Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1931, Page 8

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The Assoclated Press is exclusively er titled fo the use for republication of all news dis- atches credited to it gr not otherwise crad- ted in this paper an “he local news published herein All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. also e Bravo, the Legion! By a vote that approximated two to one, the American Legion at Detroit yesterday went on record against taxing the American people another $2,000,- 000,000 for immediate cash payment of the war bonus. The World War soldiers have justified the confidence of thelr | friends that, once cognizant of the plight into which & fresh compensation demand would plunge the national Treasury, the Legion would take the only course that patriotism dictates. Of the 1,409 delegates in the conven- tion, 902 declared against additional bonus grants at this time, and 507 ex- pressed themselves in favor of thém. The vote was not as decisive as might have been hoped, byt it was sufficient. It honors the great organization that cast it and proves, if proof were needed, that the men who bared their breasts 1o the foe thirteen years ago have not forgotten that times of peace, too, can test men’s Jove of country. ad President Hoover cannot be denmied the Nation's gratitude, either, for his part in staving off a disastrous drain on its vital resources, which seldom before, except in hours of war, needed to be so zealously husbanded. When, Paul Revere-like, he rode to Detroit at the beginning of this week (o warn the Legionnaires of impending financial danger, if coursels of wisdom did not prevail in their convention, the Presi- dent embarked upon a venturesome task. It called for a high order of courage. It contained the seeds of possible failure, Mr. Hoover risked much in possible loss of prestige, and at & moment when he must conserve every ounce of it that he possesses, in bearding the Legion lion in his bonus den. Staking much, he has gained much, not only for himself, but for the Government and people whom he is guiding with fortitude and calm through one of the most tempestuous periods of their history. The minority vote at Detroit is prob- ably large enough to encourage die-hard bonus advocates in the bellef that the $2,000,000,000 proposition can be ram- med through Congress,- despite the Legion's official disavowal of it. It is painfully clear in the country’s memory that within a few months after the Leglonnaires at their Boston conven- tion of 1930 tabled s simflar project it bobbed up in Congress, was passed by an overwhelming vote in both Houses, and then, after a White House veto, was re-enacted over the Presi- dent’s objections. ‘The Legion's insistent explanation is that vote-chasing politicians, not the Legion, instigated last year’s billion- dollar loan certificate raid on the Treasury. The history of that sorry episode must not be repeated at the coming session of Congress. Admitting the exigency that confronts members on the thresholq of another national election, with the political lives of 435 Representatives and a third of the Sepate at stake, the Republic’s exigency is immeasurably greater. It outstrips any possible contingency that confronts a statesman hungering for self-perpet- uation. The country will not tolerate any bonus politics on Capitol Hill next Winter. The Legion at least has done its part to preserve the Government from such a catastrophe. PSSP After his very active vacation idayor Jimmy Walker may be glad to take the Test cure sometimes available at an official desk. O | 1s Execution an Accident? Definitions, merely as such, are not | usually given by the Supreme Court, at | the behest of questioners or appellants. | ‘The court rules on principles of law and the relation of laws to the Consti- tution. A case is about to be heard by it, however, which is little, if any, more than a reference to it of a matter of word usage. In brief, the question is| whether & man who has been executed ! in penalty for capital crime has died | as by “accident.” At first glance it would seem to be | rather a stretch of word significance to | style such a demis> as “accidental.” | Yet, after all, it could not be called a | “natural” death. It is not in the course of | nature that a person, having committed a crime for which the death penalty is prescribed by law, passes out of this life | on scaffold or in the electric chair or | in a lethal chamber. That is death by | the hand of man, just such as is the slaying of one by another person. The fact that the condemned person by his own muscular movement takes his place in the chair or on the gallows trap or in the gas chamber does not constitute his death as a suicide. He thus puls himself by compulsion in a position to be executed. Inasmuch as he does not die by disease, which may be called the course of nature, as it is the Inescapable fate of all humans to die eventually by some derangement of the bodlly system, it would seem that there is no other definition of his demise than that of “by acci- 5¢ | the Jury Commission, favors legislation the life of another, invariably hoping to escape detection, or if detected, to escape conviction and punishment. All these matters the Supreme Court of the United States will now be asked to consider, to the point of making a final definition in order to govern in the payment of an insurance policy, which contained a provision of double indemnity in the case of “accidental deagh.” The man was executed nearly eight years ago in Indiana and the question is still pending. The wonder is that all the beneficiniies of the in- surance policy have not died by nat- ural death or by accident or otherwise since the passing of the principal factor in this puzzle. Exemptions of Jurors. Mr. E. C. Graham, a member of “removing the large number of persons exempted from jury service rather than placing on