Evening Star Newspaper, October 5, 1931, Page 8

{THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY........October 5, 1831 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11en 8 A Bepnavivants Ave. aew York afl‘ee‘-‘}m n#‘-l:z hm icago uropean 41 Regent’ .. Lon Sk .. o Englan R Ve 123 madl of telephome NAtional Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 5000. Daily only Sunday only . All Other States and Cahada. Daily and Sunday...1yr. $12.00: 1 mo., $1.00 Daily only 13 {00t L mon Sunday only . 1yr. mo.. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively er titled to se for republication of all news dis- s credited to it or not otherwise cred- this paper an the local news also ¢l 1 herein All rights of publication of publ: special dispatches nerein are also reserved. Pan-American Commerce. More than five hundred delegates, representing the governments, Cham- bers of Commerce and other trade or~ ganizations of the United States and every other one of the twenty-one re- publics of North and South America, assembled in Washington at the Hall of the Americas this morning. They will remain in session all week in at- tendance at the Fourth Pan-American Commercial Conference. Inter-Ameri- can trade problems will form the theme of their deliberations. Secretary of State Stimson today wel- comed the representatives of the sister re- publics. On Thursday President Hoover will address them. Before the confer- ence adjourns messages of appropriate | import will be delivered by other prom- inent spokesmen of the United States, while, of course, eqMly important statements will be forthcoming on be- half of our Latin friends and neighbors. Vast changes have taken place throughout the southern segment of the Western Hemisphere since Pan- America last assembled in conference. Revolution has spread through South and Central America during the past year. Old regimes, long and supposedly firmly established, were uprooted as if they were built on nothing more stable than shifting sands. New men are at the helm in the “A B C” countries— Argentina, Brazil and Chile—and else- where in South and Central America. Latin governments come and go, but one tie unites their respective coun- tries indissolubly to the *“Colossus of the North.” That tie is the bond of commerce. Ways and means for making it a stronger tie will form the bedrock of this week's discussions at the Pan- American Union. Doubtless our visi- tors from the South are chiefly inter- ested in hearing what spokesmen of the United States may have to say about the American tariff law. Some of the Latin countries, notably Argen- tina, level bitter complaints against our protective system, especially its latest flower, the Hawley-Smoot law. It is, of course, the Congress of the United States, not a Pan-American commercial conference, which alone can afford tariff relief to countries which consider that Uncle S8am’'s cus- toms policy treats them unfairly. But it is within the province of such as- semblies as the one to which Wash- ington now is host, to air their griev- ances. Latin America is our best cus- tomer among the earth's continents. For that, if for no other reason, it is entitled to the maximum of liberal consideration of its desires to invade our market under favorable conditions. ——————— Glasgow finds it needful to offer em- phatic public demonstrations to make it plain that unemployment protests are not t5 be confused with that “quaint Scotch humor” which the world has so heartily admired. e No time is lost by Senator Borah in assuring his public that he can always be relied on to find something about which to insurge. —————— Gangster Murderers Caught. Arrests were made in New York yes- terday that it is believed will bring to justice members of the gang that late in July fired a fusillade into a group of children playing in the street in Harlem and killed a baby. These men e aiming at a fellow gangster who «2d been “put on the spot,” or, in plairer language, condemned to death by them for some infraction of ratketeering law. Included in the gr up of captives was a man who is said to have been identified as one of the slayers, on Friday last, of another vieflm of gang reprisal. The leader of the group wanted for the slaughter of the cBild in July, himself only twenty- three years of age and of an exception- ally mild appearance, has a police record dating back to 3921. when he was thir- ' teen years old. He waa then arrested for unlawful entry and was sent for train- ing to a protectory from which he escaped three years later. At sixteen he was placed on probation after stealing an automotile. Within six months he was arrested for carrying a pistol and was r2mmitted to a house of refuge, from which he was released in 1928. For some time ne has been at the head of a gang aspiring to the domination of the beer business in Harlem and the Bronx. He took his arrest yesterday in a philosophical, almost a jovial, spirit, complimented the police on their energy and cunning awd claimed an THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1931. called for by & member of the gang | confusion incidental to a vital traffic the case was regarded as virtually | change, there certainly is no reason to closed. ‘The arrests followed. | suppose that it will mount in the future, Now will come the test of the law.| when motorists become thoroughly ac- Heretofore these gangsters have been | customed to it. able to stall off trial and to delay| The new method of turning naturally punishment, sometimes entirely to evade | does not please every one. Nothing yet it, by the use of all sorts of devices, [ has been discovered in traffic or any- permitted under the practices of the | thing else that does, The objectors, |courts. ‘They always have abundant|however, should realize that uniformity funds for the employment of capable | throughout the country in traffic regu- “mouthpieces,” as they call their lawyers, | lation is much desired because uni- Wwho go to extremes in procrastination | formity makes for a higher degree of and who invoke political influences in |safety than can otherwise be obtained. behalf of their criminal clients. Little | Washington, therefore, in going back to faith is felt by the public in consequence | the inside turn. is doing its bit in the in the efficacy of the courts to punish | national plan for the regulation of the |ihese