Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1931, Page 8

. THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. . .September 3, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company iness Office: Rate by Carrier Within the City. Star. a7y e .46¢c per month L mf.’m per month B viien 5 Sundays) -.-.......6s¢ per month day Sta o per o n 3 V8. per copy | ‘ollection made at the end of ‘each month. srca-u Tay ‘be sent in by mail or telephone Ational $000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ily and Sunday.....1yr..$10.00: 1mo., 85c | iy only .. s ay only . . $6.00: 1 mo., 50c 155 $400; 1 mo.. 40c All Other States and Canada. x4 Sunday...1 yr. $12.00: 1 mo.. $1. E" Saly 1ye Fia000 1 mo. ' n n 1yr. $5.00; 1mo. B 20 oc ay only - 00 N kingdom Slovenes. Passing away a little less than three years after the armistice, his title descended to his second son, Alex- ander, whose elder brother, George, had renounced the right of succession, Alexander Kara-Georgevitch has given the triple-titled kingdom as good an administration as couid be expected in that difficult composite of natlonal- itles. For seven and a half years he had to cope with the conflicting claims of the three elements of the kingdom for domination in the parliameutary government. ‘Then on the 6th of January, 1929, he too. i..atters into his {own hands and declared a royal dic- tatorship, which has now lasted a little more than two and a half years. His industry, sagacity and adroitness of ad- Justment have effected the reconcili- ation of these elements to the point where & return to parliomentary gov- ernment has become possible. It was expected that he would celebrate his tenth anniversary of accession’ August 16 by renouncing the dictatorship. A Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is exclusively ertitied o the use for republication of all news d dited to it or not otherwise cr aper and also the local news in hts of publization of atches hi 1so reserved. e = More Gas Deals. 1t is a queer sort of bargain that the Central Public Service Corporation of Ilinois offers the Public Utilities| Commiasion. In effect, it amounts to & promise to quit extracting certain profits from the Washington gas companies and to give up certain plans and moneys, provided the Public Utllitles Commis- sion agrees to permit the Washington gas companies to pay the Central Pub- lic Service Corporation some of the bills already rendered, payment of which was stopped by the Public Utilitles Commis- sion. ‘The bargain is & queer one in more ways than one. The assessments against the Washington gas companies, which are really assessments against the gas consumers of Washington, are, justified or they are not. If they are justified, representing hard money paid for serv- ices rendered, and the relationship be- tween the Illinols company and the Washington company is & legal rela- tionship, permitted by law, then the moneys should be paid. If the assessments are not justified, #f they represent manipulations of charges and fees of one sort or snother for which there is no warrant, and if the relationship between the Wash- ington companies and the Illinois cor- poration is contrary to law and illegal, they should not be paid. If the Illinols corporation is willing to surrender a fee or a charge of $68,500 assessed against the Washing- ton companies in return for the pay- ment of certain other sums, it is seek- ing to drive a bargain for some purpose. Either the $68,500 was unjustified in the first place or the bargain expected as the price of giving it up will be more | profitable. If a four-cent “service” charge per thousand cubic feet of nat- ural gas was justified in the first place, 1t is still justified. If it is eliminated, there is some very good reason for its| elimination that is not apparent on the surface. If the management of the District gas light companies by the Illinois corporation costs the local com- panies as high as $100 a day for the hire of an expert who concludes, after lengthy investigation, that the District #as companies should buy their coal and their stationery from the Illinois corporation or its subsidiarles, it is an expensive management that the Wash- ington companies should be ordered to | forego as an unnecessary luxury, regard- less of the Iilinois corporation's stipula- tions regarding the terms under which it is willing to withdraw from such management. ‘The Public Utilities Commission need not concern itself with offers and bar- gains from the gas companies, It is in & position to fix rates, to approve or dis- approve certain expenditures, to enforce the law regarding ownership and con- trol of the local companies, and to ob- tain testimony regarding such ownership and control. ‘The Public Utilities Commission seems already to have reached a position | where it can save the gas consumers of | ‘Washington several thousands of dol- lars, by preventing the payment of cer- | tain fees and charges by the local com- panies. As a result of this present in- quiry the gas consumers of Washington expect even a more tangible saving, effected through a reduction in rates. ‘The consumers are beginning to under- stand some of the things they pay for in their gas bills, i e It has been pointed out that the high- | powered car as well as the gun are common features of racketeering. Au- thoritles would find conditions much easier to manage if records of gun ownership were kept With the same | close and reliable detall as the records | pertaining to automobiles. i e s Alexander of Yugoslavia. Alexander of Yugoslavia is going about the king business in a highly intelligent manner. He is In command of & dif- | ficult combination cf peoples, the very | - title of his kingdom, that of the Serbs, | Croats and Slovenes, indicating the | peculiar nature of his position. He is | himself a Yugoslav, the head of the | house of Kara-Georgevitch, which dates | back for a century and a quarter of | Serblan disputation and travail. He is | the fourth of that house fo rule in: Serbia, and the second to rule over the ! amalgamated state of the united south- | ern Slavs, or “Yugoslavs.” i Alexander’s father, Georgevitch, was in exile when in June, | 1903, he was summoned to take the | throne that had been violently vacated by the assassination of the worthless Alexander Obrenovitch, against whom an army cabal rose in murderous wrath after he had disgraced himself and his country by his immoralities. Peter was then nearly sixty years of age, and did not greatly relish