Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, A-8 » WASHINGTON, D. ¢, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1931 upon by the propagandists nuut:dhhnflupunhoexn.nnmdm THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning l‘nbl_-_ WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. ...September 28, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star per Company SRR Rate by Carrier Within the City. . .45¢ per month SF“telephone Mafl—Payable in Advance. Bate M arviand 223 Virsiaie, Member of the Associated Press. 18 exclusively e1 titled n‘:&f- e :&'fli‘cgm'fi'mmf of "ail news dis- iso the local news I:hl d o rtn” Al Fiehts of publication of speci it or not otherwise cred- dispatches herein are also reserved. Buy and Hire! The consumers have a duty to per- form in the present depression, Walter 8. Gifford, head of the President's Na- tional Relief Committee, declared in & radio address last night. That duty is to buy goods and services. Without a market for goods and services busi- ness 1s helpless to pull itself out of the slump into which it has fallen. The director of relief has hit the nail on the head. There is great timidity, however, on the part of all classes, con- sumers and producers. The consumers have taken to cover after an era of overbuying, and the producers followed suit after an era of overproduction. There is a middle ground in which the consumer and the producer can work to mutual advantage. It is high time that that middle ground shall be found in this country. Notwithstanding the depression there 4s a great deal of buying today in this country, reflected in the reports of re- tail sales in department and other stores. Prices have fallen considerably. But there is room for more buying. And still more buying should follow as confidence is restored, The reduction of wages announced recently by big steel and other corporations has not tended to increase confidence on the part of the wage earner. On the other hand, it has made him more careful in his buying, because of the fear that his earnings may be curtailed. It is all part of a vicious circle which has retarded a return of business in this country. With prices of commodities at a lower level, however, the pur- chasing power of the dollar has been enhanced greatly. It would be a pity 1f that increased power were not utilized by the people, especially when the very use of buying power ‘will in the long run tend to bring greater employment and greater gains to the ultimate con- sumers of the goods offered for sale. Mr. Gifford has called attention to the large number of gainfully employed persons in this country today, despite the unemployment that is known to exist. Those who are employed, he in- sists, have it in their power to aid very greatly in the employment of those now out of work by the simple process of buying. If they buy goods, the fac- tories that make the goods, the farmers who grow the food, will all benefit and find the need of employing more help- ers. If they will undertake to have their homes ‘repaired, repainted or enlarged, they will give work directly to those who wish to work. ‘The ultimate solution of the unem- ployment problem is not to be found in charitable contributions cr a govern- mental dole. It is to be found only in the provision of work, ample work, for .those who wish to work. In a country @s large and as populcus as the United States there will always be a certain percentage of the people who will not or cannot work. For them charitable institutions must continue to be main- tained. But the American people as a whole are workers. The more the work- ers are paid, the more they can bidy, and ccnsumption of goods and services make for employment, as Mr. Gifford has said. It would be a great mis- fortune if the standard of living in America were lowered. It would mean that the people purchased less and be- cause they purchased less there would be less business and employment. That is cne reason why President Hoover is interested in a meintenance of the standard of living in this country, | a standard which has cutstripped the standards of all other naticns and peoples. e Japan is apparently feeling too busy with its argument direct with China to pause for an ethical discussion of League of Nations details. L e i More Grave “Incidents” in China. Chinese resentment at the failure of the Geneva League of Nations Assem- bly to take action against Japan for the Manchurian maneuvers finds ex- pression in an attack at Nanking upon C. T. Wang, the minister of foreign affairs of the Nationalist government. Mr. Wang, one of the ablest of the Chinese statesmen, has been desper- ately injured by & mob that invaded his office, and his Jife may be forfeit to this violent reecticn. This outbreak, though not likely directly to affect the international siiuation, is to be regard- ed as a menacing symptom of the per- slstent and dangcrous spread of redi- influence in China, fostered by The Communist movement today threatens the stability of the government at Nanking. The so-called “students” who participated in the attack upon Mr. Wang are the perhaps unwitting agents of ithe Mos- cow organization which a few years ago planted Borodin in the Canton government ranks as “military advizer” to the then local, but later national, to create numerous “centers” of Commu- nism in Scutheastsrn China, and 1t is today this factor that prevails through-| Old enemies, according to news ac-. cut that area as the most serious ob- | counts, with a reservoir of slumbering | stacle to stable government for all'animosity behind them, they met on cal Russian influence. orgenization. Borodin contrived China. The incident is likewise symptomatic eéach put his left hand on the other's of the intense fecling eg:inst Japan shoulder, and each there and then pro- _“China ceeded to pump four bullets into his’ trouble any one clse,” sald Uncle Eben, phevinces. victim. For each was a loser, seized crime has which prevalls throughout Propgr,” especially the eastern The Manchurian been Japan, who have been conducting & widespread: boycott for which the gov- ernment at Nanking has disclaimed re- sponsibility, but which, it is claimed, s actually fdstered by the authorities. Now the “students” at Nanking attack the government on the score that it has not acted with sufficient vigor to cause the punishment of Japan for the Man- churian affair. Japan has declared a truce in the Manchurian hostilities and withdrawn the troops back into the railway zone. But Chinese complaints are heard that further attacks are being made by air- planes. Meanwhile, Russia is reported to be sending troops to the border of Manchuria, with & perhaps sinister pur- pose. From Moscow comes the state- ment that these forces are being as- sembled merely to safeguard Russian interests in the Chinese Eastern Rail- road, which is jointly owned by Russia and China. Of course, Russia will be “on the job” in the event of an outbreak of warfare. It will not lose any chance to dig into the northernmost of the “three eastzzn provinces” of China, known as Manchuria. Its short-cut rail line to Vladivostck runs through Manchurian territory. ‘It hopes for a turn of affairs in that region that will enable it to secure possession of Harbin, from which the Chinese Eastern starts southward and through which the Viadivestok branch of the trans-Siberian line passes. ‘The attack at Nanking upon the per- son of the foreign minister is, of course, solely the affzir of China. But a simul- taneous outbreak of mcb violence at Kowloon, a suburb of Hongkong, in which a Japanese family has been slaughtered and attacks have becn made upon other Japanese rcsidents, may be- come cf international significance. Re- prisals of this kind serve to strengthen Japan’s hand. The Kowloon incident may balance the Manchurian affair in the final reckoning of responsibility in the eastern Asiatic complication, which, despite the efforts of the League Assembly and the adviscry action of the United States, may yet flame into a general conflict. —— e The French in Berlin. From no statesman anywhere in these troubled international times has there fallen a more sagacious, & more prom- ising utterance than the one which dropped from the lips of M. Laval at Berlin yesterday. He signalized the ar- rival of himself and M. Briand in the German capital by proclaiming that they had not come to usher in the mil- lennium—to obliterate the fundamental causes of the ancient Franco-German feud. They were there but to pave the way, by sane, attainable steps, toward “the ideal of harmony and un- derstanding which shall be common to us both.” Before their first day of conferences with Chancellor Bruening and Foreign Minister Curtius was over, Messrs. Laval and Briand had arranged with them “to forge an instrument in the shape of a Franco-German committee which is to make possible the examination of all economic questions of interest to the Reich and to the Republic.” A business entente cordiale will, of course, leave untouched the purely po- litical controversies which have grown up on both sides of the Rhine since the World War. It will not stifie Ger- man longings for revision of the treaty of Versalles. It will not lift the crush- ing burden of reparations from German backs. It will not wipe out the Polish corridor and restore a territorially in- tact Germany in Eastern Prussia. It will not gratify German demands for armament equality with the Reich's neighbors. M. Laval, having all these things in mind, publicly admits that the time has not yet come “to touch certain delicate problems.” But the time has arrived, he exclaims in the same breath, to made a modest beginning which “will swiftly prepare a better future for our mutual relations.” There speaks a statesman, and no merely impractical idealist. Had European statesman- after the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdipand in 1914, proceeded on such lines, the four years of blood and tears which ensued might have been Indefinitely postponed, if not utterly prevented. ‘The French premier does not indulge in diplomatic hyperbole when he de- scribes the visit of M. Briand and him- self in Berlin as “an important date in the history of Franco-German rela- tions.” It is more than half a century since any French minister of state has cared or dared to set foot on German sofl in an official capacity. Yesterday Laval and Briand were cheered in Un- ter den Linden as if they were German national heroes. “We want peace! We . went no more war!"” the crowds shrieked in welcome. One demonstration was conspicuous by its invisibility. The Hitlerites, spearhead of the anti-French movement, were nowhere to be seen or heard. Whether or not they were awed into a becoming silence by the extraor- dinary protective measures instituted ' for the Frenchmen’s safety, the absence of their raucous note was both wise and welcome, ! M. Laval invites the Germans to co- operate with France “In the realm of reality.” The realm of reality today, common to all of our disordered civili- zation, is the economic field. The planet around, the times are of out joint, If the two greatest industrial peoples in the heart of Europe can evolve ways and means of pooling thelr resources, their energies and their wills to eco- nomic peace, political peace some day, as surely as the morning sun follows the night, will have its dawn, too. The Franco-German vendetta, crux of the European situation, will then be headed for oblivion, . —————————— Even a grand jury may afford an ex-, arfiple of the large amount of trouble & | small minority may make. P Anger in Action. The terrible effects of anger were never more startlingly portrayed, per- haps, than in the gruesome acsount from a /Southern town | s of sthe strange duel fought to the e 4 Geath by the chief of police and 2| 4o at your loafing in the same omce: 1 fop AR cademy. which ccmes fcrmer mayor of the place. Main strcet, said a few brief words, The American annals of the past few years, but for sheer futility nothing has surpassed this duel to the death, in which neither had a chance to win and both must lose. ‘There was no sportsmanship in the affair, nothing