Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1931, Page 8

- [THE EVENING With Sunday Morning WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, November 25, 1831 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor STAR Edition. 5 The Evening Star Newspaper Company UYL fi.“%v%mwunmm“ Regent 8., London, gland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. 45¢ per month Ts0c per month B u ¢ per month e Sunday St " 0opy T 5c_ i Gollection made at thie end 6f each month. be sent in by mail or telephone grden may Ational 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 00: 1 mo., 85¢ 00: 1 mo.. 50c mo., 40c -4 only * fated Press is exclusively entitled cation of all news dis- Tedited {0 it or not otherwise cred- in this paper and aiso the local news published herein. Al rights of publication of #pecial cispatches herein are Tes —_— Tdealism and Coercion. A good many idealists have gone to great lengths to express the belief that there should be no coercion in any form in connection with the effort to obtain & contribution to the Commu- nity Chest and the charitable agencies of nearby communities from each of the Government employes. As much if not more space has been utilized in thus elucidating the obvious than in describing the importance of the campaign. Of course, all of us would like to HNve in a world where the appeals for money to feed and clothe the hungry would be nothing more than provision of the proper channels into which might flow the sweet spirit of charity. ‘Unfortunately, we do not live in such B world, The spirit of charity needs ® pump. The business of raising money for charity is & realistic one. Because there s so much altruism and idealism ‘connected with the reasons prompting the ralsing of such money, one is apt %0 lose sight of the materialistic meth- ods that must be adopted to raise it. ‘These methods use, to advantage, the force of public opinion. The organi- mation of that public opinion is such that it amounts to & sort of coerclon. Without its use—and the fact might s well be_ faced—charitable organiza- tions, and those to whom they cater, would starve. In the Government departments there is another type of coercion pos- sible. But this should be called by its right name, and the right name is tyranny. There must not be threats of material reprisal against the em- ploye who refuses to contribute, such as denying to that employe the right the expectation of merited promo- or other perquisites of his job. ch eases are proved, they should ummarily dealt with. individual employe has this mat- hands. If he is opposed to making s contribution surrender his principles. in prineiple, and makes contribution, he will find that for of preserving his own dignity quiet, not want to give need matter end there. Do of “coercion” be- ,gfi%‘ | i § ter in he t % 1Y, ¥R sl 1 H tain O fine objective before us. that & p5i1s %géfé {1 el e The spirit of the “drive for is merely & part of the neces- machinery that should not he eon- i Ranking equal with the intensive search for elusive Eiement 85 should be one for a specific for hiccups. In fact, most persons would willingly postpone the successful result of the former for & triumphant outcome for the latter. | Shifting Government Offices. For & good many years Government Offices have been moving around from place to place in this city, now into tardily provided permanent buildings, more often into rented quarters. As fast as one of the rarely provided per- manent units of the Federal housing system has been completed and occu- pled the premises which ‘the fortunate organization has been filling is allocated to another one, or perhaps to & group of more or less related bureaus. To effect these shifts without demoralizing the office forces and seriously retarding the public work has been a difficult task. The Government has, with all care in this respect, lost seriously in adminis- | trative efficlency. Gradually, as new structures have been put into commis- sion, the pressure has decreased, and | now at last final rellef is in sight from | the congestion of inadequate quarters and the confusion of constant change. ‘With the completion of the Depart- ment of Commerce and its occupation by the numerous bureaus of that great organisation, there will be another gen- eral shift, absorbing the quarters that have been used for some years past by these units. This will in turn be fol- lowed by other moves into permanent homes as additional structures in the Mall-Avenue triangle_space now_under Way are