Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY......July 1, 1831 THEODORE W. NOYEIS....Editor ¥he Evening Star Newspaper Company ‘Buainess Office iy st ' % York Omce: 110 X i 08, e Mg 3 Englan Rate by Carrier Within the City. 45¢ per month 60c per month 3¢ per month o per copy of each mont il or telephone | (whe 'nl‘nl\l days) e n S h htmnkm Sunday Sua: o Bundey Biat . Collection made at’ the ra may be sent in by ma Ational 5000, Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Ilf Sunday. 1yr..$10.00; 1 mo., 85¢c | only .. “1yr., $6.00: 1 mo., 80c indsy only J1yr. 34.00; 1 mo., 40c ARl Other States and Canada. fly and Sunday...lsr.$12.00: 1 mo. 31,00 by only yri. 3800 1mo. i8¢ inday only J1yr. $5.00; 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. Assoclated Press is exclusiv for republication of al { ely entitled { hews dix- T o s blication of The Alternative. The United States Government has | set out to relieve the economic situa- tion which has had the world by the throat, and particularly to ease the pressure on the weakest link in the| chain today, the run on Germany and | her credit. It has asked the co-opera- tion of Great Britan, France, Italy, Belgium and all the other natlons in- volved in the intergovernmental debts ! growing out of the World War. With | the exception of France, all the nations to whom the debt suspension proposal was made by President Hoover have| accepted in principle. Prance, for rea-! sons of its own, has held out for| amendments to the plan which, in the | opinion of this Government, go outside | the simple principle of the Hoover pro- posal. If France continues to adhere to these proposed amendmerts to the plan, what 1s to happen? Either the French counter propos must be accepted or there must be an effort on the part of the rest of the world to relleve the situation without the ald of France. The Government ! of the United States is firm in its con- tentions that some of the proposed amendments of France be not accepted that they prevent in effect the opera- tion of the plan to the benefit of the | Test of the world, and that they par- | ticularly place on Germany a burden | which it is aimed to relieve. This Gov- | ernment would be reluctant to go: shead without the co-operation o Prance. But if it must do so, it must The United States, having generously entered ‘upon & course which calls for greater sacrifice on the part of this country than on the part of any other, | does not intend to turn back at this| stage. 1f France makes it necessary | by her adherence to amendments which | are outside the principle of the Hoover | plan—a simple suspension of payments for a year without the invalidation of any of the existing agreements, in- cluding the Young plan—for some other plan to be worked out in which France will not participate, it may be expected that reluctantly that will be done. | The negotiations are continuing in | Paris today and the hope of the ad- ministration here is that Prance will modify in some respects the amend- ments which she has so far presented. The - United States Government itself is prepared to come to an agreement with certain changes in the plan's de- tafls, but it is not prepared to agree to Prance’s proposal that the money paid by Germany in unconditional reparations this year be loaned back not only to Germany but to other Central European countries. Nor is it prepared to undertake to agree with Prance that the guarantee given by France that it will divide up with other nations receiving reparations the receipts already obtained by France, the llon's share, shall be shifted to Germa. which is the effect of one of the amendments proposed by France. The United States holds that it has nothing whatever to do with the Young plan and the French guarantee, and that if France wishes to modif that agreement it must do so with the nations which are party to that plan and which collect reparations from Germany. S With & heavy Summer exodus to Western “dude ranches,” the question arises afresh of just what should the well togged-out “dudette” wear. Well, # would be hard to improve on the old, well established feminine outing ecostume, consisting of silk shirtwaist, heavy wool knickerbockers, thin silk | stockings and leaky, high-heeled pumps. ‘With this outfit everything gets a break, from mosquitoes to pneumonia germs. ———— -~ The Conquest of Mount Kamet. ‘The British have again triumphed in the hazardous art of mountain climb- ing. Word has just reached this coun- | try that Mount Kamet, twenty-five thousand, four hundred and forty-sevin feet in height, has been conquered by that intrepid band of youthful En[lish!l explorers headed by Frank S. Smythe. | The age of the eldest is under thirty-| three years. They succeeded where nine previous expeditions to scale this al- most insurmountable Himalayan peak ' had failed. Only once before in the his tory of mountain climbing has the more than twenty-five thousand feet height of the Kamet expedition been reached. That was in one of the futile attempts | of the British to reach the top of Mount Everest, which rears twenty-nine thou- sand feet into the sky and is the high- est mountain in the world. Two mem- bers of that ill-fated expedition suc- oeeded in climbing to within two thuu-] sand feet of the peak, but in the effort one of them was killed and the other died soon after making his perilous journey back to & base camp from the result of injuries sustained in a slide. S0, Mount Kamet is the highest peak ever reached by an organized party. Al- though details are still lacking, it cannot be questioned that this triumph was won only by the most heart-breaking efforts, and great credit must go to the little band which kept persistently at it until the reward was theirs, Mountain climb- ing is an extra hazardous undertaking, | fine initiative is not to be underest!