Evening Star Newspaper, September 2, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sun ‘-yrugmm! Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . .September 2, 1931 THEODORE W. The Evening Star o T sy hiap Building. ot ®. "London, -— NOYES. .. .Editor Rate by Carrier Within the City. 2 45¢ per month Sinday Sar undas) 0c per month and Sundas Siar 65¢ per month Sc per { each The Sundey Star Collection made at the end o mon! I or telephoné rders mar be sent in by mai NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. THE EVENING STAR, sévéré taxes on trueks will B4 itd rec- | ¥hieh théy btdined whén writtin And ommendation. printéd. Modés changé and tastés shift, In fact, 4 thousanid dollars & year|and thé tales ‘of the “Déemster” and for each large District véhicle operat- | “Mahgmdn” type aré not today in high ing even pericdically in Virginia is vogue. Just so are the storiés of George supposed to be thé figuré arrived n.g!‘uot outmoded, great works though and it c&fi be eastly realized just what théy are. efféct this will have on Washington| Cainé was an intensely serious artist. businéss, Many of thé smaller firms| His books were &rid of humer. He 1:0k- will have to quit Virginia dellveries|ed at life with grave eyes, yet he wis and this will naturally work a hard-|not wholly the self-absorbsd creator of <hip on residents of that Statc who buy | Aft. He kfiew his own value and fought in the Nationzl Capital. for his réwards. He was in fréquent Virginia will b> takihg #n unwise d'sputat'on with his publishers and he action if it taxes District trucks out|Pecamé kn°wn as cne of the best busi- of ths State. Certainly if the feés pald | néss men in th: world of letters. The at the present time are too low mey!n(ult was th°t he died very wealthy, i can be increased without reaching a | With a greater fortune even than Kip- 'nrnhlblll\'c figure. A!l that Washington ' 1ing, whose scumen in the markeling | firms are ack'ng Is that the matter bs | 0f his goods has become traditional. thorough siudy with reason-| Th* Pmpression prevails that Caine | i 1 [given & WASHINGTON, D. C, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Rightebus Anger is its own rewhrd, It coes intimidate! its back, swells out its mightily, in responsé to & fifl 3?3-3’4': And intimidation, in the ordinary | internal secretions. courses of life, is as necessa ry as in- vestigation. sometimes. No doubt human nature should not | becore ind: dog, be.that way, but unfortunately it often is. | haps it really is indignant, ple, to | No one could blame it in the least. 1t is impossible, with sore get them to do good even to themselves except by getting mad at them. | We sdy that that eat is angry. W deny the animal & conselous er to Ant.at the dog, But per- after 41l The mechanism of Angér in human beings is much the same, exeept that Others refuse to budge unless they | ths button is pressed, as it were, by the are “bawled out,” as the vernacular | conscious anger, has it. Often an ill-tempered person becomes ' something ning with eves, or the ears, which see or hear t which the better sensi- sweet Instantly under the lash of a bilities of the human being rebel. good bld-fashioned “cussing.” ‘There is no good until it is tried. g | telling what will do may ‘The eyes and the ears, be fald to be the primary agents. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1931 IAilwen Mr. Allen’s Letter As to Street Railways To thé Rditor of Thé Star: Mr. Howard C. Allen's survey of thé stréét car lines has many points of interbst to oné who is closely acquainted Wwith streét rallwdy svitems ih the United States. Magazines such as the Electric Railway Journil and Electric any streét ear companies in the United States where the fare is much lower than that in the District. It is unfair and futile to compare the street rail- ways of the District with tncse of New York City, or even Philadelphia, in which subway, elevated and the size | of the city make such comparisors un- {just. It would be enlightening to hear from this writer just what other cities have such low fares—less than 8 cents. 1t is also doubtful whether on the | What the eyes see and what the ears|average the service is three times bet- 15, responsible for most human ter, as this writer suggests. Some linss, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘This is a special department devoted £olely to the handling of queries. This peper puts at your dis| 1 the services of an extensive organization in Wash- | ington to serve you in any capacity that relates to information. This service is Zree. Failure to make use of it deprives |50u <1 benefits to which you are entitied. |Your obligation is only 2 cents in ccin or stamps, inclos>d with your inquiry for direct reply. Address The Evening Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. How old is Babe Didrikson, girl athlete?>—C. M. e A. Mildred Didriksen is 19 years cld. Q. Why do air bubbles appear on & I pond of water during certain snowers Star Inforraation Bureau, Prederic J. | | 381t Was secured by allowing sea Water to evaporate in open pans. e product | was not pure, but it was the best ob- ‘:i.ml:a:’eih;fi' r:’m salt works for pro- us: crude article was opera | in Virginia about 1620, o e | Q. How many pounds of P00 1t take to make l‘.’gofl cx'fireggi’: A‘;flg | A. About 2.85 pounds. Q. What will keep a fur coat from shedding?—T. E. A. A. The Biological Survey says that there is no way to prevent the hairs from coming out of fur. The condition | may be due to poor curing of the skin, or due to the fact that the pelt was not prime. There is & po-afli?le. et In the trying, Of course, one may hear make many mistakes, But one is all anger. A blind man who also was deaf the time making mistakes in this life. | would be saved thousands of causes for as the prevailing thought.! WAs & voluminous writer. Th-t is true | {#nd remain until struck by rain mothis are causing the troutle. drops>—J. J i ableness | Trucl Marstand and Vifgifiia. as ‘he suggests, have poor service, tut aily only 1er 8 y undas.....1 5r. $10.00: 1 mo., #3c E.u and sundar.....1r \2'” 1 me.. 43¢ naay only ..l....ll1vr. 34001 mo. doc u All Other States and Canada. N y 1. $1200 1mo.