completed. This move wil take place on the first of January, and for a short time after that date there will be considerable confusion. It will be difficult for one not provided with a chart of the new allocation of offices to find the way about in the transaction - | fall within the next decade. last, unless other administrative needs commodate numerous bureaus that will still be awaiting permanent housing. Meanwhile, the Department of Agricul- ture will have found adequate accom- modation in & home of its own. ‘When the great program as now con- templated is completed, including the buildings for the War and Navy De- partments, for which sites have not yed, been definitely chosen, the Government will have for the first time in its his- tory & complete equipment. The Su- preme Court will have been finished and occupied by then as well. Decision will probably have meanwhile been reached as to use of the space at the northwest corner of the section which lies directly east of the Commerce Building, including & replacement of the old Southern Railway office and per- haps some treatment of the now Mu- nicipal Building, which is to become Federal Government property, the Dis- trict government having taken posses- sion of fts permanent establishment. Just when all this will be finished 5| and the moves of Government offices that have been the characteristic fea- ture of administrative work in Washing- ton for a cntury and a third are ended cannot be definitely foretold. If no in- terruptions occur, this happy day should ‘Then at have arisen, With the creation of new departments or bureaus not now in con- templation, the Federal service will have its own home, adequate and attractive. ————— Raskob's Quibble. John J. Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in a public statement regarding prohibition declares: “I strongly feel the party should take neither the wet nor the dry side of this highly controversial question.” If Mr. Raskob had con- tended himself with this assertion and not added to it, the dry members of the Democratic party would have hailed it with joy and have claimed that the wet citadel of the party had fallen. But Mr. Raskob did not stop there. He added: “But that its platform should definitely commit the Democratic members of Congress to vote in favor of some resolution which will give the people themselves opportunity to vote on the question as to whether they wish the eighteenth amendment retained, repealed or modified.” Mr. Raskob, a gentleman of considerable intelligence, does not have to be told that any pro- posal to resubmit the eighteenth amend- ment to the people is not s dry move. If the drys are to be belleved, it is & wet move and sponsored only by those who would upset the prohibition amend- ment, So the concluding part of Mr. Raskob's assertion runs in violent op- position to his assertion that he feels strongly that the party should take neither the wet nor the dry side of this highly controversial matter. Mr. Raskob can be assured of one thing. If the Democratic national plat- form undertakes to commit Democratic members of Congress to vote for sub- mitting the eighteenth amendment to the people for another vote, it will be dubbed & wet platform by every sup- porter of prohibition in the country. The same kind of propossl advanced by Mr. Raskob for a referendum to State conventions, elected specially to pass upon the prohibition amendment, has been put forward recently by for- mer Senator James W. Wadsworth, jr., of New York, Republican, and as ar- dent an opponent of prohibition as Mr. Raskob himself. The wets are intent upon getting such s plank into the party platforms of both Republican and Demoeratic parties. It would ap- pear that they have no chance of ac- complishing this end, so far as the @. O. P. platform is concerned. Sen- ator Fess of Ohio, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, is as dry as Mr. Raskob is wet. Mr. Raskob is turning every wheel to bring his party to adopt a referendum plank; Mr. Fess will do his utmost to keep the Republicans from such action. ‘The argument of the wets, including both Mr. Raskob and Senator Wads- worth, is that a vote to resubmit the elghteenth amendment to the voters is neither & wet vote nor a dry vote; that it merely is a neutral vote. If Mr. Ras- kob can find any one who holds a neu- tral attitude on the prohibition ques- tion in this country today, he is a wizard. His assertion that the Demo- cratic party, by pledging its members of Congress to vote for resubmission of the eighteenth