Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTQN, D. C. BMONDAY.........June 20, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES, ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Oql‘-! oero’ et Lake Michi European Oflt!'l‘l‘:l‘n:lent'g..gflé& Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening S:ar.! i‘k per month ‘The Evening &n bus Ta0c por fonth T65c per month o .5¢c_per copy id ‘Gt ‘each mail or tel NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. {ly and Sunda: ., $10.00: 1 mo., 88¢ g:xx only . 50¢ unday only . 6.00; 1 mo., All Other States and Canada. yr. $1200: 1mo., §400: 1 mo- 5.00; 1 mo. 1,00 e Member of the Assoclated Press. The Assoclated Press is-exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise ered- ited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication o special dispatches hereln are also reserved. ] An Uncomfortable Seat. Uneasy sits the Governor of a great State if he aspires to the presidency of the United States. He is under sur- veillance of the political opposition constantly. His every act is observed and weighed in the balance by the members of his own party, to deter- mine whether he has helped or hurt himself in the eyes not only of the voters of his own State but of the voters of the entire country. The Gov- | ernor of New York, when he happens to be a Democrat and also an aspirant for the presidential nomination, occu- ples a peculiar position in this respect. Tammany, which controls New York City, where the great bulk of the Democratic vote in the State is con- centrated, may or may not “behave.” If the Republicans are to be credited, Tammany never behaves as it should. But if the dominating political organ- ization of the Democratic party in New York is under fire, then the Gov- ernor of New York is placed in & posi- tion where he must suffer with Tam- many or must suffer without it. This, in & measure, is the year of trial for Gov. Pranklin D, Roosevelt. Much de- pends upon what s “turned up” by the legislative committee investigating the government of New York City, and upon the attitude assumed by the Gov- ernor. s So far Gov. Roosevelt appears to have pidden successfully the several waves which have rolled up against the New York Democratic organization. In his campalgn last year he was assailed be- cause he did not throw wide open the inquiry into the conduct of judges and magistrates in New York City. But he was re-elected by & huge vote. More recently came the demand for the re- moval of Mayor “Jimmie” Walker by the City Affairs Committee, a demand to which Gov. Roosevelt refused to ac- cede, after he had given Mayor Walker opportunity to reply to the charges. Within & few days has come a demand for the removal of an officlal, Joseph A. Broderick, superintendent of banks. W. Kingsland Macy, chairman of the Republican State Committee, made the demand, basing it on a charge that Broderick had failed to observe the State banking law and to act promptly in the case of the Bank of the United States. Gov. Roosevelt, replying to Mr. Macy, called attention to the fact that Mr. Macy's letter asking the removal of Mr. Broderick had been written on the sta- tionery of the Republican State Com- mittee. The implication which the @overnor apparently sought to make was that the demand was merely a political move on the part of his op- ponents. He did not say, however, that he assumed Mr. Macy was writing as an individual and not as State chairman of the Republican committee. Having gone that far, the Governor refused to remove Broderick. Mr. Macy has followed up his first letter with another, attacking Gov. Roosevelt for his “fippancy.” Mr. Macy insists that in the case of a bank fail- ure, affecting 440,000 depositors, it is no time to be flippant or to talk about the stationery upon which a letter is writ- ten, if an official of the State govern- ment has falled to protect these deposi- tors by observing the law. Mr. Macy's second letter was written on his per- sonal stationery. He complains, too, of | the curt refusal of the Governor to act in this matter, and urges him to look further into the charges made against' Broderick. % And so it goes, and will continue to ®0 until the national campaign and the gubernatorial election in New York are | over next year. The city government of | New York is under investigation now by | a legislative committee, an investiga- tion that is likely to run through many months. There is in the offing a pro- posal that the banking department, headed by Broderick, ®. investigated,' too. Broderick is an appointee of Gov. ' Roosevelt. Perhaps the opposition is reserving that inquiry until next year. ' Such is the friendly wiy in which the great game of politics 1s played. —— e When this depression is over some- | body ought to organize a League of Those Who Predicted the Slump and | another League of Those Who Forecast the Recovery, and let the two fight out &n annual battle fcr pennant honors, —_———te “Around the World.” Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, Amer- | fcan aviators extraordinary, are now engaged in a flight that is generally described as “around the world.” Not to lessen the credit of their per- yormance, which thus far has been remarkably successful, but in the inter- pst of accuracy, it should be pointed out that they are not in fact flying around the world, but are flying around the northern sector with the North Pole generally as focal point. Some day somebody will perhaps fly “around the world” in the geographic sénse of circling the globe at the point of greatest circumference. But that is » long time ahead and the accomplish- ment will require great improvement in planes and increase in fuel capacity. Sxamination of a map, or better still of & terrestrial globe, will {llustrate this dificulty. By “around the world” is ucually meant the passage frcm East to 005 1Mo 62 | ‘n.mund the North Pole was called by West or in the reverse direction, and not the North-South route. At the Equator, which of course is the greatest distance around the earth, some 24,902 miles, there is_a maximum of sea and a minimum of land. Roughly, not counting occasional islets, the Equator over the Pacific, the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, spans 17,500 miles, or about seventy-three per cent of the entire circuit of the globe at that point. Wiley and Post are flying over & route that is measured at approximately 16,000 miles. The greater part of this is over land, they having slready tra- versed the longest sea span. Their en- tire