Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1931, Page 8

THE EVENING STA ___m Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY . ....November 30, 1831 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor r Newspaper Company " Penmsivania_ Ave o) ‘ag\dl“fi Londs ce: 110 3 ke Wi oo 14 Reg " Ensiand, Rate by Carrier Within the City. 4tc per month "gte per month 66c per month S per e at the end of wach m m t ont! I sent in by mail or telephone Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. s eme. 1 vt nday’ only . $4.00: 1 mo.; 40c All Other States and Canad: fly and Sunday.. ]yr.$12.00: 1 me iy only .. ;1 mo. inday only 0: 1 mo. 1yl 1yl Member of the Associated Press. Tre Associ-ted Press is exclusively entitled o the use fof repubjication of il news di- tehes credited (o it or not otherwise ered- e ublished oecial 1 - All's Well That Ends Well. Prompt disavowal at Tokio of the intemperate language ured by a for- elgn office attache Saturday regarding supposed remarks by Secretary Stimson ought promptly and satisfactorily to elose what easily could have developed into an ugly incident. The Japanese functionary in question admits that his “impulsive expressicns were entirely un- ealled for.” Baron Shidehara, the en- lightened foreign minister of the Wa- katsuki cabinet, may be relied upon to deal with the episode and its unhappy author in becoming fashion. A moun- fain was made out of a mole hill because there was cabled to Japan a garbled sccount of plain and legitimate state- ments made to the Ameriean press by the Secretary of State. When Col Stimson made public here and in Japan exactly what he did say, the situation was clarified. Of incomparably more vital impor- tance than the frenzied outburst of the “Tokio official is the now fully verified halting of the Japanese Army’s advance on Chinchow. Perhaps resentment in Nippon, leading to the Stimson incident, grew out of the disclosure that in re- sponse to expressions of American ap- prehension regarding Japanese military operations the American Ambassador ‘was assured that the projected move to- ‘ward Chinchow would be abandoned. In due course the truth would have reached the Japanese populace. Its plque in hearing it first through the medium of a pledge given to the United Btates Government is understandable. All accounts so far have indicated that the nation supports the aggressive tac- ties which the army has pursued in Manchuria and Northern China during the past few weeks. It is to be hoped that Japan's readi- mess to stop short, through the con- quest of Chinchow, of absolute military domination of Manchuria, will iead to prompt acceptance of the Paris peace plan. If both Japan and China loyally sequiesce in the application of that pro- | gram, tranquillity at least will displace & state of war in Manchuria. It can hardly mean permanent tranquillity, conditions and mutual enmities being ‘what they are. But the truce should obviate the peril of an international conflagration as & result of the bitter hostility that brought the two peoples iato their present conflict. Japan goes far beyond anything she has hitherto conceded in acknowledging the claims of the western world to a voice in the adjudication of Japanese differences with China. Both countries take advanced ground, too, in accepting the principle of conciliation, hitherto regarded as an Occidental device for- eign to their natures and traditions. It is too early to foreshadow exactly what will come out of a situation still seething with explosive possibilities. The fall of the Wakatsuki-Shidehara government at Tokio might precipitate atches herein are also expose the misery and starvation in the gle of the unemployed with the em- Seattle, converging here on December 6. Governor the first of the year, there is the possibility that Mr. Moore might call a special election for Senator soon thereafter. The expense of holding a State-wide election for the Senats, how- ever, is expected to prevent the call for & spzcial election at a time when econ- omy in State expenZitures is the watch- word. The fleld is open for senatorial aspir- ants in New Jersey next year, on both sides. The Democrats undoubtedly will have many candidates for the honor. Having recently elected a Governor by an unheard-of majority in this usually Republican State, the senatorial nom- ination will be especially desirable. As 2 matter of fact, during the Wilson administration New Jersey had two Democratic Senators. The indications, too, are that there will be plenty of willing candidates for the ncmination among the Republicans despite this ap- parent Democratic ‘“edge.” Former Representative Franklin W. Fort, un- suecessful candidate for the Republican nomination against Dwight W. Mor- row in 1930, would make a valuable Senstor, as he made a valuable mem- ber of the House. Mr. Fort. however, ran as an ardent dry against”Mr. Mor- row, and the Republicans of New Jer- sey appear to have cast in their lot definitely with the wet side of the lig- uor question during the last year or two, which would seem to make Mr. Fort's nomination unlikely. g o The Hunger Racketeers. The vanguard of the “National Hun- ger March, 6 East 10th Street, New York City, Branch of the Trade Uniol Unity League of the Communist Party, succeeded in its aim of getting arrested and punched in the nose Friday after- noon at the White House. The arrests were made for parading without a per- mit. The punch on the head, or in the nose, was administered by an overzeal- ous policeman. But the aim of the “National Hunger March” was accom- plished. The next phase of the demonstra- tion will be to “mobilize (sic) masses of unemployed and part-time workers in the struggle against unemployment, to United States and to link up the strug- ployed for their mutual demands. The preparations for the Hunger March