amendment, can take a neutral stand on this “highly con- troversial question” is just a polite fic- tion. It is not likely to please the Democratic drys, 5 Plans made by George Washington for a vest: house for old Pohick Church are beginning to be put into effect. George had some other pretty good plans which might be worth try- ing some day. Pl RS A craze for tattooing has hit London, ‘affecting those of both high and low degree. This will prove a source of im- mense pride to what are left of Eng- land’s Maori subjects. ————r——— America's Mecca in 1932. Evidence that Washington is to be the mecca of the American people dur- ing the coming year, when the Bicen- tennial of George Washington’s birth will be celebrated, is furnished by the fact, just announced, that every hotel room in the city has been reserved for February 22, which is the formal opening day of the protracted ceremonies. Dr. George ©. Havenner, executive vice president of the District’s Bicentennial Commission, in making this statement to a cftizens’ association tue other night, estimated the crowd of visitors who will flock to the Capital during the year at eight million. To care for this throng ade- quately will b& a heavy task. Accom- modations will be taxed to the limit throughout the year. Housing space for them will be at a premium. Parking space for the motor cars in which many ®f public business. Within the next two years, in all likelihood, there will be another gen- of them will come, perhaps the ma- Jority, will be filled, with an overflow that may at times spread into adjacent States. ‘The magnitude of this task of en- tertainment and accommodation is prob- ably not fully realized by the citizens of ‘Washington at this time. Attention has been somewhat distracted by the dis- putation concerning jurisdiction over the Capital's celebration between the local commission and the national com- mission, which has been happily ad- Justed to effect a working arrangement under which both bodies will function effectively without further friction. The plans 1gf the program of events which will sutcessively mark the year A—8 j THE EVENING STAR, be the host of such & throng as that which will come to Washington during the year. The Washington ares, in- cluding the nearby portions of Virginia in which George Washington lived and with which he was intimately identi- fled throughout his career, will be naturally the focus of national atten- tion. Certain places will be particular objectives of pilgrimages, the birth- place, the scene of his long residence and of his death, the churches which he attended, the scenes of his early labors as surveyor and particularly the city which he founded and which with the aid of L'Enfant he planned in detail, the city which bears his name. To these the millions will come from every Btate. Organization of the work of accom- modating these visitors has been al- ready undertaken. That it will be suceessfully carried through is not to be doubted. Washingtonians must ex- pect to suffer some inconvenierice in adjusting to this inflow of guests. In large degree their part in the celebra- tion will be co-operation to make the stay of the millions of visitors com- fortable and profitable in the stimula- tion of patriotic pride. ey One way in which a small and un- important town can put itself on the map and, st the same time, attain a comforting parity with larger com- munities is to install a visible-from- the-air sign with letters twenty or thirty feet long. The “Podunk” of the nineteenth century humorists had to just grin and bear its inferiority complex. e Waiting lists at recruiting stations are so long that the Army has boosted the standards for admission to its ranks. Some there are who claim that the executive branch of the Govern- ment, by its efforts of naval economies, will eventually make the garb of the common “gob” as rare as & Phi Beta Kappa key. e Senator Capper predicts a long, hard and stormy session of Congress. With all due respect to the Kansas states- man, less able and practiced prognos- ticators can with almost utter certainty make the same prophecy. ———— Mahatma Gandhi decides not to visit Ireland. That is a bad break for the natives of the Emerald Isle; all those who saw St. Patrick chase the serpents are now dead. —— o Count von Bernstorft must be read- ing with relish the plans for salvaging the riches of the Lusitania. How the news items must bring back his mem- ories of those jolly old days! oo “You do as I say, not as I do!” appears to be the substance of