§ §‘.Hv Safy Sundrr 1T Tiaee: 1 met Inday only 1111111 $5.00: 1 mo.. Member of the Associated Press. Sl enit e 1 n ew < dis: 1,00 8c The Asecirted Prese 3 exelusi t the use for repubiicatton o patchies cradited [0 it or not h this naper and alse heremn. AU rt spa‘ches her of ~d ted rizh's of 1 noa The importancs of Owen D. Yount's acceptance of the chairmanthip of a new committee unemployment rclisf o'ganization Assigned. sible for the fund-raising campaigns.” the ad; tration of the funds snd “activities looking to the distribution and inerease of employment.” In other words, Mr Young must produce the cash for relief this Winter. suparviss its exnenditure and. &t the same time, decrease unem- plorment by finding and distributing jobs. It is not believed that Mr. Young would accept the job and, at the same time. eontemp'ate his failure. A man of his experience and talents does not Jend his name to any enterprise with- ovt examining its meriis. What the country now; has a right to expect i the production of another “Young plan” that will eclipse the first The selection of the pe nnel of the President’s organization, under the leadership of Walter S. Gifford, alveady indicates the breadth and scope of the general plan for unemployment relief. In that organization many of the lcad ing names and the leadng national ganizations of Amsrica are included. There is additional interest in those chosen by Mr. Young fo serve upon his own committee—Picrre du Pont of Wilmington, Fred Ficher of Detroit, William Cooper Procter of Cincinnati. Myron €. Taylor and Walter Teagle of New York, to mention only a few of the better known names that are identified with the better known millions. Mr. Young's committee alone is representa- of the wealth end industrial leader- ship of the Nation. If money is to b: produced and jobs are to be found, thos seeking both are going to the right soures. There has never been. in any of th> erises that confronted the Nation. a comparable muster of such volunteers. In giving their assistance. they are to | he credited. of course, with the usual humanitarian motives and with the ac- ceptance of the responsibility that good citizenship impeses. obviousiy realize, at the same time. that their ¢nlistment in the cause amounts tn a draft, a compulsory service that can he escaped onlv at the cost of a disastar tog serious to contemplate. e Land Plane Speed. Tt looks 1ery much as if “Al" Williams American land-plane speed record was in danger of heing broken. Unofficially it wag broken vesterday, when Lowell Ravies at the Cleveland air races winged his way over course at two hundred and eightv-six miles an heur. Williams' record, mad2 gome vears ago. and which he never regarded as being very fast—in fact. when the late Maj. Sesr brought his automobile 0 America to create a record on the sands at Daytona Beach Williame laughing!y cautioned him not to drive faster on the ground than he did in the ajr—was two hundred &nd sixty-six miles an hour. During the latter part of the week Bayles will try again undcr official supervision. and with the speed he has already shown he seems lkely to hang up & new mark. Since Williams resigned from the Navy to take up research work on plane speeds there has been no one but Capt. Prank Hawks to turn public attention to this all-important subject. The advent of Bayles into the group which i striving to advance the speed of planes is therefore especially welcome Whether or not he betters the mark ef Williams does not particula matter, except for his own personal glory, but the lessons learned in hig flights will be invaluable in the bulld- ing of better and faster ships. America is lamentably behind other mnations in the development of fast ships. An Englishman has done three hundred and fifty-seven miles an hour, Prenchman nearly as much, and Italy | this vear is sending a team of fiyers to the Schneider Cup races with ships that are believed to be capable of four hun- dred miles an hour or more. These apeeds should make America ashamed when it looks at its own records. country must catch up. and the only way to do it is by determined and sus- tained effort. ——— —— Blaming & high tariff for every ecos nomic ill has become something of a habit. An interrupticn of that line of thought must be expected when a beer racket discloses a phase of traffic which 8o far as any taxation is concerned is altogether too free. ————— Virginia Reciprocity. That a determined effort will be made by Washington civic organizations to prevent the changes planned by Vir- ginia in its truck fec scale 15 scen in the action of the Ghamber of Commerce yesterday, when the Board of Directors went unanimously on record against any plan to alter the reciprocity laws. This matter is of grave concern not only to Washingtonians but to Vir- ginians. Feeling that Vi:ginia was not securing the proper rcvenue from de- livery trucks belonging to District firms, Gov. Pollard appointed a commission o tevise or repeal the existing scale. and while the commission has not yet made its report it is understood that within the President’s | emphasized by & study of the task thus As chaitman, he is respon- ! co-crdination of all local : But they must | straightaway | This | that operate regularly from the District into Virginia perh#ps should be assessed a larger amount, but trueks | ihat enter the State only occasionally should not be taxed &t a high fizure. { It is the hope of all Washinztonians [ that the commiss'on and the Governor 1l take these facts into consi The District is quite at the merey of | virginia in any event, since retaliatory l'actton cenno. be t'kn wiihout the ! enactment of a lawv by Wash- | ingtontans, thersiore. taeir ' neighborirg State for #nd { equity. ook to fairness e Finchot and tlie Farmers. Go~. Giftord Pin-hct of Penn:ylvania appeais in Missouri i the roll of (he farmers’ friend. It is (ime. he Inists in { an zddress before the Missourl Farmers® ! Aeconiatiom, that Congtess and the exee- utiva branch of the Government did | what the farmers wish them to do, not { what the city psople wish the Govern- | ment to do for the farmers. The Fed- Farm Bomid, the Pennsyliania is a “costly lemon” and | eral Governor sas, funwanted by the farme The Governer of Pennsylvania. realiz- {ing that the farmers are diseatisfied | with prices for vheat, cotton nd other | produets, in Missouri is catering to the ° | reseniment feit by the tillers of the sofl, a resentment due to the conditions which prevail not alcne in this country but throughout the woild. If Mr. | Pinchot were a candidate for the Re- publican nemination for President next year it might alm was catering to the farm vote of the areal Western States. But. of course, the Pennsylvania Governor has no such ambitions for himself. He is thinking entirely of the American farmers in this matter. And, like many other eritics of the situation in which the farmer finds himself, Gov. Pinchot lavs much of the blame for the farmers’ low prices and the high prices which the con- sumers pey for food on the backs of the middlemen. Probably the greatest atep which has ever been taken in this country-—or