must be utilized to make an exposure of the starvation conditions of the workers and poor farmers, and to un- mask the fake relief measures of the Government, the employers, the Pin- chots, Murphys, the A. F. L. leaders and the Socialist Party.” ‘To accomplish this broad aim the Communist party plans a Hunger March and its neatly mimeographed orders of operation cover all the necessary detalls of marches that are planned to begin as far away from Washington as Now, as long as the Communists are Amerjcan citizens, it lles within their rights to march, to whoop, ‘to exhibit posters and to distribute pamphlets and to make any other demonstrations that may appeal to them. We are much more tolerant than is the fatherland of Soviet Russia. The marchers will not be int:rfered with—at least, they should not be interfered with——as long as they abide by the laws that a majority of the people have set up for their own con- venience, comfort and peace of mind. And if the Hunger Marchers can suc- ceed in unmasking that fantastic com- bination that consists of “the Govern- ment, the employers, the Pinchots and Murphys, the A. F. L. leaders and the Socialist party” and reveal what should be done to improve conditions, the Nation as a whole will be gratefully indebted to them. It is already with gratification that one notes, from the orders for the Hungry March, that the marchers, at least, Wil not be hungry. Under the caption, “Feeding of the Marchers,” it is set forth that: 1. At the night stop-over points the local committee is responsible to pro- vide hot meals for all the marchers in the evening and breakfast in the & new situation more perilous to peace than any that has so far had to be eircumvented. —_— e A Brooklyn, N. Y., girl has just been freed of the charge of letting the shoulder strap of her bathing suit fall | down at Coney Islard last July. Sum- mer was a long time ago and these lit- tie matters are viewed more charitably | &8 Winter winds begin to whistle. B A Leonardtown, Md., girl in a short time picks fifty four-leaféd clovers right in her back yard. She should try grave- yard rabbit hunting right after this Ppresent moon. e 2 Brookhart rsus Cole out in Iowa | Succeeds the drumatic conflict of farmer versus cow teste - = The New Jersey Senate Seat. Friends of Joseph P. Tumulty are suggesting him as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Senate | fn New Jersey to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Senator Dwight W. Morrow. Mr. Tumulty, de- | spite his comparatively few years, has| beeome recognized as one of the “elder statesmen” of his party. ‘When Democrats gather in national conclave he is always there. In smaller groups | of the party’s leaders Mr. Tumulty's presence and his advice are welcomed. ‘The Democrats of New Jersey may well consider the availability of the former secretary to President Woodrow Wilson. He was for eight years in that capacity in a position of great importance in the National Government, Prior to that he had vzluable experience as his party's leader in the State Legislature. In recent years, while he has made his home in Washington, Mr. Tumuity has maintained his legal residence in New Jersey and has kept closely in touch ‘with the affairs of his party there. Unless Gov. Larson of New Jersey again postpones action he will tomorrow give a temporary appointment to a Republican to flll the vacancy in the @enate. Many men and one woman have been suggested for the appoint- ment, but the Governor has jealously guarded the secret of his selection. It morning, served in the popular work- ers’ halls. 2. Between night stop-over points the district divisions are responsible for the feeding of their respective marchers throughout the entire Hunger March, under the direction of the re- spective column committees. 3. The local committee shall carry on an intensive campaign for the col- lection of food supplies for the local meals and for the marchers while on the road. 4. The W. L. R. will be directly in charge of local feeding arrangements in connection with the local commit- tees, r——— = In returningz, on the grounds of “Addressee Unknown,” a letter ad-| dressed to “Kaiser Wilhelm II, Em- peror of Germany,” the Netherlands postal authorities cling steadfastly to the theme of the one-time popular ditty. “It isn't what you used to be, it'’s what you are today. et ‘The Marine has retired and the situ- | ation is getting somewhat out of hand, to paraphrase famous dispatch. “Pratt and Piffie,” “Butler and Bunk" and similar compliments are flying around, to the distaste of every ome. = o A Determined Pilot. Lowell Bayles, noted race pilot, is not waiting for the foundation of the Shriners of North America to get un-| derway to recapture the world's air speed records, but is going right along on his own hook to set up & new mark for land planes. At the Cleveland air races last Summer, in which he mlde‘ an enviable record by winning the major event at 232 miles an hour, 30 miles an hour more than the previous mark, the flyer was much disappointed that be was not successful in the straightaway dashes for capturing for this country the land plane title, which is held by Bonnet of France at 278 miles an hour. Since then he has worked hard on his tiny ship, and Sat- urday in a series of tests at Detroit reached an unofficial speed of 307 miles an hour. When the foundation of the Shriners has been generally supposed, however, that he would appoint & man whom the Republicans might reasonably be ex- pected to nominate to run for the unexpired Morrow term in next year's election, Generally it has been believed begins to function, sixteen million dol- lars will be available for the develop- ment of fast planes to recapture both the French record for land and the English record for the sea, which was boosted last Summer by Stainforth, the R | Moore, ready to take over the office of | he seems likely to be the proud pos- sessor of the land plane mark, and the foundation can concentrate its atten- tion on the building of seaplanes to compete with the bulletlike creations of John Bull, which for the past three rs have won the Schneider Cup races with room to spare and have given England permanent possession of the famed trophy. Until the Shriners announced their plsns a f:w weeks ago the United Stetes had to depend on men like Bayles, Williams, Hawks and Doolittle to keep the national pride in speed in the air alive. These fiyers, by their achicvements, have kept the ball rolling and it is especially gratifying that their pioneer work will be carried on by a large organization. In a few years it may be that American planes will not be compelled to follow in the wake of ships of any other nation, e Welcome Rains. Any displeasure that may be felt over the break in the remarkable stretch of fair weather prevalent throughout the greater part of November should be moderated by the reflection that the rains that have now begun are greatly needed throughout this part of the country. Indeed, a continuance of the precipitation for a fortnight would be & blessing. Somewhat less than the aver- age rainfall has occurred during this current year, though more was needed to make up the deficiency caused by the drought of 1930. Wells that were exhausted a year ago have never been brought back to normal. Consequently there has been much distress over a wide area. Had there been snow in abundance last Winter the situation would have been greatly improved, but THIS AN A bréezy book agent came in and, sat down in a chair by the side of a | man who was busily engaged minding | his own and his employer's business. | “I'd llke to show you some of our | books,” began the salesman, without | apology. The man at the typewriter stopped his work and smiled benignly at the brisk, brusque agent, a relic of the high-pressure era. “Do you think you are a man?” the prospect asked su very quietly. The other was taken back, but just| for a fraction of a second. Nevertheless, | his hesitation was a victory for the other, “Rather good, rather good,” the agent, nonchalantly. * x ok x “Well,” beamed the other, “I am an expert on sales resistance, as I believe you eall it, “I have been working for the past | five y " he went on, “to build up a | sales resistance, not only against the things I do not want, but against those . 1 do want."” He smiled, “I have had to,"” he continued, suc- cinctly, not giving the other a chance to put in a word edgewise. “Now, it you want to put your ability against my ability, I will give you the opportu- nity, but I tell you before you start | that you are wasting your time as well as_mine.” The two looked at each other fixedly | for a few seconds. Slowly the book agent arose. “You win,” he said. “Shake.” 5ood sales- denly, but ‘The high-pressure salesman, as he was called, is about as extinct as the | dodo. The trouble with him was that too often he attempted to sell a man some- thing that he did not want. the snows were deficient in the Winter months even as the rains had falled during the Summer. This present rain- fall is only a trifie compared with the requirements. If this is to be a “heavy ‘Winter,” with frequent rains and heavy snowfall, the nearby regions will be re- stored to approximately mormal condi- tion by Spring. A little rain will make the surface of the earth soft. but most of the water runs off into the streams without s urating the soil. Repeated showers or protracted dewnpours are required to fill the underground channels. Every day of rain therefore at present is a contribution to the prosperity and the comfort of those who are dependent upon springs and wells for thor water supply. Urban dwellers have not felt ihis depletion of the supply, but another year of such deficiency as that which marked 1930 and, in less degree, 1931 would undoubtedly lower the Potomac to the point at which even the enlarged water supply system of the Capital ‘would be inadequate. ———— Many will view with favor the move- ment starting out in Chicago to make Charles G. Dawes the vice presidential running mate of Herbert Hoover, if for no other reason than happily to an- ticipate his possible opening remarks to the august but dilatory Senate. BASenE Even if Convict Mooney does not get out, his ircarceration will have been lightened and brightened by the mem- ory of whatever sartorial creation Mayor Jimmy happens to be wearing when calling at the prison. P Albie Booth, now in the New Haven Hospital suffering from pleurisy and threatened With worse than that, has the very best wishes of all the big fel- lows who have slammed him down the hardest. B o By the time the League of Nations figures out some way to end the Man- churian trouble it will probably be all over, with somchbody's goal posts all torn down and divided. —_— e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. False Impression. The statesman’s life is filled with care. He writes & ton of speeches And bravely sends them everywhere ‘That the post office reaches. He sits up working late at night, As well as in the daytime, And does not seem to have in sight A chance of any playtime. He shakes hands with a lot of friends And tries to make things pleasant, While busily he superintends ‘The Future and the Present. And yet the folks out home declare, “That chap is in his heyday! He simply gets an easy chair And sits around till pay day!” Immediate Interest. “Do you think Bacon wrote the Shake- speare plays?” “What's the use of worrying about that now?” protested Senator Sorghum. “What we've got to worry about now is who is going to write the party platform and what he is going to put into it.” Intellectually Aloof. “My boy Josh is a great scholar,” re- marked