Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1931, Page 8

FA-S8 M'HE EVENIL STAR With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. BMONDAY........March 30, 1831 YHEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor b A A T e fhe Evening Star Newspaper Company { New York Office; 110 East ‘flfiu England. enin ‘fl r nd iness Office: 1y o B B e Lake Mich i obean Ofice. 14 Regent: M. Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening Sts -48¢ per month 60¢ per month 8¢ per month Sc per copy "Sunday S e & of made at the eiid of‘snci mont ders may be sent in by mail or telephone [Ational 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgini g e All Other States and Canada. 2.00: E;’,’,,‘“,;,,- . ,'Zfif Member of the Associated Press. 10 Associated Press is exclusively entitled e ul:.éor republication n“ all news dis- 1mo., 3 ily und Sunday. 1 m 1mo. ily only ... ay only a4 o 1! ited to it or not otherwise cred- i, Baver and 4iso the local news rein. £hts of publication of also reserved. Presidential Polls. ‘The first “poll” on the presidential face of 1932 has made its appearance. Joseph Isidor Straus, a merchant and Democrat of New York City, sent a qu-stionnaire to the delegates and al- ternates to the Democratic National Convention of 1928, seeking to learn their preference for the Democratic presidential nomination. A tabulation of the answers shows Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York far in the lead. No effort was made to canvass the sen- #iment of the delegates from New York State, and the poll, therefore, does not include expression of opinion from the Bome State of Gov. Roosevelt. Approximately 2,000 men and women were queried as to their choice for the presidential nomination. Of this num- ber, 942 replied, some of them failing to give their preference. But of the 844 ‘who did “vote,” a majority favored Gov. Roosevelt. He stood first with 478 votes and second to him was former Gov. Al- fred E. Smith, the Democratic nominee in 1028, with 125. Owen D. Young, also of New York, stood third with 73 votes and Gov. Ritchie of Maryland fourth ‘with 39, and fifth was Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader of the Benate, with 38. The rest of the vote was divided among 15 other possible candidates, most of them “favorite ‘The delegates to the 1928 Demo- ‘eratic National Convention are not go- ing to pick the Democratic candidate for President in 1932. That is & job which will be performed by the con- vention which meets next year. It is Teasonable, however, to expect that a considerable number of the delegates to the convention of 1928 will be dele- gates in the convention next year. Purthermore, the replies received by Mr. Straus give impetus to the already well grown boom for the nomination of Gov. Roosevelt. It has been said by Jeading Democratic politiclans from many sections of the country that Gov. Roosevelt today is “out in front” in the race for the Democratic nomination. The Straus poll confirms this. Much has been written about the mistake of being out in front in such a Tace & long time in advance of the National Convention which actually selects the nominee. This is the merest twaddle. If a candidate has real strength, the sconer he comes into the lead the better off he is. He must be able to maintain the pace he sets, of course, if he is to win. But the day of successful “dark horse” candidates for the presidential nomination seems fad- ing. In 1928 the Hoover candidacy went to the front early and Mr. Hoover was nominated on the first ballot in the Republican National Convention. Gov. Bmith of New York for many months before the convention was far out in front of the rest of the candi- dates, and in the Democratic National Convention he, too, was nominated on the first ballot. . Mr. Straus has turred the attention of the country to the presidential poll. At intervals from now until the election in November next year other polls will follow, secking at first to show the trend for the presidentisl hominations and later to determine by these straw votes who is to win the coveted prize, the office of Chief Magis- trate. r———— 8o far as the production of wheat is concerned, the Amer.can farmer has a record of extraordinary success. The American financier has not been equally h2ppy in managing details of price and distribution. Australia’s Financial Crisis. If there were any doubts in people’s minds about the wgrld-wideness of eco- nomic depression, current events yert of the globe, many thousands of miles 2way, would disprove them. The bond markets of Loadcn and New York ware shocked at ths end of last week by news from New South Wales, the most populous state in the common- wealth of Australia. It was to the ef- fect that the long-tireatened repu tion of debts had culminated in a decl tion by Premier Lang that New South es dces not intend to pay the inter- due April 1 on British loans. The bitterness of the pill, as a London dis- patch to The Sunday Star narrates, was aggravated by a concurrent deci- #ion to pay the inierest on dollar bor- rewings from Anierica Domestic Australian politics helped to complicate financial condi- tions, which have been years. A moderate Labor government, Leaded by Prime Minister Scullin, rules over federal affairs at Canberra, but an emist Labor paity is in power in the state of New South Wales. The head of the laiter's government, it is suggested, has not shiunk from jeopard- izing Austrelian credit throughout the world, if only by doing 0 he can un- Cermine the prestigs of the Scullin na- ticmal ministry Commanwealth spokesmen in Lon- don, outraged by Premier Lang’s ac- tion, declare it will force a show-down in a federal election, purge the Labor party of radicalism and re-establish Australi’s prestige as a respecter of its financial obligations. The Com- monwealth Bank is ready to save the situation and meet New South Wales' ¢ouzons In Groat Trio But Premier Lang's 8 we did then, f | ticlans, along with the rest of the in al has desperate thrcughout the commonweslth for two which appears to be requisite, is with- held. He is determined that his coun- try shall be branded a defaulter. Doubtless Threadneedle Street, per- | haps with the aid of Wall Street, now that the governor of the Bank of Eng- land, Mr. Montagu Norman, is on Manhattan Island, will find ways and means of grappling with the Australian