elsewhere—to make it possible for the farmer to obtain asking prices for his of foodstuffé due to middiemen, was the enactment of the Federal farm marketing law. creating the Federal Farm Board. The board was set up for the purpose of assisting the farmers to organize into great co-operative asso- ciations, capable of marketing in large part the crops produced by the farmers. Many of these co-overatives have been materially aided by the Parm Board. It must be obvious to the Governor of Pennsylvania, if he gives the matter full consideration, that the individual farmer capnot, as a general proposition, market his crops persomally to the consumer of foodstuffs. There must be come agency crops first to the central moarkets and then to the consumers. Yet he denounces the Federal Farm Board, set up to help the farmers help themseives in this matier, and offers no substitute other than a mere denunciation of the middlemen who act for private gain. The Governor and the middlemen are lone, however, in the'r Attacks on the | Farm Board, 1f there is one group of imen which d'slikes the Farm Board ieven more than Mr. Pinchot dislikes it. |1t is the middlemen, the grain trade and the like. The Ferm Board undertookg &s an | emergeney measure to “peg” the mar- ket and to stabilize prices of wheat and cotton by purchasing millions of |busheis and thousands of bales. Such Itactics, however, with no curtailment lof production cn the part of ths farm- ers, was bound to give only temporary | rellef and In the end to bulld up & Government-owned surplus of the: commoditizs which would react unia: orably on the prices of farm products. Because these emergency measurss un- dertaken by the board have proved & i(nilurr. It has become A habit to de nounce the Federsl Farm Board. Mr. Pinchot’s “costly lemon” comment is the latest of these attacks. As a mat- iter of fact, however, the Parm Board has baen et work bullding up the co- operative organizations in & manner | which is bearing valuible fruit for the farmers. After all, this is the great job for which the board was created. | A tearing down of the board would be | resented by thousands of the farmers. Mickey Duffy lived at one of the handscmest and most exclusive hotels excepting, possibly, that of the house detective, ———- Sir Hall Caine. Judged by all reckonings, in terms of quality. quantiiy, sincerity and indus- try, Hall Calne—with whose war-tim~ im‘e of knight the Western World { has never became familiar—was a nota- ! ble contributor to English liierature. He | made ro advances in standarcs, he in- troduced no innovations of style, he was not a prodigivus producer. But he was a conscientious craftzman, and in the history of the turn of the century, in | terms of English letters, he will always figure largely. Monday at his home on the Isle of Man, of which he was not a native, but !with which his fame is inseparably identified, Hall Caine dicd at the sge of soventy-eight. To a great many Americans he is but a memory. despite the fact that some of his works have lately found currency through the.me- dium of the motion pictures. The gen- eration that 1ead his novels has passed cn to other reading. and there is but little reprinting of those works. It is rathor a question whether, by a sliding of the scale of time. a first presentation of these stories could be effected mow ain't got nuffin’ much ‘ceppin’ 'is pride the they would gein the wide circulation ation. | ost be said that he | crops #nd to eliminate the high costs | to aid him get his| {where the service was irreproachable, ' { ¢hiefly in the mea-ure cf his individual ' i crke. He wrote his stortes on & geh- | | erous scale. They were not »s long s {the tales gf D=Morgen. which were coh- | sicersd in their time as the most liberal {of modern mearures between ecvers. A | Catne story. howsver, wes usually go A for & week of persistant reading. In point cf their number Caine's works were in truth somewhet restricted. In the course of the thirte-six yeats that spannéd hetween “The Shadow of a Crime.” his first novel, in 1885 and “The | Master of Men," his lact striztly fictional | work in 1021, there were only twelve “titles.” His ratio, therefore, was one story in three vears. a by no means ex- | | 1gent scale of producti~n. It was Hall ,Caine’s rhythm, his cadence of ereation, {best suited to his style, his method of composition, his process of conception. | Students of English letters will find ,in the works of Caine, even though they { may not now be regarded as sat'sfactory literary entertainment. the fundamen | t#1: of sound and eap1bl= craftsmanship, { The younger writers of this generaticn c°n well afford to study them. They will ! rever I2ad one a tray in matters of taste {gn« thay will serve admirably as guides | t2 good workmanship. = e ! Increasing demand is reported by the I bock Industiy. The fact offers encour- |2gement in a tims when the preblem of living becomes more thin usually com- plex. The Summer story is a mesns of keeping a considerable amount of loose |change in circulation and authorship is | instinctively turned to as a means of re- | lleving unemployment in other direc- | | tions. ———— | Summer resort police were right in | giving up efforts to supervise the ccs- !tumes of beach promeniders. The law |is just now fully occupied with the re- sponsibility of supervising the racketeers {who cfuse genuine danger and con- i tribute nothing in the way of pictur- { esqueness to the scenery. e ‘Wealth of the underworld apparently finds its favorite expression in larre | dinmonds. Emeralds and opals have been ratéed by unreatoning superstition as unlucky. The jeweiry worn by so many gun victims may vet put the diamond to some extent in the ill-omen class. - Many Americans become recipients of brilliant compliments while abroad sometimes for no particular apparent reason. It must be said for Lindbergh that he actually works hard to earn his ovations. v While away for his health the most shysical exercise. appsrently, that Mayor | Jimm: Walker gets is in the nature | of bovinz acknowledgments of applause. = o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILAMDER JOHNSON. Self-Anproval. | I's kind o' glad I's only me A-lo2fin' th'on de lazy dav. | Of en'ze T'd mébhe like to be A buttefly an’ float Away Among de blossoms fine an’ meet De breeze a-whisperin' “howdy do." I speck det life is mighty sweet I Among de flowers de Summer th'oo. An’ den ag'in T's favoring To be & ewallow swingin' light ! Acroas de sky, wif steady wing And not. s eare f'm dawn il night. A" Tit T'd pote to strive an’ stray R0 far. T snecks I'd rather be A-loafin’ th'oo de lazy day. T's kind o’ glad I's only