but heavy anger, flam- ing out, drowning out all considerations of mercy, peace, give-and-take, law or Justice. ‘The unhappy men who engaged in this murder duel are gone, but the lesson which they left behind them is very plain. Anger is natural, but the abil- ity to curb it, to some degree, at least, also is natural to man. ‘There are few slow angers, probably aroused over some trifling slight or other unfriendliness, which cannot be healed, in the long run, if both parties to the dispute will use their God-given brains. Hate of another human being is cor- roding, and every man and woman alive should think many times before he carries it to the point of death, either of himself or another. —— e | Senators and Representatives have in ymany instances hinted at wage reduc- tions for Government clerks. There is now some indication of a feeling in legislative and department circles that a time may be at hand for all white collar men to stand together. o ‘The Lindberghs are engaged in re- lief work in China. Some day Lindbergh may be able to take a vacation trip. Yet it may be a long time before he is able to put pleasure, however desirable for himself, before business that relates to human welfare and progress. N— A new study of taxation is to be made by the United States Treasury. This should not cause great agitation, as a study of taxation is one of the things that & national treasury is for. e ‘When an eminent personage falls il it makes a large difference in the feel- ings of the public. and perhaps of the patient. if the doctor who issues the bulletins is an optimist or a pessemist. ———r——— As usual, so much work is being piled up for Congress that no one will be surprised if its adjournment is 4gain distinguished by a large amount of un- finished business. ————— When discussions of economy are well under way, some method may be dis- covered to make the process of obtain- ing grand juries less expensive to the taxpayers. e Another claim to extraordinary dis- tinction is registered by Gandhi as the only man in the world out of whom Charley Chaplin could not get a laugh. ———s. Milwaukee used to be hailed as the clty that'made beer famous. Detroit has made, through the Legionnaires, & bid to share in the distinction. ——— ' Report has 1t that Al Capone will cut wages. There will probably be no pro- test. Even an outlaw may be & genius for discipline. —— Hollywood may find it hard to under- stand how any one can become as fa- mous and popular as Jimmy Walker without being a motion picture star, ————— | London has had a police clean-up, thereby again showing sympathetic in- terest in American institutions. —— b SHOOTING STARS. ' ! BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Treasure, Ain’t no money in de bank foh me, Leastways not as I hear, But de pig is rooting’ by de acorn tree, An' de sight it brings mé cheer. Ain’t no money in a stock or bond Dat T's been told about, But de bean patch is growin’ jes’ beyond. Where de pig is a-widenin' out. {1 ain’t gineter live beyond my means— I couldn't if I would— But de man dat’s fixed foh pork an’ beans Is sho'ly fixed right good. Knew by Experience. “A man must make many sacrifices to remain in politics.” “That's right,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I have sacrificed my con- science more than once.” Affection Vanished. “Your boy Josh is fond of music.” “He used to be,” sald Faimer Corn- tossel. “But since he joined the village jazz band he sesms to have lost all re- spect for it.” Foolish Lawbreaking. “Charley, dear,” sald young Mrs. Torkins, “isn't it against the law to bet on horse races?” “I believe s0.” “That helps to explain what the lec- when he said that a large percentage of crime was due to intellectual de- ficlency.” The Monarch. Trink not, O weakling, to great duty born That Fate, with fawning and unjust decree, ‘The mantle from true merit's form hath torn To let its folds, ill-fitting, hang on thee. The tinseled page, where mercenary skill Heth wrought so patiently to give thee fame, Will fade and tarnish. Honest hands will all The space with some b'g, written name. Tired Business Man. “I understand that you are going to take a vacation?” “Yes,” replicd Mr. Dustin Stax. need a change of scene.” “You never appeared to work very hard.” boldly " But it becomes mononotous to Jud Tunkins says oratory seems to have a backset, bacause & man who has cloguence and megnetism can make more money out of some kind of sales- * | manshfp. gt “De man dat ain't smaht enough to | “kin allus be depended when he’s his oWl wust turer at yesterday's club meeting meant | Wi do damage BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘Well, outdoor gardeni: is about through for 1931, and thouSands of ar- dent gardeners everywhere are mighty glad of it! It takes a real “fan” to get tired of digging in the earth. Lukewarm gardeners are forced to pretend so much. You will never hear a one of them admit for an instant that he is in the least bit tired of mowing the grass, and watering the vegetables, and culling the posies. The less one really cares for the calm and peaceful exercise of the gar- den, the more he must pretend to like it, so that it becomes necessary, in the end, for him to be somewhat dishonest. “What! You are glad Autumn is here?” such a one will ask. “Really, I'am so sorry, myself.” ® Ok K K ‘The truth is that by the time October rolls around one is about willing to withdraw indoors. Emulating Nature, which puts her leafy children to rest for'the Winter, the householder from now on knows the joy of getting everything ready for the cold season. He has had about enough of outdoor flowers. Color has been with the world almost too long. One speaks, of course, for this latitude. y We are convinced that it would take a long time to get used to California and Florida, where one Summer no sooner ends than another Spring, or sort of Spring, takes up the eternal pro- cession of the flowers again. Summertime is a wonderful time, but one can bé heartily glad that it is over, especially when it has been as disagree- able as the ong l\:at‘engch ‘The pageant of the flowers is not ended by any mears, but it is ending. 