Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1931, Page 8

" A8 —_— e ~ dispatches from ENIENING “BTRI [ s ae e s THE With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. ...July 9, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11t ot e Fenyivanta Ave. 2w Yotk Ofice: 0 East ¥ n Guicase Ofics: Lal ke Michi ’Efufin- u'n-l-nt'“.,u- 3 Englan Rate by Carrier Within the City. Toe Preoine 45c per month when 4 ui s0c per month e Pren o ndiy giai 0 o0 o Sundsy B er” copy c b on ut the end of each month. rders % 'Be Sem in by mail of telephons ational 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable In Advance. Maryland and Virginia, ' Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled Debts and Armaments. The economic revival of the world, it 15 obvious, cannot be accomplished on anything more than a temporary basis by the postponement for a year of the intergovernmental debts and repara- tions. There must be other steps, as President Hoover has more than once warned the natlons. The way to a re- sdjustment has been pointed by the Hoover debt suspension plan. Hope, which was drooping the world over, has been revived. The first step, which is sometimes the hardest, has been taken under the initiative of the American Government and the leadership of Mr. Hoover. The world has been promised & breathing spell, & chance to catch its second wind. During the period of res- pite it is necessary that the situation be examined carefully by ail concerned 20 that the whole program of relief may be advanced. President Hoover in his announce- ment that agreement had been reached between the Government cf the United States and the government of France on debt suspension, assuring the carry- ing out of the plan, made this com- ment: And in this year devoted to economic upbullding, the world has need for solemn thought on the causes which have con- tributed to the depression. I need not Tepeat that one of these causes is the burdens imposed and the fears aroused by competitive armament. In his original proposal of the debt suspension plan the President, without attempting to link disarmament with the suspension of the debts, also called attention to the fact that there was & crying need for limitation of arma- ments, the cost of which today in many countries s sapping the financlal strength of the people and of industry. The amounts expended each year by the nations involved in the debt suspension operation for armaments and to meet costs of past wars are far in excess of the intergovernmental debts suspended. ‘These amounts are taken out of the people by burdensome taxation. It has been estimated that these war costs are several times the total of the inter- governmental debts. The debt-suspension plan is an in- ternational gesture of friendship. If this spirit of friendship can be trans- Jated into something solid—for exam- ple, into a genuine agreement for re- duction of armaments at the interna- tional conference which is to be held at Geneva—the world will be the gainer many times over. Many American leaders, in addition to the President, have pointed the need to a reduction in the burdens of armament costs. It will be of little avail if the suspension or even the scaling down or cancellation of intergovernmental debts is brought about and the payments for armaments are maintained at the present high figures or increased. Senator William E. Borah, chairman of the Foreign Re- lations Committee, for years an advo- cate of disarmament, has pointed this out. ‘The United States today, slthough its armaments have been cut down further and further, still must meet & huge ex- penditure for past and future wars. It has been estimated that of an average budget of $4,000,000,000 & year this country spends $2,500,000,000 for past and present wars. If the same thing is true in European nations, and there is every reason to believe it to Ye so0, it is not difficult to grasp the crushing effect of these expenditures vpon the world. It is time, as the President has recommended, to examine into this question of armaments with more seri- ous purpose to reduce them than ever before. S Bill eollection is often one of the most trying features of business. The relationship of nations will be more comfortable when a liberal understand- ing s reached as to a definite settle- ment. — e Disaster in China. 8o vast is the area of China, and so dense the population and so desper- ately deficient are the means of com- munication with the greater portion of the land that Western understanding and knowledge of conditions there is sndly lacking. Disasters on a great scale occur there and are barely known in this country, or, if known in the full measure of their magnitude, are not appreciated as the unhappy people of that suffering land are affected. As an example, through a Shanghal weekly publication comes information of a dis- aster in the Province of Hunan, in the southeastern portion of China, which ocecurred about a month ago. The sit- uation is thus described in a paragraph under the heading “Terrific Rains in Hunan": Parts of Hunan Provinee were flooded last week and & heavy toll of lives has been taken, according to a telegram from Changsha. As a result of inces- sant rainfall the districis of Siangtan, Changt?, Anhsiang and Sianghsiang, in Northeastern Hunan, were under water. Heart-rending scenes were re- ported from BSlangtan, where flooded ! conditions were the worst. The hill south of the city, softened by the con- tinuous downpour, collapsed end the of water from the chasm swept down everything in its path. The newly sown flelds were laid waste. The sand and stones rried down from the mountains by the rein cover an area of geveral square miles. &4tle mention hes i::n made of this { aceounts of the political conditions in THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JULY 9,. 1931. mission’'s findings. The facts speak for themselves. r The astrobgest indictment of the Hunan and the provinces adjacent,| system as it is today les in the investi- where a elvil confliet and s war against Communism are raging simuitaneously. Natural misfortunes from which the Chinese suffer by the thousands and which impose desperately heavy bur- dens upon them through the destruc- through starvation, monplaces. Eleven years ago an earthquake oc- curred in Kansu, in Northwestern China, which caused the loss of approx- imately 100,000 lives immediately and jundetermined casualties later through the failure of food supplies consequent upon the upheaval of the earth. The news of this calamity did not reach Western ears for many weeks after the {event. Just seven years later another | earthquake, cf almost the same char- acter and magnitude and with just about the same cost in lives, oceurred {in the same Province of Kansu, and it, j likewise, was not known in America for two months after the horror itself. Relief works for the succor of the survivors of the Hunan deluge are com- paratively easy to promote, for the are almost com- ?