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THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY......October 8, 193 THEODORE W. NOYES... ldlm’ Rate by Carrier Within the City. ening 8 5c per month e R ivfl 4 lfl ¥ 80c per month | 65¢ per month Ver copy ch month. | telephone | Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Rily afy iy g ime: e day only 177, $4.00; 1 mo. 40¢ | All Other States and Canada. iy Safy Sunee”: unday only ’ ‘Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is excl 40 the ‘use for lication 3 0 35c 50c - 1mo.. 1mo. 1mos; 1 news a otherwise cre the local new: published herein. All richts of puliicatio: of apecisl dispatches herein are also reserve Dictatorship in Germany. Faced by a rising tide of Fascist and Communist discontent, Germany is proceeding to fight it out on a new Hindenburg lne. Invoking the ex- treme powers vested in him under Article 48 of the Reich consiftution, President von Hindenburg, sturdy war- | rior-statesman, yesterday issued a reries of emergency decrees which clolhe h'm with far-reaching and semi-dictatorial « authority. In countless directions private rights are set aside and governmental juris- diction is extended into domains tradi- tionally immune from official interfer- ence. Imagine in our own country & decree from Washington illegalizing any salary in excess of $3,500 a ¥year which an employer has con- tracted to pay an employe! A presi- dential ukase to that effect is only one of the drastic recourses to which the German government is resorting for the purpose of imposing economy upon the country and thwarting the forces of subversiveness when the Reichstag convenes next week. The Reich con- fromts a crisis and manifestly does not Intend to trifie with it. To meet the impending onslaught in nmew formation, the Bruening cabinet has submitted its resignation, but Pres- ident von Hindenburg forthwith in- trusted the chancellor with the task of building another ministry. Dr. Brue- ming, whose bulldog courage weathered cepseless Fascist-Nationalist-Communist attack during its year and a half of uphill fight for economy, financial re- form and international conciliation, evidently consented to embark upon a new lease of office only if caparisoned with & widened constitutional mandate te eurb the elements of disruption. As the Hitleritesy and other foes of the existing order have given plenty of evidence of their readiness to stop at nothing, so the expanded Hinden- burg-Bruening regime is now equipped to go the limit. Broadly interpreted, the government is given power to abrogate even such fundamentals as the inviolability of the person, the home and the malls. It may, and presum- ably forthwith will, reduce unemploy- ment doles, decrease higher pensions, hale tax shirkers into extraordinary oourts, summarily suppress anti-govern- ment political activities, including clubs or printing establishments maintained for their propagation: require citizens under penalty to inform on such ac- tivities, lower the ‘capitalization of com- mercial concerns to meet changed con- ditions, restrict withdrawals from sav-| ings banks and suspend construction of sdministrative buildings for three years. Chancellor Bruening has not yet se- lected his new cabinet. Dr. Curtius, his former foreign secretary, will be missing from it, having been tossed to the wolves as a sgcrificial offering for the Reich’s humiliation in the sorry Anschluss business. Bruening an- nmounces that personal status and ca- Dacity, rather than party afliation, will be the test for inclusion in the new ministry of emergency and salva- tien. It has been suggested that for strategic purposes, representatives of the Hitlerite National Socialists and the Hugenberg Nationalists might be .in- vited into the reorganized government. They can hardly buy their way into at the cost of any concessions by Hinden- burg and Bruening that would com- promise the government’s program for sanity, economy and order in Germany and the sanctity of her external obli- #stions. i PRI Fverybody will want to honor the gellant transpacific fiyers, Pangborn and Herndon. By way of showing that all s forgiven, Japan might add to the | pleasure of prize winning by presenting them with an especially fine photograph album. ———— Sheriff Farley's Wonder Box. In these days of depression and tight money, frozen assets and that sort of thing, it is refreshing to learn of thrift ond saving at the rate disclosed in the course of the examination by Judge Samuel Sezbury, special investigator of the New Ycrk State inquiry into metro- politan affairs, of Mr. Thomas Farley, now sheriff of New York County. After & good deal of maneuvering, backing and filling, protesting and refusal to testify. Tegarding his personal affairs, Mr. Parley yesterday disclosed that in six and three-quarters years, during all of which period he held public offics st sslaries ranging from $6,500 to $15,000 a year, he was by careful man- agement enabled to deposit in bank no less. than $360,660. A bit of figuring enabled Judge Seabury to work out the fact that of this emount $53,166.11 came from salaries. Then there wasabout 928,000 that was yielded by real ectate transactions. A simple mathematic:1 egleulaticn discloses thet this left some $279,411—the eleven cents may as well be dropped from the reckoning—that cams from some other source and at the rate, @ bit of division reveals, of something like $41,400 a year. Wkere did this eome from,, Judge Seabury wanted to kncw. Out of his strong box, his “good box," his “wonder hox,” Mr. Furley answered, the box he kept at home and into which he had dropped from time te time surplus from his earnings as bisiness agent of the Cement and Con- érete Workers' Union. He explained his quuxf. g put these amounts 1n cash ki |lng the possibility of caving so large 1 base ball bat into the box until something like a hundred thousand dollars accumulated, and then he rented & safe deposit box, and whenever he needed money to pay action he would take the m:ney neces- sary from either the box at home or the box at the bank, deposit it in a bank and draw a check ag:inst it. A per- foctly simple system and one worthy ‘of commendation as evidence ¢f .a careful | business dealer. Unfertunate’y a spirit of skepticism prevails in inquisitorial circles