relinquishment of his comfortable, agreeable life in Paris for the tribulations of the Serbian mon- archy.' He was rather a pathetic figure at Belgrade, especially when eleven years later the Great War started, with Serbia as the storm center. There is nothing more sorrowful in all the an- + nals of kingship than the spectacle of the venerable ruler fleeing from his Peter Kara- slight delay has occurred. Yesterday Alexander assembled a reconstructed cabinet at the palace at Belgrade and presented a new constitution to the ministers, the new administrative or- ganization consisting of ten Serbs, two Croats, two Slovenes and one Bosnian Moslem. The theory upon whica the new or- ganization is based is that the three Slav tribes, united under the crown, are raclally one—that there are no longer Croats, Serbs and Slovenes, but only Yugoslavs. It remains to be seen whether this hypothesis will withstand the stress of ancient jealousles and conflicting aspirations. It is highly important to the peace of Europe that “Yugoslavia” should be tranquil. In- ternal strife there would be dangerous. Alexander's administration, thus far so successful despite the difficulties that led to the dictatorship of 1939, is a factor for stability in the Balkans, the | powder magazine of the Old World. ———— v The Peace of Rome. Compromise, conciliation and co- operation seem to be of the essence of European life in this troubled year of 1931. And s0 it s in accord with the fitness of things that Mussolini and the Pope have come to an agreement over questions that have agitated Rome for the past three months, The controversy over “Catholic Action” Clubs, which were summarily closed by the Fascist police in May, ends with their re-open- ing under conditions mutually satisfac- tory to the Itallan government and to the Vatican. ‘The clubs, comprising half a million youths of the Catholic faith, will be per- mitted to refunction, but as purely re- ligious and educational organizations. Their members are required to desist from athletic activities, which “Il Duce” reserved as the exclusive prerogative of youthful Black Shirts. Primarily, and above all else, “Catholic Action” Clubs renounce any and all semblance of po- litical purpose, nor may they invade the trade union or syndical fleld. Their one { and only flag is to be the flag of Italy. With Italy's overwhelmingly pre- | ponderant Roman Catholic population, 1t goes without saying that the Fascist party is made up to a very large extent of members of the faith. Under the agreement reached at Rome yesterday the condition is automatically re-estab- lished whereby Italians may belong both to “Catholic Action” Clubs and to the all-powerful political organization which owes allegiance to Mussolinl. To this extent the Vatican appears to have scored-a considerable victory. Early in the controversy the Fascist high com- mand declared that membership in the two organizations was incompatible. Osservatore Romano, official Vatican newspaper, describes the accord as one “which will cheer all Catholics of the world.” Coincidentally it is understood that Premier Mussolini will take early occasion to visit Pope Pius in Vatican City and by that token place the high seal of Italian approval upen the new pact. The concordat and Lateran ac- cord of last year were supposed to have lald the definite foundations of peace between the Fascist government end the Holy See. The violent clashes which ushered in the feud, now hap- pily suppressed, indicated that further agreements were required if that peace was to be of enduring character. These have now been achieved. It is probably not expected on either side that all the hot words and recrim- inations exchanged while the quarrel was in' progress will be forgotten, but there is at least now every sign that | Italo-Papal relations have entered upon a new phase of friendliness and mutual | toleration. From the banks of the Tiber | has thus come, at a timely moment, an example which will hardly be lost upon other powers, just assembled once again at Geneva in conference on ways and means for extracting the gunpowder from the European situation. N The sums of money controlled by | Bangsters are unquestionably enormous. Fortunately they still represent only a very small fraction of the world'’s wealth and offer no support for anarchistic theorizing to the effect that capitalism is drifting into the control of the un- derworld. e “Russia has been misunderstood,” says G. Bernard Shaw. Having in the brief time permitted to an after-dinner speech explained the Einstein theory, Mr. Shaw may find it easy with pages of print at his disposal to explain Russia. — ot —————— Candidates. Just whether it is the prevailing un- employment situation that works as & cause cannot be definitely de- termined, but there is in evidence an unusual willingness on the part of the citizens to take public of- fice, and it may be that the business depression is responsible for the large number of candidates who are filing their claims for preferment. There are three cases just now in evidence. No less than thirteen Republican candidates have announced their desire to be nomi- nated to succeed the late Representative Vincent of the eighth Michigan district. No mention is made in the dispatches of the Democratic aspirants for nomina- tion. Perhaps they are not so numer- ous, the eighth district being tradition- ally Republican by a large margin. Then, over in Alexandria, where there capital with the remnants of his army in the great retreat in Winter south- ‘ward, sitting on an ammunition truck heavily swathed against the bitter cold of the Balkans. He survived the war and Teturned to head the newly, created ¢ is a vacancy at the head of the police force, there are between twenty-five and thirty applications on file before the Municipal Councll, the number causing some embarrassment to the city fathers, who must soom, however, Then in Arlington County, which is ad- | jacent, some forty-five names have been registered in the contest for the election of five supervisors, an average of nine aspirants for each possible posi- tion. ‘There may be more than forty- five before the lists are closed today. ‘This, is & good sign, apart from the question of whether there is an eco- nomic stress to account for the desire for public place.. It shows a willing- ness on the part of the people now in private life to serve their communities, and in the case of the Michigan repre- sentativeship, their 'State and the Na- tion. It is a wholesome