- ant of human labor. After the p.rty' reaches the foot of the mountain labo- ! rious effort is necessary to establish the successive camps from which recon- noitering is done to find the best pos- sible route to the summit. As the ex- pedition wends its way slowly and pain- fully to high altitudes, headaches, short- ness of breath, inability to lheg well and stomach disorders are prevalent. Under these conditions it is punishing work to climb higher. The Smythe! party is well deserving of cor.gratula- tions for its fortitude in the face of enormous difficulties. e Preparing for Winter. ! The aftermath of any calamity is| often as serfous and as much to be | dreaded as the agent of destruction it- self. And regardless of the course of business from now on it is a foregone | conclusion that the coming Winter will find widespread suffering and hardship resulting from the extended perlod of world-wide depression. The one cheer- ful prospect In view is that the facts are being recognized and acknowledged and extensive preparations are under way for dealing with them. The coun- try is not going to be caught unpre- pared. As always, the problems of unem- ployment and kindred social malad- Jjustments must be solved by the indi- vidual communities. No one can ac- curately forecast the shape of demands for the expenditure of public funds, from the National, State or Municipal treasuries, toward affording rellef to those who need it most, or the amount and the nature of money that will be appropriated. And regardless of this form of aid, the President's Emergency Committee for Employment has chosen the Association of Community Chests and Councils as the one national agency best fitted to direct the work of raising the money for the support of the countless charities upon which | the brunt of the burden next Winter wil fall, and the community chest organization has responded by piedg- ing itself to the work. There are 380 Community Chests in as many citles of forty-four of the forty-eight States. Each, of course, is a separate organization. Their m: work on his incandescent electric light. Kesley's perpetual motion machine was going into the discard of discredited fantasies or fakes. A few men were busy in machine shops and barns tink- ering on the “horseless carriage” that was not long later to come forth as an actuality. Nobody thought of radio, however. As the years passed and the con- ventions multiplied the Bishops paid no heed to the “new-fangled’ things that were coming forth. They mever did, indeed, put in a telephone. In this respect they were like the Wendells of Fifih avenue, the family whos> last member died recently without ever hav- ing spoken over the phone in her life. Four years ago Mr. Bishop, then re- tired from his long-held post of stenog- rapher for the Stock Exchange, reluc- tantly consented to the installation of electric lights in his apartment. Very recently a loving friend presented him with a radio, but it is said that he rarely used it. It is somewhat refrezhing to con- template such a career in these restless, moving, stirring times when folk shift about from one domicile to another. The Bishops made a real home in their apartment on 18th street, which long ago was entirely surrounded by business buildings, and from a peace- ful, quiet area had become a nolsy, bustling section. It would be interest- ing to know what they paid for the rent of their apartment in 1877 and what in 1931. Therein would lle an- other story of a great change in values in Manhattan and in the cost of living ) Former Senator Heflin will probably never get over the blow of not having been the first to discover that the pres- ence of the fasces on the United States dime indicates the increasing headway of the Fascist movement in this coun- try. The imagination of the Gentleman from Alabama must be failin, e A Washington woman, awakening to find & burglar in her room, talked him out of his purpose by delivering a lec- ture on the futility of looking for val- uable goods where they were not to be had. She wins recognition for her Inerve, her eloquence and her pey- bership In a national association will | €hology. be utilized merely for the benefits to result from co-ordinate action and the interchange of helpful suggestions. No national goal of total funds to be raised will be set. Each chest organization, familiar with the demands that will face its own community, will write its own budget. While their campaigns will be conducted simultaneously, thus | giving the stimulus of united action and the impetus of governmental in- terest, encouragement and co-opera- tion, each campaign will be separate. | In the case of municipalities which ack the chest system of supporting organized charity the President’s Emergency Committee will seek the or- ganization of local committees some- what similar to those which are set up to govern the Community Chest. This work of organization is now going for- ward. In the meantime each Community Chest is carefully investigating the field of rieed that will be entered next Win- ter. By the time the national cam- paign begine an accurate statement of actual conditions will have been pre- pared. Plans are thus being shaped for America's greatest effort to deal ad- equately with an unparalleled emer- gency. It is significant that the effort is to be made by & Nation of self-sup- porting communities on the principle of “local responsibility for local needs,” and that for the first time the Com- munity Chests, which have thrived on that oprinciple, have been summoned collectively for the task. Their past success as fact-finding and relief-dis- pensing agencies fits them well for a Italy Sets the Pace. While PFranco-American negotiations over the Hoover plan hang in the bal- ance at Paris Italy announces “the ap- plication in advance” of the President’s proposal for suspension of intergovern- mental debt payments. It is a hand- some lead that Mussolini takes. Per- haps there is European pclitics in it, for 11 Duce is not unaware of the prestige | that is bound to accrue to Italy while her French neighbor on the other side of the Alps palters and quibbles. It is true that the sheer financial stake involved for the Fascist govern- ment is small compared to the sacrifice the French are asked to make, and, of course, immeasurably smaller than that which the United States has offered to undergo. But the spirit behind Romr‘!’ mated and deserves unqualified admira- tion. Today, July 1, is the day when repa- rations payments to Italy are due fromn Germany, Austria, Hungary and Bul- garia. These countries have been ad- vised that pending negotiations fcr 2 definite agreement between all the gov- ernments concerned the Italians will not collect the sums payable to them in application of the Young plan and The Hague agreements. Simulta: ous with this announcement Italy makes known that the creditor nations, the United States and Great Britain, have been informed that the sums due to them on interallied debts will be la:d aside and held at their disposal await- ing the final decision of the Hoover' plan. ! -t — | On a promise to be good and take his medicine without resistance, Alfonse | Capone has been given a month's grace | before the administration of his dose. e Tenants for Fifty-four Years. FIity-four years ago George R. Bishop and lus wife moved into a new apart- ment house on East 18th street, New | York City. On Tuesday last he died in that same apariment at the age of ninety, having lived there ccntinuously for the entire period of more than half & century. This is probably a record | islangs. 