Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1931, Page 8

+THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SWURSDAY.......July 30, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor fhe Evening Star Newspaper Company A Foasiivanis Av $rovean re: 14 Regent 60c per month 8¢ per month ays) rlection 1 fi ot the end of ni lers IIIY‘. sen) in by malil or telephone tional 5000. Mate ‘Mail—Payable in Advance. ‘ ryland and Virginia. E{g and Sunday. only .. inday only AUl Other States and Canada. jlv and Sunday...]yr.. §12.00: 1 mo.. §1.00 iy only - inday oply 2 ¥33.00: 1 mo.. ' ise D3 §5.00 1mos 80 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied 1o the ‘Use for Tepublication hews dis patches credited fo 1t or not othiorwise cred- ted in this paver and also the local news f publication of 150 reserved. +.1yr.,310.00; 1 mo.. 15’ 736.00: 1 mo.. 13yr.l $400; 1 mo., 40c tshed. I o Boctial dispatches heren are ‘When Winter Comes. Tt is idle to believe or to hope that adequate relief for the growing army of the unemployed next Winter can be dealt with as a national problem that has nothing to do with polities. It isalready written on the books that the campaign for relief will become, in turn, a cam- paign for votes, on the theory that the | number of votes will increase in’ direct | ratio to the number of Federal dollars pried from the Treasury. The food loan fight in, Congress last Winter will be viewed as a mere skirmish in compari- son with the major battle over the same principles to confront the new Congress. The principles, of course, concern the amount and the nature of relief to be extended by the Federal Government, and whether the Federal Government s to shoulder the major part of a burden that traditionally has been viewed as one that rests on the shoulders of the Jocal communities. The greatest weapon in the hands of those who must fight against com- mitting the Federal Government to & program of charitable rellef, in the form of a dole, is to establish the fact that such Federal aid is unnecessary and that the various communities will be able to handle their individual problems without calling on Washington. ‘The President’s series of conferences with those who must organize the local relief indicaies that by the time Con- gress meets in December work along this line will have been proceeding for several months, with very definite in- formation in hand as to the proportions of the task remaining. The keynote of the eampign now shaping, with the help of the President's Employment Committee, the Red Cross, the National Association of Community Chests and Counclls, the Family Welfare Associa- tion, Association of Public Welfare Offi- cials, National Travelers’ Aid, the Rus- sell Sage Foundation's research divi- sion, etc., is that properly organized local relief, with co-ordinated effort between all of the agencies formed for its administration, is the only policy to pursue. The various communities may not be able to rely wholly on pri- vate philanthropy. Allen T.Burns, exec- utive director of the National Associa- tion of Community Chests and Coun- cils, has already said that private ‘philanthropy cannot alone shoulder the ncreased burden. There remain the resources that lie in municipal, county and State tax revenues to swell the | funds ralsed by organized private philanthropic effort. The greatest obstacle with which the President and those who are working with him must contend will be not the diffieulty of organization, but the senti- ment expressed by watchful waiting to see what Congress will do. Every rant- ing politician in the land will cater to | this sentiment by promises of what Wil happen when he gets to ‘Washington. Human misery is great campaign stuff. — e Each great diplomatic conference takes some important step toward bet- ter world understanding. Results do not usually satisfy the highest possible hopes, but something is always done. It is not necessary for the secretary to limit his minutes invariabiy, as in the case of the village social society, to “met and adjourned.” ——— o Moses Threatens Reprisals. Republican Progressives in the Senate have been put on notice by Senator | Moses of New Hampshire that if they undertake to prevent his re-election as President pro tempore of the Senate by wvoting for a Democrat, they need expect | no mercy from him and some of his| friends when their names are present- ed for re-election as chairmen of im- portant standing committees. Senator | | act, | Revolution. Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakata, chairman of the Committee on Bank- ing and Currency; Semator Lynn R. Frazier of North Dakots, mittee on Interstate Commerce. Not all of these Senators are likely to fol- low the lead of Benator Nye, for ex- emple, in voting for a Democrat against Senator Moses. But Senator Moses proposes if they do so to hand their chairmanships over to the Democrats by the simple expedient of voting, along with one or two of his regular Repub- lican friends, for the Democratic nom- inees for chairmen. In the S:nate tbere will be forty- eight Republicans, 'forty-seven Demo- Shipstead of Minnesota. It is easy to understand that a few Republican Pro- gressives could throw the election of President pro tempore to a Democrat. But it is also easy to understand that, under the closeness of the party division which prevails, Senator Moses and his friends could throw the election of chairmen to the Democrats if they