slayers. In cases where convic- | rapidly increasing volume of motor car tions are had several years elapse be- | travel. tween arrest and penalty, if conviction is eventually obtained. What is needed | most particularly in this conflict between jw% and crime is speed, with the certain result of conviction and execution where the right men are caught' Swifter ‘Why the Hurry? Contreller General McCarl, perhaps with an idea of locking the stable be- fore the horse is gone, intervenes in the Southwest Farmers’ Market deal Jjustice with less glorification of the |eriminal as & romantic figure is neces- sary to stamp out organized banditry. —————— A National Economic Council. Business’ own national economic council is proposed in an exhaustive re- port made by the Committee on Con- tinuity of Business and Employment of the United States Chamber of Com- merce. The national council would be with a request for all the facts. The Commissioners are going to furnish them. One notes from their comments that they are not at all certain in their | minds that the transactions thus far have been strictly according to Hoyle, but justify their course on the mandate from Congress to buy the land and erect the market sheds. But does the mandate hold if the purc! “se of the land and the erection purely an advisory body. But it |of the sheds cannot be kept within the would have important functions. For |$300,000 appropriated for such pur- example, it would be called upon to (Poses? Why all the haste to get the adopt plans to balance production |Project under way at this late date by against consumption, stabilize employ- |the adoption of admittedly questionable ! ment and wages, guide foreign trade |expedients, when Congress will be back policy, and give opinions on foreign |Within two months to decide for itself debts, credit and finance, agriculture |Whether it wants to carry the thing and transportation. At first glance, it looks like a large order. However, the plan outlined by the committee report has been carefully worked out and will be submitted to the 880,000 corporate and individual members of the United States Chamber | of Commerce. And if the referendum {is favorable to the recommendation, doubtless steps will be taken to set up and start the machinery required. The proposal of the Chamber of | Commerce Committee bears some re- semblance to the recommendations a vanced not long ago by Gerard Swope, president of the General Electric Com- {pany. Mr. Swope's plan, however, con- tains a measure of compulsion, while the Chamber Committee’'s plan sesks voluntary action by American business in carrying out the project. And while | Mr. Swope's plan would definitely give the Federal Government a directing {hand in the operation of the plan, the Chamber Committee’s plan looks to control by business itself, with the Government kept fully informed. ‘The report of the Chamber's Commit- tee indicates that the leaders of Ameri- can business are thinking along de- cidedly)progressive lines in their search for plans that will prevent future de- pressions such as that in which the |country has been enmeshed for the last two years. This report condemns manipulative speculation and, urging action by the exchanges to prevent it, | demands more stringent regulation of credit, suggests Industrial planning by companies and trade, indorses unem- ployment reserves and voluntary unem- ployment insurance and urges gradual decrease in hours of labor and increase in wages. The plan, If it could be worked out, looks to minimizing violent fluctuations in prices and to a more equal distribution of wealth and to the maintenance of high standards of living. But that is not all of the recommen- dations of this Chamber Commfttee. Its report supports American leadership in international disarmament and urges modification of the anti-trust laws. Sc far as the present unemployment emer- | gency is concerned, the committee turns |its back on a Federal dole and calls for 'private, community and State relief funds, central registration of the un- employed and the speeding of public works. ‘The modifications of the anti-trust laws proposed are along two lines. It is recommended that business concerns be permitted to file trade agreements to equalize production to consumption and thus avoid the perils of lsrge surpluses, and, secondly, it is proposed that busi- ness be permitted to obtain rulings in advance of the formation of mergers from a Government body as to the legality of the contemplated combina- | ticns. Both these proposals may be assailed by the opponents of any in- fringement of the anti-trust laws. The equalization of production to consump- tion may be desirable, but the danger of so limiting production as to affect injuriously the ultimate consumer al- wavs lurks within such a plan. ‘The report of the Chamber's Com- mittee has been carefully prepared and forms a document of value in the pres- ent hunt for methods to lift the coun- try out of depression and to insure against similar depressions in the future. e Frequently called to conference in the absence of Secretary Mellon, Mr. | Mills has demonstrated that an under- secretary may be a highly responsible figure as an understudy. —_— et A False Alarm. One of the chief expressions used by opponents of the Hoover left-hand turn now in effect in Washington when the question of changing from the rotary ,turn to that uniformly used throughout the Nation was broached was that “it will sound the death knell of thou- sands of persons.” Just why it was likely to “sound the death knell” to ‘Washingtonians any more than New iYorkera or San Franciscans was never made quite clear, although a surmise might be that residents of this city, having been forced to learn the bad driving habits necessary to the rotary alibl. Yet the fact that he had dyed turn, would not be able to “snap out his hair, grown a /moustache and was Of it” and get back to normaley with wearing dark glasses strengthened the the Hoover. turn. suspicion that he has been in and! In any event, it looks very much as around New York ever since the July 'if the alarmists were quite wrong in tragedy. their forecast. On the fifteenth of Sep- After every one of these gang murders, tember the Hoover turn was officially of which New York has been the scene installed. On the first of October it repeatedly for months past, the par- had been in effect for