route, therefore, is less than the sea line of the circuit at the Equator. Their route is the most practical one at the point farthest north giving them assur- ed refueling points and a maximum of { safely in respect to mecidents of flight jand landing. The flight of the Graf Zeppelin | some a passage “around the earth.” It | was, of course, nothing of the kind. It was, at the Pole, a roughly circular flight, just such as might have been made over Central Europe, or the Mid- dle States of this country. The fact | that the flight was centered upon the | Pole did not make it a circumnaviga- tion of the globe in any sense. That of Post and Gatty is more nearly a cir- !cumnavigation, though it still falls short of it by a good many thousand | miles. It is nevertheless an heroic ven- ture, call it what you will. Spain Goes Republican. ‘When Senor Don Salvador de Ma- | dariaga, the new Ambassador of Spain, } arrived in this country last week at the outset of hiy career in Washington, that | cultured scholar and statesman pre- |dicted that yesterday's Spanish elec- | tions would safeguard the future of the republic which was proclaimed two and a half months ago. He spoke with the voice of prophetic vision. Although complete returns are lack- ing, the Republican-Socialists, who form the substance of the new govern- ment, appear to be firmly in the saddle. A constitution which definitely breaks with the monarchial system is now assured of adoption by the newly elected Constituent Assembly. The jelection of a President of the repub- lic will ensue in due course. It may be Senor Zamora, father of the April revolution, or Alejandro Lerroux, his friend and the foreign minister in the provisional government at Madrid. In any event, the Republican cause is safe, to the ages. Apart from that overshadowing result, probably the vote in Catalonia deserves the greatest interest in Spain and abroad. Under the leadership of Senor Macia, the separatist chief at Barce- lona, the Catalans voted for state inde- pendence within a federal Spanish re- public. Catalonia, in other words, will occupy within the national framework or Virginia occupies within the Union ica. Senor Macia states that “Madrid” sent candidates into the field against the Independence party, but that cir- cumstance does not scem to affect the state's willingness to remain part and parcel of the national republic so long as Catalans’ local autonomy is assured. Neither the clerical nor the mo- narchial party was able to achieve any headway against the score or more of rival groups bound by the one common tie of fealty to the republic. The Com- munists, too, made an insignificant showing, although election day was marked by fatalitles provoked by red and other anti-republican elements. Women do not vote in Spain, yet it is notable that two members of that sex were elected to seats in the new Parlia- ment—Victoria Kent, director of state prisons, and Clara Campoamor, a Madrid lawyer. Senor Madariaga, who becomes a welcome addition to the galaxy of dis- tinguished foreign envoys stationed on the Potomac, will present his creden- jtlals at Washington almost simulta- neous with Spain’s vote of confidence in the republic. He doubtless will look upon the coincidence as & happy omen for his career in the United States whose government and people wish the newest member of the family of repub- | lican states an abundance of pros- ;pel’l!y and tranquillity. o “Ma” Kennedy is stealing daughter's publicity stuff when she springs a sur- prise marriage with a minister without ! even taking Atmee into her confidence. e Debunking the Five-Year Plan. A good deal of well meaning but il- logical discussion is rampant in the United States and the world over the possible consequences of Soviet Russia’s five-year plan. Gen. Willlam N. Has- kell, who represented Herbert Hoover as chief of the American Relief Admin- istration in Russia from 1921 to 1923, performs a useful service in pointing out certain unfounded conclusions which have been drawn from the Communists’ attempt to convert a nation of peasants into a land of modern industrialism by the end of 1933. Gen. Haskell recently returned from his seccnd prolonged sojourn in Russia, whither he went this time as a student- investigator. He is setting down his ob- servations of the Soviet's gigantic ex- periment in a series of arresting ar- ticles contributed to the New York Times. His latest study deals with the five-year plan. Viewing Com- munism's semi-enslaved millions work- ing at fcrced draught, Gen. Haskell voices the belief that Russian exports will decline when machinery imports have ended and the newly created in- dustries begin to devote themsclves to home needs. “Russia,” says this competent eye- witness, “is back in the market with raw materials to stay, but will not con- tinue at such artificlally high pace. Her competition in manufactured articles can be dismissed for two reasons—the high producing costs and the low qual- ity of her manufactured goods, on the cne hand, and her constantly increasing domestic demand, on the other.” Gen. Haskell reminds the world nct to forget that the population of Russia, now some 160,000,000 souls, is growing each year by more than half the in- crease for the rest of Eurcpe. There is the further fact that “the teeming peas- ant pepulation,” having been educated to new standards of living, primitive as they may be compared to non-Russian standards, is steadily developing a po- and the reign of the Bourbons belongs | the same status as sovereign New York | composed of the United States of Amer- | THE EVE tential appetite for all those things which go with a better concept of hu- man comfort and happiness. “This de- mand,” Gen. Haskell asserts, “will some day have to be supplied.” He quite evidently commits himself to the view that there is a reverse side to the five-year plan medal, which should ! fill older industrial civilizations in quest of forelgn markets with hope. ——— e The Automobile Title Law. It seems a pity that controversy has developed over the long-delayed auto- mobile titling law of the District. One of the few sections of the country in which motor owners have not been re- quired to secure title to their cars, the National Capital has struggled for years to secure such a law. And now, just when it seemed that the way was clear to put the regulation into effect, cer- tain dealers are protesting that it will work an unnecessary hardship on the manufacturers if the title must originate at the factories. This protest, however, is somewhat minimized by the action of the Washington Automotive Trade Assoclation in giving its approval to the law as it now reads. The proposed regulation based upon the enactment of Congress has been de- signed to incorporate all of the best features of title laws 'in the various States, and while, of course, nothing can be perfect, it is probably as good & job as can be framed. Naturally, any new regulation is bound to work hard- ships en some, but if it is for the wel- fare of the majority it should be put into effect without further delay. The Dis- trict has not gone into this matter with haste. It has had the years of ex- perlence of other communities on which |to bulld a sensible, reasonable statute. 