Farmer Corntossel. “You must find his conversation very agreeable.” “Well, the only trouble is that the things that interest me Josh doesn't consider important enough to know any- thing about.” Admonition. Shout, one and all, with hearty glee; Show not & sign of sorrow; ‘This is the time—it may not be Your turn to shout tomorrow. Destroying a Foundation. “Suppose we leave the dancing out of our next musical show,” suggested one manager. “If we do,” replied the other, “it won't have a leg to stand on.” Handling an Indebtedness. “When I started in business,” said Mr. Dustin Stax, “I had to borrow several hundred doliars.” “But you soon paid it back?” “No, sir. In a little while my credit was 80 good I could make it several hundred thousand.” A Great Reformer. Sometimes in thought he bids you pause And nobler aims display. Sometimes he merely scolds because He cannot have his way. “Many’s de speech I has listened to,” - the appointment would hold until® Schneider Cup pilot, to the imposing | said Uncle Eben, “dat left me wonderin’ election next m_- Democrat, ber, figure of 408 miles an hour. If Bayles whether I was gettin’ !B)ohn‘umor Harry keeps up the way he is going, however, entertainmenk” ‘The result was that thousands of American purchasers, after loading up their homes and offices with gadgets in- | numerable, called a halt on the thing in their own minds. | After they had called it there they stood some chance of being able to stop the march in the outer world. There always will be a field for the | honest salesman who has something to sell that another honestly wants. What will be needed in the future, | {n‘aweven will be preliminary prepara- jon. | No one, from now on. it is safe to say, will be able to lead his men to| the beginning of a block and turn them loose like a plague of loquacious locusts. | | Building up se's resistance is as | necessary to the «:erage man as Te- |sisiance (o & wica many other factors | i icou 1if which he finds inimical. | Lie must be the judge. | Sam Jones may invent the slickest little device you ever saw, but that is no reason why Bill Smith should buy it unless he geuninely wants it. That is the physical side of this mat- T, | | There are mental and spiritual sides, too. Selling and buying--and not buy- ing—are fundamentals with most hu- man beings. | No_doublt it would be a fine world | in which nothing was offered for sale and nothing bought, with no thought | of profit or gain. It would not be the world in which we live, however. | Mental satisfaction is something, and | one cannot be satisfied with what he | deems an unwise or am unnecessary ‘That Tokio foreign office hothead | who went off half cocked about Sec- | retary Stimson and has now come for- | ward with an abject confession of his foolishness probably will either lose his | official head or commit hara-kari, or both, He and the whole incident will then be forgotten. It will retain a cer- | tain importance, just the same, because it is evidence of the latent resentment widely cherished against the United States in Japan on agcount of the im- migration issue. That thorn rankles incessantly in Nippon's side. If the Japanese people get it into their heads —and the military party is likely to see that they do—that ithe advance on | Chin-chow was checked mainly at| American instigation, our stock over there will be lower than ever. Resent- ment in this Manchurian business, as our Japanese friends may find out when Congress is in session, is not confined to their side of the fence. Current events in China have filled many of Japan's friends in this country with indignation. One thing seems assured to lift the immigration embargo comes up, with the proposal to put the Japa- —that when the long-planned project | | nese on the quota basis, the chances of | favorable action will be found to have | slumped substantially. * % ¥ % Secretary Stimson places great value upon personal contacts between states- men and the friendly acquaintance that geherally springs from them. His confidence that eventually the United States and Japan will get together on | the Far Eastern conflict is based to a | large extent on the friendships he formed with Baron Shidehara, the Tokio foreign minister, and Prime Minister Wakatsuki. On his way home from the Philippines in the Summer .f 1929, to become Secretary of State, Col. Stimson tarried in Japan for the spe cial purpose of paving hid respects to Shidehara and _his ministerial col leagues. At the London Naval Conf ence a few months later Secretary Stimson had the opportunity of ce- menting with Mr. Wakatsuki a com radeship which set in when the mier passed thyough Washington on | his way to London. i * ok x % One of the insuperable difficulties in contrpversy, a the Sino-Japanese Washington authority on Oriental af- fairs tells this observer, is the special position occupied by the Japanese army | in the government set-up at Tokio. It is the one branch of the government | not responsible to the cabinet or civil- ian authority which rules the empire. The army reports exclusively to the general staff, and the general staff takes its orders only from the Em- peror. ‘The voice of the generals is proverbially all-powerful at the im- perial palace. The result is that when the army sets itself a goal, it usually achieves the desired result, for a word | from the Mikado is the thing that goes. no matter what the prime minister and the foreign office may think about it. * K % * Former Senator Frederick H. Gillett | of Massachusetts and Mrs. Gillett spent | part of the time after the veteran New | Englander left Congress last March visiting the Coast. Gillett told one of his old senatorial cronies that he'd been | looking them over at Hollywood. * you think of getting & job as & fuve- nile?” the crony twitted.” “Oh, 10,'} re- plied Nick Longworth's predecessot