'And we, for one, are heartily glad of it. ‘There is a season for everything, as the Bible says. Often mankind does not stop to think how much & part this periodicity plays in the life of human beings. . Even small boys in their school days obey almost rigid unwritten laws es to the various times when certain games shall be played. Nature first set the fashion with her dl{l and night divisions. The law of light and dark is obeyed without ques- tion by the birds and by far more human beings :h-.n :nl:ly suspect. ‘The procession of the flowers is or- dered strictly on a time basis. Unless man monkeys with Nature, she will bring forth her roses and her hollyhocks and her peonies and her iris in due season, neither before nor behind. Showing us much in little, she prof- fers growth, decline and death in a few months. But all is not at an end in the garden; many things but sleep to wake again. There may be a lot of comfort in that thought for many. Most of the annuals are on their last legs, with the exception of the cosmos, which will Jast until frost. ‘The grass Insists on being cut with almost the regularity of deep Summer. ‘This is somewhat unfriendly of the grass. “What is the grass?” asked Walt Whitman, as he leaned and loafed at his ease. Any gardener could tell him this time of the year. * x x % ‘The grass is a nuisance. Every one is tired of mowing it, ‘and mowing it, and mowing it, but it keeps The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. Senator George H. Moses has stirred the ire of the Western and possibly the Southern members of the Upper House flmfill;‘ the formation Senator has the ability pricks which irritate. He does so at more or less regular. E His of a New England bloc, and | however, is in a measure calculated to thin, making the lawn look uneven, ‘The only thing to do, , unless one wants to go into the Winter with long grass, is t0 put one’s self into a guess- ing contest with the weather. Sooner or later Autumn will be here, in earnest, and then it will be too cool for grass to grow. It is warmth which makes grass grow, as Mr. Coolidge might have said, but didn’t. In the meantime, the home owner will try to make his last mowing about two weeks ahead of a freege, in order that his lawns will have a good stand by then, but will not be shaved. * ok ox % We would say a few words about trimming bushes, etc. Do not run wild with the shears. Do not build trash fires so close to trees and shrubs that the latter are en- dangered. Some home owners issue forth at this time of the year, with blood in their eyes and a pair of great snippers in inate pruning of all shrubs, so that i side of an hour the old nome place re- sembles a newly built house before the foundation plantings were put in. What is the use of growing shrubs for five to ten years, geiting them aice and big, and mfikgl:g‘ a 1);1-’&‘: lookhu it h ‘beings lived In one is go- um:: nn‘:: all that has been done? 18 time, and you can’t recapture it after it is . New bushes will grow, it is true, but it takes them years to_do it. Nothing gives a home more perma- nence -and good looks than healthy, Jarge plantings. It is better to érr on the side of too large bushes than too small. P With all your pruning, use discretion. * % X ¥ One may be glad that the active work of gardening is over for the year, and yet still regret that the bright beauty of the flowers does not continue. i the province of the gardenetess— larly tI ice Of e will have planted and gathered Chinese lantern plants. These brilliant pods, with straw flow- ers and the like, may be taken indoors, there to shine forth through the long Winter. 7 Many allow the lantern flowers to re- main on their long stems, but a trick of the florists is : green. This arrangement permits the massing of a score or more blossoms in a fat bowl, making an arrangement peculiarly fetching. ‘The pods can be pulled apart at the natural divisions, and left resembling wide-open flowers. Some like way) some the other. It must never be forgotten, in Au- tumn, that the leaves, brightly colored, are flowers, too, in a sense. Few blos- soms are more beautiful than the red leaves of poison ivy! So beware, when attracted by some particularly fine red leaves in the woods. Unless you are sure you know poison ivy when you see it, let them alone, as, indeed, it will be wise to let all beautiful things alone. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Sooner or later it will come out on ing table authority that there was e limit fixed for maintenance of wages when President Hoover mu{;‘z capital and labor together in the Win- ter of 1929-30. Armtl: :hf“ hnppeneg A o e efer pay rol “until further notice.” Few of those concerned—the President, em- ployers or workers—fancied that de- pression would last two years. No- body—this can be stated unqualifiedly— ave a blank check for the indefinite ?\mm‘ In return for the pledge that the wage scale would be retained labor promised to stir up nothing in the form of strikes. No time strings of any kind were tied to the arrangement. In- dustry has, ‘broadly ing, lived up to the wage scale end of it, but actu-| ally reduced the pay sroll by drastic curtailment of the working week. Even in the face of such provocation labor didn’t start. anything. The alibi of United States Steel and other wage- cutters is that they kept the faith just 2s long as they could and live. When competitors began cutting prices the jig was up. The White House considers it has s good consclence in the whole business-—says the cut would have come | long ago _e: for administration pressure. It tI Jowered wages are better than more unemployment. * x * ¥ 1t would make jolly reading -if all the beans leading up to Premier Laval's visit could be spilled. Even though official wualnnon mll '!lzllg t:;e tesman is coming, - mawflil“m exactly be the result spontaneous initia- e of the United nt. journalists, _aided ’Amemn colleagues in Paris, played a considerable role in the affair, which to a fortnight ago was not dreamed of here. What