de- sired. As for the Democrats, unless they are prepared for a division among themselves along progressive and regu- lar lines, they are expected to vote solidly together for their candidates for office in the Senate. There is & group of Progressive Democrats who might be inclined to go over and vote for Norris and Nye, for example, in the chairmanship fights. But they would have a hard time squaring themselves with their party associates whom they turned down by such tactics. It looks as though the only hope of those who oppose the Te-election of Senator Moses _because of his jibes at the “sons of the wild jackass” and his assault upon Senator Nye, chairman of the committee investigating campaign expenditures, would be to prevent his renomination in the Republican caucus next December. And that hope does not appear to have much foundation. e The Yorktown Surrender. As the matter of the Yorkiown Sesquicentennial pageant now stands, there is no final decision on tha subject of including the surrender scene. That question is to be left to a formal vote of all the members of the association. The president of the association takes the stand that it would be “indelicate” to depict a fallen foe. He is evidently committed to the proposition to omit the climacteric scene from any dramatic representation of the occasion that is to be celebrated. Since the disclosure of the objections raised against the inclusion of the sur- render scene from the Yorktown pageant public opinion has been emphatically expressed in this country in a manner to serve effectively as a guide to the course to be taken. With the rarest of exceptions the proposal to omit the scene has been scorned as a needless evasion and in effect a distortion of history. As feeling now stands in this country on the subject, if the celebra- tion is arranged according to the pres- ent proposal, there will be virtually no interest whatever in it outside of thz immediate area of the event. It is idle to argue the ethics of his- torical observances in terms of inter- national feelings. It is indeed absurd to contend that history should be de- picted with polite and sympathetic con- sideration for the sensibilities of descendants of the defeated. Especially as the descendants are of another nationality and particularly as they have shown no tenderness whatever on the score of a faithful portrayal of the which ended the American There was nothing disgraceful about the defeat of Cornwallis at Yorktown. There was nothing shameful in his surrender. He was outnumbered and outgeneraled. He was bottled up on the shore of the York River by a combined American and French force. He gallantly accepted the inevitable consequence of his predicament and rather than cause a further wastage of life he yielded his sword. His was an honorable action, and the portrayal of it is in no wise to be resarded as a reflection upon him, or upon British soldieyship or valor. Ths spirit of "6 would never have conceived the repre- sentation of this concluding scene of the conflict as a disparagement of a respected enemy. ; Sl e Rate cutting by taxicabs must end soon to avold the absurdity of offering the, prospective passenger a bonus for the privilege of his patronage. e It is only reasonable for the Soviet leader to regard Trotsky as & Russian | bear perpetually preparing to raid the “man of steel” market. s - e The Little Welshman. Guarded medical bulletins from his bed of iliness in Lcndon only thinly Moses, in a signed article appearing in the Saturday Evening Post, states quite! clearly that if any of the Pro-| gressives have an idea in the back of| their heads that they intend to ditch| him when Congress convenes, they| should give the matter prayerful con- sideration. In the Senate reorganiza- tion the vote comes first on President pro tempore. The President pro tem-| pors of the Senate is its official pre. siding officer in .the absence of th Vice President, who under the Consti tution is the President and presiding| officer of the Senate. Mr. Moses will, | therefore, have full opportunity to learn what Progressives will do when his name is placed before the Senate as the Republican candidate for the office. If any of them o over to the Democrats | and ald in electing Mr. Moses' op- | ponent, then, he says, he will feel at) entire liberty to take measures of | vell the gravity of David Lloyd George's condition. The little Welshman is un- doubtedly making & fight for his life— comparable, in the physical sense, to his many batt!2s for political existence throughout his tempestuous forty-one veys in sh public affalrs. Operated on yesterday for a kidney complaint, the former prime minister is described by his physicians as making satisfac- cry prograss “so far.” The operation as of an emergency character, to relieve i an ailment which became acute at the end of last week. . The wirld is so accusiomed .to Lloyd George's dynamic energies that it is prone to be'ieve that, everi with his sixty-elght years, be will surmount his present affliction. He has been almost a legendary figure in British polities for more than a generiiion. Although “L. G." has been outside the gvern- ment breastworks since he was retired Teprisal. “The Senate not only elects its Presi- dent pro tempore, but also the chair- from the premiership with the Liberal party in 1922, he remains the individ- ually most potent character in Britain. the. heavy and wholly incalculable orientation, o - Alfonse