regard- an amount of money out of mere salaries and fees and commissions, Unhappily, too, the fact will obtrude' itself into the situation tbat all during these years Mr. Farley was the virtual owner of a club iIn Manhattan, a club where pleasant pastimes were engaged in by gentlemen who regard ‘the law against gambling as an obnoxious interference with their personal lberties. The fact that Mr. Farley all these yecars held in- fluential positions in the metropolitan administration and in the political or- ganization that has moge or less con- trolled it may hgve had something to do with the success of this haven of ref- uge. It may have contributed to the cuccess of that institution and perhaps to the golden flow into the wonder box. Mr. Farley was asked in the course of te questioning about a raid that some ! intrusive policeman made ugon his club t two o'clock on the morning of May , 1926. Thirty priconers were. taken in that raid. Mr. Farley now remem- bers nothing of them save that they were gentlemen of his acquaintance vho were engaged in the innocént oc- cupation of packing up some 15,000 15,000 rubber balls, 5,000 skipping ropes and some May poles and canopies for use at the May day party to be given on the afterncon of that same day for tre children of Mr, Far- ley's district. From this benevolent task, of course, could come no portion of the wealth that was flowing into the wonder box at home and into the safe deposit box and into the bank ac- count to which he now roints as proof of his honest thrift. _____ R s . Weshington's Stadium. The Roos:velt Memorial Association’s lengihy consideration of the form of memorial that it would choose to com- memorate the great President has been linked, for many years, with the pro- posal for a public stadium. This has! not been due to espousal of such plans by the Roosevelt Memorial Association, but to the Board of Trade's efforts to have the association interest itself in the stadium project as an appropriate memorial. Announcement of the asso- ciation’s general plans for the purchase of Analestan Island and its treatment as a park serves to relegate the stadium project for the time being. The sta- dium, at least, is definitely out of the picture, as far as Analestan Island 2nd the Roosevelt Memorial Association are concerned. | But the decision is not Without S| men can be persuaded to fron out op. advantages to Washington. There have always been sound objections to the choice of Analostan Island as the site for a great stadium. Its relative isola- tion, for one thing, would provide traffic difficulties not entirely to be overcome by the completion of the Arlington Memorial Bridge and the system of riverside drives. And the unspolled natural beauty of the island and its advantages for the sort of park planned by the Roosevelt Memorial Association would, of course, be destroy>d by the construction there of a stadium and | the roadways that would have to be built to make it accessible. ©On the other hand, with Analostan Island removed as a possibilily, the other site for the projected stadium will henceforth receive undivided fup- port. This site lies at the end of East Capitol street in Anacostia Park. The National Capital Park and Planning Commission has considered it as the Ideal location, providing, as it does, a water course for aquatic sports and enough land for other sports. It was this site that the Beard of Trade sought to interest the Roosevelt Me- morial Association in developing as a | stadium. And it is this site that will always be held, in mental reservation at least, for the stadium that Wash- | ington will some day build. Plans for a stadium are still bafore | the Board of Trade as one of its chief projects in the development of the Capital. It is generally recognized as ccming within the sdope of demands that the future will supply. It should be & public undertaking, providing acequale facilities for many of the great athletic and other events that would come to Washington. An Al Capone juror can scarcely be comfortable while studying the facial expression ¢f the Lord of Gangland. A scowling glance may be nervously interpreted to mean that he is select- ing victims to be waited on by his corps of private executioners. ————— Having deciced on the relative value of gold and cilver—a bigger problem in relctivity than any Einstein ever under- took to solye—nations will be expected to arrange for the purchasing public to acquire a reasonable supply of both metals for marketing purpose: Daniel Chester French. In the death of Daniel Chester French America loses ope of the greatest artists ever known in this coumtry, & seulptor cf rare genius. He developed his talent for modeling figures at an early age, whittling the form of .a frog out of a turnip. This precocity proved to be an THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.'C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1931, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. will live in high esteem, while those of the so-called modernists will pass into the junk heap of neglect or condemna- tion. 1 |a bil' or to complete 2 real estate trans- | - Daniel Chester French's work reflected the man of high character, fine tem- perament, deep understanding and sound taste. The “Minute Man" of Lexington marches to victory as French marched to success and undying fame. ‘The “Lincoin” sits in contemplation with the poise and understanding with which French wrought all his works for |fty years. Between these two are many achievements, frcm which Amer- ica is enriched in art and inspired for generations to come. The 193i world series has turned out to be a battle royal between two fighting ball teams. Wirst, the Phila- delphia Athletics took thé lead by trouncing the St. Louls Cardinals, 6-2, in the initial encounter. It looked as if the experts who predicted that the Quaker City nine would run away with the series were right. The next day the tide shifted and 8t. Louls shut out Philadelphia by a score of 2-0. In the third game 8t. Louls was again victorious by a score of 5-2, and it appeared that the show was almost over. But Philadelphia rallled and took the fourth game, 3-0, making the count two games apiece. Yesterday when St. Louls won by the score of 5-1 the vepresentatives of the Middle ‘Western city again became one-up on their Eastern rivals and now need only a single triumph to carry off the world championship banner. It is the very uncertainty of the game that makes base ball so fascinating. The series which is probably the fresh-! est in the memory of Washingtonians, although none remembers it with any particular enthusiasm, was the 1925 struggle for the championship of the base ball universe between Washington and Pittsburgh. No set of games could probably better demonstrate the vaga- ties of fortune of the national pastime than this. Washington won the first, lost the second and won the next two, needing only one more win to capture the flag. But, to the consternation of all local fans, Pittsburgh walked off with the next three encounters and the | National Capital finished second. 