in the speakership. “I went to Hollywood because I heard they were paying $50 | a week for beards.” The Gilletts will make their future home in Washington. * K K % Henry P. Fleicher of Pennsylvania, the first man to be designated by Pr ident Hoover as an American delegal to the Geneva Disarmament Conference, returned to Washington today. He spent the past week in New York helping to_extend farewell hospitality to Signor Grandi, with whom Mr. Plet- cher struck up a warm acquaintance when Mussolini’s foreign minister was undersecretary of state at Rome and the Pennsylvanian was American Am- bassador. “How did Grandi survive his Thanksgiving turkey at your Park avenue apartment?” Fleicher was ask- ed. “He didn't,” the late tariff chal man fired back. “We gave him pheas- ant.” * K x% the State Depart- nut to crack when Passport officials ment recently had a | Borland amendment D THAT BY CHARLES Ey TRACEWELL: purchase, unless he possesses so much money that such spendings are regard- ed by him simply s donations. ‘Most human beings, it scarcely need be said, are not in that satisfactory position. ‘They must think {wice before they ‘buy anything, and they do, if they have any sense—and have built up sales re- sistance. Since this is a creation of the mind, its structure is a most satisfying mental act. As for the spiritual side of the mat- ter, that comes in when one knows that|ate, such a defection might make it he is doing the right thing by himself and others. ‘The short-sighted salesman or can- vasser will snort, perhaps, at the bare idea of resistance to his planned wiles, but the fellow who also is a human brlni will realize that the unwanted purchase is a load around the neck of the man who buys it and & hindrance to the progress of the next comer with something to sell. There are, evidently, many otherwise good men .who go out on the road who somehow feel that so long as they are going through the motions of sales- manship they are doing their duty. ‘Thus they do not seem to care much whether the prospect is going to buy or not, just so long as he will permit them to enter the door, or display his wares. “Get in,” of course, is the first in- junction, and “show your stuff,” the second, but the third is far greater than either of these, and it is: “Interest your man.” * % K & Now, you can't interest & man who has built up a good sales resistance. It is at once a muscular, a mental and a spiritual creation, a sort of big bicep fathered by the mind and mothered by the spirit. The salesman who runs uj that type of man had better pacl little grip and go right ahead to the next house, because he is wasting his time there. He may not be wasting it next door. ‘The man who knows about his own ability at sales resistance is merely do- ing his duty to a man with sometbing to sell when he refuses to listen fung to him. ‘To lead the other on, when all the p against k his | time one has no intention whatever of buying, is to be unfair to him. * Why delude the chap with a hope when one privately knows that there s little, if any, hope in the situation? B i High-pressure salesmanship was the | product of an expansive era which is over and which many claim will never return, at least not in exactly the old form. What will not rciurn about it, in_all probability, is its inclusiveness. Every one was expansive in the same byoad, cheery way. One did not have to be a rich man, then, to throw out the chest and indulge in all sorts of knicknacks and grimcranks. Any toy for the adult was snapped up eagerly. Men never had so many toys. It was no longer necessary to steal Johnny's electric train! Men could not be the victim of that ort of thing, however, over a course of years without learning a few lessons in high pressure themselves. Only they reversed the process. The steam which formerly had blown them down now blew them up. They could look the world in the face again and be genuine- ly glad to greet the honest salesman who had something to sell which they really wanted. WASHINGTON OBSERVATION BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. 8 Negress, 70 years old if she was a day. applied for Uncle Sam’s travel credentials. She was accompanied to the department by her mistres: desired to take the mammy to Europe as a nurse for her small daughter, When mammy was asked what year she was born, she replied, “1880.” was nothing compared to her the question about her marriage year, which she gave as “1890." The plot thickened when mammny said her hus- band was born in Jamaica. Finally, when it developed that she herself was a native of Georgia, matters were straightened out, and she got her pass- port. o “The Way Out of Depression,” which ought to be a best seller, if book titles mean anything, is a compact volume now attracting wide att:ntion in con- gressional circles. It's a frank and persuasive a for intern:tional bi- metallic agreement, on the theory that the gold standard has broken "down. The author is Hermann F. Arendtz, A. M, Ph. D, describcd as economisi of the United Business Service. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, declares in a fore- word that Dr. Argudtz has produced “far and away the most concise, the most precise, and the most convincing examination of the causes of present world-wide depression that I have seen.” The book calls upon the world to “attack the gold mentality with rea- son and courage” as a necessary step toward economic recovery. £y ‘Washington was represented at the “peace” orgy in the Trocadero at Paris last Friday night by Frederick J. Libby, executive secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War. The skillful chief of the grand army of American pacifism was the official spokesman of his group at the Inter- national Disarmament Conference, which the Parisians disarmed. (Copyrixht, 1931.) —.