crisis. British money invested in com- monwealth securities runs into tens of millions of pounds sterling. The mere specter of repudiation “down under” is terrifying and disturbing. Aus- tralian securities in London tumbled heavily on the disquieting reports from New South Wales. The commonwealth is rich in resources, but Labor govern- ment there reveals no more ability to come to grips with economic dislo- cation than the MacDonald regime has done in the Mother Country. Australia, a continent of slightly larger land area than the United States, 15 as undeveloped as this coun- try was seventy-five years ago. Like the Australians sorely need foreign capital for exploitation of their virgin soll, forests, water power and other national potentialities. Com- mon sense will teach the Labor poli- country, that repudiation of bonded in- debtedness is the surest way of fright- ening world capital out of and away from Australia. ——————— Urban Grade Crossings. Statistics gathered by the American Railway Association demonstrate a re- duction of nineteen per cent in the number of fatalities at grade crossings in this country from 1929 to 1930. This | is some comfort to those who are (enr-’ ful lest the development of the motor car may lead to the overtaking of the birth rate by the death rate in America. But the comfort is only in slight degree, for while the accidents at grade cross- ings have lessened in number and cost- liness, the other highway fatalities have increased by four per cent. ‘Vast sums of money have been spent in making the rallroad crossings safe, by raising or by lowering the highways. The railroads have been required to in- stall safeguards at places where such level crossings cannot practicably or without heavy expense be eliminated. Pressure is constantly exerted upon them to go further and further in these improvements and checks against the folly of drivers. States are spending large sums likewise in caring for their shares of the works of prevention. Still many “death traps” remain, open cross- ings, unguarded places, intersections where the view of the tracks is blocked by trees or structures, crossings raised above the highway level sufficiently to cause the stalling of cars—all sorts of conditions making for the trapping of road users. The slogan, “Stop, look and listen,” must continue to be sounded throughout the land to keep the peril of the grade crossing in the minds of the motorists. But while the evil of the raiiroad grade crossing has been lessened, at heavy cost, the streets of the cities bave become mazes of motor grade crossings that are daily taking a ghastly toll of life, in consequence of the recklessness and the incompetence of drivers. This morning a case occurred in this city to illustrate the fact that not all the danger lies out | In the suburbs where the roads and the tracks coincide. A motorist tried to speed his machine in,front of two street cars that were approaching from oppo- site directions at & busy cormer. He failed to clear, the street cars. nipped | him between them and all three ve- { hicles were badly damaged, the motor | car being reduced to shapeless wreck- age and the street cers derailed. By a miracle nobody was hurt. Had this | occurred at a grade crossing outside of | the city there would have been a great ‘lwondemenz and a renewal of the de- | mand—perfectly righteous and justifi- | able—that all grade crossings be forth- | with abolished. 1t is impossible to reduce grade cross- | |ings in town. It should, however, be | possible by elimination to remove from | traffic those who are incompetent to | drive. R His venture into Nebraska politics probably did not directly assist the grocery business of George Norris of | Broken Bow, whs got on the ticket in a manner which threatened to confuse | voters who meant to vote for Senator | George Norris. And yet his experiences | will make a story which can be oft | repeated for the entertainment of cus- | tomers during the long Winter evenings. ——— As usual, the astronomical calculations which arnounce the arrival of Spring | are accompanied by reports of blizzards , | in the West. The reliability of weather forecasts has increased amazingly, but the temperature can never be expected to assert itself on terms of mathematical | accuracy. | e 8ix hold-up men were put t> flight by the manager of a bank in New York. It | takes & brave man to be a bank man- er in times like this. He must be as expert with a gun as with the adding | mazchine. e Burke Awarded to Michigan. Fred Burke, the most wanted man in Amcrica, has been awarded by the State of Missouri to the State of Michigar end transported to the latter for trial for murder From the moment of his cepture in a little Missouri hamlet claims for this desperado began to pour in upon the authorities of that State. Witain the first dozen hours no less than eight had expressed a willingness, even an anxicty, each to take him over for trial for some atroclous crime com- mitted there. Before the matter was seitled by decision by the Governor of Missour{ in favor of Michigan no less than eighteen jurisdictions had found records of offenses believed to have been | committed by Burke. ‘This remarkable situation developed into a veritable hearing before the Gov- | ernor of most of the cases against Burke. | Evidence was sketched or indicated by repre:entatives of the rival claimants for the perscn of the fugitive. Finally the Covernor decided that Michigan had scemingly the strongest case against Burke, on the charge of the murder of a policeman at the City of St. Jo- | seph, and signed the extradition m| 'favor of that commonweaith. Chicago urged strenuously that it be given the guilt would solve some mysteries. does mnot appear to be the type of criminal who weakens and confesses, so long string of offenses now laid against him these cases may never be definitely ; cleared. leadership and an admiration of honest discipline. son interested himself in the game base persons as a rather rough sport which youth might enjoy, years ought to outgrow. Thanks largely to the influence of Byron Bancroft Johnson, highest co-ordination of which sport is capable and a conspicuous expression of pression of radical newspapers, may be influenced by an impression that radical literature has been so generally dis- tributed that by this time any legitimate demand for it should be fully satisfied. Radical writers