the Jury Commission the duty of passing on the qualifications of prespective jurors.” ‘The statutes exempt from jury serv- jce in the District “all executives and judicial officers, salaried officers of the Government of the United States and of the District of Columbia, all officers and enlisted men of the National Guard, both active and retired, and those con- nected with the Police or Fire Depart- | ments, counselors and attorneys at law in actual practice, ministers o! the gos- el and clergymen of every denomina- tion, practicing physiclans and sur- geons, keepers of hospitals, asylums, alms houses or other charitable insti- tutions created by or under the laws relating to the District, captains and masters and otter persons employed on vessels navigating the waters of the District.” These statutory exemptions might be lessened if, in the opinfon of those qualified to know, any practical benefit would result. But there is another class of com- mon law exemptions that in the Dis- trict has been broadened by judicial interpretations to include an extraor- dinarily large proportion of the popu- lation; which embraces not only those men who draw a pension from the Government, but even those who are protected by war risk insurance or who have a soldier's bonus. These ex- emptions may exist by legal hair- splitting, &nd it might be argued on good grounds that if there is a pre- sumpiion of biased judgment in be- half of the Government because & juror has received from that Govern- ment a soldier’s bonus, the same bias would be found in the case of any gocd citizen and true who had received, in time of war, the protection of his Gov- ernment; who in time of peace has re- celved from his Government the pro- tection that is guaranteed in the is- suance of a passport. These exemptions, or disqualifica- tions, have been broadened since the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of a druggist who sat as the member of & trial jury. The druggist was the clerk in charge of a subpostal SGIUO‘n located in his drug store, and the Gov- ernment paid him $300 a year for rent and clerk hire. The Supreme Court held that he was disqualified, and in the course of its opinion declared: It is of special importance in this District, where there are so many thou- sands of clerks and employes of the Government, to know whether they are qualified jurors to sit on the trial of cases to which the Government is a party. If they bz so qualified it might not be cause for much astonishment to see in this District a majority of & jury composed of such jurors * * * A jury composed of Government em- ployes, where the Government wes a party to the case on trial, would not in the least conduce to respect for, or be- lief in, the fairness of the system of trial by jury. To maintain that system in the respect and affection of the citi- zens of this ccuntry, it is requisite that the jurors chosen should not only in fact be fair and impartisl, hut that they should not occupy such relation to either side as to lead, on that account, to and doubt on the subject * * * Modern mecthods of doing business and modern complications resulting therefrom have not wrought any change in human nature itself, and therefore have not lessened or altered the general tendency among men, recognized by the ccmmon law, to look somewhat more favorably, though perhaps frequently unconsciously, upon the side of the per- son or corporation that employs them. Bias or prejudice is such an elusive con- dition cf the mind that it is most dif- ficult, if not impossible, to always recog- nize its existence, and it might exist in the mind of one * * * who was quite itive that he had no bias. * * * The w therefore most wisely says that with regard to some of the relaticns which may exist between the juror and one of the parties, “bias is implied,” and evid:nce of its actual existence need not | be given. { This implication of bias seems to, have been carried to absurd extremes. | It is high time that a further test bc' made to establish the line beyond which | it cannot be held reasonably to exist. But in the meantime there is no ex-' cuse for the swearing in of jurors who| come under the established ban. Rea-| sonable precaution, which was not ex- | ercised in the case of this grand jury, should be sufficient to prevent it. While nobody wants the Jury Commission to pass on the qualifications of jurors, a' right and a duty of the court, there should be a system to weed out before | the names are drawn prospective jurors | who are manifestly disqualified or unfit. Tre District Supreme Court should see to the establishment of proper machinery, through legislation or through its own rules, to make such | a system effective. B A journey to Detroit showed Presi- dent Hoover that an old rule still holds good. The White House is best as- i it decides to be its own spokesman. At Two Bridges. The agitation about the removal of the small park at the south end of the Taft Bridge is a larger question than the simple removal of & bit of greenery and affects two bridges, not just one. Thé real question at issue there is ex- | actly duplicated at the east end of the Dumbarton Bridge, crossing Rock Creek at Q street. The question is, not whether & small slab of parking shall be permitted to re- main or be removed, but whether dent.” True, he willfully disobeyed the law the penalty for which is death, knowing that he incurred that penalty if detected and convicted. But this does not even by the strictest interpre- tation constitute his indirect invitation of death on scaffold or in chalr or chamber as an act of suicide, for he does ot deliberately seek death by this means, Ho cannot be sald approach to a bridge shall be straight. away Or a} an angle. At the Street Bridge cars coming from downtown to cross into George- THE EVENING ,mht death simply because he tcok | curved and is divided in two by & parti- tion of concrete, . The