two weeks and, ticipants have been sought with an strange as it may seem to those who assurance of identification. But t.he:prophe-led chaotic conditions and a actual proof of guilt has been difficult | huge accident toll, there has been no to secure and capture has not been increase in the rate over the first two easy. Witnesses have been loath 'o‘weeka in September when the rotary testify because of fear of reprisal. In|turn was in effect and in fact one less this case, however, a direct clue was turning accident had been recorded. obtained on Friday last in the noting| All of which speaks very well not of the number of the car in which the | only for the inside turn but for the in- shye:ror the latest gang victim were'telligence of Washington motor car ridingfs'Later this machine was found operators. If the accident rate did mot & a garage and watched and when mount in the first two weeks with the . through? ‘There has been enough delay in this matter without rushing now into a last- minute arrangement that is irregular, if not illegal. Since Congress, against the expressed wishes of taxpayers and many of its own members, appropriated for this market a two-million-dollar commercial project has been completed that gives the farmers space for their wares without charging it to the tax- payers. Is it not enough that the tax- payers have already been committed to spending some $300,000 on a farmers’ market they never asked for without entering into deals that, in effect, an- ticipate the useless spending of even more tax money? The Commissioners themselves should have stopped this deal and put respon- sibility for the whole business squarely where it belongs—on the Congress that appropriated the money. It should never have been necessary for Mr. McCarl to interpose. But it is well that he has. ——e———— Some of the Atlantic Coast resorts are wishing they could dismiss racketeer publicity and get back to the harmless (and easily managed renown conferred by the old-fashioned sea serpent. Undoubtedly a shrewd politician, Ma- hatma Gandhi managed his interviews with Charley Chaplin with a discretion which prevented in a large measure suspicion that he was being used as an involuntary press agents ————— Inactivity, however comfortable, is never 1o be expected from Smedley But- ler. The question of what he is going to do next is always one of much public interest. ——————— It is believed that old friend Santa Claus is, as usual, well fortified by savings accounts to exert a benevolent influence in averting business depres- sion. ——oo—s. Gas interests are alertly attentive to prevent the possibility of ill effects in some cases by the development of finan- clal carbon monoxide. D SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Criticism, ‘The novelist will criticize The manners of his day; The Socialist in accents wise Will seek to bring dismay. The college teacher shows us where ‘We're organized all wrong, There’s criticism everywhere, In prose or flippant song. Each person says, “I am the elf ‘To whom the rest should bow. I do not need to work myself, T'll tell the others how.” ©Oh, who will run the homes with care, And who will till the soil, If critics gather everywhere And no one wants to toil? Fatigue. “Isn’t there a great deal of fatigue attached to speechmaking.” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. “I have had a number of people tell me my speeches made them tired.” Among the pitiable people of the world are those who have to be dis- agreeable in order to have their re- marks noticed. The Power of Precedent. He wrote a play, but found that it ‘Was not the proper stuff; ‘The hero was a gentleman; ‘The villaln was a “tough.” He changed it; made the villain sleek; The hero poorly clad; And soon both dollars and applause The prudent author had. : Obtrusions, “There is nobody the world cannot go on very comfortably without.” “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne; “but there are men of such aggressive ego- tism that ‘they won't permit the world to do so.” Strategic Sentiment. “When Josh went to school” re- i a fountain pen and made him promise dear old folks at home.” “That was nice and sentimental.” “Kind o' practical, too. That foun- tain pen 'Il be wore out in a week or 50, an’ then Josh is goin’ to find it slow an’ troublesome to write home | for more. funds.” Glory Seeking. ‘The man of scientific mind Declares his life a thankless And wishes he could to f “It's easier,” sell & man some kind of ssgold brick it dan free of marked Farmer Corntossel, “I gave him to use it every time he wrote to us | RuM! THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. “I like man, not men,” said in 1848, when since. It is the personal contact which makes for trouble, W Familiarity breeds mu:n old sa so succinctly puf breeds. as the will e One may have the most theoretical love for mankind, but ofien it is put severely to the test in the ce of some one Tepresentative of tribe. “Contact man,” is the lve desig- nation evolved by American business for the fellow who actually meets other human beings, over the counter and otherwise. . It is widely uefl. that all is not gold that glitters . A man may be a rough diamond, but so rough that he Tubs us the wrong way, as we say. Some men have a peculiar knack of getting along with their fellow human beings. The typical public relations counsel. as he is sometimes called, g:el to the extent of cultivating this deliber- ately. Let us see what he makes out of it. \ps one on the , smiles t one’s approach and promises the most im) ible things. No one with the least bit of sense imagines for an instant that he means anything he says, but it is interesting to listen to him just the same and to attempt to forecast the extent of his ible deeds. T o o =gy ‘The main hindrance to being forever ties which one encounters lies, one may devotedly believe, in the code of con- duct which every man alive builds up for himself. This, being a strictly personal affair, differs’ with every man. Perhaps n two of these codes are exactly alike. ‘While in the main they coincide on the fairly uniform levels of different classes, and so on, they differ as much, each from each. One man dislikes whistling, and an- other does not mind it. One gentle- man got himself some nation-wide pub- licity recently by speaking out against it. just as Schopenhauer disliked the cracking of