Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASBHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.....August 20, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company i New ice ll.,m 8t. : Lake M! tlding. s S, St N Rate by Carrier Within the City. o 45¢ th B B S v w2 The and Su; r lays) (] The J .. . per o Col made ot of each mont} ders may be sent in by mail or telephone tional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. irginia. All Other States and Canada. iy wng Sunday...1r. $1300: 3 mo. 81,00 iy, only - 177 3800 1 mos ke mday only 1yr. $5.00 1mo. 50c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively e 1o the ‘use for republication of all ne Patohes credited o it or not atherwise cre his paper ané aiso the jocal news ublished herein. All rizhts of publication of @pecial aispatches herein are ilso teserved - e Talk and Action. Coincidence makes the President's snnouncement of another national com- mission to deal with unemployment and kindred ills a direct answer to Gov. Pinchot's demands for an extra session of Congress, called for the same pur- pose. For the President's statement followed by only & few hours the pub- Meation of the Pinchot letter. Aside from the accident of coincidence, the two actions are unrelated. Yet they define fdirly well the positions of the opposing camps that will fight it out this Winter on the issue of how best to relieve national distress. The Pinchot letter comes from the Governor of a sovereign State, the sec- ond largest in population and the fourth richest—measured by Federal taxes paid—in the Union. The letter demands & special session of Congress, to con- wene immediately in order to complete relief legislation for siding the States before snow flies. The letter does not ®o into the bothersome details of how such relief should be extended, but the smplication is that money ,from the Pederal Treasury will work the miracle. By confession of its Governor, Pennsyl- wartla, which pays $230,203,064¢ a year in Federal taxes, which spends some- thing like $135,987,207 & year in oper- stion and maintenance of State insti- tutions, interest on State debt and cap- ital outlays on State projects, is unable to raise from all sources more than an estimated total of $22,000,000 to care for suffering within its own borders, and ed s~ No one doubts the seriousness of con- @itions as pictured by Gov. Pinchot No one doubis the . Pinchot’s his hands in despair and calling on the Pederal Government for rescue, problem. And one doubts his sincerivy in proposing, as the remedy, & special session of a Congress that will be more interested in the political than m the physical effect of feeding voters. The President, in naming Walter 5 Gifford as the head of a new national commission to deal with unemploy- ment and suffering this Winter, is tak- ing another step in his program of perfecting organizations designed to unite the forces of the Nation in an effort to deal with the emergency. Hc tells Mr. Gifford, whose associations and experience render his assistance valuable, that “the whele force of the administration is at your disposal” and his instructions convey the impression that under Mr, Gifford and his asso- eiates, later to be announced, will fall the task of co-ordinating all the meas- ures for relief that are now being planned by National, State and loca! agencies The Governor compares the present emergency to one of war, and gocs sbout preparing to meet it by admit- ting he is licked. The President is sure “we shall compass the task,” and prepares to act in accordance with that belief. Of course, the emergency be et one way or another. The questio Tow is whether it will be met as Gov Pinchot would have it met, by State admitting its heiplessness and calling on Washington, or as the Presi- dent would have it met careful estimate of what must be done and co-ordinated effort between all the peo- ple to go ahead and do it. The Federal Government can and will take the lead- ership. It is not to be used as a cru will —— No objection ised by Mabel brandt to denunciations of the grape brick which may turn into wine if left undisturbed in water. They are all advantageous publicity for & new industry which, at least, promises that the grape growers will not have w0 imi. tate the farmers and look for some means of utilizing their crops as fuel - — o John Bull's Money Troubles. Out of the British Isles these days comes news reminiscent of the sort of things which the world was hearing from Germany earlier in the Sum- mer. The treasury faces a deficit of .six hundred million dollars. The gold yeserve of the Bank of England has only been saved from fatal depletion by an emergency credit of a quarter by the exchequer's requirements. The plen attributed to the prime minister and Chancellor Snowden calls for drastic retrenchment in governmént expenditure, including cuts in the dole and other pet projects of the Labor party, as well as for heavy new taxa- tion. ‘Today Mr. MacDonald will submit them to the leaders of the Conservative and Liberal parties. Once assured of the support of his own and the combined opposition groups, the prime ministér will convene Parliament in special session for