1t is the earnest hope, therefore, of many Washingtonians that the contro- versy will subside. - It is to be hoped that the contest be- tween the Washington and Philadelphia base ball teams will not be so close as to require the use of logarithms to de- termine the championship at the sea- son’s end. | ———— New York measures Summer heat by the hundred thousand. Thus, yester- day it was hot enough in the big town to send 800,000 people to the nearby |beaches. The hotter the Sunday the | bigger the jam at the shore. —— e Spain, it would seem, has voted for |a republic, and it is not expected that |Alfonso will file a protest with the | League of Nations. B SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Trouble. ’Lookin' for trouble? What's the good? | Always & Iot in the neighborhood. A man has met with financial woe And a little boy has stubbed his toe. Lookin’ for trouble? What's the use? ‘There's always so much that has been turned loose That if you observe both great and small You won't see anything else at all. Look for the flow'rs, An’ the rainbow glint through cooling showers; Look for the gentle and friendly smile And your lookin' may show you some things worth while. sunshine across the A Significant Force. “Do you object to office-seckers?” “I should say not!” exclaimed Senator Sorghum. “If ‘a whole lot of people | didn't want to help run the Govern- j ment, where would my political lnflu-l ence ceme from?" Paternalism. “You seem very much afraid of paternalism in affairs of government?” “I am,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “I've trled paternal authority on Josh, and if it doesn’t work any better in a government than it does on a farm T'll say it ain't safe to fool with.” The Serial Story. A conference you seldom find Which totally relleves the mind. Each leaves us with some problem vexed, To be continued in our next. Avoiding Disturbance. “Do you attempt to enforce strictly all those highly reformatory laws you passed?” “No,” replied Cactus Joe. “Crimson Guich is peaceable inclined. We can't afford to have the authorities fussin’ and fightin’ with us all the time.” Jud Tunkins says & penitentiary under a good uplift administration might be studied with advantage by | some of the folks who undertake to run hotels. A Discovery. The small boy is polite and kind, ©On books and proper play intent, And not at all like those I find In every colored supplement! “I dunno what relativity 1s,” said Uncle Eben, “but if it's what keeps dis earth from rollin’ ’roun’ loose in space an’ bumpin’ into somethin’, I'm strictly in favor of it.” — e And Also “Sitters.” From the Milwaukee Sentinel. A woman fiyer looped the loop 1,078 times at the St. Paul Airport, setting a new record. The record goes into the files along with the account of the ac- complishments of the coffee-drinking and egg-eating champions. —ee: Bum Judgment. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. This is a most peculiar condition. Always before, during times of depres- sion, there have been too many opin- jons and not enough facts. This time we have a surplus of facts and the poorest. crop of opinions ever produced. — e Educational Census. From the Oakland Tribune. Pretty soon our country's best ob- servers will be checking up the college enrollments to see how many of the star athletes have returned. ——r—e—. Some Sense. From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. Federal agricultural experts give out the very enlightening information that moles do not like moth balls. Moles are not as dumb as we thought they were. ] Heroic Hearer. From the New York Sun. A Los Angeles minister preached for 21 hours and set one ort of record. Another Los Angeles minister listened to the whole sermon; that's the records real recently were suffe woman on an unusual mission. Hex| complex, NG _STAR, WASHI THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘What some people need is a healthier respect for U ml:e“rhlpt ‘l': wmll“_l;' keep many from g to write poetry. ‘The average human being has no right to attempt verse, but sometimes it seems as if it is the first medium of expression he desires to use. We read some rhymes the other day out of which it was difficult to get any meaning at all. No doubt if the writer of the afore- sald “verses” had stuck to prose he might have made himself clear. As it was, a reader was in honest doubt just what he did mean to say. * ok ok K Now clarity must remain the first virtue of all writing, both prose and verse. Sometimes this fact becomes obscured in the complicated rounds of everyday life under civilization. We, as readers, are assailed on all sides by the claims of a certain super- ficial cleverness, a very evident sophis- tication, until we are thrown off our mental balances, and are inclined upon occasion to believe that obscurity means profundity. A whole section of humanity, even, tends to believe that what it cannot un- derstand must, by that very fact, be something very great. * ok ok % It takes a reader of keen intelligence, indeed, and of real intellectual honesty, to say, after perusing something or other, “I cannot understand this, there- fore it is the bunk,” if that is the case. Yet such a remark would stand a hundred times the chance of being right of the opposite belief, “Why, this is '.oo.hlrd for me, therefore, it must be good. Obscurity, in writing, is a sort of de- featism, both for the writer and reader. ‘The other major graces of writing are not possible until this grand quality is present. . Clarity is fundamental. Let no reader anywhere be bam- boozled by those writers who, no mat- ter what their pretensions, insist on throwing up such a cloud that it is dif- flcult to discover what they mean. ‘There is no more common form of inferiority complex than that ©f the honest reader who believes, just be- cause a writer has not