Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1931, Page 8

A8 {THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY....,.November 6, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th 8t Pennsylvania Ave. 1 t 8t ke Michigan Bullding. 4 lulem'l".. Londot: Jan Rate by Carrier Within the City. / ening Star. 45¢ per month d_ing nd 60c per month (when 5 65c per month The Sunday Star ;-0c PeL oY llection made at the end 6f ‘each mon Qaders may be sent in by mail or telephone iAtional 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ily and Sunday.....1yr. $10.00: 1 mo., 85c iy only - ¥, $6.00: 1 mo., S0c sy only 00; 1 ‘1yr. $4.00; 1 mo., 40 All Other States and Canada. fly and Sunday. $12.00: 1 mo., $1.00 Iy Rl - 00 ay only : 1 mo., i8¢ 00 1 mo. 50c Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitied the ‘use for republication of all news i atches credited to it or not otherwise cri ted in this paper and siso the local news Bublished herein " All richts of publication o Special dispatches herein are also reserved. - 11, 1w ST Britain’s Ruling Families. Ramsay MacDonald has organized the new National government so over- whelmingly voted into office in Great Britain on October 27. Its make- heartbroken families of those who died that it was the first accident of the Ludington Line in more than a million miles of flying with eighty-five thou- sand persons being carried swiftly to their destinations. But this record of safe flying—the best of its kind ever established by any air service—can well be cited to those who may be inclined to renounce the plane as a method of transportation. Investigation of the accident is going forward apace. Perhaps the cause will never be known. The charred bit of |wreckue that was once the queen of the line and the fleetest plane ever to |operlu on regular commercial sched- ule will probably give up few secrets. And, as in everything else, eyewitness accounts will differ. It is earnestly to be hoped that the reason for the crash can be discovered, and if that is pos- sible, it will undoubtedly be done. In the meantime all hearts go out to those whose loved ones perished. Theirs is the real burden and whether the in- vestigations are successful or not, their sorrow will not be alleviated. - House Organization. Organization of the House of Repre- sentatives in the Seventy-second Con- gress has been a conundrum ever since that House was elected in November, 1930. It continues to be a conundrum, although the Congress is to meet here in a little over four weeks. Indeed, the question is even more confounded since the Democrats took from the Re- up of eleven Conservatives, five Liberals publicans the eighth Michigan congres- and four National Laborites is not | : | sional district in last Tuesday's elec- :"";""’;‘” " :"’c““’“b’“ oo “fx tions, making it impossible—even 1f the O e e whole membership of the House were those respective parties. If Mr. Mac- Donald had essayed to form a cabinet on those lines, it would have been top- heavy with Stanley Baldwin's Tories, who comprise easily five-sixths of the new House. The readiness of the Con- servatives to content themselves with ® round one-half of the twenty minis- terial portfolios carries out Mr. Bald- win's post-election statement that his party looks upon the late election as & victory for a National government snd not as a Conservative triumph— though that, in cold fact, is what % was. Americans who have kept pace with the kaleidoscopic changes in British public life during the past thirty years and more will marvel at the recurrence of familiar names in the government Just brought into being. For the past seven years the names of . Mac- Donald, Snowden, Sankey and Thomas have earned world-wide renown as leaders of the Labor party which at- tained power twice during that period. But Sir John Simon, the new foreign secretary: Neville Chamberlain, chan- ecellor of the exchequer; Stanley Bald- win, lord president of the council; Sir Samuel Hoare, secretary for India; Sir Herbert Samuel, home secretary; the Marquis of Londonderry, secretary for air; Walter Runciman, president of the Board of Trade; William Ormsby-Gore, first commissioner of works; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, secretary for the col- onles, and Sir Archibald Sinclair, sec- yetary for Scotland, are all men or members of British families who have sat in the seats of the mighty through- out the present generation. dozen of them return to cabinet life for from the regime established for the re- suscitation of the British body politic, st least in the higher cabinet brackets. It may turn out that John Bull will Chamberlain, who might have been in- cluded in the National government, vol- untarily eliminated themselves. For the time being the country's destinies are to remain in tried and experienced hands. 