8o when Philadelphia and St. Louis resume their fight in the Mound City | tomorrow only a rash person would prophesy the result. Philadelphia must win two straight—and it is fully capa- tle ot doing it—while St. Louis will be acclaimed the 1931 champions if it i5 | vietorious in omly one. Whichever way it goes, a base ball-mindcd Nation 1s waiting with its applause. et If william Jennings Bryan's silver views become popular, some influential admirer may undertake the colossal task of reviving his economical idea of the dollar dinner as the sceme of a politi- cal round-up. ——— < Much will be accomplished if states- posing ideas in conference instead of leaving hope of conciliation to lengthy arguments at the public expense. ———————— Railroads, ifi seeking a settlement of differences among themselves, have sub- stituted mergers for the old-time rate wars which, in the end, profited nobody. S As stzel is either prince or pauper and cotton either king or serf, the tariff is to the reading public either a plod- ding machine or a dynamo of in e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Fishermen Al Vacation ends. No more we'll stray Where fish deciare a holiday And call on weary men to dream Or plan, beside the lake or stream. We'll put away the rod and line Of gay, yet practical design, And for our fish once more we'll wait In market, with a coin for bait. But, though we quit the simpler game, We'll go on fishing just the same. We'll fish for social compliments, ‘We'll fish for dollars and for cents, ‘We'll fish for smiles; we'll fish for sighs, We'll fish for plaudits of the wise And, as the profits tempt anew, The plaudits of the foolish too. In patience we must often wait And rail at luck and change the bait. A few will bring a handsome string And others never catch a thing. But, wet and weary, homeward stray— Resolved to fish another day. So Mortal Destiny contrives To keep us fishing all our lives. Reliable Resalts. Now men of wisdom rise anew To get the world in line, And while the deeds are sometimes few, ‘The words are always fine. Market Menagerie. ‘When speculation fills the air Now comes a Bull and then a Bear And also, with a greed profound, A Pig is always hovering 'round. Ratio. “Have you studied the ratio under terest. | | every One of the jays of the novel is the way characters 6o often remind one of pogh one khows in real life. alts of humah beings are universal, £0 that it makes no difference whether the book is writtén by an Englishman or an American or a Frenchman or a Russian, Here, in this novel written by one of the great French fictionesrs 60 years :rfi}u 't‘hnlem n‘:p:;n a :lmwhnl who e exac . men- tally and physically, of some one the reader knows. s Even her “quick, short” step, so often lerred to by the writer, is remarkably like that of the real woman one knows. The image of this latter person flashes into the reader’s mind the moment the fiction character steps onto the scene, .and thereafter throughout the novel be.is unable to forget her. He 1is perpetually tracing resem- m and saying to himself, though uf the story, “Yes, that is very like,” and “No, that is not exactly the way she would do it.” * %% % This resemblance between book char- acters and real is one of the hidden joys of . It is hidden, because it is not gen- erally thought of, but it is very cer- tain to those who have had some ex- perience in reading. In , as elsewhere, experience counts for a great deal. The well-read man or woman hac stcres of reading experience on which to draw. ives him a reservoir of fact and fancy which elaborates any book which he may read. The wealth of old Rome, the very the aid of the latest writer on Broad- way. The past and the future meet in the present, when such a good reader sits down to a good book. ® ok % % Biography, despite its vogue during the past decade, must fall somewhat short of ths novel in this respect. De- spite the fact that a blography is a species of novel, ‘:x: sense, it must be- ggeration is the very life blood of a good work of fiction. It may be sald, with much truf that no eat novel falls to utilize this major It is precisely because the novelist is able to avail himself of helpful exag- geration that his works somehow stand out as more powerful in effect than biography. A really splendid novel has an effect of exaltation on a receptive reader, whereas there is no such effect from the finest biography ever written. If one asks the why of this, the an- cwer must be that the biographer has tried to stick as closely as possible to truth, whereas the novelist, dealing with characters in imaginary situations, has been able to put into them that small but powerful extra little somcthing which becomes so mighty in cffect on mind and heart. * % * ‘The characters, in works of fiction, are the mainsprings of wholescme ex- aggerations, of cour Tn them human mature, at its worst and best, is summed up. made visible before us, but so touched with light at the edges that the mind of the reader is given a fillup. A reader is a god while raading a good He himself is utterly free from the ordi- nary emotions of like and dislike which assail him so persistently in his con- tacts with real human beings. For the duration of the book he-is as one free from the common failings of humanity. once interrupting the flow of'| f | pulse him. andeur of Greece, flows to| | large one, as any one knows who has character, who, in real life, would re- . If he were to meet this scoundrel in actuality, he knows very well that he would