4 s An Englishman, sued for support, pleads that he did not know he was married “because the ceremony was performed by a forelgn minister and in a strange language.” One will won- der just what he did think the per- formance was—a spelling match? = - Emilio Aguinaldo, former insurrecto and later adherent of United States ownership of the Philippines, now favors immediate independence of those ings could be assuaged by making him King of Guam. B Messrs. Post and Gatty may make their globe-encircling trip on schedule. But it is fairly safe to assume that, along with all the honors that ma come to them, they will enjoy a lengthy spell of indigestion. e A lot of Washingtonians have read wistfully of the party of pleasure seek- ers making the first Summer trip in the Russian ice-breaker out from Archangel. S a one-eyed pllot can do things in the air that a great many with full optical equipment fail to accomplish. P demonstrated the fact that American teeth are the best in the worid. That is, all except those in our laws, r—— It looks very much as though Al- phonso de Burbon, former King of | Spain, is booked for an indefinite pe- riod of unemployment. ————————— Mabel Vernon seems to be the logical successor of Gen. Coxey. — —t— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Celestial Machinery. Out in the heavens far away We gaze with thought profound, And wisely undertake to say ‘What makes the wheels go round. They used to think the sky was flat, And thet the earth stood still; They went on proving this or that With patience and with skill. The universe runs up to date, ' 'Mid thanks and some applause, And does not undertake to wait For man to make its laws. Though sclence often bids anew Some startling thought to sound, This fact with gratitude we view; ‘The wheels keep going round. TIntellect: Competition. “You try to avold long words.” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. “Why get people interested ‘in reading the encylopedia instead of paying at- tention to your remarks?” Jud Tunkins says farm work is get- ting too laborious for him. In addi- tion to reading the agricultural maga- zine he has had to take up the study of banking and currency. Sphinxes. Some statesmen offer thoughts profound, Which prove a public blessing, And some succeed by standing 'round And keeping people guessing. Human Interchange. “Hiram,” sald Mrs. Corntossel, “what is the new hired man complaining about?” . “He isn't really complainin’,” re- plied Farmer Corntossel. “Talkin’ about his troubles is just a hired man’s way of bein' sociable and friendly.” “Knowledge is power," readymade philcsopher. “Depends on in New York and elsewhere. It is to be | how you use it." rejoiued Oactus Joe. doubted 1if there is another instance in| “There's & feller in Crimson Gulch this country of a continuous apartment tenancy of half a century and more. When Mr. Bishop and his wife took their seven-room apartment on East 18th street in 1877, the Civil War had been ended only a dozen years. The country was then in emeigence from a severe and protracted busi- ness depression. The Centennial Ex- position had just been held, and there who is mighty lonesome because he got a reputation for known' how to stack the cards.” Aloofness. I envy mot the sage who finds A mental isolation, Because our ordinary minds Can't grasp his conversation. “Folks is bound’ to hab somethin’ to etpecially in the wild and uncivilized | were signs of a new era of mechanical! worry ‘em,” sald Uncle Eben. “If a Himalayan chain. Supplies must be developments. The telephone had lately man is too rich to own & mule he buys Samsported hundreds of miles by the been introduced and Edison was at hisse' ‘some Tace hosses.” - ” Possibly his independent feel- | Wiley Post is showing the world that | A world-wide survey is said to have | D. C., WEDNESDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. A variant of the old lines about the saddest words of tongue or pen is the wealization that one isn't going to be great, after all. One had so devoutly wished to be! Certain persons in school days had rather intimated that one might, you know, if one were willing to pay the price in hard labor and devotion to the cause. And here one is at last, he realizes suddenly upon & day, trudging manfully head down the years, and no nearer grestness than when one started. This is the price of life, and happy is ke who pays it cheerfully, without with- holding praise from those who some- how have managed to achieve greatness, Now one joins, if even still with a slight reluctance, the great crowd of honest bread earners. It is good com- pany, if there are those who use the word mediocrity with a sneer. . It numbers most of one's friends, ac- quaintances, associates. There is little greatness to be found in the ranks of the everyday, but plenty of kindness, happiness of a gort, even herolsm, upon occasion. * ¥ ¥ ‘The desire to be great seems to spring fullgrown from the minds of children. Yonder 8-year-old boy, it might amaze his parents to know, is contem- |plating it even now. He aspires to be admired of men, de- Ispite the injunctions which would warn him against it. His ego, as the psychologists say, seeks to be exalted, even as the efjos of others will combine to depress it. This is the seemingly eternal conflict of humanity, within itself, for itself, and by itself. i e One may question himself on this strange thing, this greatness, which he loved awhile, and then lost in the wel- ter of the guars. Even when one gives it over, he loves it still, and it would take only a spark to kindle anew these fires, which never die, but only seem to die, for conven- fence's sake. o Admiration of others, that seemed to be at the root of it, but what was that but a craving for respect? Respect is what the humi spirit most craves, and what mankind some- times seems most determined not to give, cne to another. “Every Man a King.” ran the title of an inspirational book, but that was only a title, though a good one. * % % ¥ centuries only the Kings received the respect every man longed for. It was as if the spirit of envy and disccrd in human nature was not able {to stand the free giving of this most | precious respect to all, but must needs keep it a5 & selfish and crowning glory ! for one sole single human being “We will make him” man seemed to say, “the symbol of what every man shouid be. and may be some day. “We will put a crown on his head and seat him on a throne higher than we can sspire to. “We will speak kindly to him and come into his presence with awe and humility. “So would we seat all of us on thrones, and so put all of us beneath all, of us, but the thing is impossible, is 'a very contradiction of terms in itself. Wherefore we make unto ourselves Kings, that the swelling_envy of our silly hearts shall not suffocate us in the days of our pride.’ * ok % x It is & far cry from Kings to the e youl With few exceptions, American public opinion expresses itself favorably to- | ward President Hoover's proposal for a , war-debt holiday. “The general feeling,” says the Chi- cago Daily News, “is that a construc- tive and courageous step at last has been taken toward the economic re- habili‘ation of a depressed and discour- aged world.” The Atlanta Journal de- { clares that, “whether or no the Presi- been made in that direction. the im- portant thing is that prolonged inaction has given way to constructive effort.” The Journal holds that if it will “enable hard-pressed governments and discour- aged peoples to catch their breath and recover their balance, any sacrifice which the indulgence may now require will be abundantly offset by permanent gains.’ The Cincinnati Times-Star thinks that “at the bottom of an ex- tended depression the world of com- merce and inds has been resting on a dead center, awaiting an impetus that would send it forward.” “Expert opinion didn't expect any of the war settlements to be permanent.” says the Newark Evening News, which believes that “false promises were held out,” and that “there was a catering to human nature, with expert opinion |aware that more liberal settlements culation of the justice of any debt run- ning in monetary units involves con- sideration of what has happened to the purchasing power of money since the debt was contracted.” The Si Fran- cisco Chronicle records that understands that if German: helped out of her distress the world de- pression will be lessened and the con- dition of the United States be im- proved.” o % n “President Hoover,” according to the Oklahoma City Times, “finds himself supported by leaders of both parties at home, and by many of the leaders of other nations. Only time can prove the true merit of his proposal, but it nas proved a measure of usefulness in the rising hopes expressed in many quar- ters.” The approval of Great Britain impresses the Providence Journal as “especially significant,” since “a nation so persistently adhering from century to century to the doctrine of the sanctity of International obligations gives its hearty assent to the proposal.” “Given a reasonable chance” de- clares the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “both Republicans and Democrats will gladly lend a hand. Mr. Hoover appre- clates this, and in doing so he is deserv-: ing' of commendation. not in our coun. try alone, but everywhere. He has shown what non-partisanship can do.” The Charlotte Observer calls it “signifi- cant that among the most outspoken supporters of the President are leading Democrats, such as Newton Baker, Pat Harrison and Owen D. Young.” “The effect upon the stock markets of the world is manifestly exhilarating,” states the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “Everywhere it is apparently regarded as the opening of a new economic era.” The Pittsbuigh Post-Gazette advises that “there is no mistaking the way world oRmion is running,” and that “it wants the Hoover plan put into effect a5 soon as possible.” ‘The Roanoke World-Ncws, condemn- ing the Prench arguments, recalls that “immediately after the United States declared war in 1917, Virginians, almost without exception, applauded a propossl of Representative Andrew Jackson Mon- tague of Virginja that the first act look- ing to war preparations be the outright gift of a billion dollars to France.” The actual transactions are reviewed, with the decleration that “Great Britain is carrying the major share of the load.” That paper concludes, “The French contention that reparations payments represent the cost of rehabilitating regions of France devastated during the ‘World War hardly corresponds with ac- counts of underground fortresses France is ncw constructing from this fund, all along the uem;:n.bo.rdrr." * The fact that “England will “follow Every man may be a King. but for | g fellow who goes forth Moratorium Idea W By Country as Wise Measure | dent’s move is the best that might have | ould have to be substituted in time.” | ‘The Baltimore Sun points out that “cal- | | the war and money for '.odlx with dreams of greatness in his mind and determination to becoms something other than a clerk at last, or a millionaire, or a successful br builder, or any one of the millions of successful men, in all walks of life, yet who do not taste greatness. Perhaps this longing is the Great In- tangible. Because it has no fixed boun- daries, and 1s not measured with a rule or calipers, it extends and contracts to the limits of every man's desires and expectations. Thus it is made possible that this little man, swelling with his own im- portance, actually feels great, whereas to others who view him calmly, he seems to be a fine specimen of honest mediocrity. Thus it comes about, perhaps, that this great man, sunk in the daily rou- tine, esteems himself a fallure, when a few who kiow him catch glimpses of reatness about him, and would will- ingly ?el on his future place in the of Fame. It was so with John Burroughs and Walt Whitman. There must have come many low hours to Whitman, as he sat, a hopeless cripple, in the drab boarding house where he passed his last days. He, the apostle of the human body as a possession of worth, he the strong singer of muscls and vigor, reduced to a wheel chair in his old age! It was greatness, though. * ko % Perhaps that is the trouble with this very human longing for greatness, which 1s fixed in his soul and fiber. Maybe greatness isn't what one dreamed it is, after all, but something far different. | There came a Man, hundreds of years ago, who said that it wasn't, and that it sn't. But the world still doubts Him. In the very blood of babies is born & different conception. | " The lad with a velocipede looks with envy upon his companion with a two- | wieel bike, and thinks that