'l‘hg. United States, like other foreign Any party in control of any part of | powers, is interested chiefly in the pol- dcies which Sir John Simon, as for- eign secretary, and Neville Chamber- lain, as chancellor of the exchequer, will pursue. British external relations, except in so far as they impinge upon international economic conditions, may be expected to be conducted along un- changing lines. Great Britain is more ardently consecrated to the ideals of world peace than ever before. She is generously minded toward Germany. Bir John Simon, who headed the gov- ernment’s commission of inquiry on India, is specially qualified to deal with that particular “external relation” which is giving Britannia concern at this time. He is agreeably remembered in Washington from the British bench and bar visit of 1930, Chancellor Neville Chamberlain goes to the exchequer in place of the astute Philip Snowden with avowed protec- tionist views, but he will not dominate ; the government’s attitude on the dariff. ‘At the Board of Trade, which corre- sponds to our Department of Com- merce, is the Liberal Walter Runciman, who has a strong free-trade back- ground. Indications so far do not fore- shadow early tariff laws in the United Kingdom, but 1932 is certain to witness & real drive for them under the Con- servative spur. et Japanese military men do not go quite so far as to protest that they are #n Manchuria strictly as unofficial ob- wervers. ————— A Tragic Accident. In the horror of yesterday's airplane $ragedy at Camden, which snuffed out the lives of five persons, and in the sympathy for the families of the men who thus met their death, public con- fidence in aviation as a means of fast transport should not be shaken. This erssh comes closs bome to Washing- Sonians. Thousands of residents of the Wational Capital have used the line and many have traveled by the same plane that was turned into a flaming coffin yesterday. But it must be marked down as simply another demonstration ¢hat mere man with man-made ma- ehinery has not yet conquered the elements. present on December 7—for the Repub- licans to have that majority of one to which the ’elections of 1930 entitled jthem. None knows today for sure { which party will have the majority on the House floor when the time lmvesl for an election of Speaker and of the standing committees of the House. Death, illness or needful absence may one or all play their parts in determin- ing this matter. Only yesterday the | Republican ranks were still further re- duced by the death of Representative Wurzbach of Texas. 1t appears certain, however, that the | Democratic party, if it shall have a ma- jority of the whole House at the open- ing session, will organize that body. It might organize. too, if certain Progres- sive Republicans or the single Farmer- Labor member should join the Demo- crats in this matter. The Republicans may organize enly by standing all to- gether and obtaining the support of the Farmer-Labor member, or through the | death or absence of some of the Demo- crats. Some of the Democrats are today pondering whether it were better to or- ganize or not to organize. Rather fool- ishly, it seems. If, having a majority in the House, a party fails to organize that body, it becomes at once cowardly in the public eye, inept and unworthy of re- sponsibility, Those Democrats who are hanging back argue that it would be to the greater interest of their party in the general election next year to allow the Republicans to have complete sway in the Congress during fhe coming ses- sion, so that if times do not improve the whole blame may fall upon the G. O. P. when the voters go to the polls. They ask why the Democrats should now as- sume any part of the responsibility of Government, the control of the House. Suppose the Democratic effort in 1930 had been sufficient to carry the House with a majority of ten or twenty over the Republicans—what then? Would not the same argument have been time- ly? If the Democrats do not wish to assume responsibility they should have kept out of the House election. Are they to tell the people who elected them to the House that the election was a mere vain matter? the Government must be willing to make its record and submit it to the people for approval at the next elec- tion following. This stands for the Democrats if they control either or both houses of the Congress while the Republicans control the executive branch. In the past both the Repub- lican and the Democratic parties have won control of one or both houses in the midst of an opposition adminis- tration. And on each occasion the majority has assumed control of the legislative body. If the Democrats organize the House it will be up to them to determine whether they will act constructively in legislative matters and adopt recom- that seem wise, or whether they will merely play politics and embarrass the administration. "To take the Ilatter course would be a risky thing, with the country in the midst of & depres- sion amounting to an emergency. The Democracy would not lose the confi- dence of the country if, controlling the :Ht)uu‘ it acted sanely and for the best | interests of the whole people. The | Democratic members, after all, were ! elected not merely for the purpose of raising hob with the Republican Presi- dent and his plans, but for the purpose of legislating wisely for the country. \’H the party leaders and the rank and {file keep this in their heads, there will be no more talk about declining to organize the House if the Democrats have a majority when that body meets. It does not seem possible that the Democrats think so poorly of Demo- cratic policies that they are not will- ing to put them to the touch on the eve of an election. Why, then, back away from the responsibility of legislation? —————— ‘The most powerful minority possible is the Representative who finds himself in & position to cast the deciding vote in case of a tie. —————————— Arlington County’s Experiment. ‘The results of the elections in neigh- boring Arlington County have been of exceptional interest. Arlington County, enjoying the reputation of being the smallest county in the Unit- _ The ship was of the most modern de- |eq States, also claims distinction as { elgn. It had been carcfully checked be- | the first to scrap the convention- fore the start was made for the night|al machinery for local government flight to Washington from the Newark |in favor of & new experiment in airport. It was flown by the crack |government by a county manager. The pilot of the line, with more than three | elections this week marked another $housand hours in the air without an|step in preparation for the experiment. accident to his credit. A good ship and| Arlington's Civic. Federation, made a skillful and experienced pilot are{up of the civic bodies working for pub- generally an unbeatable combination, | lic bettermens, became the champion of but in this case, as in s0 many others|a change in form of county govern- #ll over the world, the human being is | ment several years ago and finally ob- merely a puppet when pitted against tained passage of a bill by the Virginia the forces of nature. Legislature permitting a referendum . 