have shown a growing | for printer's ink. the eminent French leader, Briand, that Germany and Austria must avoid being too friendly for fear of causing enmities el by whom peace shall be managed is one of the most persistent and delicate in ©0ld World politics. Professor [Einstein may find fellow scientists ready with a new and entirely reliable humanity as anything discovered by higher mathematics. Islands so long as they were permitted to make rum. Possibly the Danish gov- ernment would not have hesitated about selling them had it foreseen that they swered Senator Sorghum. speeches. | The agricultural citizen and yesterday Burke was whisked to that State in an armored motor car, heavily guarded to prevent either rescue or slaying in revenge. The award of this criminal to Michi- #an assures that if he is convicted there of the murder charged aguinst him he will not suffer the death penaity, Michi- gAD's seversst punishment for any form of crime being imprisonment- for life. Had he been turned over to Illinois for the Chicago murders and convicted he would have gone to the execution cham- ber. 1t is barely possible that this difference in the laws of the States was a factor in inducing Governor Caulfield to send him te Michigan. It it were possible to do so, it might be advantageous to send Burke around on & circuit, for trial in each of the States which claimed his person; unless he should, perhaps upon conviction in Michigan, confess to the crimes charged against him. A full statement of his He that unless he is brought to trial for the ———————— Base ball promotes a love of true When the late “Ban” John- ball was regarded by many thoughtful but which wiser it became typical of the the true American spirit of fair play. —_— e ratee— Germany, in contemplating the sup- disposition to monopolize the market B It is the plainly expressed opinion of Isewhere. Peace in Europe is deA‘ manded, but the question of how and o After a long season of banqueting cure for indigestion, which might be considered as valuable to| e Prosperity was enjoyed by the Virgin would find their thriving business pad- locked. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Extinct Political Animal. We feel the loss. It is acute. That old “dark horse,” A noble brute Of bygone years, ‘With gait serene, No more appears Upon the scene! Now every man Who talks aloud ‘Thinks that he can Persuade the crowd ‘That it must see His merit great And let him be A candidate! A bit of song. A step of dance, May bring along Some sort of chance. 8o spread your fame, If you are wise, And try to claim A statesman's prize. Don't stand aside And think mankind In modest pride Your worth will find; But come across With boasting great. That old “dark hoss” Is out of date. Consistency Not Positively Required. “Of course, you can't be expected to please everybody.” “You are mistaken about that,” an- “A politician can pleasé all kinds of different audi- ences with all kinds of different One of the things our public appears especially to admire is versa- tlity.” Jud Tunkins says advice is mostly like household medicine, easier to give than it is to take. War Always Unsuccessful. About “another war” they speak. It's what some men appear to seek, And, from their cravings, you might Buess The previous war was a success! Early Education. “Do you enjoy going to school?” “Very much,” replied the bright little boy. “Of course, the school isn't very entertaining. But the ride there and back is always pleasant.” “A great lead:r,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is a man who studies the direction a public move- ment will take and hurries so as to keep a little in advance of the crowd.” Farm Finanee. Is thought to find life full of charm, If now and then, and yet again, He puts a mortgage on the farm “Read ych Bible,” said Uncle Eben, “an’ try to understand it by yoh own self. If you axes anybody to 'splain it, you's lieble to git into an ahgument THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Now arrive, on flavored winds, morn- ings made for walking. Along winding roads and down every street, air redolent with the mystic something of the season, invites to post- breakfast strolls. ‘The best time for the average person to get in this brief walk is on going to work, preferably before catching & public conveyance to one's place of em- ployment. rtunate is he if he lives at some distance from bus or car line. He is to be congratulated, particularly if his work calls for his arrival some time before the mass of the populace gets to moving townward. ‘There can be little gainsaying that there is something peculiarly grateful in the air of early morning, especially after the sun is up. ‘The scientific explanation we leave to others; what remains is for the happi- ness of every early morning stroller. ® R Ok X This walk should be & happy mixture of the stroll and the walk, fast enough to compensate for the chill of the morn- ing, at this season, and slow enough for the pedestrian to see both the old and the new along his way. A homely pleasure, this, one which ought to be tasted by more than do, one thinks, as he recalls all those thou- sands of human beings, springing out of bed, late for work every morning. They rush through their ablutions, cram down their breakfasts in a hurry, dash madly across the street for car or bus, arrive just as the bell is ringing. They are out of breath all the time, too hurried and flurried to be interested in a necessary daily chore, yet one which may give much pleasure. * x % * The freshness of the morning air always a thing to marvel at. . It is as dustless alr as a great city ever knows. few ears for hours, now, but the dew of morning has put a fine natural blan- ket over everything, preventing dust particles from arising. In addition, there is more of that vital something which formerly used to be called “ozone,” & word now largely gone out of style. ‘We no longer speak of ozone, but we seem to smell it in the fresh air of post-breakfast hours, as it impinges gratefully lnlnn.our lungs. x koK % ‘The walker takes long breaths. A slight vapor still curls from his nose as he breathes, but the Winter | chill is gone, there is none of that sharp unpleasantness which formerly | made him wish the distance less. Now he is glad that it is every foot | For this is that sort of morning, | of it. that glorious Spring morning, than