made his thought clear, that he, the reader, and not he, the writer, is to blame. e No reader should render such a ver- dict against himself unless he is read- ing some extremely difficult technical subject, in which it is necessary for the writer to use words and expressions which make it difficult reading for a layman. No matter how one writes, there should, be no doubt left in a reader's mind as to what is meant by what is said. The reader, of course, must have what is called average intelligence, and must enter into the spirit of the au- thor’s intent. Above all, the reader must refrain from the pernicious habit of seizing upon one sentence, and pretending to consider it apart from its context. A well reasoned bit of writing is not a matter of a few words, or even a few sentences, but of the entire thought or train of thoughts, as it is sometimes called. There is nothing more unfair in this world than the practice of some readers in demanding that every sentence tell a complete story. That is not the pur- BRltees: sotntns the siores of thought Ing shores of s E'lgfi“ou not,_exist so much for itself as for every other sentence, and all for the thought. It is a beautiful case of ‘all for one and one for a If beauty and exaltation result, they are the gifts of God to writer and reader. To stop with a period, and then sud- denly clamor that something is wrong, the pernicious error of jumping to conclusions, of inferring something or other which may or not be true, but which undoubtedly would resolve itself at once if the reader would do the writer the justice of reading on. * kK K Read on, then, never forgetting, in whatever you read, that prose is the instrument of most human beings be- cause it is the more flexible, more easily mastered vehicle of thought, the one in_which thc average person can come nearest to expressing just what he actually thinks. One must be a master, indeed, to do the same thing in verse. Yet to the man to whom meter is sublimely natu- ral, as it was to Shakespeare, to Pope— to mention but two—the poetical me- dium is a happy form of expression. There can be little question that Alexander Pope could not have ex- pressed himself so succinctly and tell- ingly in prose as he did in his couplets; not that his prose is not good, but that it is not as compelling as his poetry. No man ever sald what he wanted to say any more clearly than Pope did. There is not an idea in his poems which leaves any reader in any doubt. Even the lapse of has not made him obscure, despite the many changes which years invariably bring. This is all the more remarkable, since those changes have been startling in regard to many of the common prac- tices of everyday living. * ok x K When Alexander Pope began to write, as & young man, few persons in Eng- land used soap. A Scotsman who came to London and established & soap works in 1712 had & hard time making a living. Soap was looked upon with doubt and suspicion. It is said that even in court circles it was not considered a necessity. . ‘The antiseptic quality of Pope’s thought, however, the clarity of its ex- pression, was then just as it is now, a triumph of the human mind. If you, dear reader, can handle the verse form as well, by all means stick to it, but if you have any doubts in the matter, swear to be faithful to plain, honest prose. It is well to look for grace, for beauty, for novelty, for that pleasing felicity which is at once the glory of writers and the delight of readers, but it is necessary before all that you write so other people can understand you, and that you read with the same under- standing. He who cannot manage all this in verse may very well run the chance of doing it with simple prose, that is why a respect for it is so necessary. cause prose has been hornswoggled by some writers, and made to do evil in a fair world, is no reason why any one should regard it with suspicion, Perhaps the people who turn so easily to attempting to write “poetry,” as they call it, need even more a better appreciation of the high aims and ideals of verse, and of its sheer grandeur, when turned out by its masters. It is a means of expression for the genius, not for the groundling. of d WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Now that the authoritative voice of | Jouett Shouse has eulogized President Hoover’s debt holiday plan as ‘“state: manlike, courageous and decisive,” speculation rages over what the Demo- crats are going to do about it. Will they take it lying down? Will there be no attempt to steal or match the thun- der now reverberating to Hoover's glory? What effect will it have on presidential candidacies? The ines- capable conclusion would seem to be that Gov. Roosevelt is disadvantaged by events of the past week and that Owen Young and Newton Baker profit from them. Young and Baker typify the non-isolationist internationalism which | the President’s scheme represents. If the Republicans adopt “Hoover, World Rescuer” as their 1932 slogan, and de- pression dirinishes as a result of his plans, the Democrats might play their trump card by nominating a man sal- able to the country as the ploneer of the G. O. P.’s tardily adopted program. * Kok Certain Republican leaders, who habitually beware of Democratic Greeks bearing gifts, are already wondering what may lle concealed behind the honeyed words of the Shouses and the Harrisons. Do the sweet-smelling bou- quets screen some devilish Democratic plot—hidden batteries of artillery des- tined in due course to turn devastating guns on the Republican ramparts and fire at them the very international am- munition now exploding to such high G. O. P. purposes? Charlie Michelson is not on a trip around the world, as might have been supposed from the taciturnity the Democratic Publicity Bureau has observed for the past 10 days. It is an open secret that his silence is beginning to be oppressive and ominous to the Fesslans and the Lucasians nwp*the B*sr: Building. * To a European member of the Wash- ington diplomatic corps this observer remarked that Secretary Mellon and Ambassador Edge, knowing little or no French, might be at a disadvantage in the great game they're now playing with Laval and Briand in Paris. “Not at all,” was the response. “Not to understand the language of your oppo- nents,” the canny Old World diplo- matist explained, “is a great advantags You get time to think while the terpreting is going on. You have op- portunity to watch the facial play of the men on the other side of the table, which, as in your national game of poker, sometimes speaks