Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1931, Page 8

A—8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C WEDNESDAY . .December 2, 1931 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busingss Office 11th 8t llld%emnviux?i Ave 4 &t £ Fherean Oce | Englan Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Eremine S 45c per month " ™ Bvening and Sunday Siar ( 4 -60c per month 65 per month 5c_per Copy the end of each month in by mail or telephone | aders mas be'sen fAtional " 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia Ffiv and Sundey.....1yr.$10.00. 1 mo. 85 un & Bajiz ang sunces. 1 ily only 1y oniy $6:00: 1 mo._ 30c Bundey only ¥ 1y sy only . 1yr. $4.00: 1mo., 40c | All Other States and Canada. Member of the Associated Press. Tre Associated Pre-s is exclusively entitled The Main Question On Saturday, December Belect Comn of the House adjou to at the | call of the chair Mr. Mapes of Michigan. Some time later spokesmen for the committee asked and obtained | authorization the House for the hire of an expert of committee’s | own choosing Wwho nvestigate fiscal affairs fc vestigat H mittee, the request the se such an expert being based ge on the allegation that the Bureau of Efficiency. which had conducted & other investigation of fiscal relations had, in the words of Mr. Frear of W consin, “embarrassed our committ the report they have made Bince December 20 the committee ha: held & few executive meetings and dis- cussed with its expert. Mr. George Lord of Michigan, various matters concerning the tax burden of the District of Co- | lumbia in relation to the tax burden of | other communities Today the committee is meeting to | discuss for the first time since its em- | barrassment at the hands of the Bureau | of Efficiency the essenttal feature of its | inquiry—the amount that the United | States should contribute to the District | of Columbia in the annual appropriation | bill. As the committee expects to make its report to the House next week, there remains little time for lengthy con- sideration of this question. Throughout the committee inquiry, in fact, it has been relegated to second place. The committee has spent much more time in studying ways and means to increase the tax burden of the District than in examining the fundamentally important issue of what proportion of the total expense of maintaining the FPederal City should be borne by the Federal Government The people of the District, unrepre- sented throughout these proceedings by any voice in the body that has the exclusive power of taxing them, will suspend fudgment on the fairness of the committee's findings regarding what taxes and the amount of such taxes that they shall pay. That in- formation, up to this time discussed by the committee behind closed doors, will become available when the committee's report is placed before the House. But regardless of what taxes are recom- mended for the people of the District, the committee's report will be incom- plete and, therefore, worthless withcut a carefully drawn recommendation as to what policy the Congress should pursue in appropriating Federal funds for the National Capital—not for this year alone, but for many jears to come. This was the question that brought the Select Committee into being. This is the question that the taxpayers of the community hope the committee will be able to answer in the few days remaining before its re- port is due for delivery to the House. - ———— 1930 Relat meet from we i g com- es of erally | / | Why is it that a small store dis- pensing something invented or devised | since the beginning of the present cen- | tury is almost certain to call itself a “shoppe,” together with other dab- blings into Elizabethan Chaucerian English? “Ye Partes Shoppe” would be a not mu exaggerated example G ———— A movie queen, actuated superstition, always sp: by yelling “Hoc phone. Audiences shout it right back, nor is it tion which moves them even | Olde Radio | by netimes d A Longer Working Week Here in this country, with the Amer- fean Pederation of Labor and many in- | dustrial employers advocating a five-day working week, it will come as & bit of a shock to know that a movement 's| now In progress in Great Britain lengthen the existing 48-hour week the plan proposed by the L: textile mills is adopted, there w reversion to the 52';-h was in vogue up to 1919 ner have already served notice on their men and women hands that at the end of Degember there will be terminated the hard-won agresment which has gov erned hours and wages in Lanceshire for twelve yea With a British Winter at it when the turn of the year comes easy to imagine what it will mean to a quarter of a million homes in the tex- tile district for the breadwinners of the family, including often several members | of it, to go