'n?muumuw-.nm vote on the proposal. It took active THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. leadership in the campaign preceding the referendum vote and was credited with the victory that resulted. This recent election saw the filing of some fifty-one candidates for the fjve places on the new County Board that will replace the present board of thyee coun- ty supervisors. Prominent citic lead- ers therefore formed a “Better Govern- ment League” and held an “election™ in advance, during which civic repre- sentatives voted to select a slate of five candidates. Four of these candidates were elected on Tuesday. None of the five has ever run for public office be- fore, and none is & “politician” by avo- cation. The new board is faced first with the problem of selecting a capable county manager to take office January 1. He will be the county’s executive officer, responsible only to the board. Many other counties in the Nation, bur- dened with an archaic form of govern- ment, will watch Arlington’s experiment with interest. Rabbi Abram Simon. 1t is pleasant again to note the recall to duty as president of the Board of Education of Rabbi Abram Simon. This makes the third time that his fellow members of the board have chosen him, and the community is confident that under his demonstrated ability to lead the schools will prosper. It is generally gratifying that & man of his experi- ence in school affairs and one who enjoys such s enviable position in civic affairs wili be at the controls dur- ing a year which promises trying situa- tions for the schools. One of the most distressing factors of the depression has been the willing- ness of the taxpayers throughout the Nation to cripple their public education- al systems. Educational authorities are alarmed over the possible result of a let-down in standards, facilities and equipment of public schools that have accompanied the curtailment of public revenues. The desire to economize on schools may prove one of the most ex- pensive burdens ever assumed. Here in Washington the schools have been fighting an up-hill battle to re- cover from the effects of war-time stringency in appropriations. It will be s matter of grave concern if they are to suffer another setback. It' becomes the duty of the Board of Education to wage a continued battle if behalf of adequate financial support for the schools and to see that short-sighted cheese-paring is not disguised as economy. e Texas is a very large and productive State ready to meet the needs of the public for anything that may be de- manded in the way of either commodi- ties or brains. Mr. Garner is confi- dently expected to earn credit for a distinguished contribution to the wealth of nations. — e In consulting the bright lexicon of world finance the student is expected by Europe to start with a comparatively simple word like “moratorium” and work up to a long hard one like “debt- cancellation. e Without permitting himself to be- come entirely cheerless about the mat- ter, H. G. Wells admits that the most important outlines of history are still to be described by the coming gen- eration. —_————— It is now contended that fashions must change to conform to the avail- able material and that silver is due to come in style again in financial circles. —————————— Need of a navy in case of war is self- evident, in spite of developments in meronautics. There must be ships for bombing planes to use as targets. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Sentimental Publicity. “Oh, gentle thymster,” said s friend, Why do you not your measures lend Unto a sentimental theme Concerning love's entrancing dream? Why rhyme of folks, and homes that are commodious Instead of phrasing ecstasies melodious? “Oh, honored friend,” there came the sad reply, “In deep affection’s accents I would sigh And utter thoughts above all others dear If I were not restrained by haunting fear mendations made by President Hoover ' “That some musician chap would set a tune to it And leave the world at liberty to croon to it!” An Xdeal Situation. “How much financial backing will you need for your next campaign?” “None,” answered Senator Sorghum, “I have gotten to be so good on the radio that I can comimand my own salary as a program feature. I can sup- ply my own campaign fund and still have some change left over.” Jud Tunkins says bad business is partly due to folks that get in the habit of finding excuses for not being busy. Lingering Cruelties. The elephant and donkey cry. ‘They rouse no pitying sense,. As frequently they meet the eye In agony intense. “Be kind to animals,” we say, But sympathy they've missed, And must encounter every day The vivisectionist. Aggravated Hoarding. “Difficulty s caused,” said the econo- mist, “by the many who try to hang onto every