louder than words. The Turks for years were able to outmatch the rest of Europe in a diplomatic contest by professing not to speak or understand French. No, your ‘Uncle Andy's’ lack of proficiency in that lenguage should serve him well at Paris.” * K x x Dr. Felipe Espil, the new Argentinian Ambassador to the United States, has Jjust given his first interview. It took place at the dock in New York, whence former Ambaxsador Malbran was leav- ing for Buends Aires. Reporters asked Dr. Felipe to comment on the Hawley- Smoot tariff law. “I am deaf and dumb,” he replied. * ok ok K It appears there's been considerable sub rosa comment and criticism over the fact that U. S. S. Wyoming, car- rying & thousand Annapolis midship- men cn a practice cruise to Europe, had to churn through the last 800 miles at five knots an hour in dirty weather while serving as a towboat for the disabled polar submarine Nau- tilus. When these remonstrances were brought to the attention of Admiral Pratr, chief of naval operations in the Navy Department, that old salt replied in the following terse and sailorlike terms: “When the Navy receives an S O S at sea it does not consider why, when or where it came from. Tt con- siders that it is the duty of the Navy to answer every S O S of any charac- ter and render such assistance as pos- sible. Once on the sea, the Navy cannot leave any human being strand- ed, elthough scheduled arrangements of the service may be interfered with.” PR ‘Washington embassies and legations visited by a Russian name is Scherbatskoy and she is the widow of a_ong-time Russian imperial diplomat. During the years before the war M. Scherbatskoy was counselor of the Czar's embassy in Washington and later he was Russian Ambassador to Brazil. Mme. Scherbatskoy is now as- socfated with a New York hotel and she came here to interest local mem- bers of her late husband’s profession in its attractions as a place of abode in Manhattan. * % % “Old Mac,” or Danicl H. McDowell, @s one of the world's kindliest Negroes, who has just passed away, was formally called, was the hero of a National Press Club story which Sir “Bill” Lewis, cor- respondent of the London Times, likes to tell. Before “Old Mac” was promoted from waiter to doorman at the club he used to serve Lewis regularly. One day the Times man had his freshly ar- rived copy of the Thunderer propped up in front of him at table. “Mac,” he said, “I guess I'm reading a paper you never saw before, even though you have worked in the Press Club 30 years.” McDowell looked at the Times. “Mr. Lewis, I am sure enough sorry,” he said, “but you are mistaken. I saw that paper almost before you were born, and I saw it in London.” Then “Old Mac” explained that he was a steward on Samuel J. Tilden's private yacht, which anchored in the Thames one Summer while the Governor stayed at a hotel in London “Mac” s2id that one of his jobs was to go to Piccadilly early every morning and bring Tilden a copy of the Times. * k ok Last week's convention of the Quota International, “women’s Rotary,” wound up with a bathing-suit revue in a big Washington indoor pool. The revue consisted of a parade of Quotarian bath- ing beauties in surf costumes of the periods between 1800 and today, with “Miss 1956” as the star performer. Im- personated by the shapely Miss Beatrice Jones, a junior executive of the Equita- ble Life Assurance Society in New York, “Miss 1956” appeared in what, at first, looked like a trio of fig leaves. On close inspection, she turned out to be wearing a flesh-tinted, one-piece suit of filmy lace fish-net. At the banquet which brought the Quotarian Conven- tion to a finish “Miss 1956” was surprised by being presented with a prize-winning cup. “I am covered with confusion,” sald Miss Jones in response, “and that is more than I had on this afternoon.” (Copyright, 1931.) r—— Depression Running Its Course. From the Pasadena Star-News. The economic depression hit the low point in this country last January. “Since then we have been at the rock bottom.” There been some rise since January. So asserted Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Dr. Klein said that, due to the fact that this depression came gradually rather than with the suddenness of those of the past, he expected a rather speedy recovery. “When the upward trend starts, it will be more sharply acceler- ated and certain than in any previous depression,” he declared. In explaining that reports of conditions are available only six weeks or more from the period on which they are based, Dr. Klein coined an epigram by saying “much of the orepe hanging is historical rather than hysterical.” Dr. Klein made the confident and sig- nificant statement that “the enormous sav! &nd capital reserve of this Na- tion have not been seriously impaired. They await the stimulus of skillfully directed, resourceful salesmanship.” Dr. Kitin is not a Pollyanna. He is not a reckless optimist. He is very con- servative in his predictions as to the future. Hence these encouraging words “olr:h 2.”" great economic authority bear wel ———————— Ludendorff’s Pessimism. From the Shreveport Journal. Gen. von Ludendorff says the white race will approach the end of its su- premacy in the next world war, which sounds very much as if the eral is from some sort of inferiority Almost ov were ’l':n thnn cmpain next yoar a temporary t. In the twinkling of an eye the whole situation has been changed, or is in a state of flux. And this is all due to the bold stroke of ‘l:nldbeym Hoover, who has taken the he hang on, the cam- Cierent, thing Cha it was xpects very erent g it was e ed to be. The President’s to suspend international debt payments for a year ady has brought new hope to the nations which have been wal- indication that America is going to play an increasingly important part in the revival of economic stability in the world. If the plan put forward by the President proves & success—at present it is only in the making and has not yet been tried—there is likely to be a very different line-up in American poli- tics next year. It may be said, however, that the so-called isolati have, many of them, given their assent to the Hoover plan so far, although it is against thelr past views. Senator Willlam E. Borah of Idaho, chairman of the Sen- ate Foreign Relations Committee, in ap- proving of the debt-moratorium plan, seems to have abandoned, temporarily at least, his old stand. And so has Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, Republican leader of the Senate, always {!e]c.l:o;o‘ee one (Al’y Lt‘::l;umh oncilables” of