situation. There is no stagnation when the will- ingness to work for the common wel- fare is so general. The stipends of these offices are not.so large as to form a tempting lure. Of course, there is & rather wide spread between the sal- ary of a one-fifth membership on a board of county supervisors and that of a member of the House of Repre- sentatives. Perhaps in Michigan the salary factor is an inducement. In Arlington County certainly there can be no such stimulant to the aspira- tions of the people. Indeed the super- visorships of Arlington County, 1t would seem, are being sought for the highly commendable purpose of public service. Surely in that community there should be only the difficulty of selection between excellent material in giving the county a model administra- tion. e Prohibition chiefs are regarding pald | informers with constantly growing dis- favor. The paid informer has consclence of & sort which inclines him to tell as big a story as possible in order that he may seem to be earning his pay. ——— Investigation of crime is not an easy task despite the fact that crime at present makes no apparent effort to conceal anything, excepting the precise identity of a killer. This is haughtily regarded as nobody’s business., e e If the jobs of whitewashing which it is predicted will be undertaken in vari- ous large citles called for literal use of pail and brush, there would be money in & trust to control the Nation's sup- Fly of lime. ————— A gang system of soclety grows gro- tesquely horrible as it becomes more and more like a comic opera turned to tragedy. It is now the lord high execu- tioner who holds the center of the stage. | ————— Airplane travel has made all nations near nelghbors. Borrowing among neighbors is, as every village resident knows, a custom that requires to be regulated with great tact. ——— vt Killers have become so bold that an assassination may yet be staged in & manner to give actual realism to one of the scenarios exploiting the underworld. s mo—— Industry is expected to do its best! this year to celebrate Labor day by rendering available the greatest possi- ble number of jobs. e Another reason for regarding Al Ca- pone as smarter than most gang rulers is that he has lived longer. ———— | SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Deserving of Consideration. Bow to the boast of the self-made man Defying nature in all its plan! The oak ere it grows to its sturdy height Depends on the soil and the rain and | light; The river that flows to the mighty deep Is fed by the streams on the hillside steep; The flower that blooms and the ripening | grain, Were the sun shut out, would reach forth in vain, And the cubs in the wildest creature’s lair ‘Would die in a lack of sheltering care. But the self-made man apart doth dwell, The work of some strange, spontaneous spell, ‘With never a memory in his mind Of help in the days that are left behind; No friendly hint when the luck ran slow, No timely aid when the cash was low. He has missed & lot in the strife and stress Where he conquers in splendid lonell- ness. Let him clalm such happiness as he can— Defer to the boast of man! the self-made An Inoperative Adage. “Politics makes strange bedfellows.” “Not out our way,” rejoined Senator Sorghum. “When a man gets into poli- tics there he doesn't have time to sleep.” A Question of Depth. “Beauty,” sald the ready-made philos- opher, “is only skin deep.” “I can't agree with you,” said the positive man. “If beauty were meas- ured by that standard the rhinoceros would be one of the most charming ani- mals.” A Word From the Roadside. Never min’ dat railroad. Never min’ dat ship. Yoh uncle he des g'ineter walk ‘When he go on a trip. Wheels kin keep a-buzzin’ An’ pass me on de street, But I keeps movin’ on my way, I's thankful foh my feet. Stokin’ up de ingine. Flyin’ th'oo de air. Folks is des’ like bullets An’ you dodge 'em everywhere. In spite of his inventions His comfort ain’ complete; White man's usin’ up his brains A-savin’ of his feet. An Innocent Surmise. “What is this?” said the quiet man. “Why,” replied the boastful person, “you ought to know what that is. It's & golf club.” “I thought from the marvelous storles I have heard of your game that it might be one of those Ananias clubs we read of so frequently.” “We allus magnifies de importance of our own doin’s,” said Uncle Eben. “A man wif s funny story on his mind imagines dat everybody ought to stop work and listels" of the Serbs, Oroats and|face the isue and make a selection.] THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Rain is as natural as sunshine, and sometimes twice as welcome. 1t 1s only when we come to be over- clvilized that we find a rainy day un- pleasant. People in tune with life, as it were, seldom express dissatisfaction with rain- fall, but rather welcome it as the re- verse of the medal. ‘The water comes down in accordance with natural law. The same law, as ap- {)Iud to the mind, demands that one ike what is, if at all possible. ‘There are many natural events which the mind of man cannot find pleasant. It is, therefore, all the more pleasing, in the face of this impossibility, to find good in such things as rainstorms, * K ok % ‘The person who possesses what we like to think the right attitude toward raify days will never be too busy to stop to watch the phenomenon. Perhaps a bit of the wholesome juve- nile has stuck in his character. It is not good to put away too thoroughly the thoughts of childhood. If one is going to be & prophet, or something, perhaps it is just as well, but most of us are not going to be so serious. Rain occuples a large part in the fic- tion of childhood. Fairy and other tales are filled with it. The great drops beat down on gray slate roofs and pour out rainspouts. In the gutters of childhood's books children sail paper boats. Such pic- tures, of course, come to us mostly from our European ancestors, because few American children sail paper boats in gutters, * ok kX Fictlon of a larger growth uses rain as a mainstay, a sort of picture back- ground for a certain melancholy of the mind and action. It is an cld and booky trick, but one which never fails to make its mark on the mind of the reader. Somehow he accepts the fact that a storm impends at the time some crisis is about to take place in the narrative. 