greatness | comes on wheels. Even yonder youngster with the large | head and the “glasses, which furnish | early food for sneers to his small com- | panions, harbors dreams of future | greatness which would astonish you. * % % Could you but jump into the mind of | this staid business man, you would un- roll some pretty speculations on great- | ness. His other country is France, as some {one has put it. In the matter of the proposal for the suspension of inter- | governmental debis, his sympathies were instantly with la"belle France. “Wouldn't 1t be great” he sald to himself—and he unconsciously hit on | the very word—if I .could go to France and walk into the premier's office and | offer my services to the country. Let | me see—I would have a plan, a great | plan, big, unheard of: they would seize |it with gratitude; I would lead the | troops across the border; we would | seize the Rhine; I would come back, become a marshal of France; all the | boys back home would wonder about | the new marshal; tears would run down the faces of all Paris as I rode in tri- |umph; I would place wreaths on the | tombs’ of Emile Zola and Alexandre | Dumas; I would— | "~ 'Well, he wouid be great, according to the terms of human greatness. No man entirely gives up the ideal, though he may not say as much. | Even though the world needs a pew | conception, it holds firmly to the old one. Every bricklayer is at heart a King. i | elcomed | the spirit as well as the letter of the plan for a debt holiday and extend | | the one-year moratorium to the Domin- | fons and India” is described by the| Louisville Courier-Journal as ar- | reaching development of the original | proposal.” The effect on Australia of | the collapse of wool and wheat prices is pointed out by that paper, with the thought that “indirectly the Hoover | plan reaches to a part of the world that |1s in need of a debt holiday almost as { much as the German republic, thanks to the sacrifice that already burdened | England is willing to assume.” “Abandonment of the policy of aloof- ness by the United States is sufficient |to put new hope and determination | into a despairing world,” shys the Ham- | ilton (Ontario) Spectator. The Charles- |ton (S. C.) Evening Post avers, “The | Hoover assurances on the international | situation may be compared almost to | the statement of some big bank that it stands ready to help a small bank | that is in trouble.” The New Orleans | Times-Picayune hails the new confi- dence “whose lack has prolonged and intensified the depression.” “After all,” thinks the New York Sun, “what the world needs most is | confidence in_its own ability to come | back. If in this country it were possi- ble to rid every potential purchaser of | the fear that has paralyzed his buying | hand, the depression would soon end.” ‘The Birmingham News feels that “President Hoover undoubtedly believes | that in the long run the United States | will benefit.”” " The stimulation that means_confidence is lauded ‘by the To- peka Daily Capital. “A year of heightened confidence may easily bulld up trade so that no further measures will be required,” in the judgment of the Fort Worth Star- ‘Telegram. The Buffalo Evening News contends that “a psychological impulse to convince the great consuming public that an upward turn had begun was the greatest-need in the struggle to overcome depression.” The Rochester Times-Union maintains that “it does not necessarily follow that the tax burden of this country will be any heavier.” Volcing a different appraisal of the | situation, the Chicago Daily Tribune) makes the argument: ‘“There is no visible sacrifice which any nation but the United States proj to mak The other nations willingly drop all responsibility again at the American door, 'Their statesmanship contrived a war they couldn't end. It made a peace which could not be lived. They brought the United States in to end the war. They made a peace it could not accept. They borrowed money for the peace. Militarily, socially, financially, indus- trially and politically they have con- fessed themselves bankrupt, in most of these factors three times confessed. What would a sensible creditor do when tiyls poverty was laid at his door? He would ask the debtors, first, to bring | him thelr assets and permit an arrange- | nfent which aimed at solvency. Then he could make the concessions needed for recovery. The Unitéd States was not too proud to fight. It is too soft to negotiate.” e New Mark for Scots. From the 8t. Louis Times. An English factory has just set a record in making & suit of clothes in three hours from the time the wool was taken from the sheep, a saving of time that would do credit to a Scotch tatlor. — vt ———— The Other End, Too. From the Bt. Louis Post-Dispatch. And after they've rounded up the tax- dodgers of the underworld, they might mc‘ltur the tax-dodgers of the upper circles. e Mosquitos vs. Food. From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. Getting refreshments via curb serv- jce would be more enjoyable if the mos- uitos didn’t §0 in for the same ides at L same time, i Georgi;ns (;i\-er 1 . | It will play its part in the future affairs JULY T, 193% Finds the American Stage in Sorry State To the Editor of The Star: Mr, de Melcher's comments in The Star on theatrical offeri) are re- freshingly honest and rnlliywhe!piul to those many readers who e & good play, but have no time for the vial and no taste for the vulgar. In my opinion, the American s today very poorly served th theater, and this is particularly true of such a town as Washin, , where there is & high average of intelligence, and where the exotic, not to say erotic, likings of Broadway are noticeably non- existent. During the recent season, many of the plays ofiered to the Washington public attempted to substitute abelaisian dialogue and horse play for more con- vineing and appealing entertainment. I left two plays before they were over, and, discussing one of them with an at- tendant, had him comment upon my protest against the language being used upon the stage by saying, “You don't realize that all the people are like that now.” Inasmuch as the female characters in the Elece were all crooked and the male characters largely re- stricted in their knowledge of the English language to profanity and obscenity, I could not agree with him. Discussing the matter with a group of others sometime afterward, several them said that they had also left s before the final curtain during the present season. and in no case were they u‘nlophllflclud and certainly they were in