ly, rea t anything that seemed to place the United States in co- operation with Europe. * x x % Senator Hiram Johnson of California, however, ancient foe of the President, has not abated his opposition either to anything verging on the international or to anything eminating from the Hoo- ver brain. Grudgingly he admits that perhaps the moratorium may do some good, but he does not take kindly to the thought and sarcastically suggests that 1t would have been much better if the Hoover administration had given its attention to the unemployed in this country rather than to preventing a collapse in Germany. The Hoover sup- porters reply that if by saving Ger- many it s possible for the United States to set the machinery of world business in motion again, and thereby increase the markets for American goods and revive confidence, no better course could be taken to aid the Amer- ican workers now out of jobs. * k% % Into American politics, after a decade in which nationalism has been empha- sized, there enters now a new element. It will be called internationalism in some quarters, particularly by those op- posed. But international co-operation more nearly describey it so far. Amer- ica has, through the President, offered to do a generous thing. It has offered in effect to forego the collection during the coming year of $250,000,000 from the foreign debtor natlons. This is, by far, a larger sum than any other na- tion would receive when their payments to the United States Government and to Britain have been deducted. The net sacrifice next in extent falls upon France. But as it happens, France to- day is better able to make the sacrifice than other European nations. = * o ok % ‘The isolationist policy seemed to give the United States a great wave of pros- perity. At any rate, the country was tremendously prosperous until there seemed no limit. However, this coun- try was besing a good deal of its pros- perity on its commerce with foreign nations, and when the time came that foreign nations were unable to buy the picture changed. If America is to rely upon foreign trade to bring prosperity, it is quite obvious that it is a matter of supreme importance to this country that other nations also be prosperous. On the other hand, if America is to draw in its horns and rely upon the Amer- ican market alone as the measure of prosperity, then the situation is differ- ent. The “nationalists,” or isolation- ists, may be forced into the defense of such a course. If there is to come a solit politically over these lines, it is likely to make strange bed fellows. * x ox % ‘The Democrats in Illinols, having had a successful 1930 and 1931, are looking forward anxiously to more gains in_1932. Two years ago they elected a United States Senator, James Hamil- ton Lewis, and more recently they elect- ed the mayor of Chicego, “Tony” Cer- mack. They are aspiring now to the governorship next year. If reports arc true, Michael L. Igoe, who has become an outstanding party leader in Chicago, is likely to be a candidate for the Dem- ocratic nomination for Governor next year. It's a long time since the Dem- ocrats had a Governor in Illinois. Igoe has been a leader of the Democratic minority in the State Legislature. He has mixed up in national politics and comes cioser to being the heir of the party leadership in the State, since the death of George Brennan, than any other man. He took & prominent part in the conduct of the campalgn in 1928 which resulted in the election of Senator Lewis. On the Republican side of the guber- natorial race next year in Illinois are several candidates, announced or other- wise. Gov. Emmerson has not made formal announcement, but he is ex- pected to make a bid for renomination and re-election. However, William H. Malone, former chairman of the State Tax Commission, has thrown his hat in the ring, and the attorney general, Carl- strom, is said to be a receptive candi- date for the Republican nomination. Malone is a resident of Chicago, which does not appeal so strongly to the downstate Republican vote, although he may be a formidable candidate before the race is all over. * K X K ‘Texas Democrats are looking the field over carefully before they come to & definite and open conclusion whem to support for the presidential nomination next year. Texas was one of the four States of the “solid South” which went into the Republican column in 1928 and voted for President Hoover. There is still a bitter row between the “Hoover- crats” in Texas and the faction which remained loyal and went through for Al Smith. The Hoovercrats may be in a position to make trouble again when it comes to picking a delegation to attend the Democratic National Con- vention. They are first of all “dry” politically. ~The regular Democrats, therefore, are considering whether they should seek an uninstructed delegation or tle their allegiance to Gov. Franklin D. Rcosevelt or one of the other out- standing figures in the preconvention race. In the end they may cecide it is better to support some candidate rather than to leave the thing up In the air, with charges coming from the Hoovercrats that if the regulars send an uninstructed delegation in 1632, the delegation may be found voting for the nomination of Al Smith again. * koK K Gov. Roosevelt has a lot of friends in Texas outside of Col. E. M. House, who has announced his support of the New York Governor for the party nomina- tion. Col. House was one of those Democrats who early got aboard the ‘Wilson bandwagon when the late Presi- dent Wilson was Governor of New Jersey. House has not been active in Democratic politics in the Lone Star State for some years, however, and just how much weight his support of Roose- velt has today is problematical. How- ever, his announcement of support of Roosevelt has certainly not hurt the chances of the Governor of New York, in Texas or elsewhere. There has bee n 1k of Owen D. Young as a favorite | shi) for s nomina- for the Democratic presidential tion in Texas. The Texas delegation in 1924 was strong for Willlam G. McAdoo. But ilttm a flm‘ l"nw Jal‘xenagl. Davis, ) , when egation :Dr(l,'lwd "ir‘ln;lpew York for the Madison Square Garden convention. It stuck to|chairman of the Democratic Executive McAdoo manfully, but in the end some of the delegates were much pleased with the selection of Davis, The Hoovercrats were in large measure the supporters of ship of the Democratic party. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. in tions s newt . The y the one who asks the question only. All questions should be accompanied by the writer's name and address and 2 cents in coin or stamps for reply. Send your question to The Evening Star In- formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. From what side of the plate does grl%k Frisch of the Cardinals bat?— ‘A He is s switch-hitter and bats 1‘:‘:‘3 both right and left side of the Q. When was capital _punishment abolished in Aultrll.?i(). K':’ A. Capital punishment was legally abelished in Austria a few months after the revolution of 1918 and now forms no aft of the civil administration of él‘l‘?m‘.“ It m?y, F‘gweve!, be inflicted mes of national danger by spe- clal tribunals set up by martial Tav ® Q. What did it cost to rebuild thy Lincoln Memorial at Springfield, me A'The cost 1s estimated at $175,000. Q. What was the last show in which Bert Williams, the N tpxefl;:d?—M, e legro comedian, . He collapsed on the stage in De- troit February 27, 1922, 'hll'e‘]‘zllylnt in “Under the Bamboo Tree.” He was taken to New York, where he died on March 11 of pneumonia. Q. What famous men have been left- handed?—W. R. P. A. Among the famous men who were known to be left-handed may be men- tloned Tiberius, Sebastian del Piombo, Michelangelo, Flechier, Nigra, Buhl, Raphael of Montelupo, Bertillon and James A. Garfleld. Leonardo da Vinci sketched rapidly with his left hand. Q. Are beet leaves edible?—C. E. -A. Beet leaves are more valuable food | than beet roots. Care should be taken in selecting only leaves which have no | diseased or dead-looking spots. Q. What is scumbling?—A. S. B, A. In art it is the process of soften- ing the colors of a picture by blending them with a neutral tint, applying this neutral tint over the colors with a nearly dry brush. e Qfi ‘Where is Thomas Hardy bured?— 'A. The English novelist was burled in Westminster Abbey. Q. How is fog made in the movies?— R. B. ‘A." Vaporized mineral ofl, blown thw[h the air by large propellers, is used. Q. Who was called the Prince of Skeptics?—G. 8. A, Voltaire, . Q. How large is the crystal ball in the National Museum in Washington, D. C., and what is its value?—M. C. , A. The bell is 12% inches in di- ameter and weighs nearly 107 pounds. It is valued at $250,000. The block of rock crystal from which the ball was formed was found in Burma. It is sald &0 have weighed more than half a ton has been erected to Walt Whitman Brooklyn—E. O. " A. It was erected by the Authors® Club at the corner of Fulton and Cran- . | berry streets, Brooklyn, where the first edition of “Leaves of Grass” was pub- lished in 1855. Its central figure is an idealized head of the poet, with flowing hair and besrd. Surrounding it are symbolic representations of four of ‘Whitman’s poems, “Old Ireland,” *O Captain, My Captain,” “Passage to In- dia” and “Democracy. Q. How should a large quantity of cellophane be kept?—H. C. S. A. It should be stored in the blue wrapper in which it is shipped and in a room temperature of approximately 70 degrees, with neither too high nor too low a humidity. Q. What is indium and how valuable is it?—D. J. A. Indium is an extremely rare metal recovered from zinc. It is about 10 times as valuable as platinum. Sey- erel carloads of zinc ore are required . to produce one pound of the metal. Q. Why was William F. Cody called “Buffalo Bill">—E. M. A. 1t is said that the name was ap- plied to him in consequence of his suc- cess in supplying immense quantities of buffalo meat to the construction gangs when the Unlon Pacific was being built. Q. What is the purpose of the Na- tional Pruit and Vegetable Exchange, Inc.?—A. R. M. A. It has been organized by co-oper- ative commodity marketing associations throughout the country to centralize the national merchandising of fruits and vegetables controlled by co-oper- atives. Its chief object is to form a national marketing outlet for grower- owned marketing associations handling fresh fruits and vegetables. Member assoclations will also be given as- sistance in standardizing cultural and packaging procedure. Q. What proportion of the popula- tion of the District of Colunfia B3 Negro?>—H. J. A. There are 353,914 whites, 132,088 Negroes, 887 other colored races. About 27 per cent of the total population of 486,869 is Negro. Q. What is the highest soldier's bonus or compensation paid?-—J. McC. A. The Veterans' Bureau says that the maximum amount of a veteran's bonus certificate was $1,592. The $60 pald when the veteran was discharged was deducted from the face value of the certificate. This certificate was dated from April 6, 1917, to July 1, 1919. Q. Why is the climate of California so different from the rest of the United States?—A. K. A. There are four main factors in- fluencing the climate peculiar to Cali- | fornia. According to Dr. McAdie, they are as follows: The movements of the great continental and oceanic pressure areas, the so-cailed permanent highs and lows; the prevailing drift of the at- mosphere in the temperate latitudes from west to east: the proximity of the Pacific Ocean, and the exceedingly di- versified topography of the country for about 200 miles inland from the coast. Q. What percentage of opilum does lettuce contain?—H. E. Q in the rough. Q. Please describe the tablet which A. Contrary to popular bellef, lettuce contains no opium. Islands’ Discovery Revives Romantic Tale of Ancients ‘The reported appearance of two lonely and lifeless islands off the coast of Brazil 1s a reminder of the ancient legend that a continent, termed Atlan- tis, once existed in the midst of the Atlantic Ocean and was engulfed after the islanders had made a triumphal conquest of the western coast of Europe. The scientific significance of such lands is recognized in theories of their dis- appearance in legendary times and re- appearance row. The discovery was made by & mariner sailing under British colors, but his failure to claim posses- sion by right of discovery gives Brazil an opportunity to extend jurisdiction. Their value to any nation is debated, though a potential strategic worth is recognized. British eagerness for land is recog- nized by the Chattanooga Times, as it discourses on the fact that “the master | of the British steamer Lelands seems not to be in the line of those men whose claims made so vast the posses- sions of their country.” The Times be- lieves that “many an old English salt | of other days would have stopped his ship and taken possession, or at least made a secret report of his discovery,” and that “the conduct of the master of the good ship Lelands must have caused many a dead Englishman to turn over in his grave or stir uneasily in