted for acquisition for the arbore- This is upon the assumption that such complaints naturally represent the most serious conditions and should therefore receive first attention. To do other- wise would be to attempt to adjust all appliances in a given ares which would take an extended time with the cer~ tainty that before ope edjustment was completed conditions+would have altered and several readjustments would be necessary.” tum. Because of a limitation in the original bill, the department eould not buy some of the most desirshle parcels of land due to the provision that it THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., demnation jury makes an award in excess of 125 per cent of fhe acsessed valuation. In most cases the con- demnation jury has made the awards in » | @xcess of 125 per cent of the assessed valuation, which has tled up settle- ments. Under the present conditions the De- partment of Agriculture faces a problem in its allotted task of developing the arboretum. It must have definite authority and know just what space it has to work with, and for develop- ment of an arboretum such as has been contemplated it must have almost double the area it has already pur- chased.. It cannot properly lay out the roads until the boundaries are defined. A meeting is being arranged of the Advisory Council on the Arboretum-—of which Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the Netional Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, is chairman—in co- operation with Dr. A. F. Woods, di- rector of scientific work for the Depart- ment of Agriculture, to draft recom- mendations to the Secretary of Agri- culture on the future policy regarding the arboretum. All those interested in the National Arboretum, including the leading horti- cultural, botanicel, forestry, arboreal societies and garden clubs of the coun- try, are determined that this legislation must receive early, emergency attention in the next Congress. ————ee—. Finding that it can use $50,000,000 to advantage in its business, the Pern- sylvania Raflrond will issue bonds for that amount. Possibilities of railroad improvements within the next few years are enormous and the “Pennsy” has always taken pride in being among the leaders, ————— Trotsky will publish his book on Russian affairs. A large circulation is expeeted for it in this country. There is no reliable supervision to prevent the U. 8. A. from becoming a literary dumping ground. e ‘The amount of territory that can be served with electricity, gas and other necessities calls attention once more to the trite remark, “It is a small world after all” And it will seem a still smaller world when transportation by alreraft is well systematized. e Good salesmanship is credited with 8 large share of assistance in getting over the financial slump. Salesman- ship has @ valuable function in discovering prosperity and showing in all honesty how it may be utilized to the best advantage. Parmers in need of loans complain of needless formalities thdt compel de- lay. “Red tape” is one of the most serious objections that advocates of Government ownership and operation have to meet. . Russia in the old days wanted no traffic with outsiders. Many outsiders are now wondering whether they de. sire traffic with Russia, even under new conditions. ———r——————— The light-hearted and affable mayor of New York may have to face some sort of inquiry to ascertain whether he has not allowed himself to drift into political bad company. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNESON. Business Doctor. Priond Business Doctor, when we met, ‘You bade us lay aside The cares which once had made us fret, And life was filled with pride. The years of patient toil were left Unto the bygone days. We learned your wisdom new, whose heft Has left us in a haze. Priend Business Doctor, we confess ‘We miss the old-time cheer, ‘When each in cordial cheerfulness Unto his task drew near. Yet on your record as we glance We're thrilled by what we see. We hail you, Doctor of Pinance, With a D. F. degree. Difsult to Decide. “Ought & man with a great deal of money go into politics?” “¥our question,” answered Senator Sorghum, “brings up a dilemma. There is a strong impression that a very rich man should stay out; yet there is an equelly strong impression that unless he has a lot of money a man can't afford to play the game.” Jud Tunkins says campaign speeches are like cireus posters. They wouldn't be near so satisfying if they stuck to the | simple truth. Sounds Easy. The market gay goes either way. You need but to be knowing That fortune may increase each day, Exactly how it's going. Not the Psychological Moment. *“Your father told me that when I got a good job, I might think of marrying you.” “Yes?” said the girl. “Well, I've got the job and when I told him about it, he had me thrown out of his office.” “What is the job?” “Income tax collector.” “Merriment,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “when it becomes bolsterous is only @ mimicry of happiness.” Wet or Dry. Those economic thoughts which give Each nation its great means to live, Let us nct banish to neglect, And ask, “What drink do you affect?” “Tain’ no use complainin’ 'bout