King Carol's royal remonstrance With his princely brother. SHOOTING STARS. =Y PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Rapid Pace. Dodgin’ through the cityr Where they rush pell mell! First they blow & whistle And next they ring & bell. Dodgin’ in the country, too, ‘Where the steam cars scurry. If you live the season through, You've surely got to hurry. Dodgin’ various engines ‘That go whizzin’ by; Next we'll dodge the airships A-droppin’ from the sky. This good old world is bright an’ gay; I'm glad it gives me lodgin'— But jes’ the same, I'm free to say 1t's got your uncle dodgin’!, On Trial. “Did you convince your audience that your ideas were correct?” “It wasn't s case of convincing that udience,” replied Senator Sorghum. ‘The people had their minds made up and came around to get & line on whether T agreed with them or not.” Getting the Wrong Mén. “There is something wrong with the social system,” remarked the thoughtful ‘woman. “What makes you think s0?” “That bandit who made all kinds of trouble is still roaming the world a free man, and my husband, who is as con- sclentious and law-abiding a citizen as you would want to meet, is locked up on jury duty.” Let Them Blow! ‘The factory whistle lifts its note THere from its broad and grimy throat; It sings for those who understand The finest anthem in the land. A Censorious Observer. “Of course,” said the sentimentalist, “knowledge is power. But the heart is more important than the head.” “Very true,” answered Miss Cayenne. “If as many people died of head failure as die of heart fallure, the country would lose an enormous element of its population.” Fleeting Fame. There is ever something lacking, ‘Though the cup of fame be sweet; Some ingredient will be missing ‘That might make the draught com- plete. Though you carve your name in letters ‘Which posterity must see, Probably your next-door neighbor Will be asking, “Who is he?” Though you aid your fellow creatures By some sclentific plan, ‘The conductor says, “Step lively!” As to any other man. Though today they print your picture ‘Through the land, from sea to sea, In six months, if you are mentioned, They'll be asking, “Who is he?” “Some parents,” said Uncle Eben, “is mighty puhtickler 'bout showin’ a chile de way he orter go. But dey branches off at de fus' crossin’ an' leaves de chile to go it alone.” — o = Too Little or Too Much. Prom the Meridian Star. An employer who fires his secretary does it for one of two reasons: Either she doesn't know anything or she knows too much. A Long-Felt Want. From the San Antonio Evening News. A robot pilot an lan miles without lnmurw‘ N;un'm‘& inventor set to work on ° torist? - WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Roses, nfildnm and tuning from the ga cnmmemfinm Autumn table! ‘That is something to be thankful for, indeed, from the amateur gardener's standpoint. It is a rare season which remains so warm that these classic posies are given & new lease on life at this time of year, and bloom so well that a few specimens remain to be brought indoors. The gardener does not fill huge baskets, of course; if there are enough o trick out a simple bowl for the table centerplece, he is fortunate. The flowers have felt the call of | Spring, howeve! Even the have sent forth leaf buds. These buds, as if suspiclous, as if knowing that this is Thanksgiving, nod Easter, are very tiny affairs, and one must look closely for them. Even when discovered, they are so rudimentary that the gardener cannot trust his eyes, but insists on calling on others to see if they see what he sees. * ok k% ‘They do. It is an exceptional season, let the Weather Bureau say what it pleases. Usually the officials are entirely out of sympathy with any one who dares to assert that the “weather is changing.” Almost every. nature lover says that at some time or other. Invariably the officials say there is nothing to such & belief, and haul out their statistics, kept since the year 1874, or whenever it was, to prove ruthlessly that past years have seen perfectly similar weather. This year the Weather Bureau is slightly “stumped. The accumulated excess of temperature is outstanding this time. ‘There is no blinking it. * o ox % Those of us who have no recerds run- ning back to before we were born nev- ertheless know that this exceptional Fall | 88! is not the usual thing, Indian Summer, a phrase often used, explains little or nothing. Few In- dians, one may surmise, ever saw such a Springlike November, and this holds, whether Western blizzards shall have brought