me. A Purely Practieal Nature. “You don't care much for music? | T consider it of grest vAlue.” Te- plied Senator Sorghum. “Music enables I'a man to use his volee all he wants to ;wl'hnul risk of heing drawn into a political argument.” Placing the Responsibility. “The popular impression coneerning actors is frequently altogether mis- teken. “Yes." replied the manager: “very fow of them say all the unreasonable and extraordinary things sttributed to them by their press egen Next Year. The platforms and eardidates bold once again Some doubts from our minds will be clearing; And at last they will make it ofcially plain For whom cheering. An Uplifter. “Well,” said Mr. Stormington Barnes. “our play did not plsase the publie. But it mccomplished one very desirable thing.” “What was that?" “It discouraged the ticket speculat- ors." end just why we are . Qualified. “Why is it that so m?ny men are frankly tn favor of letting their wives vote and hold office?” “Because of the unconquerable mas- culine,” replied Miss Cayenne. “A man thinks that a woman who can manage him is equal to any test of executive ebility.” The Season of Excuse. “I've got to go and see a friend Who just arrived in town.” “A meeting big T must attend | To hold th~ kickers down.” “My desk with work is piled full high— My troubles are a shame.” 80 s°y they all. But by snd by 'You'll meet them at the game. “Pride,” sald Uncle Eben, “am er good t'ing in its place. But er mun'.ry] or er citizen is in hahd luck when he ter be proud e&” - | originating here adiancing, here succeeding. as inevitable as successes. * % oxox Now anger is not a pretty thing to watch, except when righteous variety. Theoretically, anger is the vice which moralists of all ages hdve agreed it ls. Read Plutareh Moyals” and Mon- it becomes the | taigne's “Es ays” and you will find anger { placed on & pedestal to be shot at. Bacon. in England, and Emerson, in America spake few good vords for anger. Hundreds of years before them the viee of anger stirred the thoughts of men to action, flowering 4t last in fine aragraphs in what today we call our ible. Actually. however. anger may be & di*iné spark. blowing up into a warm ! fire of reformation and righteousness. Many a practical reform in the world of men has b2en begun in anger. in the overwhelming in- dignation of some soul at abuses which he felt himsell unable to correct alone. ** % & Therefore, in a world constituted as | there be room for fear? oing backward, ' anger, although he might feel it ho less iling, so that mistakes are | than others if the causss for it were carefully explained to him through other channels, *x o ‘The best qualities of human hearts and minds induce the righteous anger of which wé speak, and of which we speak alone, having no other type in mind in this wriling. It is true. we believe, that anger often succeeds where nothing else will. This ccmes about, not only because such ire carries with it conviction to others, through its very intensity, but also— andl alas that this should b» true!— it makes afiald the object of its attack. Putting fear Into others—that is. the only way some people can be made to do the right thing, the only way some- times in_which they can be made to give up doing wrong. “The fear of God'—that is an old, old phra which has puzzied millions of hearts over the ages. G is love, as we have been told. where can But the fear | of the Lord. we also have been told, this ane is, even so evil a thing as ange: | may be put to great uscs. 1t is not possible to make an ever- lasting rule against anger, b>cause from its eiuptions have come peace at Jast. It has given way to blows, and out of blows have coime well merited punish- ments. which in turn have flowered in the amelioration of harsh_conditions The man who cannot find it in his heart to become angry over wrong is in & fair way to become glad over it. if he i= of a certain type. If he hap- pens to be of a more widely knovn variety of human being. he may become | the typical “timid soul” of the cartoons. Just 30 long as no one bothers him, he will bother about nothing else. But that was not the way of the great men of history. If you go back through the annals of all nations and look well into what made great souls great you will see that two qualities. or perhaps thiee, were mainly responsible. Great men of past ages had a passion for justice. ‘They were biave. Thev could brcome indignant. Their indig- | nation and their bravery wete part and parcel of thelr demand for justice. Those three qualities of mind and heart are still the signs of a great man although he may never achieve any- thing which-the world calls great. H> may not become famous, in the public ere. and that .Tn of thing, but he will be known to A few as A great man And perhaps he will be known as such to one man, himsell. *oxox o Righteons anger is the keynote of indignation. One must become angry at some on> or something In order to get worked up enough to Act. Anger, in its simplicity. as far as it can be analyzed profitably. is simply nature’s defense mechanism, as the psychological chatter has it. A cat cornered by a dog humps up is the beginning of wisdom, and some- now in the bottom of our secret hearts, whose depths are explored fearfully only by ourselves and are unknown to others, w2 believe those worcs to be true. We spend A lifetime reconciling the two opposites. not satisfied with the explanations of words, until the happy day when we realize that anger is part of th> composition of life divine: that proper anger is one thing, improper anger quite another: that there is a fear which is good because it is accepting. and a fear which is bad because it is a useless questioning. * W ox ‘The efficacy of righteous anger may be tried out bv any one. in deserving cases, often with amazing success. Here is some impudent young whip- per-snapper, for instance, beeause he looks ltke a man and wears a sult of clothes that he is just a little less than the finest creature ever struck off on the shores of time. Impudence is a part of his preten- sfon. He talks loudly. stares, he {s an affront to all who know him. but he is so nasty about it all that he actually frigntens many It is better to let him alone. they s But let a brave man become indig- nant’ at him, then anger flares up. and the young man is given the tongue- lashing which he has long deserved. Does he retaliate in kind? Not if there has been enough vigor in the anger directed against him. He crumples up with amazing speed, and from a braggart suddenly turns into a humble enough man. who éver there. after treats the one who was angry at him with the greatest respect It takes just this sort of anger to tame some people. and fortunate Are they when they meet the friend—fcr that is what he is—who is able to read them a great lesson in the flame of righteous anger. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS Overtures from the Hoover camp to Dwight Morrow to be the President's running mate next vear were detected in the tenor of an article of supposedly Whits House inspiration, widely pub- lished a few days ago. Vice President Curtis “will hardly be renominated” ac- cording to this Hoover spokesman “Mr. Curtis is rather an clderly man—he will be more than 73 when the next Vice President is inaugurated—no ma- jor party is likely under present-d conditions to nominate age for Vice Presiden It is sug- gested further that there is an extreme seavelty of vice presidential material in the Republican party and “it would = that Mr. Morrow should be a likely bet for the vice presidential rom- ination. assuming the Republicans are go'ng to name their best.” This hardly makes pleasant reading for Charlie Curtis. The latter has been represent- ed as undecided whether or not to take the renomination—that it was h's for the asking—but he might refuse it As for Mr. Morrow. the senatorship to take the vice presi- idency. the Republicans might lose the New Jersey seat. As for Secretary of War Patrick Hurley, who aspires to be Mr. Hoover's running mate next vear. he does t even rate a single mention in t ticle from the pen of the President’s most favored interpreter. ! % * % The tragic death of Dr. Alfred P. Dennis. m:‘mhfl of the Ui d States Tariff Commission, was a T his wide circle of friends in Washirg- ton. He was no lame-dus man, but the possessor of a scholarly mind, which marked him above the average run of his fellow men. He was one of those brilliant and devoted ex- erts in Government whose services are o little understood and appreclated by the country. His place on the commis- ston will not be easy to fill. Three of the six places on the commission now await Mr. Hoover's attention. man Henry P. Fletcher has resigned, but is holding over temporarily. The term of Linco'n Dixen, Democrat, of Indiana, appointed to the commission by the Presicdent last vear. will expire this month. The country is still wait- ing for the tariff miracles that were romised from & rejuvenated Tariff ommiss’on when the Hawley-Smoot bill was under debate. CRE The Democrats up in Massachusetts staged a field day last week. Mayor Curley of Boston announced that he was firing the opening gun “to put an- other Roosevelt In the White House.” He called on the Bay State Democracy to rally around for Roosevelt. The son of the New York Governc ' was on hand to represent his distinguished father by proxy. The presiding officer at the mesting before the speaking started presented a list of 13 Demoerats who, he said, were “available for the presidential nomination.” His 13 were as foilows: Mayor Curley, Gov. Ely and Senator Walsh of Massachu- sotts, Al Smith, Gov. Rooscvelt, Bernard if he relinquished | | troducing Chair- | to the commission at a rate that clearly indicates that this new miracle is rapidly emerging from the f periment to the stage of practical ap. plication. ' Principal laurels for the success which attached to the efforts of the Nye Committze in ferreting out Bithop Cannon'’s devious financial dealings in the 1928 campaign goes to Basil Manley. special investigator for the commitiee. Manley is best known in Washington for his directorship of the People's Legislative Service, an adjunct of the Norris-La Foliette Progressive Rgroup. Legislative Service was to expose lobby- ists and to warn of betrayals of the people’s interests by their public serv- ants. Mr. Manler has a crusader’s zeal and plenty of brains and long experience in public affairs. His serv- ices ought to be in sieady demand with the multiplicity of Senate in- vestigations. I Prof. A'b-rt Bushnell Hart, who ones ught history at Harvard And is now ¢ wita the George Washington Bi- centenial Celebration, digzing up material on (he Washiigton family ancestors. Oh the ship going d | United States h who_thinks | he curses, he | The function of the Peoples | is in England ; he certainly in all fairness dossn’t ex- inute schedules where passengers are ew &nd far between. Taxis don’t cru'se up and down the streets of Riverdale, becayse there are not many fares there. The same is true of the street rallways. The rail- ways of the District have graph charts which show the number of passengers each line carries, where they board the cars and where they leave. These charts show the need for additional or fewer cars. The cutbacks which the n@iter talks about were put theére for the express purpose of giving the center of the city the service which its density necessitates. Cars need not bs run i service is required to handle crowds downtown. ‘Washington has no center 1oop ys- tem. Practically all street railway lines here run from the outskirts ot tne ciiy through thé downtown city and cut again to the outskirts. Take the Li coln Park line, for example. fthe rush hour cars are needed to cairy ! Beople downtown from Lincoln Park to the center of town. From the cent of town there is no rush and very lite business. Therefore cars are switched !back at Connecticut avenue and § street to the center of town so0 as to assist the regular service from George- town in the densely settled ares. It is again important to remember { that no_other nsit system in the the whole brunt ol the load forced on it at one particular tire, namely, § am. and 0 pm. The { rush in New York City covers a three- hour period, thus avolding a huge peak !load such ‘as occurs here when the | Government dismisses its employes. A< {for the schedule of cars, I rode th- street cars for years, catching the same car st the same time each and every morning and very seldom grriving late | or getting off schadule. If you will ride |in an auto down the street in the o] i posite direction to which the street cars are carrying the morning or evening rush you will see the regulariiy of schedule. Let the writer try this on Fourteenth street or Georgia avenue or 'even on East Capitol street. Mr. Allen should also keep in mind in referring to the Potomac Electric Power Co. the well known principle ! which all students of municipal govern- ment know, namely, that all public utilities should and must b Tonopolies The reason the “Pepco” is prosperous | 18 because it has the fleld to itself— i there is no competition. It i* & monop- toly. With the street cars this is not 50, there being six distinct railway lines | and five bus lines in and around Wash- ington all in competition. The street railways are losing