Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With VSInIn_v Morning !BMMn. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. ....Septémber 8, 1931 t ;fl!ODOEE W. NOYES. ...Editor| The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11th St. @nd Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East fud St cago Office: Lake Michigan Building. ropean OMce 14 Regent #., London, Brxiant Rate by Carrier Within the City. e ning Siar ..... 45¢ per month e mn}n and_Sunday ‘Siar | "¥n !undly . #0c per month THe Byening and Sunday Siar (when 5 Sundars) ..........65¢ per month ay Sa TSl ver copy siiection made at the end of ench month @iders Jaz he sent in by mail of telephone Ational 5000, Raté by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. i B 1 Sundey....1yr. 81000 1 mo. g3 | day onty 1 $6.00: 1 mo . 30c 1 $4.00: 1 mo.. 40¢ AN Other States and Canada. v &id Sunday. mo., §1.00 | only .. mday only [ $12.00: 1 $8.00: 1 mo.. 15c | Member of the Associated Press. ;I' in this paper and also * to, v D'g‘lh's herein. All rights of publizy wspécial dispa‘ches h i 1y 1 1y Today in London. Tt will be amid strange and unusual scenes that the House of Commons convenés today to witness the debut of the national government of emer- | géncy. When Parliament adiourned, | edrly in the Summer, Ramsay Mac- | Donald was prime minister at the head | of & Labor cabinet, which, although it | did not wield a majority in Commons, | had the support in that body of a united Labor party. This noon, when | Big Ben tolls the hour for assembling of the extraordinary session necessi- tatéd by British budget difficulties. Mr. MacDonald will still stand at the \sort of muster of the firemen of Wash- o front bench as leader of the govern- | mént, but a government composed of Conservative, Liberal and Labor min- istérs, hastily composed a fortnight ago | to tide over the nation’s financial dif- | fleulties. Coalition cabinets are no phenomena in Great Britain in times of gravity or peril. The World War was less than half over when it became neces: for Premier Asquith to form a ministry of | Liberals and Conservatives. But he retained the undivided support of his | own party, the Liberals. In the coali- tion government which goes before Parliament today the prime minister | cuts the sorrowful figure of a state: = man deserted and repudiated by his | fotmer cohorts. The party which the | Sage of Lossiemouth led up to the | dawn of this month is now “his; majesty’s opposition” and is bent upon | obstructing by every parliamentary de- vice at its command the projects and | programs of the man hitherto its be- loved and trusted captain. The polhl ties of neither Britain nor of any other | country has in our time presented quite such an anomalous situstion. The pic- ture will be complete when “Uncle Arthur” Henderson, once Ramsay Mac- Donald's closest political comrade, faces him at the head of the opposition bench and proclaims the Labor party’s | intention to fight the national gov- ernment’s policies tooth and nail. Mr. MacDonald marshals a host ca- pable of imposing its budgetary plans upon the country, regardless of Labor's | Hostility. The new government em- barks upon its vital task consclous that | ita lease of life at best is limited. A | gentral election is to ensue early in | the new year, if not before, and s, soon as British economic conditions | make the polling desirable. Labor in-} sirts that it will be returned to power, this time with & majority and a man- date of its own. Less biased optnion foreshadows the resumption of Con- servative rule at No. 10 Downing street. The Liberal party could secure office only by a miracle. All signs mdxcaref that the protective tariff will be the| imue of the coming campaign, with Mr. ! Baldwin's Conservatives as the pro- | tagonists of & system held by them to ! be Britain's sole economic salvation. | Even some elements of the Labor party | have been veering in the direction of a | program to scrap free trade. i ‘Westminster Hall is sure to ring be- | fore many hours with some stirring po- ltieal declarations. Ramsay MacDon- ald’s Scottish accent will be heavily | drawn’ upon to defend himself against the indictment the Labor party will | i | Jaunch against him—namely, “including | prospect of a deficit may be classed as| those who Inhabit our own Wall Street ; into ‘betraying’ Labor in the reccnt government upheaval.” His unfaithful | brethren will have difficulty in convinc- ing the British people and. people far | remote from John Bull's island that Mr. MacDonald took his fateful step to! serve selfish personal ends. No leader of a political party in any country was ever toppled from his place amid more plaudits than those which accompany |dress on unemployment, has warned the | his enforced surrender of Labor's et = Every effort will be made to restore eustomary conditions of competent quietude such as will permit the police foree to give undivided attention to the preservation of order when the Georze Washington anniversary celebration is held. ————- = i 1t was Lindbergh's intention to go on and see the world after he reached Paris by plane. His plans were inter- rupted, but he is now carrying them' eut with more brilliancy than he then dreamed was postible. e Mr. Steward's Warning. | Addressing the convention of the Na- tional Federation of Federal Emnln;cs.. in Seattle, Luther Steward, its presi-| dent, warns that “the voices of the pre- feased Treasury watchdogs. the one- jdea wage reductionists and the un- imaginative, who feel that to cut the pay of Federal emploves is the simplest way out, will be heard in increasing volume during the forthcoming session | .of Congress.” Mr. Steward urges prep- pration for a campaign to lower ex- isting Federal salaries by arranging in advance the proper defense. It is not believed that Mr. Steward is #atting up a straw man for the purposs of kmoeking it down. It is only natural #n times when the normally tight purse strings of the Treasury are going to be drawn even tighter, that there be some eftart to restriet outlays by cutting the salaries of Pederal workers, But one such efforts. Saldries for Péderdl work- érs and the vdrious improvémients their working hours and the conditions under which they Work have only been raised to the present level by many heird véars of consistent éffort. They are not gofng fo be lowéréd without & harder fight than the proponents of such a measure would earé to under- take. For {hé Federdl saldry séalé i3 not padded, ror is it Built of the flimsy stuff that has given way, in the sfress of