Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1931, Page 30

NING STA Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.....November 22, 193 THE EVE R With 1 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The l:;hl.m.:: 2 Company g - % P vania Ave. ) e R b : Rate by Carrier Within the City. g 4% per month %760c per month 5¢ per month Sc_per copy %ina’ each mo 3 mail o i nth, ¥ telephone be sent in fAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, aily and Sunday.....1yr.$10.00; 1 mo Bally aaf, Sunder- o 175 MO 88 RS- Sunday only .l + $400: I moll All Other States ard Canada. 1yr. 31200 1 mo. 81,90 3y iy and Sunday. ly only . . ; I mo., T8¢ A N Member of the Associated Press. e Associated Press is exclusively entitied heys Gis- o et H"‘E‘lh‘“u‘r“.?&% ¢ tred Cal hewe el e ot LAY Emergency Measures. Becretary of War Hurley, addressing the Chamber of Commerce of New York State, has called attention spe- cifically to the action of the Hoover inistration to meet the emergency r-owing out of the depression, cata- loguing each move from the call for conferences with business leaders, labor and agriculture at the outset of the depression to the formation of the Na- tional Credit Corporation. Opponents of the administration, Mr. Hurley said, have declared that the plans proposed by the White House are all emergency measures. “That is true” the Secretary of War continued. “The depression itsell is an emergency. The President has sought to meet it as an emergency rather than by sacrificing in times of stress the fundamental principles of the American system of economics and the American Government.” ‘When the depression lifts, as beyond & doubt it will, the country will thank the President of the United States for the stand he has taken against pan- aceas advanced in many quarters for the relief of distress in this country, which if adopted would have changed the American system in vital respects and actually attacked the system of government. In ‘the mesntime, how- ever, Mr. Hoover will continue to be criticized on the ground that he has not accepted the remedies offered, many of them in entire good faith. Mr. Hurley did not attempt in his ad- dress to claim that the economic sys- tem in this country is perfect. He did declare it vital, and a system on which for 150 years the American people have & to R THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER biles result in bringing the offenders into court for pumishment. And the reason lies-in the fact that thé police have lacked the manpower to follow up their many tickets. Under the pro- posal to issue these tickets in triplicate, one will go to the motorist, another will be retained by the officer and a third will be sent to the Traffic Bureau. It 1s presumed that the intention is to make the tickets a matter of record that will stand until court action changes it. But have the police the necessary personnel to follow up this work? Can they go into the businessfof following up every ticket issued and still have the men and the time to carry on other normal police functions? And if the courts should follow the precedent set by a Massachusetts judge and rule that the leaving of a ticket does not consti- tute evidence that the offense was com- mitted, what then? The efforts of the authorities should | be dirccled to reducing the number of traffic offenses and concentrating the police work on enforcing the important regulations that remain. ———————————— Germany’s Capacity to Pay. Germany has taken the anticipated initiative in calling for a fresh survey of her capacity to continue reparation payments as provided for in the Young Plan. Under the rights therein grant- ed to it, the Reich applied Friday to the World Bank for International Settlements to assemble without delay a snecial advisory body charged with the ¢ 'ty of finding out whether or not Germany can bear the burdehs to which she is now commitied. The Berlin government declares that *pres- ent circumstances require that measures be taken with the greatest urgency.” It would hardly subscribe to such a statement unless Berlin is able to sub- stantiate it with incontrovertible facts and figures, the insinuations of certain detractors of Germany, including some American publicists, to the contrary notwithstanding. The Germans' action is the logical fruit of the recent visit of French Premier Laval to the United States. It was decided in his conversations with President Hoover that the next step, if and when necessary, further to re- lleve Germany’s financial plight should originate in Europe and not in Wash- ington. Immediately after his return to Paris M. Laval began negotiations jwith the German Ambassador to Prance. Friday's appeal for Im- mediate