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THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Bditien. WASHINGTON, D, C. Septem::r 27, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES.,..Editor The lvnlnc.S!Tr Newspaper Company usin i Jew o SHee T '%Tlflh ica ; ichi i 11 sl S St Rate by Carrier Within the City. W ..45¢ per month e B 8 g w2 T b g e ey ot the end 4 :&‘ mon sent in by m o Rate by Mail-—Payable in Advance. Narsiand and Virginia. ) A ST e R 841,465 Disfranchised Americans. Statistios for the District of Columbia, just meade public by the director of Uncle Sam’s nose-counting department, the Bureau of the Census, disclose that Washington contains 341,465 politically Jost souls—men and women of voting age who, by an intolerable “anomaly, are deprived of the franchise. Of this anything but grand total, 160,809 are males and 180,656 females. They com- prise 85 hapless and helpless a com- , munity as is to be found on the face of ' the American earth. They are far and away—through no fault of their own— * the ignoblest section of the Republic's great legion of 72,943,624 citizens clas- sified, because 21 years and over,” as persons of voting age. The month of October will usher in & year of festivities commemorating the foundation of the United States, They will begin on October 19 with the one hundred and fftieth anniversary of Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown. vision of the Constitution, Rates charged by the bus lines, whether for passenger or goods transport, should be subjected to regulation. If the In- terstate Commerce Commission is not competent to undertake this supervision, owing to its long-maintained contact with rail transport, another Federal body should be created for that purpose. Numerous measures have been intro- duced in Congress to the general effect of establishing such a supervision. It would now appear that the objection of the bus transport interests is particu- larly to the submission of their interests to the commission now at work. The public does not especially care whether the Tegulation be intrusted to the ecom- mission or to another body. It does, however, demand that there should be some central authority of supervision. ‘That the bus and of late the airplane competition has seriously. affected the railroads is evident. The raliroads have justice on their side in the demand that the rival transport means, the bus and the airplane should be brought under Federal regulation, and soon. —r———————— More Taxes. Talk of increased taxes has a heavy and uncomfortable sound. Yet high officials of the administration, particu- larly Secretary Mellon of the Treasury, are considering the advisabllity, even the possible necessity, of .a revision of the tax structure in the coming Con- gress to balance the budget and wipe out the deficit in the Treasury, which continues to mount higher. It has been apparent for some time that sooner or later taxes would have to be increased unless there should be & great wave of increased business, eapable of bringing a golden harvest to the Treasury through the income tax route. The question which now presses for consid- eration, however, is whether this tax revision should be undertaken immedi- ately or should be postponed. ‘Two Teasons for postponement of in- freased taxation are advanced. First, & heavier tax levy would be a drain on ployment with prices Jow. Second, pro- posals to increase tax rates on the ¢ve of & national election might injuriously affect the chances of the political party advancing them. | that was wrought by the Father of his| ng need for the increase in taxes, Country. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. site for the establishment of & farmers' market. It was another to watch for ers themselves after their loss of the oldmronwhnhnw Constitution avenue./ Considered judgment urged . | delay in carrying out the proposal that the District go into the business of building & market for the farmers ad- jacent to a wholesale market developed by the railroad interests. But Congress, in the face of out- spoken criticlsm and denunciation of the measure from its members and without receiving any pleas from the taxpayers, went ahead and appropriated the local taxpayers’ money for the pur- chase of ground and the construction of & farmers’ market adjacent to a site developed by the railroad interests. In the meantime the District experi- enced difficulty in getting the land. The owners held their land for a high price. Why should they not hold it for a high price? By congressional man- date it had to be