yoh troubles,” said Uncle Eben, “unless you wants to staht all yob friends goin’ on like dar was a prige foh de best hard luck story,” et Taxless Obliteration. From the Indianepolis News, must not pay more than 125 per cent of the assessed value of the land. So they had to buy whatever parcels they could | and within the area, They must now piece out the rest of tha arboretum, so as to provide the needed space, make a com- pact ares and square up the boundaries. ‘The department still has some §75,000 or $80,000 in condemnation pro- Aastion 4 still open for All governmental units ml}ht agree not to collect any taxes for four years at the expiration of that time there wouldn't be any governmentul units. B Shakespeare Speaks of Talkies. From the San Bernardino Sun. %vu’-‘:fi-u he must THURSDAY THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Rea is perhaps the pleasantest hnbbydl’:".he wufld,pb'oemup!mh most jmen it is the oldest. Its roots go back to the earliest days of childhood, to that time in the in- dividual life history when impressions were keenest and intellectual growth the largest, Few sports.or other diversions can be traced back to the age of 8 or 7 years. Reading, with most of us, is almost s fun tal as breathing, eating and walking. At least it seems so. That is why, in later life, there is no hob% taken up, even with enthusiasm, which will get quite such a grip on a man as reading. T This, of course, only if a man is a reader born, and if, what is perhaps more important, he does not in early middle age become a victim of perni- clous anemia of the brain. These two considerations require elu- cidetion. There are millions of persons who read who are not born readers. They read for any one of a varfety of reasons. They can do it, for one thing, and almost anything which & human being can do, if he can do it reasonably well, he will care for, fo some degree, at least. It ic the fashion. Every one reads. It becomes a cult with some, so that many men and women profess, to be fond of reading when they are not, in fact, even slightly enamored of the habit, Reading also has ramifications which enter into the working life of most of us, Thus millions find it profitable to read, not only newspapers and maga- zines, but books as well. e R Bt But the born reader is he who finds, as he grows older, that no form of amusement can take the place of reading. He has no blindness about his books. They are recreation, pure and simple— but often much more, too. That is one reason why they are glorious. He tries the theater, the movies, automobiling, polo—anything and every- thing, perhaps—only to come to the con- clusion, although in a different way, of the prominent aviator who declared that there was no thrill in aviatign to equal the excitement of a good game of chess. No thrill in recreation ever equal, to a born bookman, the ppiness of & great novel, or fine biography, or real history. Perhaps it may be necessary, at this point, for the benefit of a few, to consider the real import of books. Per- hzps some one, thinking of school days, is shocked at the stress put upon them as_recreation. This state of mind may arise from a lessened estimate of recreation. When it is written “re-creation,” it becomes something far different, in the general sense, from when it is written simply “recreation.” 05 4 ‘When one re-creates himself, his spirit, his happiness, his general well- being, his interest in life, he may be said, in all fairness, to be doing vastly more than amuse himself. Yet, at bottom, if he tries to be fair, he knows that interest lies deep in the heart of his happy problem. He knows that every book, to be a 00od book for him, must interest him, some way, whether as & story, as fece of writing, as adventure, as in- ormation, as instruction, All the other factors are dependent on interest, and lnleres{. in the Ilast enalysis, is recreation. And this phase is the one which has swayed him from the days when he first read “Little Red Ridinghood” for himself. * % ¥ % Perniclous anemia of the brain, as we which often overtakes a man who cares for ks, or at least thinks he loes. It s the other factor which will pre- vent readi 1 from becom! the main hobby of & man. the eyes and mind in the happy co- operation of reading will be su: nt, wil men, to carry them well Up until that time they will eagerly read, and fondly fancy themselves as born booklovers. They may collect largely, and have bookshelves filled to overflowing. Everything may co-operate in their lives to make them put a premium on reading and writing, writing and read- ing. But in truth they are not bool ‘They are imitation booklovers, e pernicious anemia of which lv::t speak finally shows them up ot Let no one worry over this strnnfe disease. Books are but a part of 'life, afier all. They are not, even for the true booklover, all there is to life. The dawn is a greater book than ever has been written. Life and love have no substitutes, when get down to brass tacks, L s 2 ‘But this pernicious anemia can do & great harm to & man, even when It reveals the truth to him. Its ordinary form is a growing distaste. Not the ordinary enrui which arises from time to time, but a plain and