|scene of the disaster is readily reached. But the relief of the people of Kansu, both in 1920 and 1927, was next to im- possible, owing to the great distances to be covered by expeditions of succor, the total lack of modern communication facilities over s great part of the dis- tance—a single line of rallway reaching about half way from the coast, with only mule and camel track for the re- mainder of the space, about five hun- dred miles. It is estimated that the population of {China is about 450,000,000, though no- body knows how many people reside in the nineteen provinces which comprise that country. There has never been & real census, and in even modern con- ditions of government there cannot be an accurate count. Likewise, nobody knows the death rate from disaster and starvation. It is very high. Life in that land of long-protracted misgovernment and suffering is, indeed, precarious. R No Debt Cancellation. Reviewing tersely over the radio last night the history of the intergovern- mental debt moratorium, Acting Secre- tary of State Castle seized a useful op- poriunity to explode certain theories which have obtained currency regarding the future course of events. Inad- | vertently Mr. Castle himself was the cause of deductions now shown to be without foundation. In a casual state- ment to the press on Tuesday the Aci- ing Secretary sald that the President, in casting about for a plan to help Germany. had considered the possibil- ity of re-examining the nations’ ca- pacity to pay. ‘The thought at the back of Mr. Hoo- ver's head, according to Mr. Castle, was to see whether reparations and debts should be scaled down in accordance with the world depression. Immediately there arose from this observation the suggestion that cancellation, apparently once having been in the wind at the White House, is obviously something that must be accounted s serious fu- ture possibility in the same high quarter. ‘The Acting Secretary, who speaks with first-hand authority because he was in the thick of the late negotia- tlons, sets at rest such fears as may exist on'the cancellation score. At no time, he says, was the President think- Ing of any “permanent revision of the foreien debt setilements nor of any con- tract of which we are not & party (i. e, reparations).” Mr. Hoover's plan was purely and simply to give Germany “a year'’s breathing space, in which the recuperative forces of the world could make headway.” The President was actuated only by a desire to bring about relief of the “temporary conditions created by world-wide depression.” Capticus critics of Mr. Hoover's mo- tives and procedure will perhsps con- tinLe to derive malicious satisfaction | from the disclosure that at one time he was weighing all aspects of the inter- governmental debt problem, including re-examination of capacity to pay. The President wculd be a far less thorough student of affairs than everybody knows him to be if he had not inspected every conceivable facet of the colossal prob- lem with which he was tussling. Having done 30, he came to the donclusicn that & temporary suspension of payments was the only feasible measure of rellef on the horizon. In his statement of June 20, Mr. Hoover left not the slight- est doubt that what he was about to propose had no relation whatsoever to cancellation. A period of grace, not a receipt in full, was the Alpha and Omega of the President’s plan. The world knows today, from Mr. Castle’s elarifying statement, that this, and this only, is within Mr. Hoover's intent. Secretary Mellon, - to whom history is bourd to award the lion's share of credit for the actual termination of suc- cessful ncgotiations at Paris, is quoted as having sald, when Parislan reporters asked if the debt accord was the last word in the moratorium incident, “There is no iast werd” What Mr. Mellon means by that characteristic epi- gram is that world economics are too obviously in a state of flux to permit the door to be cl:sed on all and sundry i additional schemes of amelioration. It may turn out that one good breathing spell deserves another. But even if another comes, in 1932, or in 1033, it { will not necessarily mean that cancella- ! tion is on the way, or even in sight. Acting Secretary of State Castle's advice deserves the attention of the American pegple. He urgss them to take up the work of rehabilitation, in- itiated by the leadership cf President Hoover, “in a spirit of couragcous opt!- migm.” If the country buckles down to | that su-sumetent task of the present, the future may safely be left to teke care of itself. A Being stepfather to Alinee Semple {McPherson is not precisely the role most men would willingly undertake. S Where Uncle Sam Fails. The chief valus of the National Law Enforcement Commisilon's most recent report on “The Child Offender in the Federal System of Justice” lies in the relative eas: with which its sound rec- ommendations for improving a deplor- 2ble state cf affairs could be made effective.” There should be no sharp dmereno{ of opinion over the com- gators’ statement of fact that “The con- cept of juvenile delinquency is un- known to the Federsl Penal Code.” ‘The Pederal Government has lagged in its recoguition of the universally amc- cepted ‘theory that the child delinquent | tion of crops, taking further toll of lives| is in & class by himself demanding the application of a distinct science of treatment and cure. And the result is that the fate of the child offender, and much of his hope of salvation, depends upon factors that are purely accidental. Breaking the laws of & State, the juve- nile offender becomes a ward of the community under.a qualified guardian- ship which seeks to safeguard, train and educate him, rather than to punish him. Breaking s Federal law, the juvenile offender becomes merely an- other Pederal prisoner, to be deslt with by the same machinery set up for deal- ing with adult and hardened offenders. And the difference between the violation of » State and Federal