1t seems highly appropriate that Nature should in some way take cognizance cf the moods of these, her creatures. In real life we gsk no such conni- vance on the part of the universal mother. There are sunny days and rainy days, gloomy days and bright days, following each other with no par- ticuler rhyme or reason, but only as the result of certain obscure factors which happen to hlrpzn 0. It 13 just as well. The barometric “highs” and “lows” and the cold winds from the Arctic regions belcng to the unknown quantities, amid the great bulk of phenomena to which names are given without any real understanding of the eternal why. * X k% Rains must be met by mankind phy slcally as well as mentally. No doubt the physical is the most important end. Modern man dces not | welcome & good sousing on the public | streets. He invented the umbrella to | escape the impromptu shower. He has raincoats at his command, ! Shoes are made as watertight as pos- | sible, and rubber overshoes are in order, ‘ all to help him escape the too impetuous incoming of the elements. Sidewalks are made elevated from | street and gutters for the same end.| There are covered entrances to theaters | and stores: private homes have pro- tected doorways; bulldings of all sorts have good roofs and footings. A human being has little chance of welcoming rain, mentally, if he is not | prepared physically to meet it. This means that his health must be fair, and his house waterproof. There are few home anncyances greater than a leaky | roof. Often such leaks are tiny affairs, | but let in water enough. Their detec- | tion and repair is sometimes a matter of | good fortune, rather than expert ability. Often a couple of coats cf good paint will find and’seal a small leak in siding | ‘which rt % hlt.w roofmen could not manage EE Roofs with plenty of “pitch” to them shed water better than fatter roofs, es- pecially when there is wind behind the rain. A wind-swept downpour can get back under shingles and cause leaks where rains twice as heavy but straight down cause no trouble at all. ‘The intelligent detection of faults in construction, and their proper and ade- Quate remedy, is & delight to the mind which does nct quibble about a few pen- nles spent. To listen to some people talk one would think that a house ought ':w:l;en:l:lu keep at all, but it u’com- ige among_persons of ex- Renence that there have been few ouses ever built without some need of fixing up afterward. Once repaired, the house is stronger than new. During the big rain of 1928 water came through the brick walls of certain houses, whereas other homes bullt by the same builder were im- mune. It just happened that way. Bricks are a study all their own, and the question of absorption versus non- :nb::muonml:l Interei‘th\ul one. Brick say that a perfectly impervious brick s not so good as a brick which will absorb a small amount of water all The latter brick will dry out when the rain stops, but if there happens to be a slight crack in an impervious brick, the water will enter, and it will never come out again. it is why some walls are damp, L The mental attitude toward rains is no less important than the physical, if e is to get the most out of the dally e. It is possible, of course, to pay no attention to the matter of rain, any more than one gives consclous atten- tion to the fact that it may happen to be a nice sunshiny day. We have no quarrel at all with those persons who adopt this attitude toward those things in life which are outside the control of mankind. It is true that man has no word to say about Wwhether it shall rain or not, or just | when autumn will descend. or how lonj Winter will last, or whether 1932 have a normal rainfall or not. ‘To regard such matters as entirely outside the interest of mankind is ask- |ing too much, and we submit that the city man or woman who may not have to have any direct interest in them, as & matter of earning a living, is yet missing something by not being inter- ested in them as matters of fact. That the majority of human beings do take this interest is shown very well by tvo factors. one, the weather fore- casts, printed daily on the first page of newspspers throughout the land, and, two, the use of the weather as con- versational material. * x ok k One often hears talk of the weather depreeated as banal, but what other toplc can be better attempted by two peorle who do not know each other very well? It always has seemed to us that the weather, as a conversation theme, is one of our very best. The majority of man- kind should and do bless it, rather than laugh at it. It is, indeed, so perfectly mormal a subject for conversation that those curiously misguided people who some- how have the idea that anything nor- mal is wrong tend to sneer at it, as beneath their sophistication. The truth is, rather, that as long as man is the child of the earth, the ele- ments will be of supreme importance to him, whether he knows it or not. And it is just as well to know it. One does not have to be a farmer to be interested in the weather forecasts, or wear a skipper’s cap in order to find a barometer an intriguing instrument. ‘Talk about the weather all you want to—it is first page news every day! Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands A MACEDOINE, Geneva (Ex- territorial anti-government p: per) —A letter we have received from M. Georgss Desbons, for 20 years an advocate of the Court of Appeals at Paris, states in no equivocal terms that Macedonia must obtain her freedom. M. Desbons asks and answers the following questions: “Is the situation created for Mace. donia by the treaty of Neullly logical? | No. | “Does it conform to historical, geo- | graphic, ethnographic, cultural and economic reality? No. . | “Is it moral and justifiable? No. | “Is it of a nature to facilitate the | maintenance of peace in Eastern Eu- | rope? No. “On the contrary, then, what is 1#t? | “It is & crime against the memory of | the 2,000,000 French soldiers who died | on the battleflelds or in the hospitels in order that oppressed peoples might henceforth live in freedom. “It is a crime against human reason: a crime against the younger genera- tion in that the iniquitous solution of 1919 will lead, perhaps, to another car- nage. A crime against the uphappy Macedonians who suffer, who bleed, who weep. “What should be the solution? “The setting up of Macedonia into & territory free from a foreign police | dictatorship, and provisionally admin- | istered under the control of the League of Nations.” | . Jack and Jill Share Educational Advantages. i Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg—For | good or 1ill, the South African woman has taken to the higher education in | earnest. As for the schools, the great boys’ high schools throughout the | country are paralleled by the high | schools for girls, which follow practi- | cally the same curriculum. Examina- | tion lists show as many girls’ names as | boys,’ and, in short, today in South | Africa Jill gets as good an education as | Jack. And there, we think, you have | it. ‘The whole difference between today | and 21 years ago is a matter of educa- tion. The average woman in South ! Africa in 1931 is on the whole a better | educated woman than her forerunner | of 1910. |The same may be sald, of | course, of the average man; but that, as Kipling says, “is another story.”) | O ) Municipal Plant To Handle Guayaquil Milk, El Telegrafo, Guayaquil.