end by getting into a fist fight with-him. b Here in the book, however, he pities him, and is able to look upon him with & mingled intellectunl loathing and regard—| for.this bad points, re- gard for such few good points as he develops in the course of th> - ton. He catches himself surve..n; man- kind as from a height, as one imagines God might do, freely admitting and freely forgiving. * % ow % This, it would seem, is the crown glory of the great works of fiction all nations. ° Despite the fact that he reads as ognizing traits, if not entire an beings. Here, under the name of Drovosky, perhaps, one sees plain John Smith, whom one knows very well! And there goes, ill disguised under the cognomen of Bordenave, a gentle- man the reader knows in real life, too. One's experfence with real human beings reacts on the book characters, and the latter on the human beings, s0 that after a while the good reader of fiction is never altogether sure whether h= saw a man or merely reads about * ok ok ox | ‘There were many reacers in the | world, st one time, to whom the char- | acter creations of Charles Dickens were | as real as the walking, talking friends {of their own acquaintance, No doubt there are many persons to- day who fondly belleve that they will some day come across old Capt. Cuttle with his hook, or run into Little Nell on_a street corner. The writer here actually met Little Nell one snowy Winter day on a Wash- irgton street car platform. It has ever since been his regret that ne did not say to her quietly, hy, hello, Liitle Nell, how are you (No doubt Nell would have punched him in the jaw if he had.) One does not have to meet book el s In real life. however, to feel their truth, and to find resemblances between them and the people one knows. Authors with the gift of creation must create out of something, and that “somcthing” is more often than not the friends and acquaintances of the every day. That is why one picks up so miny modern books in which the authors have seen fit to print a discleimer as a preface, in which they assert and declare that their characters are not intended for any one person or set of persons. * k% * “This is quite true, in many instinces. No one person has been definitely held in mind, but certain traits and char- acteristics of that person are utilized, cold_bloodedly, it one will. The Shoes Fit Me Club is a very had occasion to wrike about humin | mature in the raw. In the raw, alas, is the only way in which human nature yields up its good, its bad, its mediocrity. The brave | man who faces it comes to have a mighty tolerance, which enables him ! to ses characteristics without recrimi- | nation. mingles freely with humanity, but ‘Those who nominate themselves for The Bhoes Fit Me Club, however, are looking entirely at the shoes, and de- | claring loudly that they hurt some- thing terrible! In assigning book characters to real | human beings the average reader cin feel pretty sure of one solace. He will scarcely ever recognize himself, even He is presented with some gross. though he be portrayed to the life. outcry against the Import of Soviet goods, the Harbin grocery shops are at present flooded with all kinds of provisions from Russia. Not only are these provisions to be found in the C. E. R. co-operative storcs and other purely Soviet institutions, but they are also to be found in stores of nationality, principally owing to the coi nt demand for such goods. It is said that the reason of such a great demand is that all Soviet gitizens are compelled to buy only goods of So- viet manufacture, provided that these may be obtained in the town, and on no made in any other country if they can find 2 similar article which has bzen manufactured,in Soviet Russia. Whether this statement, made by the “white’ press of Harbin, is correct is very doubt- ful, as the prices at which Soviet goods a tract buyers, irrespective of Boviet citi- prices of all foreign goods every day, according to the value of the local dol- lar, and there i3 no exception made for Boviet goods, which are also quoted higher or lower, according to the value of the local currency. gotten that such goods as cotton prints, quality than those produced in Japan, and thus at'the present moment Japa- nese-made cottons are not having such a good sale as they had before, but to a very considerable extent Chinese- manufactured cottons hold their own. It may interest Shanghai readers to learn that Soviet cotton prints are keing sold in Harbin at from 28 to 48 cents per yard, and the Harbin being 25 per cent below the Shanghal dollar in value, this is equal to 21 Shangbai cents for low quality and 36 for the Lest lines. handkerchiefs are sold at 1.50 local dollars per dozen and linen handkerchiefs st 7.50 per dozen. ‘The one and the only Soviet article that does not seem to go so well in China is that of picture films, which are s0 hacked by the censors that they lose all interest and do not draw the public. e contemplation between silver and gold?” | g jbrary Books Held said the man who always knows lots of | Barometer of Unemployment. questions but no answers. “I have studied that ratio all my |Sydn life,” replied Senator Sorghum, ‘“not ,‘,f:“ only #s & financial but as a rhetorical | that ratio.” “The two are very different.” ‘The Bullef Sydney.—According to ey City lan Bertie, the most rate of all barometers for register- hard times and unemployment is contained in the demand for books —lent bocks, not bought ones. In June of last year the issue of books from the municipal library suddenly jumped by “I find remarkable similarity; about | ahout 2,000 & week, and apparently it sixteen notes of silver-tongued oratory : has been on the upgrade ever since, and index of a gift that, trained by study under masters of the art, ylelded works of enduring merit in the course of hall a century of active artistic endeavor. From ihe “Minute. M2n" at Lezing- ton, execuled when French was only twenty-three, t> the ecclossal Liacoln which is eashrined in the Memorial in this city ranges a long == markable achlevements. F. proached every commission reverently and in a spir't of dedication. He studied his subject thoroughly, acquainted him- self with th: history of the event thal vas to be expre: in permanent ma- terial and with the character of the in- dividual who was to