Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1931, Page 8

A-8 » THE EVENING STAR ___ With Sunday Worning Fdition. WASHINGTON, D. C | MONDAY . November 2, 1931 | | THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 1y o "agd Fenmarivants Ave yow York Shice 110 Ba. (354 8t s Lake Michiian Build ine n Ofice "14 Pegent Lot do. Eogiand, Rate by Carrier Within the City. R': '"n:‘::- Bt wat e Brenjng a4’ Bunds ® t b hondan at the vod m he semt 1 by ma 3 Ational 4000 Rate by Maill—Payable In Advance. Maryland and Virginia Eflv and Buaday 10 00 7 only ¥4 0 nin; only $4.00. 3 mo All Other States and Canada. Enr and Bunday 5200 iy only nday only £2.00: i mo Member of the Associaied Press. 5300, 1 mo . ted Press is excl 170 jors iy 1or 1y iyr et eclal “dispaictien herein are Roosevelt Oppocition Just as former 4 B Smith # lnunching an o Un D. Rooscveli's Sts and tax plans, Mayor Ant ©of Chicago arr In N demands a wringing wet Demo candidate for President next year, B to mention a wringing wet Demociatic national platform The signs are in- creasingly apparent that this wet and dry question stdll lives to plague the | Democratic party. an opponent of the eighteenth amend- ment. He has nevertheless sought to | make the economic situation and tge | problems growing out of it the main is- #ues of the coming presidential campaign. with a soft pedal on prohibition. While his attitude toward prohibition as an fssue in the national campaign has made votes for him in the South and ‘West, it has not endearcd him to the | Smith-Raskob faction of the porty, In- tent upon mot only nominating a wet for President, but alsy writing a wet plank into the party platform Mr. Cermack insists on his. srrival | fn New York that a man “like Al Bmith,” standing four square against national prohibition. alone can be nom inated and elected President next year. And diplomatically the Chicago mavor suggests that Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Ilinois filly the bill The Illinols Democratic Central Committee has already put forward Senntor Lewis #s the candidate of Illinols democracy. Perhaps Mr. Cermack's visit to New York is to give added assurance that | the Ilinols delegation to the Democratic | national convention is not to be pledged | to Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New | York In advance and so give heart to the Democrats who are opposed to the | nomination of Roosevelt. The demo- | eracy of Chicago, for many years under the leadership of the late George Bren- nan, co-operated closely with the | Tammany Democratic organization of | New York, notably at the Democratic | mational convention in Madison Square Garden in 1924. when Brennan and Bmith stood shoulder to shoulder to prevent the nomination of the dry Wil- liam G. McAdoo, who also had the op- position of many big interests. Is Gov. Roosevelt to occupy a posi- ' tion in the 1932 convention analagous | to that of McAdoo in 1924? The wet- | ter elements in the party seem to be aligning themselves against the New York Governor's presidential aspira- *tions. There is a group of powerful finan- cial interests hostile to the Rcosevelt | | the | Geor, mischief as possible without detection. | evident that the craft has the power | Police efforts to catcls them were frult- | Jess. ‘They raced about in the dark. | acting like fiends bent upon desgruction Identification and capture of the vandals will alweys be diffwult. They work in the dark and, as on Saturday night, at late hours. In some cases they go about in motor cars and, operat- ing stlently, are far away when their mischief is diseorered. Yet perhaps it s postib eatch some of these peo- snd t> punish them so severely th: in o s doterrent object les- Perhaps next rogram respecting & a on Halloween, & an be made br the police et and of the adjacent te a few of these van‘als prota=tion to householders cir wanton behavior 1 #ons In the future ar. ger pectal effort of the Distr areas to cay . ————— Llsyd George Coming Back. While the smoke of battle still rolls scross t*e British political heavens, fol lowing last week's gencral election, Devid Lloyd George comes forth with the announcement that he purposes mobliizing the forces of Liberalism and | Labor as a united parliamentary op- position. He is not daunted by the fact that the clements at his command are at present far from formidable, They + fifty-two Labor members and Liberals of his own particular which is made up of himself. t tiis son and his son-in- 1 o were re-elected to House of Commons on October 27. A Iloyd Gearge is rather looking to the futare, when he undoubtedly hopes that the sixly “National Liberals” who are marchin ald-Baldwin National government will reiurn to the fold under his leadership compri; grouy hom 1 Gov. Roosevelt is | For his immediate purposes, the former l | prime minister can Fardly make a dent with his fifty-six Labor-Lloyd Georgians against the government's immense phalanx of 557 supporters. But if he contrives to marshal under his banner the nearly 7,000,000 Labor voters who went down to defeat, he will lead a host that will have to be reckoned with in later elections. The remnants of the Labor and olg Liberal party, the man of Harlech con- tends, must co-operate “for the benefit of the ration.” He evidently refuses to expect salvation from the political com- bination just inirusted with “a doctor’s mandate” to preseribe for Britain's e omic ills. *“Th: battlefront must be broadened and deepened,” Mr. Lloyd e thunders. “The Tuture of the country depends upon the extent to which that can be accomplished. Ad- vanced Liberalism and Labor must co- operate.” The program he would advo- cate is described on his authority as one caling for “bold measures of rc- construction on progressive lines.” Apart from that general platform, & Lioyd George captaincy of Liberal and Labor forces is certain to stress hostil- ity to the protective tariff as its key- note. Although the war-time leader of the British government is & son of Wales by ancestry, he is & native of Manchester. ‘His declaration of war on the National government is made through the columns of the staid Man- chester Guardian. Manchester is the cradle of free trade and remains its die-hard guardian. Mr. Lloyd George defended the ancient shibboleth vali- antly