dollar.” “Especially,” agreed Mr. Dustin Stax. “the man Who is always trying to get the other fellow's dollar and hang on to it.” “Most falsehoods,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “are due to the fact that some one has been too indolent or too timorous to ascertain the truth.” Mysterious Purpose. When Autumn brings the gleaming That calls the world anew To an enchanted dreaming Of beauty fine and true, A spot that angels visit Earth seems to mortal sight, All glorified—or is it Just one big place to fight? “Some men,” said Uncle Eben, “uses sech big words dat dey crowds de talk an’ don’ leave room foh apg, informa- tion.” The human voice being such a re- markable instrument, it is not strange that it shou'd possess the power to irritate as well as please. Even a voice over the telephone 15 powerful when it comes to rubbing one the wrong way. Not all voices are charming, mellow, are harsh, disagreeable, unin- esting and positively blame-worthy. Just what quality in a volce will raise the ire of the hearer depends partly on the auditor, it must be ad- mitted. No one can be sure here what will offend, any more than in the matter of personal appearance. Every one knows some person, man or woman, who instantly arouses re- sentment. ‘The poor fellow—most often he is male—may be unaware of the great effect he creates on the other. In fact, he may cause no such per- tubation in any other breast, but only in thet of the person who, for some quirk, has found him unlikable. * % % Here is & man who calls up on the telephone, and who, when he formed that the one he seeks is ill, re- plies; “Ill? What is the matter with Something about the tone of his voice hopelessly rubs the wrong way the one who answers the 'phone. In- deed, the telephone and the radio are prime offenders in tnis way. Somehow a human being divests him- self of personality, and becomes merely a voice when he talks over the wire or ‘over the air. We have heard some dispute this, but that is because they have never heard a truly great orator, one who used his physical personality, as well as his voice and his brains, to impress his hearers. = It is true, perhaps, that the man with true personality, as the world uses the term, will be able to “put it over” on the air. Nevertheless, there are few human beings, at any given time, who possess such personality. The huge majority of men, when they become invisible, as they do to the lis- tener over the telephone and radio re- ceiving set, lose one of their best as- sets—themselves. ‘They become, then, merely voices— and not all voices are pleasing. ¥ . What is there more offensive, in the ordinary walks of life, than the fellow who asks on the telephone: “Who is this?" Nine times out of ten he puts the accent on the first word and fairly bellcws the whole phrase. “Who is this,” indeed? “What business is that of yours?” the average listener feels inclined to roar in the instrument in his turn. Most of such cases are due to the fact that the offender gets the wrong num- ber and really wants to know, of course. So much is granted him, but it is not much. There are a hundred ways in which he might ask the infoxmation he seeks, each one more polite and agree- able to the listener than the one he unfortunately selects. Let no one make a mistake about this—there is no other phrase used in telephony which riles the average per- scn more than this, i It is all the more disconcerting when D. . 0., FRIDAY, NOV one has a hunch that the speaker is utterly unknown to one, and therefore has no right to be on one’s line at all. The only adequate answer, of course, is to retain cne’s temper and to sol- emnly give one's own number, without deigning to answer the plece of imper- tinence which such a question, as usu- ally bellowed, really is. £E * & A voice is a voice, on the air or the wire, and nothing more. If there is any quality in it which strikes a_hearer as displeasing, it will stick out like the proverbial sore thumb. If the content of the talk is not of any particular moment, the displeasing quality will overshadow what is said. Face to face, the hearer is likely to overlook such things. In this respect men are wise who seek personal inter- views ‘instead cof using the phone, if their voices contain harsh qualities, The manner of approach means a great deal, and in no sphere more than in that of the proper use of the voice. Here the timbre, as it were, is cast aside, and the way such voice as one has is used is the whole matter. ‘This throws the seeker back to the very springs of character. No one will bellow over a telephone, it is safe to say, who has been properly trained in the ways of polite conduct. ‘The telephone, therefore, in addition to its hundreds of uses, is also a great revealer of character. You can tell more about a man by talking to him for a few minutes over a phone, sometimes, than by any amount of personal interviews. So it stands to reason that a man who wants to sell something, or induce | some one to do something or other, ought to seek to get & personal inter- view. And the man who wants to “size up” another, or to evade having something “put over” on him, should stick to the telephone. * kK ¥ He will never be able to size up his man, however, unless he catches the other unaware. The way to do this is to telephone the wag in his off moments. Of course, If he knows that you are going to call him he will put on his best com%mv tone and be so polite that butter will not,I melt ':n“hh mouth, as the old expression -its it. ‘Telephone to him in his normal haunts, however, without revealing yolr name, and hesitate, Then