which no day in the entire year has a more perfect one to offer to a human being. Aurora, goddess of dawn, still comes to mortals, this morning, as all morn- ings, bringing her sweet gifts to dis- cerning beings. It is not an amazing thing to con-. template, this rerfm morning, after the millions of other perfect mornings this old world has known? In the midst of storm and stress, floods and visitations, have come these | perfect mornings to a world eager to receive them. * ok % * Such & morning is a gift, and fool- ish is he who is s0 occupied with more material thoughts that he cannot re- ceive it. Here, on the open road, the windows of sleepers are yet flung high. The walker feels a slight superiority, that Not only have there been | he is up and doing, with a heart for any fate. He notes with supreme interest that here a white picket gate has arisen since he went by yesterday. It is perfect, this gate, just the thing which should have gone between these rows of hedge. It is a craftsmanlike Jjob, but, better than that, it completes & picture. His thanks go out to the owner of the house, and to the carpenter, for their co-operation in completing one of his_morning pictures. Now that the gate is up, and swing- ing there on 1ts binges, he sees that it was necessary to the picture. Now he will have another interest in the morn- ing walk, in looking for and appreciate ing the work of the painter. One morning, he knows, will see a priming coat, and several mornings later a second coat. Perhaps there will be & third. The whiter the gate, the greater the gain, « X ox % At the corner of the winding road, it he is a methodical person, the pedes- trian will meet the same gentleman each and every morning. This gentleman carries his hat in his hand. He is not & young man, but he carries his bat in his hand just the same. His gray hair waves in the morning wind. Surely he is a brave gentleman, to defy the wind at his age. But he is hale and ruddy, there is a sparkle in his eye, and his step is elastic. He will receive no harm from walking in this air with his hat off to the world. W Along here another one of the walk- er'’s unknown friends has replaced four bushes in his hemlock hedge. This, too, is a matter of great interest to the walker. His interests are wide. He knows not the master of this place, sit- ting snugly behind its hemlock hedge, but he knows his touch in the replace- ment of the dying hemlocks. It was one of the coldest days of the Winter when the new ones were set out. Their holes were dug deep and wide, and, a snow setting in after they were dug, were covered with boards for & few days. X At Iast the hemlocks were put in. It is a pleasure for the pedestrian to note that they are doing very well, and blend nicely with their ~elders. A hemlock hedge is nice and—expen- | sive. Its evergreen character gives it & prestige which few other hedging materials possess, W » Our pedestrian, being of a demo- cratic turn of mind, has a large ‘and extensive ~acquaintance among the cooks and chauffeurs of the community. He is well known in the kitchens and garages, he has no doubt, even if he never penetrates to the drawing rooms of these mansions. On the road he has other com- panions. The squirrels are the chief of these. He looks every morning for one particular old fellow, with a scrawny tail. It seems that squirrels have little appreciation of human speech. These squirrels, much to the pedes- trian's dismay, do not know that he is kindly as well as democratic, His call to them is invariably answered by a wild scurrying up Occasionally a rabbit scuttles across the road, a mere s of brown and white, pursued by two small dogs with ears laid back, rabbit-hungry yelps issuing from their mouths. What ama- teurs these dogs are! They will never catch these or any other rabbits, and the pedestrian is glad. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIG WILLIAM WILE. ‘This revived talk of Coolidge for 1932 has just one breath of life in it— and that a very feeble one. The sol: and only chance Calvin would have of getting the Republican presidential nomination next year is that Hoover doesn’t want it. That chanc?, in terms of betting odds, is about 1 to 1,000. Every move now being made, and hence- forward to be made, on the G. O. P. chessboard is with an eye single to the President’s renomination. If there's a change in the national chairmanship, it'll be a pro-Hoover change, which is not to say that Senator Fess isn't as orthodox, from the White House stand- point, as any man could be. If any- body else than Curtis is groomed as a vice presid:ntial candidate, that, too, will be in Mr. Hoover's interest. Any administration that desires to perpetu- ate itself can bring about the incum- bent’s renomination. Its control of the party machinery, plus the office-holding influence throughout the country, makes it easy to rule the national convention. President Hoover faces no difficulties in tha direction. Now and then some politiclan de- poses and says he “wouldn't be sur- prised” if the Californian bstween now end June, 1932, expressed a preferenc> to go down in history as a one-term President. No one in th> Hoover inner circle considers such a within the realm of thinkable possibili- ties. Hoover wants vindication of his administration. The breaks having been against him during his first term, | an opportunity to show what | he cri kind of a President he can b: amid the normal conditions which most of his predecessors had. He desires particu- larly to see the country brought back to prosperity while he's on the job. He has soms far-reaching plans for world peace, which there hasn't been time, as yet, to work out. Most of all—and this is the feature of main interest to the politiclans—Mr. Hoover thinks he can run and win again in 1932 * ok ox % No cat is being let cut of the bag with the statement that the Repub- licans' dearest wish is to see the Dem- ocrats renominate Al Smith. They are confident he'd be just as easy meat for Hoover next year, as the Governor proved to be in 1928. The G. O. P. is undoubtedly ready to let the Dem- ocrats with Smith take the sopping- wet end of the prohibition issue and §o to the country with Hoover on the dry end. With Tammany sure to be | far more of a Democratic liability than | it was three years ago. and the re- liglous factor which militated against Smith pelieved still to poison, Hoover's' supporters