cold to Washington on Thanks- | 8T glvng day or not. ‘What days—if you liked them! We will confess that we did not, although we shrink from cold, and commonly like our indoor temperature to be around 74 to 76 degrees, What a lot of ballyhoo there is about the perfect indoor tem- perature, to be sure! “Seventy degrees is the correct indoor temperature,” insist °the ides of mankind, forgetting that in ummer an indoor un&:n;;ln“ol 73 to 78 rees is regar all an sundry M‘ eminently comfortable, thank L Thmw"v“hy not 76 degree in Winter? Because it is too dry, comés the ready answer. Ah, yes! But last week, with radiators cold and windows open, many a home thermometer showed 78 degrees —and & humidity reading, at the same time, would have showed 65 degrees, an almost perfect combination. The t is that no one complained of the heat in the least. Their living rooms were theoretically too warm— but actually just right. s it not silly, in this day and age of central heating, to go along holding up the “perfect temperature” which was rfect for an age which knew only me heating by individual fireplaces? 'And when everybody wore heavy un- derclothes? - One would think there were some heaven-given perfection about 70 de- ees which rendered it divine, when all its insistence shows is the reluctance of the average mind, especially pede- gogical, to change an opinion, even when required to do so by changed con- ditions. * % * % Even he who prefers warmth to cold yet may hesitate to put the sanction of T lilacs, behind the 'IYI‘Q.‘ | called, giving theoretical | sow reluctance, and scarce have showed the true gl colorings which Jack Prost would have put r:’mo them, if he n, The mystery of grass sgain points varying morais. Some lawns remain fresh and green, as if the individual | blades had never heard of Jack and his little destro} hammers. Other show withered and brown, with only wild onions, they are a green tinge to them. Just why this variation, in grass which all Jooked more or less alike dur- ing the Summer, is difficult to explain, unless it means different varieties of asses. pm. are, around Washington, sev- eral Jawns which manage to retain their fresh, live greenness all Winter m These grasses seem to be practi evergreens, in our climate, usually not going down to much below 10 degrees above zero. Those interested in grass have watched with interest the good “stand” which the United States Bureau of Standards has secured in the vacant square faci Connecticut avenue. Not more than seven or eight weeks ago this was bare ground. y the entire space is covered with a thick growth of very green gri This warm Autumn has been eeptionally good one for growing on, as the horticulturists insist on saying, | ¢ a Fall-sown lawn. Experts have been boost the sow- ing of grass in Autumn for several years, now, without making much of an impression on the average home owner. For one thing, the amateur rdener, under ordinary circumstances, is beginning to be tired of his hobby by the time September comes around. He is willing to wait until next Spring to patch up his lawn. Then, too, the belief that Spring is the great marvel in the matter of vegetable owth, has been sowed in his own brain since childhood. Surely, he rea- sons to himself, I will waste a great deal of grass seed if I put it in the ound now. Frosts will cause it to 2 erminate, and the remaining birds will get it. I will wait until Spring, when all nature is raring to go. Now surely there is something to that plea; at least, most amateurs seem to seed in that bellef. 13 is the time one wants to make a lawn. Attumn is not. But if & warm Fall is at hand and one is willing to get out watering with a hose, when a drought this season, he lx ver that Au- f one does not believe this, let him :oumauut. avenue and see the fine stand secured im the big “front yard” of @ the Buresu of Standards. wmuh-mmmtm,b{m way, let him marvel for & while, if he will, over the splendid job of bfl'd‘.l building going on at Klingle FPord. Not since Col. Casey jacked up (figuratives ly) the Washington Monument, and (actually) new foundations under t&n-n.