throughout the recent campaign. He sees in the late election, with its Conservative landslide, certain indica- tion_that the passage of a tariff act is inevitable, and reaffirms his view that it will fal to solve Britain's problems. Mr. Lloyd Gecrge envisions an emer- gency protectionist measure as a more immediate likelihood than a sweeping change in British fiscal policy, but he contends that “with a protectionist ma- jority in Parliament, the government with the MacDon- | THE EVENING QT‘\R WASHINGTON, D. C THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. for an efficlent pace in the air These two great “balloons salling aimecst silently over Washington, sug- gestod & sinister power of destruction Yet their size and comparatively slower ; pace render them vulnerable to attack | !by airplanes. They are not essentially | fighting machines, though they jused in the Great War with highly de- structive effects. The question remains In the minds of prople, in vic - of the developments the war 1914-18, whether the gible 15 a sound investment in de- fensive armament. Just 50, despite the remarkable achicvements of the Graf Zeppelin, Gern ny's greatest craft of this character, it is doubted whether this form of alrship is to be the com- mon carrier of the skies in the eventu- ally assured cevelopment of aircraft for | transportation. Nevertheless, the Akror is an object of pride to America as a remarkable achievement in aeronautic of engineering. It has disproved the doubts | of those who placed a limit upon the pessibllity of enlarging the g | type of aerial eraft. - ———— Washington's Halloween. 1f the old lady herself had come 1id- | ing & broom off the edge of the moon on Saturday night, and galloped up Pennsylvania avenue oh a level with the Post Office clock. she could not | have taken the Police Department more | by surprise than did the hundred thou- sand or so Washingtonians who came | downtown to see what the Halloween | carnival was all about. There were 80 | many spectators and so many actors that the police and the judges more or Jess lost track of which was which | But with such & spontaneous celebra- tion on such relatively short notice, the future status of Halloween on the iist of Wdshington's annual events, seems | pretty well established. The machinery is already in motion to make next year's celebration bigger and better. The Saturday night affair turned out to be an interesting demonstration of how easily and enthusiastically the city responds to the carnival spirit and what & good thing it is to provide a suitable outlet for that spirit. Few occaslons in the past have found the streets and sidewalks so jammed with gay holiday seekers whose bizarre cos- tumes added the colorfu! touch. With more time to organize the affair and to provide the proper police arrange- ments for pedestrian and vehicular traffic the ecity can look forward to a spectacle mext year that will assume unusual proportions. Those in charge of this first demon- stration are to be congratulated on the response to their efforts. And if the police were, for the moment, unpre- pared for the unexpected 'crowds—was anybody prepared? Bl Highe s S Switzerland has been well content with a situation which placed her be~ yond the need of a navy and refuses to worry about predictions that the im- portant battles will be conducted in the air. It hardly seems likely that any vandalism would seek to devastate one of the world's favorite playgrcunds. A frequent experience is duplicated in the career of Edison. Even a genius may fail to compose a will that wili give satisfaction to his entire family. ot e Chicago is short of funds for munici- pal purposes, and is making an effort to keep moncy which should be available racketeer strong boxes. —— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Holiday Preparedness. candidacy, espacially the power interests. | wi]] be forced at no distant date to sign | The holidays are drawing near Whether former Gov. Smith will permit himself to be drawn Into the position | where he becomes the chief stumbling block in the path of the Roosevelt candidacy remains to be seen. Certain- 1y he has opened fire at last on the New York Governor, though to cate his at- | tack is only a sniping at th: Roosevelt | reforestation amendment. The fact s | becoming more and more clear that the Democratic nomination is not to go to| Gov. Roosevelt “by default.” | TP, | The size of Edison's estate contra- | dicts an impression that he was a poor man. His fortune must still be re- garded as small compared with what | 1t might have been had the inventor devoted his genius strictly to the pur- suit of wealth. — R S A high tariff is something different After unsatisfactory experiments in various lnes, many English citizens may want it for that reason, if for no other. .- H:lloween Vandalism. Halloween may become an occasion of general jubilation and organized festival in Washington by the develop- ment of such a demonstration es that which was undertaken Saturday night by groups of citzens working in collaboration. It may afford an oppor- tunity for wholesome merry-making, with indulgence in the “dressing up" disposition that survives adolescence. It Tay be that it will offer a chance for the youth of the community to engage in pranks under some degree of restraint to avold the practices that have persistently continued for many years in the form of injuries to property and the serious disturbance of the peace of citizens. That is to bs hoped, and to that end the energies of those engaged in the organization and conduct of the pageantry and display should be bent. It was, however, evident that Satur- day nighls trotion did not absorb all the mischievous energies of the Halloween prankers. In every part of the city and in the adjacent suburbs night before last wanton rowdyism pre- vailed and much serious injury was done to property. Despite police efforts to hold these manifestations in check, dwellings were indelibly marked with silly scrawls, windows were cefaced with slmost ineradiceble mediums, porta property was stolen, motor cass were defaced frreparably. Scme of the vandalsm went to a length that wes suggestive of disordercd winis. Cars were sected with knives, tires were . and ruined, glass v a3 broken. Sudh disorder, stemingly