are more than eager to fight it out again with the New York idol. Almost any horse in the Democratic stable—Roosevelt, Young. Robinson, Baker or any one of two or three others—would be looked upon as a more formidable opponent than Smith. Hence and therefore Hooverites receive without anxiety re- ports that Mr. Raskob is stealthily and wealthily organizing sentiment for Al in all parts of the country. * x % Rear Admiral David F. Sellers, judge advocate general of the Navy, spins a | yarn about Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford, who will shortly retire from | Columbia Supreme | the District of Court bench after 27 years’ service. A Filipino, who served in two different ships under Sellers, came to Washing- ton to complete the formalities neces- | sary to full American citizenship. What mainly was required was identification The little brown brother sought the | aid of his old commanding officer. Sellers agreed to accompany the Fili pino t> the District Court House. dat’ll ‘wlxu de best years of yoh life.” . He's Tried English Ones, Too. Trom the Des Molnes Tribunc-Cavital. In South America the Prince of Wales is advertising British products privilege of trying Burke for the so- called St. Valentine day murders, con- | tending that it had much more evi- dence against him than has been dis- cleved or indicated. The sward to Michigan was made notwithstanding, by smoking American cigarettes. ——itee Census-Takers Stung. Prom the South Bend Tribune. Even Wil be counted by Can P e . o, s toZme, W Justice Stafford was available for the purpose and conducted the brief cere- | “Have you read the Constitu- | mony. tion yol the United States?” the schol- arly jurist asked. “‘Yes, sir,” the ap- Pllcmt replied. “Do you understand it?" Stafford added. “I do,” the Fili- pino said. “Well, young man,” observed Justice Stafford, “you are not only eli- gible for citizenship, you are qualified to be a member of the United States Su- preme ert”. hih Sonalo Move] 8, C-neland, Democrat, * ot New York has st Mg & Dew ilasi development | change on_ Secretary Mellon's 10-year tenure of office in the Treasury Depart- ment. In a radio talk on veterans' leg- islation, the doctor-statesman remarked that it’ could be said of Uncle Andy that “three Presidents of the United States have served under Mellon.” That |18 certainly true, Copeland argued, as |far as ex-service men are concerned, | “for Mr. Mellon has dictated the bonus | policies of Harding, Coolidge and Hoo- ver in succession.” * X % % Most of the members O&Conzreu who are lingering on in Washington, a | month after the close of the session, |are remaining until June, in order to |let thelr children finish the term in | the Washington public schools. One of | the House members thus succumbing to | the Capital's Springtime lure is Repre- sentative Simmons, Republican, of Ne- braska, whose specialty is counting the | pennies which Congress allots to the disfranchised Distrfét of Columbia. * How There must be something in ances- | try, after all, even among dogs. A son | of President Hoover's New York bench- show champion Gordon setter, Ingle- mere Gillette, has just duplicated the paternal trick by winning the annual blue ribbon in his class at the same cxhibition. * x o % Washington's one big pub- lic meeting hall, the privately owned Auditorium, may have to be razed to make room for the new War and Navy Department Building, why can’t some- thing be done to carry out the long- | projected George Washington Memorial |Hall project? Years ago Congress | handed over to the organization formed to erect such a building a_magnificent | plot of land just south of Pennsylvania {avenue. A corner stone was laid, but since then the enterprise has consisted |of a yawning hole in the ground. The |condition of the land grant was that the money for the building should be | raised by popular subscription. Mrs. |Henry F. Dimock, Washington society leader, has carried on, single-handed, a campaign to find the funds, but they have not been forthcoming. If Mr. Mellon, Mr. Ford or some other citizen (who combines wealth with patriotism | were to put up the $10,000,000 required, |no finer monument to his fame is im- |aginable. The Capital of the richest country in the world is in sore need of |such a structure as the George Wash- | ington Memerial is planned to be. | (Copyright, 1931.) ——— Fame Tricks Savant. Prom the Milwaukee Sentinel Dr. Einstein, having discovered and developed a theory of relativity, natu- rally has been asked for authoritative | statements on the secret of happiness and the digestibility of hot bread. Now that | Prom the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. | It will be a good joke on the rich when they get all the money. They will have to give the rest of us a start in order to have the fun of getting it | away from us again. Bineer P Extra! Police Raid Club. From the Savannah Morning News. The real news in the story of the raiding of the exclusive clubs in Phila- | delphia is that the city police did the raiding. o Boy! The Adding Machine. From the Charleston (8. C.) Evening Post. The Weather Bureau says that Sum- mer rainfall east of the Rockies last year was 500,000,000,000,000 tons short of normal and anybody that doesn't believe it can count for himself. il et = G T Or Spurs for Executives. | From the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator. | An efficiency expert is one who ad- | vises high heels for the business girls | in order to keep them on their toes. | Seek Wetter Fields. Prom the Des Moines Tribune-Capital. ‘The drought has had its effect here, too, Thirty-six Towans joined the Navy ‘month, e Teport comes out of Tammany has decided to vwn Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presi- dential nomination and to suj Al Smil , 1t appears, however, 10 N te the next 1 President. This does not mean that Tammany will not have a part in the nomination if it yishes. But it does mean that Tam- many, single handed, is not to decide who is to be the party's candidate. It may, on the other hand, be able to “stop” a candidate whom it does not desire nominated. It may be able to revent the nomination of Franklin D. velt—th ter of doubt—but it certainly is not £0ing to be able to nominate Al Smith or any other candidate if it lets it be h that is still & mat- | tal ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ssaiiiz