Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING' STAR [sion was limited to one week, as he ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASBHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY ...November 9, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11ty 8t abd Penmisiva S i New Work Office: 110 East 420 8t. icago °§f,’ Take Michigan Building. ropean Offce, 14 Regent ™., Londob, o Rate by Carrier Within the City. 45¢ per month ar 60c per month Sia e o end ‘of rders may be sent in by mail Ational 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Euy and Sunday.....1yr. $10.00; 1 mo. #8¢ 3 r iy on! 00: 1 mo. 50¢ inday only 11l §4.00; 1 mo., 40c or telephone 1y All Other States and Canada. fly and Sunday...1yr.$12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 aily only ¢ yri 3800 inday only . . 1mo. T8¢ . $5.00: 1 mo.. 80c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled all lews Cis- i #pecial dispatches herein are also 1eserved —_— A District “Secret Service.” ‘There is merit in the proposal to form & special squad of treined investigators as & part of the Municipal Government, responsible only to the Commissioners and qualified for the extraordinary tasks that heretofore have been as- signed to some Federal agency. But It is understood that the chief difficulty confronting the Commissioners now lies in the lack of funds, and an appeal must be addressed to the Budget Bureau and later to Cc gress for the authori- mation of such funds ‘This is unfortunate for thé reason that no special authorization of funds ought to be necessary, and if the Com- missioners take the view that they must have extra money allotted for the formation of such a squed, hope of realizing the plan is somewhat dimmed at the outset. The plan for the special “secret serv- fce” within the District Government is probably suggested by the secret service squad of the New York police. Severa! years ago the New York authoritles selected from the force a number cf bright young men who had nct yet be- come known as “coppers” and who were unfamiliar with the routine work of the uniformed police. These were given special training in the work of investi- gation. They wcrked independently and secretly. They were unknown, as individuals, to the public and even to the lower ranking members of the police force. According to & recent article, the work of this special squad of secret investigators has more than justified its existence. Even without the authorization of additional funds the Commissioners ought to be able to select the nucleus of a special squad from the members of the force. Their jualifications, at the outset, should be intelligence, ini- tiative and education. Department of Justice investigators lay no special elaim to being “super men"” as the word is loosely used. They are hard-work- ing fellows with training in the law or accountancy and they work behind & closely drawn veil of anonymity that is one of their chief assets. 1 One of the disadvantages in the pres- ent system of selecting police detec- tives is that such selection is made on the basis of promotion, rather than on special qualifications or specialized training. The man who becomes a headquarters detective with the rank of sergeant has put in many long years a8 a uniformed policeman. There is no secrecy attached to his identity. Everybody, more or less, knows who he 45 and his appointment as a detective is duly advertised. The Commissioners ob *nind the creation of a special bureau of investigation that could be utilized in such cases as the recent investiga- tion of the third degree, or the nu- merous investigations of District agen- cies undertaken by the Bureau of Ef- ficiency. Whether the squad could ever assume the role filled by these agen- cles is doubtful, because in the natural order of things there would be a de- mand that the squad itself be investi- gated. But without hoping to accom- plish too much at the outset or counting too heavily on & generous supply of funds for hiring trained men, the Com- missioners certainly should be able to form the nucleus of their special squad from material at hand. The need for additional funds could best be demon- strated by experiments in the utiliza- tion of this squad. And the less said about the men who are chosen for the work, the better. Some old ideas are coming back The farmer may find his grain further increasing in value for personal use if he can set the old mill wheel going after all these v terial for his own bread. It would be hard to revive such & custum, yet the experiment might be worth trying in an effort to get to basic principles in & struggle against mechanistic routine in production and distribution - Poor Henry Pu Yi. The disturbances in China have international | brought once again to view a young man who has from time to | time figured largely in the story of that | Hsuan T»DKN unhappy land. This is rs and grind the ma- was forced to abdicate when the Young China party gained control. In 1924, when Gen. Feng invested the palace in one of the frequent revolts that marked the evolution of China Irom imperial to approximately demo- cratic rule, Hsuan Tung, disguised as a coolie, and all the other members of the old Manchu dynasty escaped and fled to Tientsin, where the former Em- peror found refuge in the Japanese concession. He has resided there since, a pitiful figure. One tale is that he has been dependent for his maintenance upon the charity of friends and political supporters and from time to time liqui- dating his only assets, consisting of & few treasures which he had contrived to carry away with him from the palace | at Peiping. Another tale is that Japan | has been financing him. Now and then Hsuan Tung has briefly emerged from his seclusion. He was lately disclosed as ambitious to strike out in an artistic career, having some | reputation as an artist-poet, singer and painter. There was a report that he hoped to go on the operatic stage. Quite recently news came from Tientsin concerning his domestic difficulties, his “second wife” seeking divorce because she was unable to harmonize with the | first wife of the “imperial” organization. | Lately a report has circulated that & plan had been formed by the Japanese to promote a movement to esiablish Hsuan Tung as Emperor of Manchuria in restoration of the ancient Manchu dynasty in the “three eastern prov- inces.” It was doubtless this possibility that caused the attempt at assassini tion. Poor Henry Pu Yi seems doomed to be & pawn in Chinese politics. pe— The