with no purpose but to deface and destroy, was mot wholly, if in large proportion, the work of children. Adults were engaged in ths ruthlees business. srougy of men ‘soing about with knives to do &s much | ctafr ¥ a death warrant for free trade.” David lusts for the opportunity to meet that Goliath and breathes defiant confidence that he can slay him, The approach of his seventieth birthday apparently does net deter the little Welshman from one more fight to the finish with his politi- cal adversaries. The President’s Example. It was & gracious and generous im- pulse that led President Hoover to con- tribute by personal check a donation of $2,500 to keep the District Unemploy- ment Committee alive. But unless the gift is construed as an example to be followed by the community, the that the President of the United States had to come to the rescue of this local committee will, in turn, become an embarrassing reflection on the District's ability to meet its due responsibilities. The Unemployment Committee has had dificult sledding. Its has been, in general, to provide work Copertuntti A necessary secretarial s been employed although those in charge of work have served f the without pay depended upon its It hy support from benefit affairs that have | not alway ted enough patronage to meet the overhead. The funds al- lotted to “making” work have bsen d by the expense of main- g the cflice force s to be hoped that those in charge of the committee work can ine a suitable method of raising funds that emphasize, to the commun importance of maintaining th ganizaticn. It must not be reg as an orphan among the city's cf ble orgenizations. denied the means of proper financial support . ordinary It would be a relief if the Far East over here in on arms and ammuvition e Akren end Los Angeles. Was the new giant of the sky this morn'ng. Accompanied heretofore largest American dir the new in a co to the P the gible, fiight to pay dent of the Uni Comma: in Chief of the whith it is a unit. Alrea vith Los Aniec'es, the people of e cnebed by in every proportion, cienily ro a’'most to drarf Los A: althovzh the I=ttar's lines gives the immediete tremendous power. It mancuvers easily. Though no soceding was attempted in fact | function agton had its first glimpse of menster safled over the city respects its presence 1o gavge the immensity swer ship of the suf- ! 2les, are more | gracetul end pleasing. The new airsh'p impression of Uncle Eben,” foh & man dat gits a long And each expects a proper joy. A controversial smile or sneer Brings gladness, like a youthful toy. | And underneath the sparkling skies Where give and take again is taught The universal shout will rise— “Oh, see what Santa Claus brought!” has A treasure gift—a compliment— A chance for oratoric pride— A criticism that is meant | In usefulness to be applied! | The disappointment must appear, As moods of gayety are sought; Still we will say and strive for cheer. “Oh, see what Santa Claus has brought!” [ Importations. | “I have observed,” remarked the | ponderous person, “that we usually re- | gard anything imported as particularly | fine “Humadn nature'" commented Senator | Sorghum. “We often neglect the need in our neighborhood and devote our sympathy to people in distant lands Even In selecting our troubles we prefer | the tmported varieties.” Jud Tunkins says he's waiting to hear some cheerful news about a gangster | who changed the hunting program by | mistaking a deer for a man and shoot- ing the deer. | Things Related. “For relativity we'll seek In calculations very grave And at the budget take a peek, Discovering how to spend and save We hope for a contented mind As we on mathematics Jook, And make the market basket find Proportionate with the pocketbaok Farm Leadership. “What I don't like about city folks," said Farmer Corntossel, “is that they're “We farm ‘ phatic demand for relief. | thing you know, eve: “I welcome modern improvement said Hi Ho. the sage of Chinatown, “but with discrimination. They make life comfortable, but they make war mare terrible.” Investigation. It is the fate mortals ever find, To be disturbed by an inquiring mind With each discovery the world may heed, A new discovery will assert the need. So we investigate and o So far, so good | morel™ “You can't heve much use” said face when you speak about good times, cause he's afraid hell be offered work this worning flight over the city, it was most any minute." were | & for civic needs from being hearded in | me every year people be- n talking about colds. They do a great deal of talking, but it does not seem to get them anywhere. Every one catches cold just the same, despite the greatest precautions, all the |talk and the advice of orgasisations { bent on telling the world how to ltve | “How to Avoid Colds,” says the article, {and one rushes into it heatedly, think- ing that here at last a solution of the universal problem is to be found. Alas! It is not here, nor there. nor |anywhere. One has tried all those don’ts” before. they are very good, but they are not sufficient in themselves to vent one from catching a cold. very ple who violate every one of those rules, who yet never have a cold from one ear's end to another Observance of heaith rules won't save one from a cold, & cough, from sneez- ing. from the hundred and one dis comforts and inconveniences, to say nothing of expenses, which these mal- adies bring upon one, The medical profession is as much at se the rest of us. Only a few vears ago, compearatively speaking, they | were boosting chlorine gas, but today one does not hear so much of it. many “cold cures,” before Lil L and since, it “worked” with some and failed with cfless. The same is true i Every one interested in this matter knows one o sons who declare that the * are great and an equal number who say that they have produced no results with them. There is no sure road to that earthly Paradise where no colds reign, where the sneeze is unknown, and the cough extinct. These things are part of the average person's journey through life. Wealthy or poor seems to make little difference. Every one has a cold, espe- cially at this time of the year. R i continue to strike the lay mind suspiciou: that there is an in- crease of colds in cold weather. The simple old boys who named the