— Disapproves Department Workers Leaving A. F. L. To the Editor of The Star: I wish to express my emphatic ap- proval of the letter of Mr. George A. | Warren of the Interior Department in your issue of recent date, opposing the attempted separation of the American Federation of Federal Employes from the American Federation of Labor be- cause of disagreement over reclassifi- cation. No one can deny the ability and zeal of President Steward and Secretary McNally of the organization of Federal employes, but it seems disastrous at this time of general economic depres- sion that there should be dissension in the ranks of organized labor over the question of reclassification or anything else. As a member of the Federal em- ployes’ organization I fail to see the necessity or wisdom of the proposed separation. but I can see potential harm to us in such action. The American Federation of Labor is the strongest body of kind in existence, with its membersh of upward of 3,000,000, working in harmony with the trainsen and allied bodies, and has a history of successful efforts in behalf of labor for half a century. The services of Sec- retary Morrison in helping put down the which sought to | increase the working hours of Govern- ment employes from seven to eight hours daily and agiinst the so-called gag law which aimed to prevent Fed- eral employes from expressing public opinion and seeking redress at the hands of Congress for abuses of their rights should never be forgottem. The writer heard President Green deliver a powerful speech last year in behalf of equitable retirement of Gov- ernment workers and the Saturday half holiday. He also heard read the recent correspondence between Mr. Green and President Steward of the Federal em- ployes’ organization, and was struck with the generous and conciliatory tone’ of Mr. Green and his promises of help for reclassification where needed. Fair play and expediency demand that a further attempt at adjustment of differences be made. The resources of conciliation and gzlomaw have not been exhausted matter. - Y- 8. PERKINS. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. ‘The desire of ome or two, or pos- sibly three or four, blis sives to give Senator of New Hampshire a spanking is re- sponsible for the measure of uncer- tainty regarding the organization of the Senate in the coming session of Congress. Two of these Republican Progressives, Norris of Nebraska and Couzens of Michigan, are reported to be unwilling to vote at any time for Moses for President pro tempore of the Senate, a post which the New Hamp- shire Senator nmow holds. With the closeness of the two parties in the Sen- impossible for Moses to have a ma- jority and a majority is mnecessary for election of a President pro tempore. On the other hand, it is also reported that neither Norris nor Couzens would g0 to the extent of voting for a Demo- crat for President pro tempore, but would cohtent themselves with merely casting their votes for some other Re- publican, possibly Senator Jones of Washingto Under a _ resolution adopted years ago by the Senate, the.| President pro tempore holds office un- til his successor elected. A situa- tion may arise, therefore, in which neither Moses nor the probable Demo- cratic nominee, Senator Pittman of Ne- vada, can obtain & majority. In that event, Moses would simply hold on to the office now his. * oK K K Senator Moses has not left the Pro- gressive Republicans in the dark where he stands on this issue. He is threaten- ing, if he is defeated through action of Republican Progressives, to line up, with several of his Republican !rlend:‘ to prevent the election of Progressive Republican Senators, including Norris | and Couzens, as chairmen of important | standing committees of the Senate, electing Democrats in their places. It | happens that not only Norris and Couzens have important chairmanships, but also other Progressives, including Nye of North Dakota, Johnson of Cali- fornia, La Follette of Wisconsin, and last, but by no means least, Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. * K K K ‘The Democrats of the Senate are| watching the maneuvering of the Re- publican factions. Some of them would be glad to take over the organization of J\e Senate and the committee chair- manships, if the Republican regulars and the Progressives go to the mat and cut off their political noses to spite their faces. On the other hand, the Democrats are wondering just where they would stand if they assume con- trol of the Senate when they have no actual majority. When the Senate meets there will be 48 Republicans, provided the New Jersey vacancy is filled; 46 Democrats and 1 Farmer- Labor. Gov. Huey Long of Loulsiana, Senator-elect from that State, accord- ing to all information, is not coming to Washington for several months, wish- ing to hold on in Louisiana as Governor to prevent his arch enemy, Lieut. Gov. Cyr, from bzcoming Governor. With- out an actual majority, the Democrats might find themselves up against a good deal of difficulty if they under- take to run the affairs of the Senate. ‘With the Republicans in control nomj nally, and with a band of Republican insurgents ready to join the Demo- crats at any time against the admin- istration, the Democrats have been sit- ting pretty in the Senate for several years. EEE ‘There are regular Republicans in the Senate who, while they appreciate the chairmanships of committees they now hold, would not be averse to giving them up to the Democrats and making the Democrats responsible for the con- duct of the Senate. They say that the administration forces now, while held responsible for legislation in the Senate. have no real control over it because the coalition of the Progressive Republicans and the Democrats can upset their plans at any time. The Senate Republicans have been called to meet Friday in caucus by Senator Watson, Republican