depression, under more artificially inflated structures. If the scale at present is subject to criticism for not representing true compensation for value received, the criticism lies in the ! tact that the scale is too low, not that it i¥ tco high. ‘There are scores of expenditures more deservedly subject to' drastic limitations than Federal pay for Federal employes. It is well to be prepared, as Mr. Steward warrs, {#r a fight against Fedéral salary slashes. But those who seek to maké such slashes will know they have bsen in a fight before they are through. The Firemen's Parade. ‘Washington's annual firemen's pd- iirade has established itself, within the | short space of nine yéars, ds one of the most remarkable demcnstrations in America. Nowhere else can one find its duplicate and the only logieml €x- planation of its uniqus success is that it has somehow struck fancy. Theé people like to watch the firemen paracde and the firemen enjoy parading. Otherwise, the grand show on the Avenus that drew some ten thousand participants and several score thousands of spectators vesterday would never have been possible, and in its ctead one would have found the same sort of stration™ that Sergt. A. J. Bargagni set out to stage nine years That first parade was intended as a ington and the immediate vicinity, ar- ranged primarily to stimulate the sense of co-cperation and interdependence among all the fire fighters of this area, who might some day be called upon to pool their energies and resources in combating a great conflagration. It is doubtful if anybody ever dreamed that the original parade would assume the proportions of yesterday, when fire companies from as far away as North- ern New York, Ohio and North Caro- lina journeyed to Washington to take their places in a procession that r quired nearly three hours to pass a given point. When one considers the fact that all the expenses of travel and of manufacturing the floats were borne by the firemen, with no hope of remunera- tion beyond the expectancy of winning one of the relatively small cash prizes donated by the Washington Board of Trade, the spirit that drew them hence is all the more interesting. And the parade itself is a brave sight. More than any of the other processions that are associated with Ameriea’s his- toric parade ground, the firemen’s parade is symbolic of the people. There is & fine disregard of formality and rules. As late as this morning The Star could find from none of the officials in charge an accurate estimate of the number of companies represented, the exact number of firemen participating | or even the number of floats that vied for the honors and awards. The fire- men themselves, clean-cut young men whose pride in their organizations brought them here, were given free rein to let their sense of the artistic and their inventive genius lead them wkere it would, and the resulting floats were enough to repay any foot-sore spectator. Sergt. Bargagai, who originated the firemen's parade and who has worked | more than anybody else to make it a | success, believes that solid foundations have been laid for an even more im- pressive ceremony next year, and invi- tations to come to Washington will be issued to firemen from coast to coast One day may not be enough—already he plans for a three-day fete. Every- body wishes him Juck and there is enough substance to his past accom- plishments to guarantee that most cf his dreams will come true, and that future Labor days will find the Nation's firemen parading up the Avenue, with the President leading their grand | march. | — Uncle Sam can be relied on to face a deficit without great agitation. Com- pared to other ordeals he has met, the a minor emergency. ——— For some years the results of investi- gation have consisted largely in turning up material for still further investiga- tion. I S Federal Pap. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, in an ad- American people that a Federal “dole” system will bring into existence “not cnly a nation of beggars, but of self- made beggars.” He went further and sald that the Federal Government can enter the ficld of unemployment insur- anc only with the gravest danger, and to back up his statement referred to the experience which the eountry has recently had with the soldiers’ bonus and with other forms of veterans' pen- zions. The president of Columbia Uni- versity called attention to the great dif- ficulty which Britain is having today, because of the dole. Should Congress set up a measure of unemployment insurance which in ef- fect amounts to a dole out of the Ped- eral Treasury, dos any one really be- lieve that the number of the registered unemployed in this country wculd not reach larger and larger proportions as time passed? S°t up a Federal trougia and the numbers ready to eat out of it could be controlied only by those them- selves who visited the trough. And if one werker saw his fxliows living at the expense of the Federal Treacury, would it not merely be human that he, too, should feel the call to suck the national pap? Dr. Butler's reference to the country’s experience with the soldiers’ bonus is not without point. Although it was well recognized that the Government of the United States faced a huge deficit at the clese of the last fiscal vear, under whip and spur the soldiers' bonus loan bill, incieasing the lean value of the adjusted scrvice compensation certifi- cates held by the veterans of the World War to fifty per cent of their face value, was put through Congress the popular | THE EVENING lo#n BN arguéd that only thosé véterans Wwho rédlly néédéd the monéy would sp- ply for loans at this time, and that & great many who had éemployment would not file thefr ¢laims. But the contrary provéd thé case. The door of the Fed- érdl Tremsury wes thrown open to 4 préferred cliss. What has happened f¢ history. And now it is réportéd that the véterdns, not content with what they have so far received, are to make | drive in the coming Congress for the full payment, without delay, of their ddfustéd compensation certificates, At the timé the soldiers’ bonus loan Bill was put through pleas were made that it should be limited to those vet- érans who were without employment. But this was Sot’ satisfactory to the supporters of the bonus measure. So those who were able to care for them- selves, as well as the distressed and out- of-work vétérans were granted the | same privilege of gom to the Federal i Treasury for money. And thousands of to the full fifty per cent. Perhaps it would be more correct to say millions, when the reports of the