disease knew what they were about. Yet the average observer knows that one can get a cold quite as easily from a too warm room as from a too cold one, Perhaps a better way to put it would be to say that extremes of tem- perature do something to the body which puts it in a condition to be fi vorable to “catch” a cold. For it is the entire body, not just the nose, which ‘ratches” a cold. “something” spoken of above, of course, is congestion. Congestion, driving the blood away from the skin, somehow is supposed to give cold germs a chance to flourish in the nasal passa This is about as much as you will learn if you consult all the authorities in the world, and here we are telling it to you for nothing. It will or are merely a manifestation of it is in some doubt. There are many ro- ple who feel themselves so susceptible that they merely have to have some one sneeze upon them to go home with a raging cold that very evening. Others could let the inhabitants of the whole town sneeze upon them one after the other with no ill effects whatever, aside from the somewhat dubious good taste of thg process. In colds, as in so many other affairs of lifg, one cangot grow | BY FREDERIC President Hoover's political managers are taking serenely the emergente of the Borah-for-President boom and the apparent recrudescence of Hiram John- son’s White House ambitions, supposedly laid away in lavender. Is is seriously doubted whether either the Idahoan or the Californian thinks he could wrest the nomination from the President, no matter if the attempt were made in the primaties or in the Republican Na- tional Convention. Would-be dethron- ers of a president in office always hark back to the futile effort to prevent the renomination of William Howard Taft. What “T. R was unable to accom plish in 1912 few politicians believe Borah or Johnson can achieve in 1932 Republicans hostile to Hoover always acknowledge that their only chance of overthrowing him is a convention stampede. But G. O. P. conventions are famed for being hard-boiled. Next year's will be filled with Hoover-in- structed delegates, barring contingen- cies now utterly unforeseen. Even if a delegate from Oregon, or somewhere | else, should get up and yell “Calvin Coolidge!” it is extremely questionable if the convention would lose its head, violate its instructions and turn down Mr. Hoover. If it did, it would hand the Democrats an issue on a golden platter—the party’s repudiation of its own administration. x ok ok ox Offers of financial assistance for & primary campaign on Senator Borah's behalf might just happen to be the ar- gument that would induce the Senate foreign relations chairman to tempt presidential fate. His friends have al ways understood that it is “Big Bil's | very modest economic state that dis suaced him from indulging in the lux- ury of a chase for convention delegates. One or two White House aspirants h} | the past discovered that in even thi least populous State in the country | $10,000 could easily be spent in a pri- | mary contest. That's a whole year's | congressional salary for Borah. But | unless the Republican norinating con- vention were honeycombed with Idahoan's brand of progressivism. would see littls real hope of the G. O. P. ancinting him. its standard-bearer. To run on a third-party ticket would carry | small appeal for Borah. He knows his American political history too well to faith on an independent can- cy against the two “great” parties % iak e % Senator Johnson was 65 vears old this | Fall. He would be 66 if nominated and {elected President in 1932 and on the | verge of 67 at his inauguration. While there are plenty of men in American public life today at full vigor in years as advanced as that and beyond, it has {not been customary for either the Re- | publicans or Democrats to invade the | sexagenarian brackets for presidential | timber. Hiram Johnson is far more “fiftyish” in physical and mental ca- | pacity than a man in the middle 60s. | Following his baffled aspiration to take |the 1924 nomination from Coolidge, nson categorically announced that the White House germ had been eradi- | em for all time.| cated from his Evidently he has had a relapse. * * o % Tre Dominican 257 ring the site ghthouse to be topher Columbus. Republic is for the memorial erected in honor of President Tru- cl Jillo the project and awaiting the results of the second architectural competition ed at Rio de Janeiro. Archi- v part of tte world have winning plan will re- ive a prize of $10,000, and its creator be chosen to design the monu- mental beacon which is to bear the of the great discoverer. The is to make the Columtus light- useful for both mariners and air § e first continental memorial n who found America, it will apart from its practical {value for sea 2nd air navigation. the tribute of the 21 Americas to the glory of Columbus. compete TR D'Hote Government” is the piquant political apoctizer ced by Nathan B. Williams. on lawyer. -“The taxpsyer is who pays the chy nement.” it says. “Table | title of ngt e ma; | du Gouve: |15 largely cater to the frills, fads and fancies of | the foolish. One order of each of the items on a dinner bill of a leading ho- tel recently footed up the sum of $11,570. Ouite one-hall or mere of this bill kad no relation to the real sus- pi ashii “The check one knows one or more peo- | The | Whether the germs “cause” the cold | is taking the deepest interest in | at L'Hotel | augment=d by attempts to | MONDAY . dogmatic without running the risk of having one's choicest statements rise up to call one anything but biessed. * ko % ‘Whatever the experts may ultimately | decide upon as the real cause of coids, there is one thing that seems to be sure, and that is that the body is try- ing to get rid of nomrlhln’. | Every careful observer of colds. espe- | clally in himself, comes to have a great sympathy for his sneesing, perspiring | body, and to feel that this worthy part |of him 1s doin1 its best to get out of itself certain inimical factors which ‘ido not seem to be sitogether the work of germs. T who find their colds accompanied by simple nausea will be all the more inclined to believe that there is an accumulation of something or other which the body is now making stren- uous efforts to get out of itsell. They discover, after a few of