bought, and there was no stipulation, except the amount of the appropriation, of what constituted its fair value. One plot of ground was of- fered for more than $69,000, and has now been bought for $18,000. Con- demnation awards for other land total $175,000. The condemnation award for one plot is $32,500, as against & cur- rent assessed value of $8,000. And still the District has not been able to pay for all the land needed and at the same time retain the balance of the appro- priations necessary for the construction work, Some of the land is therefore to be “loaned” the District by the owners, with the prospect that Congress will buy it later. In the meantime extensive commer- cial development of & market site has already been accomplished in Northeast Washington. A farmers' market has been provided there, and at no expense | & question is whether the farmers, their patrons, will go to the South site when it is bullt. ‘The willingness of the South: developers to reduce the original of some land by 73 per cent and other land to the District until it can paid for may have been due to the last that the nature of the ensuing debate was pain ful to the ears. » A GLOWING PERSONALITY BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D. Bishop of Washington. Tert: “Did mot our hearts durn within us while he talked with us dy the way."—St. John, zziv.32. The relation of Jesus to what some one has called the deepest experiences of life was intimate r&d practical. It is interesting to nota how repeatedly His great utterances are identifled with the most commenplace experiences of those to whom He ministered. As & matter of fact, His greatest single utterances were given in places that were obscure and to a people who were pursuing the ordinary humdrum habits of life. The above passage is illus- trative of this. % On the day of His_resurrection, so the narrative runs, He joined two lonely peasants who,.saddened by the tniedy of Good Friday, were wending thelr way to their humble home in the village of Emmaus.- Joining them on their sad pilgrimage, He talked to them about the events that had attended His own tragic death, attempting to reason with them as to the irresistible logic of the happenings that had be- wildered ‘them. As He walked and talked with them, we read that their holden that they did not know Him. It was only at the end of their walk, as they constrained Him to enter with them their humble home, that He was made known to them as they broke bread at the even! ‘meal. Immediately His identity was He was parted from them. Surprised and amazed by their extraordinary ex- perience, they had but one word to express their deeper feelings: our hearts burn within us as He talked with us by the way?” What they had falled to percelve and understand as the Stranger talked with them on -the highway was suddenly revealed to them in the closer intimacy of the home. How often it happens in life that we get our finer impressions and inspira- tions in the aftermath of some stir- ring experience. It frequently happens that we are so close to the events in which we participate, or play a part, until we have oppor- tunity !:br“ more serious reflection. A a on_our lips e iy ing this title. "It ificance is not | generates L . C., SEPTEMBER 27, 1931—PART TWO. Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. In the pathway of progress, way for the new $15,000,000 m PO center in the National Capital, we find post-war period has seen o |them tearing down a historic structure o acquraged and thfl:hfl_-:”.“;:;‘: that long stood as & monument to the Out of an enthusissm for great princi- | dsys—antecedent to agricultural and ples, policles and personalities. and barrenness in the lif today. Our finer feelings memp;r:fuum::,yd Sam’s free seeds produced $150,000,000 in w.i. efl‘onr:s after things practical we | food value and every home could have are rvi the ns and sub- table and flower garden. ‘o;l:et:‘e'nm Mlfl. cneh'ot AP Siviawt y ;::: seed warehouse, ':h-e the me- reason alone, 15 given the supreme piace | chanical work of weighing the seeds, is one that takes from life that which | filling the packages and mailing them Jendass X miktuland tnie We | was performed was located at 339 Penn~ esting. time sometimes wonder whether we not, nia avenues where nothing now re- in the ground partly are 3 even in our conceptions of the Chris- | SYlva tian religion and of the Master Him- | mains but a hole self, attempting to reduce it all to the | alled with broken brick and stone and formula of cold logic. That there is|plaster. But eve something which proceeds