Davy Jones’ locker many a live | one to pinch himself.” That paper suggests “a decline in the English hunger for land, even a growing weari- ness of the burden of having so much of the face of the earth to look after,” but concludes that “perhaps the affair signifies nothing at all except that the master of the Lelands is an unusual Englishman.” j “Such possessions may be liabilities rather than assets,” thinks the Chicago Tribune, agreeing, however, that “the avidity of Europe to pick them up is at least an instinct.” As a precedent for the restraint of the master mariner, the Tribune notes retrogression on the part of the United States, with Guam as an example, and adds: “These islands in question are probably covered by the Monroe Doctrine, if that still has any vitality. It may be doubted that Mr. Stimson thinks it has.” “Halling these islands as a return of Atlantis attests the fascination the story still has for man,” remarks the St. Paul Dispatch, with the further statement: “The story of the lost continent,. which eventually sank into the sea. has in- trigued speculators in cosmography from earliest times. Even Minnesota has some interest in the legend. because the well known politician, Ignatius Donnelly, the ‘Sage of Nininger,’ was a firm believer in the Atlantean theory, and his brilliant defense of it gave him a vast reputation as a scholar among his Minnesota friends.” An editorial writer in the New ‘York Herald Tribune declares he “hopes the Atlantean mystery never will be solved,” because “such a grand old dream never should be lost as such.” “In all the world’s romance,” de- clares the Hartford Times, “nothing has lived much longer than Plato’s tradition of Atlantis, from which he claimed to have heard from Egyptian priests many thousands of years before his Athens stood, came conquerors of the Medi- terranean coasts.” Recording that the islands now found are near St. Paul's rocks, far off he coast of Brazil, the Times states: “St. Paul's rocks, like the ‘Chimneys’ in the mideastern North Atlantic, like the Azores, or St. Helena, are on a ridge of the ocean floor, with branches, which in irregular shape lies under the ocean on both sides of the Equator, and which in the South Atlantic reaches almost all the way across from Africa back in 1924, under the leader- then of * . There is talk among them today of McAdoo again. But McAdoo seems to be about as dead politically as he well can be, although he leaped into the limelight u few weeks ago when he declined to attend a dinner given for Jouett Shouse, ttee, given in Los Angeles. Mr. McAdoo at the time had some unkind | to say about the “wet” leader- to South America. Many have believed that those sub-oceanic plateaus, with their few projecting peaks, represent continents and islands which once ex- isted, but are no more. * * * A savant, expert in geology and seismology, as- serts that the islands which have ap- peared near St. Paul's rocks suggest the arising of an archipelago, to take place within the next 100,000 years. No one will live long enough to test his gf;phecy. which e Hawailan only 1,000,000 years old. A thousand years are as nothing in the story of the movements of the crust of the earth.” “Navigation eventually denied the ex- istence of such legendary lands,” says the New York Evening Post, “but science was not quite so skeptical. There are curious evidences in zoology and ethnology of some prehistoric con- nection by land between the continents of Europe and America. One strange speculation presents the theory that all the land on the surface of the earth is adrift on a subterranean sea of molten matter, lying perhaps 40 miles down, and that Europe and America were once one, but have slowly separated. The contours of the two continents can be fitted together in a fashion to make this seem remotely possible. * * * There is a romantic possibility that the newly discovered islands, belicved to have been pushed up from the depths by seismic forces, do foretell the cmergence of the lost continent , or some archipelago vaguely remembered in racial tradition. Meanwhile they have a practical im- portance which sends the cruisers of several nations racing to find and claim them. Any land in the South Atlantic is a potential base for aircraft, and may be valuable. If the mountain tops of ancient Atlantis are actually appearing again, civilization is likely to appro- priate them at once to the most modern “It is an interesting speculation” agrees the Boston Transcript. “that the floor of the Atlantic may be undergoing 8 process of elevation and that eventu- ally there may rise out of the water off the coast of South America a group of great islands suitable for the home of a mighty empire like that of Japan in the Eastern Hemisphere. And who can tell but that the fabled Atlantis may once again loom into sight, appearing to our startled eyes much as the cities of the unregenerate, bedaubed with weeds and ooze, appeared to Noah and his kin after the deluge. —————— Promotion of Health by Radio. From the Chicago Dally News. Dr. E. Starr judd of the Mavo Clinic in his presidential address and other speakers at the Philadelphia meeting ot the American Medical Association di- rected the attention of their profession and of the Nation generally to the im- portant part played and to be played by radio in the promotion of public health. ‘Talks on various aspects of preventive medicine are exceedingly popular. The medical profession, in conjunction with the public health services, enjoys op- ¥0fl.\lnitlc& undreamed of in the past or the dissemination of useful informa- tion concerning modern means of pre- serving physical and mental well-being. The several seasons have their re- spective health problems. What to eat, how to dress, how to treat common colds, how to detect the first faint symptoms of disease and how to beware of quack nostrums are among the sub- jects welcomed by millions of persons possessing radio sets. Especially valu- able is information on health to the residents of sparsely settled sections of the country where doctors are few. Radio has many severe critics among the intellectuals, and broadcasters have much to learn from candid and just critics. It is but fair, however, to give credit to radio for the excellent work it is doing and will do in ever-increasing measure for the welfare of the public. e The Cloud on the Situation. From the Connellsville (Pa.) Daily Couricr. The sad part of the rise in stock prices is that most people did not have the funds to buy when prices were at the low ebb.