these colds (sometimes, but wrongly, calied intes- tinal grip), that there is a regular set rogress of the disease, in which the body takes advant: of every possible | way to cleanse itself. The whole affair does seem to be some sort of cleansing of the system. The nose is only one factor in it. If this view of colds is true in sny degree, 1t would seem only logical to attempt to discover what 1t is which the system is making such heroic en- | deavors to throw out. All people eat, and it would seem reasonable to look |to what they eat for a clue in this matter, Here will be met a very great | stumbling block. One of the most diffi- cult tasks in the world is the attempt to isolate a food which one has suspi- clons is causing trouble, either in this or any connection. Some will say that |1t is dangerous to have any such sus picions at all, that one should do as the old-fashioned mothers advised their | children—eat~ what is placed before them and say no more about it. Yet logic is logic, and if one feels that a cold is merely a cleansing process, and that something in some {food is what the body is trying to get | rid of, then it is only sensible to try to | figure out the offender. A friend who recently came down with a cold told | us afterward that for a month prior |he had been unable to find a coffee ‘wwhlch suited his taste. Very fond of | this beverage, he had tried brand after brand, declaring of each that it was vile, that the coffee of the world was growing poor. It never occurred to him, he sald afterward, that the trou- ble might have been with him, that it was the beginning of the re‘volt of his system against coffee. He did not take the warning; he persisted, he tried other brands, he growled every morning that the coffee was terrible, he never once thought that it was his own “taster” which was off. And why? That was and is the in- teresting question, which is no muflon at all, of course, if one feels quite sure that he knows all there is to known about colds, their cause and cure. The rest of us, more reasonable mortals, we like to think, will not reject a clue in the labyrinth simply because we have not had the pleasure of its acquaintance before. We will be ha for any silken thread, however slight, which gives promise of leading us into the light of a cold-free day. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. tenance needs of even the most capri- cious appetite. The disparity ween the {prmm cost of government and what it reasonably should be is almost of a sim. served table d’hote. Hundreds of tivities unknown to government a few years ago are now included in the bill of fare. We need to avoid governmental fatty degeneration. * Paul Bellamy, president of the Black Hills Transportation Co., was in Wash- ington the other day renewing acquaint- | anceships of 1927 Coolidge days in South Dakota. In honor of Mrs. Cool- idge, the Black Hills le renamed Squaw Creek “Grace Creek.” Bellamy discloses that the name has been changed again, this time to “Cal- vin Coolidge Creek,” because (he says) t does not choose to run. Numerous trout streams have dried up in the | Black Hills during the drought. R One of Washington’s big crop of new | Ambassadors is being indefinitely de- |layed in tackling his job—Dr. Salva- | dor de Madariaga, cultured envoy of | Epain. Within a few days after he pre- se.ted Lis credentials to President Hoo- ver in June, Dr. de Madariaga was re- called to Madrid and thence dispatched to Geneva Spain’s spokesman at the League of Nations. He had expected to | wind up his duties on the League Coun- cil many weeks ago and go to work | here, but the Manchurian controversy | thundered along, and it will probably | be December now, or later, before Am- bassador de Madariaga returns to Wash- ington. He is expected to play an active role in American intellectual | lite, being a scholar of eminent dis- | tinction. While a_professor at Oxford, | Harvard men weré pondering the pos- | sibility of inducing him to come to the | Crimson campus. | L | 1f anybody thinks John Bull will hesitate to institute tariff reprisals the | against Uncle Sam, documents on file at the State Department should dispel all doubts of what is likely to happen when the Conservative party enacts protection in Great Britain. When | Washington was being deluged with protests against the Hawley-Smoot tariff last year, the longest communi- |cations in regard to commodities af- fected by that law came from the Brit- ;‘ Duties protested had ref- onfons, celery, kale, beets, parsley and other vegetables from Bermuda; sponges from the Bahamas; wool, hides, skins, sausage casings and pear! shells from Australia, and cattle from Canada. (Copyrisht, 1831) Another Cause of Waste. Prom the Oakland Tribune Another cause of waste is the practice of throwing hats in the ring befoprg run- ning for office. ] We'll All Join Soon. Prom the San Antonio Eves News. That association called American Friends of Turkey should prove popular with Thanksgiving coming. G ————— Carnera and Tunney “Brothers.” From the Topeka Daily Capital, What with these long counts, looks like Carnera and Tunney are fraternity brothers in the school of hard knocks. L Our Worst Epidemic. From the Charleston (S. C.) Eveninz Post. If any diseass were as d sutomobile sccidents in’America, there ‘woul wi outcries ’m - fhing done about & - ' "Ave some " S Both Parties Pleased. Prom the Newark Evening News. A European scientist says man m:h nx;e ;n hbr:hfl- rmvv{d than ;n: erto been believed. This news please both parties. s - It May Be Boasting, h?!l;.elht Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. woman who claims to under. stand men either claim t': marvel- ous-genjus or else “Doc’ | something of an insult. NOVEMBER | i | | | ” { town Einsteln out o s | he is to have. 9 < 1931. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. Prohibition, which threatens to play an important part in the coming na- tional election, is likely to have some- thing to do with the selection of the next Speaker of the House. Not only may it have its effect on the political majority of the House when that body here, but the views of the candi- dates on national prohibition may be taken into consideration in the actual nomination and election of the new Speaker. Out in Michigan, the Demo- cratic candidate in the eighth congres- sional district, Hart, for the vacan.y caused by the death of the late Repre- sentative Vincent, is a wet, while his Republican opponent, Eldred, is a dry. The Democrats are hoping that the wet issue will help them out in this district. There was & good deal of speculation as to the reason that the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth, who represented the wet first congressional district of Ohio and who was known to sympa- thize personally with the anti-prohibi- tionists, kept mum on the wet and dry issue after he became Speaker. His failure to declare himself for repeal of the elghteenth amendment in recent years not only puzzled his friends in appears that Mr. Longwor take two things into consideration while he presided over the House as the Re- publican Speaker. With a strongly dry majority in the House, the leaders cf the dry cause threatened to pmvent Mr. Longworth's elgction if he was to be a militant wet while he was in the Speak- er's chalr. The late Wayne B. Wheeler, eral counsel of the Anti-Saloon gue of America, saw to it that this was made clear to Mr. Longworth. * oK ok % ‘The second factor in causing Mr. Longworth to keep u"li" from the public discussion of the prohibition question while he was presiding officer of the House was the strongly dry position which his party, the G. O. P., assumed nationally. As Republican Speaker of the House, he would have only em- barrassed his party had he been pro- nouncedly wet in his statements and had he favored wet legislation. ‘Whether the present general super- intendent of the Anti-Saloon League, Dr, Scott McBride, will undertake to put the prohibition issue up to the candidates for Speaker in the coming session of remains to be seen. ‘Wayne Wheeler did that thing. It seems likely, nowever, that the Anti- Saloon League and other dry organiza- tions, following their usual tactics, will endeavor to see that no wet, or at least no member of the House who will be an outspoken wet, shall have the speaker- ship of the use, one of the most im- g:‘mnt posts in the Government of the ited States. If the Democrats or- ganize the House, Representative Jack Garner of Texas will be entirely satis- factory to the drys. He comes from a State which has repeatedly proved its allegiance to prohibition and which proauced the authcr of the eighteenth amendment, Senator Morris Sneppard, a Senator whom it has repeatedly re- elected. Just how the wel, Tammany Democrats, for example, and the Demo- crats from Massachusetts and other anti-prohibition States will regard Mr. Garner is er matter. ‘I'ney are likely to vote for him, however, cn party grounds despite his dryness. * % ok K The two Republicans who have been the most prominent candidates for the speakership are Representative John Q. Tilson of Connecticut and Repre- sentative Bertrand Snell of New York. Tilscn hails from a wet district. But he, too, In recent years has kept mum in his hibition issue. The same reasons that impelled Mr. Longworth, when Bpeak- er, to keep off the wet and dry issue in his public statements worked on Mr. Tilson, who was Republican leader of the House under M. orth. hen representatives of wet organiza- lons have ht Mr. Tilson to obtain anti statements from the majority leader of the House, he has told them that because of his position he did rot care to say anything about the issue. It has been generally under- stood in his district that if opportunity arose for a real stroke at national pro- hibition Mr. Tilsor would be there to do his part. * ok % % Representative Snell, who comes from a up-State district in New S0 She afyotganizations And 1o or, s and to the drys Possibly his dry in ‘the %l;ll ;fiow- ublican "The new three to one or more, in its membership. It does not seem likely that it will put at its head a militant wet, or one whe will continue to be militantly wet while he is the pi g officer of the House. The suggestion has been made that Tilson and Snell may kill each other off in the Republican caucus to pick a candidate for Speaker, and a com- promise candidate. probably from the Middle West, would be nominited in the end. If a compromise candidate is the answer to the duel between the two leaders, that compromise candidate will not be a mflltlnt.we‘t. * tat the in stand may help down in the contest for the nomination for Speaker. House is strongly dry, probabl In Progressive Republican things_are beginning to hum. With Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania, old Bull Mooser and confidant of the late Theodore Roosevelt, threatening to op- pose the renomination of President Hoover in the East, and Senator Wil- liam E. Borah of Idaho and Senator Hiram Johnson of California showing signs of throwing their hats in the ring for the Republican presidential nomination next vear, interest in the Progressive opposition’ to the renomi- nation of President Hoover grows apace. The news that Senator Borah was considering, at least, a proposal that he become a presidential candi- date followed fast on the heels of a statement in California by Senator Johnson which was interpreted as in- dicating that he might enter the Cali- fornia primaries next year against Mr. Hoover. Probably none of the Progressives, not even Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, is as widely known to_th American people as ~ Senator “Bill Borah, at present chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has spoken (o audiences in all parts of the country. He has been in the limelight during his Senate career prob- ably more often than any other Senator. But Senator Borah has always felt that geographically he was weak when it came to a contest for a presidential ( nomination. His State, Idaho, has only 4 votes in the electoral college, which decides, in theory, the presidential elec- tion. Presidential candidates for the most part have come from the populous States of the Union. But Borah, be- cause of his wide reputation and his great abilities, represents more than Idaho in the public life of this country. He has become a national figure. He is a vigorous man, despite the fact that on his next birthday he will be 87 years old. This coming presidential election i Would appear to be his chance, if chance Perhaps that very fact will bave its influence upon the Idaho Senator when it comes to a final answer | %o the group of business men who have now offered to underwrile the expenses of his campaign for the presidential nomination. \ All four of the principal Progressive Republican figures, from a presidential standpoint, are sixty-five years old or over. Hiram Johnson is the youngest, | in his 66th year. Borah and Pinchot are | in their 67th years, and Norris is in his 71st year. No younger Progressive has been suggested seriously for a presidential nomination. 