statute may be merked by the geographical boundary line between two jurisdictions. And having falled once to seize the concept of juvenile delinquency as dis- tinct from adult delinquency, the Fed- eral system of justice has falled again to provide proper methods and facili- ties for dealing with its youthful pris- oners. The report by Dr. Miriam Van Waters, which deseribes the physical conditions and methods of punishment in some of the Federal reformatories, among them the institutions in and ddjacent to the District of Columblia, should provide somebody with material for another Oliver Twist. Here is & burden which, the commission believes, and rightly, should be shed by the Federal Government and placed on the communities in the States, which have made far greater advances not only in their administration of justice, where delinquents are concerned, but in their care of those public wards who must be incarcerated. The commission recommends legislation empowering the Federal Government to withdraw from prosecution of juvenile offenders against Federal laws in favor of juvenile courts or other welfare agencies set up by the States. “Our problem,” says the re- port, “is not solely to secure the wel- fare of the child offender and the pro- tection of society by means of admin- istrative changes, but to enunciate the more fundamental principle that child- hood has a status distinct from that of the adult.’ The commission can deal with no more important problem than that of Juvenile delinquency. Upon its proper solution depends, in large measure, the real prevention of crime. —— et Declaration by Ramsay MacDonald that the United States is the greatest Nation on earth is a magnificent com- pliment and also a delicate but forceful reminder of the responsibilities Uncle Sam may be called on to assume. o Many & beer racketeer may, if pres- ent programs are carried out, contem- plate a penitentiary with melaneholy reflections on what a fine, large brewery it would have made if circumstances had been different. S It is evidently the hope of President Hoover to place the business of the world on a secure footing that wil permit statesmen everywhere to take a holiday and go fishing. S ‘The first rabbit shot by Clara Bow, rurally recuperating afier her recent trials and tribulations, “caused big tears to run down her cheeks.” Glycerin on, ——————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Land and Water. Make hay while the sun shines, proverb advises. In spite of this wise admonition, ‘When the sun through the mist of the morning arises T'd rather get out and go fishin’. the The men who impress us as learmed and clever Are oft in the selfsame condition. ‘Though faithful in purpose and strong in endeavor, ‘They all like to quit and go fishin’. Yor toll and for traffic the land was intended. In the struggles of pride and am- bition, ‘Where the ripples bagin all the strife should be ended. ‘The water was put here for fishin'. Polite Prediction. “Didn’t you tell me I was going to get that appointment?” inquired the constituent. “I believe I did,” replied Senator Sorghum. “You haven't yet kept your promise.™ “My friend, I didn't mean it as a promise. It was only an eptimistic prophecy.” Jud Tunkins says economy with him is like the violin. Every time he tries to practice it, the whole family gets uncomfortable. Accomplished Without Armament. The Dove of Peace flew round the ark And gayly ventured this remark: “The greatest voyage now is done, And no one had to use a gun.” Popular Attention. “Why do you think a classical edu- cation is not desirable for your boy Josh?" “Folks don't appreciate it,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “I never yet saw a Bummer boarder who was educated enough to hold his audience when a feller put out & pack of cards and began to do tricks.” A Temperamental Community. “Ars you in favor of blue laws in Crimson Gulch?” ! “No,” protesied Cactus Joe. “I'm | afraid there'd bs too much excitement and general disorder if anybody tried to enforce ‘em.” Never Prepared. Each year the Summer days are hot, As every one of us must know. | Each year we all complain a lot And are surprised to find them so. “Qne of de mos' melancholy sights,” sald Uncle Eben, “am dat of de young man who goes to a hoss-race an’ thinks he has foun' a newpway to make monegs® = 3 t wants to know if n'a:;t 4 discontent » vice, e do no Discontent of the proper sort is o t Washingtonlan has en n engraved over his fireplace the fol- lowing pressed briefly and to the point the salient characteristic of his own per- sonal approdch to life. ‘We often have heard him say that it » were ever satirfied with anything, and especially with himself and what he is able to do, would know that he was about thi *x e A petty discontent, ot course, is noth- ing but a trouble maker, not only in the individual life, but especially in the lives of others. If one is discontented to no end, but just for the sheer perversity of the thing, without rhyme or reason, he is harboring within his mind and heart a prime nuisance, as he will find out some day. ‘The: good type of discontent is that which makes one reasonably dissatis- fled with what he has and is, and thus starts him out on the search for betterment. One of the greatest business men in the United States, in addressing a conference recently, said that the pur- pose of research in industry is to “make every one reasonably dissatisfled with what he has.” ‘That strikes one as pretty harsh doc- trine, at first. We are to buy articles, are we, .to find them superseded by fresh articles before the old even be- gin to get worn? o Yes, that is it, to be “reasonably dis- satisfied” wih what one has. What Is that, after all, but what every person actually does, in the every- day life? 1t is merely a very frank, perha an unpleasant, statement of somethi with which every child is familiar. *x ok % ‘We no sooner achieve something than we look around for some other goal. We no sooner get through the grades than we look to high school and from there to college. In business a young man is glad enough, at first, to become office boy to the manager, but soon that does not satisfy him at all. woman' and THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. who, when confronted AR vely lea) m. Beware! e ‘The handwriting on the wall says, plainly enough: “You are in the grip of the bad dissatisfaction, not the good with a fact, es- sort. Instead of using your mind and heart to be discontented, you