the fellow will think that some | relative is calling and will blurt out | “Well, shoot it! Shoot it!" And you wul’kn‘ovl*l ot about him. * The disagreeable voice is not con- fined to the voice which bellows, alas. |~ When some one screams at you, it is | easy enough to become angry, and when one becomes angry, in the majority of instances, he does his best talking. Anger is better than liquor, with many, in_ stimulating repartee. One never makes such clever remarks as when one is aroused. | No, the disagreeable voice may be | unlikable because of its smallness, a certain trait of meanness, a touch of a certain insufferable quality which goes i with arrogance, often of a mental char- acter. There is nothing cut and dried about the voice which one finds disagreeable, whether it comes over the wire, or | through the air, or reaches one flavored with mint. . WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC When Nobile Giacomo de Martino, Italian Ambassador to l:hek U?l:lt‘d ?f:‘l"l:‘ stepped off the gangplank of the n r Roma at New York today. he landed in his brand-new capacity of dean of the Washington diplomatic corps. The mantle had not yet de- scended upon his narrow but exceeding- ly capable shoulders when Signor de Martino dashed over to Italy at the end was 10 ith Foreign Minister Grandi regarding the Grandi visit to Washington, which will begin in 10 days. De Martino is com- leting his seventh successive year at evuhlnmn. That is somewhat of a record, as foreign envoys generally do not tarry on this arid soil that long, although the Frenchman, d, was here 23 years and the eternal Portuguese, Viscount d’Alte, will chalk up 30 years next May. Few Ambassa- dors ever generated greater activity a ‘Washington than the wiry little gentle- man who carries the Il Duce's orders. No bet of interest to Italy cr the Fascist cause is overlooked by Excellency de Martino. He is a particularly zealous student of the American printed word. With courtly Count Alberto Marchetti as counsclor of the embassy and Am- bassador de Martino on the bridge, Signor Grandi will find Italy’s bark on the Potomac skillfully manned. * Kk K X American Consul General George C. Hanson, who has been dispatched from his post at Mukden to d out just what Japan is up to in the ‘Manchurian trouble zone, doesn't need an interpreter for the job. He s Chinese with the fluency of a mandarin, having been at it since 1909, when he was appointed a State Department “student inter- preter” in China. Since then Mr. Han- son has held a number of responsible consular posts in China, including Shanghai, Chefoo, Newchwang, Foo- chow, Tientsin, Chungking and Harbin. He also served for a while at Dalny, the great Japanese port which was known as Port Arthur when Russia held it. Hanson is a Connecticut Yan- kee and an engineer graduate of Cor- nell, Big, husky and well informed, he spent a few months in ‘Washing- ton early this year boning up on the State Department’s slant on Far East- ern affairs. * ok K X Tom Heflin has the Democratic na- tional situation all sized up. He told a friend who ran across him the other i Smith have an ‘“understanding” _whereby Smith will be renominated for President in 1932, Evidently the big noise from to un- suffer- President Hoover has received a visit from the North Carolina delegation in Congress, asking him to appoint former Senator Furnifold M. Simmons either as chairman or a member of the United States Tariff Commission. Throughout his long service in the Senate Mr. Sim- mons specialized on the tariff as a member of the Finance Committee and ranked as the Democrats’ foremost au- thority on it. The veteran Carolinian became a lame duck last March after his unsuccessful fight for renomination. He is approaching his 78th year, but the President was told that Simmons physical and intellectual vigor are far from impaired. * ok K K Senator Borah is going to have an in- teresting_ next-door neighbor Senate Office Building. The suite of rooms immediately adjacent to the Idahoan’s quarters has been assigned to Senator (or Governor) Huey Long of Louisiana. The marble in the corridor leading to the Senate lion's den is steadily being worn thin by the dally trek of Washington newspaper men to Borah's conference chamber. Now that Huey lnna,:l close at hand, the prob- ability is t the trail will be trodden oftener than ever. Incidentally, the Louisianian is getting into the Senate on the ground floor. * ok ok % Washington's ever-growing coterie of authors receives a distinguished ad- dition this week in the person of C| Iotte Kellogg. Better known in Capital society as Mrs. Vernon Kellogg, e of the permanent secretary of the National ch Council, Mrs. in the | WILLIAM WILE. written the romantic story of “Jadwiga, Poland’s Great Queen.” She became enamored of the glamorous life and times of that little known European were in Pol on Hoover relief work after the war. With the Polish Cor- ridor destined to become a live inter- national issue one of these days, the volume has timely historical value. Jadwiga (the Polish version of the name Hedwig) ago to the brilllant court of King Louis of Hungary, who ruled half Europe and in whose reign his gifted youngest daughter, Jadwiga, grew up. She was called as queen to Krakow, early capital of Poland, and made history. Jadwiga's of Arc in France, as a symbol of na- tional aspiration and source of na- tional idealism. Ignaz Jan Paderewski, the pianist-statesman, supplies a stir- ring preface to Mrs. Kellogg's book. R Cherished Americana, once lodged in a Washington library—that of the late New York for $13,457. The collection