President Is Exonerated. President Hoover's Committee of In- vestigation has promptly and unquali- fledly exonerated him from the charges preferred by William H. Gardiner, presi- dent of the Navy League, The inquiry extended only to those accusations which concerned questions of fact. The committee jgnored allegations regarded purely as expressions of personal opinion. With respect to relevant mat- ters, the investigators find that “Mr. Gardiner's statement contains many in- accuracies, false assertions and errone- ous conclusions, snd that his assump- tion as to the President’s attitude to ward the Navy is wholly unwarrante The fundamental contentions of the Navy League head and which the Pres- ident's Committee holds proved to be without foundation were (1) that Mr. Hoover entered into “sgreements” with British Premier MacDonald, which “have never officially been divulged in their entirety,” and (2) that it is the administration’s policy to “restrict, re- duce and starve the Navy.” The board of five who examined Mr. Gardiner's indictment declined to dignify with notice his undoubtedly disrespectful ref- erence to 1 ‘abysmal lgnorance of President Hoover regarding the func- tions of & Navy.” The Navy League executive was led, in an excess of zeal for a worthy cause, to stoop to lan- guage about the Chief Magistrate of the Republic which s inexcusable from any standpoint. Mr. Gardiner damaged his case at the outset when he descended to such excesses. ‘The Hoover-Navy League incident is probably not definitely closed, desirable as would be the final disappearance of an episode that should never have oc- curred, or, having occurred, should not have been allowed to attain the dimen- slons it achieved. Friends of the Navy project a congressional investigation of the Naiy League's charges on the ground that the presidential inquiry was not conducted under impartial con- ditions. “Government agencies,” which apparently were the only ones con- sulted by the President’s Committee in its effort to sift the Gardiner charges to the bottom, report that at present the United States has under construc- viously have in | ton naval craft representing $174,700.- 000 expenditure. No new keels are to be laid down until November 1, 1932— barring vessels already contracted for— under the terms of the one-year holi- day which has just come into force. The committee’s findings emphasize that “there is in the truce nothing to prevent the United States from attain- ing treaty ratios after the London treaty's expiration,” which will be De- cember 31, 1936. The committee also reminds the country that, the treaty does not obligate its signatories to build up to the provided limits. The Ameri- can people, who accepted the three- power pact on the Hoover administra- tion's assurance that the strength it authorizes is requisite to a “balanced” ‘United States Navy, trust that in due course, world conditions justifying it, we will proceed to expand the ficet to cor- responding proportions. .- { A few authorilative words, delivered with characteristic emphasis, enabled Senator Borah to convince the young man who threatened to shoot him that he did not know what he was talking about . ———s A Man Without a Country. Pity the plight of the “man without a country!” He is a sad creature, na- tionally homeless. Edward Everett Hale wrote a tale of such a one, a story that has become a classic of American liter- ature, Now and again such cases turn | up, to confuse the authorities, to arouse sympathies, and to make people who {enjoy_their own homelands sppreciate ithe blessing. The latest instance is & singular one. Najib Saab Aboud came to | the United States in 1911 from Syria. He {runs through Potomac, t n as Henry Pul :;1 ‘;::‘l: gn‘p’rrm:“:(“ér:m“ H: m:lhntd to take out naturalization papers Aok inds the ‘object of ‘& murderous| BNA 80/did ntibecoms & cilisen of Hhils attack by Chinese at Tientsin, where | country. Several years ago he was ar- e has been lving for the past seven | Fested for violation of the national years, and out of this | bankruptcy act and sent to Atlanta incident may grow grave developments involving | Penitentiary for twenty years. He has Japan in further complications. | lately been released and was at once Hisuan Tung was born in Pebruary, | detained by the immigration authorities 1906, the son of Prince Chun, brother (o0 the ground that he was irregularly of the Emperor Kwangsu of the Man- | ® Tesident of the United States. Ac- chu dynasty which had ruled China | cording to the law, he should have been for more than 260 years. On the death, Teturned to his native Jand. But upon of the Empress Dowager, his grand-|inquiry it was found that there was io mother—whose ribald name “Old ! such “country.” He was born in that Buddha” prevailed during the long | part of Syria which under the Lausanne years of her control of Chinese affairs— treaty became non-existent. It is now which occurred when Hsuan Tung was THE - SYERING of his prison record. But he cannot be kept forever in durance, and so the im- migration authorities have had to let him go free. Maybe he can wangle & ! citizenship out of France and return to his native land and be allowed to take the oath there under special dispensa- tion. More than likely, he does not want to return. So he will probably stay on here, not a citizen, not capable of becoming one—verily & man without a country. ———— The Jam at Highway Bridge. The climax of the usual Sunday jam on the Virginia approach to the High- way Bridge, at which point three roads converge, was reached yesterday with some thirty thousand motorists fretting and fuming as they attempted to make headway on the choked approaches to the bottle-neck, From three o'clock in the afternoon until seven o'clock at night traffic was practically at a stand- still, with cars backed up for many miles on the Virginia side of the bridge. This situation, which has been brought about by the construction of the new Mount Vernon boulevard and the rough one-way detour and the re- pairing of the Alexandria road which Virginia, has been crying for attention for many weeks, but 50 far no policemen have succeeded in penetrating this little strip of No Man's Land for the purpose of regulating the huge volume of traffic. Virginia police disclaim any jurisdic- tlan over the area, while the Federal park police take the same nd. The District police, of course, ha nothing to do with the matter, and neither apparently has the Arlington County force. And there the matter seems to rest, as do