are per- mitting a chronic grouch against every- thing to take the lead in your life.” Now it must be admitted that there are some natures which instinctively turn to major and minor criticism of others—hardly ever of themselves—with the promptness of a cat toward a mor ‘The members of this group consti- tute an exception, for they criticize What they do because they naturally see its weak point and know that the thing deserves a good knocking. These people are few and far be- tween, however. The great majority of chronic knockers and panners are men and women who have taken .the path of least resistance. It is easler to find fault than to find good, and &h!y*uke the easiest way. * x % On the other hand, an instinctive desire to praise may be as immoderate as a too willing readiness to blame. It is almost as bad. In some ways it is worse, because ready blame, if undeserved, may be kicked away by any one with half a mind to resist. Ready praise, however, is so unc- tuous that it steals away manhood and the 1ight prevents many injus- tices, in & world full of them, from being corrected. The too-ready praiser is unwilling to disturb the ease of his mind and heart; | that is why he jumps at the conclusion of rightness before he has had time to see whether what he is praising is | good or not, | This sort of person is responsible | for a continuance of a great deal of misery in the world. “Oh, how artistic!" a % | he cries, going through a slum, seeing | the tottering bridge and thereby failing | to notice the dirt and degradation, * * ¥ ¥ T ‘ Let it be admitted that a great deal | of discontent must be stertle. It is not | always possible, even with the best will in the world, to right conditions, es- pecially when the righting thereof de- pends upon other people. | It we were an executive in a great | American business we would make it |our pleasure as we!l as duty to listen He sharpens his pencil on shorthand | carefully to the “kieks.” It is impos- and aspires to be stenographer, then s'ble to believe that the grouches held clerk, then foreman, then assistant|so faithfully by so many are all in manager, then—— | error, All the time he is reasonably dis- contented with what he has. If he is wise he does not permit his dissatis- faction at any given time to overcome him to the point of grouchiness. It is only when discontent assumes the proportions of a vice that it be- comes a vice. So much Is true of al- most any virtue in this curious world of living things. “Too much of anything is bad.” said the ancients. They knew a thing or two in their day, a day which is still in force in many particula Discontent is one of them. If a young man or woman entering business per- mits this virtue to get a grip on him, to the exclusion of his sense of humor, his regard for seniority and a sense of the eternal fitness of things, he will discover that he is in the hands of a bad taskmaster. o oxox How is & young person to know when discontent has lost its virtue and turned to_bitterness in the mouth? He may know this, in most cases, by whether or not his first impulse is to_praise or to blame. ‘This is the test, and it is & good one, if he has the common sense and cour: age to apply it ruthlessly. There are scores of young men and women, | With the best will and the finest | co-operaticn in the world, however, | there is bound to be a residuum of dis- | content that is not carried over into | improvement, or gain of any sort. Shall we say this is wasted? | No, eternally no, if it is done in com- | pliance with our stated rules of good | humor, & regard for the fitness of | things ‘and a certain reverence for those | who have gone before. 1n this latter sense we all may be Chinese ancestor | worshipers. | = Discontent, held in proper bounds, is | divine, even 'without results. The very lack of desired change makes it more | certain to be an antiseptic influence on | the person who holds it. | It modifies a certain fierceness which | seems clinging to the human animal and assuages this beastly fire with the ireflned glow of kindness and gentleness. What if some one does “put some- thing over on you"? If he is fortynate { he will find before he breathes his flll | that he made & mistake. v i Wl;‘:en youulcl.)l ‘:fi: :: the pants,” as the popular juve: uts |it. make the high and heartysesolve | that you wili not make the same mis- take of administering the like without |good and sufficient reason. | . Be discontended, and be happy, in a nd older men and women, t0o, 'larger sense. 2 Post and Gatty Gain Aéclaim For Their F light Around World High praise for the eficiency and courage of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty in their record flight around the | world has been given by the press everywhere. “The age of the alr has dawned” | says the Pasadena Star-News, forecast that * with the travel in and the tribute to these travelers: “Gatty and Post have blazed the way, Col. Lind- bergh was a trail blazer in the air. These intrepid flyers hasten the coming of air transport over wide distances by demonstrating that traveling by air on long journeys is safe and ticable—safe enough to justify risk.” The Lincoln State Journal, viewing the ocean flights, points to the gain “in the safety factor,” though conceding that “the recent trip was not_without hazard.” “The really marvelous phase of their achievement is its flawless perfection of performance, both human and me- chanical,” the Minneapolis Star ob- serves, while the Atlanta Journal credits them with “intelligent heroism,” and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sees them “writing a chapter of importance In the history of aviation” and holds that “attention will be turned even- tually to the prospect of non-stop flights over the circle by the refueling method.” the re- “What is important,” according 'o‘ the Springfield (Mass.) Union, “is that the plane consumed only about 4'; days of flying time to girdle the globe, & fact which opens a vista of future round-the-world flights at greater speed.” The Akron Beacon-Journal de- cleres that “these young men have given the world » ‘demonstration of what it is possible to do with a mod- ern alrplane,” and the Jersey City Journal emphasizes the fact that “they had numerous storms, heavy rains and thick fogs. 0 dangerous at some phases of the trip that they flew ‘with their hearts in their mouths,’” that “they and their plane were able to meet thase condif and survive.’ * k% ¥ “They have the dash and cours which make heroes of men,” luaf.‘t: the Oklahoma City Times, with the special tribute to Wiley Post that “Oklahoma feels & special pride in this greatest race against time,” and that “the development of aviation which responded to Lindbergh's dash to Paris will gain additional momentum from this flight around the world” TI Rock Island Argus avers that “history will_record that their flight was the greatest ever made,” and the Roanoke Times conclu that they “have dem- onstrated their wcrthiness to be ranked in the select company which includes such famous names as_those of Lind- bergh, Chamberlin and Byrd.” “They are national heroes,” says the Salt Lake Deseret News, “and whether their time is beaten or not, thelr eminence as ploneers of the air will never be lost. Their ,rnl Journey sug- gests another kind of flight. Perhaps the next record around the world will be to earry a letter or a passenger by a relay team.” The San Antonio Ex- press offers the estimate: “By their astounding flight, Post and Qatty have won imperishable fame for themselves and for American aviation. To a trans- atlantic hop—swift and unerring—-they added a flight over Bering Sea, which often is covered with fog and swept by severe storms. This achievement should bring about the establishment of air- ways connecting North Ameriza, Europe and Asis in a vast network, which heretofore has been considered imprac- ticabl “Science and engineering skill and ingenuity will in the not so distant future des'gn an air machine capable of cireling the globe in four days er less,” in the opinion of the Meridign Star, while the Schenectady Gazette makes the comment that “it would | seem that this record of less ‘han five days’ flying time must stand indefinite- ly, yet "there will be little surprise if a similar flight is made in sn even shorter period.” * ok w x Praise for the performance of the air- | plane is given by the Milwaukee Senti- | nel. and the Charlotte News lauds “the | faithfyl perfiormance of man and ma- chine,” while the Cincinnati Times-Star exclaims, “Great fiyers. a great plane end great gocd fortun The Roches- | ter Times-Union appraises the achieve- ment: “Post and Gatty have set a new | record for speed around the world. They must be credited also with daring that is not found in every heart, as well as tireless energy. Their plane, too, de- serves some praise. It shows how far we have pregressed in the manufacture of aifplanes. It is doubtful if even the Spirit of St. Louis could have stood up to the steady grind the Winnie Mae has come through so proudly. It cer- tainly could not have made equal speed. Also, Gatty did a splendid job of navi- ion. These two Americans have done | in less than nine days what the mighty imagination of Jules Verne visioned could be done in 80 days! How soon may we expect the record of Post and | Gatty to be wiped out, but not forgot- ten, by some flyer or fyers going around the world in 80 hour: “Post and Gatty have performed a splendid feat,” declares the Charleston (8. C.) Evening Post, “with a precision that comes nearer to matching Lind- bergh's solo flight from New York to Paris than any other of the many ad- ventures of the flving men. The cross- ing of the Atlantic was only incidental to their undertaking and not the most difficult nor hazardous phase of it, per- haps. They flew as well over the Sibe- rian waste and above the cold Bering Sea. and they stuck to their schedule without variation or misadventure to the point almost of exhaustion, return- had departed in but one day more than a week. It was s great demonstration of the quality of the machine in which they flew and of the men who piloted it.” ——— Decline of College Foot Ball From the Milwaukee Sentinel. The Carnegie Foundation, which he | caused considerable of a stir last year with its findings and recommendations about college athletics, makes another Teport on intercollegiate sport and re- views the evidence gathered at first hand. A new moderation is found. Re- celpts for college foot ball last season decreased in 25 institutions, including most of the foot ball centers of the may be due in part to a rising prefer- ence of foot ball fans for professional playing, but it also insists on & “change in the undergraduate attitude from perfervid emphasis on intercollegiate sport to sensible enjoyment of athletics which all can share—a wholesome return to the player’s interest above that of the spectator. With the deflation of the enormous bubble of foot ball exhlbmonumk;&mc as sport in the colleges will be n{ up. Moreover, the saner attitude of the young folks who go to ‘universities will ‘tend to throw more emp! on the universities’ acsdemic merits. Per- day is not far distant when e ate wil elect to §0 tosa college not on the strength of the showing ot its last year cause it has faculty. strong and independent B Barking Dogs Seldom Di ‘the Columbus Ohio Btate Journal. Tt is also g regrettable fact that bark- ing dogs ing to the very spot from which they | to country. The report suggests that this | thing The Political Mill i By G. Gould Lincoln. Before the week is over, or to be mote exact, on Saturday, the first Re- publican to announce his candidacy for mer Senator Joseph I. France of Mary- land, will have launched his campaign. ‘The Marylander is to hold a meeting at his own home, Mount Ararat Farms, near Fort Deposit, to make his first extended speech. In addition to Sen- ator France, other speakers will be former Senator Jonathan Bourne of Oregon, Lyell Rader of New York and Jerome E. Brumfleld, who will act as chairman of the meeting. It is to be an outdoor meeting and a ments are under way to take care of crowd of 2,000 or more persons. o oxox Mr. France is one of those Re- publications who do not like the way the Hoover administration has been performing. Also he does not like na- tional prohibition. On Tuesday night, speaking in Baltimore, Mr. France de- nounced the eighteenth amendment in measured terms, declaring it was an “illegal statute, enacted in an illegal manner by men who were disloyal to the American faith” In that same address, however, Mr. France gave in- dorsement to the President’s debt sus- nsion plan, 1t has been the Mary- | inder’s contention for a loi something must be done to lighten the | burden imposed by the victors in the World War upon Germany. 