approach to the Taft Bridge is almost precisely similar, The small park | now being questioned forces northbound traffic to head directly for the side of the bridge, facing a sheer ‘drop of 75 feet, before it can become headed prop- erly to get onto the bridge. Such situations are unnecessary and dangerous, although, fortunately, no serious accidents have as yet taken place use of them. The possibility 1s there, however. The approaches to such bridges should be absolutely protected by heavy guards at both sides. But further than this, approaches should be so laid out that oncoming cars may head directly for the bridge entries. At the Dumbarton Bridge the only adequate solution for the problem is to put in a compulsory stop for vehicles coming from the east. At the Talt Bridge the removal of the small park would do much to right mat- ters. The protest that the park would| be missed is not very serfous, as there is | a much larger and more beautiful small park immediately to the south. — vt ‘The mayor of Chicago struck a key- note when he reminded the visitors at Detroit that one of the most important features of any great gathering is the selection of the city that will next en- Jjoy the honor of entertaining it. With characteristic enterprise Chicago had her bid presented in eloquent terms al- most before the convention was really under way. bt Duties of the President of the United States become heavier with each suc- ceeding term. The presidency will never become so hard & job as to pre- vent every man mentioned as a pos- sible candidate from smiling into the camera with the patient grace of one who fears no martyrdom. e It was all Tair enough for English statesmanship to select a time when Lady Astor and G. Bernard Shaw were THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. An excursion among the magazines gives one a better of American publications, 1t is something like a trip abroad. ‘With all due respect to those across the waters—all wzters—they manage over there to permit many Americans to come back singing a combination of “The Star Spangled Banner” and “Home, Sweet Home.” Folks who went away in the Spring, or maybe the Fall of a year ago, breathing a faint 96 per cent Ameri- | canism, come home at least 150 per { cent patriotic, if not a full 200 per cent. Those of us who have not been so fortunate may at least get some seni- blance to that thrill by going to the nearest book store which stocks such { things and looking through the foreign magazines. foreign opinion * K K K They are good magazines. It will be a pleasure for any one interested in bdoks to browze through them, even when written in languages which he cannot understand. P Many of them have fine pictures! It should be said at this point that the_real booklover likes magazines and newspapers. There has been a tendency on the part of some, during the past 10 years or so, to sneer at reading papers and | magazines. But you never heard a real book- lover do it. He knows that newspapers and mag- azines of all sorts have their legitimate places. Each supplements the other. Each is interesting. 1;1 its way. * * * ‘We spent a_ pleasant half hour the other day looking over a tablefull of foreign publications. One goes sour, as it were, on the homeland magazines at times. ‘We wanted something different, we thought. Well, we got it! And how, as the youngsters say, or used to say. Our principal interest lay in the English fleld, one in which we were not entirely a stranger, having long been an admirer of Punch. As a child, we took a certain portion of our spending money, we recall, aud sent it forth for one annual subscrip- on tour entertaining Soviet Russia to formulate the momentous policy of gold standard suspension. That they were not able to be on hand to volun- teer profound advice was only & mat- ter of accident. It must be assumed thet no slight was intended. e Predictions that United States money will now be th€™Standard of financial measufement will cause that old phrase “The Almighty Dollar” to be removed from the realms of comedy and bs em- ployed with the greatest possible re- sponsibility. —— e It is said that sailors' wives influenced the English seamen in making a stand to keep the pay roll steady. If there is any truth in the adage, “A sailor has a wife in every port,” the feminine in- fluence exerted was obviously over- whelming. S emee A friendly understanding between France and Germany is regarded as the way to establish world peace. Each is valiant and spectacular. The great task of intelligent diplomacy is to keep them out of the hands of political fight promoters. Names are not always essential to news, The old Kiosk on Pennsylvania avenue makes temperature announce- ments that find startled attention, even though observers are too much over- come to $6p and call it names. —— o SHOOTING STARS. _BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Inevitable. A little bit o’ sorrow, An’ a little bit o’ song, Today an’ then tomorrow, As the old world bumps along; A little'bit o' kickin’ Over things misunderstood. Somebody gets a lickin'— But it won't do -any good. Even back in Eden's gladness There were songs and sorrows mixed. Life is always bringin’ sadness, An’ we thy to have it fixed. But we may as well look pleasant, For each day we must agree That the way it is at present Is the way it's got to be. In Politics. “Would you advise a man to go into politics?” “You haven't any choice in the mat- ter,” replied Senator Sorghum. “Every American citizen is in politics. ‘The question is whether you are going to leave it to the office seekers or whether you are going to study affairs yourself, step up to the polls and attend to busi- ness.” Jud Tunkins says he knows a man who never did a day’s work who uses the word “unemployment” as a substi- tute for plain loafing. A Million. A million dollars once seemed great, But times are growing strange. { A million dollars now we