lin’s copy of the minutes of the Indian treaty of Easton, dated 1757, fetched the best bid, $1,450. The purchaser's name was not announced. This partic- ular copy of the treaty is believed to have been used by Franklin before the Lords in Council of England to refute the claims of the Penns to the lands belonging to the Indians. * K % % ‘There’s_another Dr. Jardine over at the Department of Agriculture (James T., this time) who looks enough like his brother Bill, the former Secretary of Agriculture and now American Minister to Egypt, to be his twin. Dr. “Jim” Jardine has been appointed head of the office of experiment stations in Secre- tary Hyde’s department. He comes here from Oregon, where he was director of ::m& Stlt};’: llgrlcultm’fl n ation. ob at Washin; supervise the "activities of 6‘3‘0 Xl!"ezi‘er'fi farm experiment stations, which are carrying forward 9,500 different projects. (Copyriznt, 1931.) Developing Hokkaido. From the New York Sun. In view of the clash of Japan Chinese interests in Manchuria, the e ginning of a second period of coloniza- tion in Hokkaldo, the large Japanese island to the north of Honshu, has in- creased contemporary interest. Hok- kaido is a chilly island and attempts at colonization a generation ago achieved only a moderate success. The Jap:nese who went there rebelled at the long, snowy Winters, but this time it is hoped to attract settlers less sensitive to cold. ':;}::;“:gltbe ::éfim“ged to give more o ¢ Siwing raising than to crop e present plan calls for in_the Dopulation of the island. frem 2,600,000 o 6,000,000, and for State ex- penditure of $1,000,000,000. Each fam- uydwll!l”ricz‘ilv; a’ large plot of ground and abou 0 in_cash {l:;u'ng :;‘?p"%. to spend for nad for asking within 20 miles of the thriving agricultural settlement of Obihiro, and advice to new settlers will be given by the agricultural experiment station. This is particularly necessary becnps:nm.:&mngmrllcnis the soil is not 3 of this th emphasis is laid on stock n!:u::e o Considerable work already has been done on firrigation projects, dry rice | growing and on sugar beet, flax, legume, vegetable, fruit and silk culture, A large sugar beetmnmu at Obihiro has :M Uhal?ed nl:pp«lsm‘;‘i pmachinery ‘from rament is hopeful that a good part of the emigration stream o tic may be diverted B —— Sign of Hard Times. Prom the New York Sun. The Farm Board has ref money to Iowa farmers mf:u:d nw lem! tion in corn. Times arc indeed hard. s ———— Not New in Wall Street. From the St. Louis Times. | Wall Street was int ‘ibnck on display mere—um“'fl‘umm' 'flla‘: atreet, has | first one seen in sovereign while Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg | land dates back 500 years | American’ biographer likens her to Joan | George W. Riggs—were recently sold at | comprised important letters of George | Washington, Indian treaties and other | pre-Revolutionary documents. Frank- | Land is still to bcl EMBER 6, 1931. Married Women in Department Service To the Editor of The Star: Mr, Gifford’s report to the President has aroused so much comment in the newspapers as to married women “fired,” thereby solving the - ment problem, that I, as a reader of your , would like to call attention to the injustice of such discrimination against any class of workers. As a citizen and taxpayer, I am very much interested in any plan to aid un- employment. However, I was greatly surprised to note that one possessing the degree of intelligence attributable to Mr. Gifford should propose that married women give up their positions. Why not married men as well? Mar- ried women are citizens and taxpayers as well as married men. Many are supporting mothers and fathers who because of age or physical infirmities are no longer able to support them- selves. It is true that many are m working shoulder to shoulder with their husbands to maintain decent homes for their children and educate them so that they will not be burdens to society and be ing the future generation for jobs. However, who can say that they are not entitled to the same opportu- nity to increase the family exchequer as the men? Why should single girls who have homes be forced to give up thelr positions rather than single men? Is this a “man’s country” and are we uvlng in the “Dark Ages”? ‘Why not ask that married men who have sufficient money to live on retire and give up their positions and busi- nesses to the “unemployed”? Why not ask all rich men’s sons to give up their tions _ All rich men's wives who maintain shops, tea rooms, etc., to give up_their “hobbles”? Further, why ask that those barely earning a living wage give a portion of their salaries to aid unemployment and restore the country to normalcy? Why not ask the “big men” drawing salaries in excess of $5,000 to donate their salaries over and above that amount to aid unemployment? Many married women's salaries combined | with their husbands, do not total that amount. Why not look into the number of cases where men are recelving salaries from more than one source. Many of our city officials are on several pay rolls; many retired Army officers are drawing good salaries and also receiv- ing pensions ample for their support. Do women worl working? Absolutely no. In cases it is an absolute necessity. Should these women be forced to re- tire would the “employed men” rush to the aid of their needy families? I think not. Let us make this problem as much a burden for the “men” as the wom- en, inasmuch as the women are bear- ing their burden of taxes and their share of responsibilities. Is there not also a moral phase to this question? Are we to destroy