persistent re- luctance, which finally makes a man give up books altogether. Once it has & grip on a reader, he is finished—as a reader. He may be splendid fellow, great golfer, a real sportsman, & fine polo player, a scientist, moralist, mathematician. He may be all things to all men, but he is no reader. The disease from which he suffers sees to that. Holding & book in the hand, going to sleep on a book, piling books on the end table— these pleasant things do not show reader, but a reader, & reader de- arted, even he does not know it imself. * ok k¥ ‘The real reader finds books growing more and more necess: to him as life ses and he with it. eas, in the ush of youth, they were exciting, and later took on_the mad pride of intel- lectuality, as Poe put it, now as he ad- vances into the shadowland they be- come dear friends, the steadiest and truest in the world. And they are an inexhaustible com- pany, the minds of the ages, the minds of the ages now (and to come), minds which dreamed and wrote 3,000 years ago, minds which glowed with happi- ness and told it, minds which suffered from sadness and told it, minds which struggled, and lived, which put down the struggles and the living as well as they can be put down. vl This is the supreme hobby. When you see him going along the street, with a preclu{u pile of books under his ations of mankind, are his by right of possession, always nine points of the law. His books hold everything, and he holds them. He is the only king in the world whose dominfon is und puted. His republic of letters kno no dismay. As long as he has a good book, he has himself. When he no longer has himself, nothing matters. Highlights on the Wide World boius E SOLEIL, Quebec.—Article 246 of the Treaty of Versailles is that which stipulates that the skull of King Kakaoua must be returned by Germany to Eng- land. But Getmany has never com- plied with this provision! A _little while bofore the demise of Dr. Strese- mann, Sir Austen Chamberlain, at Geneva, made the demand upon the German minister of foreign affairs that his government satisfy the obligations of article 246, because of the renewed importunities of numerous Negro tribes, to whom the skull of King Kakaoua is a venerable relic. Dr. Stresemann straightway caused a search to be made,-with the result that the famous skull ‘could not be found, for the suffi- clent reason that it had never — at least not in Germany. When the German minister reported this unsatis- factory termination of the quest to Sir Austen, the latter replied with & smile: “Do me a favor, will you? Please find one just like it.” e Political Fickleness Not Mark of Immature Character. Cologne Gazette.—Political fickleness must not always be considered a mark of an immature and inconsequential character. In th> neighborhood of Reichenhall there lives in a small vil- lage & certain tavern keeper and local alderman who in the course of the years has identified himself with almost any number of different parties. popularly known throughout his district as the “Landlord of the Seven Hues, in reference to his variegated polit.cal complexion, But this rather derogatory allusion in no way disconcerts or of- fends the tavern keeper. He prides him- self that he never changed his party for any light or insufficient reasons; he as- serts that his loyalty to different inter- ests continued only o long as he could consclentiously lupgort the doctrines of the groups with which he was tempo- rarily affiliated. / Undoubtadly he is one of these naive persons who fondly believe that a party must always stand for and strive to ac- complish what is set down in its origi- nal program, for otherwise he would not have been so disappointed in the activities of seven separate factions. Were this hospitable gentleman more intimately versed in our classical poetry, he could easily find a still better justi- fication for his chameleonlike manifes- tations. We are thinking of the fools who con- sidered. themselves wise in their folly and of the sages who found through the | same errors the path to Truth! x K K % Urges Change in Unfair System of Tax Assessments. El Tiempo, Bogota,—Dr. Bojarano, at a timely moment in the deliberations of the municipal council, incited a debate on tax assessments in Bogota. This gentleman alluded to most of the vari- ous ghuses, inconsistencies and irregu- larities of the system, and was sble to refer to his own case as a particularly horrble example, though in many re- spects hundreds of other property own- ers are assessed with the same injustice. Dr. Bojarano's chief allegation was that. the possessors of small holdings were all assessed at a flat rate, regard- less of whether their house and lot was located near a central plaza of the city, next door to a church, or in some ve- mote and inaccessible suburb. If the rate of taxation was fair in the former instance it certainly could not be in the second, yet nevertheless the same arpi- trary percentages were applied to both. In !fi: case of business establishments the same were applied. An antiguated structure, if it happens to have four stories, and the same front- age, is taxed precisely the same as a new end modern bullding adjacent to it