Enters a Demurrer. Alfonso XIII, still remembered as the late King of Spain, takes & leat out of Mark Twain's notebook. He says, as the creator of Huckleberry Finn remarked of a published account of his death, that the rumor of his renunciation of the Madrid throne in favor of his son Is “badly exaggerated.” There's nothing in it,"in fact, quoth the polo-playing 8¢ | crats and one Farmer-Labor Senator, | MORarch now out of s job. From the recesses of his private hotel suite in London the “Duque de Toledo” prociaims that the story was hatched by enemies in order to discredit him. He recalls his pronouncement of mid- April, when he stood not on the order of his going from Madrid, but went pronto: “I am a Spaniard. I renounce none of my rights, because, rather than my own, they are a deposit accumu- lated by history, and I shall have one day to give a strict account of their keeping.” ‘Well, the late head of the Bourbon dynasty may look upon his toppled throne as a deposit, but republican Spain considers that Alfonso's account in the bank of their confidence is hope- lessly and irretrievably overdrawn. The newly, elected constituent Cortes is ac- tively at work to perfect the govern- ment which the Spanish people have chosen to erect on the ruins of their discredited monarchy. Provisional Pres- ident Zamora is finding. the road to effective republicanism a stony one. He himself, father of the revolution, can easily be tripped while traveling it. But there are no signs that the hand- ful of Bourbon supporters who ait in the Cortes now molding Spanish des- tinies will ever contrive to Testore Al- fonso's rule. Ope of his old-time and stanchest paladins, Count Romancnes, was elected a Deputy. Shrewd states- man that he is, he must be fully re- signed to holding an innocuous watch- ing brief while the republic writhes through its labor pains into a full-pano- plied state wherein popular rule is firmly established. ———r—e— Much has been said about the simple and undeviating honesty of the Chinese character. It is a surprise as well as & disappointment to idealistic Ameri- cans to find the young men about Peiping turning to banditry as easily as if they were Chicago gangsters. oo Rallroads demand higher rates. As fewer people ride, accommodations be- come more exclusive, and, therefore, it is apparently assumed, more valuable. v Demand for more moratorium is ex- pected even at the risk of causing Ger- many to be rated as the Oliver Twist among nations. - Wealth means power. Yet ils pos- sessor is not slways able to draw a will that enables him to do exactly what he likes with his money. —— Prosperity is scheduled to return soon. The temporary absence repre- sented one Summer vacation that everybody begrudged. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Fame. Oh, fame is an elusive thing— Men seek it day and night; And, once attained, they quote your words, But seldom quote them right. Your pictures they wifl flaunt abroad, ‘Where all the world may view. The only difficulty is ‘They seldom lcok like you. In history, too, your name will be All formally announced, In many instances misspelt And mostly mispronounced. Honest Confession. “At any rate,” said the woman who sneers, “I am not a parvenue.” “Neither, am 1,” sald the up-to-date person. “But I hate to think of the foolish investments I have made trying to become one.” Comfort. “I would like him better,” said the confiding girl, “if he were not so slow in conversation.” “Never mind,” answered Miss Cay- enne. “That may seem a defect now, but it may give you & mortgage on the last word later on.” A Danger. 1If all men thought before they spoke, ‘Their words wculd seem so small That presently—this is no joke— They wouldn't speak at all. The Cuisine. “I'd like to be in s position to employ a chef,” sald the epicure. “I don't know,” sald the dyspeptic. “If the habit of artificial nourishment goes cn, what you'll want is not & chef, but & chemist.” < Supply and Demand. “I wonder why there are so many mendacious people in the world,” says the person who s.always more or less grieved. “It is merely a question of supply and demand.” “There will always be peo- ple to tell falsehoods so long as there are foolish people to believe them.” At the Zoo. The stalwart Simian on the limb 1 Hout with safe, contemptuous glee, For, while I'm criticizing him He can't say what he thinks of me. man and the members of its standing | The once’prcud phalanx which he led | 7, yiyers strange and chattering calls committees. It happens that leading | and with which he ruled in the House of | sng shakes his fists to bld me fear. Progressive Republicans have some of | Commons has shrunk to a mere shadow | y; wrath on me unheeded falls— the cholcest chairmanships of the lot. There is, for example, Senator George of its fcrmer self, But its power is out of all proportion to its decimated Just as my speech moves not his ear, W. Norris of Nebraska, who is chair- |numbers. The Lloyd George Liberal| But though the matter we discuss man of the Judiclary Committee,-and | group of fifty-odd members holds the { In mystery dark is shrouded quite, Senator Willlam E. Borah, chairman |scales betiveen the BalGwin Conserva- | This much is wholly obvious— of the Committee on Foreign Relations, | tives and the MacDonald Laborites. It not to mention Senator Gerald P. Nye, | can, practically at will, by allying itself who heads the Committee on Public | with the Conservatives, turn the