1t is his view apparently that in the end some- thing much more permanent than s year’s postponement of Germany's repa- ration payments must be done. Mr. Prance is the first Republican to | toss his hat in the ring for a nomina- ' tlon which is generally conceded to be President Hoover's if he will have it. As time goes on there are likely to be | others, but there does not seem to be a single one of the Hoover opposition who can make the slightest headway against the President in a race for the G. O. P. nomination. There may be “Progressive” Republicans who ~ will enter in this State or that against Mr. Hoover, favorite son candi . But at the present writing Mr. France and the others might as well save them- selves the bother of a campaign. * % & = It is too early vet to say just what effect on Mr. Hoover's political future his debt moratorium plan, now going into effect, will have. It has been | halled widely a: & master stroke. Cer- tainly it was a bold thing and a neces- sary move if there was to be any halt in the onward march of depression and i financial disaster in Germany and in ’o!hrr European countries, and. indeed, in the United States. Politically, how- ever, the proof of the pudding is in the |eating. If the moratorium increases business confidence in this country and abroad and makes more work and jobs, it cannot fail to be & big boost for Mr. Hoover. 1If the final reaction is much less than had been hoped, there is bound to be a lot of criticism of Mr. Hoover in this country, criticism from all these voters who have been down on Mr. Hoover ever since he defeated | Alfred E. Smith and the Democratic pery in 1928, even though they may ave approved of the Hoover plan up to this time. o ow o There appear to be a lot of people today, however, who believe that the Hoover debt suspension plan is likely to work well. Indeed, In a mild way there has already started a campaign to take away from President Hoover the authorship of the plan and to place it in other hands. Some are insisting already that really it was an emanation from Democratic minds, and one group has it that it came from Owen D. Young, the New Yorker whose name is connected with the present German reparations payments plan. Mr. Young is being urged by a lot of Democrats to run for the presidential nomination next year. Others are saying that the idea came first from the British, or from the Germans themselves. or from any one except the President of the United States. The Acting Secretary of State, William Castle, jr, in an effort to keep the record straight, made a statement to the press on Tuesday in which he declared that as early as May 1 President Hoover had it very strongly in mind that something must be done to improve the economic situ- ation of the world, and that he began working out a plan which eventuated as the debt suspension plan now getting under way. It might be thought that such a statement from such a source would be enough to quiet all this talk of who was the author of the Hoover plan. But not at all. The Castle statement was straightway seized upon by some of the authors of other theories and efforts were made to show that it was in conflict with this or that state- ment, emanating from here, there or anywhere. Well, s0 it was, and so it was intended to be. President Hoover, in the last analysis, was the man who took the bear by the tail. It was his declaration of the intention of this Government to suspend payments due from our foreign debtors, provided they would agree to an all-around sus- pension of intergovernmental debts. Mr. Young might have made such a declaration any number of times with- out its having the slightest effect on the situation. It took the Chief Execu- tive to put it across. The plan stands, therefore, as the Hoover plan. * x % x When Congress gets back to Wash- ington in December, if it is not called earlier, there is going undoubtedly to be a lot of talk by Hoover opposition regarding the debt suspension plan. That has already been indicated. It is to be hoped that the plan will have been in operation long enough so that its usefulness may not be impaired by this kind of conversation and public speaking. Between domestic and in- ternational affairs the Congress is likel; to be a busy place. Those who attac the Hoover debt suspension plan are likely to do & lot of predicting regard- ing what it will lead to in the future. Some will see it end of the col- lection of Ameri war debts. Others Wwill see it as an abandonment of isola- tion by America and an entry in Euro- pean affairs. And then, too, the pro- posed adherence of the United States the World Court is likely to be thrown into the Senate, unless the administration should decide that other pressing matters must delay that issue for a while. e is bound to be & lot of pressure brought to bear on the President, however, to take up the World Court matter. It was not so long ago that supporters of the American entry into that court were criticizing the President for not insisting upon having the Senate take the protocol up at its last session. The Senate, it is believed, would vote adherence to the World Court in a short time were it not for the rule of unlimited debate. But there is & band of opposing Senators which will do a lot of talking before a vote is reached. R The Senate has been “panned” so often that it is refreshing to hear some- sald in its behalf. Usually the spokesman defending the Senate is a member of that august body. But now Col. Edwin A, Halsey of Virginia, in a g:ech before the District of Columbia mocratic Women'’s Educational Coun- cil, comes forward as a eulogist of that body. Col. Halsey, it is true, is connecfed with the Senate, as secretary to the minority party. But he has had years of experience with the Senate, and he is in a position to judge of the merits or demerits of the rules of that body and of the abilities of the indi- Vidual Senators. The Senate has kept him up many a night because of its pensity for talk and more talk. Yet he says of the U House and its bers: “The Benators. ars -4 "x"’ix'?é”n’z"&i- type. have come o 3 through the crucible of life and stood the test. The Sena the 1932 presidential nomination, for-{ ness is to tive information, and we invite you to ask us any question of fact in which L LA LU UL S * ANSW ‘Have we had the pleasure throug| as urnish you with authorita- you are interested. Send your inquiry to The Evening Star Information Bu- reau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, ‘Washington, D. C. Inclose 2 cents in coln or stamps for return postage. Q. Can you give the meaning of a cross and circle which is chalked on a wall by a tramp or vagabond?