consideration of the Reich's necessities is the prompt result of this three-cornered FrancorAmerican-Ger- man understanding. The world will not note without dis- appointment wne gevelation by the Ger- mans that their financlal difficulties have not been substantially remedied by President Hoover's “far-seeing in- itiative” in securing a one-year mora- torium on intergovernmental debts. Reviewing developments since last June, gone forward to great achievement. He placed a finger.on one spot in the sys- tem, however, which leaders in industry and husiness are more and more coming to Tecognize as & weakness. That -is “the overcancentrajion of wealth in the hands of & few Mdivid- usls” In this connection 'Mr. Hurley sald, “We have yet to devise 8 plan that will provide for a more equitable distribution of the Nation's wealth, but in dealing with it we shall be careful not to destroy the initiative of the American people; not to dampen the hopes and aspirations of the individual. ‘We shall bear in mind that the suc- cess of the United States is the sum total of the achievements of its individ- ual citizens.” I such s plan can be devised and adopted, great steps will have been taken to make impossible recurvence af the suffering which the American peo- ple have experienced in the last two years. It is not & plan that will grow out of legislation by Congress or gov- ernmental action. It is a plan that must come from industry itself, making for a more equitable distribution of profits and caring for employes in times of depression, as the industry of the country has learned in considerable de- gree to care for investors of eapital in depressions. In the meantime, how- ever, it would be the height of folly to throw overboard the ‘which the American people have pros- pered, have met other depressions and have emerged stronger than ever. Amer- igan industry doubtless will learn many valuable lessons from the period of de- pression through which it is now pass- ing. e Now Dean Gauss of Princeton is in- veighing against slumni subsidization of what he calls “professional foc% ball amateurs.” The Tiger's record would indicate that this is the very year for him to have sprung his stuff. e Signor Grandi made a nice jmpres- sion—but beards are not expected back Just yet. ———————— Another Traffic Bureau.. If the police want to establish a traffic violation bureau, it is difficult to understand what can keep them from it. Reduced to elementary principles, 1t would merely mean the assignment af snother special group of policemen who would be given the duty of en- forcing the traffic laws by the simple expedient of following up the Work of the traffic officers. Changes in the system of posting collateral might re- quire legislation. But why is it neces- sary to change it? The authorities have tricd nearly every method under the sun to enforce the many and varied traffic regulations. They have made the penalties more strict, they have haled motorists into traffic court, they have served warrants on overtime parkers at midnight and made them get out of bed to post collateral at precinct stations. If they believe that the establishment of still auother bureau will help matters, let them go to it! In the meantime the plan to issue *“tickets” in triplicate for traffic offenses promises to bring & showdown on the ability of the police to make the so- called pink ticket system of trafiic law enforcement work. Heretofore the weaknesses in this system have proved an irresistible temptation to the aver- age motorist. Pinding a ticket in his when the morstorium was declared, the memorandu.: to the World Bank states that the hope that the “Hoover year” would bring about & decided im- provement has not been realized. The moratorium of itself has proved insuffi- cient to banish the danger of Ger- many's collapse. Germany does not go too far when it points out that the world “has in- creasingly realized the interdependence of financial problems and the necessity to tackle them without delsy.” Tt Was in that conviction that President Hoo- ver and Secretary Stimson pledged M. Laval the readiness of the present United States administration to recom- mend to Congress a further svaling down of European war debts. ‘The Geneva Disarmament OConfer- ence will prospectively have come and gone before matters reach a point at which President Hoover might ask Congress to exhibit further leniency to our debtors. The guess can safely be hazarded, even at this long range, that if Europe reveals at Geneva a stub- born unwillingness to cut down mili- tary budgets, Congress will register a corresponding lack of enthusiasm for trimming war debts. —_——————— ‘The Weather Bureau declares that the average of Winter weather for