minor- Lands. Then there are Senator Robert | ity Labor government out of office. M. La Follette, jr., chairman of the Lloyd George has been biding his Committee on Manufactures; Senator time at Westminster, waiting to go Nobert B. Howell of Nebrasks, chair- mwnmm Each one of us is sure he's right. “De man dat knows what he is talkin' about,” said Uncle Eben, “don’t use near so much langugge as de man dat’s tryin’ to keep you f'um discoverin’ dat he is mo' or less in de dark, . A i BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. old one, 0p. Here, the fading light of day, was the name of the per- son who had set it there. And here was the book. * ¥ ¥ ¥ A double immortality—that of the book, and of the name of the original owner. . Perhaps the home which that person had presided over had crumbled to dust. The furniture loi ago, no doubt, found its way to dealers in old things, and from them had gone on new jour- neys, until time reduced them to 1at was left was a name—and ‘h"wv'""l‘"'l.m lasting etsiol ink, one which surface, merely, and which etches a signature ”m sort in signa- d books, where the the ink almost tul the volume under discussion, being on the back of front | er, it waS impossible to see this ef- ct, but from the color it was easy enough to see that it had been written | with non-fading ink. ‘There is something charming, to be sure, in old signatures found in ancient volumes. No bookplate quite takes their place. It was fashionable, in the old days, to make sure of one's books by the signature:of the owner cnh:l:‘lt the top of the title page, or | an the back of the front cover. Evidently it was felt that few per- sons who pined to walk off with some one else’s book would care to mutilate it to the extent of tearing out the title page. * %k ¥ How bereft a book is, when its title page is torn out! Preliminary sheets are scarcely missed, even covers may be torn away with less detriment. ‘The title page is, indeed, the very face of the book, the front door of the edifice which author and publisher have created between them. ‘When a book is deprived of its title page it has lost something. In th: game of book collecting, a title page missing mars a volume, however old i’ may be. In fact, it prevents, every- thing else ‘being equal, & finder from dating it at all. So the old-time booklovers were shrewd. perhape, in placing their sig- natures at the top of title pages. Mostly such signatures are small in size. as if the writers were struck with the fact that this was not, after all, quite the right place for a signature. * o % % No, the fair announcement sheet is not the best place. and the custom hac gradually dropped out of fashion, as booklovers everywhere came to realize that a well made book, properly han- dled, may be, and often is, practically Immorta) 1. It ought to be that new owners may come into possession of an old treasure without finding some previous owner’s name them between the eyes every time open it. It the signature had been on a preliminary sheet, it would he easy enough for the new owner to elimina the page from the book. ngll , ook buyers of the future will find this the custom.' Bub if you search for old volumes of the 1ast century, the chances are you will discover that. their owners believed in gumnl thelr signa- tures indelibly on the title page, * K kX It gives the honest booklover a start, when he comes across the name of some one in an old book. Some day, he realizes, others will come zcross his own name. ‘The thought is not pleasing, until he stops to realize that this is' the im- l':lnfl.lllty of books and those who love them. ‘This is circulation, which takes what pleased one reader and carries it on down through the years, to please other readers to come. ‘Thus it may be that there is no end to the good a book may do, but it may go on forever, more solid and than all the great stones in the world. * ok ok ok ‘The glorious thing is that every one who ever reads this book, whatever it will be friends, men and women What s plessant a feel the certainty books in the years, even centurles, to come will fall into the hands of similar- ly-minded people! In the clash of days and nights, these similar minds will s2ek the same food, the same ideas, the same illusions and perhaps the same delusions. Over the years, despite the changes | that come, and wilt continue to coms, {in all the ways of living, fashions, etc., |it may reasonably be predicted that | the minds of human beings will con- | Georg | tinue to be much the same. ‘The mind which was Alexander Pope's, in the years to come, will fas- cinate the type of mind which it charmed with its jeweled couplets so many years ago. Those who fe!t the call of Voltalre through all the ages will find in him something as fresh as a sea breeze. * x X % ‘There is a chance, of course, that a book beloved by some one will, in the | cast of fate, land in the hands of somebody who will not care for it. If this happens, the fellow no doubt will get rid of it spesdily. But it is not very likely to happen, after all, because those who patronize the second- | hand book stalls are nearly always look- ing for something old. ‘They are after a a?eclfic item, often a volume out of print, which, for some reason or other, appeals to them. Maybe 1t is the novel of a writer famous in his day. but whose fame has evaporated. Fiction, produced in such quantities every year, is destined, in the bulk, to vanish. Only a few names, books and authors, retain their places in the popu- lar mind. Many vanished novels—one might say vanquished novels—are still as good as they ever were. and will have their following down the years, although this may be very small. ‘When such a booklover, knowing what | he wants, goes to the store where he suspects he can find it, the thrill is all his own when the clerk comes forth with it at last, striking the covers to- gether to disperse the dust of ages. If he finds inside a long vanquished mme, he knows !hdlel. h‘A‘::l met, over e years. a comrade of mind, and perhaps of the heart. Highlights on the Wide Worl Excerpts From Newsp L __MERCURIO, Santiago.