every case competent jud oll'hll:.du 1':“1’;‘ in dnn?:. e wonder if'it would not be ible for the legitimate stage during ll;‘:lext Winter season to offer Washington people some plays in which the desir- ability of chastity and fidelity in women 1s at least tacitly recognized and where the use of profanity is reduced to a minimum, and where all of the char- acters do not drink bootleg liquor all of the time. While oaths are perhaps heard more frequently than in former days, even when women are present, I am convinced that gentlemen, as a rule, still put a little restraint upon their conversation, at least when the com- pany is mixed, and I am further con- vinced that there are literally thousands of people who have practically aban- doned the theater who would again appear at the box office if they were sure that their sense of decency would not be offended by what they had paid to see. Surely the young women who find it necessary to present some of these objectionable roles must feel that they are very unhappily imposed upon. As for the motion pictures, they are not so bad as the legitimate ‘stage, but I fully believe that censorship, objec- ;.kml‘I;‘Ie as it ls,.:lll certainly come un- less they are made less vulgal morally subversive. s DEETS PICKETT. public e 932 Boost to Roosevelt From the Atlanta Journal “Whereas, the national presidential campaign soon will be under way; and, Whereas, our part-time fellow citizen, friend and neighbor, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, is being promi- nenily urged from all parts of the country as a candidate for the Demo- cratic presidential nomination * * ¢ So begin the resolutions of a group of Georgians whose privilege it has been to know Franklin D. Roosevelt for years, to see at first hand his humanitarian faith and works, to observe his hearty and constructive interest in their county and commonwealth, and thus to measure his worth as & man. It is sig- nificant that they call him “friend” and “neighbor"—his ~ personality prompts and justifies the words. And it is nat- ural “that_they, constituting the Meri- wether Roosevelt-for-President Club should ask their fellow Democrats in other counties “to effect similar organ- izations with the view that, when ac- tion generally is taken by the counties, a State-wide organization may be per- fected.” On the same day, resolutions of like significance were adopted by leading Democrats of Baldwin County, assembled at Milledgeville. This is natural, we say, not only be- cause of Gov. Roosevelt's close and happy relations with Georgia, but also by virtue of his deep and growing im-, press on the common country’s mind His interest in this State extends far beyond his home at Warm Springs. where he has founded one of America most effective philanthropies and where he spends as much time as his public duties will allow. He is, besides, a keen student of Georgia agriculture, in which he holds no inconsiderable stake; and from his pen has come the most discerning article, published in a na- tional magazine, that we have ever read on the traditions and character of the Georgian people—an article in which he shows that our State, with all the history of one of the 13 parent colonies, still has all the opportunity of an eco-| nomic frontier. But what of his na- tional prestige? The fact that he is Governor of New York, twice elected by the largest ma- jority ever given a candidate for that office, tells much: and the fact that his administration, though beset by a sea of difficulties, has been eminently suc- cessful, tells more. His work at that trying and responsible post is of the same quality that marked his services as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson during the critical days of the World War. A work it is that commands nation-wide respect and proclaims him a man of ideas and of leadership in a time when | leadership and ideas are sadly infre-| quent. ————— Religion as a World Factor. From the Chicago Daily News. A writer in a religious publication remarks: “If some unimaginable catastrophe the Christian Church were | to be obliterated in the entire Western ‘World—as ruthless Communists are a tempting to obliterate it in Russia—it would still live on as an indigenous, self-directing unit in Africa, in the Near_East, in India, in Malaysia, in the Par East, in the isles of the sea. ‘This was not true a hundred years ag 'Odv;g it is too clear to be doubted. atever opinion one may entertain concerning that form of religious prop- aganda which has been known as for- eign mi , this result of its activity is noteworthy and important. It has both spiritual and social significance. of the world. It denotes the develop- ment of & new capacity on the part of peoples of many lands and many races to think and communicate in terms of common understanding con- | cerning principles and ideals of life| commonly held. In the process which has brought this about there has come a striking modification of points of veiw on the | part of the missionary toward the thought and faith of those to whom he carries his message. It is hest indicated, perhaps, by the practical disappearance of the term “heathen” from the vo- cabulary of modern missions. A more intimate knowledge, a more intelligent understanding of the religions of other peoples, has led many to realize that the spiritual values are not monop- olized by Occidental faith, and that approaches to ultimate truth may be found along other roads than those marked by the fingerprints of churches and syrnagogues. The rn-merfiz‘l’n‘ of altruistic mo- tive and its better direction toward effective human service has been a| great contribution of the missionary movement to non-Christian lands. Scl , hospitals, better hous- 3 and sanitation are in many cases as much the results of missionary efforts as are churches. That movement, now growing in far lands from native roots and with in- herent vitality, may yet recoll upon its Western source with a spiritual lickening. For the faith which Occi- lental propaganda has carried abroad was born in the East, and may come back to us reinterpreted by those who recognize it as their own. ——e— Like Sinking Feeling. Prom the Toledo Blade. There 15 & vast difference between a and & tund. { pacity to pay.” * ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘Thousands of Government experts' are wi constantly for the benefit of all citizens of the United States. They will work directly for you if you will call for the fruits of their’ labors thre our Washington bureau. State vour iry briefly, write clearly, and. inclosing 2-cent stamp for a personal address The Eve ning | Haskin, director, Washington, D, C. Q. Is Martha Finley, who wrote the sie books, liwng?