seems to have occurred is that through the medium of that celebrated European device known as a “trial balloon,” or “umlfigimlu co:nn. unique’'—a newspaper article “in- :‘mred,“ but not actually “authorized,” in official quarters—it was intimated that M. Laval, under certain condi- would not be averse to an Amer- fean trip, Reporters rushed to Am- bassador Edge about it. Atlantic City's | most famous statesman was sure thit ashington would be tickled pink to gee “the man with a white necktie.” The Franco-American telephone lines and cables buzzed. A formal invitation was incubated. The French cabinet considered that the premier had been sufficiently urged. His acceptance was announced. HERIR 1f journalism and journalistic enter- jse ‘did actually bring about the Laval unket, so much more credit to them. | Newspaperdom, in international politics as in other realms, uently moves faster than officialdom. It was an As- sociated Press man in Paris who first fired Aristide Briand with the idea that eventuated !n the Kellogg-Briand pact, for renunciation of war. newspaper man claims to have paved the way for Ramsay MacDonald’s tri] and the resultant London Naval Con- ference. Last week Washington was the arena of a journalistic effort to bring Benito Mussolini to this country. > ek Gen. Joffre used taxicabs for the eleventh-hour defense of Paris when the Germans threatened the city in September, 1914. Taxis last Friday saved the lives—so to speak—of 18 mid- shipmen, who missed the last inter- | urban train from Washington to An- ! napolis which would have brought them back before the 10 am. dead line. | Youngsterlike, they disported them- selves in Wash'ngion to the bitter end, ing to caich the 8 o'clock trolley to llhnr:f it by four min- ! utes, the group of a dozen '-nd a half middies, who were win up the an~ nual month’s leave, met emergency by deciding to pile into taxis, damning S cost, s Fartagui and Deway Climbing into 2 L lmchbm.' h:uh a M.:h mirals shoved :fl and raced into their A Chicago) to the United States in October, 1929, | h If the depression Constitution avenue, the broad and |of political cand: of almost equal the beautiful old B street successor northwest, which stretches from the Lincoln Memorial to Capitol Hill, is destined some day to become a Via ‘Triumphalls for Washingtcn. It may never supplant Pennsylvania avenue as the traditional route of inaugural pa- rades, but it has certain advantages for ceremonial functions that the Ave- nue lacks. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, under whose direction Constitution avenus has sprung into being, thinks one of its ad- vantages is the possibility of erecting a solid mile of grandstands. Perhaps it'll get a try-out during next year's Wash- ington Bicentennial doings. Constitu- tion avenue is a lasting memorial to the late Representative Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin, father of the House. He introduced the bill which rechristened B street, X k% Dr. F. W. von Prittwitz, German Ambassador in Washington, who re- cently returned from Berlin, was there during Secretary Stimson's visit. He functioned as English interpreter when the colonel communed with President Hindenburg and Foreign Minister Cur- tius. Dr, Prittwitz, commenting on the present sojourn of Messrs. Laval and Briand in Berlin, observes that they're have (as the new French Ambassa- dor in Berlin has just put it) oppor- That is what happened when MacDol 2ld, Henderson and Stimson were, re- spectively, in Germany last Summer. ‘They were just bundled off in automo- biles, sans attaches, sans reporters, sans cameramen, for an all-day drive into the country and, under those salubrious circumstances, proceeded to settle the affairs of the "Ol'ld.‘ * ‘The newest prohibition reform or- ganization, the League for Modification of the Volstead Act, is perking up and taking particular notice amid the re- vival of the agitation for beer. Head- quartered at Washington, its president is Chesley W. Jurney, secretary to Senator Copeland of New York. For- mer United States Senator Henry Clay Hansbrough of North Dakota is chair- man of the national board. Hollins N. Randolph of Georgia is chairman of the Advisory Committee, and Rowland R. Mahany, former member of Congress and one-time American Minister to Ecuador, is chairman of the Committee on House Legislation. The league’s slogan is: “The only solution of the liquor problem is to permit light wines and beer and medicinal liquor.” ——— Wheat Gift to China By Wealthy Is Urged To the Editor of The Star: In reading of the harrowing condi- tions now prevalent in many countries as well as our own United States due to fire, floods, tornadoes and droughts, which have brought devastation of/ homes, loss of crops, starvation, disease and untold suffering, it. would seem n;:; no call for ald should be un- led. Instead” of burning wheat because there is no sale, why could not our mil- lionaires buy this surplus at a reason= able price and present it to the starv- ing ese nation, not only helping our farmers but what a wonderful blessing it would bring to suffering hu- manity. May many hearts rz;lpond to this great need. I. H. DEXTER. SRR Gandhi’s Style. From the Janesville Daily Gazette. No matter now about the adoption of the Gandhi fashions. It is too late this season. Discords Impending. Prom the Columabus Ohio State Journal. It won't be now until our emi- nent tical spellbinders are sounding keynotes, most of them flat. ——— Bumper Crop Coming. Prom the Omaha Evening World-Herald. tinues the flock next year will them one | h | but Hoover, will Iset the ve bloc from the ‘West. His New land bloc would cer- thinly be a conservative affair when compared to the Western bloc. If it act- ed with unanimity and was as willing to hop from one side of the fence to the other as the Western bloc has shown it- self on occaslon it might add to the con- fusion of national itics, which already is chaotic enough. But if Senator Moses’ proposal is correctly interpreted the New England bloc would stand like & rock against soclalistic tendencies and