“l:- tl'uro been & ln: n‘: g P o th seen here from the standpoint of the so-called “man in the street.” New bridges have been built on either side of the'old one, in effect, and traffic rerouted over them, while the third and central span is torn out and a e built there. The three welded together, will make one new bridge, within a short time, now. In this result the fair, warm weather of Autumn of 1931 will hawe played a large part, and, if for no other reason, we should all be thank. ful for it. ‘worker, k2 WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Massachusetts being just as hard- boiled & protective tariff bailiwick as Pennsylvania, the transfer of the chair- manship of the Tariff Commission from Henry P. Fletcher, a Keystoner, to Rob- ert Lincoln O'Brien, a Bay doesn’t menace the sacred principle for which the sky-scraping Hawley-Smoot structure stands, It's the second time within a decade that the chairmanship has gone to & Bostonian. From 1922 to 1930 Thomas O. Marvin, sécretary of the famed Home Market Club, guardian angel of protection, was the head of the commission. Mr. O'Brien comes into the office with an up-to-date in- ternational background. When he quit the editorship of the Boston Herald in i 1928 he embarked upon a two-year trip around the world, observing things eco- nomic, which have long been his hobby, at close range. Wiseacres mainly give credit to Ted Joslin, President Hoover's Journalistic secretary, for the O'Brien appointment. In their respective times O'Brien and Joslin were Washington correspondents of the Boston Evening Transcript. Another Ted, Who was once a_ White House secretary—Presi- dent Coolidge's—Ted Clark, probably had a hand in the O'Brien job, too. Massachusetts having no more Republi- can Senators to clear for action on patronage occasions, Clark, as Jocal rep- resentative of _Republican National Committeeman Liggett, is supposed to have the presidential ear when there is pie to pass. xx & ® That _conetabulary demonstration around the White House yesterday, in ‘anticipation of a Communist descent upon the presldcntlll.tgredncu. WaS only a curtain-raiser. e big show 1s scheduled for Monday, December 7, the date of the “national hunger march on Washington. The acting president of the National Civic Federation, Mat- thew Woll, red-hunting vice president of the American Federation of Labor, has just sent to the Capital a fac- simile of the lurid fly sheet circulated by the “Unemployed Councils Com- mittee for the National Hunger March.” | 4 The advertised purpose of the march is “a demand for unemployment in- surance equal to full pay” and for “$150 cash Winter relief.” According to the organizers of the National Hunger Marchers, they “will appear before Congress in the name of the starving millions” and “come from every State and as directly elected delegates of hundreds of thousands of unemployed and employed workers.” * ok x x One of Notre Dame's alumni in Washington, who has been in sackcloth and ashes ever since the Trojans of Southern California toppled the Irish (and the Poles) from the foot ball throne last week; recalls a astory of Knute Rockne on the occasion of an Army game four er five years ago. West Point rolled Notre Dame in the mud by even a worse score than the South- ern California catastrophe. The Army coach was consoling Rockne and saying that he oughtn't to begrudge the Cadets the rare sensation of a victory over the Ramblers. “Victory?” quoth the in- imitable Rock, “why, the Pope will an- nul that game on Monday.” E PFrank H. Simonds of Washington, one of America’s uncompromising realists in the realm of international affairs, has just written a disillusioning book en- tled “Can Europe Keep the Peace?” the end of NOVEMbER 890 | {on of the 25. 1931. Interior Dept. Workers Against Leaving A. F. L. “To the Editor of The Star: As » member of the National Federa- Employes eration of Labor, I ask an opportunity, through the columns of The Star, to briefly set forth our case: ‘We yleld to none in zeal for a better [ classification of Federal positions and|be employments. As & matter of fact, one of our main reasons for opposing sep- aration from the American Federation of Labor is the bellef that by so doing -.mymwhmww of securing from & Dbetter lassifical We also bear in mind have thus ‘without our affiliation the American Fed eration of Labor. We still have & great g:mm to put over, and many of us that & split in our ranks, unless absolutely unavoidable, would be un- wise, to say the least. The cause of the whole trouble was & belief on the part of representatives of certain skilled trades that the proposed new classification of positions within the civil service of the Natiomal Gov- ernment was to the crafts they and at the annual conven- Federation of La- lowing: “The personnel classification bill recommended to should be op- posed b‘;ll employes of the Govern- l'lm:,lw will be affected by its pro- ns.” President Green of the American Ped- eration of Labor interprets the action of the convention as a mandate, not to oppose a better classification of the ! {30, 1931, there were 95 research asso- clates, re] nennnguin rial : -m'amr at the el g B “Official assurance of the executive of the organization that they will give full and unqualified support ' ;0 d&:lficnkm legislation drafted * * * for, pui classifica- ;m (:n .l)n%’:‘%"w‘?