any consecutive twenty years is about the same as for any other twenty years. If system under | that be true, the Capital's next fifteen | or sixteen are going to be bearcats. —_———————— What appears to the average un- horsed citizen to be the acme of in- eficiency is when he reads of sixty or seventy highly-bred hounds working 1hnrd all day and starting up two foxes. ——— #Happy” is the nickname of Wash- ington’s mew chief of police. May nothing ever happen in the department of which he is in charge to cause any change therein, R The Lane System for Traffic. Now that the traffic office has done a good job of painting lanes on prin- cipal streets, it is up to the police to teach the motorist just why the au- thorities went to so much trouble, time and expense. Apparently, Wash- ington motorists have no conception of the proper use of lanes in traffic. They evidently think that the painters had a little extra time on their hands and amused themselves by putting long white strips at intersections, along with curlycue arrows for decoration. It seems never to have occurred to them that the lanes and the arrows are there for a definite purpose and are definitely to be observed. In probably no other large city but ‘Washington, for instance, would a cross- ing policeman permit a motorist to make a left turn from any lane but the in- side, nor would he allow a driver to make a right turn from any but the outside. Yet day after day, despite intensive instructions in correct driv- ing habits by the traffic authorities, left-turning moterists will hold up gne or more lines of straight-through travel while they cut across to camplete their maneuver—the same thing applying to right-turners. Instead of waving them into the through traffic stream, police officers permit them to block all move- ment. This is not the only driving fault of Washingtonians in relation to the lanes. Every time—and it happens frequently—a motorist straddles one of the white lines he Is thereby reducing the capacity of the street and blocking trafic. The lanes are ample in width, but not ample enough to take cave of the erratic weaving in and out of the Capital's thoughtless drivers. lane system and the common systemn are so universally used The sense that it is difficult to understand the bad habits of local drivers. It is simple. The outside lane for right- turners, the inside one for left-turners and the center lane for through" | with strict adhereste at all ti | straight steering of the automobile. Few persons will not agree that if these un- | | complicated rules are followed trafic | movervent will be expedited to a large | degree. Until the motorists themselves will co-operate the police should step in and compel them to learn the funda- méntals of good manners in driving. —e———— A Shout of Joy. If a great shout of glee was heard from hundreds of thousands of voices 1on Friday it meant only one thing. It was the paean of joy of the Nation's | golfers who, instead of the drear out- | 100k of playing the “balloon” ball—that gyrating, curving and misbehaving con- ception of the United States Golf As- soclation—will be aliowed to romp over the fairways with & new and heavier ball that perhaps will obey when hit with a well directed blow. For the U.S8. G. A. has just annoynced its august ap- proval of a pellet heavier in weight but of the same size as the one that has been the despalr of duffers since it was introduced more than a year ago. So many a trip will be planned this ‘Winter with full anticipation of pleas- ure over rolling hills and valleys. Last Winter the agonizing cries of duffers could be heard from one end of the continent to the other. It was a critical time in the Nation's history. However unpleasant to the ears, the groans and wadls and gnashing of teeth had their ¢ cffect. The U. 8. G. A. was not able t» withstand the appeal. It could not sit idly by and watch its patients Zowly dying. It nobly “came to b, and after a series of experimexis was able to announce that the “ballcon ball” was hanished forever and a new and hegvier sphere provided for trudging linksmen. Compared to the business depression the introduction of the big, light ball last year was a major calamity. Many & person’s hair became white overnight after a struggle with that erratic sphere, | Strong, healthy men, who could sit un- blinking and without emotion in trans- actions fnvolving millions of dollars, turned into raving maniacs as their ball, in a curving arc that no respectable ball should take, disappeared into the depths of the jungles that bound the fairways of almost every golf course. Tempers were lost, friendships were frayed and the game of golf became a nightmare. U. 8. G. A. Scores will come down and spirits