proposals, and particularly against ralds upon the Treasury by blocs representing the West and the South. If there is to be a bloc of New England members of Congress who stands out as a possible leader more Prommmny than Senator Moses himself? He has had longer serv- ice in the Senate than any of the others with the exception of Senator Hale of Maine. In debate, although he is not addicted to long speeches nor does he speak often, he is one of the ablest members of the Senate. ook ok It was certain that sooner later the New Hampshire Senator's goponl would draw fire. Senator Thomas J. Wnls'lld of Mon'a‘nl, Dmot;mc, and counted _among the progressive group on the Democratic side of the chamber, has risen to the bait, and through the Democratic National Committee has put forward a statement denouncing the suggestion that New England needed a bloc in cun&:w, but more particularly criticizing language used by Sena- tor Moses in discussing the assaults upon the Treasury by other blocs of legislators. It may be expected that some of Progressive Republicans from the West will make answer to the Moses suggestion, too. He has been a thorn in the side of the progressive group, “Sons of the Wild. Jackasses," Xv:a a long time and has baited them often. “‘George Moses has broken out dgain against the West and inferentially the South,” said Senator Walsh in his blast, ,“that is, the section in which agriculture is the primary industry. He wants a New England bloc in Congress representing, he says, its ‘self-support- ing, nlf-nzpeé:’nng' peopl:, &ho do na: yammer at the of . Congress have the Oovmz?e;? do those things which individuals should do for them- selves.’ An ‘impudent minority,*the serts, keep in constant peril from ‘Jegi lation millions of dollars inv; by those same self-supporting, self-respect- ing New England people. Considering that they have been time out of mind, and still are, pers beggars fot tariff favors, out of which they have made those imperiled millions, it might be retorted that the impudence ds rather to be found in the Moses screed than in the unspecified efforts of the people accused to save themselves from the depression from which they have been suffering for 10 years, and which, their representatives warned, would, un- remedied, eventually involve the whole country.” * & ¥ ¥ There are six States in the New Eng- land group, having a dozen Senators and 32 membeors of the House, The New England groups in both bodies have been generally closely knit and have acted pretty much as a bloc in Congress when New England interests were involved, constituting in reality a bloc, whether formally dubbed a bloc or not. The great majority of the New Englanders in Congress have been and are Republicans. For example of the 12 Senators from that section, 10 are Republican and 2 are Democratic, and both of the Democrats are from one State, Massachusetts. O s ‘The so-called Coolidge boom for the Republican nomination for President is not making much headway among the responsible leaders of the G. O. P. In the first place, they cannot be con- vinced that the former President would permit himself to be entered in the race for the nomination or that he could be drafied. Secondly, they take the position that the party must sink or swim with the Republican adminis- tration in the coming national election. To eliminate the head of the adminis- tration, they say, would cause bewilder- ment among the voters which would harm the chances of the G. O. P. rather than help them. One of these Re- publican leaders, writing recently to a friend in Ohio, who also has been active in Republican politics and is a member of a family which has leld high office, discussed the situation very frankly. ‘The Ohio friend had suggested that the thing to do was to draft Mr. Coolidge for the Republican nomination. To this the Republican leader replied: “You are an old politician and a good one, and I think. you will agree with me, when you study the situation, in the statement that there will be no chance to nominate anybody next year In the first place, the South will come up solid for him. You know all about thet situation and I need not state it further with any de- gree of cularity. Secondly, I do not thi that Coolidge has any no- tion of belnfl the candidate, nor do 1 think that he could be either coaxed or driven into a candidacy. “In the next place, when the fellows meet in convention anywhere in the country the first thing that they do is to indorse the administration. It is a very difficult thing to indorse the ad- ministration and at the same time con- demn the head of it, and if they do not indorse the administration we haven't a thing to stand on in the campaign.” i * ok ok % This is frank speaking on the part of a politician who has long since ceased to fool himself about politics. Hz continues: “The real truth about it is that, when properly understood, the administration #s a whole has done pretty well under the extreme conditions that have con- fronted it. I am fully aware of the situation you describe ‘and I have no! doubt that Congress is entitled to its share of censure. At least it probably suffers in the public mind, for the pub- lic does not understand the very adverse conditions under which we were com- pelled to labor here.” In conclusion he makes this statement o his rather disgruntled friend in Ohilo: “We dont want to see' a Demo- cratic administration, and all that you and all the other fellows like you can do 15 to buckle down to business and support next year's candidate. We may all be swamped, but nevertheless we must do our level best to hold what we have and not turn the country over to the Democrats and maladministration.” This is frank, but very Republican, X x ox % It was only a couple of weeks ago that the anti-Roosevelt Democrats were urging_the country to watch for Newton D, Baker's address at the De- troit convention of the American Legion, on the ground that the former Secre- tary of War was expected to say some- thing that would immediately focus attention upon him as strong contender for the Demccratic nomination