é director, In using television does & person into a telephone mou and hold a recelver to his ear?. F. ord! tel A, not known that the man ' . is Tammany's can. ol idate, “o e In the first place, the country pretty well credits Tammany with * having nominated the last Democratic presi- dential candidate. If the truth were told, this is not fair to Al Smith, who had made a great Governor of New York State and was an outstanding national figure, Tammany or no Tam- many. However, Tammany got the credit in many minds. And Al Smith, wearing the Tammany label, was de- feated y in 1928. The rest of the Democracy is asking why it should look to Tammany for another candidate, or for the same one that it put forward | to in 1928. In the second place, Tam- many 18 under fire right now, with an investigation by the State Legislature into the government of New York City, Tammany'’s_particular bailiwick, about to begin. The chances are that Tam- many, as a national asset, will be a liability to any candidate rather than an aid. e e It does not appear quite clear yet, however, tnat Tammany, through ' its leaders, has determined to turn thumbs down on Roosevelt and seek to nomi- nate Al Smith again. New York Dem- ocrats are sald to discount the report that the scheme was cooked up at a dinner given last week in the home of Joseph J. Murphy, Democratic leader in Troy, which was attended by John F. Curry, Tammany chieftain, and oth- ers, including John H. McCooey, the Democratic leader of Brooklyn. But the Tammany leaders might as well under- stand, according to Democratic leaders in Washington from other parts of the country, that they are not going to say next year who is to be the Democratic candidate for President, and further, that former Gov. Smith cannot be again nominated, not next year at least. It takes a two-thirds voté in a Democratic Nationa] Convention to nominate a can- didate for President. The Democrats here say that they simply are not goin to repeat the performance that place in Houston, Tex., three years ago. * K % % Former President Coolidge’s name was put forward in the political gossip in Washington last week as a possible con- tender against Mr. Hoover for the Re- publican presidential nomination. _In- deed, the organization which Col. Hor- ace Mann is seeking to set up in the Southern States to control delegates to the next Republcian National Conven- tion is reported to have Mr. Coolidge in mind for the nomination. To some of the political leaders it looks as though the colonel, who has fallen out with the Hoover administration, is hitching his chariot to the fame of the former President in an effort to make headway. * K K * Republican leaders, however, doubt that Mr. Coolidge will permit himself and his prestige to be used in this mat- ter. Practically all of them, barring Col. Mann and some of the Progressive Senators, seem to be certain that noth- ing can or will stop the renomination of President Hoover, unless Mr. Hoover himself should take himself out of the race—an entirely unlikely contingency. As one prominent Republican puts it: “If Mr. Hoover cannot be renominated and re-el:cted, the Republican nomina- tion is of no value to any other Repub- lican at this time.” This was the view taken by the late Champ Clark, Demo- eratic Speaker of the House, when Democrats who were disgruntled with the Wilson administration came to him in 1916 and urged Clark to make the race for the presidential nomination against Woodrow Wilson in that year. * * o x Massachusetts’ State Legislature, through a special committee, is trying to frams a bill to redistrict the State so that it will have only 15 members of tfe House in the Seventy-third Congress in- stead of 16, which it has at present. The reapportionment of the House makes this necessary, The Legislature is Republican and the Governor, who must sign the redistricting bill, is Demo- cratic. The Bay State voters are of the opinion that a bill which the Legisia- ture puts through will not be approved by the Governor. The Republicans, under the present districting of the State, elected 12 of the 16 members of the present Congress. The Democrats insist that they should have a representation. It looks as though, legislation failing, the next Massachu- setts delegation will have to be elected “at large,” with all the candidates run- ning in a State-wide contest. This will not please some of the members now sitting. However, it will be a presi- dential year, and also there will be a election of & Governor. If the Repub- licans elect a Governor and a Legisla- ture in 1932, they will then be able to redistrict the State as they desire. They are willing to wait and take their chance rather than to give in to the Democratic Governor now, it is said. * K oK Up in North Dakota the Legislature simply took the bull by the horns and instead of trying to redistrict the State into two districts instead of three, wiped out the old district lines and provided for the election of two members of the House “at large.” South Dakota, which also had to come down from three seats in the House to two seats, combined the first two_districts into one and left the old third district. This does not ap- pear to be a fair division, /since the population in two districts now put into cne totals 550,000, while the population in the old third district is only 175,000. If a referendum can be had which will halt the administration of this legisla- tion, then South Dakota also will elect two members of the House “at large™ next year. { HiE WO In the early days of the country there { were no congressional districts. Mem- i bers of the Hous* were chosen by the voters of the entire State. It was in 1842 that Congress provided for the districting of the States, under the Con- stitution. It is clear that in a State where one political party usually dom- inates that party would elect the en- tire congressional delegation, although parts cf it might be strongholds of the opposition. Under the reapportionment now made in agreement with the census of 1930 some of the States have in- creased representation in the House, and these States also must be redistricted or provide for choosing the Representa- tives at large. However, it is probably an easier matter to increase the nurh- ber of districts in a State than to re- duce the number. * koK * The liquor question is likely to pla; an important part in