—Conforming t> the demands of modern progress and development. Guayaquil is about to see the Installation of a municipal plant for the pasteurization and hygienic bot- tling of all the milk consumed in the city, amounting to from 20,000 to 30,000 litres (a litre—1.05 quarts) daily. The equipment will include scales for weigh- ing the milk; a rapid and efficacious filtration system: pumps for circulating the milk through the various processes and apparatus for pasteurization, which ccm?m in ;fiee ing t;l: zflku;t ; tem- perature of from legrees (centigrade) for 30 minutes. Other machines will then refrigerate the milk while sealing it from the air, pour it into bottles and put the tops on the containers automatically. The city ex- pects to have the plant erected, equip- ped and functioning within six months. Besides all the machinery etc., an initial order for 50,000 bottles of glass with a litre capaclty and 30,000 each of half and quarter litre capacity has been submitted to bottle manufacturers. Bids for the construction and equipment of the plant were opened May 24. * ok KK 400,000 Unemployed Tabulated in Austria. Neues Wiener Tagbla Unemployment_has reached a crisis in Aulmz. Indeed, our situation is rela- tively as bad as Germany's, though, be- uuuummuhmfllerm:h does not contribute hea: to the spectacular industrial debacles of the world. The latest tabulations disclose that epproximately 400,000 men and ‘women, desiring work. are unable to ob- tain it. Such a number out of a total population of léks than 7.000,000 repre- sents an enormously discouraging fig- ure. Even those working are paid only a fraction of their former wages, which adds to the general discomfiture, for at best these people can purchase only bare necessities, and none cf the so-called luxuries in the shape of manufactured articles and more expensive commodi- ties. The government continues to cur- tail the budget and to reduce the wages of state employes until these last, tco, can hardly be distinguished from the other paupers. In former times, when work was scarce in Austria, many unemployed were able to find occupation in Ger- many, Belgium or France, but now these ccuntries find themselves in & situation as difficult as or worse than Austria's and therefore closed to proletarian im- | migration. The most uncompromising | Mr. Hoover, if he is renom¥ated, as they feature of the whole situation is that the government can not undertake relief on | a sufficient scale without heavier taxa- | i “Jarge part for the persistent and tion, and industry and the public gen- erally can scarcely survive under pres- ent national assessments. * kKK Real Mother Love Displayed by Street Vendor. El Telegrafo, Guayaquil—With fre- quency we observe a poor woman try- ing to earn a little money to keep bod: and soul together, not in the shelter of a small kiosk, but out on the city street, exposed to the rain, the wind, the heat and the cold. We behold such & woman sometimes with a baby at her bosom, and no matter how ragged and thin and meager her own clothing, the vest- ments of the baby always are warm and clean; the baby is cherished and pro- tected with every evidence of maternal care and love. ‘We have observed for sime time such a woman; and once we saw a fashion- ably dressed lady, passing by, reproach her because she did not leave the child at home instead of carrying it about with her, ex d to all the vicissitudes of the weather and the streets. The lady did not understand that the vend- {or could not leave the baby at home alone, and that she had no one she could trust with it. Another time, & clergyman met the mother, and tried to persyade her to let him take the child to place in an asylum. The poor woman, though gratitude for his refused. “The baby is not a burden to me, she said. “It is my only joy and no one can care for it as well as I, even though it accompanies me on all my weary way. If I suffer from hunger and thirst, I look at my baby, and am restored and strengthened. to fall upon the street, I glance at my sleeping baby and am restored.” We were near enough to see that at the sound of the mother's voice, the itions, infant smiled as if it not only hea but understood how dear it was to its mother’s heart, and that in it she had all the recompense she needed to make & _poor and toilsome life & happy one. That woman is a mother. She knows that a child is a benediction, and that though one possessed all otheer treas- ures but none of these, one is poor in- 3 wvar? is wealth when brightened by an infant's laugh- ter. Were we a painter, we would try to portray this that would last forever! ———— e ~ Bootleg Moratorium. From the Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail. Now comes & proposal for & mora- mortgage installment pay- c v | the with expressions of | Mr. good intent 10 T feel that I tm going | 0*tno rd | Al Smit The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. A little relief for the distressed and unemployed in this ‘minus litics, would ‘welcome. Gov. pol 3 be & Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York worked out & plan to raise $20,000,000 to care for the unemployed and their families in the Empire State this Winter. The blicans, who con- trol the State Legislature, figured that if they put the Roosevelt plan through 1t would be playing into the hands of the 'Governor and the Democrats in view of next year's campal 8o the blicans have come forward with bills of their own, differing in certain respects from that sponsored by the Governor. The Democratic Governor of New York is experiencing, in his effort to put through relief measures for the State, much the same kind of opposi- tion which President Hoover met dur- ing the last session of 'ss when he mu?ht to carry through relief meas- ures for the Nation and for the drought-striken