rate As nothing but small change. Tributes of Regard. “Would you accept my heart and hand?” asked the impulsive youth. “No,” replled Miss Cayenne. “I have noticed that after a man has made a present of his heart and hand he be- gins to think about economizing on candy and flower: Realism. “I understand Piute Pete is drawing sured of understanding attention when 'a thousand dollars a week from 1.hel next yes movies,” remarked Cactus Joe. “Yep," | “Te ain't much of a desperads at that; but I reckon he's enough of a gun- man to intimidate a manager when they're signin’ contracts.” The Toiler. He worked, since early boyhood's day With watchful eye and wrinkled brow. When he at last found time to play,, Alas, he had forgotten how! “Tain’ no use expectin’ to be puffickly comfortable,” said Uncle Eben. “When de climate is pleasant you has to worry 'bout what de unseasonable weather is gineter do to de crops.” o Silence at the Crossings. town must face squarely into the abyss before they can come into a position to enter the bridge. The situation thefe is complicated by the fact that the bridge itself is placed ’hvs slmost at right angles to the street, is Prom the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator. Rubber-tired trains in France are| sald to be so quiet in operation they can scarcely be heard approaching. ‘This undoubtedly will zest to that thrilling game played crossings. answered Three-finger Sam. |3 ticn to Tid-Bits. * ok k% ‘The British sense of humor, one sometimes hears, is rathet curious, but there is a great deal of hocum to that statement. As a matter of fact, no people in the world have a better sense of humor, unless it is the American, for we are, at our humorous best, appreciators of the best fun of all nations. Especially we are in a position to understand and relish the typically English spirit of fun. Many of us have English blood in our veins. We bear English nai ‘We have been brought up on the “Pickwick Papers. Sam Weller and his father are cronies of ours. Honest Bottom and old Peter Quince are our pals. British is the very foundation of American humor. * K ok X It was a satisfaction to go home with an armful of British publications, then, honest in the faith that one was going to discover just how magazines should be put out, after all. Here were the weekly editions of two of England's greatest newspapers. One wore a dun-colored cover, plastered with advertisements, and the other a similar coat of a pinker hue. ‘This sort of thing is not done to any cxtent in the United States. Newspaper readers over here want their dailles hot off the presses and are not content to get a nm:g of the news once & week. Those advertisements on the front cover pages of such weeklles will strike the American reader squarely between the eyes. Here are a few square inches devoted to an ofl which is celebrated in English fiction, As a matter of fact, it was so famous so many years 8go that doilies for the back of chairs came into being to keep it off the cloth when men leaned their heads back. The sense of ancient of days is what continually strikes the fresh American reader of English magazines. There is a time sense, as it were, which contin- ually impresses the hasty reader. One cannot get away from that old stolidity, es if the very men who were | cares, repsonsible for these publications were standing there, hat in hand, saying: ‘Take your time., We have been gut- ting this thing out for two or three hundred. years, and we expect to be doing it & theu:m;d years from now.” * *x ‘There is something else, too, which immediately impresses the careful reader of English publications, espe- cially those which deal with books. It is the tremendous freedom with which they handle English. no.:?fler all, it is their language, is it And they know how to use it. Behind even the briefest book review there peers forth a great erudition. But this knowledge is not of the di- g:ecctdlc wr% but sl;n.:acd solely that fine om of usage based on perfect un- | derstanding. e They know more words than we do, and use them better. Even when they use a word which an American is sen- sible must be in the dictionary, but with which he is not personally ac- quainted, they do so in such a way as to show immediately by its context the exact meaning. 4 In other words, no reader of an Eng- lish book review in an English maga- zine will. be in the slightest doubt at any point what the writer means. L Their handling of words for words’ sake is a joy. Words for words' sake! Yes, there is such a thing. It is bet- ter than art for art's sake, however, for it has an eminently practical value, since it puts the mind of the writer and the reader in harmony. Mind, the English writers are using our language, t0o, but so many of them make it almost a new tongue by the perfect famillarity which they have with it. y Sometimes it seems as if American writers of all degrees are afraid of their own tongue. They are bound down by rules and are fearful to talk in public lest some critical wight take them to task for .dropping the “g.” ‘The English, on the other hand, clip their endings in an almost fearsome manner. Some of their pronunciations are tremendous, such as Tulliver for ‘Taliaferro, Beecham for Beauchamp and Klavers for Claverhouse. * k k¥ ‘The English have been using English for so much longer than we, as Ameri- cans, have been using American Eng- lish that it is no wonder, perhaps, that they tend to be more honest in their usages. As fine as all this is, however, the American reader will not find English magazines to his liking after the first interest of something new has worn off. What is it they lack? Why, the American temper, of course! They lack get-up-and-go, the down- right spirit of movement which our magazines possess to the full—perhaps to the too full sometimes! This inter- national business is mostly the bunk. When you are an American you are an American, thank God! WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. ‘This cut in wages, of which the last has not yet been heard, is the most unkindest cut of all the slashes suffered by Herbert Hoover's political fortunes during the past two years. It is en- titled to that description because of the President’s herculean efforts, in the teeth of the baffling circumstances, to prevent it. It is just another of the merciless breaks which have dogged Mr. Hoover's footsteps almest from the out- set of his administration. Insiders have seen it coming. They marvel only that it was so long in arriving. Every man whose opinion is worth anything knew it was inevitable. Like most of the causes and effects of the depression, Hoover has about as much to do with the wage cut as with the gold crisis in Great Britain, the Chinese-Japanese squebble in Manchuria or the heat wave in Patagonia.’ But it's sure to e one of the indictments leveled against him the moment Congress begins play- ing politics in December. The plain truth is that the payenvelopes of the country would have grown thinner a long time ago except for the pressure the White House never ceased to bring to bear in the other direction. ok ko Recall of Senor Tellez, the Mexican Ambassador, emphasizes the fact that there has been almost & clean sweep among the chiefs of mission in the Latin American diplomatic corps_at ‘Washington during the past year. The “A B C” republics—Argentina, Brazil and Chile—have all sent new Ambas- sadors to the United States since Janu- ary 1. Former ministers have been replaced during the same period by Panama, Honduras, the Dominican Re- public, Colombia and Haitl. Dr. J. Varela, Minister of Uruguay, who has here eleven years, is actually the dean of Latin American envoys at Washington, though, not being of ambassadorial ~rank, he coes not officially head their group. With Senor Tellez's departure that dis- tinction falls to Senor Ferrara, Am- bassador of Cuba. Viscount d'Alte, Minister of Portugal, holds an irre- trievable lead ington envoys. He recently completed 29 successive years of service on the Potomac. * K ok X President Hoover and his closest cab- inet comrade, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, are in their private incarnations rival fishermen. The President says that Wilbur can tell the biggest fish stories, because he has the longer arms. * kK X Senator Jim Watson of Indiana has just taken occasion to nail for all time the Emr yarn that he hankers for the Republican vice presidential nomi- nation in 1932. A Watson enthusiast in Ohio wrote the G. O. P. Senate leader the other day, suggesting that “Coolidge tson” could sweep the country Jim rejoined in a spirit of becoming appreciatiom but urged his dmirer to spread far and wide the news that the only job the Hoosler sage wants s the one he now has. I haven’t the slightest desire to be Vice President of the United States,” Wat- son wrote. “I expect to end my public career in the Senate on the 4th day of Match, 1933, if T am beaten next year, and on the 4th day of March, 1939, if I am re-elected in 1932. If I am of any use to the people of Indiana and to the country, it is as a Senator, and I have no wish to hold office simply for the sake of having a position.” * % % % A well known Washingtonian met a friend, whom he hadn't run across for some time, in a downtown office build- iny e]ey-wr. “How's business?” he ‘Rotten,” rejoined the acquaint- . fln"i‘h'e::hmw and I . e er man thougl he'd think up a more cheerful qu«uo‘r‘:t “How's your wife?” he queried. “Don’t know,” was the reply. “She divorced me last Spring.” The elevator had by this time reached the ground fioor, muchmmm‘miummt * k% Former Justice Warren Othey, jr., of the California Supreme Court, :odd ver ell accredited Wash- | | assistant to the Attorney General in charge of the Government’s suit against the “radio trust,” has just returned to Washington to resume negotiations with the defendants, whereby the prosecution is to be withdrawn. They are being sued for violation of the anti-trust laws. The basis of the Government's proposed dismis- sal of the suit is an agreement by the Radio Corporation-General Elec- tric - Westinghouse - General Motors-A. T. & T. group to form an “open patent pool,” whereby all of their patents will become available to the entire radio industry on equal terms, the terms be- ing fixed by independent trustees. Os- wald F. Schuette, “the radio ,trust” buster, claims the defendant interests | rate & gross capital volume of $7,437,- 000,000. * Kk k% James L. Wright, Washington corre- | spondent of the Buffalo News, coined an unemployment-relief slogan over the radio the other night. “Rugged individualism,” said, “must not mean ragged individuals.” * K K X ‘Two grandsons of famous Americans, once contemporaries—William H. Van- derbilt, 2d, and Col. Ulysses S. Grant, 3d—sat cheek by jowl at dinner in Washington one evening this wesk. Vanberbilt is the great-grandson of the man who said “the public be damned!” The younger, like his cele- brated sire, has gone in for transporta- tion, but as a bus magnate, not a rail- road king. The present William H. Vanderbilt is president of the Coastal Transit Co., which operates a system of 500 de luxe covered wagons over a territory stretching between the Atlantic Seaboard and the Mississippi Valley, where it links up with other cross- country bus lines. As an indication of the growth of the bus business, Vander- bilt narrates that he and a small group of associates began five years ago with six busses plying between Newport and Providence, R. 1. He is confident that the future of “highway transportation’ by bus is assured and rosy. £ K % % Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy, whose signature re- wmbles the tail end of a smoke screen, writes this observer anent a_reference to_resumption of the Army-Navy foot ball game. The commodore deposes and says that in a recent address