Veterans’ Bu- réau are scanned. A Federal dole for the unemployed would have at least the advantage of appearing to bé grantéd only for those persons out of work. But the great difficulty would lie in the fact that such 4 dol¢ undoubtedly would increase and perpetuate unemployment, creating |a cancér within the Republic that | might in the end overthrow the Gov- ernment and destroy the American system of government. | Senator Borah of Idaho has warncd jthe people that if the wealthy and | well-to-do do not do their full share {toward the relief of the unemployed |and the distressed Guring the coming Winter, they may expect that the Fed- | eral Government will undertake, through |taxes, to compel them to make such ! contributions. If the American citizens all classes do their full duty this | Winter i the emergency that confronts | the country. there is nothing to fear. If ithey do not, as the Idaho Senator has jsald, the masses of unemployed will'be {fed and clothed through other than { voluntary means. Such a course would | mean national disaster. ) | . ———— Acting mayor of New York is Joseph | V. McKee, who is said to enjoy playing | polo before breakfast. Polo is generally | regarded as a rough game. As such it ! may be considered good preliminary ex- iercise for a day's duty in the mavor's 1 office. e caege, | Events move rapidly in the domain |of crime, where & man ranked as a | lesder one day becomes a fugitive from i justice the next—if he is not the cen- | tral figure of a funeral. R Every citizen is urged to study econ- omy. The close of a vacation season | as he inspects the bills to consider the | subject on terms of especial intimacy. ! - - Prohibition’s avowed purpose avoid demoralization. purpose is Director Woodcock's decision that the development of a good decoy may produce a bad citizen. is to ——— Three per cent beer is relied upon by its advocates to do away with the racketeer’s too tempting 300 per cent profit. ] i A triumphant occasion is hopefully ceeds in getting out of the repair shop s SHOOTING STARS. | i BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Monumental Patience. Oh. Patience on a monument ‘Was found from day to day. The snows of Winter came and went, So did the flowers of May, I said, “Oh, Patience, why not flee And get a change of scene?” Quoth Patience, “I must strive to be A model all serene. “The statesman needs a guide to show | The way, when Duty calls. | Throughout the seasons he must go And stand in marble halis. Nor hint of discontent. Like Patience still he must be found Upon a monument.” Conscientious. “Do you always keep the promises you | make before election?” . “Well,” replied Senator Sorghum, * do my best. ! willing to make them over again as often as may be desired.” Quenched Enthusiasm. “He writes very uninteresting love let- ters.” said the sentimental girl. “You mustn't blame him for tha swered Miss Cayenne. »n the jury in a breach of promice case.” an- The Summer Car. ©Oh, life is gay and festive When the crowds begin to meet, And the men and women gather Six or seven in a seat. On each other’s feet we trample; Reinforcements soon appear, While the overworked conductor Jams his eibow in your ear. Somewhere there are breezes blowing; Somewhere there are stars agleam; Somewhere there are skies all smiling— Somewhere in a distant dream. You can tell when you are moving By the rattle and the jar, When fresh air you're vainly seeking in the open Summer car. The Cynic Churl. “Don't you approve of votes for women?" “Certainly,” replied Mr. Growcher. “A vote is about the least expensive novelty my wife ever took a fancy to." Mausical Appreciation. “1s you boy Josh fond of music?” “I should say so,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “When one o' these here musical comedies comes along Josh wants to be right up as close to the or- chestra as possible. History Made While We Wait. “Are you a student of history?” “1 surely am. I'm reading the news- paper faithfully, every day.” I like & man dat tells de truth,” said Uncle Eben, “because I kin trust him. An'Idon't mind a man dat tells a false- hood, cause I kin ketch him at it. But must be & pessimist indeed Who con- and passed over a presidential veto. de man dat mixes up de two is terrible Samplates any measure of success for > Some of the supporters of the bonus . bard to keep up with." employéd veterans have made loans up | calls on the head of many a family | In line With this ! reported every time the Nautilus suc- | And he must smile though griefs abound, | If I can't keep them T am | “He once served | TAR | WASHINGTON, THIS AN BY CHARLES E. A soff, Jow voice is a luxury which only the rich man can afford. He Wwho has an economic struggle | dhead of him ought to adopt early, if he has it not, a loud, heavy tone. Preferably it should have some quali- ties of intimidation. A bit of quarrelsomeness in it will not hurt a thing. ‘Above all, a young man ought to cul- tivate the loud voice, so that there can be no mistake on the part of any one about what he says He might as well be heard as not. A good, sonorous, ringing voice, which { attracts attention, commands attention. *x % X Commanding attention is, after all, necessary for a human being as for n advertisement. A good ad attracts attention, some way or other, ind & man must do the same. | ‘The loud voiee here commended need Inot be a blatant voice, an arrogant voice, mor yet a superior voice. Such qualities are of the mind and ! heart, not of the vocal chords. What a young man who has his way to make in the world ought to see to, in this respect, is simply that he talk out like a man. If he doesn't, some one Wil accuse him of mumbling. And who wants to have it said of him, that he is mumbling, when all he is doing is speaking in a cultivated fashion? £ * k kX A cultivated voice properly may he loud enough to be heard easily. If you will watch the people who get the clerk’s attention in the stores you will see that almost invariably the man who gets waited on first is the fellow who walks up and demands. service in a good, ¥ound old-fashioned voice. Boys born in the country and smaji towns ordinarily have a good handicap in this matter. City atmosphere tends to repress a good. healthy voice. The youngster calling irom fleld to fie}d. has to speak up, as it were, to make himself | heard. He is not abashed by the presence |of others, and especially strangers. The small town boy feels more at home, one imay believe, in his world, than the {average city vouth. At least, it will {take the city boy more years to find himself. |t is