There appears to be but one rule followed by the commissioners, and that is to find out the maximum rate appli- cab'e to any structure of the latest type and eonvenience, and then to apply that value to all more or less similar proper- ties indiscriminately. Dr, Bojarano urges a more reasonable and elastic code, and a little more ap- tion of the fact that a building qn.:l‘uu'glmln is | 108 swollen_veins,” says Dr. been | the stagnant veins, and so restoring {mormal flow of the blood. Such a pro- | cedure is now found to be erroneou: Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands uarter far removed from the business trict of Bogota, is not to be subjected to the same apportionments as if it were situated on the Pasco Bolivar. In- deed, the present rates some properties in the outlying pur- lieus of the city are based on estimates which exceed the real value of the properties by 200 or 300 per cent. In the present eommercial many of these properties do not earn, in course of many months, enough money to pay the taxes cherged t ] to say nothing of showing any profit on the investments. Dr. Bojarano, in an eloquent and convineing address, urged the clvic au- thorities to take immediate steps to end this archajc and unfair system of as- sessments, and it is likely, from terest manifested in the council, that the entire subject will be reviewed, and proper revisions and rebates made in connection with all taxes, at least in so far as their relative discriminations are concerned. * * X X Blood Circulates Through Congested Vein: O Jornal do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro— Dr. Nicolas Ciancio has evolved the | theory that, contrary to largely accepted blood medicel opinion, the does circu-~ late through varicose or congested veins, but does not return to the general cir» culation, and thus through the heart, but flows only in a localized surround- area. “‘One form of treatment Ciancio, “has the establishment of what is called ‘collateral circulation.’ This at- tempt to correct the trouble consisted in distending L r tributary veins, thus Telieving the pressure on the When varicose veins in the leg are treated in this way, the blood released, instead of flowing upward to the lungs and heart, flows downward, and creates discomfort and construction at another point.” Dr. Ciancio added that nature seeks to relieve the condition by the formation of new channels through which the stationary blood stream can again find a passage. Such a d system, as soon as it is functioning, is a better remedy for the disorder than.any methods of treatment as yet known to the art of medicine. Soviet Forced Labor * Denial Hit by British Prom the Fort Wayne Newa-Sentinel. Unfortunately for Moscow, the Soviet denjal—in broad, blanket form—that any convict labor is’ being employed in the Russian timber industry, has been met by & “blue book,” published by the British government, which quotes di- rectly from the reds’ labor regulations, and shows beyond doubt that the Rus- sian government has regularly practiced forced labor policies, One cf these regulations is an order issued by the Russian commissariat of agriculture, which has charge of the forests, This order, dated June 1, 1929, Is entitled “Procedure for the Utilization of Forced Labor in . Forestry and Im- provement Work.” There is no sign of | any subcequent crder medifying this course of action, which is set off by the declaration that “the present instruc- tions are the first attempt to utilize on timber and improvement work the labor of persons sentenced to forced labor t detention under guard.” Under the terms of this general order, all Russlan agricultural organizations are directed to explore all, possibilities for using convicts in timber work, and | “to establish for this purpose perma- |nent relations with the bureau of forced labcr.” . Even more light has been thro | upon the use of conviet Jabor by the ;’dfiposmnn of '- u!flml,f{wl‘lglu.flflfl :( the “unified state pol rtment” (the famous Of interned in Pin. |land. This gentleman declares that the | penal camps are operated under an ar- it ween the and the , and that officlal s o e 02108 pres the | of the the in- | Yok MARCH 12, 1931, ‘The Democrats in Congress will have make to upthelrmmbybegmhf call it, 15 & devel r-.dnmu-f‘”“ really The initial use of | M next Democrats throw in their lot with them they can send bills to President Hoover for his approval or disapproval dealing with many of the subjects which the Progressives place in program. * ok ok % With & general election hanging over them, the atic leaders are likely to give considerable thought to these Progressive proposals before they com- mit themselves to them. What they do in the Congress will be material for the campaign, either to be used to their advantage or inst LIt seems almost impossible that President Hoover will having a farm de- benture bill sent to him by the next Congress, however. The Democrats the Se;llh; st?hod'lor I';:ll: debenture proposal when the farm Was up for consideration almost to a man. ;ven Benator Copeland of New York, ad- mitting that he “held his nose” while he was doing so, voted for the - de- benture. X W In the last Congress