to the midshipmen at Annapolis he strongly advocated the renewal of the anclent combat. “The present misunderstand- ing between the two academies,” Jahncke declared, “affects something vastly more important and far-reaching than eligibility rules for foot ball games. Midshipmen should at the outset of their career in the Navy be imbued with the idea that games, as well as battles, are not to be won by quibbling over rules, but by meeting a difficult situa- tion face to face and overcoming any obstacles found to exist.” (Copyright, 1931) . Remorse. From the Cleveland News. Law enforcement can't be altogether bad in Cincinnati, where a man jumped into the river just because his wife ac- cused him of assault and battery. e Excuse It, Please! From the Detroit News. It may be entirely true that Chicago telephone employes refused a raise in wages, but it sounds to us as if they had been cut off in the middle of a conversation. gy ey -Slumber. From the Buffalo Evening News. A natural sleep of three months is credited to a woman in Brazil. Couldn't any good housewife do that if she had time? ———————— British Budget. h;'mm-mmuumm. s reads, i anybody ' Gread Befain san srd i T & Lowering Pay Will Not * Increase Employme; To the Editor of The Star: With reference to Mr. Stewart's letter issue of The Star in which ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. the | mis newspaper puts at s A b B o sounds good, and I have no bt that the Govern- ment clerks would accept it and pinch along with reduced salary if it can be made clear to them that it would bet- ter present conditions—in fact, & good- ly percentage of those clerks spend a considerable sum annually in succoring the less fortunate around them. Show me a composite of the Government clerks and show you a true type of Americanism, generosity and g‘tmmm shirk any re- —a group that will not sponsibility. ‘Will Mr. Stewart, or any one else who inform us where, when and at what he will put the unemployed work? It is conceded that the Govern- ment construction plan can use only one-fifth of the estimated idle because of the nature of the work that a certain fitness for and knowledge thereof. To illustrate, I will cite three efforts along this line: A citizen placed before six parties a proposition to build an addition to his home. Two of them were not sufficiently interested to look the job over, two others did look it over and one submitted a bid of three times and the other two times as much as it was worth, The owner asked the Com- mittee for the Unemployed for men; they reported sen several; only two came and 88 yet neither has e any move to take hold of the job. This was not & case of money, as the owner vas to finance it. Second case: A wom- an asked several parties to submit bids to construct a garage; failing to get a bid from any of them she gave it up for the present. Third case: owner was starting to mow his lawn. An able- bodied man asked for a job; he was directed to mow the lawn. He asked, “Must the terraces be mown?” He was informed that that was a part of the work. With the remark, “Too hard work,” he walked away. Do not the above cited facts suggest that it is not a shortage of work, but a shortage of a disposition on the part of too many of the unemployed to accept and do, as best they can, the work of- fered to them? Does it not indicate that a considerable percentage of the idle are so from choice and not from necessity? Does it not point to a very dificult task to find work suitable to and acceptable to them? ‘The present economic conditions can- not be due to money shortage; in fact, there is too much money in big bundles. | The Government can command limitless money, evidenced by the recent oversub- scription of 3 per cent bonds. Is it not a case of shortage of courage on the Jart of business and money interests ag- gravated by an apparent disposition of the unemployed to co-operate and each accentuated by an overadvertising of salamity which appears to be used by all political parties to advance personal am- b(tlflFl with little or no regard for the public interest? If only & portion of the foregoing be conceded, is it not logical to assume that money deducted from the clerks’ salaries will inevitably find its way through the Treasury into the strong boxes of the big holdings, practically put out of circulation, thus depriving the clerks of the purchasing power 50 essential to business and man- ufacturing existence, leaving their de- pendents and beneficlaries without the support and succor now obtaining, £) mbfl and suffering over a tre- Left-Turn Ambiguity Is Cleared to Questioner To the Editor of The Star: I have just read the question pro- pounded by Mr. Henry S. Coe in last night’s Star. Where has he been that he does not know the answer? Mr. Van Duzer, Maj. Pratt and the regulation give three different answers, and if Mr. Coe cannot find an answer to suit him with that choice, he certainly is hard to please, The right of way belongs to meither vehicle, but to the pink-eyed aborigines of Atlantis. To the swiftest belongs the race. First come, first hit. The in- side turn was installed to give the Po- dunkers the kind of turn they are accustomed to at home. That is why the three cardinal principles of sane driving and traffic control were scrap- ped. That is why the right of way goes to the vehicle from the left, the turn- ing vehicle, and also why two moving lanes of traffic are crossed under nom- inal control. Please also note that tucked away in the ambiguous language of the reg- ulation is a_ provision that the pedes- trian has the right of way with or against the lights. But no chance to cross streets. That's the way' they do it in Pcdunk. But in Podunk they turn around in the center. We turn shorj| to be different’ only. Haven't you no- ticed how much more confused visitors are already than they ever were with the rotary turn? And it is such great fun to travel through