the purpose of enacting emergency flaancial legisla- tion. £ Obviously, the Labor government has a number of bridges to crose before it can reach the land of fiscal safety. Matters have been brought to a climax by Sir George May, to the effect that the country’s finances are in grave disarray and require drastic remedies. Some British authorities believe that the commission painted conditions in blacker colors than they deserve. They resent the resultant impression, espe- cially abroad, that British solvency is questionable. It is much too early to indulge in fears on this score, grave as John Bull's plight unmistakably i3 Even the fate of free trade is at stake. ‘Within the Labor government are ele- ments which think that in some scheme of protective (iffs Britain's only sal- vation lies. One thing is certain, they will be enacted over Philip Snowden's dead political body. r——— Revision of Reparations. America’s lead in effectuating finan- cial relief for Germany clothes with definite interest for the United States Bankers’ Committee at Basel that Ger- man reparations should be subjected to immediate revision. Once upon a time —persistently, in fact, until President Hoover's moratorium proposal of June 20 last—the Washington Government held that reparations and alied war debts were utterly unrelated issues Whatever the former enemies of Ger- many might deign to do in the direc- tlon of siashing her reparation obliga- tions, the contention of the United States was that such action could and would in nowise affect European war debts owing to this country. That theory went by the boards the moment Mr. Hoover offered to suspend war debt payments for one year if Ger- many's creditors agreed to & coinci- dent suspension of reparation pay- ments. It will need to be borme in mind | amid the controversy certain 1o be pre- cipitated by the Wiggin committee’s report of Germany’s incapacity to pay, that the Reich is not obligated to us for reparations. These are owed ex- clusively to European powers and Ja- pan. But recent events make it crystal clear that if European treasuries are going to receive curtalled reparation annuities from Berlin they will not be minded to disgorge uncurtailed war- debt annuities to the United States. It will be pointed out with unanswerable logic that it was President Hoover him- self who linked the two sets of obliga- tions in a manner that it will not be easy henceforth to put asunder. Plain- 1y, if the Basel recommendations reach the stage of formal action by the gov- ernments concerned, the hour will hasten, with seven-league boots, when Washington will be compelled to dis- close its hand toward the newly pro- ‘voked situation. Acting Secretary of State Castle re- calis that while the President was con- sidering ways and means of alleviating the world economic situation s general scaling down of intergovernmental debts was one of the remedies that received attention. It was abandoned in faver of the limited moratorium plan. Noth- ing has yet developed to justify as far- flung an amplification of that plan as the Wiggin Committee proposes. In the | same statement as puts reparations re- | vislon forward the committee recom- mends a six months’ extension of Ger- man short-term credits, aggregating a |bllion and & quarter dollars. This | gives the Reich a further and generous | | breathing spell, coming as it does on top of the “Hoover year.” A distinguished European economist at the Willlamstown Institute of Politics | has just expressed the opinion that Ger- many is capable of paying repara- tions “three times over.” ‘That may |be an extravagant, as well as an | unfriendly, opinion, and also a little | premature, at this very early stage of the German relief inaugurated at the instigation of the United States, to launch a scheme as extensive in nature and so loaded with political dynamite as the Wiggin Committee has hatched. %Thfl committee consists of bankers with- out governmental responsibilities. It is | for the Wigginses to propose, but it will remain for the Hoovers, MacDounalds, Lavals and Mussolinis to dispose. States- men do not always see eye to eye with bankers. Especially the statesmen of France will be heard from on the pres- ent occaslon, in terms differing from the key pitched by the bankers. Sino-Japanese Friction. As though civil war were not enough to keep China in turmoil and danger of oatastrophe, Chinese hostility to- ward the Japanese is manifesting itself in outbreaks that are increasing in intensity and are menacing the now friendly relations between the two | countries. The troubles this year began |in Korea, where Chinese were attacked {by Koreans on account of trade dis- putes. The Japanese authorities ware prompt in suppressing these turmoils, but the Chinese government was in- |clined to hold the Japanese responsible {for their incitation. Later in Man- churia Chinese mobs attacked Japanese | groups. each | In direct consequence of these dh-! | turbances the Kuamingtang, or Chinese natfonalist party in Shantung, has begn fomenting anti-Japanese activities, and now comes the report that on Tuesday |last a mob of several hundred Chinese at Tying-tao, the largest city of Eastern | Shantung, attacked Japanese shops and | raided a club maintained by Japanese | merchants. Reports differ as to the {consequences of this demonstration, | tributed to & dispute over fishing rights by the report of the commission headed | the recomendation of the International | * festo barring foreign vessels from coastal fishing zones, whereupon, under the leadership of Kuomingtang organ- ization, Chinese fish merchants in Tsinggeo boycotted and picketed the Japanese fish market, driving out most of the Japanese boats. These troubles are the more acute becauge of the bitter feelings prevail- ing throughout Shantung toward the Japanese on the score of the so-called Tsinan-fu incident of 1028, when Japanese and Chinese nationalist troops fought at that provincial cap- ital and, it is claimed by China, the Japanese forces committed abominable atrocities, which have always, however, been denied by Japan. Feeling is acute and no occasion is allowed to pass without bringing up the | Tsinan-fu. Now Japanese cruisers are jon the way to Tsing-tao and probably the troubles will subside, but the feel- ing will remain and it may become even {more intense. Japan is desirous of | maintaining peace, but there is a party |in that country favorable to “strong policies in all questions affecting China,” which keeps the Chinese issues iallve and which is strengthened by {such outbreaks as those that have recently occurred in Manchuria and are now reported from Shantung. IRV Wherever Mayor Jimmy Walker goes he finds cordial greeting. When the German bands have played a few more times in his honor, audiences may be inclined to regard “He Is & Jolly Good Fellow” as one of our national an- thems ranking equally in esteem Wwith “Hot Time in the Old Town.” RPN A personal success was scored by G. Bernard Shaw when he convinced Moscow that he is & genuine Commu- I nist and not a white-collar man who has worked hard and saved up s little more money than the Soviet would consicer good for any individual. The report that a man was offered half a million dollars to quitclaim his chance for election would indicate a high price mark fer a United States | Senate seat should the article ever be ublicly listed in & Chicago mall-order catalogue. When Lindbergh pauses to discuss | storm possibilities he is not indulging in idle conversation as to prospects of rain. A good aviator, ? addition to being wise in numeroud other direc- tions, must be naturally weather wise. Suspicion is already abroad that the Tammany tomahawk is being aimed at Gov. Roosevelt. No efforts have yet availed to convince the old tiger that in national politics it is likely to be permanently regarded as only a jinx, ——————— China asks for help in distributing wheat in flood-devastated areas. Grain may be low priced in the ordinary markets. It retains its inestimable value as & means of relieving human suffering. ———e— Eminent men who resent snapshot intimate pen picture may not be even more distressing than a careless photo- graph. r—— Having made contact with almost every other kind of law, the Western oll business includes martial law in ts experience. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Contrasted Pictures. Home is the place where the heart is; Home's where you hang up your hat; The spot for small, sociable parties In palace or cottage or flat. Home is the place for reposing When shadows have shut out the day; A haven for dreaming and dozing, Porgetful of storms far away. Home is the place where the cleaner Performs with a paint brush or suds; Where mothballs each Autumn smell meaner As you rattle them out of your duds. The alarm clock will wake you at seven, Your skill as & truck horse to prove. Home 38 & corner of heaven— Except when they houseclean or move, The Art of Hiusion. “Remember,” sald the earnest citizen, “that the eyes of the public are upon you." “That condition is provided for,” answered Senator Sorghum. “In po- ltical prestidigitation the hand-out must always be quicker than the eye- sight.” Not Making a Record. “How's your boy Josh doing?” “Afn't cuttin’ much of a figger in his perfession, I'm afraid,” replied Farmer Corntossel be a chauffeur, but I've read the paper every day an’ I ain’t seen a word 'bout his bein’ arrested fur speedin’.” | A Mechanical Substitute. Why criticize your fellow-man Who generally does his best, With & thermometer you can Find pretext' for the kicker's plan And give your fellow-man a rest. Round and Square. “The mode of expression plays & very mportant part in diplomatic negotia- tions.” “Yes; but there is not much use of trying to make a well rounded sentence take the place of a square deal” Depressing Influence. | “And you spent several weeks at Lake Como?” | “Yes; but there were some people | from Indiaffa who took all the romance out of the place by insisting on calling i#t Lake Kokomo.” After years of observation the con- clusion is hereby solemnly announced that nobody ever succeeds in really looking like the poses for Summer re- sort, posters. The N Some with brand-i -{up s tomato story of | “He sald he was goin’ to | | business stagnation, BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Now begins the evening of the garden. About