passengers not £o | much besguse of the high fares, but because of the unregulated taxi competition and mostly beza privately owged automobiles. The tazi. | the bus and sae private car all cost as much. snd wsually much more. than the street ra lway fare. Why expect the street car companies to furnish good service at no ceet? PAUL D. GABLE. ——————— Forecast of Socialism | To the Editor of The Star: ‘This fear of certain interests that the “dole” will come to exist in the United | States is laughablie. we have had the “cole” for these many vears. Th= tariff is a dole; the outright gift by the States and National Government i in years grne by of millions of acres of M. ; American land for rights of wi ;railroads was a dole: the Harding ad ministration asked for a dole for the | American merchant marine (but failed {10 get it); and many other instances | can be cited to the same effect. Of course the English dolé is merely for the protection of the poor under the capitalist system: under socialism doles will not be necessary. since the Government. will control its owh money system (insiead of abdicating in faver of the big bankers): the Government | will also control and operaté for pub- | lic use the means of production and distribution, whereas now such indus- tries are operated for profit, and when | profit ceases the industries shut down | and cepression inevitably resuits. | The time has come when we must produce for use and not for profit, as the capitalist system has become too chaotic and destructive to be longer over, according to a tale brought back | tolerated. That is wWhy the dole is now to the Capital, Prof. Hart gave a lecture ington family tree. In in- im the chairman explained that Dr. Hart desired to have “The Star Spangled Banner” playad before he be- gan his talk. No one volunteered and ther> was a long delay while the ships pianist was loeated and dragged into music. It same picc~. Tt did not go so well, Wwas a British ship. L The 10-year controversy respecting the sort of monument to adorn the arave of the unknown soldier 2t Arling- ton National Cemetery is settled at Iast. The unimptessive plain white slab which has been viewed by millions, and on whici countless Aoral tributes have been lnid was originally intended to serve only as a base for a shaft or plilar. Division of opinion over the de- signs of that charact~r brought long impass=. Now an impiessive marbls sarcophagus is to mark the tomb. A | single solid block of marble weighing 50 tons was quarried in Vermont and is en route to Washington on & specially | constructed railway car. Thomas Hast- ings of New York, world famous archi- tect who designed the ampitheater and who submitted varicus designs for the unkneyn soldier's tomb, did not live to ses its completion. (Copsright. 1931.) ——— Holds U. S. Salary Cut Would Cause Suffering To the Editor of The Star: In your fesue of August 26. under the caption, “Favors United States Wage Baruch and Owen D. Young of New Cut.” Representative Harold McGugin York, Newton D. Baker, Senators Car- ter Glass, Pat Harrison, Joe Robinson | introduce into next Congres of Kansas is cited threatening to a bill necessary, but it would not be for long. In Engiand the dole is likely to be abolished. and the result will be gen- uine socialism, which has become in- evitable in England, as it has already become 5o in Austria. The new Soeial- ist adminiztration of Vienna hes taken Planist was Jocated and dragged Info. over all public utilities and is operating At the end of hit lecture Dr.| Hart requested his audience to sing the | them for “use” of the people, arid for the “profit” of a few. e 8. R. RANDELL. ) Hard Winter Is Ser; | As Tortoises Fatten To the Fditor of The Star: Of all the weather prognosticators, the common land tortoise is the most reliabie, accerding to my own observa- tion of their habits from year to A And he is prophesying an unusually severe Winter for us this coming season, Scoff if you will. but the very.fact they are foraging after food with ex- treme vigor and haste in order to grow fatter and fatter. so they will have plenty of flesh to draw sustenance from duting their long Winter sleep, is a sure indication of a long. cold Winter with plenty of ice and snow. If you run across any during a walk through nearby woodl: just notice how the fat puffs out between their shells as if they had gorged themselves to the bursting point. Instinct has warned them to be especially prepared this season, and old tortoise is surely heed- ing the warning. While I am writing T want to put in a plea for the protection of these harm- |less reptiles. Motorist. when you see on® pulling his awkward ]wkln{ carcass across the road, avoid running over him if you can. He's a harmliess, slow going, good-natured fellow; put on this old earth for man’s benefit. The amount of destructive insects the tortoise in- | cludes in his diet will pay for his and Tom Walsh of Montana, Gov.|"lling for a cut of 25 per cent on all!protection. Ritchie of Maryland. The Curley- Roosevelt move was the Boston mayor's way of kicking in the shins Messrs. Walsh and Ely, with whom he has only an armed truce. Senator have favored an unpledged con- ventlon delegation from Massachusetts. or a favorite-son pledge, which would amount to the same thing. ok % x ‘The Federal Radio- Commission, after a two-momth recess, is swinging back into action this week. It faces a heavy docket of accumulated cases. Its burdens and responsibilities in radio | | The Governor and | tion of regulation become increasingly comp'ex. | Broadcesting is no longer a g>m2 bui a glant industry, and a keenly com- | petitive one for rich stakes. Most im- portant of the manifold problems of the commission at the moment is that of high power. Maximum power of £0,000 watts is sought by two dozen stations, The commission has delayed b decision for a year. lor elective, appointive officers and em- Dployes of the Federal Government. I am not at this time taking issue with the Representative beyond 2 cita- e inevitable result. A cut of 25 per cent from the average wage of the Government clerk, with no corre- sponding reduction in living cost, in- stead of reducing_ suffering will logi- cally increase euffering, spreading it over a far wider area. ‘Th2 object of this writing, however, is to lulfcst to the gentleman care should be taken to have his cover his own salary and that of his colleagues: in fact, all salaries of serv- ants of the Government from the Presi- dent down. Moreover, in order that true economy and justice may obtain, to cut also from congressional salaries the more than 30 per cent increase ( sum, to each, 50 per cent greater tha the entire