the prospects of home and home relation- ship with the idea that married yome should not be employed? What single woman, who has found it absolutely necessary to work and who expects to soon have a home, but the man she loves does not and cannot earn suffi- cient funds to maintain that home un- less helped out by her, as his wife, will deliberately marry and be forced to give up_her position? Rather than increase unemployment, as this suggestion of Mr. Gifford’s would surely do, why not cut down the hours of labor? It stands to reason that if one-third of our people are unemployed and we reduce the hours the emp] not be increased, and it will automati- cally increase the buying power and restore normalcy. A. P. GRACE. e gap Problem Is to Provide Permanent Employment To the Editor of The Star: I would like, through your excellent paper, to say a word about our relief mcasures. Any plan to relieve labor that does not take into consideration the permanent employment of the un- employed is inadequate and just so much time and means wasted. The ! future stability of our country and Gov- | ernment depends on work being pro- | vided for our workmen. This is task that the Government should tackle. | To give a person a meal or one day'’s | Job or even a month’s job does not | mean anything, or at most but little, in & mn% ‘The bogovemvxlmnt should see and go al providing permanent 4 "uAr: ar ll:: citizens. e w_the Government is to do (this is the Government’s problem. | 1s supposed to have the best brains of | the country engaged in its service. I | have my idea how it could be done and done to the advantage of our entire clun::l;y,hl;ut I am only a private citi- | zen Ve N0 Way or opportunity to make it effective. = ‘There is one thing—this talk about overproduction to me sounds silly unless the millions of unfed and unclothed and unhoused are provided for in a per- manent way. To do this is to devise | some Nation-wide plan by which the | workers of this country can be assured ‘of work and at least a livelihood for themselves and their dependents. To my knowledge, all that has been done and is being done is only a make- shift and leaves the main question of the future untouched and unanswered as to what will become of the millions of our unemployed and their dependents. ‘Theodore Roosevelt once said, * | country will not be a good place for any good for the pure joy of = most ' of us to live in unless it is a ’llor llll of us to llver mil; not & good for the une ed until they are employed. We mfiwr’m the real condition that confronts us and devise some plan that looks to the fu- ture of our country, or our temporary rellef of today will find us on tomorrow where we are today and will have meant nothing in bringing a distracted coun- try to a state of normaley. ‘W. J. HUBBARD. Pooling Department Positions Is Unfair To the Editor of The Star: May I make a suggestion in regard to the pooling of positions in the Civil Service? This seems a little unfair if an effort is being made to reach the greater number of needy ones. Those who have been employed for some time have the advantage of those who have not. Instead of moving a Civil Service employe from one job to an- | other, why not throw the position open for people who have had no position for a year or two, if they are particu- larly fitted to do certain of work and the Civil Service employe has had not_the experience that he has? ‘There are certain departments that often bring in “experts” from the out- ,side and give them preference to Civil | Service eligibles for Civil Service jobs. | This is frequently done in the Interior Department and in the Department of | Agriculture. MRS, GRACE HASTINGS. More Street Car Riding When Fares Were Lower To the Editor of The Star: T have ridden in street cars in D sl Colambla™foe 30 pea g spent much more money for street car fares when tickets were sold at the rate of six for a quarter than I ever have since. I used to visit pleasure resorts on every fine Sunday and evenings. Now I only When neces- sary. Inadequate street car bsolutely necessary. are ;ell?' operated at a loss, it is because there are booum.;rz“o’t them and too ch money “c o - MILTON M. KNAPP Chaplin Reaction. Prom the Omaha Evening World-Herald. It seems significent that Gandhi's announcement about his fears of Amer- jcan huahm came after he had met Charlie Chsplin, | A. In is red. editerral low On compa: 140, Th eren service | “Astron of _transporta 1t taxioabe s | O of a red light, to notify all within sight camera is in operation. of many of the doors leading into the sound stages are somewhat re- sembling the exit s! in theaters, on which the word “Silence” is made to stand out. When the sound camera ;;‘::opentbn.muelmmmlm Q. Where is the Levant?—A. P. A. The term refers to the countries washed by the Eastern part of M nean and its contiguous waters. It formerly referred to the Orient or the East, but this meaning is now obsolete. try?—G. P. July 1, 1931, there were 42 express routes, their planes ,000 miles every 24 hours. Q. Is Canada on a gold standard or de she change with England?—L. H. D. British monetary system makes no 1 ce to Canada’s system, ause Canada still maintains the gold’stand- ard. The British unit is the pound; the Canadian unit the dollar. The Bank of England no longer is able to The Ganadian Trcasuty so far has ‘beeh n s0 far n able to redeem its dollar par. Canada has a separate govern- ment and a separate treasury, a separate coinage and a separate currency, and s separate gold reserve. Q. Please explain the phenomenon of automobiles coasting up Magnetic Hill near Los Angeles—B. E. R. A. Automobiles do not coast uphill. ‘The fact that they seem to is the result of an optical illusion produced by con- trast in two grades. Such hills may be found wherever roads curve around large hills or mountains. The sharp contrast of two grades or two declines produces the illusion. Q. When were seedless grapes first produced?