-' over whom our) organizal been grant- ed urlmcuml!‘ e 2 as it has | skilled 6s—a very large m‘amy—-h-ve no desire to bring the ci members of the new classification against will, real Mh lmdarml; conditions they an element of Wweakness rather than of . In the situation set forth above many ‘members of the National Federation of Federal Employes feel that sufficient noln.n-uhaunnum, American Ped- and in view of the has rendered to Gov- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY PREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Q. If an amateur basket ¥ doce Rot accept pay, Jo his smateus injured?—K. W. 125§§ 13 T 13 | [ Q. How tall §s Mary Garden?’—H. R. A. The Chicago Civie Co. E.llltlllryon‘denhfimtw-’. ; Egggssgag I ghegl R 2"!’»! : f E‘ i for industrial concerns?—P. N. A. During the fiscal year ending June Q. Please give a_biograj of Dia- mond Jim Brady.—V. 8. o A. James Buchanan was born in New York City August 12, 1886, and | the ger Boy_ in-ihe New e New York Central Railway offices and a salesman for mnnl.lg‘,kmmxvell & | Moore, machine manuf: At his death he was vice ident of the Spanish Car Co., and his fortune was estimated at from $10,000,000 to $20,- 000,000. He was unmarried. He was of the best known men in the night life of Broadway. He owned an un- rivaled collection of jewels, which he wore in rotation. For instance, his watch was worth $9.000, and it is sald that the jewels in the end of his um- sippi?—F. F. brella were worth $1,500. $i Before his A. Forty-three miles. Q. What causes the report when e The bulb produces was a tireless dancer. He died 13, flmnhmken. being 1917, at Atlantic City at the'uem:(l 61 by the outside air n&c into Q. Should the word “loan” ever be the vacuum. used 85 & verb?—P. H. . How_are workers fram A. 1t has been used A Helps and Does No Harm To the Editor of The Star: of your excellent reply to & let- paper, under date entitled “Protest com| it Help,” e of this letter I to answer & cer- tain local school for part-time itions for its students to enable them attend school. ly Mr. Grefe . |called to my attention, I congratulated Stater, | ment explains why the Pol brims with dynamite, and otherwise de-bunks American popular conceptions of Eus as & continent flowing with the and honey of brotherly love. * x % x Edward Corsi, new commissioner of immigration in charge of Ellis Island, New York, is himself a citizen of rel- atively recent immigrant origin. He came to the United States as a lad, 30 rears ago with his parents, from Italy. 's lively ambition is to “hu- through which of foreign-born assed into the melting pot, to take their places in the world as full- fledged American citizens. With a vivid recollection of Ellis Island at its orst, the missioner belleves he W com! knows what's needed to reform it. Among his projected reforms is a plan to make every immigration official an individual committee of welcome, whose 8 Mr. Corsi’ manize” -duty is to make the newcomer under- stand that he's not an interloper. | ca: Corsi thinks he can win i e e out, unless red K x % ‘Though she renounced what she characteristically terms “the widow's might,” by declining to run for her late husband’s congressional seat in Cincinnati, Alice Roosevelt Longworth will continiue to cast the sunshine of her _electrical ce upon political Wi . home, on Massachu- setts avenue, is certain, as of yore, to remain one of the most coveted salons in the Capital. not the ¥ Dperson be interesting. Princess Alice’s recipe for her eternal youthfnlne-ul: that she refuses to be bored, though her frequent appearance in the gal- lerelgyul Congress somewhat belles that * % x % Washington soclety will dance Thanks- givm‘ night for the benefit o:"?:‘.e avy Relief Society. People shouldn't confuse the Navy Relief Soclety with the Navy League, which now and then they do. The relief organization cor~ responds to a similar philanthropic society in the Army, It depends en- tively on voluntary support and the ‘Thanksgiving ball is its principal source of revenue. Admiral 'Wey was one ofgthe founders of the Navy Relief So- ciéty 27 years ago. Its first funds were part of the proceeds of an ,Army- Navy foot ball game in Philadelphia in 1904, Widows and children of men able record of humanitarian service mE its chosen field. * kX % If the ne T men of Washingto: wete Pfl{. 