—The ‘White Cross is one of the insti- tutions of charity most beneficial to this country, and most worthy of our support and emulation. It has been in existence only 12 yea: but already has established in Chile a League of Preservation and Reform, a re-maternity retreat (an assistance so entably needed in our area), a hos pital for incurables, an asylum for alc holics and a system of instruction under the auspices of the School and Home Alliance. Thus it will be seen that the White Cross 1s engaged not only in salvaging and comforting those already in need of care and treatment, but also in pre- paring the way for better parenthood, environment and behavior. Mary, through the ministrations of the White Cross, have been rescued from the very brink of the abyss of vice and crime, as well as from the hopelessness of disease and malformation. In the last few months the efforts of the White Cross have been extended to relieve the distress of those submerged in the in- dustrial stagnation, and it is through their co-operation that much of our eleemosynary appropriations have been Justly applied. , Unfortunately we cannot say that we appear to’ have decreasing need of the #hlu Cross, but rather more, and - ticularly in the last respect aliuded to. With the increased use of machinery, devised to lighten and to multiply man'’s labor, we have reached the point where the requirements of the human race are supplied throu’;h the employ- ment of & comparative few. The larger part of the population’ finds no_oppor- tunity to work, and so must be sup- ported in a disgusting idleness which may sooner than we think brif§ on a national debacle. The products of our mlnu!lch;rel.m:yoo. in abolishing .::l; necessity for physical exertion, or mental preperation. have impeded de- velopment in both directions, and it with them & default in all our moral and spiritual obligations. We are no longer actuated by our old h principles. uch a work of faith and hope in the face of overwhelming discourage- ment is and represents the devotion and high purpose of the White Oross. It is a valiant effort, a disinterested co-operation, and, let us hope and pray, an unconquerable and imperish- able which, eventually, will ent o regain Ild conceptions | #specially M w0 o L e - forests and .]mfuul:he rivers near | M of moral, spiritual and economic values. * x %% Venesuela Patriot Served With Washington. g El Nuevo Diario, cuma.—fiut Year the people of the United States “will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the n, who freed from the orge III. There will be no centralized celebration of this event, but from February 22 until the end of 1932 formal and brilliant ents of the genius, integ- itude of the great liber- made throughout the le and the achieve- ments of Gen. 'ashington, all the other nations of the Americas were in- spired to struggle for their independ- ence. b4 Venezuela’s own intrepld w Gen. Francisco Miranda, who in 1816, saw his efforts in n about to L o4 oK g 4 £ 5 4 and children demon- cheers, tears and light- feeling as [ § i wi such & love and . lavished apers of Other.Lands human being before. A sublime affec- tion and sincere reverence for this most gifted and peculiar m<n prevails unalloyed throughout the entire popu- lace. Never have I heard a word of hostility or disparagement in allusion to him.” Just t arrangements the Ven- ezuelan government will make in par- ticipation with the universal homage honoring the memory of Washington soon will be determined, “‘t’m the | fact that the contemplated functions; will not commence until nearly nine months have elapsed. % likely, however, that a large delegation, com- prising both officials and private citi- zens, will carry our affectionate re- gards and felicitations to the United States in recognition of the second centenary of their patriot's birth. *x %% Priest Employs Liquid Air in Ceremeny. Le Soir, Brussels—A curious cere- mony has just been reported from Heldelberg. The rector of the uni- versity has proceeded with the baptism of a new sort of aerial apparatus with- out & motor, designed for the use of student aviators, but instead of fol- lowing the custom generally prescribed for the event—participated in by a god- father or godmother, diversified in the case of an airplane or other kind of ship by the use of champagne instead of water—the rector drew from his gocket a flask containing liquid air and roke it upon the machine. The evapo- ration was immediate. This probably is the first' time that an alrcraft has been baptized with the element in which it is to make its evolutions, * o % Mixed Camping Parties Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna.—The uttered a decree forbidding mixed m}u of those who tour the country on foot for exercise or, recreation during the Summer months. This emba has caused much objection and eriti- clsm in Czechoslovakia, where these week end excursions have become ex- tremely lar. however, to these the smaller parties in Prague, requiring t| to produce cre- dentials of matrimony, or to return ome. These raids have number of arrests. —ee—s Favortism Shown. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Memphis citizen whose home has been robbed 50 times in two years may finally believe that some on€" is playing favorites. ———e——— Peace Cost Vies With War. From the South Bend Tribune. A $100,000,000 national peace budget be as costly as war, ——— Arms Dilemma. rom the Charlestan Hvening Post. eht and Gkigiestod By 1t & wonder President Hoover s urging & disarmament. conference. e Germans Responsible. Prom mflcunum (N, C.) News. A couple of infant prodigies !one by the boards: Young'Plan ‘oung Stribling. " ———r—e—— The Blushing Tadpole. Frob the Seattle Daily Times. “ Biolegists are trying to find out T why use ministry of the interior ‘at Prague has|Davis, The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. A new presidential unched early date, tl:ufleuu“ here. Melvin Bank of s to be forward for the Democratic nomination, and the Jaunching of the bocm is to take place T but in Texas. Traylor, o ylor boom is to have its official launching at a monster plenic in Hillsboro, Tex., where Traylor went as a youlg man, married and moved on to success, first 2s a member of the bar and then as a . ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. How ‘many Unijed States each A. Yavi are over. , counting , towns and ranches. About 3,000,000 people banker. Traylor has been a close friend | tend them. and admirer of Owen D. Young, and it has been .intimated that he tried to get Young to make the run for the presidential nomination, but without apparent success. * & % Now these Texas Democrats, who think a great deal of Mr. Traylor, see no rcason why he should not be the party’s candidate himself. Purther- more, of them believe that- the | stry adoption of Mr. Traylor as the Texas candidate for the nomination may give them a way out of their fact! strife, has since Star Stat: over the Smith can and the State cast its electoral for President Hoover. And if Illinois banker could become an the Texans feel, succeed in_ getting him nominated. What Mr. Traylor himself thinks about the boom has mot yet developed. * % % % Cutting off the nose to spite the face is not the way politiclans play the game. Politiclans have quite sensitive noses. And so the threat of Senator e H. Moses of New Ha ire to defeat for chairmanships of im- portant standing committees of the |large: Senate any Republican progressives or all progressives, if any or all of them undertake to astop his re-election as president pro tempore of the Senate may be peculiarly effective. Some of the pi ives do not like the New Hampes! Senator a little bit. They consider it he is not sufficlently in- terested in the re-election of progres- sive Republicans, when he happens to be chairman of the Republican Sena- torial Campaign Committee. They re- member that he referred to them as “Sons of the Wild Jackass” after-dinner speech & year or so sgo. And some of them have been hinting that they intended to in when opportunity arose. With the Senate divided forty-eight Republicans to forty-seven Democrats and one Farmer-Labor Senator, it has | been the thought of some of the progressives that by casting a vote or iwo with the Democrats for president pro tempore Mr. Moses might be downed. Now he, on his part, asserts that if anything like that happens he! will vote for the tic candidates for chairmen of standing committees instead of the progressives who seek re-election to those chairmanships. Nye of North Dakota, for exampl, is chairman of the Public Lands Com- mittees; Norris of Nebraska is chair- man of the Judiclary Committee, La Follette of Wisconsin is chairman’of the | Manufacturers’ Committee, and there are half a dozen other members of the progressive group who have chairman- | S) ships under the present order. * ok % % Senator Moses himself is up for re- election to the Senate next year. When a Senator has a battle of his own on his hands it is the custom to excuse him from the chairmanship or mem- rship in & senatorial campaign con- mittee. 8o it may be expected that some other Republican than the New Hampshire Senator will head the party's Senatorial Committee next year. Of course, the New Hampshire Senator might insist upon retaining the job. But there is opposition to such a course publican spurces, as well ve. It is quite nat- ural that Senator Moses should insist that he should not be sidetracked in the election of a president pro tempore of the Senate, however. If he were turned down, it might havs some effect on his fight for renomination and re- clection to the Senate in New Hamp- shire. There have been plenty of sug- gestions that he will have a fight on his hands in the Republican primary, anyway, with the present Governor, Winant, who belongs to the progressive wing of 'the party in the White Moun- tain State, eager to run. Winant beat the Moses candidate for Governor, in the last election. But beating Mr. in an|_] Q. Will you &lflu to done with the money recently iven to Bowdoin College by Cyrus ?—D. K. G. to use has been decided gift of $50,000, which was made during the past college year, for & $500 salary increase for all professors, assistant professors, and assoclate professors on the faculty and a $350 increase for in- distance from Paris Seine?