—F. W. A. The Bureau of Plant Industry says that the sultana variety of seed- less grapes was first introduced into this country about 1865, The sul- tanina was introduced at Yuba City, alif., by a grower named Thompson about 1882, him this has become known as the Thompson seed- EELSES Raa s Ju o less _ grapes. type of grape goes back 800 years in Persia and 2,500 years in China. Q. What is the easiest way to tell a goat from a sheep?—F. D. C. A. Tt is usually easy to distinguish them, but certain hair breeds of sheep are to the layman only le e change in the status of d'fl' from goats by the direction of the tall, which is upward in goats and down- ward in sheep. ‘Report of Great New Pla: Announcement by Prof. the e that there is s planet among the cuter bodies of the solar system whose is than 600 :(l:lu longer that of the earth calls forth more plaudits for the achievements of mod- ern astronomy. The fact that this body has never been seen by the human | eve, but is declared to exist, because re is evidence of its influence on m‘ner"m planets, adds to the fascination of discovery. Commenting on this reported mem- ber of the solar system, which has an orbit far beyond that of Pluto and is called “Planet P” . Pi - ing, who believes that 8 total of three planets must be added to the known system, the New York Sun states: “It does not appear that astronomers in general. have great_confidence in methods by ;llll;lnh Pl’iof conclusions regarding d T. His calculations are based ent irregu- larities in the u‘hm‘rmpunn of Uranus, which may be due to the attraction of undiscovered outer planets, and on a grouping of certain cometary orbits which, believes, the gravita- tional influence of Lhm“ phnet-lm;h:l brought about. No astronomer, - evuu‘ doubts that und! ered outer e mvhn‘:;aamy planet near one xist. If should find & the man who scans the skies ll:g:‘& West Indies wculd be hailed 8s one of the mathematical wonders of the age.” Similar doubt is expressed by the New York Herald Tribune, which ob- serves: “The deduction will not be ac- cepted hastily, one imagines, by other gstronomers. The slight wabbles of ‘Uranus in #ts orbit, upon which the de- duction chiefly rests, are far from cer- tain, either in character or magnitude, yet uj this certainty depends the cal- culation of the unseen . Perhaps the strongest item of Prof. Pickering's evidence is that a second line of argu- ment, depending on comets, seems to him to support his deduction from the pla; rturbations. There exist, D ‘families’ of it is well geown, T whicti. tre = comets the orbits T ets of Jupiter ated with the larger plan g urn, an:uk;‘m%:snn attraction of these lanets has reformed the comets’ orbits to their present shape. A serles of known comets not previously identified with any such family, Prof. Pickering believes to be explained assuming relationship with the un_f’mmd planet which he believes to exist. ] On the other hand, the Cleveland News thinks that “the evidence of the is, it seems, quite con- while the Worcester Evening has not yet been seen, but ‘wal for in the right quarter by an T in the Southern Hemisphere it some day will be. And it will look like a disk in the sky—like a small, shiny gold plece— instead of a point of light, for l’t' has a mass 50 times that of the earth.” The oy the feat of et uplicated twice Md"xx they located new clusive,” Gazette asser! | 1dent takes office, the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. When is the Chica uled to O o go Fair sched- A. June 1, 1933, closing S L Q. Which comes first when the Pres- m.A £ T,,”_ T parade or the - The inaugural parade is for the new President a takes place the l.nllllflntlannd - — Q. is there an apostrop the world o'clock?—W. H. T dlc‘l-tenrhe omission o(’.lenerl 1§ 4 expression ‘“of the clock.” e Q. How much motor trafic will gfla bridge across the Hudson uny!fb-: “A.‘Only four traffic 1 ic lanes are now in its first Q. What is the average the liver of a humln.;flnl?—:de.’g‘ E A. From 3 to 3% pounds, 1-40 the weight ot%flu m.ot What is the re uzru Canitarra "6, " the dome about Q. At what age is & woman called an old mald?—H. A. R. A. The term is obsolescent, if not obsolete. There are women who are “old maids” at 18 and others who do not become so classified before they are 40 or 50. This is a state of mind and not & chronological matter. Q. What city had the first Commu- nity Chest?—V. G. Community Chest. wos in 1913. ). When was St. Patrick’s Cathedral built? What style is the architecture?—E. W. A. Writing of it, the late Esther Sin- gleton said: “The blmdln{ummlnbly mum frankly mb\n the dec- and geomt nalz of Gothic architecture which prevailed in aml:"s w“l:ggbon'l‘he cost of of dedication took place May 25, 16'-7". somewhat less than 21 years after the laying of the corner stone.” Q. After what period of time are aliens compelled to become American citizens?—G. L. A. They need never become citizens. r lives turalized. place| of the positions Prof. Pickering has | P trans-Neptunian S and T designated P, Poland Stages a g Political Trial From the New York Evening Post. plotting the overthrow oi the - ment. They include !o:'mer gm Witos, leader of the Radical Peasants, md&lflldlfud fllfmzcaued are turn- lefense a_bitter attack