the motorists on Sunday afternoons. It is obvious that some way out of the difficulty should be found and just as obvious that it be found at once. ©One of the men who, in the event of a sweeping change of House personnel under Democratic organization, will be missed by Representatives who were ac- customed to find words of wisdom and experience available at a moment's no- tice is Willlam Tyler Page, who has already made a comprehensive list of the tasks that lie before them. His ri dio address in last Saturday night's Evening Star Forum was properly un- biased and dispassionate, yet exceed- ingly informing snd not without its ele- ments of solemn reminder. e Communistic activities in Manchuria may arouse curiosity in Russia as to whether unrest is growing to an extent that is suggesting the historic expedi- ent of a foreign war as the means of distracting attention. e R In preserving its ancient commercial prestige, the City of Danzig feels the need of more assistance than could be rendered by s Board of Trade or & Rotary Club. ——m——— ‘When & novelist seeks to make close contact with workers in difficulty, there may be a natural question among the men as to whether he is trying to be helpful or is only looking for sugges- tions for more copy. s After careful deliberation the com- mission considering the Navy League was able to report that, so far as had been discovered, nobody had appreciably changed his mind. C e Announcement is made that Alfalfa Bill Murray says he will run for Presi- dent, without disclosing whether he is speaking as & comedian or & politician S T SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Always Hangin’ "Round. When the air is growing chill and the sky, acrcss the hill, No longer shows the coloring so proud. There will shine a lingering ray of a bygone Summer day— ‘There's a sunbeam always hangin’ ‘round the cloud. There's & hope for every fear; there's & rainbow in each tear And & braver thought in every head that's bowed By the passing weight of grief. is promise of relief. There's a sunbeam always hangin' ‘round the cloud. There Even to the stormy blast there must be an end at last If the proper time and patience are allowed. There's a promise ever true in a silvery bit of blue. There's & sunbeam always hangin’ Jround the cloud. Critical Development. “The people have become more highly educated,” remarked the natural-born unofficial observer. “No doubt of that,” agreed Senator Sorghum. “Out home they're getting so much literary culture that it keeps me 30 busy watching my grammar that I scarcely have time to think up sny ideas.” Jud Tunkins says he has seen games where the man that was always hollerin’ for & new deal was simply impatient for a chance to stack the cards. Reversal of Impression. The hours are far too many ‘That we're working, so we hear, And perhaps there won't be any For the most part of the year. The existence may annoy us That's devoted all to play, And the one when tasks employ us Will seem like the holiday. Asking Too Much. “You ought to learn to sympathize with the interests of youth,” said the man to whom everything seems easy. “You mean I ought to get on closer terms with my boy Josh?" sald Farmer Corntossel. “Yes. Put yourself in his place. “Can't always be done. When I see Josh in a foot ball game I'm ready to sympathize, but I'm blest if I'd think of puttin’ myself in his place.” “Philosophers,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “speak calmly of the ir- ritafions of life, but when angered a French dependency. When the change only two years old, he ascended the came under the treaty the natives of throne with his father acting as regent. | the region were given two years to swear His “reign” lasted for four years and tllegiance to Pranee. Aboud did not was interrupted by the first revolution.| take the oath. HMe was not in Syria. In 1912 he was formally deposed, beink | Hence he is not a citizen of Prance, held in the palace in the “Forbidden under the dependency status of his City” at Peiping—then Peking—vir- | homeland. He cannot go back there as tualh as a prisoner. In 1917 Gen.|a Syrian-Frenchman or & French- husgh attempted a ¢ounter Salfion and restored the youth to His “reign” on that ocos- cannot now be naturalized, en secount themselves fight like other men.” Expanding Figures. We once went bargaining betimes To save our nickels and our dimes. Diplomacy now makes its guess And talks of billlons—nothing less. “Tain’ natural,” said Uncle Eben, “not Syrian, whichever way the case may be to have any enemies at alj, A cat dat stated. He is not an American. He makes friends wif all de mice in de washington cember STAR, WASHINGTON, 1 Night on the boulevard comes down | early these evenings. The exodus of the people from the city to the suburbs is not half over when twilight begins to fall. | Then the air, instead of belng clear, becomes hazy, and the glare of auto-| mobile headlights assumes a new char- acter. | So many are the cars coming north- ward thay they fairly illuminate the street. Each automobile passes on, With & swish and gleam of chromium, but another succeeds it immediately, so | that the light from its headlights is scarcely lost before another gleam takes its place. | Thus the pedestrian has a thousand | lamps to Jight him on his way, instead of the few per block which a thoughtful municipality deemed adequate. There was something trying about he | moving lights, however. The boulevard | was illuminated, and the sidewalk, too, | by the headlighis, but there was a flit- | ting character to the gleam which made the eyes blink. | ing | ‘To think of all those people com! home! It made the mind shrink, as simple 8 | task as it seemed. Hundreds of them, | thousands of them, on their way from | downtown to uptown, as it were, and | these thousands only a portion of the| tens of thousands who were streaming | out similar boulevards and avenues and streets. Street cars ground busily along, | brightly lighted, and coumin{ng their many passengers. The sturdy clang of the bell was a voice from the past, al- ;nosL on this briskly traveled thorough- . fare, A bus came along, its tires making the slithering noise peculiar to them. | The swift progress of the vehicle was| not halted at every intersection by pas- sengers getting off, as with the street cars, and the long vehicle was soon lost in the gathering gloom of the night. EEEE Far in the west a faint patch of lav- ender sky still showed the place of sun- set. It would be many minutes yet before it would be entirely