back to the 6 am. start for work. The present generation of m workers knows lit e of the daily routine in the mills thau was the lot of the 1t we he sp in | { correspondingly cast down. | this country, discontent aroused by eco- in a presidential year. when New Jersey | won and upset a huge Republican ma- | heur, | markable | he realized his error. | the day complete, Lowell Bayles at De- | | official course at a speed of two hun- | jof them. As a result many Mary were completed by working from 6 till 8:30 am., and from 9 am. to noon. Apparently It is the cessation of labor’s political power in London that has given the Lancashire textile barons courage to scrap the 48-hour week. It may be, too, that Britain’s industrial necessities at the mioment require this drastic break with one of the. most humanitarian working reforms instituted in Georgian times. American labor s entitled to congratulate itself thaw no such project has ever taken root in this country. or is likely to do 8. Unfor- (anately, because of depression condi- tions, thousands of our skilled workers in man; branches are today on a 24- hour or 36-hour week, or lesg e T Another Democrat Wins. Democrats cannot fail to be encour- aged by the resuits in yesterday's con- gre:siohal election in the fifth New Jersey district, and the Republicans The vic- tory of the Democratic nominee, Percy H. Stewart, in a district which went | can by 30,000 a year ago, is an indicetion of the discontent abroad in nomic conditions, rather than an evi- dence of any particular affection for the Democratic party. The voters ave lashed out at the party in power, ich has been almost the invariable practice of the people when pocket- books have become flat and many stomachs have been empty. Whatever the reascn for the voters'| defection from the Republican ticket in | the New Jersey congressional election, | it can only be interpreted as a distinct | trend in the political alignment for next vear. It is true that the Democrat | won by a narrow margin, only 1992 votes a populous district, and that is almost invariably Republican, the dis- trict could easily swing back to the Republican column. But the Democrat jority Mr. Stewart’s victory further the held the Democrats have on the control of the House in the coming session of Congress, giving the party a total of 219 votes to 214 for the Republicans, 1 for the Farmer- Labor party and 1 vacancy. That| vacancy, which is to be filled by a spe- cial election in the first New Hampshire | district on January 5, may cause still further grief for the Republicans. The | district has been carried in the past | by the Democrats, particularly in 1912 and 1922, both years when the Repub- | lican party was in difficulty. The late Representative Fletcher Hale, Repub- lican, was & victor there in 1930 by | about 8,000 votes. In the previous by-elections to fill House vacancies this year, the Repub- licans have lost in two districts which | have been strongly Republican in the past, the old Vincent district in Michi- gan and the fifth New Jersey. They have seen their lone House seat in the Texas delegatfon slide over to the Democrats. The only consolation for the Republicans is the big vote which John B. Hollister rolled up in the first Ohio district, defeating his Democratic opponent by about 20,000 votes despite the fact that the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth won there a year ago by only 3,500. With upsets in only thres Republican districts so far recorded, it seems still premature to claim s Demo- cratic sweep in the national elections of 1932. Much water will run under the bridge before the voters go to the polls next November. Sl S Aviation Speed Day. Yesterday was Spetd day in American | aviation. Three pllots made ascaults | on existing records and two of mcm; apparently succeeded. Capt. Frank Hawks, who probably holds more titles than he can remember, was the lone failure of the carnival of speed. Early in the morning he left Vancouver, British Columbia, for Agua Caliente, Mexico, but was forced down by a| snowstorm and had to give up his at- tempt. In the meantime, James Wedell, fiying in the opposite direction over the | international course, was hitting it off at better than two hundred miles an and six hours and forty minutes afier leaving the Mexican resort he set his wheels down at Vancouver, thus clipping one hour and six minutes from the reccrd held by James Goodwin HRIl. His time was all the more re- because he flew a hundred miles past his northern terminus before | And just to make | clinches still i | troit rocketed his tiny plane around an | dred and eighty-four miles an hour, | which, if confirmed by thé Federation | | Acronautique Internationale, the ruling bod tion, will give him the land | ne world record, now held by Bonnet