whips and said as much. ‘There is something to be said, how- ever, for whistling in public. Yet it it irritates one, well, one is irritated, is one not? Surely he has a right to be, +1if the thing strikes him that way. Why it so strikes him must be a matter for study in every individual case. Perhaps he cannot whistle well | himself, or associates the shrill sound | with & certain boy of his childhood whom he glrucullrly disliked. Maybe the whistle-hater has come to | associate the sound with a certain ju- | venility of character which he long ago | gave over himself and heartily wishes all other persons would give up as speedily as Nature permits. ‘The conventions of soclety demand that one endure, rather than openly censure, all these actions which rub one the wrong way. For politeness’ sake, we ordinarily overlook or tend to overlook such matters in all persons whom we do not | know very well. Thus the utter | stranger often is saved from the criti- | cism which the home folks or associates in one's office are subjected to. Famil- | jarity not only breeds contempt, it causes a certain lack of respect for the feelings of others, which fine line is often stepped over in the course of an average day. The sad truth is brought home to one, BY FREDERIC In & seven-hour pow-wow between Secretary Stimson and Senator Dwight | W. Morrow of New Jersey the curtain was unoMtrusively raised last week for Premier Laval's visit to Washington. “Lindy's” father-in-law was summoned to the Capital to check up with the Secretary of State on the European sit- uation, "Morrow having explored it earlier in the Summer before Stimson went to look it over. Senator Morrow still ranks as one of our “French au- thorities,” the distinction having been won when Stimson told him off to be the American delegation’s go-between Conference. ner was supposed to be the French scholar of the delegation, too, though he always insisted on referring to the then Parisian premier as “Tardoo.” The Stimson-Morrow conference, which included daytime and nighttime ses- sions embracing even luncheon and din- ner, is supposed to have laid the foun- dation of the forthcoming seance witl M. Laval. * k% X 8o much, there's reason to believe, was decided upon—to let Laval know, if he wasn't aware of it already, that the U. S. A. looks upen a Franco-Ger- man rapprochement @ the bedrock of world peace, disarmament, and, in par- ticuler, of any readjustment of repara- tions and war debts. Secretary Stimson imparted one secret to Senator Morrow, so little birds are whispering, viz, that Laval told the Secretary of State in Paris that the French premier is “open-minded” on the subject of the Polish corridor. That tiny strip of territory in Northeastern Europe, which cuts Germany in two and constitutes her sorest grievance, may thus turn out to be the pivot around which the Laval visit will re- volve. It is not going to Tevolve very far if the Frenchman sticks to his re- puted resolve—to yleld on the Polish corridor and hand it back to the Ger- mans only if America is ready to join in a French security pact. Thumbs are down on that proposition at Wash- ington, all the way from Hoover to Borah. * ok K K There’s at least one woman in the country vitally interested in knowing who's going to control the next House of Representatives.. She is Mrs. John N. Garner of Texas, who is not only the wife of the Democratic aspirant for the speakership, but also his secretary. She has occupled that post ever since entered public life. Even though Mrs. Garner has been & d- mother for some time, that additional ty has not cramped her "efficient secretarial style. st;le“{mkx as the Mo( and office seekers, Mrs. let’s any visitor to her husband'’s office go away aggrieved. * kK k in the anpual great Christopher that inspires Pierre de Lagorde Boal, chief of the Western European division at the State Depart- ment., Boal, one of the ’wpnot&:lcn among the younger group of our diplo- mmtll::¢ career men, traces his lineage di- | rectly back to the Columbus family. He self happens to have been born'in France, of American parents. The call of his native heath led him to enlist in the French Army two years before the United States entered the war, and he served in both its cavalry and air branches. Boal left Harvard for the war_just after having begun his studies in Cambridge. His home town, Boals- burg, P., was founded by his ancestors | delighted in the individual personali- | TMCI"‘LL. SPRaoaik, to, cach and & different way ‘What mmmgs will be regarded as highly natural with another. The different f ttom, which result from vast differences of breeding, training ;zx;ubloog.x;:‘ that no mt::“un ut a ve on any say, “I know just where this came from.” No one can know. Not even the man himself can be sure. At one mo- ment he may be inclined to blame his ancestors, at the next himself, but he is never sure, nor can he be sure, that he s even on the right track. * K % K Life is & mixture of so many things, some of them lost to sight, like rudimentary tall which 1t 18 not in us to know :: a fleeting Mna’t. ';hlcl: some believe nothing e teresting escaj of electricity, after all. B The very way & man wears his hat may offend us. If his hair is not cut according to our preconceived pattern and standard (usually based upon the right proper way in which we wear our own), we are inclined to call him & peculiar fellow and hope that he strikes & better barber next time. ‘The art of happy living, then, one may feel inclined to think, consists {largely in meeting people with whom one agrees and whose doings strike one s troper and in avoiding those bar- barians who rub one the wrong way, whether the fault be | theirs. | In this agreeable pursuit life flows | along, now one way, now another, with no man at any time getting any nearer | the ultimate "perfection of which all | men have dreamed and which some few | have made manifest in writings about | a new heaven and a new earth, the so- | called perfect state of the philosophers. | e | _Let no one feel ashamed of bimself one's own or {that he must subscribe to the plainly | ©f | written statement of one of the great- | est, if not the greatest, of American philosophers, “I like man, not men.” ‘The race is still, after thousands, | some say millions, of years ¢! so-called | civilization, in thrall to its animal | ancestry. The brute is in all of us, | more or less successtully held in check, | but cropping out here and there. It is these outcroppings which cause | a man to shrink back in the face of | the jungle, peering out between the leaves, the rned d, the sharp- pointed ears of Pan, switching tail of the forest. Strange that the automobile, one of men's farthest reaches from his jungie | ancestors, should bring to the surface something of that old slumbering brute. | It is & truism, however, that m ite men ber('!