gone, but for all prac- tical purposes night was at hand. ‘The glare of the automobile lights was most intense, and the high-swung street lights widened the circle of their glow by several feet as the evening came on. It was now 6 o'clock, that witching hour when thousands of families sit down to dinner, even in cities. And here on the boulevard were hun- dreds of people still hurrying home, in- tent on the family fireside, the evening paper and & good meal. All that home meant for them was still before them. Inside many houses, however, dinner was in progress. The fashionable hour of 7, or even of 8 o'clock, has no charm for many. ‘With the best will in the world they want to eat before, and if life has so favored them they will do so, God willing. Hence, the old-fashioned gong sounds cut its musical notes from many a din- ing room and people hopefully enter at this hour, not conscious at all, in the warmth and cheer of heir homes, of all this hurrying and scurrying on the boulevard | Streets o left and right wind away into the darkness, with here and there lights gleaming in the distance, but no way near so many as in the city proper. Occasionally & great dog, intent on its ancestral duty to mankind, sets up a warning bark. Feet kick through fallen leaves. It is It may flare up in Congress during the Winter, but the chances are that the Hoover-Navy League squabble, un- necessary and unseemly, will soon be as forgotten as last month's weather. One more crack at the front pages—whether or does mot make the public apology President Hoover sald he would expect —and then the episode will take its place among the unremembered Follies of 1931. Here in Washington, where men and women devote time and en- ergy to national defense and naval pre- paredness in particular, the adminis- tration's cheeseparing policy evokes bit- ter opposition. Out in the sticks, where salt water is never sniffed and they now the Navy only from pictures, it isn't so easy to get people steamed up. They'll read in the report of the jury which “acquitted” Mr., Hoover that at this moment $174,700,000 is being spent on warships now under construction or contracted for. That will convince the average citizen that the fleet is not (as Mr. Gardiner charged) being “restricted, reduced and starved” by the President. x K K * Whether the investigating board's verdict of “not gullty” would have been rendered if the board had contained fewer administrationists like “Bill” Castle and “Commodore” Jahncke s another question. Even the thick-and- thin Republican organ, New York Herald Tribune, raked President Hoover fore and aft for handpicking a jury composed predominantly of his subordi- nates. His action in that respect was pilloried as “indefensible and insup- portable” ~ It is also & question whether the White House would have emerged from the Navy League “probe” with flying colors if the Gar- diner attack had been concentrated on the administration’s failure to proceed with the “treaty navy.” The Hoover investigators “find that the United States has at present more treaty ton- nage under construction than any other nation.” That was part of the bar- galn America so strenuously drove at London. Great Britain and Japan, being far ahead of us in various categories of ships, especially big-gun cruisers, agreed to stop building while we caught up with them, PR Dr. H. Foster Bain, former director of the United States Bureau of Mines at Washington, entered upon a new job on November 1, when he became general research secretary of the Copper and Brass Research Association at New York. Dr. Bain relinquished the secre- taryship of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers to accept his present connection. His geo- logical explorations e ranged all over the world, especially in the Far East. In 1915 and 1916 Dr. Bain was & member of Herbert Hoover's Relief Commission in Belgium. He was di- rector of the Bureau of Mines through- out the hectic Teapot Dome days of 1923-24. Indiana claims him as one of her distinguished native sons. ERE “Thad” Caraway was called “the meanest and keenest man in the Sen- ate”” Many sn opponent, and often the Arkansan's opponents were fellow Democrats, feared to tilt with him be- cause of Caraway's ruthless invective. Out of the chamber—in the cloak room, the Senate restaurant, his own office or elsewhere off stage—the burly Southerner was human, soft-spoken and frequently genial. He was mosi dangerous when walking around the chamber, head bowed and hands plun; in trousers pockets, seemingly oblivious of what was going on. en, all of a sudden, Caraway would cut in with a snarling or ironical sally that ator Caraway evicted him from the fine old colonial mansion the Johnsons so long occupled at Riverdale, Md., which the Arkansan purchased behind their backs. * ok x X in the Navy League President Gardiner does | his | it tires of fc . | be oo im change d) corps is due De- » Maj. Gen. Prince D C. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. part of the music of Autumn, a har- mony which is heard but once & year. e 3w Here is a winding, twisting street with fine homes aiong it. ‘The pedestrian has never been down it, and thinks this as good a time as any IorI mvslslllzslon. n this neighborhood of ¢ surprises, filled with felicities of comtn’cllofi, un- usual situations and great trees and shrubs, a pedestrian is forever coming on something to delight him, even if he has lived in the neighborhood for years, ‘There is nothing of the cut and dried here. This brick sldewalk, for instance, is beautiful and treacherous. Its curved surface sheds rain finely, and also makes it slippery, Future walks will be made of brick laid in concrete, and, it is hoped, laid flat, not curved. Here the walk ends. A great mass o fallen leaves filis the gutter, into which one steps gingerl fearing a sudden fall. P But no, there is no fall. The hun- dreds of oak leaves furnish a fine cushion, on which the foot of man rests as softly tonight as did the pads of the Indians several hundred years ago. Now 18 darkness, save for the gleams which come from the homes, ‘The next street light is far in ad- vance, and Is shaded effectively by the great trees, which as yet have not lost all of their leaves. Suddenly a mighty woof-woof rends the darkness. Fido is out in the path, disputing the way with all oncomers. The pedestrian rather thinks Fido has an aged bark, but he does not feel in- cu_xl:_;‘d to 1{1 estizate. e night 15 dark, and he will tu: on his tracks. Other streets will ;?) {llut as well