—PF. C. B. et ly Aquarfum m“fimm Park. A. The aquarlum fs. equipped heating.sea ‘water for tropical fishes 'Wlmer. “lnfl has or cooling fresh water in Summer. Flowing fresh water is supplied from the city water system, while the pumps circulate about 200,000 gallons of salt water daily. Q k_&hn!pmmian of zoned cities A. Of the 99 cities having 000 population, census, it has hm'd zoned. for in over 100,- the 1930 that 88 are " Q. How much ‘money did tfe Com- E:lhn for Relief in yBelcmn spend? . D. A, Up to the entrance of States pln!.o the war, the mmm s spent about $250,000,000 in relief work in Belgium and Northern France. Q. Who invented the electri ¥ D el ic fan? A1t was invented Dr. i 5. Veheeler 1a 1806.c ) Dr Schurler Q. Why was 8. O. 8. chosen [y e seiecied” = 5 g was sel the Interna- tional Radiotelegraph Conference at London in 1912 because the combina- tion of dots and dashes was so simple that even the most inexperienced radio operatcr would have little difficulty in detecting it. Q. In what year was Julius Caesa: assassinated?—QG. Y. H. 2 7 A. In the year 44 B. C. Q. Wasn't there a treaty of Versailles prior to the one that marked the close of the World War?—D. S. W. A. There was a treaty of Versailles between Great Britain, France and | Spain in 1783, by which Great Britain Florida to ceded Tobago to France and pain. Q. What city is considered the cen- ter of the watchmaking industry?—P. E. A. La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. fi. :‘hfl. is & homonym?—L. O. I..‘ . Homonyms are words pronounc the same, but differing in spelling and tell me what is| & refrigerating plant | , eartben and con- Q. What is the object of the Rocke- feller Poundation?—A. L. A. The mw-uz‘; m“n:lam; i ; nf trust, incorpora y- &t of New Yo Legislature of May 14, 1913. The is “to promote the ‘well being of mankind throughout the world,” through charitable, religious, missionary and educational activities, a8 well as through research and publi- ca Q What was the first press associa- tion or news agency?—W. E. D. A. The first news agency is believed {0 have been that organized by Chatles ‘Havas in Paris in 1835, when he began translating articles for the , has & capacity of 35. Q. Are the faces on the figures for the gowns of the m of !10 w:auwxagu all from the same model? A. Paces on all the figures are the same, & modeling of King Lear’s daugh- ter. Thus is attention centered on the gown. But all the coiffures are au- thentic. Q. Where and how large is Marion Talley’s farm?—T. L. A. The farm is 12 miles from Colby, Kans,, and has 1,600 acres. Q. 1Is there any compilation of all the dialects heard in the United States? A linguistic atlas of the United States is to be issued by the American Courcil of Learned Societies. Prof. Hans Kuruth of Ohio State University will direct the compilation of the atlas. Q. Why are Army recruits called rookies>—G. M. C. A. They are 5o named from the term “rook " which in English mili- tary slang refers to the quarters in the barracks occupied by subalterns. Q. Are there any woman deep sea divers?—S. E. A. Woman deep sea divers in Japan are practically putting the male divers out of business. . - . —_— Q. What is the symbolism of the va~ rlm‘u iu:y:wu: and semi-precious stones? A. One list gives the following: Gar- net, credited with endowing the wearer with constancy and fidelity; amethyst, bsmm‘ sincerity; bloodstone or aqua- marine, “courage and truthfulness; dis- mond, innocence; emerald, happiness; pearl or moonstone, health and long life; ruby, a contented mind; sardonyx or peridot, felicity; sapphire, wisdom; opal or tourmaline, hope; topaz, fidelity; turquoise or lapis lazull, prosperity and success. Q. Why is ga .. 1= more explosive than kerosene?—E. C. A. Because gasoline is more vaporised. The air near gasoline be- comes full of gasoline vapor, and this makes an explosive mixtule. Keroseng gives off very little vapor. Coal Industry Gets Advice As to Improvgd« Conditions Action of the Departments of Labor and Commerce in the direction of a Jjoint conference of operators and mine workers in the bituminous fleld is re- czjved with some hope and some skep- ticism by the country. Several national administrations have approached ‘the subject, and it is now indicated that re- organization, transfer of some workers to other industries and possibly new markets are needed. It is pointed out that other forms of power production compete with soft coal. “Inside as well as outside the fuel in- dustry are many who belleve that the coal business as a whcle is in need of Moses is another matter. The senior Senator from New Hampshir: is strong- 1y intrenched in his own State. How- ever, if Winant should get into the race for the nomination there would be a hot campaign. * kK K Senator Caraway of Arkansas, chair- man of the Senate “Lobby” Committee, has agreed to go ahead at an early date with ‘the inquiry into the s Senator received $100,000 in securities or money from a corporation interested in the sugar tariff during the considera- tion of the Hawley-Smoot tariff law by Congress. When the charge was lished in the newspapers last S| 3 Senator James J. Davis cf Pennsylvania issued & statement denying that he had ever received any bribe from anybody, and asked to appear before the Lobby Committee. He did, and made a state- ment making a flat denial. The com- mittee, it was sald, was not prepared 20 ahead with the inquiry at that time, but wished to Jook up records of stock transactions, particularly with the Celo- tex Co.