this time every year occurs that most delightful time, when the noon of the garden is past and the harsh sunlight is over. ‘The sun still shines in the heavens, but its rays are filtered through mil- Tions of of space, and come to us seemingly from the horizon. ‘The morning of the garden came in Spring. High noon has just ended, that period normally extending from July 15 to August 15, in our personal calculations. It is evening in the garden now, but { it will bz many “hours” yet before dark. P 5 Surely there are few times in the home garden more beautiful than the present, Even Spring, avith its flowers, its new freshness of grass, shrubs and trees, its vivid feel of rejuvenation, scarcely com- pares with the present time, lovely Spring was, and will not know again until next year. Spring is a charmer whose blandish- ments fade when she is gone. It is “out of sight, out of mind.” * & ¥ The evening of the garden year, how- ever, brings coolness, and green grass, and roses. Grass blades start to grow again, and if seed is put in now, or perhaps two weeks from now, there will be thou- sands of new plants in the world which were only seed before. Even now tender shoots are springing (how impossible it is to get away from that word) between the coarser blades. There is new grass everywhere, forming an undercarpet of lighter green, which, catching the ? the sun, forms those spots of contrast with the older grass which are always the delight of lovers of good grass. Lawns jook better now than they did during the early days of the month. Perhaps this s due to the fact that the wise housebolder has refrained for some time from removing the clippings. Cut grass becomes a mania with many. They resent so much as a blade | at these, our observations, but go into | vote could not being left after mowing. they err, particularly at this time. For various obscure reasons clippings help lawns now, Or, at least, we have forgotten how ! { when not cut too close. brown patches even in very and shaving them leaves them W largely, whereas longer grass tends conceal them. Pourth, and by no mea: mower set too close tends This, of course, is the very reason that many set their blades to cut close, |but it is s mistake. More frequent | mowings will be easier and more bene- | ficlal and keep the grass Jooking better at all times, * x X There is_another curious practice which we would touch upon at this|of time | "1t is the habit of men of cutting the grass immediately after a heavy rain. We do not mean an hour after a rain, |or_two hours, or the next morning. No, we say immediately, at once, tout & coup, as the French say. | " In eight years of garden observations | we have never seen a woman do this. That is one reason why we insist that they have more common sense then men, despite the contrary impresison in | some quarters. | "Mowing the lawn right after a rain |1s"a difficult, harmful and boresome | practice. The grass pulls, the biades of the m {of the fer | Am {as a result. To say nothing of the fact that his feet get wet. There is not much common sense in subjecting a faithful garden implement | to such treatment. excuse of lack of time is scarcely relevant, because | the same time the next day could be |used just as wel, when perhaps the grass would be drier. | * kX x | One of the happiest things about a | garden, of course, is that in it one may | violate' every rule and all the advice | handed down by others from time to | time. | “Therefore, let no one become offended No doubt | the yard and cut the grass when it is | before the close | reeking, 1f they want to. | Let them set the mower so close that It was all very well t0 |t will leave scarce a quarter of an |Senate t0 It will be the job of Congress when it assembles in December to put through within a week the legislation neces- sary to make entirely effective the Hoover moratorium on intergovern- mental debts. But the Senate must wrestle by itself with the protocol pro- viding for the entry of the United ‘States into the World Court under the so-called Root formule. The latter proposal has recelved an Iimportant boost within the last few days. The American Federation of Labor, acting through its executive council, at Atlantic City, has gone on record definitely as f the adherence the United States to the Court and approving the Root formula. This action by the federation will be- yond & doubt have its effect on the consideration of the protocol in the Senate. Opponents of the court in the Senate have been hoasting that their strength was on the increase and that it would be possible for them to pre- vent the necessary two-thirds vote to approve the entry into the court under the Root formula, which has been framed to meet the objections of for- T adopted a of neutrality with regard to e World Court and the Root formula. But now it has given approval to the formula, declaring that America’s interests are adequately safe- guarded thereunder. x % k% President Hoover is committed to the mpclfl that the United States enter World Court. He was urged by friends of the court to in- sist upon action in the Senate on the protocol at the last session. It was obvious, however, that with the ses- sion_closing