significant, perhaps. that the Tom Sawyers and the Huckleberry Finns and the Pentods are small town boys. There ean be no doubt of it, either, that all of them sang out their wishes n loud, firm tones. " * % If a weak voice is loud voice is significant. Just what it 15 significant of is an- other matter. Perhaps the average au- ' ditor feels that wheie there is so much vigor of expression there must be some inner vigor,of mind and the physical | ability to take ready action. There must be a balance to tHe loud voice, of course. Simply to scream, as s0 many children do, instead of tajking calmly to each other, is not what we | mean. No, & loud voice may be clitivated, too. But make no mistake about i, it must be almed at the many, not the one Perhaps that is the worst defect of the too low, too precisely cultivated voice. which mamly is directed to one ear and one ear alone. - insignificant, & i Sometimes at a theater you hear some Excerpts From Newsp. RISH INDEPENDENT, Dublin— Owing to the continued broken weather there is grave reason to fear that the potato crop in many districts will b2 far from satisfac- tory. The department views the sit- uation with mueh anxi and de- sires to 1rge potato growers to spare no efforts to protect this most im- portant crop. Since the early spiay ings new foliage will have devel oped. and it is of 1 importance to protect this as well as the older | foliage by a further spraving. The general yield will probably bs light, and prices srould. accordingly, be good. and should well repay the cost of any additional spraying that may be given. * ok % % Japanese Jobless In Excess of 400,000, Asahi. Tokio (Translation from A vernacular daily by the Japan Ad- vertiser, Tokio).—The number of un- emploved in Japan in May was over 400,000, according to fizures published ! by the social bureau of the ministry . of home affairs. This figure is not large, considering the gravity of the { unemployment ~ situation in western countries. The number of unemploved |in the United States and Britain ex- ceeds the 1.000.000 mark. Now nobody would take the figures of the social bureau at their face value. | They do not include vast numbers of persons who are temporarily out of employment. They also do not take into account an ever-increasing number of school graduates and members of the intelligentsia who are idle. If ac- | curate figures were available, the total | of unemployed persons in Japan would be considerably greater than the figure arrived at by the social bureau. Anyway, the statisties of the bureau are enough to show that the unem- | ployed situation in Japan is assuming serious proportions. At the end of | September, 1928, when the unemploy- | ment statistics were first published, the number of unemployed was only 260,000. | ‘There are -observers who hold Lhe‘ government blamable for this state of | affairs. They hold that the authorities have not done what they should for | the relief of the unemployed. They are right. The government laid plans | for the relief of the situation, but they have yet to materialize. And, accord- ing to present indications, it is highly doubtful if the measures will be ef- fected during the year. It is time that the government did something for the relief of the unemploved. The enter- prises proposed by the government in | order to create jobs for idle workers are said to cost approximately $20,000, 000. This is not a large amount, for | whom work must be found. But it will be something. We hope the au- | thorities will act promptly in consider- ing the number of persons launching | relief measures. e French Taken to Task For War Memoirs. | The Bulletin, Sydney, N. S. W. (From | a letter to the editor).- ull's Run;” | Still another British goneral has been | taken to for his memoirs of the Great War—no less a warrior than Johnny French, whose “1914.” published | 12 years ago, has been made the sub- ject of a bitter attack by Sir John For- tescue. tilter at a man long dead is author of a “History of the Brit-| ish Army,” but seems to have done most of his soldiering as librarian at Windsor from 1905 to 1926. Among other comments, he refers to the field marshal's book as “the work of a mono- maniac.” Haig was characteristically far-sighted when he willed that his war memoirs should remain in cold storage until 50 years :n,ir l;(h.dun\. - Would Have Sisters Teach Blind to Read and Work. El Mercurio, Santiago.—In. one of | our recent editions we gave rome tenta- tive information regarding the noble | initiative of the Society of Santa Lucia in bringing to Chile some of the sisters | of the religious order of the Francis- cans_to take charge of the Home for the Blind, which the aforesaid.society maintains. Under the benevolent con- trol of thess women it ix that an institution which had formerly been D THAT . TRACEWELL. one expound| plot. the lowest depth of Mr. Dante's hell, but really you have a sort of admira- tion for him, haven't you? He should select another time and ing the remainder of the | place, of course, but, aside from those evidences of poor judgment, he simply is talking out in meeting in the way every one likes to hear a man talk. Good and loud—that was the way the old-fashioned country lawyers argued their cases. Why, when Lawyst Jones began to tell why his client should €0 free. they had to open the windows to_keep them from getting broken, ‘When the windows were opened, peo- ple a mile away, on McGrain's farm, could hear him, and Cy Daniel, the hived man, swore he heard him call the A\’Idxc a fool when he ruléd against m. * K xR Sailors alone, of all men who work in the great open spaces, have little voices. erhaps that comes about be- cause they realize the futility of trying to outbellow storms and winds. Anyway, the sailorman is a queer fellow. and cannot count against the majority of prairie, farm and foresi men. When they talk they talk up big and let the whole world know what they want. Thke power of the human voice is little suspected by the vast bulk of men and women. If you talk out in the right way, you can talk yourself into almost any place in the land. But you got to speak up. You got to make yourself heard. When you get intg a crowd, if there is another loud- speaker there, you must out-do him, so that the crowd looks at you most. * e Some people still remember the time when Uncle Jimmy came to Wash- ington, He was just In from Kansas-—out where the horjzon is free and open, not all cut up’ with houses and trees and things. ¥ Uncle Jimmy sat out in the front vard and discussed polties. You could hear him down to the ‘White House, at least. and maybe across the Potomac. Uncle Jimmy didn't care. Effete city ways made no impression cn_him When he had something to say he said it. and he didn't care who heard it. He didn't cere, even when “Teddy" Roosevelt came walking along the side- walk, as he offen did from the White House. on one of his hikes up and out Sixteenth street. Uncle Jimmie said “How do” to the President in jult the same voice he A;r'.: })ack home, and “Teddy" liked it. ully! * ook We would warn any ambitious young man. however, that the loud voice won't do it all by ftself. No, you got to have more than a loud voice, else that ugly old wart hog out at the Zoo wculd be a shining light to_mankind. ‘The old wart hog comes running to the wire of his cage and attempts to terrify you. with a sudden springing loud voice. But the wart hog hasn't any brains, and you got to have some brains if : you want to do anything with a good, | loud voice. Don't go through life, young man, hanging your head and speaking low 1f you have anything to say, spea up. and let everybody hear it Then maybe somebody will pay some attention to you. Highlights on the Wide World apers of Other Lands simply a hospital or refuge will be con- verted into & school. and workshop as vell, where these aflicted people, ‘for whom life is but one long night, ter- minated only when they die, may learn to read, to work and to fashion articles which will nct only divert and please them in the making. but be of service and profit to them and to the asylum as well. The pious sisters will month, in tie middle of Winter. but happt in anticipation is already vi- brating in the hearts of the poor blind people, who see in their advent a har- binger of Spring—not only a Spring of the year, but, far more important to them, the dawn of a new Springtime. of new life, even of light itself, in their narrow. wearisome and monotonous ex- istences. For these sisters of Saint Francis are versed not only in matters spiritual and methods educational. but are qualified in medicine and surgery as well; and who knows but what their kind, white hands may be enabled, through ophthal- mologic lore, to restore the blessed boon and faculty of vision to many now walking in perpetual darknesg. The So- ciedad Santa Lucla. which & bringing these devoted sisters to is en- gaged In a beautiful work, but the monetary cost is large. On one day members of this society will canvass all the streeis of Santiago soliciting subscriptions for the blind, and partic- ularly for the maintenance of the home and the expenses of transportation for the sisters. What better can we do with any funds we have to spare than to devote them to a charity so dear to Godi and so worldly of our utmost gen- erosity? arrive next Celebration to Honor Garfield Is Urged To the Editor of The Star: I may not be the first to make the suggestion, but I make it here and now, that there should be a celebration in this city and elsewhere in the Unit:d States of the 100th birthday anniver- sary of the twentieth President of the United States, James A. Garfield. He was born near Cleveland Ohio, on November 19, 1831, so that cnly a faw weeks remain in which to stage the celebration, in which Washington should be particularly interested, as it was here, at the old raikvay depot at Sixth.and B streets on July 2, 1881. a little over half a century ago. that he received his death blow at the hands of the assassin Guiteau, to pass away at Elberon, N. J. on the 19th of he following September. The fiftieth nniversary of his death thus occurs during this month and might be com- memorated in some manner here and at Elberon. Although James A. Garfleld did not serve as President long enough to create history as to his policies, the story of his life, the humble beginnings in & log cabin and as a mule driver on a canal towpath, his rise to military rank, mem- bership in Congress and to the chief magistracy of his country, closing with his untimely death, entitle him to & place beside Lincoln and McKinley as glorious examples of the American abi'- ity to ascend from a lowly erigin to the very top. So that the city of Wash- ington should not be slow to honor this patriot and statesman, the sun of whose glory was eclipsed in our midst, but whose example will ever remain as 2 beacon of hope to the struggling youth of our own and other count The time for a celebration is short, b it should be actively utilized. LINDSAY 8. PERKINS. —————————— Era of Commissions. From the Port Worth Star-Telegram. If things ever get straightemed out, isp’t it yeasonable to sup) hope— that somebody always will remember that this was an era of commissions and investigating committees? The Cotton Dilemma. @ Worcester Evening Gazette. " and" e worst Ahing £bout the res fusal of those cotton planters to plow up & third of their crop is that the ral Farm Board cant call out the Regular Army fo make ihem do # You nientally consign him to| A NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM L G. M. ‘THE WORLD IN 8§ DAYS: 6 Flight cf the Winnle Mae. II- lustrated. By Wiley Post and Harold Gatty. Introduction by Will Rogers. Rand McNally & Co. Long eons ahead of us, the scientists will be digging up our buried citles— our Londons and Manhattans—to dis- cover the manner of folks we were. | Spademan 2nd glyphman will labor, sedulously, and long. Onme, to uncover the remains of our Babyinian towers. The other to interpret the characters and pictures graven upon them. And the scientists of that day will conclude, finally, that along in the |- first half of the twentieth «century a new element entered into the making of a civilization. ¥t was then that man threw down his challenge to time and distance. Then that fleets of winged =hips took te the air. Then that surface rotors learned to spin at an inconceiv- able rate. This, too, was the era when men beg;:n to talk across the world to | each cther, with the ease of sitting on opposite sides of the same fireside. And to see one another across great dis- tances, as if they were standing face | to face. And everywhere among these ruins one overtopping sign stood out. Char+ acters as mysterious to those investiga- tors as the Hebraic “Selah!” is to us. or the Hindu “Om” “Speed"—that the sole emblem of this epochal turn in | | the affairs of men. The single essence of that era in each and all of its as- peets. Now, after this little run into the far future, we are back again. Back with Post and Gatty and Winnie Mae, latest of the exemplars of the great modern | god. “Speed.” Round the world in 8 days. Beating | the