the M: setts elections next year, just.as it did in 1930. The Democrats ran a wet for Governor and a wet for the Senate against Republican drys. Next year if the State delegation to the House is to | be elected at large, no one can say how many wet and how many dry Republic- ens will be on the ticket. It is & pretty safe bet, however, that the Dem- ocratic nominees will all be wet. At present the Governor, Ely, is a Demo- crat and the lleutenant governor, Youngman, is a Republican. Ely may have opposition for the Democratic nomination for Governor from Mayor Curley of Boston, and Youngman, who had hoped to be Governor after former | mal Gov. Allen, Republican, had completed his second term—a term which Allen falled to get last year—m; slidon om Allen irom, former ter | | ter work may applaud, not because Mr. His scanned by & mild ul"hlch nn‘.’ch from hotoel boo! the distant person, and a hidden re- ceiver speaks the words, which seem from his mouth. ppears with sufficient detall for recognition of facial expression, but the effect is like looking at an ani- mated cabinet-size photograph, because the image is produced in monochrome. Q. What is the tallest species of trees?—A. B. A. A kind of eucalyptus or.blue- gum which grows in Australia is the tallest. Individual trees have been known to attain a height of 400 feet. Q. Can gold ingots be sold to the Efim States mints by foreign nations? . D, A, Gold the mint stamp of any recognized nation with which the United States is on friendly terms is accepted by the United States mints. Q. Is the title, Duke of York, hereditary?—E. P. A. The titles of Duke of York and Prince of Wales in the dynasty of Great Britain are not strictly heredi- tary but must be conferred upon the incumbent by the sovereign; hence, there is no set succession for the titles. Q. Why do birds throw back their heads when drinking?—J. G. A. The pigeon is the only bird that drinks by suction. All other birds take the water into their mouths and throw their heads back in order to swallow. Q. How long has contract bridge been played?—N. K. A. About 17 years. Americans who went abroad found that players were experimenting with a form contract bridge. About 1915 the Whist Club of New . York considered codifying game but decided that the time had not arrived to do so. Little more was heard of contract until the Summer of 1926, when it became very popular ln' Newport and Southampton. In the Fall its popularity spread to New York City. It is now played in all parts of the country. Q. When were cosmetics first used? ~ A. The knowledge of cosmetics dates back to remote antiquity and t“:l I d '.I‘::n nce of t olly, luxury and extravagance of pas ages. - The number of simple and com- mnd substances _em) as _per- es is incalculable and almost fabulous and the books written by the | conditions under which etained. their of the I mfiu& Greeks and Romans on subject almost constituted a llhflrymlg themselves. low mlliy inhabitants has Q. H¢ U:erh!—LNA . This Negro republic has a popu- 060,000, all’ N lation of about 2, of whom nearly 20,000 are fro- Americans. The civilized inhabitants number about 50,000, live near tI coast, and speak English language. Q. _How much the brain of Ana- tole France weigh?—C. H. A. The brain of Anatole PFrance, author, who died In 1024, weighed only 1,017 grams, but its convolutions were deep and numerous, Q. When was the Association of Junlor Leagues of America formed?— | A 'The nucleus of the présent asso- clation was the Junior League of the New York College settlement, ized by Miss Mary Harriman in 1900. ‘This was followed in 1006 by the founding of a second league in Boston. Baltimore, Brooklyn and Philaediphia having meanwhile joined the ranks, the first general conference was held in 1911. In 1920 the 30 leagues then existing were organized vbv{’ Mrs. Wil- lard ht (Dorothy itaey) into the present association, and six years later & national headquarters ~was established in New York City, and in the following year an anthology of Junior League poetry was published. In the same year the Bulletin, since 1912 the official organ, was converted into the Junior League Magazine. There were 101 leagues in the United States, representing 39 States, and | three additicnal leagues in Canada in |1928. The same year a national club with offices and exhibition rooms was | established in New York City. Q. Is Columbus considered & very daring_mariner?—E. L. age, one anut! haps the bravest exploit ever und taken, for he was sailing, not along the comst. but straight out into the ‘Sea of Darkness' as the Atlantic was then called, every minute farther and :‘nm from the only land he really ew.” Q. Please give some information concerning the new Federal prison for A. The Woman's Federal Industrial Institution is located in West Virginia, on the Greenbrier River, at Alderson, with a high, invigrating altitude and singularly free from evil surroundings of any sort. While female offenders of every kind are punishable here, this institution is not, in the usual Sense, & n, but a well managed and orderly reformatory where the res- toration of erring women is of first concern. It is the result of a sincere effort on the part of American women throughout the country, as well as by the Department of Justice, to improve fernale prison- ers are di Q. How high above the earth does the highest cloud float>—T. 8. S. | _A. . Humphreys of the United States Weather Bureau says that ris- ing masses of air cannot ascend beyond the level of the highest cirrus cloud— that is, in middle latitudes above an elevation of about 6 or 7 miles. Q. When will the public lands near Boulder Dam be open to settlers?— . 