for President. Mr. Beker made an ad- mirable speech, but sounded no new or arresting siogan. Perhaps unfor- tunately for his bocm, from a publicity point of view, the President determined to address the Legion convention on the same day as Mr. Baker. The Chiet Executive took all the headlines, and, generally speaking, Mr. Baker’s ad- ess came In for little comment, * Kk kX Notwithstanding the action of the American Legion on the soldiers’ bonus and its declination to ask for more whl ts ’tt a time whfl‘x‘ the !:e\;e:’lzl ry faces a very heavy : there will be members of Congress who continue 10 urge the immediate s “l ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Take advantage of this free service. {If you are cne 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 or stamps return postage. Address The Wash- ington Star Information Bureau, Fred- glcc J. Haskin, Director, Washington, Q. What is the world record for a man in running a mile; 3 horse?—J. K. A. For a man, Paavo Nurmi holds record—4 minutes 1025 seconds. Jack High holds the record for a horse—1 minute 35 seccnds. Q. What became of the made by Goodyear?—F, C).wll it A. It was built in the S, of 1920 and exhibited at various shows and exhibitions around the country for about & year, after which it was sent to the West Coast. At the West Coast the pony blimp opened the first regu- lar passenger service by lighter-than- eir craft in the world. The service was between Los Angeles and the Catalina Island. As a side line to the passen- ger service the ship was used to make pictures from the air. Marshall Neilan phllfchmd f.hf lmg.wwhlch ‘was used by concern for al 3 it was dismantled \I;RS'.O o Q. What is white gold?—R. V. H. " pal lum or o nickel and zinc. o Q. What is a tone poem?—N. L. A It is elaborate composition for an orchestra, descriptive in charac- ter but of no set form and therefore p‘:,rmmm much freedom of expres- slon, Q. Why not grow al shrubs_from leed:’,—o Sk les are not transmitted through the seed, but are ted a‘n-ou h the"h'r‘udn.{ ghence the necessity of P of e plant itself budding, grafting and lagu-lnl. " Q. What is the size of Manhattan Island?—E. C. A. It has an aggregate area of Z1.9 mb‘;.u:e 1;11!&. e I'l’ greatest length Is al 2 mi ts greatest bread about 215 miles. " o o Q. Who was McGuffey whose readers and spellers have become so much sought?—E. T. A. William Holmes McGuffey was an | g, American educator born in Washing- ton County, Pa. Sej ber 23, 1800; et u;l chnrht(fia t::i Va., May 4, . He was graduated at Washington College, Pa., in 1826. He was professor of moral philosophy at Miami Uni- versity, Woodward College, Cincinnati, and then until his death professor at the University of Virginia. . Q. How long has the. British Empire known as the Commonwealth of Nations?—G. C. . It was siyled the British Common- wealth of Nations for the first time of ‘Ily in the Irish Treaty of 1921. ow did the custom of having a n originate?—A. T. C. tion relates that a best man ed in the stone age. The swooped down upon bride and stole her away man diverted the atten- o A. Where improvements have beeh e ve being ty, nois Legislature. The bill at the f the members of the Chicay 'W"“mn'- Club and was spon. 2 -oredf‘y the Chicago Bar Association. Q. What is & Chinese tong?—M. K. A. A tong is a Chinese form of se- cret society. The word is derived from thlt ammth\':rdhmm'}"g a hall or Tivate meef place. The are Flr:el! represented among th:'ncglmu population of America and frequently carry on long and bitter conflicts. Q. Does the owl, which is supposed be such a wise old bird, really live h': . . Neumann. a Ge! thority, says that the life e raven and parrot. Q. Please mention some bells which were made by Paul Revere—J. H. G. A. Paul Revere and his son, W. Revere, made a great many Among them may be mentioned the bell at SL. ld"rlrle! Chl‘:lrc‘l;.e Newburyport, Mass., an one First urch, Lancaster, Mass. - Q. When was armor most used?—J. C. N. i A. The suit of armor reached its complete development under Henry VI of England (1422-1461), st it the time that the English were driven out oF Thin stes! and Tasd "Bt the bedy of steel an e i to fit the %zwhltkhdo(lmruhmf A. “Kolinsky is another . name Russian mink. and it is a very lhiilrw fur to Japanese weasel, the two animals different geographic races same species. wuns Q. What per cent of the automoblle drivers are women?—R. 8. B. lnfi g: is ulln:lte'd u:hl;nhtmn 24 per cent of e drivers in United States are women, e Q. Who taught Helen ‘Di‘ki‘n“s - Keller to L 1890 she learned to - der the instruction of Miss Sn":l.;.x mler“ of the Horace Mann School, New York. Q. What caused the yellow day in Ne: %chnd in the Fall of lll’l?— A. The yellow day was due to the fact that the veil of smcke caused by great forest fires over New England was rather thin and a small amount of sunlight was able to pass through, ing a yellow tinge over the landscape. Q. In “Tales from Shi P Charles and Mary hmhmnkmn' - which person wrote each tale?—N. F. 8. A. Charles Lamb ‘wrote the tragedies and his sister, Mary, wrote the come edies. The book was published in 1807, and has become an lish classic & minor order, . i of Q. How Jony book been used?