(fil:l' impolite when behind the wheel. Let us like man in the abstract and do our best to get along with the indi- vidual specimens we meet every day. It is a poor day indeed which does not | bring us at least one human being | whose kindness, decency and square- | ness in the face of all our common | weaknesses make life very much | worth while. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. In this connection the name of Brig. |Gen. John T. Myers, now assistant | commandant of the corps, is conspic- | uously mentioned. Another able Ma- | rine, Brig. Gen. John H. Russell, now | commanding at San Diego, and who made a big reputation as American high commissioner in Haiti, is said to be in the runnng, too. Col. Russell was strongly supported for the vacancy in ,the commandancy of the corps a year or two ago, when the assignment went tg] “me incumbent, Maj. Gen. Ben H. er. «x xx Well, we know now where some of Col. Woodcock’s booze and booze-making loot, seized from liquor malefactors, goes to, anyhow. Mrs. Harvey W. . Wiley, chairman of the Surplus Food | Conservation ittee, was recently the grateful reciplent of 14 dozen two- | quart jars formerly used by the boot | fraternity. The jars have now alte with the French at the London Naval| ‘The former Morgan part- | H | their former nefarious status to one of | respectable philanthropy. Mrs. Wiley calls it “beating spears into pruning | hooks.” * k% x | Once upon a time when this observer called on Sir Thomas Lipton at his | London suburban home, Southgate—it was in war time, when meat, sugar, fats and other foodstuffs were being | rigidly rationed—the Irish baronet | handed him a package. “Don’t open this till you get home—just a wee sou- | venir of ‘your visit,” said Lipton in his | rich brogue. The parcel contained 2 | pounds of granulated sugar—worth al- | most its weight in gold under prevail- | ing conditions. Whenever Sir Thomas | was _entertaining American guests, | which was nearly all the time, he was | fond of donning a solid gold star, about | 4 inches across, reading: “Honorary | Chief of Police, Chicago, Ill.” It was "lhe token bestowed upon him many ‘é‘l:;. ago during a visit to the Windy | * K K ¥ | _“Baker and Byrd” is the Democratic presidential combination now being boosted throughout the Old Dominion. The Virginia delegation is going to the national convention hell-bent-for- i leather for its former Governor's nomi- nations as head of the 1932 ticket. But if Harry can't make the grade, there'll be & drive to land Him in second place, preferably as Baker's running mate. The Ohian is accounted Virginia Democrats’ favorite, next to Byrd. ' (Copyrieht, 1831.) Growers May Forsake Debt-Dealing Cotton From the Charlotte <N. C.) News. Surely it will not be debated by the | cotton growers as they take this year's production to the markets and find that the receipts will not be sufficient to be |liquidate their fertilizer sccounts that they must be done with cotton as a major money crop. money crop—it is a debt-dealing crop at prices now prevailing, which prices may relatively cuntmu:nz)r % Of course, that is easy enough to say, much easier than to point a construc- tive way for the cotton planter to fol- low or to - i ~ to him some substi. tivities. But one must be found. It n.?:ivlmnly for him to continue his main dependence upon & form of occu- pation from which he not only makes no profit, but which actually costs him for the privilege of engaging in it No “Eugenie” for Reed. Prom the San Antonio Express. the ring, Jim Reed’s hat may be in 3 but it exactly of the Empress Eu- quite & while, isn't pattern. From the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator. It is no longer a |per. King Christian X—Great Dane. | tons ' The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. ‘What would happen to the Republic- an Prqgressives in the House if the Democrats should turn out to have an actual majority after all? Two Re- publican seats are endangered because of the recounts, one in Illinois and the other in Wm If both went finaily to the Tats, they would have 218 members of the incoming House to 216 for the Republicans and one for the Farmer Labor party. In- stead of holding the balance of power, instead of being in & position to im- pose will upon the Democrats as well as upon the regular Republicans, the Progressives would simply be out of luck, & small ity of ‘When ats came into mwer the last time, the Progressive blican in the Senate cut very uuylll ice. 'S{Zfl Bemocnu in the House are not without their differences, but on many major issues they may be counted upon to hold together. * ok k% Indeed, the Progressive Republican group in either house would cut very little figure if the Democrats gained control_in the national elections next year. Perhaps this fact may have its effect ugon the Progressives when next year rolls around and they have to make up their minds whether they will support the Republican national ticket and fight for seats in Congress as Re- publicans. Representative La Guardia, that rather unusual political phenom- enon, & Republican Progressive from New York, has just issued a statement in which he has declared that the Pro- gressive Republicans would dicker with either the Democrats or the Repub- licans on the matter of House organi- zation when Congress assembles and probably follow the lead of whichever party offered the most. If the Demo- crats finally have a majority there will be no dickering on the part of Mr. La Guardia and the others of his group. ‘The Democrats will be in a position to travel on their own. The La Follette Progressive Repub- licans in Wisconsin on Saturday scored another victory, nominating their can- didate, Thomas R. Amlle, in the Re- publican primary for the House scat made vacant by the death of that vet- eran Progressive Henry Allen Cooper. Gov. Philip La Follette and his brother, Senator Robert M. La Follette, jr., were