Zeppelin by 13 days. Making Jules | Verre, that fantastic romanticist, look like 30 eents with his tortoise trip of | 80 days. And Magellan—but whit's the | use! Let us nol be nasty just because | we've worked a miracie’ over the old tyrant, Time. Everybody knows now about the fa- mous flight. Maybe some have grown a shade tired of it and are already nest- ling about for & fiyer to whitile the week-and-a-day to even less than that That is not important. There are folks who refuse to be satisfied, particularly | with performances that do not tax them. "All that is not tmportant. The outstanding point, right here and now, is that, since the actual tri- | umph itself these two men have worked | another speed wonder. They have writ- {ten the full story of the great adven- ture. To them, maybe, a more truly hereulean task than the epic flight it- | self uplifted with excitemént from first to last. As bare fact, these boys must had fed their book, sheet by sheet, | traight into waiting presses. The good | i business acumen of Rand McNally & | 'Co. did the rest. And no mean speed | performance this bookmaking. | Well set up in first-class craftsman- !ship is the account, even before the stirring fact itself is cool to the mem- oty.- Turn and turn about, first Post and then Gatty, the two give, from start to finish, the saliencies of the business in hand. How the plan origi- nated, what in the earlier days of each led to its acceptance. Then the details of getting ready to go. given as simply as if they had decided to take a run over to New York. In these prepara- tions Winnie Mae has the post of honor. And. indeed. in the full course of the event Winnie Mae pioves to be as hu- man as the other two—to one reader at least—taking the hazards galiantly, just | as the boys did, easing up with a long | breath of relief when air and earth and i sea behaved in friendly and supporting | fashion to this trio of adventurers. | “Fool-hardy adventures,” the air said, { or was it the sea, or the long Siberian land wastes beneath them? To the initiate there are pages of | more or less technical stuff, just suited to their desire and enjoyment. But. in the main, this is & book for everybody's reading. Dated laps of the flight are set down. “June 24: from Chester to | Berlin,” and 50 on in a series to Mos- cow, across Asia, then to_Fairbanks, to {Edmonton. "to’ New York. Each { marked by graphic accounts of its own special characteristic of advance or hold-up. Each made more vivid by | good supplies of photographs of place | | and incident. “Winnie Mae's Log Book™" in exact reproduction gives a partaking sense to | the reader. The map of the full flight is also one of the features of any travel hook upon which one taking the book route is deeply dependent. Here is a | very clear and helpful one. The whole is & triumph from beginning to end. The flight, the boys, the book. One to | make the homefolk, the United States' | folk, proud of this “Around the World * oK x % WINGS OF TOMORROW: The Story| of the Autogiro. By Juan de la Cierva and Don Rose. New York Brewer, Warren & Putnam. A few weeks ago, or months, the | press gave attention to a fresh inven: | tion in aeronautics. A new device for | fiying, based on a principle hitherto | unused and founded upon promises of | greater speed, better security and more definite certainties of action than other airships could guarantee. Then other things came along and these particular news items slipped into the background. o gs of Tomorrow™ gives the story of the autogiro. Gives the record of its invention and an account of the young Spaniard who conceived it and by whose efforts it was brought to a stage of practical usefulness. The account reads more like romance than like the achieve- ments of an aeronautical engineer, since the author has put himself into the record. His efforts, his defeats and failures wrapped, so to speak, in his personal reactions to these, come to- gether here in harmony o/ cifect and in a vivid pictuse of resistance to final de- feat. As a bqy this man tinkered with mechanics, as many & boy does. But this one kept at it,’and out of his fuss- ing about there grew notions of certain stable behaviors under certain condi- tions. Principles, he called these later. In good description he tells of his the- ary of rotating wings, and of what these might be made to do in the case of the airship. In definite description he tells this for the use of the technical man. In fine pictures he gives it for the use of the average reader—the not too aver- age reader. When he came to America, naturally Thomas Edison was a man whose opinion was worth—well, it was certainly worth getting if it were pos- sible. “That's the answer,” said Edison as he saw the “autogiro climb steeply into the sky, maneuver in slow flight and make a vertical landing.” ‘The claim for the autogiro by know- ing ones is that it is “the only funda- mentally new discovery in aeronautics since the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. “Wings of Tomorrow” is not only an exciting story of personal ex- perience and achievement. It is “also a searching analysis of aviation at the end of the first quarter century of hu- man flight.” It is of a straight sim- plicity as well. And this fits it for text. hook service. Just what the autogiro can do and how it docs this are given for gencral readers. A technical supplement fits it for the ' ¢ of the engineer. There is a manue' of instructions for the pilot. And it is, above all, the forward-looking exposition by an expert of an air mech- anism that obviates the greatest diffi- culties of present flight, difficulties ex- pressed in terms of danger to life and in terms of inadequate speed. Such, in neral, are the claims for “Wings of ‘'omorrow.” Its technicalities are .for the student. Its story is for the lay reader, who, by pnyinf] good attention, learns & lot about both the purpose of the autogiro, about its construction and about its action. For this is a design- edly clear statement of facts and as simple, besides, as the nature of the subject will permit. B 40 A “Earthquake 2 From the Ann Arbor Daily News. In considering glflmhla reasons for the earthquake that wrecked some buildings in Texas. we think OKI: Governor should not be overe f H | | urray. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Take advantage of this free service. It you are one of the thousands who have patronized the bureau, write us again. If you have never used the serv- ice, begin now. It is maintained for your benefit. Be sure to send your name and address with your question, and inclose 2 cents, in coin of stamps, for return postage. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Fredetic J. Haskin, diréctor, Washington, D. C. Q. Has Spain ever before decreed the exile of large numbers of her pop- ulation for religious reasons as she is now proposin to exile 50,000 Catholic priests and nuns?—T. B. _ A. In the reign of Ferdinand and Isa- bella Spain, then wholly controlled by Catholics, expelled all Jews. Q. What_State imposes the highest tax 01’:4 gasoline and for what purposes? A. Florida has im) a tax of 7 cents a gallon on all gasoline sold in the State. It is estimated to produce $2.250,000 a year. Of the tax, 3 cents will go to the State Road Department, 3 cents to the counties and 1 cent to the general treasury. The tax expires by limitation July 1, 1933. Q. When did Geor’;u glrpentler en- first recorded fight of ter the'flrlu ring?—W. A he Georges Carpentier was in 1907. . What tree is it whose branches take root?’—E. K. A. The banyan tree. Its branches send roots downward, which, when they have became rooted, become props, and in this manner the tree spreads over a great surface and endures for many ages. Q. What is meant by unearned in- | crement?—A. M. | A. It is the term applied to the ex- tent to which the value of real prop- erty increases independent of any ex- venditure of labor or capital upon it by | its possessor. ~ Q. When were shi subsidles granted in the United States?—B. A. The first act of the First Congress. | passed on July 4, 1789, included a clause allowing & 10 per cent discount of tar- iff duties on all goods imported in ships built and owned by American citizens. Q. What per cent of the food pur- chased goes to hotels and restaurants? —W. D. | A. They consume about 25 per cent of total amount. Q. Where was the first windmill built | in America?—J. S. | A. The first one was bullt in Virginta | at’ Windmill Point. on the James River, in 1621 by Gov. Sir George Yeardley. | Q. To what race do Italians belong? | Mk A. They belong to the Caucasian race. . What are isomerism and allot- ropism?>—V. W. . Isomerism refers to substances which are made up of the same chem- ical elements in the same proportion, but in which the atoms are differently arranged so as to produce substances having different physical and chemical properties. Exlmfl!s are methyl ether | and ethyl alcohol. The formula for both of these is C2 H60. Allotropism is the occurrence of the same chemical substance in different forms. For ex- ample. carbon appears as a diamond, as charcoal, as graphite, etc. Q. How many miles of surfaced roads has the United States>—R. A. H. A. The total highway mileage in the United States is 3.030.000. Of this total 700,000 miles of highway are sur- | faced. | Q. What was a bounty jumper in the Civil War?—S. X. S. | 'A. He was one who upon payment first s. | The general fund of the ! Col of bounty enlisted in the Army and afterward deéserted from the service. Usually & man who did this success- fully once repeated the performance until he had accumulated quite & sum of money or was caught at the game. Q. Who was the first woman who llnlze ‘“press agentng” a profession?— A. Nellie Revell was the first woman press agent in this country. Q. What is meant by gov'm?—N. R A. It is a term applied by Hebrews to all outside their faith. Q. Do . all limbs?—P. C. A. orm:lli they are four in num- ber, but the hind pair are suppressed in whales and sea-cows. Thé limbs assume the form of legs for terrestrial mammals have four | progression, wings for flight and pad- dles for swimming. There are about 600 genera and 5,000 species of mam- mals extant. Q. Is the “Beaux Arts.” in Paw_, & government institution>—W. N A. ‘The Beaux Arts is one of the five academies of the Institut de France. 1t is subsidized by the governm nt. institut is managed by a committee of 10 under the presidency of the minister of public instruction. Each of the acade- mies has an independent government. | The subjects taught at the Beaux Arts are painting, sculpture, engraving and music. . Is Ingersoll's wife still living?— . % : - A. Mrs. Eva A. Ingersoll, widow of . Robert G. Ingersoll, died on Feb- ruary 2, 1923. Q. What is the difference between & thief and a robber’—S. A. L. A. A thief Is one who deprives another of property secretly or without open force, as opposed to & robber, who uses open force or violence. A burglar is a thief who forces an entrance into a building. architecture, Q. How is Samuel Pepys name pro- nounced in England’—M. S. . At university where Pepys was educated the name continues to be pronounced “Pecps,” as it was in his day. Q. What is meant by the viscosity of liquid?—M. A It 18t to flow. Q. What is the greatest number—pas- sengers and crew—ever transported cross the Atlantic in a ship?—G. K. A. The average passenger capacity of great ocean liners is 2200. When the Leviathan carried her reccrd-bresking contingent of soldlers she aiso carried the officers and crew to the number of 2,078, making a grand total of 13.558 souls' on board, the greatest mumber carTied across any ccean by any ship he measure of its resistance |on any trip. bered’—J. 8 A. It is not known how and in what manner dice actualiy originated. ‘Wherever dice have been found in the tombs of ancient Egypt, in Greece, or in the Par East, they differ in no material respect from those in use today. They were probably evolved from knuckle- bones.” It is certain that dice games were played in times prior to those of which we have any written record. The fact that dice have been used through- | cut the Orient from time immemorial seems to indicate an Asiatic origin. Q. Did the Indians in Iowa have to- tem poles?—W. J. W. A. They had no totem poles, these obe jects being erected solely by the Ine dians of the North Pacific Coast. Offers Spic William H. (“Coin”) Harvey, v\'holex name was associated with William Jen- | nings Bryan's free silver campaign, is the first 1932 candidate nominated for | the presidency, having been named at a national convention of his own po litical organization, the Liberty party meeting in Arkansas. The country ex- pects both Harvey and his platform, which embraces 8 proposal for elimina- | tion of taxation'and an elaborate so- calistic scheme for managing the Na- tion, to provide entertainment and a certain picturesqueness in the coming campaign, but sees no likelihood that they will make any impression on the electoral college ) “Some day, maybe.” thinks the Ann Arbor Daily New: we will have no {axation, but just at present, as we try to figure out a way to meet the last tax statement, we can't seem to get very enthusiastic about Coin's salvation program. However, he offers a pleas- ant picture, and a pleasant picture al- ways is something to detraht a bit from this serious business of living.” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette feels that “not even his most optimistic follower will | be likely to see the slightest chance for Harvey to set aside either of the old parties in & hurry, but perhaps he will | lend picturesqueness to the campaign.” | “The chances of the success of his | party are nil, but if he retains his pres- ent yigor he will be an entertaining | figure and one who has ideas,” says | the Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Malil, | while the Yakima Daily Republic, ob- | serving that “Gen.” Coxey, who also was prominent many years ago, is now active in politics, remarks: t seems | strange that two men such as these, both temporarily prominent 40 years ago, during a period of financial stress, should be alive to catch the public eye when the ccuntry is going through an- other such period.” The Youngstown Vindicator suggests that “Coin Harvey comes forth with a platform represent- ing the dreams of his 30 years in the Ozarks and declaring for almost a com- | plete reorganization of government ad- ministration.” That paper adds that “it must have seemed like old times to the ‘hermit’ to find that after the plat- form put forward by himself was adopted by acclamation it was attacked as having been railroaded through.’ * % K x “As might be expected of the com- pany of political radicals of many shades which got together in Arkansas,” states the Port Huron Times-Herald, “there was a good deal of bitter talk, and in the end the party was not nearly so radical as a lot of the ‘dele- gates’ desired to make it. All of which indicates that the combined wisdom and sense of the people of this country is iikely to be found a good deal more conservative than the attitude of the various individuals would seem to make | it” The Jersey City Journal is con- vinced that “what will blast Harvey's hopes is the fact that it is wellnigh im- possible to form any new party in this country, because of the inability of the radical and liberal groups to agree upon any kind of platform.” “The platform of the party, the work of its standard bearer,” as viewed by the Dallas Journal, “is a humdinger, even with its details but tentatively outlined. That major plank which calls for abolishment of taxes is a knock- out. If Candidate Harvey can convince the American people that this can be done and that others of his revolution- ary ideas can be made effective, he is as good as elected in 1932, and, if he likes, for life.” The 8pringfield (Mass.) Union suggests that “with the ticket elected and this program adopted, there | should be no reason for further work | or worry. Everybody could sit back in peace, happiness and contentment.” That paper continues: “Perhaps he hasn't thought of everything yet. As the campaign, which still has more than 14 months to go, develops he may work out other ideas which will aid in speeding up u\: n;m:nn:umj' “The Liberty party of America will be wellnigh forgotten when the tumult iHarvey, Seeking Presidency, e for Campaign and the shouting of the next campaign get fairly under way.” in the opinion of the Oklahoma City Times, which, however, says of opposition to the two major parties: “Some day there may be discontent and leadership sufficient to | bring victory to a new party, but that | day seems distant.” Viewing_the or- ganization as a survival of Populism, the Abilene Reporter holds that “most of the best of Populism.has been writ- ten into law, and what remains is not sufficient to make a dent in the coun- try's political consciousness.” The To- ledo Blade agrees that “there is no basis for betting that the venerable and still zealous Mr. Harvey will get any votes in the next electoral college. Meridian Star declares: “The Harveys come and go periodically. have their little place in the sun for a while, then fade away. They leave no impress—no lasting benefits—for the simple reason that their plans and panaceas are impossible.” Pointing to a change in the attitude of the public. the Omaha World-Herald records: ‘‘There is this time no popu- lar demand for ‘free silver' as a curc. But financiers and economists of the highest standing, at home and abroad, are deeply concerned in the price of silver, its bearing on general prices and its depresging effect upon trade. The Unit tes Senate last February adopted a resolution asking the Presi- dent to summon an international con. ference on silver, but Mr. Hoover, ap- parently out of sympathy with its pur- pose, has taken no action.” ) Backs Pay Réduction Of Federal Workers To the Editor of The Star: In last night's paper there was a letter from a Mr. Irving who objected to the proposal of the Gentleman from Kansas to cut the salaries of all Gov- ernment employes. Mr. Irving's ob- Jection was that many of the employes made so little that a cut would only add to the general distress—I suppose by lessening the amount of money in circulation. I'd like to obviate that difficulty by changing a point of Mr. McGugin's plan. Cut the salary of every Govern- | ment employe, from the President down, one-sixth (5ix or seven million uncm- ployed out of a fotal working population of forty-five or fifty million is about one-sixth) and use that money, not te save it, but to hire other workers. It would have two good results: The same amount of money will be in cir- culation and it will give jobs to a vast number of people. And we must all agree that to give work is much better than to give soup. The contention of Mr. Irving that many can't get along if their salaries are cut lacks force when we consider that those out of work have had to get along. So let's suggest to the political gentle- men that they start with themselves (would any of them dare object to a cut in an election year if it were put up to them?), cut their own salaries and “give till it hurts”; and I fancy the smaller fry would grin with enjoy- ment and cheerfully accept a cut in their own pay. Seriously, I think it is not s bad scheme and would give work to thou- sands of people who will stand no chance on these construction projects. M. STEWART, ‘Takoma Park, D. C. o Braves the Tiger. From the Savannah Morni N Somebody has slipped & v tween Gov. Ro®sevelt and Tammany ——r——————— Faith in Treaties. From the Worcester Daily Telegram France seems to put more faith in m treaties than the pople who sign /