be portrayed. He worked with ecare, vel dilizently. He eschewed tricks thst in lesser artisi: have served to create sensations tranecus to the trus spirit of the sub ject. In his laiter years he saw th: advent of a style of sculpture in which the eccentricities of innovators founc expression im grolesque forms violaiive of the true Principles of art. His works to one of golden silence.” Jud Tunkins says the difference be- tween the high pressure salesman and the bill collector is that the collector doetn’t feel the need of easing you along with funny stories. “A philosopher,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “seeks to build a bar- ricade of words which is quickly over- thrown when 2 man of gction gives command.” Case in Point. “Séme of tie difficult problems of 1'fe solve themselves, if we only let them alcne.” “Very true,” commented Miss Cayenne, “Thank Heaven we're at least through, for the present, with the mathematical celculations required by daylight saving timel™ “A woman has a puffick right to de l2st word,” zaid Uncle Eben, “when a men ccm2s home alter " all his biggest talk in & erap 5 whereas in_the pre-depression there were five times as many women jooking for books as men, the propor- tion is-now exactly the reverse. Prob- ably every free reading room and me- chanics’ institute in the country could supply corroborative evidence. * kK ok Spain Experiences Do’fl.enlly in Readjustment. A B C, Madrid.—Spain seems to be having great difficulty in adjusting her- self to the new republican regime. Fither that or this period of political revolution, though inaugurated without bloodshed, lends itself as a favorzble opportunity, dul the complexities of realignment, for all the malcontents of the country to exercise their own pri- vate and conflicting prerogatives. A record of the events of the day is simply the chronicling of a campaign of agitation in all the provinces. In Valencia the labor unions are creating grave disorders, in Seville government troops are in open conflict with rioters and Communists, in Murcia syndicates of workmen have voted strikes and sre spending their time in meetings and disturbances, in Alicante certain mys- terious strangers have been arrested who turned out to be Communists and Tortcsa and Amposta the debility of being sold are so low that they at- | zens. In Harbin it is & custom to alter the | At the same time, it must not be for- produced in Russia, are really of better | account are they permitted to buy goods | too. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands HE NORTH CHINA HERALD. the police has been unable to control Shanghai.—Notwithstanding the ' these elements. In Bilboa the authorities have insti- tuted an offensive upon all undesirables, with the likelthocd of devopuyung the city if the campaign is strictly adhered to. In Santurce there has been an- other Communistic perturbation. An- archizsts have reared their evil heads | in Almeria and Barcelona and escape the clutches of the police despite the cunningly devised traps laid for them. These discordant entities secm to sense the presence of the constituted authorities and know when the hand of the law is near, even though there is no visible evidence of it. Barcelona, . has been )ittered with handbills and placards urging all the urban work- crs to take vigorous measures against the owners and operators of factories and industries, demanding either in- creases in pay or no reduction in the former rates. In Zamora Communist agitators are hoping to enlist the sympathies of their brethren in Portugal in an imminent threat against the national government, and in Madrid and most of the other large cities a normal life no longer is possible because of interference with the telephones, tramways, railroads and other public services. Even the stevedores, miners, mat- makers and farm laborers are jeining in the general pandemcnium of impos- sible demands. In Barcelona the very unemployed are organizing to make more effective their protests to the mu- nicipal government. In the Plaza de la Republica a vast concourse of men without work demanded reinstatement of the dole in a menacing demonstra- tion. They had been told that these that instead all would hereafter be given meals at the Parque School. In some other cities strikes of men who might otherwise be working have shut off the supply of gas, electricity and even water. Fortunately, these de- plorable conditions are not simultaneous ena everywhere, for when a new strike or disturbance breaks out in onc quarter one is terminated and condi- tions become more tranquil somewhere else. 8o a8 this saving balance is maintained, there is hope that we shall eventually emerge from cur diiscom- fitures. . * x ¥ % British Farmers Appeal for Reliet. Le Matin, Paris—A hundred repre- tentatives of farming interests in Eng- land, of all ranks, have petitioned the sovernment, exhorting it to apply some special measures to agricultural relief before the adjournment of Parliament. Maj. Braithwaite, a Deputy from York- shire, who is the author of the appeal, will discuss with the prime minister 1ibe grave crisis which confronts all the farmers in Great Britain. o Man, 21, Reported Able To Speak 25 Languages From the Lowell Evening Leader. ‘Unusual in a country where linguistic accomplishments are not conspicuous is the achievement of Avery De Witt of Brooklyn, who has just reached vot- ing age. He is said to have mastered no less than 25 languages. German, French and Spanish he studied in school. His knowledge of the others, he claims, was accuired on his own through the use of a key to linguistic study which he de- viszd. Mastery of 25 l-nnulhcll one suspects, may be overtating his accomplish- ments. But to have attained even a entitles h'i“.