'd cvmh-\mln.ll; Jote that most usefu A 1 in’these latitudes is et B. intendent of the Senate :flu c:“lm to become ~Senate librarian, ‘“Jim” comes nearer to being that non-existent mn"_’{,,, ‘Wherever his trained eye roams across | peen th the Atlantic, Simonds discovers powder barrels, the explosion of any one of which ‘would blow the dreams of a Mr. smthl these stern realities. pacifists and others who bélieve that Uncle Sam can bring about an era of eternal peace by merely Simonds volume _bitterl; Before he writes finis, auf us that war debts will never be paid; having the "“"Tite ‘ldea "oF compining o e, b 2 e v ive co- operation of every business firm in the cl:{. Mr. Qrefe's letter notwithstan ding. ‘The plan appeals to me for the fol- lM(’{l’),'!t d :ot displace oes 1 - p!oyel‘. l:uch° furnishes gfil‘p to fi:{ e myself, who are unable to emp! R T m) Mr. Grefe ited in his knert,' :: they are high school graduates and have ambition to help themselves. # R AT R K as " e 81 as concerned get full value:w:lm Ipuent his son or daughter trained for & tuition; (b) the student gets real busi. ness training in the school and an op- ool T w‘i m(‘?‘oflw - your office or mine; (¢! gets full value, for if a hlztclm:clg’;&l‘ graduate cannot earn $5 a week in an office in six half days a week it is be- ."g'd& in that fuition rate, 80 Do one is “dupeds ‘Then, Mr. Grefe, where is your kick? JOHN R. STEWART. myself on of €0-0] Traffic Lights and The Pedestrians To the Editor of The Star: This morning my way to k I found traffic lights mmedy, onw:;c Thoma Circle, toward the sidewalk, so etime position at no cost for | f the 1y 1320. mmh. ferred it is correct to use the word “loan,” other- ‘wise lend is correct. Q. Does the Panama Canal pay for its up!nfl?—n. S. A. It is now earning something more than E annual interest charge of 3 per Assailants of Farm Board Face Defenders m Debate W\h.‘afl.rfl']o throug! d 'vels representing the lowest buying power ever recorded for such products.” * x x x “It has been the main task of the board,” accord to the Lexington Leader, “to pm‘:l'ote 0-0] e ghp:onflvw ment enters into competition w’fll e that all automobile traffic on the circle might be free to get off the circle. have always maintairied that the pro- tection offered pedestrians in Washing- ton was less than none—and this is adding the last straw. Several months ago I wrote to Mr. vVan Duzer, director of traffic, concern- ing the protection of pedestrians and in substance this is the answer he gave me: “Pedestrians have the right of over all traffic, but the ligl are for automobile traffic, and to put in a long caution light would slow up said auto- mobile traffic too much.” words, motorists, who have no reason to hurry, have the right to make the cross walks dangerous for the pe- desgrian. ik d. seem: 0 me, and still that the Merchants’ Auoe'f:c%'nw{-fi:‘ cthers should get together and get a man in the traffic director’s office who will look after the safety of human life and not for speed in killing them off. WALKER CHAPMAN. askob’s Questions And D. C. Non-Voters| To the Editbr of The Star: Mr. John J. Raskob has Views of somé 1,232 voteless B:m | of the P&zr:ct g{ clxlmbh as to_the policy of that party coming Con- and the national cam o e questions asked the matter of heme rule is it and his “Jim” “dmm pe s would gladly miss' & meal or a train ‘fmm‘fi render & newspaper ey R tactton has had only the P lCurnatitie " d = 7 | handled in 1930 way | D¢ In other | 23! paign. In and to be answered | Much damage cotton, more than 2,000, individual; Snce let mdl\‘mullhm the same way, ,000, were marketed or held, 130,000,- e $170,000,000 of tI . revol fund is revolving. :lmu'l' work is going forward success- i le the wheat market continued to g0 down_despite great purchases of the Farm Board last year™ usl the Roanoke World-News, “the decline seems to have been halted.” The World-News offers the general conclu- sions: “The extent of the Farm Board’s holdings and the d:,rn to which it involve in the grain has become situation constitutes s that care should be exercised in a decision as to its future, if any. If point has been reached where dis- |8aved in solution of the board will not be felt unfavorably by _agriculture, then it | should be mustered out of service. i :'hm is still possibility