areas. It is much the same kind of opposition that the Presi- dent will have to face when Congress meets again next December and the Chief Executive lays before it his plans for dealing with the unemployment situation nationally. * ok k% Both parties are catering to the un- employed vote, which may be large in next year's elections. But the thing can be overdone, particularly if the Republicans in the Legislature in New York should lfhd.dlock relief measures in that State that adequate measures to care for those in distress are not acted upon promptly enough. The same is true if the Democratic and anti-Hoo- ver Republican oppesition in Congress undertakes to hamstring the admini- stration’s rellef plans next Winter. LD ‘There is & problem, closely allied with the problem of rellef for the unemployed, which looms larger on the screen as the session of Congress approaches— the financing of the Pederal Govern- ment. The Government must decide whether it will increase Federal taxes in an effort to balance the budget, whethér it will run along on borrowed money in the hope that business will take an upturn and bring more revenue into the Treasury coffers under existing tax rates. There will be pleaty of mem- bers of Congress on both s\des of the chambers who will oppose an increase in taxes at this time, neither side wish- ing to take the blame for a tax increase on the eve of an election. It % obvious, however, that the party in power in the end will have to bear the barden if taxes are increased and resentment of the taxpayer is aroused. Many of the Republican leaders have already de- | clared themselves again tax increases| and i favor of short-term credfs to | cover the situation as it exists tday. | Some of the Democrats have taken smi- | lar positions. But there are plenty of progressives among the Republicins nd the Democrats who are urging tax | ! increases. ) It may be expected that the admin- istration will make every effort to cut! down the expenditures of the Govern- ment for the next fiscal year rather than increase taxes. Representative WIill Wood, chairman of the House Ap- propriations Committee, and also chair- man of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, after a visit to the White House has declared himself strongly in favor of slashing the ex- penditures for the Army and the Navy, on the ground that the country is not at war nor threatened with war. If his argument was followed tc the end, it would be logical just to wipe out the Army and Navy and thus make it possible to save enough money to bal- ance the budget for the civil activities of the Government. The Army and Navy are supported by the people as measures of national defense. Taking the history of the country for the last 150 years it is found that comparatively few years have been given over to war. But when the Army and Navy were needed they were needed greatly. It looks as though other economies might be made in Government expenditures with greater safety wo the country than materially weakening the Army and the Navy, even in these times of peace. No one knows when war clouds will crop up, despite the Kellogg treaty re- nouncing war, signed by all the great nations of the world. ‘The Government must materially re- duce its expenditures or be prepared to change the existing tax system. The present revenue-raising laws are ef- fective in boom times, but they are not calculated to meat periods of depres- sion. Secretary Mellon has already pointed out that fact. oK K K Relief, finance and economy as sub- the next session of Congress will be joined by prohibition. The wet and dry issue may have suffered an eclipse tem- porarily in these days when work and lood are scarce, but there are plenty of wets who are intent upon bringing the anti-prohibition cause forward at this time, belleving that it, too, can thrive in a period of discontent. Wet Republicans are much agitated over the robable position of the party's presi- dential candidate next year. They want expect him to be, to let down the bars a bit. That fact is probably responsible unverified rumors that the President eventually will come out for 4 per cent beer. The wets say that the farmers are permitted under the law to have their wines in their homes and they do not see why beer should be denied the workers in the cities. Further, they insist that the report of the Wickersham jon on prohibition has given President ample opportunity for urging some kind of a change in the. rohibition laws. From a practical po- itical point of view, however, if from no other, Mr. Hoover would have to decide whether the G. O. P. would gain or lose more by having its candidate for President take a “moist” stand. Certainly it would lose the adamant drys, many of whom have been voting the Republican ticket. L ‘There is another le to the wet- and-dry issue from the G. O. P. point of view—the selection of & running mate for President Hoover. If Vice Presi- dent Curtis finally determines to step out of that picture and make & race for his old Senate seat in Kansas, then the Republicans may pick a wet, or at least an opponent of the present pro- hibition laws to run with Mr. Hoover. Already thers is a lot of talk about the Jects of conversation and legislation at | P ANSWIRS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘This bureau does né¢ give advice, but it gives free inforsaf on any subject. Often, to be iccurately in- formed s to be beyond he need of ad- vice, and information 1: always valua- ble, whereas advice mgy not be. In using this service be sure to write Clearly, state your inqiiry briefly and inclose two-cent stamp for reply post- age. Address The Evenng Star Infor- ! mation Bureau, Frederi¢ J. Haskin, Di- rector, Washington, D.-C. rfié How much did th plane cost in which the Lindberghs e u'lvellln“l,“ A. The factory pricv was $19,000. This did not include instru- irstalled or the acded. ments which were pontoons which were Q. How much faser does & Tace horse run than a crick man sprinter? I mean for the shdter distances at which & man can make his maxim speed. D. F. G. A. On a day when Vic Williams and Ben Eastman ran a440-yard race, the latter wini in 47 |-5 seconds, Twenty Grand ran a half mie in the Kentucky Derby in exactly th) same time. The {lfll mile is twice e 440 yards dis- ance. ! Q. What do the lejters I. H. S. stand r? H. P. A. The letters arethe Greek symbols for the word Jesu. The generally ac- cepted meaning, lpwever, is Jesus, Savior of Mankind. Q. What are the drag R-I"i’{ » B A. The Crag Rati of Hood River, Oregon, is e group yhose avocation is the rescue of persols lost on moun- tains. It was orgaiized in 1926, al- though the idea of such a rescue group had been suggested by a young lumberman, A. L. Anderson, some 1 years ago. In that locality scarcely a month passed that some one was not lost on some of the mountain peaks, 50 Anderson and oher experienced mountain climbers forned their organi- zation. In five yean they have av- eraged six notable mscues annually and many others of lesser note. Q. How old do cypless trees grow in this country? 