active in the campaign for the nomina- tion of Amlle. Unofficial returns give Amlie the lead over his regular Repub- lican opponent, George W. Blanchard, 13,700 votes to 12,395. The margin success, however, was not so very great. But the first Wisconsin district has been regprded as one of the most “conservative” in the Btate from a Re- publican point of view. Any idea that the Democrats might pick of this House, if there ever was such an idea, has vanished with the success of the Progressive Republican candidate. The Democratic primary was won by Her- zog with 765 votes to 556 votes for Kiernan. The disparity in_the votes cast In the Republican and Democrat:c imaries is not very complimentary to Democratic party in Wisconsin. * % % x The plans for the national conven- | will soon be in the making. The Re- ublicans will hold a meeting of their ational Committee either the last week in November or in December to pick a city and fix a time for their conven- tion. The Democrats are expected now to hold a meeting of the Democratic National Committee on Jackson day, January 8, for the same purposes. One of the duties of the national committees is to pick keynote speakers for the national conventions, though these selections are usually made later. How- regard to keynote speakers for the con ventions next year. It is their job to sound the clarion call; to lay down either a defense of the administration or an attack upon it, as the case may be. The keynoter of the Republican national convention in 1928 was Sena- tor Simeon D. Fess of Ohfo, who is now chairman of the Republican National OCommittee and will have charge of all the arrangements for the convention. ‘The Democrats had for their keynote speaker Claude G. Bowers, ‘historian | and editorial writer, * ok % The suggestion has been advanced | that the Democrats should pick Senator | Robinson of Arkansas, their Senate| leader and their candidate for Vice President on the ticket with Alfred E.| Smith three years ago. If they do not| turn to Senator Robinson, it is sug- gested that it would be wise to select | Representative John Garner of Texas, | the party leader of the House, who may be Speaker of that body if the Demo- crats realize their present ambition of organi the House at the coming session. Others who have been men- tioned in this connection_ are Senator Bulkley of Ohio, Senator David I. Walsh | of Massachusetts, Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, former Gov. Byrd of Virginia, Newton D. Baker of Ohio and Senator Pat Harrison of Missis- | sippl. Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland, who was chairman of the Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1930, and Senator Barkley of Kentucky and Wheeler of Montana have their supporters for the office of keynoter and temporary chairman. The list in-| cludes leading Democrats whose views of prohibition are widely divergent. For example, Senator Robinson and Senator Walsh of Montana are rated strong! drys, while David I. Walsh, Senator Bulkley and Senator Tydings are wring- | ing wet. The Democrats can scarcely hope to pick as a keynoter any promi- nent Democrat who is neutral on this subject, however. R ‘When it comes to the Republican Se- lection for a keynoter and temporary chairman of the national convention, again a Senate leader stands out, Sen- ator James E. Watson. No one makes & better political speech or a more Re- q%'f‘“n speech than Semator Watson. n there are Secretary Patrick J. Hurley of the War Department, who hails from Oklahoma and is a stanch administration supporter, and Gov. ‘Theodcre Roosevelt, jr., of Porto Rico, who has been mentioned as vice pres- idential possibility and also as a fu- ture governor general of the Philippine Islands. Going further West, the selec- tion of Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon, assistant Republican leader of the Senate, would make an excellent keynoter, or Senator Arthur Vanden- | berg of Michigan. * K K % A veteran Democratic leader who was shelved because of his anti-Smith position in the last campaign, former Senator Furnifold M. Simmons, has been taking ease at his home in North Carolina since he left Wash- ington last March at the close of his long service in the Senate. Recently, however, he discussed public questions and politics for the Raleigh News and Observer, Josephus Daniels’ newspa- . Senator Simmons apparently has been giving a good deal of attention to the situation in the country, and his views, as those of an old-fashioned Democrat, are interesting. He has been impressed apparently with the views ot those who are agitating for a dif- ferent monetary system, possibly a bi- metallic system. In this connection he is quoted as follows: “Until some remedy is found for the existing disparity between the purchas- ing power of money and the purchasing wer of labor and commodities, it will m found difficult, if not impossible, to economic ‘There may be, and doubtless there are, other contributing causes, but it would seem that the basic cause of our present financial and economic sit- minority | At S oA V/HIOTOR, D O, MONDAY, OOTOBEE 5 Mt e ———————— e ——— e ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Many readers send in questions signed only with initials, asking that the an- swers lflfe‘r in the newspaper. The space is limited and would not accom- modate a fraction of such requests. The answers published are ones that may interest many readers, rather than the one who asks the guestion only. All questions should be accompanied by ithe “riter's name and address and 2 cents in coin or stamps for reply. Sent your questions to The Evening Star In- formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. Is the Vanderbilt who owns the yacht Enterpiise the same one who is & contract expert?—H. F. H. A. Harold Vanderbilt owns the En- terprise and is ranked as one of the ltryudinw contract players of this coun- Q. What is the term used for remov- ing water spots from a felt hat?—T. H. A. The term by professional cleaners is pouncing a hat. Q. Why is Brazil called “the “Land | of the Holy Cross”?—M. C. A. Pedro Alvarez Cabral, who is gen- erally credited with the discovery of the country, named it Terra de Santa Cruz, which is translated the “Land of the Holy Cross.” Q. When was the first Negro organized in this country.