will go up. It promises to be a happy Winter indeed. ———————— ‘That chuckling noise may be Tl Duce reading about how Abraham Lincoln envisioned Rome as the capital of a “United States of Europe.” If this should come about in the former's life- unanimously add other titles. “Hizzoner” to his — e One should not judge a Christmas gift by its box. Yet too often in these days the container is mare alluring and desirable, and even useful, than the gadget it holds. —— et 1t is not often that the male popula- tions of whole ‘communities find that they put away Summer wardrobes four or five weeks too soon, ’ SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Optimism. It’s fine to be an optimist ‘With sunshine everywhere; Wita only pleasures on your list And not a word of care. The world is like a picture bright Where colors are arrayed To fill us with sincere delight ‘Mongst joys that cannot fade. It's fine to be an optimist— But he who takes the part From thought and care may not desist With languid brain and heart. His pictures are but hopes so proud And glorious to the view. He has to hustle with the crowd To make his hopes come true. Effort to Define. “Father,” said the small boy, “what is an ultimatum?” “An ultimatum, my son, is to diplo- macy what the farewell appearapce is to the theater. A Bluff. “Are you sure de lady in dat house cooks wit an oil stove?” asked Plodding Pete. “Positive,” replied Meandering Mike. “And she has a pump right in de kitchen?” “G'wan up an’ ask her if she don't want us to chop some wood or carry some water.” Trrespensible Comment. As superficially are scanned Another's happiness and plain, ‘The things we do not understand We treat as easiest to explain. A Conversational Disappointment. “I understand that your new servant ! is a disappointment.” “Yes,” replied Mrs. Gaddington Prye. “The last family she worked for doesn't seem to be at all interesting.” TInevitable. “Do you think it will be possible to settle all international differehces here- after without war?” “No,” replied Senator Sorghum. “At best there's bound to be a war of words.” Silenced Eloquence. My Uncle Jim, he used to be As eloguent as any one. But now he doesn't speak so free. He says his talkin' days are done. He hasn't time to stamp an' shout. He's got too much to think about, It ain't so easy to arise And agitate the atmosphere With language more ornate than wise. Just now folks want the meahin’ clear. Fur silence Uncle Jim stands out ‘While there’s so much to think about. * He tells us he would like to show ‘The eloquence that was our pride, But words do not freely flow From minds that are preoccupied. He's handicapped, beyond & doubt, He's got teo much to think about. “You's lable to find" said Uncle Eben, “dat de man who talks de biggest ‘thinks de mmallest.” It 15 all changed now, thanks to the | Possi time it'is a safe bet that he would | Laks Are We Thankful? BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, Bishop of Washington. A query arises in the minds of many people as we approach another ‘Thanks- glving day: “What in the present uation have we to be thankful f 1t is & curious characteristic of human nature to be thankful only in days that are filled with sunshine and glow- ing with health and prosperity. Most of the gifts of life we take as matters of course; our health, our home, our children, our friends and our ability to prosecute our daily routine. Health seems never so precious to us as when we are laid low and most of us are rebellious when the prosecution of our designs and purposes is interrupted. We are largely disposed to view life with reference to the satisfactions of cach day. Few of us seem to have the capacity to see life as a whole and so seeing it to understand the part which each event plays in its making. . imly_scan On B 880 L Y Te arralgn endous plan, gl SR 2 ‘What we have of success or failure, of joy or sorrow, we appraise by meth- ods of comparison. We rarely get over the habits of childhood where we reck- oned our gifts, their size and im- portance, by comparing them with the gifts of others. We readily recall those somber and shadowy recurring Thanks- giving days during the period of the Great War, when the lods of our households were away from us and surrounded with perils, and yet it is safe to say that rarely, if ever, have wv disclosed a finer spirit or a loftier crnception of spiritual values. Our ‘Uhanksgiving days may have had their shadows, but_they were days of grati- tiude, nevertheless. The whole world at the present time is faced with a situation that appears threatening; there seems to be no part of it lmmui\e to ills of one kind and another. In the face of this situation can we of America claim that we are less