by law on March 4 and much domuthu of the some quarters the President has been urged to call AT YT catch them in hoppers early in the year | jnch of blades standing. Let them col- |before the regular session of or to remove them with rakes, to be carted away afterward. Now they do best on, and with decline in the sun's heat ordinarily do not wither and become yellow, as pre- ivously. Perhaps the muich which they [Igrm helps the growth of new grass. his is a matter something like that of growing one’s own seed. We were pleased to see The Star's garden corre- spondent last Sunday advise home owners against the old-time practice of Such seed often is not as good as fresh seed bought from profe growers, the men who make seed a business and vigor, and to accomplish this they use more fertilizer than home growers. * x x % against setting a lawn mower to cut too close. This is a common practice, but one against which there are several good reasons. In the first place, few lawns are good enough to be shaved, as it were. sward, but every gardener knows that such are few and far between. In the second place, too close mowing into the very soil itself, and leaving bare earth Third, the grass always looks better ‘Telegraphic advices from the commissariat of the national po- lice in Milagro apprised the local authorities that Alejo Vega lost a box containing $80, the savings of his entire lifetime, and he is 55 years old. It seems he had no confidence in the banks and kept his money buried in a small box lined with tin, under a sycamore tree near his house. In the box also were certain jewels of some value, which Senor Vega had first buried for safekeeping about 15 years since. At intervals since then he vated the treasure either to add or withdraw certain funds, and the latest occasion was about a week ago, when his financial circumstances prompted another inroad upon the hoard. Though Vega visited the gache only when he felt assured there no chance of be- ing observed, information of his secret must have gotten abroad, for on pass- ing the sycamore he saw the earth re- moved and the box gone. A descrip- tion of three strangers who passed through the nearby village of Daule two days before has been wired the Guayaquil police. EEE Food of Chinese Laborer Raises Diet Question. The Manchuria Daily News, Dairen. —The question whether diet of the lower-class Chinese is really low from a dietetic point of view must be dem- onstrated scientifically. Is their splendid physique possessed of a high labor efficiency inherent in the racial constitution? Is it not re- lated somehow to the kinds and quan- tity of the food taken? What is the dietetic verdict on the so-called coarse food of the lower-class Chinese? If, seen from the present dietetic standpoint, the Chinese laborers { live on food of really low nutritive value and still can display high physio- I]o(lcll efficiency, what we call dietetics { would have to be radically reorganized. Fundamentally, dietetics itsell is a science, but to give it practical value it must be associated with our daily life in various ways, the primary considera- tion being its economic relation. Thus, the need of economical dietetics arise: However, to decide the value of any l EL TELEGRAPFO, Guayaquil. standpoint is not so easy as it appears on the food value in & general way cannot be of time. Dietetics itself is always ad- vancing, while the human physlology, upon which dietetics is reflected, is also subject to adaptation and change un- der the influence of environments. Strictly speaking, the grasp of the truths of dietetics may be regarded as a view will only raise pessimism to science, an attitude students of science. * %k ® American_Caplital Provides Work in Mexico. El Universal, Mexico City —American capital is still being invested in Mexico and affords employment to many of our compatriots who would otherwise be receiving charity in this period of for these enter- prises represent in some cases almost the sole activity in their districts. A wood-working mill, for instance, has just been started by a group of Ameri- | 0. can investors at Dura Another lard, agricultural district, thy citizens of the United States have set industry, and a r plant for dates is now California. Another . the | m¢ collecting sced from their own plants. | essional , | probably mostly owing to the fact that | At this point we would say a warning | exca- | article of food from a dietetic chemical | rface, and the comparison of | hoped to be effected in a short course | difficuit as that of life itself, but such| ill-becoming to | |Ject seed assiduously from their own pods, firm in the faith of their grand- Good garden seed was not so easily |obtained when grandmother was a young woman. And even today many fine things can be grown from such collections. The finest asters the ent writer ever saw were grown | seed collected from an Indiana home | garden. | EE ‘The evening of the garden has yet & long time to go before dusk falls. In the meantime it is pleasant to sit be- neath the trees and listen to the ;I’Iglh‘li of the last of the Summer must grow better seed, packed with vim | ;. Most of them have flown away, sens. ing the oncoming of coider days, how- ever far off, but still there remain sclves, at all seasond of the year, and | no more so than the present. Our lo- {down, but in the main the branches | maintain their constant supplies of | green. The sun of the garden year will not even begin to set until the leaves begin | to fall from the trees. Then watch out | for the twilight of the gods. Highlights on the Wide Worl Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands | More British Films “ | Promised in New Zealand. | The Evening Post, Wellington.