8. M. A. glant cypress ctt_down in the marshes of the Amit¢ River in Loulsi- &na long ago was said by the extension forester of Louisiana State University to have been more fhan 1300 years old. Its stump was 9% inches in diam- eter. Q. Where did traveling libraries orig- inate? L K I A. The first praciicable traveling library plan was swrted by Samuel Brown in East Lothian, Scotland, in 1817. for Q. How does the number of people | who die by drowning compare with the number who are killed by being struck by lightning? R. H. A. In 1928 deaths from drowning totaled 8.483, from lightning 449. In 1929, 7,578 by drowning, 410 by light- ning. Q. What is the meaning of John Masefield's book, Od! : A. M. B. A. It is composed of the initial letters thing after another.” Q. What became of Lady Hamilton | atter Lord Felson's death? R.D. R. A, Lady Emma) Homilton, contrary to the impresion gathered by popular stories, was not totally repudiated by her husband, Sir William Hamilton, on account of her liaison with Lord Nelson, by whom she had a daughter in 1801. On the dath of her husband she re- ceived a lfe rent of 800 pounds and the furnitire of the home in Piccadilly, London. 3he then lived with Nelson openly athis home in Merton, which he left hernt his death with an annuity of 500 pomds, as well as the control of the 4,00 pounds he left to their of the title | taa? »f the wel-known phrase, “one damn | daughter Horatio. Her gambling and extravagance, however, left her poor, and in 1813 she was put in prison for debt, remaining one’ year. She then went to Calais to escape ci where she died January 15, 1815. Q Who was Crispus Attucks? H. J. A. He was the first man to fall in the Boston massacre March 5, 1770. e was born in Framingham, Mass., either ‘1""12?)“ Indian or negro mother, in about Q. When was the -Siberian Rallway completed, and what did it cost? H. B. 2 o:d The line. a1 u aingle track rafl- , was comple in 1902 and cos $175.000,000. " * Q. In what Supreme Court decision was it sald that good will is the dispo- sition of a pleased customer to return to the place where he has been well treated?—J. F. T. A. Apparently the phrase is one de= rived from the accepted definition of Lord Eldon's of the term “good will"—" “the probabality that the old customers will resort to the old place.” Mr. Jus- tice Day of the Supreme Court in the case Des Moines Gas Co. vs. Des Moines, June 14, 1915, cited Lord Eldon's defi- nition as follows: “Good will of the business is that amount of value which ifiheres in the fixed and favorable con- sideration of customers occurring from an established and well known and well conducted business.” Q. Does Canada grow her own tow bacco?—G. M. A. In 1930 Canada produced 36,716« 917 pounds of tobacco. Of this she ex- ported 5355.869 pounds. During 1930 she imported 17,435,153 pounds, per 2 jcent of which came from the United States. Q. What is the longest river in Ruse sla?—L. D. A. The Ob, which is 3,200 miles in length. Q. What kind of a party is one which says on the invitation “Progrese sive Salmagundi”?—A. R. M. A. The tables are arranged for dif- ferent games. One table may be Lotto, another dominoes, another flinch, ete. Card games may be added, or the Sal« magundi may be entirely card games, su::’\ as bridge, Pedro, euchre, five hun- , etc. Q. How long & run did “The Gresn P“B“r“u have in New York City?— B A. It has recently completed & run of more than 600 performances. Q. How many people were killed an@ injured in the earthquake at Managua, Nicaragua?—W. E. A. . Morz than 750 bodles were recov= ered and buried and more than 6,000 | were treated for injuries. i = ! Q. Has Ireland ever persecuted the | Jews?—W. H. A. It is one of the few countrie§ which has never persecuted the Jews. | Q. Of what sort of material are the | Bermudas formed’—L. M. S. A. The Bermudas are principally | composed of seolian limestones, con- sisting malnly of blown shell dust very irregularly stratified. The reefs are | ridges of limestone plastered over with | thin layers of coral and other calcare- cus organisms. The atolls are ine | crusted with convoluted tubes of serpu- lae and vermetus, together with bar- nacles, mussels, corallines and some true !incrusting corals. Th2y probably rest | upon foundations of aeolian rock. | ,Q Is there a member of the House of Rothschild still living?—B. L. T. A. Baron Edmond de Rothschild, the only surviving son of the House of | Rothschild, has just observed his 86th birthday anniversary. He lives in Paris. { MacDonald Gai Ramsay MaDonald's differences with the Labor paty in Great Britain and his sssumptioncf the duties of premier at the head ofa coalition government arouse much American interest in his future as a statsman. Majority opinion uphclds the belef that his position in favor cf reducirg the dole reveals high courage, ard tha under new conditions he will be favord with increased con- fidence on the pert of the people of his nation. It is videly held that his cles represent the feasible way to meet the ludget situation. “His leadership, unadorned by pretty phrases and unhampered by subter- fugs,” in the judgment of the Portlan Oregon Journi], “is in a better position, not only to canmand the confidence of other nations, but to awaken a bit more faith for the fiture in the bosom of the old werld itsel, than that of any one else whom Enjland might offer as a sacrifice in the t crisis.” Declar- ing that he "de&";‘: ly sacrificed him- self for the goud of the nation,” the Lexington Leade adds: “Mr. MacDon- ald, for the presmt definitely deprived of leadership in his party, apparently 1ald aside permarently and discredited so0 far as half of ais’ followers are con- cerned, may, aftenall, be destined to a greater role than isver.” “His act of truestatesmanship,” says the Cincinnati mes-Star, “‘recalls what the world Mmw seems to forget, while thinking exglusively in terms of economic foroe: e surpassing im- portance cf the fidiviqual. As