—N. B. A. The first was a Baptist church, or- ganized at Silver Blufl, across the Sa- church | | from the U. S S. Tuscarora, s vessel under the command of Capt. Belknap, which made an expedition to the Pa- cific for the arpose of studying the ocean bed. e maximum depth was recorded by the Tuscarora in The name itself is of Indian deriva- tion and literally means hemp gath- erers. | ., Q How many books on magic did | Houdini bequeath to the Library of | Congress?—D. A, | __A. The collection as received com- | prises 1620 volumes and pamphlets | and 107 volumes of periodicals en magic and 3,286 books and pamphlets and 134 volumes of periodicals on the ! psychic. Q. What was a griffin supposed to be?—C. I F. A. It was a mysterious monster, half {lon and half eagle, believed by the | Greeks to keep watch over the gold of Scythia. | Q. What is the predominating lan- guage in Mexico?—M. E. | . A. The Spanish language is the pre- | dominant one in Mexico. However, | American business houses there handle | much correspondence in English. | Q. Is Japan lovely in the Autumn? | —A. G. B. A. The dying maple leaves are | thought by many to be the most beau- | tiful sight that Japan has to show. Ponting in his book on Dai Nippon vannah river from Augusta, Ga., in says: “They certainly share the honors | ticns of the two major political parties | ever, already there is speculation in| 1773, Q. How many full generals of the United States Army are there at pres- ent?>—J. B. A. Two. They are Gen. John J. Per- shing, who was retired with this rank, In%Gen. Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff, Q. Please give 3 list of common foods eaten in Belgium and the menu for & Belgian preakfast—R. L. N. A. The Belglan Embassy says that | coffee and rolls 1s a typical Belglan breakfast. Potatoes, beets, corn and rice are among the chief foods of that coun- try. Ducks and geese are used to a large extent. Veal is used much more | frequently than beef. Rice, grapes, gel- agin. truffies and fish are among other fdods used in that country. Vienna bread is very commonly used. Q. Who composed the Jewish “Kol Nidre"?—J. 8. R. A. The composer s unknown, as it is a very anclent traditional Jewish | hymn and is sung only at the beginning of the service on the evening before Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). Q. Who provided the funds for_the Titanic Memorial in Washington?—T. D. A. Twenty-five thousand American women furrished the funds as a me- morial to the men who gave their lives that women and children might be | saved. Q. What causes hage?—L. R. A. It is due to fine dust in the air, | extreme heat, smoke, or volcanic erup- tions. | Q. How long should wild ducks be roasted?—M. O. C | "A. An ideal way to cook ducks is to | put them in the roasting pan without | stuffing. Pour a little hot water in | the pan, put a few slices of onion, | salt, and pepper in the water. Place | in hot oven. Baste the birds occas- | ionally. Cook from 20 to 25 minutes. wild Tice is often served with wild ducks. Why is the Tuscarora Deep S0 Q. called?—S. H. F. A. The Tuscarora Deep was so named of Awtumn with the imperial flower, and are so beloved as to hold full floral rank.” | Q. Is there any method of destroying cockroaches without the use of poisons and repellents and fumigants?—W. A. J. A. Various forms of traps have been employed very successfully. These de- vices are all so cons ted that the roaches may easily get into them and cannot afterward escape. The destruc- tion of the roaches is effected either by the liquid into which they fall or by being doused with hot water. | Q. When did the percussion cap come into use?—E. P. A. It came into use about 1820. It was a natural development from the percussicn system of ignition, invented by Alexander Forsyth. In 1836 a second battalion of the Rifie Brigade was armed with an improved weapon, the 704 Brunswick, in which the percus- | sion system was embodied. Q. What class of people comes under |the head of the White Russians?—F. Ww. S A. They are considered by Beaulieu to be the purest of the three great Slav divisions, the Great Russians, Little Rusisans and the White Rus- sians. Their dialect is akin to Great Russian. They have light-brown or brown hair with a reddish tinge, and light-brown eyes. Apparently they were so named because of their costume, which consists of white smock, bast shoes with white leggings and white homespun coat. Q. When will the George Washing- ton Bridge over the Hudson be open to traffic>—W. D. C. A. The dedication of the new bridge will take place Saturday afternoon, October 24. The structure may be open to traffic in the first week in November. Passenger automobiles will be charged 50 cents, which is the same amount es the Holland Tunnel toll. Q. Is the October moon called the harvest moon?—T. T. A. The September full moon is called the harvest moon and the Octo- ber is known as the hunters’ moon. cuts that have been announced by sev- eral large corporations is largely in the direction of acceptance of the situ- ation in the hope that it will be a factor in business recovery. While the de- velopment has been in spite of an un- derstanding that wages would be main- tained, it is pointed out that a feature of the depression was t maintained for a long time by both capital and labor. “The Nation as a whole will judge this wage policy more by results than by past provises” says the Oklahoma City Times, as notes: ‘.Economis’s. of course, are divided, but the people will await results. If cheaper produc- tion, as a result of lower labor costs, quickens trade and puts more men to work, even at lower wages, this move will be generally approved. Without such results, however, the spirit of pro- test will grow.” As the San Jose Mer- cury Herald puts it: “Lack of confidence is holding business back. The actual effect of wage cuts will depend, to some extent, on the belief about it. If the generally accepted view is that the cut will effect an inevitable readjustment and bring the decline of prices to an end, it may start enterprises that have been planned but not carried out be- cause of doubt as to the future” “Painful as are the readjustments in American_industry, confidence in the future is fully warranted by the lessons of past economic depressions and re- coveries, as well as by consideration of fundamental economic facts” say: the Chicago Daily News. The Siou Falls Argus Leader analyzes the trend as “but