from the life [ became the of Jesus that is different from that|sent forth some 100,000 packages which comes to us from any other per- | vegetable seeds and 10,000 packages of sonality (s warm glow and life-giving | flower seeds to every part of the coun- power) is demonstrably true. What He | try to make the entire United States was and did and said renders Him ut- | bloom and produce a million fold, this terly unique among all the world's great | building was historic, It was erccted leaders and teachers. Men have gt-|in 1844 and was the scene of recep- tempted to compare Him with other | tions, banquets and inaugural balls for notable teachers of ethics, but He dif- | Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren and fers from them all, in that His life | Abraham rrndu all His teaching, im to | three floors it a quality that renders it “Did not |\ Re ality still persists the world's thought and sumes a different and more command- | floor was Inlcfhu. One does not have to go far | with large to cite the miraculous power that pro-|ish-American Wi AL Radjustment of Party Lines, Platforms BY GEORGE VAN SLYKE. YORK, American mt Beptem! . new outbreak over prohibition this week ‘owing out of the demand of the gam:: Legion for resubmission of the question to the States, with the re- sultant agitation in Washington, has convinced even the timid politician that the liquor issue will be the overshadow- or_minority. ing factor in the mext national cam- | Th® President, as head of his party, Changing Annuals to Perennials BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Gontrol of life currents by X-rays is possible in plant life, according to & new revelation in pure science which has been made under the auspices of ., business depression and the can-crops- | the There seems to be much of sterility | tor_the-hungry drive—when Uncle|®: t nature from amnual to 5 The experiment was eonducted pr. L. E. Randolph, eybaie of ot are as mflummmm' spike- harrows. The Euchlaena, 50 far, has had precisely the same life cycle, the same botanical character- uch a little girl did for Danbury, | like i S !35! i g %EE 4 1] » H §82 i %E i ? e !e§§!s!li ] :.,.mif?ifi:fii b in § £ H o8 i & 5 £ B3 iy et SRR = Nothing achieved by George Wash- ingtop outranks in magnitude his tri- umphant establishment of the principle that taxation without representation is full-panoplied citizens, instead of men | and women deprived of citizenship's| most priceless privilage! | ‘The time is ripe for the Naticn,-act- dependence—that “all men are created equal”—be converted from a copybook maxim into a constitutional actuality. ————t The term “balance of trade” takes on new meaning when it comes to ad- justing & reduced wage to & more lib- eral buying capacity. ————— o Interstate Bus Regulation. At & mesting held In this city the | other night under the auspices of the ‘Washington Board of Trade a repre- sentative of one of the leading bus com- panies of the United States declared ' that “proper interstate regulation of the bus transportation business” would be welcomed by most of the large oper- ators, but that such regulation should | to the governmental expenditures no doubt worthy in 3 set up new services of various kinds which, it ap- pears, cannot be eliminated. Although there are no Joneses for Uncle Sam to keep up with, he seems to have been effectively in hard times, although in flush times it is capable of producing huge surpluses. If there is to be tax re- | vision, it is likely to follow two courses. | The first will be an increase in the sur- taxes, falling upon the larger incomes, 2nd the other will be the levy of certain excise taxes, upon the sales, for ex- ample, of gasoline, of various kinds of so-called luxuries and upon amuse- ments. A general sales tax has been proposed by Senator Reed of Pennsyl- vania, but has struck no spark of enthu- siasm. It would be effective in raising revenue, but not popular. Another pro- posal has yet to be advanced, the in- crease in tax rates on all incomes, little as well as big, with the Jowering of ex- emptions. The levying of excise taxes | upon the things which the people pur- | chase is merely a means of arriving in- | directly at the same result as the in-| crease of rates on small incomes would | bring. . The struggle over tax increases at this time appears to be between the finan- ciers, who see the need of balancing the governmental budget with as little delay as possible, and the political leaders, who shudder at the thought of going to the country after having increased tax rates and levied new taxes. The