fortu- nate than other folk? Are there no evidences to provoke our gratitude to God for what we possers? ) our problems seem less susceptible solu- tion than hitherto; true, there are mil- lions of our felow counf are suffering privation through unem- thinki 4 G ‘who | nation; ployment; true, we probably have less monz than we once had to spend for uned ings that we desire and possibly nes Notwithstanding all these circum- stances, we certainly can discover rea- sons for thankfulness at such a time as this. It may be that our very adversity may prove our salvation, and out of ail the stern disciplines of the preserit hour we shall emerge a stronger, stabler and more compact Nation. We have thought too much that Jife was made up of things, that our possessions constituted our real assets. We are being com- pelled today to reckon with other and more enduring values. The first thought that muast occur to every right- g American at this time is that jod “hath made and preserved us a pation” and that our very present emergency is compelling us to think more definitely of our moral and spirit- ual obligations. Diversified as our life is, representative of many races and kindreds, we are coming more and more to assimilate and consolidate these ele- ments and to compact them into ene great and united people. , let us be thankful that we are wi finer exhibition of social rerpo::l‘;‘fllt; i and a more generous demonstration of selfless giving than we have hitherto known. Many are learning to give at the cost of personal sacrifice, and in dotnf 80 they are learning lessons of culable value.,» Again, ti striking evidences that industry itself is exhibiting more of the spirit of altruism and is readily assuming obligations that hithegto it wholly ignored. Another oc- casion of real thankfulness is the finer evidence of comity and good will and the growing fellowship among religious ies of every name. ‘There are signs on the horizon of better days that lie ahead. In spite of all that witnesses to the contrary, we cxruu thankfuiness this year far the evidences of a deeper, finer and more articulate religious conviction than we have known for a generation past. If ‘hing Than ving day can part ll‘n imw pln' = d‘lflme_ proving conditions, dmu&c, social, economie and political, to be the most memorable ‘Thankgiving day in our entire Treaty for St. Lawrence Waterway to Sea to Be Presented to Senate Soon BY WILLIAM HARD. It is wholly likely at this week end that a treaty between the United States and Canada for the completion of the 3 to the sea will nex economic or pelitical news wo ible. The twenty-three States of this Union which have banded themselves together to secure the waterway are confident now that the treaty will soon be 1 . N tions for it be- tween Wi tan and Ottawa are pro- gressing at last with favorable speed. Some detalls perhaps remain unad- justed. The broad outlines of the agreement are thought to be approxi- mately settled. It is probable now that the twenty-three St in the “Great es-St. Lawrence Tidewater Associa tion” will turn their attention toward ‘comba whatever opposition to the trzty may be anticipated in the Sen- a * ¥ % % there | {ogether a8 commercial interests to the 8t | seaway have | W mm‘i}‘:{? P ly with a elt: insisting appear th: th-cu:rulollm action. irresistible, rimari irposes. deepened | m Erie y Canal, he Assacia some city of the Middle West, and this meeting will bg atten by numerous State Governors. Lines of political com- bat will be drawn on two fronts. A. Midwestern irterests versus cer- tain Eastern interests. B. Advocates of public development and operation of water power on the 8t. Lawrence versus advpcates of private development and operation. On the latter fyont the political for- tunes of Gov. Reosevelt of New York are engaged. and this standard will be seen tossing in the forefront of the battle. Pawtisans of his have deeply suspected and Joudly asserted that the Federal Government was bent upon frustrating the Governos's determina- tion to see the St. Lawrence adorned with turbines and generators operating under of the New York State power authority. The allegation, or in- timation, has been that the Federal Government, through the State Depart- ment, in the negotiations with Canada, would somehow give public water power a setback and would somehow give pri- vate water power a push forward. * K * K To such insinuations or charges the State Department unofficially but con- tinuously enters a general denial. In extremely unofficial and private mo- ments there are State Department dig- nitaries who even seem to feel that the outeries of alarm from the vicinity of the New York State power authority are not so much really of alarm as of grim