—E. N. H. A. She died at Elkton, Ind, in 1909. Q. Please name some young moving picture stars who have given remark- able portrayals of old age—J. J. A. Such a list includes the following: Colleen Moore in “So Big,” Irene Dunne | in “Cimarron,” Dolores Del Rio in | “Evangeline,’ Ruth Chatterton | “Madame X,” “Sa and Son” and | “The Right to Love" and Norma Tal- | “Secrets” and “Smilin’ Q. How many persons traveled byair | in 1930?—C. M. A. More than 417,500 persons were carried on American lines during 1930. Q. Who received the Manley Me- morial medal this year?—A. K . A. This medal, “given annually by the Soclety of Automotive Engineers, was awarded to Dr. O. C. Bridgeman, research associate of the Bureau of Standards, for his paper on “The Effect of Alrplane Fuel Line Design on Vapor Q. How old is Dassy Vance’—E. M. o, A Do Vance was bom on March Q. How may fruit be canned with- out sugar for persons with diabetes?— | F. A. Prepare jars, rubber rings, and | tops as usual for eny canning process. | Select and prepare the fruit as usual, | taking care to seiect firm frug. Fill | the jars with equal weights of fruit| and water. Screw on the tops tightly. | Sterilize the fruit and jars by placing them in & kettle or boller of hot water. There should be & rack in the bottom | of the kettle to prevent’ the jars| from touching it. Bring the water in | the boiler to the bolling point and boil | for 30 minutes. Remove the jars from | the boiling water, take off “the tops | and add boiling water to fill the jars to overflowing. Put on the clean Tubber | rings, then put on the tops, seal and | turn upside down until cold. | | Q. Who is governor of the Bank of Engiand?—W. D. A. Montagu Collet Norman. Q. What is the origin of fireworks?— A. O 'A. The origin of pyrotechny is un- known, but the art was early prac- ticed in the East. Although inflam- mable compositions (known as Greek fire) were used in European warfare | before gunpowder had become known among the Western nations, fireworks, in the modern sense of the word, be- came known to them about the middle of the fourteenth century and record is found of their having been used as an accessory of public pageantry in the year 1588. e early development of fireworks in Europe was due to the Florentines. PFireworks have been asso- clated with the Fourth of July from the beginning. At the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams, in a letter to his wife, said: “It (Independence day) ought to be solemnized with pomp and parades. with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward for evermore.” . Who was called the “Wisest Fool | in Christendom”?—N. F. A. This appellation was first applied to James I of England by the French | statesman, Sully. It expresses the com- bination of the king's considerable range | of learning and his notable weakness | of character. Q. Was Beethoven o Oatholle n:m:nn—c. B o . Beethoven was a Catholic. Just before his death, he received the sacra- ments of the church. Q. What causes & lUne in the ocean, on ene side of which the water is rtm(A h, while on the other it is smooth? A. T United States Coast and Geodetic Burvey says the phenomenon is one tht is frequently observed at sea. The Asuse is usually ascribed to currents, alQiough there may be other reasons involsed. The edge of the Gulf | Stream is oftex marked by a very defi- nite line with an abrupt change in tem- perature and celor of water. If the wind is against tke current, the stream will be rou and choppy, while the r is compara A fine film of oll produces a surface known as a “slick.”” Along the edge of this “slick” there is n a distinet line. Q. How much hay in the United States is lost from spontaneous com- bustion?—A. A, A. Fully one-tenth of the harvested hay crop of the United States is lost from the time it is cut umll it is used s a result of spontancous heating. sQ- v;v‘hn thhn number of Masons in A. There are 1880 Masons in Spain, Q_How many homes have bath- tubs?—G. M. 8. Engineer~ . g to Domestic ing, about 47.7 per cent of the eity homes in the United States have bath- tubs. Q. What per cent of the United States Olympic games teams are ecol- lege students?>—L' F. C. A. In the make-up of the 1928 team at Amsterdam, athletes who were col- lege treined comprised 84.14 per cent; high schcol athletes, 2.44 per cent; non- school athletes, 13.42 per cent. Q. How deeply sunk must a vessel be to cease being & menace to navigation? —V. N. A. That depends on the condition of the ship. Recently & wire drag of the Coast and Geodetic Survey dis= covered a sunken derelict off the en« trance to Greenwich Harbor on the north shore of Long Island. Although the hulk was covered by 48 feet of water, a mast, still standing, came to within one foot of the surface at low water. In such cases, measures are taken to destroy the whcle wreek. Q. What does the French sign “De- fense d’Affiche” mean?—O. O. H. A. The English equivalent is “No Bl Posting.” fi, ;/lg Johnny Appleseed a tramp? A. John Chapman, universally known as Johnny Applesced, was reported to have been a graduate of Harvard Unl. versity. He owned a home near Pitts- burgh, with a garden and nurseries. Q. What is the width of the adhesive tape used in bandaging the hands of professional boxers?—E. A. J. A. It varies from one and one-half inches to three inches. The one and one-half inch tape is generally used. Q. How Icng have ice cream cones been on the market?—D. A. L. A. The ice cream cone first made its appearance at the World Fair in St. Louis in 1904. Q. What kind of a car won the fire race won on the Indianapolis Speedw way?—G. T. J. A. A Marmon won the first race, i 1911, Q. Did any of the American colonists leave the country when the United States was formed?