Mac- Donald says, the {new government in Britain is not predsely a coalition, is not a government parties at all, but rather of individuak. And the greatest of them, unquestioaably, will be at the head of it.” The Minchester Unicn ob- serves: “The Labor party, having been tried twice and faildd each time, is not likely to win publc indorsement for some time to come.. In the meantime it may turn out that MacDonald, and his two supporters, e invincible Sncw- den and Jim Thomis, by standing for the public interest lave taken the win- ning course.” The Gary Post-Tribune advises that “stabllizing the British budget will do muca to return confl- dence into internatbnal affairs” the Houston Chronide states that “the new leadership will vin the confidence of the British peope, use of its members’ undoubted capacity.” * ok % X of nominating Senator orrow of New Jersey for under conditions. ained tremendous public- ity and strengh politically in own State when he declared last S g for a return of tre e M candidate by big . could scarcely lote, even if the Repub- lican national tiket went down to de- feat next year, for he has been elected Senate fora six-year term, and he would continuéon in that office. LR uhltil'.ak:n. l‘on'.lnuu as to what 's future. 'nml:: wha\m has desire to run gain large vote vhich the Governor of New Y election in 1928. # popular vote 190 for President Hoo'er. Still, “Englishmen are ncted, regardless of political beliefs,” according to the Schenectady Gazette, “for their loyalty to the nation when a crisis exists. That 1s the reason Conservatives, Liberals and Laborites have joined hands in forming .| & new cabinet to bring the country back to a sound financial basis. When that has been aceomglhhed politics will flare forth again.” Similar recognition of this tendency is giver. by the Hamil- ton (Ohio) Evening Joumal, the Apple- ton Post-Crescent, and the San Fran- cisco Chronicle. The Chattanocga Times holds that “all in all, his chances of success are much brighter than those of any purely partisan cabinet.” The Ok- lahoma City Times say: ‘The agree- ment to work together, while proof of the grawity of the situation, is also & hopeful sign that some solution will be found.” Des Mcines Tribune-Capi- tal believes that, “since the situation is urgent, we 1l see the new British 0, scheme of taxation and reduced ex- and’| penditures adopted and in effect in a - | would be as helpful here as the ’mxpuwnnunm = It is even reported | ad conside surprisingly short time.” “A moratorfum of politics in Amtrum ice E’mllhd seems to be there,” advises to the situat R “What & speclacle for debating, dis- there are plenty of Democrats who fig- ure that ith would be the weakest candidate they could put forward, and there may be enough in this impossible for make it utterly gain & he desired one. to to ns Prestige, Says Press, in British Crisis | puting America! Wouldn't it be a great thing for the Nation if our statesmen, regardless of party or doctrine, should | get together around a_table 1o work for the betterment of the country, the | relief of the poor and the restoration of prosperity? " | * * ok | “MacDonald's sympathy With poor peopls concludes the Buffalo .Evening New is the kind that makes him pre- | fer to lose power rather than sacrifice | their true interests, even when their | own delusions demand that he do so. | The minds which reject that type of in- | fluence in government only drag the populace to lower levels by the exer- d | cise of any power which they attain. The_exhibits of these opposing forces in thought anc government stand out today in England, but they carry their lessons for earnest students of condi- tions in America also.” “The present split in the Labor party may mean a considerable accession of strength to the Liberal party, headed by David Lloyd George.” in the opinion of the Roanoke World-News, while the Minneapolis Star is convinced that “the job now confronting MacDonald repre« sents the greatest opportunity and grav- est responsibility that ever came to him.” and that “he will be & big man, indeed, if he can handle it.” The San Antonio Express believes that “the gov- ernmental change will bring about & stronger British campaign for addi- tional foreign trade, particularly in tex- tiles,” and sees in such a development benefits for the United States. The Atlanta Journal emphasizes the fact that “coalition is again resorted to. as it was in 1916, under the urge of war-time necessities,” and adds: “The new regime is not expected to last be- yond the end of the current year, a general election within the next four { or five months being taken for granted. Meanwhile it will wrestle with problems in which the nation’s security is vitally involved.” P ‘The Toronto Daily Star points out that “the new burdens fall upon peo- ple who possess the least,”” and com- ments: “The Labor party protests against this raising of revenue by squeezing it out of the multitude of persons who have little or no margin to go upon, rather than out of those classes who, whether times be good or bad, and in spite of the taxes they already bear, seem able to carry on the display and extravagance of olher years. One probable consequence of imposing this form of budget-balan on the people at large is that it will arouse a depth of enduring resentment which may change the current of the political thinking of the toiling masses.” “About all that the new cabinet can do is to make a temporary adjustment so that income and outgo will balance for another vear. and in doing that many subjec’s of the King will be hurt,” observes the Columi Ohio State Journal. and the Baltimore Sun declares: “With Labor moving to the Left and with Liberalism and some of Labor's former leaders co-operating with the Conservatives in this emer- gency, the movement for electoral re- form may fail completely. A complete realignment of parties might easily fol- low such a failure, with the groups now forming the coalition on one side and with Labor on the other. Such a re- alignment would probably remove La- bor further from political power than 1t has been in the recent past, but it would also create a political cleavage along_ strictly class lines, which is something England has not had before.” ——————————— A Tip for Frank Hawks. From the Charlotte (N. C.) News. A transatlantic flyer found room in his loaded plane for & tuxedo. And with that example, it is up to Capt. Hawks not only to have breakfast in London and dinner in Rome, but to dress the part in each imstance.