resolve to register enthusiasm for the public water-power idea. Certain it is that in the Congress, which must ultimately settle this whole T}-tm, ;he ndeuu-“or pr‘l‘?t;n n'ww.x 1= ship and operal wal the St. 1awrence River will have just exactly no chance of suceess at The soundness of this copclusion, which ought to be extremely comfort- ing to Gov. Roosevelt, can be demon- strated from a moment's consideration of the three choices which in this mat- ter the Congress will face. * K X % ‘The first cholce is to make the new power-rhnu on the St. Lawrence into Federal property. That would mean that on the St. Lawrence we would have an- other Muscle Shoals. The one Muscle Shoals which we already have on the Tennessee is quite sufiictent for the energies of the Congress. Haraly any body in the Congress wants to spend another decade struggling over a second Muscle Shoals somewhere else. Ac- cordingly there will be no faction of any important strength whatsoever in the Congress in faver of any Federal public ownership ex) nt in_the power to be derived from the waters of the new St. Lawrence seaway. ( vided, of course, that the public owner- ship advocates in the Congress can soothed by observing the power of the St. Lawrence going into local public ownership.) * % K ¥ The second choice is to commit the development, of power on the St. Law- {gnu Pe'fi a Prgz:n company eral - Power £ Woeuld mean a much worse fight than would be fomented by the chaice. Senator Norris of Nebraska alone could talk against the proposition for several ety Bring it i the York wou Federal courts to_test the constitu- tionality of the Federal watex-power act, under ;:flc.h ::Sn Federal wer Commission has its 8. choice would tie the whole St. Law- rence development into which it would not be States, which desire to see the St. Law- rence development comj will therefore, in the end, snd i1 e e o paope. e private water-po 5 “We ave sorry, but gOIE Song with you would be interminable, and we are in a hurry.” ‘That will choice. i be the finish of the second x * % * The third cholce is to do exactly what Gov. Roosevelt wants and lst him .m:nnhu taxpayers stand the cost of water- flm- 'whlch oo oo{..mwn;:: will stretch across 3 from the Stale of New York to the Province of Ontario. of this fi manit 108 | 1, ga Vo the peiate awer. te avara vl T T~ e | ests. It enwunma‘thlt accusation in from 1 &lfared or | 28 many and many years. The Midwestera | $3% i unem) jperime: Vi Pro- oy issued this L be licensed by Thhm‘ been done fted -&n%&finflu into the | 4 the St. Lawrence navigable—a project for which a povuiar majority can be easily accumuiated. Albany takes the issue, which the Hoover admin- ration will be delighted to let Albany have. The Hoover administration has charged with being too on with Muscle Shoals. It will do nothing to create another ac- Campaign; 14 Wil in effe o 533 80 cam| . It w soon Gov. Roosevelt: sl “If, by ugon having the St. Lawrence water-power g& jem for yourself, you can lake it our menu card, thank you, f’f iello L ® et praspets Jusk now 1s as o o praos just now 1 1. The )Es‘:elkm !tlul"'fll :l their seaway. 2. Gov. Roosevelt will keep issue. ‘These two results will from Bubic owhesnid faeiin and lurhnml . Fhe at the d the rivers two factions ™m stretch of the St. Lawrence 48 miles in length. The United States will bear the cost of erecting two dams in it and of deepening it to 27 feet. The cost is said to be uniikely to exceed $135,000,- w ':91- uvmuo‘n pus . New Ym"{: s expense for power purposes will probably equal that amount. 4k kX g Ly Atlantic Ocean will then have the following national and inter- national experiences: It will traverse Lake Superior to St. Marys River, which is to to 27 feet by the United States. It will emerge from ‘St. Marys River and tra- verse Lake Huron to the St. Clair and Detroit - Rivers, which are to be deep- ened to 27 feet by the United States. It will then traverse Lake to the Welland Canal, which has been deep- ened to 27 feet 2y Canada. It will emerge from the Welland Canal into Lise Ontario and traverse it to the St. ne Tence River., There it will Sf first through the “Thousand Islands section,” 67 miles long, now bettlnl deepened to 27 feet by the nited Statges. It will then go through the “International Rapids section,” 48 miles long, which is the new treaty’s grlx:iclpal su:jgt ;’;a;ur, and which will e deepene: feet by the United States without financial ypflrtlclplu'fin Y e esen uf Teupon the ship will is 14 miles long and which is being constructed by purely Canadian enter- prise. It will then also soon thereafter el d wl 8 hew “Lachine Rapids hich o exitente. \n:llthnllu ory. be an_international joint good will and conndexf t ‘worth - Gounci of he Leagub o It will all achievement ate collaboral haps to the Nations. (Copyright, 1931.) Speeding Up Patents By Special Treatment BY HARDEN COLFAX. Speeding up its procedure as to “specials” in grant do its lklw'lrdl‘ Riseow & ving the al In the course of procedure, patents must wait their turn their order of examination. mh-‘:ngch!