salary of the average Gov: ernment clerk) which Congress grant. ed to its members and which with few Applications | exceptions was cheerfully accepted at television stations are coming in (s time when the Government clerks that bilY And you, boys, don't poke and torture these defenseless little creatures. Their very hardihood prolongs their agony. Be kind to them and move them out of danger if you see them cress frequented roads. They should be considered along with other little woodland creatures as your friends. Civilization will eliminate them soon enough around here. In the meantime it will entail no great sac- rifice on your part to protect them , When possible. WM. T. W. GRAVES. R Woree Than War. From the San Antonio Evening News. The biggest iree in the world is named Gen. Sherman. Could it speak, doubtless it would say that a forest fire is—worse than war. e ———— were finding it very difficult, a {.n, ‘me.v.aoun-p:‘::ezzfluhm. to ee w A " G. W. IRVING. pect the street raflways to furnish cne- ' over & long suburban route wher ti-eir | For the United States in | wi A. When the rllnflroa are quite Jar| as they are near the beginni® g of cer- taln showers, they fall into a body of water with sufficlent f-rce to drag after {air, which are entra; by the closin, | water above. These bubbles are small and often do not break immediately. | They break when struck by a raindrop, fio0 Snmiants later, even when not struck, { Q. TIs the Apcstie's Creed in the Bible’—E. M. A It is not. declal it dates back to the fourth century. Q. What cities in England outside of | London had lcrd mavors more than 40 | vears ago?—G. W. H. | A, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristo), | Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Neweastle, Norwich, Sheffield and York. It is & compilation or Q. | speech in which he said “Let us have '?"3« that right makes might"?—C. in 1860. ity has mere peo- ple—Moscow or Leningrad?—S. C. Moscow has 2,154,700 inhabitants, vding to Soviet' figures, and Lenin- rad 1,676,800, ! Q What is President von Hinden- burg's :alary>—W. L. G. A. It is sl.ghtly more than $10,000 a year and in addition there is an allow- | ance for representati-n of about §30,000. | @ Are bisque dolls made in this | country?—J. G. i A. All doils cf domestic manufacture lare today made of an unbreakable com- | pos tion. which is entirely separate and { Gis'inct from the bisque dolls, which are | £till imp-ried, although to a very much !lesser extent, into this country. Q. Is an elk a deer’—M. A. The elk is a member of the deer family. | Q. When were woman nurses first in general use in United States Army hos- | pitals>—0. K. D. | A. The Army Nurcing Corps says | th in the Spanish-American War woman nurses were first used in the © | Army hospitals. These nurses were un- | der contract to the Government. Dr. Anita Neweomb McGee, & contract { surgeon, was appointed superintendent of the Army Nursing Corps. It wa mainly through her efforts that corps was orgenized and became & pari of the United States Army in 1901. Q. Is the present Hebrew alphabet the original cne?—J. Z. A. It is not the original. which probably derived from the Fhoenician, but probably is the one derived from the ancient Aramaic. Q. Where did American pioneers get their salt>—R. S. { A. In Colonial days in this country them. as small pebbles do, bubbles of | tion of faith. In its present form | Where did_Lincoln make the | | @ Was the bayonet used before 1812?—L. E. B. | _A. Bayonets were used as early as | 1647. They consisted of a steel dagger fixed in a wooden haft which fitied into the muzzle of a musket. The bayonet became the typical weapon of the in- fantry. In 1805 Sir John Moore intro- duced a bayonet fastened to the mus- ket by a spring clip. The triangular bayonet (so called from the cross-sec- tion of its blade) was used in the Brit- ish Army until the introduction of the magazine rifie, when it was replaced by the sword bayonet. ?. KHG" long have shoes been worn? A. The sandal, the earliest and sim- | plest shoe, was known by the most grlmim-e réces and was certainly worn y the ancient Egyptians. The Hittites wore shoes, cften with gaiters above tn protect the ankle and calf of the leg. Q. How many teaching hours do high 4ehool teachers have?—M. E. A. Five hours A Aay is the average number of hours required for teaching ln‘ehi[n schools. This time varies, how- ever. Q. When was wrestler, awarded belt?—G. E. K. A. In Jun-~, 1830, th~ National Box- ing Commission awarded him the title heavyweight champion of the world and sent him ths belt significant of the champlonship. | i | = im the Londos. the champlonship Q. In what direction did the center of populztion of the United States move in the last decade?—T. S. A. It hes moved 22.3 miles westward and 7.6 miles soutahward. It iz now 31 miles southeast by east of Tere Haute, nd. [ o2 Jmy ts ivory so often elaborately A use of its fine and close xture, its homogeneousness ve hardncss. its lack of brit- ts excellont wearing qualities, bsence of any tendency to chip y, ivory is an exccllent substance Its smooth even grain and the coherence of its particl lend 8 fine surface for the engraver's art and the material lasts a long time. Q. Which is the oldest royal residence in the world>—B. R. E Windzor Castle is ti |oldest royal residence. Windsor was |a residence of the Saxon Kings before { the Conquest. their palace being at old | Windsor. William the Conqueror chose the present built a castle there, which was taken down and the present one built in the time of Edward IL This has since been extended and com. pletely renovated. Q. What stroke is used in swimming under water>—E. W. A. A form of the breast it eommonly used in underwater swimming. With some few exceptions. American opinions on Franklin D. Roosevelt's in- ependence in connection with the in- vestigation of corruption in New York City appear to incicate additional sup- | port for him as - a‘ Democratic candi- dnte for President. There is speculs- tion as to New York's influence in the national convention and in the election of next year, with some comment con- ceding that he may need the support of TAmmany Hall in the coming na- { tional campaign. A Assuming that there is “a break” be- tween Roosevelt and Tammany, the Lynchburg News states that “one obstacle to the Roosevelt boom through- out the country been his relations with Tammany” and that “whatever the result, the break is a badge of honor for Roosevelt: it shows him up as a Governor doing his duty in tre face of powerful opposition.” The News s to the ruzu;-e: "Wr‘w_:_ He may the opep defection of Tammeny he may gein By the love engendered for