—J.P. B. A. The symbols employed by tramps are & fornr of sign language. For ex- ample, the cross means that the place s0 indicated is “good for a handout.” ‘This is gemerally a gate sign. The circle designates coins, and places so marked indicate that money is some- times obtained there. Q. How many miles of streets are there in & city covering a square mile? —A. W. D. A. The average is about 30 miles of streets to the aquare mile. Q. What is Peter Arno's real name? —W. C. C. A. Curtis A. Peters, jr. Q. When was the Prench Foreign Le- ion established and how many mem- geu has it at the present time?— A. The French Foreign Legion re- cently celebrated its one hundredth an- niversary. It was established in 1831 and st present there are approximately 20,000 members. Q. What percentage of the total world production of oil does the United States have?—C. I. F. A. The percentage of the United States is 63.3 per cent of the total oil production. Q. Just where is the Empire State Building located? How large is the plot of ground it covers and how long wa it in building?—J. K. A. The Empire State Building is ol Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street. New York City. The plot is 197.5 feet by 424.95 feet. It was 19 months construction from the razing of the Waldor{-Astoria Hotel, the site of which it occupies, to the completion of the mooring mast. time that G Q. What do AM. and P.M. stand for?—W. A. 8. A. AM. stands for the Latin words “ante meridiem” and PM. for “post meridiem.” Hours are marked AM. of serving ERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. because of a la 1d of tar which = fle which the re- you h our Wi Informa- | comes from them, tion Bureau? Can't we be of some help | mains of a large number of prehistoric to you in r problems? Our busi- [animals were imbedded. . Apparently the tar insnared these animals at the time it was formed and the bones are in & remarksble: state of preservation in many cases. Q. When will the next examination for Annapolis be held? Can a boy of 22 take the examination?—S8. R. A. The next examination will be held on the third Wednesday in Feb- ruary, 1932. The age limit is 20 years. Q. How did the contro cerning Yap terminate?—C. A. On December 13, 1921, the De- partment of State announced that an |agreement had been reached betwecn the United States and Japan with re- spect to Yap and other islands of the | Pacific Ocean. On February 11, 1922, |8 treaty embodying the agreement wa< |signed.” By the terms of this treaty the Isiand of Yep remains a Jananes mandate. but the United States is per- | mitted the use of one cable. Q. What is Mothering Sunday’— E SR A. Mothering Sunday, which is en- lurely distinct from Mother's day, is an old church holiday of England, oc- curring the fourth Sunday in Lent. It ‘was customary for a baptized person ty revisit on this Sunday, if possible, the church where he was baptized, and also boys and girls away from their parents made efforts to revisic them on this day. carrying with them a gift, which usually took the form of Simnel cakes, which formed the chief refresh- ment. This practice is almost obsolete at the present time. Q. Is there any country fn which | fllegitimate children inherit the same s if born legitimate?—F. D. 8. | A Norway is the first country to make equal the rights of legitimate and Ulegitimate children. Q. What frequency and voltage are | used for neon signs?—H. B A. The Bureau of Standards says that neon signs used a frequency of |60 cycles per second and voltages up versy con- H. into 15000, obtained from a step-up transformer. Q. Has Dr. Eckener anyvthing to do with the building of the mammoth dirigible at Akron, Ohio?—B. W. 8. A. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co, says that the Goodyear-Zeppelin Cor- poration some vears ago purchased the | patents of the German corporation of | which Dr. Hugo Eckener is the head. from midnight until noon, P.M. from 'In the building of the dirigible at Ak- noon until midnight. M. marks the | ron it is making use of many of these hour at noon. | patents. Dr. Eckener has had mothing = | Q. What kind of dog is a Dober- mann Pinscher’—E. L. A. It is a cross between the Ger- | {man shepherd dog and fox terrier (G. Pinschr), named from the first breed- | er, Dobermann, . What material was used in the | bricks made by the Israelites while in | public health. to do with the building of this ship. Q. How does the Rockefeller Foune dation administer its fund for_courses in medicine and public health’—S, F. A. The Rockefeller Foundation offers fellowships in graduate medicine and In granting the Rocke feller fellowships individual cases are dealt with, as there is no established Egypt?—L. A. B riety of brick. They consisted of a | mixture of clay and chopped straw or | reeds, worked into & stiff paste with | [ater. The bricks were molded by and. Q. Where in the United States have | lhenmolt fossil remains been found?— | C. A. The single district where more | \different types of fossil remains have | Ibeen found than any other is the dis- | trict within the city limits of Los An- | | geles, Calif., . known as LaBrea Pits.| LaBrea is a Spanish word mnnlnl! “the tar” and these pits are so called Excerpts From Newsp E SOIR, Brussels—If you would like to make the acquaintance of some “colombophiles,” but do not know how to recognize these people when you ses them, look well at their pockets. When by any chance you see the tips of certain strips of wood, steel or celluloid issuing from their depths, question them as to the purpose of these “sticks,” and whisper in a mysterious and confidential man- | ner in their ear, “I am preparing a | radio thesis on the subject of col hile (pigeon-loving) phenomena.” | nsst & little, and beycnd doubt you | will soon have your gallant vis-a-vis ex- | plaining the subtleties each different ! rod acquires in their hands. They will | descant on the merits and virtues of any in & flock of pigeons that may be feeding about, upon the mediocrities cf others, not only as *voyageurs,” but also as breeding types, and all the rest of the lore and superstition which occu- ples the minds cf the pigeon-fancier. If you believe these colombophiles, the selection of the Belgian hcming | igeon has become an exact and infal- | ible science, mathematically preci.u.i and the devotees of such sport will tolerate no vestige of suspicion to the | contrary. The only inmates