- mmm&bfl the P o flelds, where and inventions compli- Iy the radio frequen “For & mimber o T & I of , the A L years, M“;mr ‘hln applications for ,“special” treament, taking Lhamoulntthurtumnnd‘: When ehidence Bas boon en ev ce duced that industry ‘Oollll.i' benh:;:: by such special treatment. * k% % . During the months since depressed conditions this practice n; the it, v as an, the interest 4 tent Office has air hearth furnaces. New factories are being built and old ones kept the unemployment situation ing helped accordingly. An al dicates that the amounts .of capita invested vary from $2,000 fo $500,000. The number of employes involved range trmnw :%mt: :fle smollut"coneem up to 3 e pay rolls range from $4,000 to '100.00:‘ nnually. One hrfl; coneern by @& natio known trinl n?am t from aqu“lg“h 1t turned ou 2,835, of nm Broduet, of which 1t had soid 3,000,000, * % %% e lysis of the applications in- 1 BY WILL P. KENNEDY. apresgntative *Jack” Garner, pros- of the House, h1mn( Tejofged in the opinion beld by ‘Texas, ophetfc of his present eminence— is “Our Lead oy m;'fr,'”xmdl resident of the - or, formerly pi Ametican’ Nationai Livestock Associa~ ve tion, and one of the it \J l‘.\lflgflfl) on the American m‘- Testifying some years ago before the Senate Agricultural Committee on the Kenyon bill, Col. Ike referred to Repre- m-n.?nve Gncmer. “‘whom consid our leading Congressman. nation “stuck.”. When friends using it, Representative Garner promptly admitted that Col. Pryor was right, adding “Col. Pryor is a gentleman of fine judgment :nd* d:!cx;hnmflion. ©ol., Many men in public life hold a grudge Bgslmty their parents for their middle names and most of them hide the name only “Jack” Garner, the injtial “I = who admires the old W *“Llewellyn,” which he for 58 years, so well he has passed y Moses of New Hampshire, ‘Tasker tor rt Beecher H dllfl a Wildman- Brookhart of Towa, ton Larsen, Georgis; Representative tain urst, Arizong. tor Henry Foun Asht g tial. of their middle. name—f for Nance. Another . Bowman t along to his son. Some of the mot gress who carry lar names are George Lowndes Oddie of Ne w Robe owell of Senator Burton Kendall e a century o g:‘non nol Montana; Senator ith sentative William Perry Holaday, Ffll- nols; Representative Willlam Washing- Charle iliyer Brand, Georgia; Mrs. P;nrlglicgl-nlyoldflnld, Arkansas; Sena- Representative 0. Mu resentatives Henry Wi ayson, Rolahd , J. Russell Banks Kurts, J. Mitchel] Chase Howard Swidkall of Fennay President In the Secretary Hyde's name is for the “P‘ptu Secretary Lamont's name is for Petterson, the *“L". in Stimaon's mml:,n for l"'.hi‘:h; ecref Hurley's name D" in Attorney General Mitehell’s 1s for DeWits, uses his full name—Ray and the “N” in Secptary is for “Nuckles.” * kK ¥ Much has been written in the days about the young man Wi Dogk's nama t few offers 54 3| om ! ol | -one States polide thelr high- BRe e thé enfipnimint of mioter 7o~ Im‘! mfl low:fi to a survey that has been completed by the Na- Seventeen States no State highwey Colorado, we er The desig- | need for this highway policing is POLIONG THIRBWATY BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. cycles and 63 sutomobiles. and Mary- land 5 horses, 55 motor cycies and 10° automobiles. : The cost of Statz higawsy police “the — forces depends, of . courge, Ja: the number ot meh *he Calformia havine apnual pils ying apnual = erably in excess z? a million m each, while Nebraska gets by ouilay of only $14,000 a year. traffic experts point out that portant question is not how mu service costs, but what it is worth. indicated by the fact that there are | 8X more fatal traffic accidents in villages, snd open country than there are in cities of 10,000 and over. ‘THe ratio is 23 to 18 killed per 100,000. e wamning T of statistics be- cum?mmou’ :gamunt u?;; by ear mm pointing ouf the grow! rural traffic accidents,” says ka4 Baker, assistant traffic engineer of the National Coun- cil. “Unless steps are taken to curb gon fo e o also i ety the = AF AL ltast tane Statas have such State police. “State hway police are tions dt:t‘!fcd exclusively to forcement of vehicle laws. Th: officers patrol the highways MllniE 8] nan'n'fl reckless dd}‘invln' lnd“ou\e‘lr similar an enci - T i b some States they examine -r‘zhunp for drivers’ licenses. At least {9 Staies ac- .