leader of the Senate and chairman of the con- ference. The prediction is made that nothing will be done at that meeting regarding President pro tempore or the | other officers of the Senate, although a Committee on Committees will be ap- | pointed and plans made to fill up all | the Republican places on the standing committees. The regular Republicans, {in other words, do not intend to bring | up the question of President pro tem- | pore. If Senator Couzens or one of other members of the Progressive group | should ask for a vote on a nomination !for President pro tempore, Moses un- doubtedly would be the nominee. { The whole trouble over the Senate organization might be avoided by the simple expedient of nobody’s bringing up the question of electing a President | pro tempore on the floor of the Senate. The other officers of the Senate—secre- tary and sergeant at arms—have no | opposition among the Republicans, or {none that would go to the extent of i trying to oust them, it is said. But | there are one or two Progressives who | may undertake to make trouble for Senator Moses by raising the question. And if one of them does not, it is doubtful that the Democrats could re- strain themselves from pitching this bone of contention into the Senate chamber. * k% % The Democrats are claiming victory in the contest for Representative in the fifth congressional district of New | Jersey, where an election is to take | place tomorrow to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Repre- sentative Ackerman. They say they will win by 5000 votes, which is half the number by which A. Harry Moore, Governor-elect, carried the district on November 3. They may be counting their chickens before they are hatched, however. This has been a strong Re- publican district, with Ackerman win- ning by some 30,000 votes in the elec- tion a year ago. The Democrats have imported talent to help them win out !in the Jersey district, with Senator Wagner of New York and Senator Copeland of the same State, and ! Jouette Shouse, chairman of the Execu- tive Committee of the Democratic Committee, on the list of | headliners. The contestants are Donald H. McLean, Republican, and Perc; Stewart, Democrat. Stewart has hammering the Hoover administration and McLean has defended the adminis- tration. The result of the election will be interpreted widely as indicating the stand New Jersey will take in the na- tional election next year. Republicans have been less boastful about claims of victory, but they have been working hard. National LY Mrs. Hattle Caraway, widow of Sena- tor Caraway of Arkansas, who has been appointed Senator to fili the seat for- merly held by her husband, will know tomorrow whether she is to have the Democratic nomination for Senator in the special election which is to be held within a short time for the unexpired term of Senator Caraway. The Demo- cratic State Committee is to make the decision. ~ At first it was supposed Mrs Caraway would have the nomination practically without opposition, supported as she has been by Gov. Parnell. But Frank Pace, an attorney in Little Rock, has been put forward by the faction of the Democrats which he represents, and his friends say he may have the | secret society of a local school, but ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. The resources of our free informa- tion bureau are at your service. You| are invited to call upon it as often as you please. It is being maintained solely to serve you. What question can we answer for you? There is no charge at all except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address your let- ter to The Evaning Star Information Buresu, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, ‘Washington, D. C. Q. What_is the average weight of the Notre Dame foot ball team?—E. B. A. About 185 pounds. Q. 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Johnson Attack Senator Hiram Johnson aroused no support and much antagonism from the country’s newspapers, regardless of their political affiliations, in his recent state- ment that President Hoover should follow the example of former President Coolidge and decline to permit the use of his name in the coming campaign as a candidate for re-election. ~The general reaction is that the California Senator is paving the way to the an- nouncement of his own candidacy, which, it is held, is likely to be far from acceptable. Perscnal animosity toward Hoover is seen as the cause of the attack. “If there is any one in public or pri- vate life with a stronger anti-Hoover obsession than Senator Johnson, him out,” suggests the Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Independent). With the query “Who is left in the back of Hiram'’s head worthy and avail- able for nomination?” that paper con- cludes: “A possibility remains In the person of none other than Senator Hiram Johnson himself. Dear! Dear! The secret is out. And what a revelation!” Observing that Senator Brookhart of Jowa “has come out openly for John- son,” the San Jose Mercury Herald (Republican) declares: “The coalition knows, of course, that Johnson has not the slightest chance of getting the nom- ination, but thinks there is a possibility he might carry the California primary. The discussion of his candidacy is doubtless a trial balloon to see how the wind is blowing in the President’s home State.” “Senator Johnson seems to be suf- fering from another attack of presi- dentitis, according to the New York HeraJd Tribune (Republican) which, observing that, “despite attempts to keep his temperature down, the Sen- ator has Been unable to conceal the on. the present visitation will have subsided the State primaries. If so, it will save the Senator a repetition of the costly and futile campaigns of other years.” ment, which included the contention would “have the undying gratitude of the rank and file of the Republican party,” the Rutland Herald pendent Republican) comments: “If more dynamite could be packed into less than 50 words, no doubt the Sena- tor would have supercharged his little interview. As it was, it gives rise to the natural question, ‘Why don't you speak for yourself, Senator Johnson?'” “Personal animosity toward President Hoover, plus a narrow, provineial point of view, is responsible for the attitude of the California Senator.” thinks the Louisville Courier-Journal (Independ- ent) with the thought that “Hiram is on the warpath, execrating the Hoover debt holiday, much as he execrated the | Versailles Treaty and the League of Natlons Covenant.” The Columbia. S. C., State (Democratic) advises: “After we all get on firm land we don't care how hotly the oarsmen quarrel or whether they knock each otter’s heads | off or feed each other on a diet of | monkey wrenches. It is only once in a | blue moon that the Government is in position to perform big service of im- mediate value to all the people. That blue moon is rising. We do not care to have Hiram Johnson et al. exercise their proclivities at wrench throwing, card gumming or water muddying to divert the attention of Congress from its opportunity for real service to the | nomination after all. If that should ke the case, Mrs. Caraway’s service in the Senate would be short lived. L The choice of a city for the next Republican National Convention ap- rs to have narrowed down to Cleve- and Chicago. Cleveland occuples a strategic position, with the chalrman of the National Committee and its treasurer both hailing from Ohio. On the other hand, Edward N. Hurley of Chicago, who is engineering the Chi- cago bid for the convention, promises ot M, Do L S m 3 y which may be difficult for Cleveland to country.” “Senator Johnson serves neither him- self nor the country.” in the judgment of the Harrisburg Telegraph (Repub- match or for the Republican National Committee to turn down, The talk of Newton D. Baker for the Democratic presidential nomination has been for the most part outside of the State of Ohio. It develops that Democrats occupying important posi- tions in the Buckeye State are favor- trot ! set of the malady,” suggests: “It may be | before the time for formally entering | Noting dynamite in the Johnson state- | that if Mr. Hoover would withdraw, he | (Inde- | on Hoover Arouses Johnson Opponenis lican) “when he tirades " renomination of President Hoover. It is not even certain that he speaks for hhmegh 1xm— b:t !: vex;y likely Mr. .vi.:‘n- son ound supporting Mr. Hoover in the campaign of next The California Senator having dec] against the President, whom does he have in mifid for the nomination? He can't beat somebody with nobody. Probably Mr. Johnson has a manm in ‘mln Very likely his name is John- sot | " Recognizing a threat that Semator | Johnson may “run in opposition to President Hoover on the issue of par- | ticipating in foreign affairs,” the Des Moines Tribune (Independent Repub- lican) offers the comment: ‘“He sees the administration taking a sinful in- terest in troubles abroad, and deplores the resulting breach in the high board fence which he, with Henry Cabot |Lodge and a few other missionaries, erected so laboriously around our | shores a dozen years ago. It might not | be a bad thing to have final disposition made of this tter in the primaries, | and leave the 1932 election free for the | settlement of more meritorious contro- versies. And if Mr. Johnson would like | to advocate in his platform a return to | the bustle and the stage coach, along with his doctrine of self-sufficient iso- 11;!1?liflsn!. he should be allowed to do at.” “As a presidential candidate he doesn’'t measure up to what the Amer- ican people want,” avers the Huron Times Herald (Independent), while the Jersey City Journal (Inde- pendent Republican) and the Roches- er Times-Union (Independent) deny | that he is gualified to speak for the Republican party. Sioux City Journal (Independent Republican) sug= |gests: “Mr. Hoover should encourage him to do his worst. When a man has an asset of this kind, he ought to make the most of it.” Seeing a “process of elimination™ in the Johnson attitude. the Worcester Telegram (Independent) remarks: “Bub | would the process of elimination stop with Messrs. Coolidge and Hoover? Not at all. Borah would be ineligible; didn't he betray us to Tokio (in John= | sonian opinion) by voting for the Lon- |don naval treaty? We can't have | George Norris; he wants us to join the | World Court and join all the Eurc pesd brawls. Gifford Pinchot is im| he is outspoken about prohibition and besides he wears a mustache. * * * S0 the field grows narrow. Mr. Johnson may disavow his immediate candidacy, but his duty is clear. To save the Navy, to save us from foreign entaglements, to save us from the Yellow Peril, to save us from practically everything but Hiram Johnson, he must seek the Re- publican nomination for President. Which leaves only three candicates who cannot possibly be eliminated—Mr. Johnson himself, Ex-Senator France of Maryland, that prince of optimists, and Eddie Cantor. And may the best com- edian wini” ———— Underdone. From the Janesville Dally Gazette. Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn says the world is stiil in the making—that crea- tion isn’t over with, We always sus- pected it, and it doesn't look as though it ever would be finished. Note on depression: to walk home is now nmum “flbflgflm“ Teamwork. From the SBan Prangisco Chronicle. Now is the 'season when one youth is ? h;xl-;ynbeuule 10 oflmg:l clear & path for . ——— First Page Stuff. From the Loulsville Courler-Journal. ing Gov. Pranklin D. Roosevelt for the nomination. This will not be good :::Jc for ‘stop-Roosevelt” Demo-~ Ten Commandments on the front page. At that, they will be news to many per-