1though Sen: tor Robert M. La Follette, jr., of Wi consip is the most outstanding of younger group, and predictions been made that he will go far. e | Home Talent. From the Toledo Blade. Non-resident crooks are to be g again. The hom protected. ven own bublic statements about the pro- | circles | & [ the agency of the Port Authority, a {it gives free information on an; ject. Often to be accurately lormed |1s to be beyond the need of advice, and | information is always valuable, whereas advice may not be. In using service be sure to write clearly, state )‘f‘u{ uqulry briefly and inclose two- cent stamp for repiy postage. The Evening Star, Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Wash. ington, D. C. Q. What equipment has the Akron for carrying Airplanes?—C. L. Jv A. The storage hangar of the Akron is 75 by 60 feet In size and is located | about one-third of the ship's length \{r']om u.w nose. Planes may be released rough a T-shaj opening in the ship'sbottom byp:d trw -rnns- |ment while the ship is in t. They { may be picked up again on trapeze and hauled into the compartment by Q. Has the flexibility clause o nr'}g law been used? —Is mhwx e rates revised upwai L v ‘w-Ard"——H, by pward or down. . On_June 24, 1931, the United States Tariff Commission mnou‘::oed that import dutles on seven items, or groups of items, had been c under the flexible provision of the tarlft act of 1930, and that the changes had been approved by the President, making the new rates immediately effective. ' The commission also an- { nounced that the President had ap- proved its findings calling for no change in the rates on five other items. Of the seven changes in duties approved by the President, four are for de- creases and three for increases. sistance to tuberculosis?—H. G. A. The white race. Negroes, Indians, Eskimos and Siberian Kalmucks were very susceptible when they first came in contact with the white race. This racial tendency is best explained by the lack of contact with the diseases of white men. The white man, himself, b, the process of evolugion and survival, ance to discases. Q.- What pictures are on the new bills for $100.000, $500,000 and $1,- 000,000?—R, C. L, . The picture of Garrison aj {on the $100,000 Treasury bill, m ford's picture on the $500,000 bill and Wolcott's on the $1,000,000 bill. These Treasury bills are not currency, but a form of public debt security. Q. On the occasfon of M. Laval's visit to ~ Washington, ceremonial officers pointed out that he is erroneously called premier of France, but is offi- ( clally president of the Council of Min~ isters of France. Will you state what is the proper title of Ramsay Mac- Donald, usually called prime minister of Great Britain?—W. G. A. Mr. MacDonald'’s official designa- tion is first:lord of the treasury in his majesty’s government. The term prime minister or premier is merely a,short title used to indicate the ranking cabi- net minister, For example, the Ameri- can Secretary of State is the prime minister of our Government. Q. What is the name of the pro- fessar who 15 Americanizing the Bible? —T. P, 8. A Dr. Edg:l J. Goodspeed and Dr. J. M. Powis Smith of the University of Chicago. are attempting to adapt the Bible to typical American usage while retaining the original poetical value. Q. Does boiled water fregze more | quickly than unboiled water?—W. N. A. There is no difference between the freezing point of water that has been heated and that which has not been heated if the water is purc. In the case of tap water which is nearl: but contains dissolved air, hea BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Address | Q. What race has the greatest re- | has reached a higher degree of resist- | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS This bureau does not give advice, but | burst from freezing more often thedl ‘sub- | cold-water pipes. This is not becaus of a difference of freezing point of tb’, water, but is probably because the wa ter in cold-water pipes contains dis this | solved alr, which separates on freezin( and forms slushy ice; while when wate in & hot-water pipe freezes, it is mor pt to become under-cooled and the: freeze rather suddenly, forming con pact ice free from bubbles, which more apt to break a pipe. ‘Q. rvhn is fl;: nlm{! of the bran of science treating of reptiles, esp clally snakes?—A. H. A. The branch of zoology which dc g with reptiles is called herpetology diviston relating especially to snakes called ophiology. Q. How long did the Boer War la: —R. M. 8. A. The South Africa Boer War con menced with the Boer invasion in 189 This invasion ended with the relief Ladysmith, February 28, 1900. In Oc tober, 1900, the flight of President Kru terminated actual organized war are but a guerrilla warfare was kep up until the actual signing of the peacc treaty, May 31, 1902, at Pretoria. Q. Please describe Gieorge Washing ton’s coat of arms—M, C, A. On a silver or white backgroun are three red five-pointed stars witl two red bars low. A black raven top rises out of a coronet. was used in spelling the name. T! | coat of arms had been used by his Eng | lish ancestors for nearly 600 years. Q. Who bullt the first paper mill i | this country?—B. C. B. | A. The early printers of colonial America imported their paper from Eu- rope, chiefly from the Continent. The first paper mill was built in 16900 at Germantown, Pa., resul from. the combination of the needs the Phila- delphia printer, William Bradford, and the arrival of an ambitious German papermaker, Willlam Rittenhouse. Q. Who are the leading woman nov- elists of the United States?