for neighborly investiga- lon, * o ok % As the pedestrian set forth on this little journey, he haa passed a nurse and a baby, seatcd on a low wall, Tt was then twilight, and he thought nothing of it, except to wonder why they were there so late. When he, found them there later, in the dark, he stopped to inquire. ‘The nurse was voluble. ‘The mistress had gone out, and the master had gone out. He had taken the key, and the child and its nurse were locked out. Neither had returned at the hour ex- pected, evidently, and the child had be- gun to cry, and the nursemaid, a port- ly, pleasant colored woman, was begin- ning to fret. She didn't want to go to the neigh- bors, she said, because they were all so “stuffy.” ‘The pedestrian pointed out their glowing windows, and said again that, iu his opinion, it might be a good solu- tion of the problem if she would take the child over there until its mother and father came home. No, they were too “stuffy,” all those people, they wouldn't have anything to do with “nobody.” So that was what “stuffy” meant! Lights in the windows, warm rooms full of stuffy people, and a little baby crying on the sidewalk! Neighborliness comes to queer ends, sometimes, in a great city. The pe destrain went his way, kicking the Au- tumn leaves with his feet, while in the distance bright flashes appeared and disappeared. They were the lights of fine cars, as men made their way home- ward in the night, dashing along the wide boulevard. The lavender color had disappeared completely from the western sky. Out of the city, into the suburbs, the people were still going home. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Amoradat Kridakara, Siamese Minister to the United States since May, 1929, retires to become his country’s envoy to France. Paris nks as Siam's blue ribbon’ diplomatic®post, so the transfer is a promotion. Prince Kridakara is a first cousin of King Prajadhipok, who visited America this year. The Siamese Minister has never fully recovered from his disappointment in not being able to play host to his King and Queen in Washington, having been stricker with influenza_almost at the hour they set foot on Yankee soil. The prince has been a popular figure in Capital official society. His small daughters attended National Cathedral School here. ida- kara is slated to be Siamese ign minister some day. i 4 ‘That's an overcrowded anxious seat which will be occupied from now until December 1, by which time Charley Curtis says he's going to fess up about his political plans. At least two men are supposed to be waiting for the Vice President's decision with eagerness— Secretary of War Pat Hurley and Porto Rican Gov. Ted Roosevelt. Both rank as strong second place possibilities on th2 Hoover 1932 ticket, if Curtis prefers to run for the Senate in Kansas. Am- bassador Walter Edge's presence in America-'at this witching hour suggests to some politicians that the Jersey- man mightn't be averse to putting up a Hoover-tail-end lightning rod. Had Dwight Morrow lived, many authorities think pressure would have been exer- l'Lsedllo lndnLCe hl::xhtn be the President’s running mate, wi an eye to keepin; New Jersey in the Republican column. o e Under the auspices of two Washing- tonians, Lieut. Col. H. Edmund Bullis, Reserve Corps, U. 8. A, and Mrs. Les- ter J. Pollock, vice president of the Women's Democratic Educational Coun- cil, Democratic women from the North and East are being organized for pil- grimages to Washington, Monticello and other “cradles of .S The first caravan is due here on No- vember 15. It will consist of women who vote in the fourth assembly (Queens County) district of New York. The purpose of the pilgrimage is to acquaint the newly enfranchised branch of the Democratic party with its “his- toric traditions” in these parts, x ok ox % ‘Washington is filling up da; day with members of both )ul)’ulesyos,ycf)n- gress, anxious to give Capitol Hill the once over well before trouble begins on December 7. Newly elected states- men are busy warming up their as- signed quarters in House and Senate Office Buildings and otherwise learn- ing the ropes. Republicans and Demo- crats alike are consclous that a ses- slon of almost unparalleled heat im- pends. Being the so-called “long” ses- sion, terminable not by law, but only at Congress' own will, the agony wiil be proportionately protracted. Nobody expects the session to be shorter than seven months—adjournment being an- ticipated in June’ just before the two national conventions. “Copyright, 1931.) e Future of Foot Ball. From the Manchester Union, It is surprising that Dr. William G. Anderson, director of the Yale gym- nasium, should forecast the downfall of foot ball. The widespread growth of interest among college students in :Itxl;‘tkl“c:.ho' dall kinds, he feels, will re- n the doom of the gridiron sport. Furthermore, he is convinced thltpo'-hl development of excellent teams by the smaller colleges will result in a reduc- tion of gate receipts. Dr. Anderson fails, it would seem, to take the public interest in foot ball into account. When ball, then foot ball will doomed. While admitting that present economic conditions may be responsible for a decreased demand for | M tickets, he thinks, nevertheless, that there is less general interest in the game. Fans throughout the country Wwill be quick to dispute his views. Few other games, they wilifcontend, provide 2:. com ::T.d thrm that foot ball . in as e king llege sports s far frem over, btbre MOXDAY, WOVEMBER 9, 1931, The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. It organization is the sine qua non for success in the coming national po- litical campaign the Democrats do not intend to overlook the point. Having already launched an organized drive to raise $1,500,000 to pay off the party deficit and to get a start on the 1932 race for President, the Democrats, through their National Committee, have now organized “The Minute Men of the Democratic National Committee.” John J. Raskob, chairman of the National Committee, is making formal announce- ment of this group ready to leap to the defense of Democratic principles, to help keep the National Committee in- formed of political trends, to give coun- sel and financial aid when necessary, names a Board of Councilors. This board includes in its membership the three surviving Democratic nominees for President, Cox, Davis and Smith; Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, one time Demo- cratic Governor of Wyoming; Mrs. Jes- sie Woodrow Sayre, and former Gov. Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. The temporary commander of the new leglon of Democracy is Jouett Shwuse, chair- man of the Executive Committee of the National Committee, and the two vice commanders are Mrs. Ross and former Gov. Byrd. P In the past it was the Republicans who have been strong on organization. The Democrats have carried on from one national campaign in_a& hit-or- miss manner. But the Democratic national organization, under the di- rection of Chairman Raskob and his first lieutenant, Jouett Shouse, during the last three years has turned over a new leaf for the party. It has maintained a hard-working and ef- ficient headquarters force in Washing- ton, with the brunt of the work falling on Charles Michelson, director of pub- licity. ‘This organization has fallen on President Hoover and the Repub- licans generally like a ton of brick every time it seemed to find an op- portunity. In a little over a month the Republican National Committee is to meet in Washington at the call of Senator Fess, chairman, to consider important matters relating to the com- ing national convention and the presi- dential campaign. Perhaps the Re- publicans will come forward with plans for strengthening their organi- zatlon, too, at that time, Prepared- ness is the slogan of the day. e ik A few weeks ago in this column attention was called to ‘an editorial in the Texas Weekly, published by Peter Molyneaux, in which Mr. Molyneaux sald, to paraphrase his words, that there were Democrats who would rather not have economic recovery in this country than to have it at the hands of Herbert Hoover. Comment- ing on_this statement, the writer of this column said that “this certainly does not sound as though Mr. Moly- neaux was a Democrat.” In the Octo- ber g issue of the Texas Weekly Mr. Molyneaux said, referring to this com- ment: “I have always been considered a Democrat, I always vote the Democratic ticket, I voted for Gov. Smith and made radio speeches for him in 1928, and I have not apologized to anybody for dolng so. On the other hand, I am also an American citizen, and I ac- cepted the verdict of the American peo- ple in 1928. Dcsiring that my country should have as good government as possible, I have given Mr. Hoover, as President of the United States, whole- hearted support whenever I have felt that the best interests of the country would be served by doing so, and it has never occurred to me to inquire whether I impaired my standing in the Demo- cratic party by following such a course. I have never hesitated to criticize any public man, whether Democrat or Re- publican, when 1 have judged such criticism to be ir the public interest. As to the statement that there are Democrats just now who are praying that nothing shall happen to elevate Mr. Hoover's standing in the public mind by connecting his name with any improvement of tii economic situation, it involves a question of fact, and not a question of my Democracy. And if Mr. Lincoln does not know that there are such Democrats in Congress at present, Just as there weie Republicans in Con- gress in 1918 who were willing to sac- rifice the best interests of the country in order to discredit Woodrow Wilson, he is not as well informed on such mat- ters as I think he is.” x kK % The political faith of Mr. Molyneaux is here established, and also his good citizenship. If all the politicians were willing to put country ahead of party, business would not shudder when it contemplates the impending session of Congress. The efforts of members of Congress to put an opposing adminis- tration in a hole, merely for party ad- vantage, have by no means been con- fined to the Democratic party. I recall that during the Wilson administration, and while the League of Nations and Versailles treaty were under considera- tion, when the so-called mild reserva- tionists, Republican Senators willing to accept entry into the League with res- ervations that might have received the approval of President Wilson, were working out their program one Repub- lican leader ejaculated with emphasis, “We can't let Wilson have that!” meaning the Senate approval of Ameri- can adherence to the League. This Re- publican_Senator voiced this view pri- vately, while at the same time declaim- ing publicly that the good of the coun- try demanded rejection of the League treaty. It was obvious to those who heard him privately he was intent on reventing a Democratic President from aving a “feather in his cap.” * ok ok X ‘The coming session of Congress will give the Democrats in ccng“;rm and the Republican Progressives full oppor- tunity to show whether they are seek- ing the good of the country or merely seeking to hamstring the ~Republican President. The country will be the judge. Under the title “Wanted in Politics; Brains and Patriotism,” the State, Columbia, S. C., editorially puts itself on record as demanding that the Democrats in Congress tfy aside parti- san politics when the interests of the country are to be served. The editorial, referring to my statement that Mr, Molyneaux’s editorial “certainly doed not sound as though Mr, Molyneaux was a Democrat,” adds: “Mr. Lincoln’s interpretation of what constitutes party fealty is certainly a terrible indictment of American states- manship and patriotism.” I have not the slightest doubt there are Democrats, and Republicans as well, who put country before party. On the other hand, there are those who do not. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. The next few months on |doned Capitol Hill are likely to give the coun- try full opportunity to observe for it- se.ll{'- 1uatdhow hflr pluaomm and how far party advantage and personal advan- tage are domln:tix:s lnfluencen. i * ‘The mnext congressional election, to fill & House vacancy, is to be held in the fifth New Jersey district on De- cember 1. In that district a year ago the late Representative Ackerman won by an almost 2-to-1 vote over his Democratic opponent. This same dis- trict was carried by about 10,000 votes by A. Harry Moore, the successful Democratic candidate for ~Governor, last Tuesday. The result of the el tion of a House member to succeed Mr. Ackerman becomes all the more inter- esting under the circumstances. If the strong Republican district flops Democrats on December 1, the G. O. P, may well wonder whether the first New Hampshire district, carried by the late Representative Fletcher Hale, Repub- lican, & year ago by fifth Jersey would make the recent el oore not wrl{ so significant national political point of view Democrats now claim it to be. - No Magician, From the Toledo Blade. It is now clear to the Gandh! bas nothing up his 'd:uvl\fif‘ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Any reader can get the answer to any juestion by writing to our Information reau in Washington, D. C. This of- fer applies strictly to information. The bureau cannot give advice on legal, medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, or undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write your question plain- ly and briefly. Give full name and ad- dress and inclose two, cents in coin or stamps for return postage. The reply is sent direct to the inquirer. Address The Washington Star Information Bu- reau, Frederic J, Director, ‘Washington, D. C. Q. How many stocks are listed on theA N’Ie‘l? Yorkbemckh Exchange?—E. S. . The number changes, but is ap- | proximately 1,260, i Q. What important nations do not impose tariffs?—P. R. K. | A. There is not any country of im- | portance which does not have some system of tariff barriers. England, | which is frequently cited as a free trade | country, does not actually come within that category, a recent estimate being that one-eighth of the revenue of Eng- land was derived through the tariff. | England Dplaces tariffs on tobaccos, wines, perfumes and many other articles. Q. Are the naturalization laws in ! other countries the same as ours?— 0. 8. 0. A. They differ considerably. Q. Did Indians live on Long Island?— 3. W A. At the time of the first settle- | ment by the whites Long Island was | occupied by numerous small tribes of Indians whose former existence is now commemorated by such names as Mon- tauk Point, Shinnecock Hills, Manhas- set Bay, etc. Q. Where was our persimmon & na- tive fruit?—D. H. A. The persimmon, or date plum, came originally from China. The fruit is succulent and of a reddish yellow color when ripe. It contains 8 or 10 seeds. ent, but when ripened after frost is sweet and palatable. The persimmon grows wild extensively, especially in the Southern States. Q. Can _isinglass be restored to its original clearness?>—C. J. C. A. It cannot. Washing it with vine- gar will improve it somewhat. Q. How many telephone calls are made in a day in New York City?— A. The New York Telephone Co. has some 1,600,000 telephones. and daily calls average more than 7,000,000. Q. Why are there no trees found on prairies?—§. S. A. The absence of trees in the prairies, steppes and similar grasslands is due principally to natural conditions, such as climate, soil, etc. Practically no forests occur in regions of less than 20 inches of rainfall except coniferous forests in regions of low temperature, where evaporation is slow. Q. What is the origin of the slogan, “Stop, Look, Listen?"—A. B. A, Varlous accounts of the origin and adoption of the sign, “Stop, Look and Listen” have been given and no two agree. However, Col. J. C. Fuller, vice president and manager in charge of ! construction of the old Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railroad, now part of the Reading, in looking over a court de- cision in' a suit brought for injury at a crossing, found that the judge stated that “it is the duty of every one to stop, look and listen before crossing & railroad.” He at once adopted it for use at crossings on his line and it was ‘The green fruit is very astring- | sylvania on July 23, origin was prior Q. How I discovered the reach it?>—R. R. A About a month. Amundsen reached it on December 14, 1911, and Scott on January 18, 1912, Q. In playing draw poker has these ever been a rule which permits a player to draw five cards, his original hand?—M. 8. , 1801, although its that date. after Amundsen uth Pole did Scott A. In draw poker a player may dis- card any or all of his original cards, and ask for an equal number in their place, or he may stand pat. Q. How many pounds sre there in a bale of cotton?—R. T. A. It has an average gross veliht of 500 pounds and a net weight of 478 pounds. Q. Where was the first lighthouse in this country built?—R. A. W. A. The first to be built on the North American continent was Boston Light, built in 1716. Q. How many Jgpanese and Chinese are there in the United States?— A 8. M. A." In 1930 there were 138,834 Japa- wallt;nd 74,954 Chinese in the United Q. How much higher than ordinary tides do the Spring tides rise along our coasts?>—O. W. A. The Coast and Geodetic Survey says that mean range of tide along the coast of the United States varies from less than 1 foot to about 20 feet. The Spring range is from 10 to 35 per cent larger than the mean range. Q. What is the assoclation which is composed of tall men called?>—D. C. A. It is called the National Society of Long Fellows. It was organized in the Spring of 1927, for the purpose of giving publicity to the needs of excep- tionally tall people in the way of spe- cial accommodation. Q. How many radio listeners has the British Broadcasting Co.?—F. P. A. In _August, 3,811,000 listeners’ licenses had been issued. It is esti- mated that this would mean about 12, | 000,000 individual listeners. Q. What causes a tail spin?—D. D. A. A tail spin is the result of a stall. After stalling, an airplane falls off on one wing, the nose drops and the air- plane revolves in the opposite direction | to which the rudder is applied. The ‘tll.l revolves making nose the ap- | proximate center of the turn. If the | rudder is applied to the left wing, it becomes a left spin, and if to the right wing, it becomes a right spin. A tail spin is used as a stunt and also as & means of losing altitude. It becomes dangerous only when the piloi loses control of the plane. Q. In what countries did Herbert Hoover work as a mining engineer?— E. McB. A. He pursued his profession of min- ing engineer in many lands, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Australia, New Zea~ land, China, India, Italy, South Africa, Russia and Great Britain. Q. are weather cocks put on steeples’—H. A. A. Andronicus of Cyrrhus, & Greek astronomer of about 100 B. C,, built at Athens a Tower of Winds; brazen Triton _on the summit turned around with the wind. From this model was derived the custom of placing weather cocks on steeples. According to some authorities, the cock was used in order to remind the clergy of watchfulness, the thought being derived from the cock’s crowing when Peter denied made standard on their line in Penn- Christ. Story of American Crusoes Wakes Many Romantic Sighs Armchair adventurers are moved to fine flights of fancy by the tale of the three Americans who, wrecked in the Pacific while on a treasure-hunt, spent six_months on an uninhabited island. Indeed some of the comments inspired by this involuntary adventure turn caustic over the apparent lack of ap- preciation thhy by the lucky three who were able to exchange the trials and tribulations of civilization for the romance of life on a tiny isle, 50¢ miles from nowhere and once the rendezvous of pirates. “There is an island plex in the minds of men,” thinks the Cincinnati ‘Times-Star, recalling storles of “fortu--| nate isles, sunken isles, Amazon isles, satyr isles, pirate isles” and other simi- Jar resorts for the figures of the imagi- natlon. That paper feels that “the true story of the three American adventurers who were rescued by Julius Fleisch- mann and his Cincinnat{-named yacht is a tale of universal interest.”” Récall- ing that the island has pucaneer mem- ories, the Times-Star continues: “Dam- pier is supposed to have buried Spanish gold on Cocos in 1683, a little while Dbefore his famished crew, faring farther west, plotted to kill and barbecue their leaders. Rival English treasure-hunting expeditions took arms against each other there in 1905. On that lonely spot, not far above the equator, these ‘Americans, subsisting for half a year upon wild hogs, fish, cocoanuts, berries.: oranges and lemons, have revealed an- other chapter of human adaptability and the romance of trackless seas.” “Oh, happy isle!” exclaims the Dan- bury Evening News, with the query, “What schoolboy does not envy them?” The News continues: “Think of the joy of those six months! They heard no radio advertisement; not one political speech bored them; they heard no mention of Al Capone: prohibition was the | cf war, depressions; from a life of ease, no problem; Japan and China were only words for the castaways: disar- mament wasn't in their thoughts; the British elections didn't exist in the Island of Cocos, and neither Mussolini clotheless, on an atoll in the South Seas” and “for months on end those treasure hunters subsisted on fish and Remarking that “these cast- aways in real life were only too glad to forsake their back-to-nature e,xt‘:: erald comments: “They might have remained there indefinitely had it not been for the casual visit of & private yacht. The quiet of Cocos disturl nowadays ex by for weeks in advance,” idence Bulletin, “couldn’t have out a more ‘program, promising g).lble exception of a code in cij 1 ld. That ead to the piratical to have been an oversight. And ‘were bored! It seems preposterous. it only goes to.shqw how soft sailors have become since the glorious days of Ben Gunn, Capt. Kidd, Swiss Family gfi;}_nson and the noble, ragged Cru- e Politics and the Judiciary. From the Chicago Dally Tribune, ‘The Seabury investigation' in New York is developing material for a study of practical politics which every citizen who wants to know how he is governed will do well to study. ‘The disclosures of judges is, we think, the tant result of the inquiry. While have been some denials from witnesses as to the amounts exacted or received by the party organizations fram judicial aspirants, 4t is clear that virtually a sys- tems of purchase has existed. But the passage of money, vicious as the offenss is, is not the only form of improper in- fluence. The general evil is that pull and party service, whether in the crude form of money payments or in less tane gible forms, pervert the processes of se- lection and put the more scrupulous, and therefore the more fit, aspirants at R = nor Stalin cast a pall!” * K X X Referring to some “enterprising indi- viduals in recent years who have en- deavored to go Robinson Crusoe one better,” the Miami Daily News finds & difference between the twgp classes of ex- periences, declaring: “It Is one thing to embark on such an adventure after a great deal of calm mental preparation, with rescue always so close that one merely needs g;:a\fi go u‘& lcnd far differ- nt to be dr Su yen an s h!s:’;i off the beaten track, where food is scarce, rescue very doubt- ful and rain seemingly eternal. Some one should step forward now and ask the crew of the West Wind which 10 books they longed for most at that ter- rifying moment, and inevitably it will be suggested that ‘they wouldn't take a million for their experience or a million to go thmugmdn again’ But we sus- ct they would.” pe"'rhexg men,” remarks the Spring- field (Mass.) Union, “were so anxious to escape the paradise of loneliness and re- turn to civilization that they swam through shark-infested waters to the boat that came to their rescue.” The Union adds: “Many will wonder why they longed to get k to civilization, with rent to pay, raucous radios, tele- phones, trafic hazards, politics, rumors not to do but sleep, eat, swim, z;: lay improvised golf, hunt wild animals and let their whiskers grow. They may be criticized for not knowing how well off they were, but the fact re- mains that they were glad to get away trnmthelru‘!:oéaulagu of re- ‘sponsibilif e exac : = inconveniences of a civ- formalities and {lization reputed to be tottering of its own dead weight.” * & choice of yoysh, ular h&ro,” the St. Louis Times fi that “suddenly the concludes erson finds that the case is not - L" for these thres were a disadvantage. ‘The conditions exposed by the Sea~ bury anry are not to New York City. ‘rhle!y are unfortunately rather general. they are igherent in our tical system, them, but certainly we ought fo do our best to mitigate if not abolish them. ‘The establishment of a judiciary inde- pendent as far as is hum: of political or other ulterior luences is the very first essential of just and responsible government. It is more im- portant than the selection of competent and corisclentious executives and legis- O *methods of suecting. Judges ‘and our m selecting judges will make no serious and t ef- fort to amend them. The is difg- cult, but not impossible, and ‘we o long ago to have been at it. The especially ought to feel a greater re- sponsibility for devising a system which would better insure moral and profes- sional com; judiciary and petence in the protect its independence, indulging counsels of perfection when we assert that present methods of lection may be greatly improved. are shirking this greatly and urgen needed ref r————— Marred By Fire Plugs. nummr:nw-ymmm From the motorist's point of view, en=- tire] wnmm.vofmmmpiu- m’x’nrreflbymnmy. 3 sl A ccendist. T Like Mother Used to Make. Prom the Columbus Ohio BState Jourmsl We at some fuf men yw-m for —— i Suddenly Shifts Attack. Prom the Milwaukee Sentinel.