another step in the deflationary program that started with a bang in out in 1921, with sfl'lcult\lre the prire sufferer,” avers this paper, “but in- dustry deflated only a little 2md then moved upward. Now the deflation is being completed.” D “The action of United States Stee! is unfortunate,” in the judgment of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, with the “explanation: “Even though it may have reasonable justification, it in- turbance if it shall be followed to any general degree, which President Hoover and the interests closely associated with him have earnestly striven to avert, and which, thus far, they have beer successful in avoiding.” However, the Tcpeka Daily Capital thinks that “if big business has finally broken away from its pledge to President Hoover to maintain wages, it must still have credit for making a hard and long fight for it.” The Dayton Daily News, hold- ing that the compact failed, ‘“not be- cause the theory was unsound, but be- cause in the circumstances it could not be applied,” declares that “holding the wagespof certain millions at a high level while other millions have very low wages and still more no wages at all has not accomplished the end in view.” On this point, the Lynchburg News as- serts: “And thus explodes with a lou bang the fiction of maintenance of ‘wage scales at 1929 levels when profits. salaries and cost of living were all go- ing down. That action that ought to have been regarded. everywhere as in- evitable should come now as a sheck in many quarters may be attributed to pollyanna propaganda from high places in Governnrent and business™ ‘The Springfield (Mass.) Union finds “satisfaction in the knowledge that dur- R R g od of e} on general wage reductions have been successfully re- sisted,” and points out that it “must be recalled that this is unique in_the history of depressions, and is something for which the President deserves much credit.” The Harrisburg Telegraph de- m“ chiefly out of the fact that the world's ';u%;;llgd ogt |;§162 wv::l:zz; e aally & nm industrial na- become aud; the requirements o ded business de- vitles during the |serious 20 years. This condition for . a reconsideration of the 'mmn omstanily growing inflation of clares: “This much must be said for both labor and big business—that labor has been more reasonable and orderly imagine, a most upon our trade re~ lations with the silver standard tries of the @rient, many of which in Wo. Jbecome. the past two decades have large purchasers of our products.” the gold dollars is, T hindrance Reaction of the Nation to the wage| the restraint | Some of the inflation was taken volves the possibilities of industrial dis- | Wage Cuts Viewed Largely - As Factor in Buying Power during the depression than in any other circumstances of the kind of which we have recollection, and that employers have maintained their wage scales for a much longer period than formerly.” € % % Taking & hopeful view, the Youngs- town Vindicator states: “If lower wages mean more work all around they will benefit everybody, including the wage earners themselves, who must buy the products of others’ labor.” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette similarly de- clares: “The rate of wages paid is much less important than the total amount of wages received per week.” as it notes the thousands who have been on part time or not working at all. The Columbus Ohio State Journal finds as the “only bright spot” that “wage cuts mean that commodities, too, must have already hit bottom or will soon, and once commodity prices have been stabil- ized, the business of buying supplies only from day to day will give way to purchasing in large quantities. When that begins business will be climbing the hill” predicts this paper. The New York Sun believes that “the workman whose wages have been re- duced will be able to buy as much with the new wage as the old one would buy two years ago; in many cases it will considerably more.” “Many lessons are being learned from this depression, according to the Madison Wisconsin State Journal, which cites that “perhaps the one that s taking deepest root is that stock- holders and officials have not an ex- lusive right to the benefit of years of large returns to corporations” since “the idea is becoming implanted that the days of profit must also see the laying aside of a portion of the earn- ings for a protection of labor in times when the receipts are not so plethoric. Along the same line is the statement of the Toledo Blade, which is to the effect that “when recovery is complete, not only must wages be restored but a way must be found to take care of future unemployed as well as to provide for pensions for those who are forced by old age or illness to retire from work. The Portland xOl’egt’l{'\ Daily .{:flprgy asks some questions of econom! - ot “Do wage cuts Increase the pur- chasing power of individuals? Does | less wage money in the hands of buyers help business? Can cutting wages pos- | sibly do anything toward relieving the | depression? What does Mr. Hoover really think about it?” “Liplfoin’s Example " To World Cherished To the Editor of The Star: | The world mourns the loss of a | lovable character, a truly great sports- | man, and a gallant gentleman. To | millions of sports lovers througheut the world the news of Sir Thomas Lip- | ton’s death comes as a great shock. | The world can ill afford to lose such a | great man. a shining example to the youth of every land to play the game | fairly, and to be a good loser. | Though Sir Thomas cherished above all other trophies the winning of the America’s Cup, symbolic of world yachting supremacy, success was not |to crown his efforts. But in defeat | never a word of protest did he utter. | Always first to congratulate the victor, with the words “the better boat won.” The world loves & winner, we are told, | but more truly should it be said that the wotld loves & sportsman and gen- tleman. Sir The , you are gone from our midst, but you will live for- ever in our memory, for in you were inculcated all that is fine. Gone, but | not forgotten. LELAND F. JAMES. —_—t g Bigger and Better Mortgages. From the Charlotte (N. C.) News. These times remind us that nothing has been built so large that a mortgage | big enough to cover it was not found. ———————— Summer Like Plumber. From the Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail.