Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1931, Page 8

A—8 THE EVENI With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.....November 16, 1831 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave New York Office 110 East 42nd 8t ‘hicago Office: Lake Michigan Buildi: uropean Office: 14 Regent At.. Lofd England. ng. . on. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Ereming Star ..o . 45 per month vening and Si ™ Sundaye) 60c per month The Evening and Sundiy §i o ening and Bunday Siar Buhdass) ¢ per month Star 5c_per copy nen s T et o made_at the end of each month Ofarrs may e vent in by man er ielephone Rationar 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. sy and Sunday.... 1yr.$10.00: 1 mo. 88 Baily oath 131 46.00: 1 mo., 80 Biides "oy 1 30 1 men ke All Other States and Canada. Sunday. 1yr. 12000 1 mo.. s ©7$8.00: 1 o'l 5000 1m0’ 1.00 ¢ 1yri Member of the Associated Press. crtared Press is exclusively entitled republication of all lews ¢ 1ot otherwise cred siso the local nevs Tighis of puplic o cin are also 1 d e pul [ il : Sigror Grandi in Washington. Washington is honored to have the opportunity of welcoming Signor Dino Grandi, foreign minister of Italy, who has arrived In the United States for a sories of conferences with President Hoover and Secretary Stimson His visit follows by a few weeks the gojourn of French Premier Laval and pursues that policy of face-to-face con- tacts between European and American statesmen which set in with British Prime Minister MacDcnald's izmous presence here two years ago. From the conversations held by Messrs. Laval and MacDonald in Washington, importaut results flowed. There is every reason to hope that Signor Grandi's stay in our midst will prove equally fruitful, even if there are pending between Italy and the United States no questions of immediately serious interest. Benito Mussolini's youthful lieutenant will command America’s attention not only on his own account, but because of the government for which Bignor Grandi speaks, Fascist Italy is in effect an autocracy conducted under a one-man dictatorship. It has just entered upon its tenth year of existence. Time has visibly mellowed the world’s opinion of the Mussolini regime. Upon Italy itself Fascism has exercised an influence that can only be described as wholesome, even though black shirt authority is not uncomplainingly accepted throughout the nation. That the position of Italy as an international power is vastly en- hanced as the result of Mussolini’s strongly nationalist policy cannot be challenged. Into his whole people has been infused a spirit of Italianism, the absence of which, before the march on Rome, was the spark that set Fascism triumphantly alight. Signor Grandi comes to us as a splendid incarnation of the Italy of Mussolini. Since Pitt, no European statesman so young has presided over the foreign affairs of a leading country. Still well on the sunny side of forty, Signor Grandi stands in the forefront of all the questions clamoring for so- lution, if Europe's peace is not again to be shattered as it was in 1914. Italy's gifted emissary may not find the United States in mood to go along with some of Mussolini's panaceas for readjusting the situation in the Old World. Cer- tainly, American support of his plan for revision of the war treaties is a field into which this Government and people are not minded to venture. The pledge to M. Laval that the United States locks upon the Young plan as the existing economic law of Europe, under which alone relief and remedy may be sought, is of too recent origin to justify apy expectation on Italy's part of our readiness to support whole- sale revisionary projects. Signor Grandi has himself played @ leading role in advancing the cause of disarmament. He is the author of the one-ycar holiday in naval construc- tion which has just come into force and which he conecived as likely to create a favorable “psychological at- mosphere” for the Geneva Confer- ence. The eagerness of Italy for prog- ress ‘'n the realm of disarmament is fully shared by the American Gov- ernment. In espousing it at Wash- ington, Signor Grandi will find him- self standing on common ground with President Hoover and the others who speak for the American people. It is pleasing to know that the whole country, through the magic of radio, will be privileged to hear the Italian minister's own voice. The microphone is a faithful transmitter of personality. That assures the millions of our citi- zens, who will hear Signor Grandi speak—in English ich he uses flu- ently—the opportunity of acquainting themselves with an uncommonly charming individuality, a world states- man of vision, and the responsible ex- ponent of one the most remsrk- able experiments in government which mankind has ever known - ————— d in ik D blished herein A N ial dispatches her eserve of Motion pictures are giving total re- eeipts for certain days to the cause of unemployment relief. If every one who enjoyed last night's radio program call ing attention to the donation were to send the cash tho entertainment was worth, it would count into money ar- riving through the post office as well as through the box office. oot House Control. More than a year ago a Republican House of Representatives was elected. ‘The narrow, the G. O. P. having 218 eats o 216 for the Democrats and one for |split vote in the Austro-German tarift During the ! case. year, however, this new Congress has Poland a railway traffic dispute between not been in session, and deaths hm‘el(hlt country and Lithuania. Even the their | judge of Polish nationality, Count Rost- , | worowski, absolutely rejected his gov- . | ernment’s standpoint and wholeheart- Had President Hoover called the Con-|edly agreed to the opinion delivered by gress into special session last Spring!the court. e might have had a Republican organ- the Farmer-Labor party. taken from the Republicans slender majority, transferring the lead, temporarily at least, to the Democrats. 50c | margin of control was extremely | a poor arrangement for those Who be- | lieve in Tepresentative government. Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska has sought for years to bring about & change,, repeatedly offering @& resolu- tion proposing an amendment to the Constitution to'the effect that a Con- gress elected in November shall hold'| its first session in the succeeding Jan- uary, and that a President of the United | States, chesen by the people at the | same time, shall be inducted into office also in January. This resolution has several times passed the Senate by overwhelming| votes, but has been blocked on each| occasion in the House. Even had the | last Congress in its final session put through the Norris resolution, it would | have been too late to affect the meet- ing time, and in consequence the po- litical make-up’ of the incoming Con- gress. An amendment to the Consti- tution of the United States must be | ratified by three-fourths of the States, |either through tbeir State Legislatures |or through specially called constitu- | tional conventions, all of which requires ! time. Representative John Q. Tilson of Connecticut, the Republican floor leader of the House, in a statement just issued, calls attention to the fact that the political majority In the House has ‘already been changed by death and | adds that it mey be changed again. The Republican leader, who is also & can- | didate for the speakership nomination | of his party, has urged that the G. O. P. members of the House present a united ront in the coming session. This is probably too much to expect. But it is hard common sense. Perhaps it will be easier for the Republicans of the | House to work together when the party |is in the minority than when it has a | majority. At least the two wings of | the party will have a common enemy {in the Democrats, which may lead to a { cessation of hostilities in the Republican | ranks. i ——ate Today in Paris. Reassembled 1 the less heated at- mosphere of Paris, the Council of the, League of Nations today resumes its efforts, interrupted at Geneva three weeks ago, for preservation of peace in the Far East. The United States’' in- terest in this renewed attempt 15| heightened by tne dispatch to Paris of Ambassador Chailes G. Dawes. The State De.artment is at some pains to depict Gen. Dawes’ status as that of an innocent bystander and pas- sive observer, but none of the high con- tracting parties 1s likely to be deceived by that official description of his status. On the contrary, opinion has crystallized during the past few hours that it is American influence, to be visibly ex- pressed by Ambassador Dawes, which is now destined to cut a way out of the Manchurian impasse, The confidential communications recently exchanged be- tween Tokio and Washington more than suggest that Uncle Sam is cast for a mediatory role in Paris this week. The emphasis laid by Secretary timson upon the detached character of Gen. Dawes' mission is highly sug- gestive, because it is acclaimed in Tokio as a concession to Japanese susceptibilities. Japan objected audi- bly to our action in directing Consul General Gilbert actually to sit in with the League Council. Ambassador Dawes 1s to stand by, and not sit in. Happily, there is no reason to suspect that this diplomatic device for saving Japanese face will in any way curtall the gen- eral’s usefulness, as it certainly de- notes no diminution of the United States’ anxiety for a peaceable solu- tion of the Sino-Japanese controversy. Paris news cables on the eve of today's momentous Council session reflect the universal bellef that America’s part in impending events will be ipfluential to the point of decisiveness, though ‘Washington insists it has projected no “formula.” Gen. Dawes issued a statement, fol- lowing his arrival in Paris, containing | these words: “The League Council in | the Manchurian situation is consider- ing matters which presumably affect not only the treaty rights and general interests of the United States under the nine-power Pacific pact, but re- late to the Kellogg pact, as well. I am here, thetefore, to confer with members | of the Council individually with regard to a problem which is of common con- cern and involves mutual treaty rights. I shall hope to make every contact es- sential to the exercise of any influence we may have in properly supperting the League's effort to avert war and to | make effective the Kellogg pact.” | Thus are effectually burned any bridges that might seem to be leading from Washington straight into the League of Nations. Senators Borah, Johnson, Moses et al. can ncw be paged. | It must be admitted, at least, that { the taxicab situation -is an improve- | ment over conditions when the hack driver was a rough performing privateer | who made his own terms. oo A Lawyers’ Court. Last Summer’s World Court decision | in the German-Austrian tariff Ansch- | luss question subjected the tribunal | to the charge that it was more of {“a court of politics” than a court of justice. Soon afterward the American Bar Association, in annual convention | 'at Atlantic City, passed a resolution | favoring American adherence to the | court under the Root plan. From irrec- | | oncilable quarters came the taunt that the association acted perfunctorily and without any considered mandate from the United States' best legal minds. (Sm" the Anschluss decision the court has Tepdered an advisory opinion that has considerably diminished the deluge of harsh criticlsm that followed the It decided unanimously against THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. NG STAR .ury to call a special session. This is 1where in the United States whose formal action resulted in the expression of op- position, Many of the legal groups which have recently gone on record in favor of the World Court merely brought up to date action taken by them in pre- vious years. East and West, North and South, the country'’s most representa- tive 'bodles of lawyers unequivocally recommend adhesion to The Hague tribunal on the ground that the oot reservations adequately safeguard Amer - ic*n rights. H It is nearly nine years since, under President Harding and Secretary Hughes, steps were initiated to align the United States with its sister na- tions in maintaining the Permanent Court for International Justice, Presi- | dent Hoover may ask the Senate this Winter to ratify the resolution of ad- herence. If he does, the American peo- ple, craving to do their part to tighten | up every concelvable piece of ma- chinery capable of maintaining world peace, hopes the senatorial snail will at length crawl to a decision. ) = A Happy Combination. It was a particularly gracious action on the part of the State Department | to secure for Signor Grandi and his party a flying boat with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh as pilot for the trip from New York to Washington today. Not only gracious, but a strictly modern way of doing things in this modern age. Italy's foreign minister is thirty- six years old. Lindbergh, one of the foremost fiyers in the world, is twenty- nine. The Caribbean Clipper, loaned by the Pan-American Airways to the State Department, has just been built. It develops twenty-three hundred horse- power from its four motors and carries forty-five passengers with a crew of five. So all in all it is a happy combi- nation. Two young men who are known wherever language is spoken, the latest development in air liners and a novel and fast method of bringing Americe’s distinguished visitor straight to the Nation's Capital. M Democrats are figuring on ggptrol of the House of Representatives. Aufhior- ity may be announced, but control in the strict sense of the word is a dif- ferent matter. SR A spirit of American determination | and courage leaves the Thanksgiving proclamation one public document con- cerning which there is no chance for argument, | r————— The discussions between Japan and China are interesting, but those con- ducting military operations are too im- petuous to take time to listen to them. —— e A certain bitterness is only natural in the disposition of a man who feels that the cards are stacked against him as often as Bishop Cannon believes. svel-Hagmmne Anti-Fascists have ventured to ex- press the art emotion which regards an occasion as incomplete without suggest- ing a touch of the dramatic. ———— e Statesmen naturally feel doubts about attaining absolute party har- mony when so many presidential booms are in evidence. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Last Circus Poster. The last rose of Summer was lingering there, With proud salutation it perfumed the air. By the beautiful garden in which it had grown, A series of pictures a billboard made known. There were wonderful visions who danced on the breeze And creatures grotesque 'mongst pic- torial trees. Of the splendors which fade as old joys they recall, The last circus poster's the saddest of all. When the blossoming world was in glory revealed, With the sky for the great top above the big fleld, The circus which sent the parade through the street Brought the word which made Sum- mer enchantment complete. Extravagant colors which gayly I've met Are dulled; yet we love them and can- not forget. Oh, last rose of SBummer, your petals must fall; Yet the last circus poster's the sad- dest of all. Trying to Please Everybody. “You have some great ideas” said the admiring friend. “Too many, I'm afraid,” confided Senator Sorghum. “Everybody whose vote I need has some favorite idea and doesn’t hesitate to remind me thati in politics, as well as other professions, | this is the era of specialization.” | Jud Tunkins says it sounds to him like & radio often thinks it has an audience spellbound when it's only helpless. Versatility. Now may the merry Congressman Select a comic text, And say, “Let’s all laugh while we can, We may get angry next. Let's send away the shapes of care ‘Which round our pathways slip. Before our wrathful souls we base, Let's have a comic strip.” Making a Distinction. “You advise a man to attend to his business?” “Certainly,” Stax. “Suppose he is making a business| of stock speculation?” “That isn't attending to his busi-| ness. That's trying to guess other people’s business.” answered Mr. Dustin | | “Power that starts with the inten- | tion of making the world smile,” The American Foundation announces organized ization of the House. But the President | the completion of a survey had other ideas and the country has been without a session of connm' since last March. The change in the political com- plexion of the House, due entirely to lends emphasis to the fact that a Congress elected to represent the American people does net come into actually until thirteen gonths | Committee on Foreign Relations. Mr.'to tell de truth, but don't seem to git the Davis knows of no State, clty, county real enthusiastic Executive shall deem it neces- or local organization of lawyers any- disagreebla” deaths, exi 1t has been chosen, to learn the exact degree to which local and State bar associations have weighed the question of Senate ratification of the World Court protocols. The survey reveals a widespread sentiment in sup- port of them. The vote was, in fact, unanimous, according to John W. Davis, chairman of the American Foundation’ Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, succeeds only in making it weep. Another War Remedy. Since wars are only mental twists Which all would put on silent shelves, Let's send the psychoanalysts ‘To fight it out among themselves. “Some folks,” sald Uncle Eben, “tries sbout 7 unless it's | date all been fuf ‘The Italians have a proverb, “He who will not take sides must sit on the fence to be shot at.” Surely those who will not take sides, even in the nterest of righteousness and justice, are blameworthy. Is not life a baitle, and is there any reason why any cne should be excused? One thinks not of the battlefield, however, so much as of the everyday life of the average human being. ~ Not every cue is in a position to di- rect an army or make a momentous decision which wiay affect the lives of thousands. Almost every one can have enough regard for the integrity of his own heart and mind to permit himself to be stirred by events. A phenomenon of this country today is that so many people have managed to get themselves into mental attitudes where they helieve that nothing which does not affect tnem personally can be of any concern to them. They are willing to see abuses with- out getting in the least angry, just so long as they are not abused themselves. They can read and hear of morel wrongs, and «{ conditions inimical to the health of a Nation, without once getting “het up” about it all. It is none of their business, they| figure. Why should they worry about matters which are not their concern? 1t is difficult, perhaps impossible, to convince such pecple that success and comfort are not al! there is in life. Intellectual intcgrity is something, to the man or woman who values it. To be secretly ashemed of one’s self, even if others have 1o inkling of i, is strict- Iy no pleasure at all. * * * * Whether one believes in the soul or not, the word itselt is a very handy one to have available, There is something to man, utterly outside his physical and mental make- up, o which e has given the name of “soul.” It is this part of him—and truly it seems a part—which is ashamed when he reads of some great public question, or knows of some small private one, and ygt steadfastly refuses to take sides on the matter. There is e vast difference between just “shooting off the mouth” and hav- ing a definite, manly opinion. The latter is necessary to a man. No man cai b2 & man without hav- | Ing enough red blood in his veins to say what he thinks, within the bounds of reason and decency. S The important thing is not that one be right, but that one be brave enough to_have some sort of opinion. It is getting off on the wrong foot, in life, to think that one must be “right,” at the expense of every one else being “wrong.” Right and wrong are relatives, What one belleves right today he may regard | as wrong tomorrow. What one’s neigh- | bor thinks right one may believe quite wrong. . It is a false belief, that one must be right, when the only qualification is that one should be honest. Now being honest means being brave. Some of the bravest fellows in the world are little shrimps, physically, who take their future, and their very lives in their hands, as it were, to voice unpopular opinions in the face of hypocritical mass thought. D. C., MONDAY, What hypocrites human beings afe, | even the best of them, when in publie! |y The wise man never voices anything but what may be called standard opin- ions in a crowd, because he knows that | some one (if not several some ones) | will leap up at once to garble what he_has said. | What! the old institutions are at- tacked? Then we must fly to their de- | fense at once, lest our fellow hypocrites see that we, t0o, believe as this hereti- cal fellew, shame and fie upon him! What every one knows, in his heart, is the practice must never be admitted in theory. He who is brave enough (foolish enough) to speak the truth on certain things will find a smug array of standard thought against him. | For this very reason, and all the more because of it. the man who is | not afraid of his own opinions will re- frain_from pscless disputation. - over matters which after all are lar, - ters of belief. ST * ox ok % He will save his ammunition for the times when he must take sides, rather than sit on the fence to be shot at | from both directio | There is a risk in it, certainly. | But the history of warfare, both phys- ical and mental, is filled with risks, and none the less so because one sought, the storm cellar at the first shell, the daily life of most human beings there are countless opportuni- | ties for bravery of thought and deed. One need not get red in the face to | speak up, or make one’s eyes glare with hatred over questions which after. all are merely questions, It is enough to say wLat one thinks. To say !s\vhajt one thinks! ere is a job for every man, and child in the world. Waiir: Men dead thousands of years reach out from thelr graves to put a cold | hand over the mouth. | _The pull of ambition, the wish to get |along, the desire not to offend—these |are but a few of the incitements which | mufie the voice of conscience. * ok Kk ok The defense of the downtrodden and the abused available to every one, if in no other way than the expression of opinion among one's fellows. Opinion is mighty, and there is no telling what a few words, uttered out of a sincere belief, may do to the minds and hearts of others. Expect no word, or even thanks, for the chances are about a hundred to one, when such a conversion takes place, that you will ever hear about it. Nevertheless feel sure that out of | darkness and chaos, tumbling over each other in the human mind, light at lpst succeeds. No one has a monopoly of right, or of truth, or of justice. The ieast philosopherlike fellow in the crowd may strike a note which will leave a doubt in a dozen minds which formerly were convinced, and end at last in converting them #to an opinion | which works toward rigHteousness. | Good things may result simply be- | cause some unsung brave man preferred to take sides, at his own risk, rather than sit on the fence o be shot at any way. No medals may be pinned upon his manly breast, but he will have the ap- probation of his soul. Money and posi- tion are well enough, but one’s soul is something. |-k WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC Much has been said as to what Signor Dino Grandi, Washington's honored guest this week, will talk about when he confers with President Hoover and Secretary Stimson. Far less—indeed, practically nothing at all—has been heard about the things the heads of the American Government are going to tell Italy’s accomplished foreign minister. ‘To begin with, the issue that is para- mount in any Italo-American discus- sion is disarmament in general and the 1932 Geneva Disarmament Conference in particular. The two countries see eye to eye on that issue, Signor Grandi will be able to consider it with Messrs, Hoo- ver and Stimson on a mutually sympa- thetic basis. It will be if and when Mussolini’s young adjutant brings up the other issue bulking heavily in Italy's concerns—revision of the World War treaties—that the minds which will meet in Washington harmoniously on disarmament will part company, and part it promptly and completely. The United States, Signor Grandi will be in- formed, is not a party to the treaty of Versallles or the treaty of St. Germain and is fully determined now as we were when they were negotiated not to be- come involved in the European mael- strom which they created and today | perpetuate. B Italy's foreign minister will hear some equally plain speaking on .the subject of the Geneva Conference. Signor Grandi will be told that, while America is earnestly anxious for the conference's success, it is not considered to be our baby. As it is to deal primarily with military affairs and land forces, the Hoover administration feels that there is relatively little the United States can contribute toward concrete _results. When Brig. Gen. George S. Simonds, who will be military adviser to the American delegation, is called upon to function at Geneva, he will simply re- port that the United States Army, being already reduced to skeletonic propor- tions, has nothing it can reduce, limit or disarm. Gen. Simonds may use President Hoover's apt statement on that score—that Uncle Sam has far more poucemen‘ fllm* lo‘l'fllel'l. As soon as Signor Grandi and his Yankee hosts get down to brass tacks he will be assured in as firm tones as the proprieties to the stranger within the gate permit that the United States expects Europe to settle the disarma- ment problem over there and exclusive- 1y among the countries responsible for the problem’s existence. The American Government will not be dragged into arguments or extraneous discussions which it holds to be none of our busi- ness. The United States will resist any and all efforts to hornswoggle us into the job of pulling Europe's chestnuts out of the fire. Although Franco-Ger- man relations do not directly concern Italy, Mussolini’s emissary will be cer-| tain to get an earful about them in| Washington. It will be said to him what was said to Premier Laval last month—that America looks upon the ending of the Franco-German political d as a condition precedent to Euro- P nd world peace, and that if Paris and Berlin statesmen are as devoted to peace as they pretend to be, they can best show it by burying the hatchet. * %k * * One phase of the disarmament con- troversy is sure to be thoroughly thrashed out while Signor Grandl is here. The Franco-Italian controversy over naval parity still r: 1t is one of Burfge‘s sore spots, and, until healed, is capable of spreading into a danger spot. The United Stejes has not ceased, since the French and Italians failed to reconcile their differences at the Lon- don naval conference in 1930, to work for an agreement between them. To efforts for conciliathn have tile. Last Spring the British government, plementing the media- tory attempts of the United States dur- ing the preceding Winter, thought it had brought France and Italy together. But that, too, proved an illusive hope. The dispute has grown, rather than di- mln]she? in intensity since the ship- wreck of compromise tions. It is widely recognized that the final out- come of the Franco-Italian naval quar- rel will have a definite influence on the Geneva conference, * ok x % Unless Mussolini has changed his mind, Signor Grandi will notify Presi- dent Hoover and Secretary Stimson WILLIAM WILE. | that the Italians do not demand naval | parity with the French, as far as ton- | nage and guns in actual existence are concerned. Italy would be satisfied, ac- cording to her declarations thus far, ‘with what she calls “theoretical parity.” The Italians, in other words, insist upon the right to build up to French strength at sea if they wish to. They |do not mean to say that they will | forthwith proceed to do so, once the | right is conceded them. Ambassador de Martino, Mussolini’s effective envo) at Washington, invented a graphic | illustration of “theoretical parity.” If the Ambassador, he says, should meet a | rich friend who was wearing a silk hat, | and he himself boasted only of an ordi- nary felt hat, would it be fair Italian diplomat asks) for his pal who can afford a topper to lay down the law | that Mussolini’s emissary should never, | never, never wear one in case he should some day be able to afford it? = It’s that sort of all-time embargo against naval parity which Italy sees France trying to | impose upon her: and to which, she firmly avows, she’ll never consent. * K ok X While Herbert Hoover's old Stanford foot ball team was reminiscing in Wash- ington the othér day, a famous story of varsity days in the gay 90s was revived. Mr. Hoover's job as business manager of the team was to watch gate receipts at games. The Stanford campus contained grandstands without @ fence around them, so the only way cash customers could be controlled was to station undergradutes at the en- trance to each stand. One Saturday afternoon a benevolently whiskered old gentleman brushed by the boy who was collecting tickets and indicated that he was out for an inexpensive afternoon. The lad pointed out to Business Man- ager Hoover the stranger who refused to pay. Hoover hiked into the grand- stand where he sat and stood his ground ::l‘! fll’;hgnge-crulher disgorged his quar- 5 e benevolent ol Vi Andrew Carnegie. SHEERamA WS s * k% % ‘ashington is licking its choj ver a book entitled “Oh Yeah?”, dlg.cr'i,beed by the publishers as “not worth the pa- per it’s written on.” After that unusual burst of commercial candor, it's ex- plained that the volume is “a compila- ton from” the utterances of Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, Andrew Mel- len, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, sr., and other leaders of politics and industry on the prospects for the future of America.” The publishers’ supple- ment: “The future referred to is now either past or present. The prophecies are by actual statistical computation 100 per cent off. Why, then, this book? Because it glorifies for all time the American prophet on the subject of the American profit.” * K K * E Many Washingtonians are enjoyins the elaborate special edition o{' y{hg | American-owned ' Japan Advertiser of Tokio containing an exhaustive ac- count of the visit to Japan of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh in August and September. It is a copiously il- lustrated compendium of 34 pages and leads off with the me: e of welcome addressed to_the intrepld young flyers by Baron Reijiro Wakatsuki, prime minister of Japan. (Copyright, 1931) r——e Saved! From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. We see that fringes are going to be fashionable, and ghat gives our every- day overcoat another break. P New Definition. From the South Bend Tribune. The charge that Chicago. police de- partment aj &%lntmenm were sold at $1,000 to $3,000 each. gives “civil serv- ice” another meaning. r——— A Surplus of Advice. Prom the Glendale News-Press. It all the Federal Farm Board's: ad- visers had to be laid end to end, it would furnish enough. employment to tide American labor over a hard Winter. = e Hard Pressed. From the Cleveland Mews. Idaho by & sherifl's Posk for Stealing & el of cream may not time wonder how ryeu e el L (the | NOVEMBER 16, 1931. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. Representative John Garner of Texas loom# larger in the politics of the Dem- ocratic party as he approaches nearer the speakership of the House. If he becomes Speaker, as now appears likely unless death ar sickness should step in and give the Republicans a majority in the House when that body meets De- cember 7, he becomes at once & na- tional figure. And having become a national figure, he may also become the favorite-son candidate of the Texas Democrats for ‘he presidential nomi- nation next year. What the Texas delegation cocs in the convention next year is of importance, particularly in view of the fact that Texas has asm:;x tion than any of the other South- gr'r‘ffu‘nd“southweszem States. At pres- ent there are Roosevelt, Baker and Mc- Adoo factions in the Lone Star State, all canvassing for their favorite candi- dates. There has been talk of making Melvin Traylor, Chicago banker and one time resident of Texas, the candi- Jate of the Texas delegation. But this boom is not likely to get far. Former Attorney General Gregory in the Wil- son administration 15 credited with Jeading the fight for a Roosevelt dele- gation. The Democratic national com- Sitteeman, Jed C. Adams, has upol't.;n favorably of Newton D. Baker for the presidential nomination, while that vet- tran of many political battles, Thomas Tove, is beating the bushes for William G. McAdoo. o Texas Democrats are unable toxgou'iew any amicable agreement re- garding a presidential candidate, they may turn, it is sald, to Mr. Garner and send a delegation to the National Cmix- Vention instructed to vote, at least in the early balloting, for Mr. Gnm‘ex"‘. Tom Love, who headed the Bnu-sm!‘ Democrats in Texas in 1928, is still bearing down hard in opposition to a party nominee Who OppOSes the eigh}t‘,- eenth amendment. For that reason ? is not reconciled to the nomination of Gov. Roosevelt or to that of Mr. Baker, both known opponents of national pro- hibition. If Mr. Love takes this prohi- bition issue into the campaign for dele- gates, he may cause some of the other arty leaders considerable trouble. Texas ?ms a very large contingent of drys still. Under the Garner banner "tge Texas Democrats could all rally “lth; out injury to themselves. They might not believe that Mr. Garner could gef the nomination or they might not even be anxious for him to get it. But“lb least they could go to the convention with a united front. x X K X e hibition issue is raising h('?glsa;;fil to disturb not only the Democrats, but also the Republicans. n of the Repul :fme, urging that Senator Fess and otner party leaders give serious con- sideration to a proposal to have the eighteenth amendment Tesubmitted to fhe people, with State conventions to deal with the amendment instead of State Legislatures. In this way, Senn{ tor Wadsworth says, it will be possi- ble to get a real referendum on the liquor question, such a referendum as was not ghad when the question was handled by the State Legislatures. The people would elect the delegates to these State conventions with this single issue in mind. The delegates would not be elected as Democrats or Republicans, but just as opponents or supporters of national prohibition. . Despite the fact that Senator Wads- v\onh"g letter is counched in mild terms, it i not likely to make much headway with the dry element in the Republic- an party, whica is opposed to putting a plank in the next national platform looking to any modification of the present dry laws. For example, it is the opinion of Senator Borah of Idaho that such @ proposal as that advanced by Mr, Wadsworth will not get 10 feet. The dry Republicans insist that the wets themselves are not united on any proposal for modification of the pres- ent dry laws, and that the country will net support a wet proposal when there is no actual substitute for the eight- esnth amendment_advanced. Never- theless, when the Republican National Committee meets here December 15 to lay its plans for the national conven- tion next June, there may be some egitation on the part of the members from States where the wet sentiment is strong among the Republicans as well as Democrats for a modified attitude of the party toward national prohibition. The Republican members of the Na- tional Committee, however, have so far taken the position that the party plat- form is a matter with which the na- tional convention alone can deal, and that the committee has no right to un- dertake to tell the convention what it shall do in this matter, It would ap- pear to be unlikely that Chairman Fess, therefore, will give Senator Wadsworth the kind of answer to his letter that the New Yorker desires. * X Kk ¥ Representative Tilson of Connecticut, Republican floor leader, who has now made formal announcement of his can- didacy for the nomination for Speaker, urges the Republicans of the House to unite in_action against the common foe, the Democrats. The chances of a solid front on the part of the Repub- licans of the House appear better since apparently the Democrats have wrung from the Republicans the majority of the House membership. The Progres- sives among the Republicans, when it comes to party success, do not care much more for the Democrats than do the regular Republicans. If the control of the House passes finally to the Demo- crats, it leaves the Progressives in an awkward position. When the Repub- licans control the Progressives are in a position to dominate the situation by threatening to act in co-operation with the Democrats against administra- tion measures. But with the passing of this balance of power from their hands, the Progressives will cut, comparatively speaking a small figure. The Democrats when they once get actual control of House or Senate are likely to give their erstwhile allles short shrift. There are too many deserving Democrats to be taken care of for them to bother greatly with pleasing the Republican Progres- sives. Skl ‘The appointment of Mrs. Hattle Caraway to fill the vacancy in the Sen- ate caused by the death of the late Senator Thaddeus Caraway of Arkan- sas gives the Democracts again 47 members of the Senate to 48 for the Republicans, as soon as the the Gov- ernor of New Jersey shall have ap- pointed a successor to the late Senator Dwight W. Morrow. The New Jersey chief executive has promised to make the appointment tomorrow. However, unless Gov. Huey Lol of Lousiana, Senator-elect, changes lans, the Democrats will have but 46 Senators in their seats when Congress opens. The Louisana Governor has d d he will not come to Washington to qualify as Senator until after the first of the year. It looks, therefore, *as though the Republicans would surely organize the Senate and retain control of the standing committees. The nfipomlmsnt of a woman to the Senate by Gov. nell of Arkansas may be & wise politcal move if the Democrats are out to please the woman P R T mi o any van( .p’goumn. the widow of mm‘;m- row to take the seat now vacan! Priends of Mrs. Morrow, however, have declared that she does not wish to hgve the appointment. Bobbed Up and Down. Prom the ‘l‘fllfl:-l D'.I‘:‘:’ Capital. Two islant t su ed off tlfe coast of Brazil mmmh.mu suddenly disappeared and cannot be found. Maybe they just came up to ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. What do you need to know? Is thers some point about your business or personal life that puzzles you? 1Is there something you want o know without delay? Submit your question to Frederic J. Haskin, director of our Washington Information Bureau. He is employed to help you. Address your inquiry to The Evening Star Informa- cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Americ: . E. A. It is a matter of opinion. As a rule, American foot ball is a rougher game and also calls for harder playing. Q. Is Judge Holmes of the United States Supreme Court the author of several celebrated poems, or was that Oliver Wendell Holmes an ancestor of his>—S. E. B an foot ball or English soccer? H. =J. ‘A. The title is pronounced as if spelled Ecl Doochay. It means the leader. had reading lights in the berths?— 'A. They were first installed in 1901. Q. Are all places in the ocean equally salt?—H. B. A. The amount of salt dissolvcd in sea water is not uniform. -It varies with the locality and with the tem- perature. The average salinity of the surface waters of the ocean is esti- mated at 35 parts in a thousand parts of water. The highest salinity is found in the North Atlantic, where it is 37.9, and in the South Atlantic, where it is 37.6 per thousand parts of water. Some streams of fresh water are found run- ning through the ocean, g. _;Vho is the world’s fastest typist? A. The last international contest was held about a year ago, and at that time the typewriter companies spensoring this contest announced the discontinuance of this practice. The winner of last year's contest and of many other annual contests was Mr. George Hossfleld, writing for one hour at a net speed of 133 words a minute. Some operators claim a higher speed than this, but their claims have not been established by definite rules such as those governing the international contest, nor do any of them claim to be able to keep up a higher speed for any considerable length of time. Con- sequently, it is belleved that Mr. Hoss- field deserves the honor of being recog- nized lsll.he ‘worl 1 Q. Does California or Florida raise more oranges and grapefruit?—J. P. M. A. California raises more oranges and Florida raises more grapefruit. Q. What should be fed to a young al- ligator>—M. G. A. Alligators are first given a diet of earthworms and minnows. Upon this they are kept for two months, when dead mice are occasionally given them. As soon as they show an increase in size the quantity of food is correspond- ingly increased. Earthworms are then excluded from the menu, while small Todents are given frequently, in alterna- tion with frogs, fish and scraps of beef. ‘Young rats and sparrows are soon add- ed to the list. They are usually fed twic:ek- ‘week, and at most three times a week. Q. Please give a recipe for barberry jelly—J. B. A. Gather the barberries as soon as they have been touched by the frost. Stem, wash and to every four quarts al- low one cupful of water. Cook until tion Bureau, Frederic J Haskins, Direc- | tor, Washington, D. C., and inclose 2| Q. Which is the more _scientific. | A. Mr. Justice Holmes is the son of | C. the distinguished poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Q How is Tl Duce pronounced?— Q. How long have Pullman sleepers | the fire, mash, strain and measure the juice. To two cupfuls of juice allow two generous cupfuls of sugar. Place the sugar in the oven. Cook the juice for twenty minutes, then add the sugar and cook for five minutes. Divide into glasses and seal when cold. Q. Do the Army and Navy employ embalmers?—C. N. A. Enlisted men in the Medical Corps of the Army and Medical Corps of the Navy are used for embaiming work. Besides embalming, they have their regular Medical Corps duties to per- form. Q. How many lollipops or all-day suckers are consumed yearly in- this country?—J. A. P. A. No statistics are available, but it is known that about 2,000,000,000 sucker sticks are used annually. Q. When was a canal across the Isth- mus of Panama first thought of?—G. A. The project for the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama is practically 400 years old. Balboa an2 other Spanish explorers broached tiw subject to the Emperor of Spain in tb- early years of the sixteenth century, and surveys were made between 1515 and 1525. The demand for a canal, however, did not become insistent until the beginning of the nineteenth century, "W‘;th the introduction of steam naviga- n. tla’. lI-}low large is the Hope diamond? A. The Hope diamond is a beauti- ful blue brilliant of 44% carats, and s probably a portion of a large jewel stolen from the French crown jewels. It is called “the Hope diamond” because. it formed a part of the collection of H. T. Hope. Q. When an egg is bolled, does any water enter the egg by passing through the shell and membrane?>—M. P, A. If a fresh egg is boiled it loses weight slightly, but if it is allowed to remain in the water for some time (several hours) it gains weight. From this it seems reasonable to conclude that water does not pass into the during boiling, but if the boiled egg allowed to remain for several hours in the water a certain amount will pass to the inside of the egg. Q. Are chain letters against the postal regulations?—F. B. A. The Post Office Department says that chain letters designed for the sale or disposition of merchandise or other things of value through the eircu- lation or distribution of coupons, , etc, are held to embrace the elements of a lottery and are considered to be fraudulent. When sent sealed with proper postage “luck” chain letters are mailable. Thousands of dollars are Fost “Otfce. epariment, appes ip the ice ent ] ol i A 22 up the mails with such matter. Q. Where is Parris Island?>—A. K. A. It is a Marine Corps post off the coast of South Carolina near Beau- fort. The post consists of a recelving station, including the Naval prison, Naval hospital, Naval Radio station, Marine Corps Training Station and Marine Corps Aviation. Q. How much money is in in the hotels of the United States?—R. C. A. About $5,024,000,000. The hotel industry has an annual revenue of $1,- 315,0]00.000 and employs about 576,000 people. Q. What country was the original home of the honey bee which we have in this eountry?—N. N. A. It was a native of Southern Asia, probably including the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Q. What kind of a tree was the ilex, often mentioned in the Latin clud‘ cs?— B. M. A. It was a kind of holly. the juice presses out easily, remove from Adjustment of Railroad wages are declared to re- Eulra attention, now that the Interstate erce Commission has made its rul on the subject of freight rates, and the method of reaching a decision is debated. The fact that the New o with”the. unians. # et b e unlons, considered evidence that other roads will follow suit. Restrictions on free action in rela- ticn to wages are pointed out by the Newark Evening News, which advises: “The hard-] rallroads and their dwindling operating forces are el jed in an effort to work out the problems of wages and unemployment. =They should have a free hand in the attempt, success in which requires concessions on both rides, pressure not cnly is nct called for at this moment, but may complicate the problem and delay & solution imy t for the country as a whole. ore harm than can be done by such smum as that cf the investment bankers’ con- vention, which apparently assumes that roads can impose the proj 1 per cent wage cut without regard for the fact that Federal law and long practice makes the process of such re- visions in the railroad field one of nego- tiation. Patlence is the best policy for others than the parties directly at in- terest where so much is at stake. “There is no question,” thinks the Charlotte Observer, “that the voluntary acceptance by the railroad brotherhood of & cut of 10 per cent in wages ‘would prove an immense contribution to the plans_for restoring rosperity. The New York Central Railroad is inviting a round table conference with repre- sentatives of th2 brotherhoods, with a view of bringing about voluntary ac- ceptance of the cut. Meantime the Rallway Labor Executive Committee Y joint conference with the AL for the purpose of d executives ;Tsc\lnm ing this question of reduction in wages and stabilization of employment in the railroad industry. It seems that opportunty is now at hand for the rail- road managements and the brother- hoods to get together on mutually ad- vantageous plans, and if this is done about the longest step in the direction of advancing prosperity will have been taken. Great possibilities are likely to come from the Railroad Round Table. The railroad executives shoulg do their part, and manfully, at ‘r:hnt. “There is plenty of evidence,” ac- cording to the Chicago Daily News, “that the brotherhoods as well as the railroad executives and directors ap- proach the interdependent questions of wages and freight rates with commend- able prudence.” That paper also com- ments: “The commission, instead of granting the applicatign for a flat in- crease of 15 per cent in freight rates, proposed_varying increases of specified ates. ‘These, it was estimated, would crease railroad earnings about $100,- 000,000 annually, the additional revenue to be pooled for the relief of carriers actually unable to meet their maturing obligations. That condition, although not agreeable to all the railroads, ap- | parently will be accepted, provided the | commission will substitute loans from the pool for gifts to the weaker roads. The objection to doles, the strong rail- roads claim, is as legitimate in trans- tion relief as in any other field. m that comparatively minor dif- Rail Wages Added to Present Problems executives and employes is held. The Journal offers this appraisal of the sit- uation: “To say that company execu- tives should be willing to meet the 07 o anytning savoring of Beky thg- savoring of pel e ties—such as, for example, a futile ref- erence of the request to general mana- gers or other subordinates—is not to say that everything the unions will de- mand as a consideration for a wage reduction will be fair, or right, or prac- ticable. Whether the maximum hours- of-service law ought to be amended at this time, or any working day short- ened or raflrcad compat bound to institute uniform pension systems re- :::d:lsls of their tgl]lanc“’}lh e(vhnfl‘gm. Ve _questions. e brother- hood chgll , 1t must be supposed, are not unmingdful of the extent to which they can ate the sympathy of a public by its own economic difficulties if they are too exigent in the impending bargaining or the ap- proaches thereto. But, in an rallroad executives should qui Whole-heartedly do their a general conference S It is most desirable that the rail- roads and their employes shall seek to adjust these questions of common in- terest without official intervention,” de- clares the Philadelphia Public Ledger, and the Rutland Herald voices the Judg- ment: “Until now, the union leaders have steadily held to the high scale, declaring that the railroads could pass on the added cost to the customer. Now it is apparent that this cannot be done, so some compromise would Seem to be inevitable. There is this hopeful fact about it; the leadership of the railroad unions is usually intelli- rent and conservative and has won vir- tually all of its advantages by negotia- tion. There certainly can be no harm g over this extremel i tant matter of wage uale:.'}y o ——e— Finally., From the Cleveland News. Public office, sought repeatedly and unsuccessfully by the one-time “Gen.” Jacob 5. Coxey, has finally come to him at the mature age of 77. On va- rious occasions he has reached ou for the governorship, for the senatorial toga and for the privilege of House membership in Washington. He would have accepted these posts ither Independent or ‘& Republican: As a Regubllnn he was recently elected major of Massillon, a lesser honor than some he has eyed, but an honor never- 5% note noteworthy ihat a chief pls in his present platform bears (:lm':‘rl:E semblance to one of the ideas which motivated his famed march on Wash- ington in 94, the march which earned him a short jail term (for trespassing on lawns) in the Capital and his title of “general” This calls for the is- suance of $200,000 in non-inf tion of such bonds from States, m- tles, owrns and villages to proceed with public works and provide em it. sisted Through the years ith 8] U Massillon Protection. Prom the Columbus Ohio State Journal ‘The dome of Cuba's new to be charged with electricity ference of ut;gil’lmn is 'lfixuud. u"lt ill be, in Ilflg!'n Tepresenta- xv- railroad executives, the expediency and of wage readjustments, W 3 ken up for consideration in the light of general economic conditions and prospects.” Knowledge of the desire of railroad executives to reduce wages is seen by Sulfted among the employes n proposkis among ;l “:::;mm of em) it stabiliza- o be put m—m& s lulm might worked out. & courage lame du