—M. V. W. A. This s a matter of opinion. The six foremost living woman noyelists as listed %Dr William Lyon Phelps are: Edith Wharton, Willa' Cather, Edna Ferber, Anna Sedgwick, Zona Gale Dorothy Canfield. and Mary Roberts Rinehart he awarded honorable mention. liest harvest in America was ulehn'zd T President _ setting aside day was first issued in 1863. Q. Is Nathanael Herreshoff, who de- the cup defenders, blind?—R. 8. A. Mr, Herreshoff is ffow 83 years old and retired. He is not blind and was the one who was the for the vari~~ cup defenders A~ and bullt by his company. These defend- ers in order of thelr iction are Rellance; the Runhm.er-?d prise, which was not was built at the Bristol Com| . Nathanael brother, John . Herreshoff, who wes died July 20, 1915. He was Herreshoff Company and a man of shrewd business Q. Please list some of the occupations Future Bridg National pride in the new George Washington Bridge, over the Hudson River between New York and New Jer- sey, is enfn-ed comments on the completion of the structure. The announcement that principles devel in the construction make it probable that even greater spans will be built in the future creates much interest, and further importance attaches to this bridge because of its contribution to the solution of the traffic problem of the metropolis. ‘A marvelous work of men is brought to completion,” declares the Newark Evening News, pointing out that the bridge “has a central span twice as lon: as any other bridge has ever had, an a width that makes other bridges Euny says of the builder, Othmar ann Ammann, pative of Switzerland and resident of new Jersey, “The world's ngineers sxe a shy man, one of them. selves, raised to a pinnacle of accom- plishment tha: will perpetuate his name in history. ‘The Rockford Register. Republic remarks that “completion of stupendous enterprise is pointed out exemplifying the true American spiri and agrees that it presents “an engi- neering feat that will have a place in history,” adding, “Three times stronger than the Camden-Philadelphia B e cables, those of the Gebrge Washington Bridge are capable of holding in sus- | Toaded.” “The tribute that the mighty | structure pays the engineering genius pnd executive ability that built it,” is Voiced by the Asbury Park Press, re- calling that “not many years ago the gigantic suspension span of 3,500 feet | was considered impossible, yet today fl-‘ is in active service.” That paper states | further: “Nor hes it been long that two States could unite in financing so stupendous & project. Now, through medium exists through which the Hud- | scn River itself is dwarfed by a tunnel | and bridge that have been dedicated to | public transportation.” * ok ox x | “That New Jersey fully appreciates | the vast amount of new traffic which the bridge will bring,” according to the Jersey City Journal, “is proved by the fact.that this State has already spent, or planned to spend, approximately $15,000,000 to provide proper and ade- quate New Jersey approaches. In antieipating with genuine optimism the execution of the project, the hope of | a stupendous structure, conquered engineering and financial | bstacles and surmounted every dif- ficulty.” Calling the structure “one of the century;’ the Allentown Morning Call obsorves: “This bridge is expected to last more than a hundred years at least. It should serve many genera- tions of people and pay for itself in tolls in probably eighteen to twenty years. That has been the of thé Hudson Tunnels and of the Philage!phia-Camden Bridge. It ought to pghve the experience of this newest bridge, which will reduce time and dis@ince for millions of pesple.” * kK ¥ “The last quarter of a century has been _an era of bridge buil sa. the Philadelphia Public Ledger. til-ver bridge, at Quebec, was the four major suspension bridges of tae worid have been built since 1924; the grertest steel arch have be-n byilt since 1917; a’ truss bridges have been by comparison.” The Evening News pensfon at one time 10 of the largest | bridges. ocean-going liners or battleships, fully | ton, the Golden Gate and the San Fran- gains of both States will be mingled | be highly th deep appreciation of the genius, | but how in the name of common sense skill and patience that planned and | does it tend to solve our ; directed such engineering feats and marvels of the | of men? e Possibilities Suggested by Longest Span new bridge the engineers have discov- ered new secrets, Now those who de- mfl and _constructed They hage worked out will make it masterplece, or nearly two pler to rlen Credit for the structure is given by the Providence Journal to “a fascinating system of labor saving deyices, without which this new Hudson River wonder would have been im| .” The San Francisco Caronicle, balieving that the Golden Gate Bridge will “surpass the New York colossus in length of span -Alameda County the George Washington cisco's bay bridge must as yet be tenta- tive. One item, however, is suggested by the $60,020,000 cost of the Hudson River structure. Ths :l:lb!nll’y esti- mates put the cost of the bay bridge at $72,000,000. Four and a half years were required for th= construction of the George Washington Bridge. Four years 1s# the ou {:ide estimate on the time for building either of San Francisco's * * * The George Washing- cisco-Alameda County bricges will make a great triumvirate which seems des- tined to rule the bridge world for some time to come. e Administration Critic Hits Navy Budget Cut To the Editor of The Star: It may be that the 3,000 miles divid- ing California from our National Capi- tal makes it difficult for residents by the Golden Gate to appreciate the value of the present governmental economy as measured by the present distressful era of unemployment. Hence our bewilderment on learning that ai administration, which has been so in sisteny for months past that employ< ers, under any circumstances, should neither discharge employes nor lower wages, is now aotually proposing to dismiss from employment 7,000 men, and so add that number of wage earn- ers to the already overswollen army of good results that will accrue from the | jobless and hungry men! Slashing the Navy's estimates may popular in Europe and Japan, own unem- ployment problem? If this be the pol« icy of the richest Government in the then why should it not be dopted by any and all emj of labor who think more of m%n the only really notable draw spans have been built since 191 d with each