the overwhelm- ing Republican majority in the House was able to stave off not only the de- benture, but other proposals advocated by the Progressives and opposed by the administration. The Democrats in that Congress could with comparative little danger to themselves get behind these proposals of the Progressives, if for no other reason than to annoy the admin- istration. They knew that these pro- fl;lslls would not become law, and that the main they would never reach the President because of the opposition of the House Republicans. But when the new Congress meets next December ! there will be a very difTerent situation to face. 1If the Democrats line up for the Progressive measures, not only will they go through Congress and to the Preslde!rll.mb\lt there is the chance that some of them may pass over a - dential veto. Just how far the %- cratic party is willing to become an ad- junct of Progressive group remains 1o be seen. The Democratic leaders will have to ‘determine, too, whether the passage of Progressive measures will make them solid or the reverse with the majority of the voters in many of the Btates. The Progressive Conference, called by a gro of five Progressive Senators headed by Norris of Nebraska, is laying its plans for keeping their prcgram be- fore the public and laying them cleverly. The leaders of the conference keep right on denying that they are seeking to form a. political party, a new party. But that does not mean that the Pro- gressives are not playing politics. They are bent on having their influence in he conventions of the Republicans and the Democrats next year. There is always the threal that if the Republicans go ahead nominate President Hoover again and adopt a platform in conformity to his views on economic and political issues— which are one and the same thing in this country—the Republican Progres- sives will bolt to the Democratic stand- ard. Senator Norris gave an example in 1928 of what may be expected. If the ocrats put forward a candidate whom Norris considers progressive to mpou Mr. Hoover, what more natural n that he should jump the fence again, notwithstanding his re-election as & blican? Gov. Roosevelt. .of New York already has been publicly Senator Norris for stand on the ~power problem. * K ok ¥ Just what the Progressive Repub- Ycans will do in the event President Hoover 1s faced b{ & mMore CONSPEVa- tive Democrat in the presidential race no D:I‘u i:lnm l;“a.y definitely today. They are y any sugges- tion that a new liberal political party be formed. At the meeting of the Progressive Conference here yesterday afternoon Senator Borah of his eloquent for the 96 per cent not own cent of the wealth of ths United tes, said that he hoped there would be a political party which would “‘wo; about the 96 more then they worry about r cent” who own s0 much. He adds at if not a political party, then “political voices. t looks at present as though Progressives were going to provide the “voices.” Certainly it is & proper funetion for the Progressives and for any politieal 3 * ok kX Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York and widely considered a likely nomine: of the Democrats for President, s making his bid for Pro- gressive support. Although he did not come to Washington for the Progressive Conference, he sent a most sympathetic telegram, explaining that he had the New York r‘[u-um on his hands and, therefore, could not be present. This was the same excuse that Gov. La Follette of Wisconsin and the Gov- for | €rnors of three other States gave for not bejng pregent, so it would be diffi to charge that Roosevelt was “ducking” too close a connection with the Progressives because of his desire for general support among the Demo- crats. Incidentally he took occasion t': ;;::! the ntme‘r:’non ’:( the conference own position regard to water power, which the Progressives are stressing as a major issue in the com- 1ns campaign. t was learned today that Charles A. Russell, who was selicitor of the old Federal Power Commission, but who was not re-employed by the new com- mission, has been summoned to Albany, presumably to do some work for Gov. Roosevelt in regard to the power ques- tion. Russell's failure to be re-employed roused the Progressives in the Senate to a fever heat. It brought about a de- mand for the reconsideration of the vote of the Senate by which Dr, George 'Otis Smith, new chairman of the Fed- eral Power Commission, was confirmed. Indeed, the Senate has taken the mat- ter of the confirmation of Dr. Smith into the courts and employed John W. Davis, the Democratic nominee for President in 1924, to handle its suit, challenging the President for his refusal to return to the Senate the nomination of Dr. Smith at the call of the Senate, The selection of Russell to do some work in Albany, perhaps in connection with water power, may not therefore be altogether without political significance. * ok kK While the Progressive conference is busy denouncing the Hoover admin- istration because of its faflure to do anything “constructive” for the farmer, the Republican National Committee has gone ahead with the formation of an advisory council on agriculture ®nd placed at its head Senator Dickinson of Iowa.' Dickinson was a leader of the farm group in the House until he was clected to the Senate last year. The it is_the Iowa Senator realizes that g'mouh:u ‘:tn napnl.anuz-m will have next year & statement lnu:gby him today is directed at Dem- ocratic critics of the administration. The Ipwa Senator is a hard hitter in a campaign. He said today: tead of leveling carping eriticism at farm relief measures which have been put into operation in the past two this country who do |1 &;r 4t:em e led ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. i i EEE5= «&5 A. Dr. Raiche Calif., was the first. She ?9‘.