of thelr! Jofts are aces. | In proof that their judgments are | true they will dexterously catch and examine for you a vagrant pigeon, pronounce the inexorable verdict ‘fair specimen,” or “Only fit for pie! Of course, there are not many cham- plons winging about the city squares, though occasionally an aristocratie bird sympathize with any body or any one who does that thing. x ok %% ‘There is always a crop of presidential possibilities in the Senate, in spite of the fact that, outside of the late Presi- dent Harding, none of these “possi- bilities” has even had a presidential ncmination for many, many years. There is & crop today, particularly on the Democretic side of the chamber, where Senator *Joe” Robinson, the Democratic leader, has been rated an tate for undoubtedly, but who makes no bones the fact that he is not in the dces unite with these vagabond flocks. wands of ancient sorcerers. With them Over on the blican side correlation”—a certain tracery around boleth” distinguishing them frcm the | others are consigned to oblivion with- come the rn revival of the magic inherent ilities as “hcmers.” Cer- in the rods respond to us the mental and physical qualities for good thus the high efficiency of Belgium voy- Miracle of Creation La Nazione, Florence—With all its not yet been able to create life, nor, in ercise a function which remains essen- | would permit himself to be considered, talked k:t this year. Among the insur- Highlights on the system of granting them and no public announcements are made. Q. Did the python at the Wi ton Zoo hatch the eggs with which was shown in a rotogravure section?— M. P, A. The eggs did not hatch. The fes male python remained with the eggs the full 60-day period required for in- cubation. After that time she left the eggs. which, upon opening, were found to be infertile. Q. Which contains more calories, watermelon or muskmelon?—M. O'G. A. Watermelons contain 140 calories ?e; pound, while muskmelons contain 85. Wide World apers of Other Lands tially divine. The miracle of the crea tion still remains the rock upon which all the futile theories of human knowl- edge and sophisticaticn crash. Sages and scientists labor unceasingly in their laboratories. and evolve con- ceptions regarding light and sound, and make each day new discoveries which can conduce upon sober reflection only to the conviction that as yet we know nothing, and that the basic realities and forces of Nature will doubtless ever lie far beyond cur mental grasp and com- prehension. When science has progressed to far, it finds that it can penetrate no farther, and there it s that faith and intangible conviction enter in to nssure us of the truths no instruments can measure nor any formulas calculate. Life appears to be evanescent, yet, really. it is the only permanent thing there is. It contin- ually springs up clean and fresh from its very immolation. ‘There is change and decay in all that man has made. Even the eternal pyra- mids are falling into dissolution. with scarcely one stone ;remaining solidly upon ancther, while all around them beats, and has for centuries beaten, suc- cessive waves of human generation. Man has made the airplane, but he has never made & bird, and by this dis- crepancy alone in his achievement he must acknowledge that he has accom- plished nothing, so vast is the gulf be- tween that made by man's hands and that called forth from the void by the irresistible command of God. And vet in all this lavish manifestation of divine grace and power, which man can dimly see but never understand. we still have fools who pit their fecble knowledge against all the multitudinous proofs of & Deity who crdained and controls our U.iverse. Such a man cr scientist chooses rather to esteem himself a dancing mannikin in an automatic world than to admit his kinship with hl‘! Creator and his inheritance in eter- nity. * ok % % Austria to Penalize All Unmarried Persons. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna-—A resolution has been introduced in Par- liament providing penalties for all un- married persons. The bill will not only affect bachelors, as does most legislation proposed of this kind, but will tax men and women aliks, between the ages of 30 and 65, unless sufficlent and ex- tenuating circumstances can be shown for persisting in a state of single bless- edness. The amount recoverabls, ac- cording to the proposal, which has faint hope of being enacted into law, would be from 20 to 25 per cent of the in- dividual’s income tax. In the case of widowers, widows or those whose mat- rimonial bonds have been severed by legal process, two years' exemption would b allowed before the provisions {of the law would apply to them, a3 | originally presented. * ok ok & | Seeky to Protect Those Unable to Pay Rent. ‘The Evening Post, Wellington.—Fr tection of families who were unable through unemployment to meet pay=- nts of rent cr interest on mortga T:. sought by P. Fraser (Labor, Wel- lington Central) in the House of Rep- resentatives. Mr, Fraser asked the minister of finance, the Right Hon. G. W. Forbes: (1) Whether he proposed to introduce 'nd | legisiaticn providing for the protection of the hundreds of working class fami- lies who were threatened with ejection from their homes to inability to make pa; the reduction or cessa! employment. 'I:’Iiu introduce ition the. protection of danger of losing their homes and their say h inability to pay interest and {nstallments on state advances and other mortgages. dlsymwhu{ler‘t:e :ol\'t; ernment e make adequ: provision ';:x?“theu families which ‘They are easily recognized by experts the pupil of the eve in good homing inferior breeds. All ns with such out compassion. colombophiles attract. instruct and tain sympathetic forces concealed with- ageurs is maintained. our opinion, will it ever be able to ex- l it W. Morrow of New Jersey. which he will not. He is the cnly one been the Progressive point of view whole through what they term the “circle of specimens. affording a visible “shib- a mark are carefully preserved; the The little sticks we spoke of have be- the gauge the pigeons, and learn of their equivalent ca- g;dfi. within the nature of the bird. fiyers are ascertained, and * % %% Rock on Which Theorles Crash. development and research, science has ight A ‘who would have the hearty mprn of & lot of Republicans in the East, if he .among the ‘“regulars” who has 'k of pre 1 through the above-menticned causes had been reduced to the position.of refugees,