France. three flyers made truly fine per- rmances, Hawks being just as deserv- ' ing of congratulations as the other two because of his wise decision to “sit down” when weather conditions became dangerous. Remarkable as the new ere. they probably will not long. Either the present 1S or fresh entries in the contest ed honers will attempt to better It the kind of competition the «d States needs to enable it to hold up its end in the struggle for rld supremacy c———- e the law first and the sched- | Can this be true? Yet it interstate bus company ad- monishing its drivers. p! | Obse ule secol is an { Procrastination. Maryland motorists appear to be no different from those of other com- munities. Procrastination seems to be an inherent fault in a large percentage d- ers are likely to lose the use of their close hours’ grace would be given every mo- torist who failed to show a sticker. Failure to comply with the warning within this period will result in a sum- mons and the removal of uninspected autbmobiles from the highways of the State. Furthermore, no 1932 tags will be issued to offending drivers. Little argument can be advanced for procrastination. It generally results in hardship or suffering for those who in- dulge in it, especially so far as it con- cerns an automobile. Putting off the day when anti-freeze mixture is in- stalled in the radiator has caused many & frozen motor and sent many a car to the repair shop for varying periods. Puiting off proper greasing of an au- tomobile fnevitably brings the same re- sult. Putting off brake repairing has | frequently led to serious accident. In fact, procrastination in any angle of automobile ownership, whether it deals with the car or the law generally, finds | the procrastinator the worst sufferer. 1t is about time to reform, but human nature being what it is, it may not yet heed the lessons of experience. ——— - No one over here can have the faintest idea of the rigid economies practiced in connection with the de- | pression in Britain. Only the other | day Prince George opened a new town hall with a plain metal instead of a golden key, all in the interest of thrift. Let America, with her costly golden | “last railroad spikes,” look to herself! e A ‘“dating bureau” established by some bright mind at a Western co- educational college recently has had to up its business. The trouble probably was that when the lonely swain had paid the regulation charge, which was ten cents, he had nothing left wherewith to entertain his fair one. Dr. Julius Klein foresees a shortage of gold in the near future. Judging by admissions from institutions and in- dividuals as to whether or not they now have quite enough, the doctor is likely to be correct. — e A Virginia hunter mistook raised by an unseen fellow sportsman, for & wild turkey's head and promptly “gave it the works.” Even red gloves would not have helped the victim in this strange case Probably old Geronimo would turn over in his grave If he knew about | that official order to “spare no effort | or expense” to rescue his blizzard- bound compatriots It seems that “Ysw" means “mister” | in the Welsh language. Would it not be too comical if, like “Yeah,” it meant “Yes"? So far every person who has prophe- sied another war, general or local, has eventually been right = r——— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON The Public Servant. He wouldn't help his neighbors and he | wouldn't greet a friend With hearty cheer, because he felt he | hadn't time to spend On frivolous amusement; for he sought to play the game Whose prize is something that the world's accustomed to call “Fame.” Oh, his life was rather lonely, though he went out on parade, And his picture in the papers was quite frequently displayed. He Xept his ear down to the ground, the public mood to get, ried to please a lot of people he had never mct. And t He found that they would give three | cheers at mention of his name; And for a base ball player they have often done the same. He offered his opinions, fruits of study hard and long. They didn't care about 'em. They pre- | ferred a ragtime song. | He missed the ¢lasp of friendly hands while jollying the crowd. He heard the voice of flattery so humble, yet 80 proud is life was, after all, a rather cold and empty show: Just trying hard to please a lot of folks he didn't know! And hi Thrilled Him. “Don't you feel a thrill of exultetion | etery time you see those symbolic let- ters U. 5.2 asked the patriotic citi- zen, who had just returned from Eu- Tope. “Yes"” answered Senator Sorghum.