him elsewhere by these enemies he Fas made. tween the two, it were a bold person who undertook to say just what it is. The Charlotte Observer holds that “un- doubtedl” the Governor is seeking. rather than to tie to Tammany, he will break the tie that binds.” “Gov. Roosevelt'’s handling of the special session of the Le; lature,” ac- cording to tbe Newark Evening News, “leaves him in good position. He has done the correct thing with both the Republican and Democratic proposals. He cannot be accused of allying him- self with Tammany nor of dealing un- justly with the Republicans. Pol itical traps have been laid all along his path and he has evaded tbem.” That his course has added to his reputation throughout the country is the opinion | of the Cherleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail, {the Rock Island Argus. the Lincoln State Journal and the Springfield (Mass.) Union. * * nated for President bv a Demoeratic National Convention, laughing at the threats of the Tiger.” suggests the Mad- !ison Wisconsin State Journal. The Louisville Courier-Journal declares that “there is no war; the Tiger is at bay and snapping at everybody in sight. That paper also comments: “If Tam- many & as innocent as it professes to be, the Governor is performing a friend- 1y service, aiding in its exoneration by providing _the legislative committee every facility for revealing how purc Tammany is, Fow public-spirited its ad- ministration. He compliments the or- ganization by the assumption of its guiltlessness.” “Tammany s angry,” says the Phil- ria#Evening Bulletin, “but its -nges és an asset to the Governor, es- pecially In his quest of national honors from his party. The action of the Dem- ocratic legislative leadership in seeking to identify the whole party in the Stat> with_the protection of Tammany graft is shortsighted. The Governor has shown sense as well as courage in tak- ing chances on Tammany sabotaging of his ambitions in order to meet the justi- n‘:: ‘expectations of the State and Na- “There are many who believe,” ob- serves the Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post, “that Gov. Roosevelt's friends have advised a break with Tammany on th: theory that it would make him more acceptable to the delegates from other sections, especially the South. While 90 votes are a lot, the South, after all, has a great many more than that. Perhaps their thought 1s that if they can suc- ta ceed in nominating Roosevelt as an | anti-Tammany New Yorker, they can manage to patch up the difference witn ‘Tammany between the convention and the election.” * ko % “It is widely felt.” avers the Hart- ford Times, “that a candidate's friend« ships in the ‘wigwam’ are just so much ight around his political necl . Omaha World-Herald concluds ‘No Demogratic candidate, as a matter of fact, can relish the enmity of Tam- 1t there i a margin be- | if it is political advantage | “Tammany Hall may see him nomi- Tammany Battle Declared . Vital Force for Roosevelt !many. William J. Brvan himself cried, ‘Great is Tamany. and Croker is its prophet!" But Bryan. had the occasicn | come. had the line been drawn. would have acted incisively and instantly, just | as Roosevelt has done. Gov. Roosevelt has proved his mettle. if anv proof were needed. And Tammany hostility, | whether openly displaved or secretly | voked, will strengthen rather than weaken him. the same as it strengt! ened Sa! J. Tilden and Grover Cleveland.” The Jersey City Journal advises that “worse things can happen to Gov. Roosevelt than to have the | Tammany legions snarling at the Rooseveit heels in the 1932 convention.” Charging that the Roosevelt action has been taken “in a routine and per- functory wav.” the New York Herald Tribune aserts: “He takes pains to detach himself entirely from any re- | sponsibility for the initiation. of the | New York City investigation or for re- | sults which may follow the enlargement |of the Hofstadter committee’s powers. | The impression conveyed. and which he {may have intended to convey to Tam- | many. is that of an executive who_takes | action because he just has to. There is no indignation over conditions which | have demanded the inquiry, no expres- | sion of satisfaction over the outlook for | curbing a predatory system. The Gov- ernor ignores the opportunity spe- | cifically to ally himself with the forces of good government. It is all very im- personal and ministerial.” “Tammany has returned.” in the | judgment of the Roanoke World-New: “to be what it had been in former years —a_political organization operated for | profit_only. Although now wholly at | outs with the present Tammany lead- | ership, his former affiliation with Tam- many makes impossible the second | nomination of former Gbv. Smith. Tt may make impossible the election of | Gov. Roosevelt. greatly as has his break with Tammany and his courageous course In calling the special legislative session raisad him in the eyes of the country at large." Taking note of the fact that Tam- many claims it is persecuted, the Ann Arbor Drily News sees the viewpoint “from which a fight for decent govern- ment can be interpreted only in terms of partisan enmity.” and adds: “That viewpoint. unfortunately, is not con- fined to Tammany. It exists, in greater or lesser degree. in every active political organization. It is. more than any- thing else, the one great obstacle to gu;.gd government in the United States A | Stricken China Makes | Worthy Plea for Aid From the Milwackes Sentinel. | Thivty million humsan beings home- {less, and of these unfortunates ten | million destitute. | The news that comes out of China staggers the imegination. Is there no end to the woe inflicted upon the long- suffering population? As wars, | arigandage and famine were not enough, at least three great rivers of the central | provinces have made lakes of city sites, | seas of vast areas. . | "To make matters more hopeless for stricken hordes, their pitiful cry comes at a time when the world has troubles of it own, hoping for the means to sure vive the coming Winter in the midst of depression. Misery should make ra- | tions more sympathetic, but succor is | apt to begin at home. | If ever human heart should be stirred (it is now. It should be a matter of ride to us that in spite of distress at e the American Red Cross has al- ready allotted $100,000 for victims of the Chinese floods. Let the spirit of | giving move those who have a surplus to generous impulses. In a world so sorely tried as at present. it should be & | glad burden of the richly blessed to snare with their feHow men. - hat Cuba Doesn’t Need. Prom the Oakland Tribune. It can't he that what needs a good 5-cent cigar! Hiw - -