the downtown area in low, do it under the old system without some one behind you objecting, but now you have such a nice excuse in the trafic jam always ahead of you. And that is what our Pennsylvania Dutch ung}; calls so naively “expediting traf- fic.” Besides, look at the nice news stories there were in those two people getting hurt from the new left turn. New? Pardon, the obsolete turn dusted off and corners trimmed. Please, now, since we've proved we can do the phoney hit-and-run turn, can’t we somehow get back to the safe and sane Washington turn that we and our visitors can do so conveniently and all? Is another reign of blood such as that of pre-Eldridge days necessary in order to pacify a few—a very few— who can’t stand a 20-second wait for the sake of safety? Is our overwhelm- ing choice of the rotary turn the only time we had a chance to voice it all {orA ndouzht(? nd & few more questi i questions of the For a red light does not mean “stop.” a green light does not mean “go.” “No left turns” are already blossoming forth, rush-hour traffic at a standstill, fender mechanigs reap the profit and all is lovely in the land of night-flying purple whales, but not in Washington. Will the traffic director please tell us whether or no left turns at non-con- trolled intersections are subject to the same ambiguities as at controlled, and whether they are to be made beyond or short of the center, and the name of a good, legal nerve tonic to be shaken ires | about 5,000,000 dogs, or 8 stopping every three feet. You couldn’t | 8 well before enter an intérsection? ing and after leaving LAWRENCE D. BATSON. e Washington Circle In Shabby Condition To the Editor of The Stari In going through Washington Clrcle a few days ago I was struck with the dilapidated condition of the circle and it occurred to me that the only eircle in Washington named after Gen. Wash. ington should not be so neglected, es- pecially at this time. It certainly should be made as attractive as m.lble. M. M. CRENSHAW, PO o S M S S Stationary Candidates. From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, On inspecting primary returns a lot of candidates discovered the fallacy of their supposition that they were run- ning. r——— Satisfactory Substitute. From the Cincinnati Times-Star. Hall Caine, novelest, left an estate of a million dollars, which is almost’ as good as permanent fame. . Still in the Race. From the Dayton Dally News. By retire as s candidate for President, good :mvnnuhulnlormedl ‘many people that he is & that he is not goingjto ington who will answer questions for you. 'They have access to the Govern- rtments, the libraries, .mu- | H. seums, galleries and public bulldings and to the numerous associations which maintain headquarters in the Nation's Capital. If they can be of assistance to you write your question plainly and send with 2 cents in coin or to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Sedel;lc J. Haskin, director, Washing: n, b Q. Was the Spirit of St. Louls a stock model plane?—M. F. B. A. It was except that 10 feet more wing spread was added to carry the extra fuel. . How many United States? A. It dog are there In the is estimated that there L:ll-e y one dog in th United %uf:& iy i Q. Has a sten r ever recelved & rating of 100 m&n & civil serv- ice examination, exclusive of disal preference?—L. H. A. The United States Civil Service Commission says that no one has re- ceived a 100 per cent rating, exclusive of disability preference. Q. Who chose the site for Fort Wash- ington?—N. R. 8. A. Fort Washington is on & site ommended by George Wi n. of'gml plans were drawn up by Maj. L’Enfant. The first fort was constructed in 1808. It was destroyed by the British in 1814. The present fortifications were bulit in 1898, Q. Can American radios be used abroad?—L. G. A. The Department of Commerce says that in addition to the radio band for which American radios are manufac- tured foreign countries have from 1,340 to 1,820 wave lengths. All standard American sets are manufactured for 200 to 545 meters oply. To adapt them it is necessary to put additional coils in the set. Any American manufactured set can be used satisfactorily in foreign countries with the additional colls. Q. Is there a plant which bears blue flowers which will grow and bloom in water?—D. M. T. A. The water hyacinth (Eichhornia 25 people rec- e crassipes) is a type of water plant that | —] floats on the surface and sends out roots which contain air sacs, thus en- abling the plant to float and not depend :)l‘:, ":l lnchgr. Th;]m::ers are blue or lavender and resemble the flowers of the hyacinth—hence the name, » QB What are the duties of a receiver? A. A receiver is appointed by the court to take over the affairs of an insolvent company in the interest of stockholders and creditors., It is his duty to collect as much as possible either by operation or liquidation, and then to turn it over to'the stockholders or creditors in proportionate amounts. Q. How is mail sent to A!lik‘?——!.j G. N. A. Al mails for Alaska are dis- | patched from Seattle, Wash. Dunn, the season of navigation all classes of mail are forwarded. During the Win- ter season (from about October 1 to May 1), oxé lcc&mt of the tyfl:: transportation to remote sections, dispatch of mail for Alaska, except for offices on the southern coast and those located along the railroads and ad- Jacent thereto, limited. Valuable s can -be taken by express to jome and other points at all times of Q. What is pinchbeck?—L. R. A. Pinchbeck is an alloy of four parts of zine. It is used in cheap term “pinchbeck” is also used to that which is spurious. Q. About what does it cost to the world in a continual state of Q. How long did it take to bulld the Bear Mountain Bridge over the Hudson River?—D. J. C. A. The construction was begun in May, 1923. It was opened to general tral November 27, 1924. Q. Is s toadstool polsonous and & mushroom non-poisonous?