°l,5 WAY & separate WS, q|tend to arouse the himself for House leader, Representative . O'Connor, & John J. O , & native of = chusetts, but now & national J tor R amniea' Sptar Gnamp e tal en peaker Clark, who bad ane of the best memaries in American’ history, some years Yevle"l'ed mt“fi’!‘w vmc: |8mo of eal men o who * felr eminence In Telatiyely m days. He d that onge was a young man elected, to of ‘the United States"when he was 24 years old and too young to take his seat, under the provisions of the Constitution. That was John Young Brown ef Ken- tucky, elected to the Thirty-sixth Con- ess, but_couldn’t take his seat until he second session. This same Brcwn was again elected to the Fortieth Con- gress, but his seat was declared vacart on account of a disloyal act. He later served in the Forty-third and Forty- fourth Congresses and as Governor of Kentucky. Commenting upon the general furor of the day over this youth’s election, Champ Clark ohserved—"They didn’t know that t was premier of England at 24 and that Charles James Fox was the t debater in Parlia- ment at about the same age, and he got in when he was 19. At the end of his life he said he had made a speech liament except two, and he . regretted he had not spoken on those two nights. * K K K Swinging back to his’ reminiscences about young men in the United B%l Congress, Champ Clark recalled John Randolph of Roanoke, “who wore no beard and looked had_better go ask the peo] ¥ e here.” ’:wu this same John dolph whe had “a harmless duel” with Henry Clay on April 8, 1826. Henry Clay was the only man in history who served in the United States Senate before he was 30 years old. He was. lggnlnud to fill the unexpired term Adair, who resigned, and en- of Jol 1806, and was not 30 until the April 12 following. “But he knew enough to keep his mouth shut about his age and no one else thought of it,” explained the old Democratic war horse. Henry Clay was later Secretary of State under John incy Adams and was defeated twice for the presidency—by Andrew Jackson in 1832 and by James K. Polk in 1844. * KKk Representative Willis Oregon, chairman of the Ways and Means Commitfee in the last Congress and who on his return to the Capital protests that he is very reluctant to see new tax legislation put thru\:gh because he believes it my return of business stability ing cal les famous English novelist century, to testify in one kd prrem- Rt [ e Tor 3 Poderal ool o tem some Years ago. He quoted one of Dicken's most ular characters, David Mfl, z follows: “Mr. Micawber conjured me to observe that if & man had 20 & _year for his income and and sixpence he w if he spent 20 ld be barrowed & and cheered up.” In_ our sideration ahead of any the Nation's finances. employment and the orderly "o W business, he argues, the normal surplus and 1929, will soon a noticeable impetus to the trade Eosihinery, and tools, article patented. He file affidavits to_that than three months after 4 chemi e branch A :l.a a 1““1. t “{,‘:M appliances, thre bulkier ial products up to open During the past fiscal 300 as year, i g8 June 30, more than flons were treated ority in been : cations we! anted pri d since S iNittion and one-halt ‘doiars ed, with pay rolls expected to considerably more than that sum. The commissioner of patents thay i & i s fix nounces, incidenta 's fees exceeded 2 ER8 EY - of & s year ort of o Ras ek tered upon his’ duties on November 19, | 8 bUgey, p State 1 mmcm every night that he had been in Par- | H i i Epfgsse ¥ 3 g i ] £ 5 § !?*‘E =dege Bkl SAE §3gRE% 3 ® £2 g C.” Hawley of | i e gen- 1 perity, is for hav- era) prospe remembered hthe people gible one of preventing y in trafic accidents, s _substantial revenues. mNa.r‘Is’kll“s.f:rce of mmmm' cost- 8 i R:: year, luced rev- enuz of more wna from fines nd un'cl‘auemd um;u (:elnulrlenn& X88, an expend! $114,000 :‘19”,‘%! return at the rate of $175,000 that year. Pennsylvania’s highway pat 35 an outisy of $1,120,387.38 for the year, wi revenues amount 1&?“0'! n‘:;:ed e-nm_l property, value an , unaunto of fines nnll?d and of $87,607. ‘Was one Patrols Prove Their Worth. clabiined b Bigiay paisol haa” - s considered ganization is cited as the ted to §1,147~ luded made a . ll;‘ublicpe:;:.l;y continues to be the bl1 deterrent to highway salety, and with the prospect of a new fa- tality reecord for 1031 the Safety Council is endeavoring to in- terest other large organizations in doing more. for traffe salcty. Bposific 1ines of activity recommen by the coun- cil ide the continued ted | drivers’ license legislation in tates thert such laws at oot the n:ng:uou: lsadywal.m e - ver. contin I 0, S ublic to_the in- ess of the prob- te of all that traffic officers can do @ in spite of the constant repeti- ‘warnings, ‘motor vehicle deaths continue to occur at a rate higher