\::'t('nn‘dln1Iu:t.ll'm‘é A matic service. And, without }\:flm ::e ought to valuable man for such ‘worl know] of so [t is un- from a star, the reader is forever rec-{ bum; ! publican Senators and Representatives, | ] as well as Democratic, insisted that this payments would be discontinued and | noarm, The Political Mill By G. Could'Lincoln. Suspension of intergovernmental debts, 1f some of the Democratic leaders have | ©0 their way, will be interpreted as debt cancellption in the coming national campaign. And debt cancellation, these Democrats bzleve, is tNoroughly unpop- ular with the American voters. They are obviously hoping to be able to nic- ture President Hoover to the electorats next, year. as a champion of debt can- cellation, Representative John Garner of Texas, Democratic leader of the House and the party's leading aspirant for the Speakership in the coming Con- gress, has already taken that tack. And notwithstanding the frequent assertions by President Hoover jhat debi suspen- sion during the depression and cancel- lation are very different things, this line of attack upon the administration is getting under way. The President has | declared cancellatior of the debts owed this country is not in his mind. * * %k % Republican are afraid of this cancellation 3 e the ats who are hoping to make capital’of this issus they believe that debt cancellation would be extremely unpopular in this country. Therefore these Repul e seeking to make it extremely clcar that neither Mr. Hoover nor the Repub- lican party is committed to cancella- tion In the slightest dsgree because of the one year's moratorium arranged with the foreign mations last Summer under the leacership of the Pr:sident.| ‘The move for the moratorium was gen- erally praised throughout the country when President Hoover put forward his | plan for intergovernmental debt suspen- sion last June 20. A few discordant notes were heard, but not many. Mr.| Garner, cancellation issue, was one of the few leading Democrats who, at that time, declined to give his approval to the moratorium plan. Pretty widely, al- though the President sought to make the plan entirely non-partisan polit- fcally, it was declared that his leader- ship in the moratorium movement would strengthen him in the country and in the election ne:‘u. zel‘r A ‘When the President put up to the Democratic and Republican members of the Senate and House whom he had summoned to the White House Tues- | day night the fact that he planned to talk over with Premier Laval of France the possible need of an extension of the moratcrium, there was an immediate hostile reaction. £o much so that the Precident was compelled to give over all | idea of obtain'ng the support of this group of legis'ators for his plan for| moratorium discussions with the French | prime minister. Even the statcment which had been prepared in advance | for releas: to the press after the White House conference, it is mow reporied, | had 10 be changed in this respect. Re- | ¥as no time for a discussion of an ex- | tencion of the moratorium. So fin-lly the President announced that he in-, tended to discuss with M. Laval on his | arrival in Washingion th's month s that might b imperaf clon continuzs, but {hat he w n ask the approval of the legislators in | advance, * ok % ¥ Some of the D:: aporove which ti> P governmen.al dcbis in the interest of stabilizing e economic situation throughout tI'> werld, are saying that he made a 1stake in not putting through a moc.torfum covering a tw vear period when he ':rened up negotia- tions with the foreign nations. In their cpinfon the President will be faced early next year with the ne2d of doing something more, whereas, if the moratorium period had been made to cxtend for two years, it would have! run pzst the national campaign. But| it is extremely doubtful that the Pres- idcnt could have obtained the consent of Democratic leeders for such a mora- torium plan, ‘and it might have been impessidle to get France to agree to a twosyear suspension of intergovern- mental debts. But one thing quite cer- tain. if there is no recession of the world-wide depression next vear and the ts should win the next national election, this problem is one that the Democrats will have to worry with themselves. s ‘The vacancy in the Senate caused by the death of the late Senctor Dwight W. Morrow of New Jersey is expected been | Gebts that paper holds that, l, ding Ambassador Wal- ter Edge, who is returning from France in compeny with Premier Laval, on his! way to discuss internaticnal problems with President Hoover. Whether Mr. Edge would accept appointment is the question. He ive up the identical Se appointed Ambassa- ., It has been rumored he would like to return to senatorial life. Whoever the appointee may be, he ‘will probably serve until the regu- lar elections are held in November, 1932, it is said. Indeed. it is reported that A. Harry Moore, the Democratic candidate for Coovernor of New Jersey, even if he is elected next month, would be disinclined to call a special election to fill the vacancy largely because it would mean spending something like $2,000,000 to hold the election, with no absolute assurance that a Democrat could defeat the Republican. Further- more, one additional seat in the Senate Wi Democrats an out- Edward B. Duffield, ident of the e SASAE Bt gt ¢ and an ardent is talked of in connectlon with the aj tment to fill the Morrow vacancy 3 Dr. Duffield, it is said, not only would amake an able Senator, but a strong can- lection w! must_be held next year. The suggestion has been advanced that the appointment go to Representative Isaac Bacharach, a vgteran member of the House. Some of Mr. Bacharach’s friends say, how- ever, that while he might like to have the refusal of the Senate seat, he would scarcely be inclined to accept the ap- pointment and thereby remove him- self from th: House, where he holds an important position in the Republican organization, especially when I might be very difficult for any Republican to win a senatorial election ip New Jerscy | I next year. David Baird, jr., the Re- publican nominez for Governor, is likely to have the final word in the selection of the next Senator. Gov. Larson is a great friend of Mr. Baird. Former Gov. Stokes has bcen mentioned for the Senate seat. with the idea he might serve through the coming session of Congress and not be an active candi- date in the election next year. * kK Ok Reports from Illinois that Representa- tive Kuntg, Democrat, who was defeated in the election in IQS:Dby Gl::nlt‘: se. lican, may come down here fo- L= with a certificate of election, instead of Granata, are not given credence by the House authorities. It is explained that % so-called recount in the Kuntz dist ‘Was an ex parte affair, before a notary public, to which 247 exceptions have Mhm for the le seat in the Pennsylvania d?unt.lg" and for the Disney seat in the Wlhmsddele'letyml‘l.. e Repablioan, O'Connor, in the Okla. ict, Jost to Disney on the face 200 votes. Teturns by oly homa of the iblicans | lican, Protestant and Northern Presi- who is now raising the debt |3 |tery of War in the cabinet of President ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS - BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. is & special department devoted handling of inquiries. Y ve SR e ha you m.,,‘lm members are in “Who's Q. WL' size hat do most men wear? that relates to informa-| —M. 5 'rite ;n‘ Y":"’h your .