—The = | desirability of showing more films of | British origin was stressed in the Legis- | Iative Council when the leader of the | counctl, Sir Thomas Sidey, said that, | judging by his experiences at home, | there was a possibility that more Brit- | ish films would come to this country {in the near future. The G. M. Thomson asked the | leader whether the government would issue instructions to those charged with | the censcrship of films shown in this | country to purge, as far as possible, the | vile American accent of many of the “talkie” films and the sickly sentimental | pseudo-morality which sought its in- | spiration among the lowest social strata of the population. “Owing to technical difficulties,” said | Sir Thomas in reply, “it is not con- sidered practicable to give effect to the | Drcgosul 1o establish a censorship of the | “talkies’ for the purpose of preserving the purity of the English spoken lan- guage. If the censor considers & pic- ture is more suitable for adults, he In- | variably adds a recommendation ‘for | adult audiences only.’” = Sir Thomas added that censorship of the “talkies | would involve the total rejection of & large number of films. From his | periences at home, he believed that & greater proportion of British films would be shown in the near future. Inquiries made in reliable quarters show that the success of the British films during recent months has been | quite outstanding, and both the com- | panies which distribute these films have | received a very fair measure of support | from the exhibitors. | * x k% Drought Seen As Menace to Wild Game. | El Nuevo Diario, Caracas.—TH® hunting of the native fauna has been | simplified by the recent rainless period, | which has dried up so many of the streams and springs. Instead of chas- | ing the game over vast regions, with the | very likely eventuality of its escaping him at the last, all the sportsman now | bas to do is to conceal himself near | one of the water holes still affording the animals a place to drink. Ante- lopes, panthers, chati snd armadillos visit ‘these oases both by day and by night and give facile opportunity to the watcher. An additional menace to the hunter, too—is the presence of alliga- tors and crocodiles, which seek their prey in the same places. When their native pools dry up, these amphibians { must also seek new refuges and travel reach water, where they seize their fel- low sufferers when they come to * K x * Argentina Immigration Decrease. La Nacion, Buenos Aires.—Compared with last_year, | gentine Republic for the first four months of 1931 has' diminished by 41 per cent. These figures are based Upon statistics furnished by the ministry of agriculture. Since the World War the tion of Slavish peoples reached as high as 11,000 a month, but during the past few months this exodus from Europe has rrlct\cllly ceased, de- spite the deplorable economic conditions hich still exist in practically every country across the Atlantic. This decrease in migration is partly due to more drastic regulations in ad- mission and more careful selection of the stocks permitted sometimes hundreds of kilometers %0/ gets underway. But so far there been no indication that he intends to follow such a course. The irreconcila~ bles in the Senate are planning fo re- sist the ratification of the protocol viding for adheren: formula and long a fight however, 1t suj TNOW appears court , many of them Democrats, and the United States will be in a position to go into the court. * * kX ic Jeaders in the Senate and House, speaking, have already given assent to the 1:&:1.«01: necessary for making effective Hoo- ver moratorium. nder the though there crats are in Tt | custs as yet have shed but few leaves. | the Hoover moratorfum, might be practicable to shave a perfect | Occasionally a_yellow leaf will flutter | that the needed through. If the fail in this matter, it would be left in a most embarrassing g::wofld Already the foref ain and , have 2 to the torfjum and have put it into effect. ‘When assembles d doubt Democratic attacks on the ad- ministration, both because it did not act sooner and because it acted at all, are resentful 3 tor Carat of Arkansas has issued bmt'%oum the wubllc“.’y_: bureau the Democratic National Committee, at- bold ht credit for the Repub- tion in the matter. * Kk % the new tio: larly wtmh: ';l n, particularly on eve of a na- tional election, almost . will be pressing for co! important sub . Among them fl"’“fll"fllm be measures Tegu- lation of electric power entering inter- state commerce, the tion of motor the railroads . There is promised, too, to_com- the veterans of the World War without Wil be al Kinds of leglsative