—M. K. A. About 20,000 “loyalists” are said to have migrated to Nova Sc WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. In the Adult Bible Class Monthly, Methodist magazine, for July there's an article entitled “The Home Wine Men- ace,” by Deets Pickett, research secre- tary of the Methodist Board cf Temper- ance, Prohibition and Public Morals. The piece makes some diverting revela- tions about the California grape concen- trate concern with which Mabel Walker ‘Willebrandt is identified in a legal ca- pacity. Mr. Pickett describes the suc- cess with which Portia’s associates slaking the national thirst for light wines as “a problem with which all friends of temperance must grapple hout dela: ‘The high spot is a quo- tation from a brief submitted to the prohibition ecmmissioner of permits by Mrs. Willebrandt and from which the follcwing language is quoted: “Fruit In- dustries, Inc., is spending United States Government money, having all its prop- erty mortgaged to the Federal Govern- ment, with a manager and board cf di- rectors chosen or approved by the Fed- eral Farm Board, and is practically an arm of the Government itself.” The brief also calls attention to the fact that the California grape organization been guaranteed a permit to manu- facture wine tonic containing only 22!; per cent of solids. while other manu- facturers of wine tonics are required to make use of 30 per cent. * Apropos Secretary Mellon's negotia- tions in Paris, Washington is recalling a story which Mr. Hoover, before he be- came President, was fond of repeating. When the Belgian debt was funded King Albert's commissioners insisted uron writing into nearly every section of the agreement that Belgium was to do this and thus “within her capacity to pay.” The night before the Brussels delegation Jeft the United States the Belgian Ambassador gave a dinner for the American debt commissioners, in- cluding Mr. Hoover, Mr. Mellon and Senator Smoot. One of the Belgians turned to Smoot during the evening.and said: “Senator, your name and religious fMliations are famous in our country, nd I am sure, when I get home, to be asked & lot about you. Would you mind telling me just how many wives a Mor- mon may have?” The Utah statesman turned his blandest smile upon his questioner and replied, “Within his ca- o Here's another debt yarn of timely interest. During the funding negotia tions with the Italians President Cool idge requested two of the American commissioners—Mellon and Representa- tive Olney, Democrat, of Massachusetts —to consider themselves a special com- mittee to keep him up to the minute on the progress of affairs with Musso- lini's astute bargainers. Messrs. Mellon and Olney arrived at the White House one afternoon after lunch to let Mr. Coolidge know that matters for the mo- ment were at a critical stage. The story goes that after an usher had run up- stairs and announced to the President who his callers were the message was brought back that “the President is taking a nap and doesn't want to be disturbed. Tell the gentlemen to come back in an hour.” x ok ok X Few people know that George Wash- ington was known to the Indians of his time by & special name. It was “Cono- tocarius.” As early as 1754 Washing- ton, in a written address to the Indian Hallf King si “Go Wi ication: rius.” The meaning of this name was “Devourer of Villagzs.” This name, strangely enough, was bestowed by the Indians upon John Washington, the immigrant, great- grandfather of Gen Washington, who in his day had also been a colonel of Virg'ina militia. = Young George fell heir to the title in his th when he first became known te Indians. * ok ok X the -communi Conotoca nation of the average farmer's chromis need of relief: “He gets up to the alarm of a Connecticut clock, bu his Chicago suspenders to & overall, washes his face with Cincl soap, sits down to a Grand table, eats Kansas City meat and nesota flour cooked on a Sears-Roel stove. He goes out to the barn, puts & New York bridle on a Missouri mule with Colorado alfalfa, and plows re | farm, covered with a Vermont me with an Illinois plow. When comes he reads a chapter from the Bible printed in Boston, says & prayey written in Jerusalem, crawls under blanket made in New Bedford, only be awakened during the night by th howling of a home-grown dog—the only home-grown product on the piace—and then the son-of-a-gun wonders why the hell he can’'t make a living!” * k x % It may be mere coincidence, but fore eign governments seem to have s penchant during this administration for sending mining engineers to Washinge ton as Ambassadors. At any rate, Sp':tfl is the second country within two years to station a member of Herbert Hoover's profession on the Potomac. The first one was M. Tytus Filipowicz, Ambassa- aor of Poland, and now comes Senor Don Salvador de Madariaga, Ambassa~ dor of the new Spanish Republic. The Polish envoy still claims mining engi- neering as his calling, but Senor de Madariaga became a professor of Span- ish literature at Oxford University. Not long ago Harvard men in Washington, having heard the brilliant Spaniard lecture, thought of asking their alma mater to invite him to fill a chair at Cambridge. * * % Just before the White House mailbag began to be choked with letters approv- ing the President’s deot holiday plan, Mr. Hoover received shoals of appreci- ations of his speech at the Harding Memorial. An attache of the executive offices had this- note from one of the most famous educators in the country: “Ever since I read the Presidents speech at Marion I have been thinking about it and about him. It was one of the bravest things I have ever noted. We have a few men left, thank God, who have the courage ‘to speak the truth in love,’ men who are willing to be poor politicians in order to be great public servants. I believe it will prove to be the best kind of politics in the long run. Anyhow, I was very proud and thrilled to the heels when I read the address.” * % % A recent high schcol graduate, evi- dently under the spell of front-page news of the hour. was asked the ing of the word “crematorium.’ said it was “a place where you burn up debts.” * ok ok ¥ Venerable Admiral Colby M. Chester, who retired from the Navy in 1906, has been suggested as the ideal oommnnd:i of “Old Ironsides,” which is about be towed into varicus ports under her ancient and glorious spread of sail. Ale though no man on active duty in the Navy has commanded a full-rigged sail- ing ship, Chester, at the age of 23, and the rank of lleutenant commander and executive of , commanded the square-rigged Galena. In 1891 Chester ‘was skipper of the Constellation, also a man-of-war, when she took out of Annapolis en for their practice cruise. A veteran naval officer, ‘who was one of the middies that sailed with Chester, 40 years ago, proposes that the Navy Department ask the 87- year-old admiral to take command of the rejuvenated Constitution, his health permitting, and, aftér breaking in a crew, conduct the ship to Atlantic ports. The proposal is described as especially appropriate because Admiral Chester’s Prom Kansas nstityent’ of these lwll on “Old > flag is understood to have been the last . A