—H. A. A. The terms “toadstool” and “mush- room” in popular usage refer indis- criminately to any type of fungus eor- rectly known as mushroom. Toadstool is really a nickname, and although it is The | used by some people to refer to poison- ous varieties, it actually has no‘such distinction, . How I ,Dr. John R. Mott beeqn in Y. E‘C.‘“A..'m?—n‘ R. A. Dr_Mott, now president of the World Alliance of Young Men's Chris- tian Associations, has been identified with Y. M. C. A. work for 40 years. Qé When was hellum discovered?— H P. T A 16 was nmmaueon"“:g in the sun’s atmosphere and Lockyer. It was discovered on the earth in 1895. Q. How long will there be ages for Gold Star Mothers?—N. A. It is planned that the will continue until October 31, 1933. . How long does it take to go from c-?mhcnpc'rwn by river and rail? . The Cape-to-Cairo started in 1857. Many miles of road have been constructed, but yet not completed. The longes c. ‘The entire trip- . What - was the occupation chqulu Carroll, signer of the Declara tion of Independence?—S. N. A. He was a lawyer, as were 28 of the other signers. Q. When and by whom was the commonwealth of Australia 4naugu- rl':‘l?—l(. H. the b rs Duke b llflm of Great ES commonwealth. In the same year opened in Sydney the first Federal lament. . ‘Teceived ent, No. 6469, on Camel and Dock on May 22, 1! Q. Did Abraham L out a patent?—N. T. H. Swope Plan for Industries Stimulates Varying Comment Many differing views are voiced by the country on the proposal from Ge- rard Swope, head of the General Electric Co,, that American industry be or- ganized on a basis to create closer rela- tion between production and consump- tion, while providing for the welfare of emplcyes as well es of capital. Some objections are raised to the extension of bureaucracy, while the recognition of the proposal as the basis for future is observed. “Our eccnomic troubles,” according to the Schenectady Gazette, “will not be solved in the halls of ess and those of our State Legislatures, o'('h:l:: last things to be found. be solved by men familiar with industry, acquainted with its various angles and not primarily interested in the out- come of the forthcoming election. We have heard the cry for years, ‘Less poli- tics in business’ Now mcre than ever is there a need to keep not merely par- tisanship but politics itself in the ound. Mr. Swope is snowing the way in which we make progress toward this desirable end.” “As we regard it, Mr. Swope’s plan involves an extension of Federal ccntrol that may well be regarded with hesita- tion,” declares the Manchester Union. The Youngstown Vindicator offers the conclusion: “When the head of one cf the world’s greatest corporations thinks it important that the country should adopt a new system in which workers shall be proected from some of the most serious evils of our industrial life. there will be few who will find similar proposals ‘soclalistic’ wnen they come irom others.” “What happened in the instance of the railways,” thinks the New York Times, “may possibly occur in the case of large industries seelfing to unite their forces for the batter managing of pro- duction and distribution. It may even be, in time, that Congres will pass a law authorizing and substantially ordering that kind of united activity. At first it.may not be compulsory, as Mr. Swope seems to desire, but only permissive. Even if only allowed and not directed, | however, it would be a step toward cquipping great American industries with the means which they require to reach the ends so ardently desired. At any rate, so long as the laws and courts stand like brute and bulky obstacles in ‘the path of those who would both ra- tionalize and stabilize industry, they cannot be accused of falling short in their public duty. To all xeprnacl}u on that score they may well reply: t ask us to do the j]ub without giving us the necessary tools.""” The propol;ylls, as viewed by the Phil- adelphia Evening Bulletin, “tll'l’ for critical Tmh;:“ and discussion. similar_view Times-Union. _ While believing that “Americans will think long before they surrender their right to individual ac- Buffalo Evening News, however, advises ' that “the in Mr. Swope's idea is that he would make action com- ks g 2 i H ] E £ 2 e 8 i : % - £ i 5 3 £ P § % g g £ g | 5! § H ] £k i Inconsistency in the U. S. Retirement To the Editor of The Star: group. 1t would generally be after completing 30 yeafs of any group one could retire. sistent part of the retirement that although you may ha service in one of the mdl hnv’e been placed service clerkship position reached the ages of you cannot use the grades, where the 3)-year already beea rendered, but retire at the greater 5 tion,” the Omaha World-Herald holds | jo that the plan “will have the helpful effect of inspiring constructive thought.” The Chattanooga Times comments: “It {8 something to be studied long and closely, and both its source and its content commend it to the thoughtful consideration of leaders and the public genorally, But this much may be said without reservation—that the proposal is highly slgnificant as indicating that the beat business and industrial brains of the country are t-uleklnz a means, other than governmental 0\"‘)‘0'\'(‘- of depression and the suffering 1t entalls for a0 mauny people.” S0 presents a natlonal objective, and that 16 s to recelve the attention of Con- there can be no doubt,” avers the harlotte Ohserver, while the Cincinnati Times BIAY feels that “it is to be wel- vomed #a # serions effort to find a solu- ton for et &mu e ‘Telegraph poluts out that, “for the first time In § Jalory of the country, cap- m to be as one in such cases as stated above, many employes will receive long deserved jum’ k J. ERWIN LATIMER, A Shameful Waste. , of preventing a re- | year ‘The Harrisburg | with tal Mirror \é day coming “when the worhr_ #iet @ square deal in all re- liticians are b AN it Contending that “the o teh publie feel