proposeis ve proposal to give aid to the unem those in distress in this country, from a Federal dole down the line. it were not for the fact that it may be impossible to obtain a majority in both Houses for any important legislation, because of political Slomment, and were Congress may desive 1o g¢ wway get away as early as mbfiom ‘Washington to take part, mtrflmlry campaigns and the general election campaign the next ses- nunb!mld:t Tun from December to De- cember. * k% % The Tammany Democratic Jeaders in New York have suddenly discovered that there is a lot of corruption in Re- publican-controlled, up-State cities in New York State. They have asked Gov. that the law providing for an investigation of the conduct of the government of New York City be lnmenfled 50 as to provide for investiga- tions of these Republican cities. The Tammany Democrats, it is clear, are anxious to bring about such a row over the legislation now proposed strengthen the hands of the committee which s in corrul in Greater New York that no action will le. Gov. It, however, is inclined to take the position that &fiufiwflom mfl "':'k-mkl n; e Legislature an eep aloo from the Tammany tactics. gndzed, when the investigation of the goyern- ment of New York City was proposed, he declared it to be a legislative m: et So the efforts of Tammany to side- the inquiry now on are likely to And by the same token, Gov. Roosevelt appears to be strengthe: the country by the ‘Tammany done to ease off the in- * % k% ‘The Governor of New York at the of something be quiry. necti Roosevel i i RvIETLEr 'Ta €| having made plete payment of the soldiets’ bdflus to and Roosevelt to include in his call for a|Sta to | the Rockford Register- all except 2 cents in coln or stamps | for return your letter o | o T e e | champ! ip and | when did he Jose it?—E. H. | A J‘v:k hgm;nuy ‘won m‘mld\ champions y knocking out Jess Willard in the third round on July 4, 1919. He lost the title to Gene Tunney | Izvg (;:c;:mn (10 rounds) on September | A. The American wage scale is the highest, Canada next, then Australia | and New Zealand practically on & par, | then Great Britain, Germany, Franc Scandina Belgium, the and Italy in the order named. Q. Was “Good-bye, Dolly Gray” s Spanish-American War song?—U. D. | A. “Good-bye, Dolly Gray” was writ- 'Sflnh‘zn 1900, just after the war with pal Q. Does grape juice contain leaven? If s0, what becomes of it when wine is made?—T. S, A. The Bureau of Plant Industry says that grapes. naturally contain a leavening agent and that this is pres- ent in the juice. Unfermented gra) Jjuice must have the leaven disabled pasteurization or other heating process- es, and if this is not done the lr;g: i:l.u will ferment naturally. ven mentation so that the or wine does not contain it. P Q. Wte"r.e‘ all the Ounml.dmh defense lorces 'n_prisoners 'n Fort n- elson fell>—T. R. W. 25 A. The prisoners numbered about 15,000 out federate of a total of 18,000, the Con- Col g. g&n rain be formed' without dust? dust particles, especially of certain kinds, such as sea salt, or even, it is believed, molecules of certain sorts that have great affinity, as we say, for water. The air al contains an abundance of such nucl 50 that adding more dust to it neither increases mor de- creases the probability of rain. When was the' fox trot first Q. danced?—H. N. A. fox trot has been danced since about 1913. T j is used up in the process of fer- & finished b . Fg;i,».é_n accepted & possibly fictiti incident, in & y proof of the citry tree hes never been brougt forth, i Q. What does 9 cross the Rubjcon™ mean? M. A A. It means toake some from ;rxnnunmmmmmmg The icon was a sall river Italy from Cisalpk Gaul, m:'n-ll mfiht allotted to Julius aesar. In B. C. 49, W) croed this passed beyond th limits of g':rlvmee and begne an invader of y. ! Q. How much ¢, the United Btates pay for Florida?— M. A. The Floridaswere Spain in 1819. Nosetual - hLe e§€ i | £ ¢ Akron Expected to Crate New Status for Diigibles for extinguishing Oolumbus Ohio State Journal views the as “a symbol of progress, initia- tive and efficiency,” and adds, “Because of its speed, its ability to cruise for long distances and its cheapness, when com- with the cost of a surface cruiser, “the construction of this gigantic ai ship is an indication that the Govern- ment does not mean to be caught nap- ping at its post.” * k& % “It is the queen of the skies,” asserts c, stating designed to heels ‘That that “the monster craft show its heels—if a dirigible has —to pursuers in war.” emphasizes the fact that “it will the tection of five fighting |Airship e e prof fig) -~ on & mon of 80 miles an hour.” The Charl News predicts that “the glories of the Roosevelt is standing up well as the leader in the race for the Democratic ‘hom | one but has had il mmmm e temmn;'g this type. the g ] £ rowing of the Afllnrm‘ooelll Navy will get the cziit for for primarily the is a T e “The whole : is an one,” recalls flxeyeg' , but £ i 13 i T o-h "Msy:lhe - have arilliant career B marte the Poariaton Evening Post, with fe < “It is ot tabe one reason why thdJnited aw:; gfi 4 @ o {128 B 2 i : i Tecently no more of ence of all of the air has i ;E s8¢ L : the sudden :l g ¢