8. A. These lands will not bc opened to settlement until the dam is com- pleted and water can be furnished for irrigation gurpole-, which will not be before 1938. Drei er and Lewis Viewed Through Their Own Glasses ‘That people who throw stones had better not live in glass houses seems to be the mora] of the Dreiser-Lewis face- slapping incldent, judged by the com- ment of those who chose to satirize America’s great satirists when their own manners awake a tolerant smile from the Nation. The cause of the row, Sinclair Lewis' charge that Dreiser bor- rowcd 3,000 words from Mrs. Lewis” writings, is not taken very seriously, and it is pointed out that the literary material might easily have come to both authors from a common source. “If the match settled anything, it settled that Mr. Lewis can be slapped,” Sevompenying. ThOughs ChaL “probably at y Gopher Prairie is glad to learn” of the incident and the expression of indif- ference as to “which one got licked.” The Oakland Tribune suggests that “those who believe American letters need more vigor and that quarreling among the artists is conducive to bet- Dreiser slapped the face of Mr. Lewis, but because men who have sat upon pedestals have proved they can behave like the well known human beings.” “We have it from Babbitt, incurable moralist as he is, that only those who are themselves without guile can afford to wax gleeful in throwing stones,” comments the Atlanta Journal, and that paper gives a picture of the inci- dents leading up to the dramatic cli- max: “Occurring in a select club of the metropolis, at a dinner of the in- telligentsia, whose honor guest was a writer from Soviet land, the encounter becomes a cause celebre, contributing to the public stock of harmless pleas- ure, if not to the gayety of nations. Behold the principals, Thersites and Timon! Where in all our republic of letters can they be matched for mor- dant laughter at the follies of their countrymen or for merciless delineation of the bourgeoisie? Who on these un- sophisticated shores has equaled or ap- proached them in holding up to nature & mirror that dwarfs whatever is ami- able or rare and magnifies all that is ugly and humdrum? The author of ‘Babbitt’ and the reporter of ‘An Amer- ican '—fancy those two in com- bat! Not a combat of lightning wits and Jovian bolts, but such a fracas as hundred years ago, ‘In the “dark corner” County there lived in ithe younger days two men who were ad- mitted on all hands to be the very best men in the county, which in the Georgia vocabulary means they could flog any other two.’” * k%X “It was Mencken, we believe,” states the Omaha World-Herald, “who wished that Lewis would talk less and write more. If Red will just take that advice, he will leave behind him a better repu- tation than even the Nobel Prize can give him.” That paper voices the judgment of the controversy: “The charge that Theodore Dreiser swiped some passages from a book by Mrs. Lewis is old stuff. Whether it is true or not, it is old enough to have been charged off the books long ago, and not kept to be dn:’ed out as the subject of personal insult at a party at which both men were guests. There have been ample opportunities and ample time to settle the dispute and call it ended. If Mr. Lewis doesn't care to go to law about it, there is the tradi- tional method of the English schoolboy, in which' the disputants go out and hammer each other with their fists. After both are well bloodied up they ' shake hands, call the row settled and bscome fast friends for the rest of their lives. For all its roughness, there is a great deal to commend this. It cer- ler. No will or will no He threatened a the race for the S but when tife lea knows whether fun again for ne ’ttme to ay have oppo- lit tainly “beats carrying grudges around for a lifetime.” “As a real fighter, Sinclair Lewis is lop,” according to the Kansas City . “We are disappointed in Theo- dore Dreiser, too. He should have ma Lewis fight or given him a lot mot punishment. He certainly had suff- cient provocation. Lewis nursed and frequently uttered his grievance against the author of ‘An American Tragedy" and finally brought it out ‘in company,’ wit reiser present. The provocation, the resentment and the setting were just right for a real show. But Lewis flunked and Dreiser. stopped too soon. The country will not forgive either for not making it an encounter to a finish —a rough and bloody finish, after the manner of the movies. The world has been better to both than they deserve, and here was a chance to give the world a little satisfaction. And it was passed both the personal detachment and the good nature of the real gatirist, but has hit right and left, indulging in prejudice, resentment and even hatred, attacking ruthlessly even those who have no means of defense. Yet when he is repeatedly struck in the face he takes it. According to verbal form, he should have vaed himself a spiritual and physical hero. He hase richly 2" mice booby prie to mang s with s up wi Nobel mthy.'l_fl’ gt * x x x “The laying on of hands takes the romance out of such affairs,” thinks the Dallas Journal, while the Milwaukee Sentnel feels that A have rasped the sensibilities of every rz high enough in the scale of evo- ution to feel that jostling a woman in a revolving door is an unpretty thing to do.” The Columbia (S.-C.) State looks upon the incident as long time,” and expresses egret that peacemakers interposed,” with the belief that “there is plenty of ‘comeback’ in red-haired Bmcl‘:lr." The Little Rock Arkansas Democrat offers the criticism of the encounter: ' n.m A&n outrageous, scandalous af- fair’ raged Lewis. ‘Rash and unwar- ranted insults were rewarded with two slaps upon the face,’ sald Dreiser in his best literary style. Now, the only thing that puzzles us is why Lewis re- sented Dreiser's borrowing a few thou- sand words from Mrs. Lewis' book, as- suming that he did. What are three or four thousand words between literary | friends? Possessor of a perfectly mag- | nificent superfluity of words that he is, | Dreiser could have paid them back with heavy interest at any time the demand was made. Forty thousand words taken (from his ‘An American Traged; wouldn’t have been missed by the read- jers. In fact, the deletion would have pleased them immensely. And why did | Dreiser act as he did? Does he not know that his cultured followers dis- | approve of vulgar fisticuffs’ among lit- erary grenadiers? A contemporary of- fers another angle of the discussion, ‘Stealing 3,000 words from any woman is, we should say, like filching pennies from Uncle Andrew Mellon” And Lh;r something in that, we would sa. “Flays” Prom the Pittsbus * Wrong End. lrl‘h Post-Ciazette. Coxre nal junket trips were “flayed” by Senator Bounnx-f. Thne-r! may B i, Roney but to those who.take them. - T Dark Horse Food Disputed. From the San Antonio Eveaing News. Sclentists disagree as to how much a horse can sce in the dark. Anyhow, it is more than a one-eyed car reveals. What Old Parties? From the Milwaukee Sentinel. ington, it ”-:I,“ i nneu: m, it 8] sary to forming a third party excent leaving the old p;flu‘