- Now Senator Davis has urged Mr. Caraway to go ahead and get the investigation out of the way without more delay. In fairness to Senator nan Caraway has agreed hearing as soon as prac- to hold & m! has completed his job. * % ¥ % Davis wishes up and back Quite nat tor to have this matter cleared of him. He, too, hi there are pte ated that he may seek in public life. there is the Governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot, who may sidetrack presidential aspirations to make a try for the Senate, particularly if there months under Fisher, was' defeal in the last primary. He, too, might have a desire to stage a comeback, or at is suggested. At that rate peace may |least have something to say about the|gre adjusted cholce of a nominee. He has Gov. ‘wonder Wwishes to ha before * * %&n depending on whether the eom-l general reorganization,” declares the New York Sun, with the advice that “if the proposed conference can make a start in that direction it will been worth while.” Ip! Evening Bulletin remarks that “the ad- ministration seeks to co-operate to the extent of its power in curing the ills of the soft coal industry, but it feels that the cure must come from within.” The Providence Bulletin is of the opinion that “the job of cleaning house rests squarely -x:r’o:} the shoulders of the in- dustry i public insists.” says the Pitts- ~Gazette, “upon a real joint conference between the operators and the miners, who have shown a capacity for co-operation. It rests principally with the operators whether there shall be such & meeting, and they will make a very serious mistake if they fail to the strong public opinion be- o ize hind the appeal for the conference. * * * Now is the time of times for big-mind- edness on their part and recognition of iy e Nockiors, Resiser Republi o e er-Republic -dvhumn “‘discussion of the troubles of the industry will not make them Worse, and it may lessen them a little.” That ;w views the future both operators and miners,” recog- nizing the fact that “a new industrial era opened and oil became the bi- tuminous operators’ nemesis.” * k k¥ Condemning the activities of 8 Com- munist body which has created rivalry among the workers, the Buffalo Ev ] munism has raised its ugly head in the soft. coal mines of Pennsylvania and is over West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky.” Its nu:{“u :hl'. “it is time iators to work in the soft coal flelds, and it is time also for operators and union men alike to make another effort to determine whether or not their in- dustry is to go down into ruin.” quof iphia Public Ledger, th its statements that “conflict has given way to co-operation,” and that “all disputes by a joint commission 1 i "mm :;.:mmuul, nois procedure could not be adopted in the Western Pennsylvania and sd- joining flelds until steps were firss taken to put the industry on an eco- nomic basis.” Is conclusion is that “the industry will never recover without drastic action.” The Rochester Times- Union is convinced that “the success of the Illinols code seems to be due to its fairness, and to the fact both opera- 5 1ht ther Tights can be sdcquately 0 can be adequatel defended.” * ok ok x ‘The Connellsville Daily Courier ex- plains that “it is proposed to have the miners represented at the next con- ference,” and avers that “this arrange- ment should be satisfactory to the mine ‘workers, but it will doubtless cause some of the operators, who do not rec- ognize the union, to refrain from be! in attendance.” The Courier is doubt- ful as to the results. The Columbus (Ohio) State Journal offers the pessi- mistic comment: “It is our belief that the contemplated conference will prove as futile as its predecessors. In a nut- shell, only two things can help the industry from both miners’ and opera- tors’ standpoints, and they are to raise the price of coal and raise the wages of the miners. Obviously, neither s possible. Soft coal got into its present predicament because there is too much of it available, too many mines and to much competition. The State of ‘West Virginia alone is capable of sup- plying the entire Nations coal needs for_ many years to come, yet a dozen other States contribute their annual output, until so much coal is available in 80 many places that oversupply long ago forced price concessions as com- petition expanded.” * ok k¥ “If the initial steps of the men to whom President Hoover has committed the nt task reflect their under- standing of its importance, soft coal's worst _crisis will hardly be eased by their handling,” says the Newark Eve- pt m hwlm coal trade, of men, and of the ways of diplomacy, made him so influential for good in ‘the days when the anthra- cite industry was almost as chaotic as the bituminous industry is now.” while the Scranton Times thinks that “if Secretaries Lamont and Doak display the proper vigor and judgment, some- thing constructive should come out of the conference.” ‘The Uniontown Herald declares: “Obviously there develops these two lems—companion yet highly dis- tinctive; 1, elimination of unprofitable mines and paring of potential produc- tion to potential demand, a situation which largely would take care of the price 'm:'lrmmu and consequently wage ; 2, the soclal service Sq. u8 sisiies lem, which demands that thousands of miners and