—P. T, i plate are ancient. Some of the Assyrian A. The; small tablets found in the | Must have been book plates. Japan had them “Modern in the tenth century, book plates zre nearly contemporaneous kwlxg‘nmp;‘mtlnh;‘.n : The earliest act a -colored heraldic cut of about 1480. Failure of Long Action by Texas is believed put an end to the possibility of adoption by the cotton-growing of the plan offered by Gov. Long of Louisiana for no planting 1 year. There is some skepticism as fi possibility of acceptance of any plan b agreement of the States, because of different conditions and conclus! as to_curtailment by law. Some voluntary action is expected, an diversification continues to receive at- tention. A Pacific Coast paper voices the most favorable comment, the Los Angel:s Express stating: “The Louisiana plan undoubtedly has its faults. Men rarely plan perfection. But if adopted, it would result in clearing the storehouses of the surplus cotton, and probably at a price which would net some profit to The Columbia (8. C. “It seems imperative that the Govern- ment should make every effort to get more cotton into foreign markets, and that there be a real potent organization at home to extend the use of cotton here. It can be done.” As to the pro- posal that the State borrow money to advance to farmers, taking their cotton at 90 per cent of its market price and holding it until the price reaches 9 cents, the State iments: “Simply to advance money on cotton, with no means of forcing reduction, is following in the footst:ps of the Farm Board. Unless the State radically reduce pro- duction, fill;o c;n u& when ?,mm will again sell for 9 cents‘a pound?” ‘Action by South Carolina, notwith- standing the failure of the Long plan in Texas, inspires the statement by the Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post that “the adoption of a cor&loe is a grue- some business.s This action causes the Spartanburg Herald to suggest that “evidently - the ture believed it was acting in response to the sentintent of the great majority of the cotton growers in the State,” but that paper holds that “in the nature of things in the other cotton-growing States it ap- pears ineffective.” The Chariotte News thinks that “no matter how generous, subsidy will only succeed in prelonging a losing struggle,” suggests as the rem~ edy that “the cotton farmer and the grower of wheat must revise their schedules, lower their costs, dispense with farms of such small size that they constitute an utterly unsconomic unit.” The Madison Wisconsin State Journal sees the same problem as in wheat, concluding thet “the governors of the Southern States pecrceive thet only & better distribution and the raising of the abllity to buy of petsons needing the product will in the end meet the problem.” o have * K X X : rving that the Long plan “has Ngvbl:e up ‘wlt.h the suddenness with which it was conceived,” the Roanoke World-News offers the general conclu- sion: “Powers to regulate individual conduct and use of privately owned land, if assumed by State governments under stress of the present emergency, would not be surrendered by them when the emergency has passed. It is only a step from prohibiting planting of cot- ton to a law makfg it mandatory on every farmer that he shall raise so much of a certain commodity whether he wants to or not.” The Anniston Star maintains that Texas' action lim- iting the 1932 acreage to 30 cent “gounds the death kmell for the pro- posal of Gov. Long,” and that “the ac- tion' of the South Carolina legislators i3 likelv to be a futile gesture.” “It should be clear to every cotton ower,” .qdvises the Fort Worth Star- legram, \that there*is no magic in | payment of the' full face value of the |, 2djusted compensaticn certificates. And now Representative La Guardia of New York is threatening to lead,a drive for the bonus if the Presi Cotton Plan Shows States’ Aims Differ legislation to Sterling of Texas has done & fine job in G ey e e e s ataet 1t yees :hu 'm“(em ts in a Aslg ture per! have the of cooMng enthusiasm for the ang-e-cf drop plép.” The Lynchburg News em- Pphasizes fundamental objections legislative forohibition of private busie ness which in itself not only mate but necésary,” and contends that ‘the ‘utter impMssibility of getting a dozen State legisfigtures to act in accord on a question of sults and under clgnditions affecting each of them differdptly doomed the ." The Pasa- the habit of overpriwdyction difficult to break the h and concludes, “The habit should broken, but it probably could not B ibition' by 14w of Faising anp partin: o = w ."y X raising any particu- * o ox X “Gov. Gardner of North Carolina knows his South' and its leadership in this period of conflicting and confused over the cotton situation,” e Charlotte Observer, quoting as declaring that “the minds of Southern governors are so diverse and the feeling of Texas, Louis-- lana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and South Carolina so conflicting that there must be some sign of co-operative effort not now prevailing before a conference would amount to anything except a de- bate over policy and edure.” * Diversification is upheld by the Tex- arkana Gazette, the n Leader and the Oklahoma City Times. The Atlanta Journal says in reviewing the efforts made: “The fact that political panaceas have been rejected gives a greater hope that economic remedies will be discovered and applied, While legislators can do nothing to change the laws of xu';:fly and demand, farmers themselves, duly supported by bankers 2nd merchants and a loyal public, can do much to readjust their policies to market, conditions, and thus turn pres- ent losses into permanent gains. Of this we have ample evidence in those Georgia counties which some 15 years 2go were confronted with the gravest | problem in their history as a result of the boll weevil invasion. The inroads of that most destructive pest forced them to seek other means of livelihood | than cotton. This necessity called for a revolution of century-old practices. But they met the emergency with stout hearts and clear heads. They increased their acreage of food and forage crops, laid broad foundations for animal hus- bandry and dairying, and so multiplied their sources of cash income that every season, almost every month, would bring coumties are locmeasuranie ¢ Iimmeasurably better off today than before the cotton cr threatened them with ruin.” i ————— Additional Factor. From the Harrisburg Telegranh. toAu:" of Ezmnmu have been added ose who are trying to coal problem Another Sort of Raise. ng; t:e Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. ‘e'd like tG™see wheat going up in something besides an elevator. i rolongation. From the Paszcena Star-News. The paramount ~question is, are those screen kisses as long as they seem to be, or is slow-motion used to make them seem longer? e 1o the pleas for beer. says Mr. La_Gu strongly Mr. Hcover 'Other borus o bonus, Cause and Effect.