é-m:.?lr name cenf coin or stamps for 5 Send to The Evening Ster munm Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, ‘Washington, D. C. { Q. In what country are the most mo- tor cycles in use?—L. T. A. Germany now has the largest num- ber of motor cycles, 721,237 being reg- istered. This was & gain of 112,895 in a single year. Formerly Great Britain led the world and was known as the “home of the motor cycle,” but the comparative number for Great Britain now is 698,878. Ninety per cent of the machines are made in Germany. Some American cycles are imported. Q. Did a Republican President ap- B nt Justice White to the United States was ted in 1894 as associate jus- tice the Supreme Court by the Democratic President, Grover Cleve- land. In 1910 President Taft, Repub- dent, appointed Associate Justice White to the chief justiceship. Chief Justice White was considered to be one of the foremost jurists that the Nation has produced. Q. How many ai the United States?- K. | A. In 1930, there were 1,114 municipal airports, 354 intermediate, 240 auxiliary, 53 Army, 14 Navy and 7 miscellaneous. Approximately 10,500 airplanes are be- ing operated in the United States, 000 of tnese being in the hands of private owners, individuals and com- panies ioutside of aeronautics. Q. What is the title of Queen Wil- helmina’s daughter>—H. W. B. . The Princess Juliana bears the | title of Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg. Q. When was Jefferson Davis in Washington as & public servant?—V. D. A. Jefferson Davis was a Representa. tive in Congress, 1845-6, when he re- signed on account of the Mexican War, in which he participated. He was aj pointed to the Senate in 1847 and elect. ed_for the next term. He was Secre- are there in| Plerce from 1853 to 1857 and elected again to the Senate, 1857-61, when he resigned on 2ccount of the Civil War. Q. How!did the custom start of tell- | ing time on shipboard by ringing a bell?>—J. A. K. A. Ship's bells are said to date from the period when the hour glass was used to indicate the pastage of time. The glass was empty every half hour and had | to be turned over, the ship’s bell being struck to mark the time. At present bells are the signals for a change in| the watch. Q. Who said “Corporztions have no | souls”?—N. P. A. This is attributed to Richard Coke, | famous British lawyer. “They (corpo- tions) eannot cemmit treason nor be cutlawed. nor be excommunicated, for they have no souls.” Hence the phrase “Corporztions hzve no souls to save and | no bodies to kick.” Q. What prcportion of the members | of Phi Beta Kappa is found in “Who's | Who"?—F. C. H. A. The Phi Beta Kappa Key states that 19 per cent of all the names in A. It is estimated that 25 per cent. of the hats sold to men are size 67%. Q. Was the man who invented the Braille System blind himself?—F. H, I. of reading ing for the blind, was blinded when but 3 years old. While playing in his father'’s harness-making shop, he took up a sharp instrument which and put out one of his eyes. Through sympathetic inflammation the sight of the other eye was lost. Q. Why was the type of architecture téemied Gothic given that name?—T. A. Originally the term was applied in contempt by adherents of the class- ieal school which accepted the Ro - ue style. They ccnsidered wnled arch barbarous and grotesque, therefore Gothic. It soon made a place for itself and was widely employed hroughout truction Q. Do wild snimals live longer in ;:d; ;M state than in captivity?— A. Some wild animals are so fretful in captivity tbat their lives are short- ened materially. This is true of foxes and monkeys. Elephants and snakes d> not seem to suffer much from cap- tivity, but are strongly inclined to long lives in any environment. The .mor- tality among wild animals in zo0logical parks is very high. Q. How should houses be built in or- der to receive the most sunlight, directly north, south, etc, or on a diagonal?— J. G. N. A. Their orientation should be north and south, east and west. Q. How long does a company make parts for an automobile after the model is discontinued?—I. J. D. A. It is required to make parts for five years, Q. On what wave length does the Lindbergh plane oroadcast’—E. R. B. A. A special group of wave lengths, including the 500-kilocycle (600-meter) distress or S O B frequency, on which all stations must maintain a was used by the Lindberghs. They transmitted on 333, 500, 3,130, 5,615, 8,450 or 13,240 kilocycles, according to the channel that suited their needs best at a particular moment. H. A. In international trade gold must e shipped when the merchants of one country owe a large difference to those of another country; that is, when the trade account does not balance. It i dangerous to ship gold because ships sink sometimes. Instead of ing actual shipments, especially w! the balance is expected to swing back again oefore long, gold is ear marked. That means, although it 15 not actually ship- ped, it is placed in a vault and marked as belonging to certain owners abroad. Q. How fast can a girae run?—W. A. A. Giraffes are capable of a speed of 30 miles an hour. Q. What is meant by byying a pig in a pcke?