“10 at Mineola Field, Long Island, lawyers of America are members. e e between 20;000 and 27,000 members in ?‘ nunahfl and there are approxi- mately 130,000 lawyers, Q. How m2ny national forests are there in the United States?—F. A. There are now 150, with a total of 160,000,000 acres of land. Q When was “East Lynne,” first pro- duced on the stage?—P. T. N. A. The theatrical career of “East Lynne” dates back to March 23, 1863, when it was performed at a New York uwmr. s Hall. Clifton W. Tay- re, Brooklyn playwright, what was probably the first dramatic adaptation. Lucile Western was the first actress to piay the role of Lady Q. How many blue tcx ranches are there in Alaska?—W. S. A. There are about 275 blue fox ranches stocked with 36,000 foxes. The investment exceeds $6,850,000. There are also 90 fur farmers raising foxes, mink and marten in pens. Q. Why is the $2.50 gold piece no longer made?—S. W. L. A. By act of Congress passed April 11, 1930, the $2.50 gold plece was discon- tinued. The coin was discontinued be- cause it was not desired for circulation or commercial ?umwe& It was used mainly as s gift during the,Christmas season, and in January these coins were ;am returned to the vaults of the a Q. Where was the first railroad sta- tion built in Chicago?—H. N. A. When Railroads Were New says that the first was a cne-story wooden affair bullt by the Chicago and Galena Union Railroad, near the junction of the present Canal and Kinzie streets, in the Fall of 1848. Q. When was the pneumatic tire in- vented?—H. K. A. In 1888 the pneumatic tire was inv:inted by Dunlop, and at once came into universal use on the bicycle. In England and on the Continent, an au- tomobile casing, containing an inner inflated tube, was attached to the wheel rim, while in America a single tubs cemented to the rim was more generally used, and to this day holds its place on the bicycle. With the advent of the automobile, a new fleld was opened for 4% | the pneumatic rubber tire. Q. Please explain the term “horse latitude,”"—J. H. A. “Horse latitude” is the name given to the belt of ealms in the North At. lantic Ocean between the region of Passing “It is painful to see one of the state- Liest trees in all the forests come crash-~ ing down,” declares the Omaha World- Herald, voicing & comment typical of many which the passing of the New York World has inspired. “And this particular tree,” con! the World- Herald, “was more than stately and beautiful. For s0 many years it had ieen so healthy, so sound stanch, fi"'é'n‘;"fi””:"“" m;onnl- to think m ive forever, Newspaper particular, were proud of the World. They liked to t to it as an out- standing of jo that is fearless, mmm. publie-spirited, enlightened, enterprising, progressive, . Here was a newspaper with no strings to it and subject to no hidden hands that were pulling the strings; § Dowmpaper representing no interests skill which its writers put into its eol- umns. A people’s newepaper, and at the same time a newspaper for the diserim- inating and the intelligent.” “It was never narrow, partisan, hide- bound,” says the Cincinnati Times-Star, “and sometimes the gemerous things it said of public men who had felt its lash caused thern to rub their eyes in amaze, In a word, it was inde- pendent. It passed judgments on acts rather than men, and nothing it ever said in praise or dispraise of a man’s deed kept it from denouncing or eom- mending the next thing to which he Poipts'to. the tnst that s ing " pol to the faef pass| . a distinct loss, both to the Fourth Es- tate and to the Natlon”; that “for two mlfi&m 1}!\1 hhu‘mflnhlned - y e highest newspaper and preserved an ethical integrity des- tined to influence the American press for years to come.” * ok ok x blow to true democracy” is seen by the Roxnoke World-News, with the recog- nition cf “services that it has rendered in fields other than those of the po- litical arena, where it has championed democratic principles with a consistency and clear purpose that les some 0= called Democratic leaders.” That paper continues: “It has been the most con- stant and mest vigorous fighter against municipal graft and corruption. There will be great rejoicing in the under- world as it passes.” The Asbury Park Press asserts that its sale “cannot take from American journalism the spirit and ideals of its founder,” and the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel calls fts history “one of the greatest epics of American journalism,” while it places the fcunder as ‘‘one of the great line of editors that included Franklin, Greeley, Benmett, years, Senators Caraway of Arkansas, Connally of Texas and other Democrats could much more profitably oceupy their 1 1t least some n g out &t semblance of a farm relief program for thear_ht:wn bl:d“y‘ thing g nof em:tmcuu to loflu u! the country in last cam- paign, nor have uuérrmlved any plans 'llnoe that time. iticism requires a minimum of efl¢ 13 when that efl?flm AT Raymond, Grady, Watterson and Hals Halstead.” "Gm&r than the fall of & mighty man or of a city or of a small state is the fall of a great newspaper,” avers the Portland Oregon Jowrnal, with the comment on the last days of the paper: “What a shock it would have been to Pulitzer, the founder, to have been in the court room aad heard the petition, the court for permission to drop the World from its former high place! * * * One of the marvelous news] romances of America was the late Joe Pulitzer’s performance in the journals istic fleld, American journalism lost one of its ccmmanding figures when Mr. Pulitger laid down his work and crossed over,hOcmber nfin““' 5:!“ Ho% Greeley no man exercised a grea influence on American political life through the medium of a newspaper. . tele of Wm;n arflqpuflfi! f.’:': who s0 ted his utterances” * * ' * ok ¥ % “For 48 years the World has been one of the great spokesmen of the Re- public,” recalls the St. Louis Post-Dis- o @ cl trust deliberately undertake to mislead the country as to relief measures tfat have been_taken. fectly BT gL & s “A tragedy in journalism as it is 8 | A. The male parrot usuall to teaching better than the female. Q. Is Franklyn Baur broadcasting at present?—R. L. C. A. He is now off the air and I mak- ing phonograph records. Q. _Did Indians formerly live on dog meAl.fl—)(. A T. Mwmm‘mwmm Q. Will there be an eclipse of the sun this year’—J. D. W. . ‘There will not be a total eclipse in 1981. A partial eclipse of the sun will oecur April 17 and 18, 1931, visible lly in Eastern, Central and orthwestern Asta. the ern Asla. A eclipse October 11, 1931, will be visible &!ner- in South America, the South At- lantic Ocean and Central and Southern South America. A total eclij of the h’m‘ggflld tates will occur August 31, . totality crosses the northe: of Vermont and New Hampshire, the southwestern part of Maine and the ex- treme northeastern part of Massa- chusetts. Q. When was Hall Caine’s novel “The Christian” first published?—T. O. A. “The tlan” was first lished in 1897 in England. Q. What is 8 person called who s icularly interested in archery?— . P. A. He is called a toxophilite. Did the Romans use much con- Q. crete?—D. A. G. A. Willlam 8, Davis in his “A Day in Old Rome” says: “If concrete has not been invented by the Romans, they are‘at least the first great people to put it to very general use.” A. about one-fifth of the wheat mmnmd in England is produced at Q. Does light have weight?—8. R. A. Theoretically it has. Of course it is very small. An ordinary electric lamp would have to burn about 2,000,- 000 years to produce one ounce of light. Q. What kind of a banner did Joan of Arc have?—E. M. A. Joan of ‘"1 ‘hcnall des taining, an ever-stimulating friend” is by the New York “Something went out of life the World, something that will be missed as is the strong and vibrant ality of & friend who has been en death. Of many newspapers this could not be said. The old morn= ing Sun, for instance, was in a deca- dent phase when it was killed. The Herald had become simply a ‘soeiety’ . But the World, to the very last, stood as the voice Darty. “On is editorial page, under Mr. Cobb and Mr. Lippmann, it has been a champion of liberalism and freedom of thot . In its news columns it bas maintained the brevity and the color which the first Pulitzer desired, nor have those columns ever lost their original ms&?lng character. There- fore a ‘personality’ pacses.” “During these latter years” con- cludes the Raleigh News and “the World has, to be paper of ability and humor and originality. have been excellent. In many ways it Joseph Pulitzer gave to it and which marked it under Prank Cobb. It is a sad ending of what was until recently the greatest American liberal and dem= ocratic institution in the metropolis.” World Needs Action On Wheat Situation From the Worcester Daily Telegram. At the international wheat confer- ence in Paris the ever-present conflict between producers and consumers was again in evidence. The producer, in whatever country he may live, wishes to be protected in some way against ex- cessive competition from foreign coun- tries. The consumer, inclus in many cases the retail dealer, on’ account of difference in price or in quality, is often eager to buy outside goods. ‘Thus many governments are harassed by two op- posing groups, and there is also the struggle between government and gov- ermnment, or between nation and pation, for real or fancied advantages in the world - e case of wheat the situation is American growers are limits to the ai Government can give them. There is, for example, the export debenture pro- posal, or the export bounty, which scme of our Western farmers and politicians are still seeking and probably will con- tinue to seek during the Sum- mer. An American export bounty could be nullified by embargoes by governments, Powerful