financiers Many judges spend their Summer va- cations reading law books. And with - [2li this preparation there will be deci- sions handed down calling for dissent- Having heard mildly facetious refer- ence by ex-Secretary Newton Baker to his personsl association with the figure of Mars, the veterans at Detroit showed their liking for classic lore by turning their mythological interest almost en- tirely to Gambrinus. ————— Psychologists, after some further re- search, may find that one way to re- vive the health and spirits of & patient Outlaws. When Uncle Jabes says it's time "To clean his favorite pipe He acts like he was bent on crime Of a most dreadful type. Aunt Jane says, “Smokin's An’ Cousin Sallie calls, “Pa, if you must, for pity's sake, Put on some overalis!” He hooked some hairpins from the shelf. The little seissors, too, Ma has to manicure herself Have disappeared from view. He has some wires long and short. 1f Uncle Jabez fools Around too much he'll be in court For havin’ burglars’ too's, He went out by the kitchen door An' no one said, “Good-by.” ‘They jes' sald, “Change your clothes before You think of drawin’ nigh Us people that are neat an' clean. Remember, if you can, That if you give dogs nicotine Bach drop will kill & man!” But Uncle Jabes answers not. With slow and cautious tread mistake,” be i the hands of those who under- |Seemingly are more interested in the |4y finds o quist, shady spot stand the problems of bus tnmpotu-“ tion and bodies which are not preju- diced against the bus. Though the Interstate Commerce Commission was ' not mentioned, the inference was plain ! that the bus interests are unwilling to submit to the regulation of their oper- ations by that body, which has from | its creation been engaged in the super- vision of raliroad rates and services. ‘The implication is that there is a preju- portation on the part of this body. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion was created under the third clause of Section 8, Articte 1, of the Constitu- tion, which gives to Congress the power “to regultte ccmmerce with foreign na- tions end ameng the several Stetes and with the Indien tribes” When the Constitution was drafied end adopted “commerce” was conducted by sailing ships and by animael-drawn vehicles. When the Interstate Commerce Com- mission was created the railroad had become the principal means of trans- port. The stage coach and the wagon had been displaced. Steam had replaced salls on the water. Nevertheless, the suthority given by the Constitution to the Congress remained effective. Since the crestion of the Interstate Commerce Commiscion the motor car has become & practizal m2ans of trans- port and the airplane has been de- veloped. Both are now engaged in commerce, in the transport of persons and of goods. Logically the supervision of these means of transportation, en- gaged In interstate commerce, would d.\onlnmtbenm(mofm-.mmmmhuymrfllm- future of the country, while the poli- ticlans are thinking very largely of the future of political parties. —— Bonus is subordinsted sufficiently to | leave the initial letter of “beer” alone as the busy B in the Legionnairé bon- net. —— Land for the Farmers’ Market. ' The fact that the District of Colum- plot of ground that was originally held for $69,640 and offered later for $40,500 should, under ordinery circumstances, be a cause for self-congratulation on the part of the taxpayers, who thereby, have boen “seved” 851,640, Something cppropriate ought to be mentioned about the | charged with purchasing the land, and canny District officialy Behind the carriage shed. We sneak like Injuns. I must call It I see any one. I don't like smokin’ pipes at sll, But cleanin’ 'em is fun. No Sphinx. “You never seemed to care to be re- garded as a sphinx in politics.” “No,” replied Semator Sorghum. “I've seem & sphinx. A sphinx hasn't any conversational ability whatever, and is without ideas to express if it had.” Ineorrigibility. “Do you intend to lead r Jifferent iife?” “What's the use o' goin’ on bein’ & wicked safe-blow:r when there is 8 less risky and more profitable?” | how clever they were to beat the price | down. | But news of the completion of this | transaction, related elsewhere in today’s Star, by which the municipality is now enabled to go ahead with eonstruction of the Southwest Washington Farmers' 'Muummwmmnmfuum cold. And it will ultimately leave them Jud Tunkins says he doesn't like amateur classic dancing because it re- minds him of the way Summer boarders are bad. The Acquisitive Sense. The man whose energies are bent | shorn of some $300,000, the amount | which was appropriated by & generous Congress who wanted to do something nice for th: farmers—and, incidentally, the Pennsylvania Rallroad, The appropriation for the Southwest market was unsought by the District's spokesmen. ‘The Commissioners and the citizens favored waiting a while to find what the developments would be On claiming everything in sight Can never hops to bs content, | As avarice guides his fancy's flight. Of peace his mind will find a dearth | Wht'e nursing aspirations fond, For, even when he owns the earth, He strives to grisp the stars beyond. “De man dat sits aroun’ waitin' foh opportunities,” said Uncle Eben, “is the jurisdietion of the body after Center Market had been removed. mighty liable to dose off an' not recog- It was one tijing to select & definite nize ‘enn” ¥ “I do,” declared Bill the 3“‘14‘ many ways of breakin’ the law that's |is dry. act of an evening when the mosquitoes | debate e renewal of interest in the sub- Lo'et in the National Capital is regarded politiclans on both sides as indi- cating how powerful forces are operat- to shape the issues for the cam- |, It may not be as displeasing to is popularly 2 disr brought ca of of the Democratic party, is with being anxious to capitalize po- litically on the economic issue and play down prohibition so_that he may pull the wet East and the dry South together. * k * % ‘The greater the disturbance over| prohibition, the more certain it be- comes that Roosevelt and the Demo- stronghold. The announcement by Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, that he is making s survey to determine the {nmble benefit to farmers of the re- urn of beer, coupled with other activ ties on the part of members of the ministration in relation to the discus sion, is heartening to the wet Republi- cans, Wet Democrats in the East, however, found little solace in the pro- posal by Senator Bulkley, Democrat, of Ohio that he will call on the Demo- cratic National Convention pledge the party to resubmission tion of repeal to the States. wing will fight for & straight repeal plank and the Bulkley formula might bring about & split in the wet ranks. * ok * X ‘The subject certainly will be much alive in the coming session of Cangress. The Democrats have recognized re- cently that they must fight it out again in their National Convention because of the militant demand of the wets, led by Alfred E. Smith of New York, for a repealer plank. Yet the moderate wets in the Democratic party have been hopeful that they might avoid a dis- astrous conflict in their convention and play down the lssue in the campaign. That hope is fast fading. Certainly the Republicans will do what they can to omote the old split in the Democracy; it the logical and most effective line of attack for the Republicans. Leaving entirely out of consideration right or of gnhlbltlm. the subject reduces itself practical politics as viewed from the headquarters. * ok ok % The Democratic party naturally has to be wet and there is no other course open for it. No matter who may be nominated, the Democracy cannot see a chance of winning in 1932 excepting as the wet party. To win, it must carry the debatable Eastern States, in which the party is predominantly wet and where its hope of victory lies in attracting the wet blicans. The loss of dry Democrats is more than off- :fimumpsuuwmmum publicans. In the pivotal States of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio and Illinois, to name ml'yfl:.hc largest, the Republicans were beaten badly in clean- cut tests on prohibition in the 1930 senatorial elections. The one chance the Democrats have of carrying those States is on the wet issue and they must carry several of the group to win ths presidency. * K * % The South, traditionally Democratic, ten Scuthren States with ey are rated among the ryest o tional groups, yeu ep for the South insist they are not as_intense about it as in 1924 or 1928. Four of those States broke from the c party for the first time in 1928 and the politicians still whether the cont cause was prohibition, as assigned at time, mu‘g‘oththnu;-nmmwmn- party next year, even moderately wet latform, providing the religious con- y is not revived. Southern Sen- ators and State leaders are almost unanimously of the opinion that Roose- velt, Baker, Young or Ritchie—in fact almost eny Protestant—will carry the Bouth next year on a wet platform. If their observations are correct, obviously the big chn‘wamxo&:m D-mg‘cnu is to very wel hope of earrying {ge Eastern wet States. it s k is inserted in the | &Y the Empress Eugenie. o - of > Beginning in Paris, the fad spread for President. et Bn;fiet. m:tdwl:" the ‘l:rogm:d = ich milliners This sudden revival of the prohibition muvde-u' .ur it lx’:n.:zr nd whole- discussion a wide front is salers prompg;“:ellver to h.eaieeed Te- along |to hasten the activities of the extreme | taylers. w8 groups P > Why did this little Prench girl espe- are not quite satisfied with the attitude pe of Glov. ‘Roosevelt, suspecting that he | Sy, 25, up Danbury? The speclalists | may seek to turn aside the issue if he|gpq¢ sy | dominates ths national convention.' B eemiar i sorae 1o of siiunce | P58 0 er ‘some of ince the several interests which are known ;hnhm%w. to be unfriendly to the Rooseveltian | women's fur-felt " (Copyrient, 1991) New Uses for Rubber Empress modistes , uses ;.r:;e! materials than fashions :t" Tecent So three industrial cheers and & mill whistle serenade for little French girl. TR * ¥ % Pink lemonade—the “sine qua non™ of our circus days—is going to be pre- served for the delectation of imbibing future generations, and as a syn- thetic ‘wodm’uct. but pure enr:u Juice, without condiment or em- ::HZML ncle Sam has uenwtlo He is having his citrus fruit e clalists make an intensive lfi’ a its in lornia o lmml.nulhg‘m mm!armmmmppl,n(m it | lemonade. .| The lemons were first exhibifed Orange Show this year. Y s tree in Burbank ln:fid“ far is wn, the.tree is s sport, or freak, of the fial production | Eureka.* lemon, which was _deve t ]trom a limb = f the Eureks lemon discovered in 1911. There varie- gated Eureka lemon trees are grown a tendency to increase | 4ho these articles. increased consumption of in widely separated been BY HARDEN COLFAX. While the world’s rubber output has for some years been one of the out- standing {llustrations of overproduction, with all the ills that follow in its train, those who know about the rubber situa- tion from the standpoint of both pro- duction and consumption are now claiming that new uses seem about to | provide a practical stimulant to world business. The actual production of rubber has not declined vi x;:autlny. although the Eés 3 i 28 i § Tubber roadways to rub- and l‘n:.ve inc‘liud;d urns, 3 e pavings, and floorings. Several mew and novel devices have made their appearance on the market this country and England, emphasiz- the color note. These have included “slickers,” hot-water S, pens and many other artic) tirely or chiefly of rubber. * ok ok ¥ m-olfinhmmg i t b § 5 made en- amost novel illustration of striking bud variations has never had any oS he ean t?lfe rubhcrdin its n::;xdr:l form. ubber roadways, e pavings, goon{)g and w&}! - d t.h“ construc- e historic parade onal opportunities for the utilization |ground of the Nation, where of rubber that have been the subject of fleso.ooo.m are be! m:: °;n”$: much experimentation. PFinally many | magnificent new buil observers regard possibilities in the fleld of construction and engineering with great optimism. * * N Since the general business depression has been on such new devices and sug- itions for rubber have been recelving . llehl‘;inl‘ > has Feoeatly company recen announced that it has de L car with pneumatic tires. Rubber tires have furnished the chief outlet of rub- ber for the world for the past . ‘Trade leaders are polnting out most incalculable benefits to the indus- would result if this riment should prove successful. It is the result gmu’: proble 'mo! m;mn: = 'g'c lem al leumaf tires to rail vehicles. s It is said that the new cars are much lighter than the regular railroad steel coaches, without sacrificing anything of strength and resistance to long service. ‘The Michelin motor rail car, as now presented to the public, is claimed to rmuant".:d m lduunr“ of the problem application of pneumatic tires to rail transgartation. program, was rs during ith Lom| lanted wi tlonm:t’ popla leasure city. E,EEE ;?EE;?E g § mendous.” In connection with the use of old ber, the scientific research agency of the Department of Commerce has just made ¢ L | N SRR B British Statesmen Are Divided as to Election 23 E g E E {1 § g 8 4 H i i : i i ; i85 bt FEH : i -3 ¢ 2, i gf §§E§ i B f i Big | seize the most {avorable moment to a decisive verdict from the country a full protectionist policy. * K k¥ Chancellor Philip Snowden and the beral suj of the it Lil governmen are indignant at this strategy, which 3 tional emergency John Simon tively for tariffs and is supported by a considerable body ‘of Liberals who are prepared to leave action on the matter to the discretion of the government. 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