—E. A J. A. The word poke is a Celtic term meaning a bag or sack, and the phrase to buy a pig in a poke means to pur- chase and pay the price of an which i# not seen or ihe value of which “Who's Who" are members of Phi Beta Kappa. About 10 per cent of all Phi has not been first determined. Laval Visit to United States Expected to Definite advantages for all nations are forecast as & result of the forthcoming | visit of Premier Laval of France to this| country for a conference with President | Hoover. It is believed, especially, that| there will be an opportunity to gain a| batter understanding of the position ef | this European nation on various issues | | which are a matter of concern to the whole world. among which are arma- | ments and financial conditions in Eu-| rope. "It we acquire a better understanding | of the aims and policies of France and | a more intelligent sympathy with that | government's essential purposes in this | time of world-wide difficulty, his visit | will have been abundantly justified.” says the Worcester Evening Gazette. | the sublect of Teparations and war | ‘since France takes a generous slice of her reparations receipts before passing on| the balance to repay some of the monev | she borrowed from us, it is reasonable , to assume that M. Laval may be willing | to consider some reduction, provided Irfianu continues to get her customary oo “Everything vpossible wwill be done to| make clear to him the high regard and | affection in which France is held bv the | American veople,” asserts th= Roanoke | Times. with the comment as to a better | understanding that may grow out of the | visit: “Prance is the dominant power | in Europe today and emjoys a primacy | such as she has not. experienced since | the Napoleonic era. It is of the utmost | importance that France use her newly | acquired power wisely and to advance | the interests of peace. The militaristic | atmosphere which some visitors to Eu-| rope have renorted they found in France | mav not reflect the spirit and puroose | of the French government. and if that | i= so it is of the utmest imnortance that this should be made clear in order | to remove any possibility of misund standing.” * x % o* | “President Hoover and Premier Laval meet,” accordng to the Omaha ‘Waorld-Herald, “as the responcible heads of the two most powerful of the nations world Thev will know that n their hands rest the destinies for the immediate fu- L gl eir discussions may form the basis for an_ understanding which will definitelv advence the re- turn of international prosperity, inter- national good will and world peace. A/ great covortunity comfronts the two men.” The Hamilton (Ontario) Spec-| tator thinks thet “if Germany and| France can come to an agreement on matters which have been a source of | irritation and danger for many years past, it should be easy for France the United States—the great gold-hold- “muntrizs—to suggest effective means * s.alghtening out the tangled skein ia.crnational finance.” “The visit may be taken to indicate a full realization that there are prob- lems the two nations must solve to gether,” suggests the Oakland Tribul advising that “it is time to lay asids the mutual criticism and get to work.” The San Antonio Express holds that “no doubt the visit will be highly bene~ ficial to both France and ‘the United States,” pointing out that when M. Laval took the premiership “he compelled {0 meet vital internat issucs which even Forel e ose He: a European “desire to get’ together,” and states that “there is reason to believe of the largely & of all | “may come frcm the conference.” paper beu:hv: that “it will be worth visit is as productive as and MeHon to? reparations and war And much must be done and the United States are in a f men Aid All Nations anxious to iron out Franco-American misunderstandings. It would be hard to think ef any objective more important to the werld just now than that.” “If this country wants Prench sup- port in whatever is being attempted, or may in the future be attempted, to solve the world's problems,” declares th> Philedelphia Evening Bulletin, “Prance equally desires an understand- ing with the United States. It would like American approval for its policies: it prcb-bly wiuld be willing to pay a substantial price for it. The present visit to Berlin, the first ever made by a premier of the French Republic, may accomplih much in the way of a pre- liminary understanding with Germany toward making the American visit fruitful.” “The visit might be from several viewpoints of singular significance,” says the Erie Dispatch-Herald, observing that “France has many friends in America,” and that she “is finding her- self increasingly isolated in Eurcpe.” The Astury Park Press sees evidence that “France fully appreciates the pos- sibilities for making history offered by thece conversations.” The Lexington Leader concludes: “Great good should cime from such personal contacts and from a frenk cnd full discussion of problems which are complicated by dif- ferences of opinion and by very natural misunderstandings which are due to the various engles from which they are studied in different countries.” Freshmaanhoice Plan For Chicago U. Praised From the Providence Evening Bulletin. We hope that President Hutchins' 725 freshmen at the University of Chi- cago know what they want. For these next four years are going to put a ter- rible strain on uncertainty. They can elect what courses they choose, attend lectures whenever they feel like it, and read whatever books suit their fancy. A generous offer like tbat to the gay dogs of cur day would bhave filled the \'flha tavern to over- flowing and mad: tHe night hideous with song. But times and taverns have changed. The free and easy system has been carefully devised by President Hutchins and his able staff, which has ke] frailty of freshmen constantly before it. And even if it doesn't work. it's good; for the report made by the faculty on each of the first 325 is, “We-don't know anything about him.” which is equivalent to an old-fashioned proba- tion. Well, until they know something about him, he must address himself sclely to academic pursuits, forswearing all others until he is noticed. Suppose he doesn't. Ergo, he is dropped. A Jolly good riddance! i Four hundred continue toward t| survival of the fittest. And by ti senfor year—at a conservative estl —325 are left. Twenty-five out of hundred and twenty-five. An excelles percentage of “cream.” Chicago’s fin ‘The more stringent colleges turn out no higher, and in he system has figured out, it essentiall their own. viod e And he a has chosen scheme ot wholesome _contacts. rather than . coeb- clon to lure the waverers toward the light. It ought to work more hand- somely than the overseer system. Twen- ty-five! * Chi University would be worth saving for even one higl cated man out of 725. Any uni would. e And Lota of Other Things.