| And T like 'em best in the shape of a monogram. They look almost exactly | like a dollar mark.” Problems. “Life s full of problems,” readymade philosopher. “Yes.” replied Mr. Bliggins. “As soon as T manage to get my mind off bank- ing and currency problems my boy comes around and makes me Help him do the puzzles in the back of a mag:- zine " said the Greatness and Toil. The statesman used to be a man Who spoke up now and then To offer courage to his clan And teach his fellow-men. But now he finds he must display An industry severe And labor sixteen hours a day And keep it up all year. Childhood’s Condescension. “I suppose you will have a merry Christmas at your house?” “Oh, yes,” replied the sophisticated small boy. “We younger people will endeavor to make it so. You know, 50 much depends on the tactfulness of children. I always endeavor to make the holidays pleasant by showing an enthusiastic interest in the mechanical | rainy day. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, . Appreciation of the ralny day is growing. Once upon a time the majority of city people grumbled mightily at the slightest rainfall, ‘Today many of them have the farm- er's outlook—when rain is needed they are glad to see it Increase in gardening interests dur- responsible for this change Only the irresponsible junior, intent on a good time, is willing to growl to- day because the rain spoils his holiday. It is impossible to inculge in the slightest bit of gardening without com- ing to the frame of mind of the horti- culturist, who regards rain as one of the greater blessings. x % oo Molsture, next to sunshine and eartl: plant life and growth. In fact, in one way it may be said to be the most es- sential, since some plants can grow without sunshine and without dirt, but must have some degree of moisture. The drought of 1930 brought the mind of the average man eround to this plain fact of horticulture. Country ways have known that rainfall is as necessary as sunshine. walks and concrete streets, must use their brains to realize this, except in times when the lack of wtacr is s0 evi- dent as to ferce itself on the vision of those who are not interested. The Tain of this week beginning (as good a phrase as week end) was the first real rainy weather for a good many weeks, and broke what was amounting to a secondary drought. The so-called “water table,” or underlylng moisture in the depths of the soil, has never been replenished since the greater ught of last year. This makes any rain, no matter how small rain-minded. . IR The twin ideas of rain and gloom ought 1o be disassociated There is really nothing about a rainy day which is gloomy, in the ordinary sense of the word Yet poets :nd writers of fiction, e clally, have linked the two together for 50 many years that the average reader finds himself regarding such a day as “gloomy.” Rightly considered, there is nothing particularly melancholy in the aspects of a reiny day, except that it is scme- what dark, as contrasted with a very sunny day. In the very nature of things, how- ever, nothing as bright as sunshine can be expected when it 1s absent. At lpast, not outdoors. Inside, science has given us a lamp which admirably represents the sun while it is away. To the garden-minded man or woman there is nothing at all gloomy about a The sun is not shining, as we say, that is all The gloom, such of it as there is, § due entirely to the lack of sunshin~, which animal life basks, as do the grow- ing things of the vegetable world The rain itself has little, if anything, to do with the gloom. The skies are overcast before the rain begins, and ths falling waters scarcely add a tinge of grayness * ok ok ok Rain s a joyous thing, on the other hand, to the householder who has shrubs and plants and trees of his own to rcap benefit from the added moisture THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ing the past decade has been largely | is the most necessaty concomitant of | people. including the agriculturists, al- | City people, however, living on side- | a matter of real interest to the | C., WEDNESDAY, D | air, but even more to the earth and the |srowing things, in washing them free | of accumulated dust. This is the housewifery of Nature. ‘There is no bath as complet= as an all-night rain, sluicing away the grit | and grime of clvilization, leaving the urban scene as clean as the proverbial pin The householder hears it dripping in | the trees, and slapping against the | window panes, and his heart is glad, for | he knows it means health and happiness | to growing things innumerable. | PR | We are not inclined to stop to con- | sider, ordinarily, that there is no sub- stitute, in any real sense, for the vaii- ous manifestations of Nature Nothing has ever taken the place of sunshine, for instance. Life has grown up, as it were, with | the rays of the sun in mind. | The eagerness of men, women and children of all lands to don bathing | suits, as scanty as posstble, happily, and bask in the sun on the beach is not to be accounted for by fashion, merely, but 15 due mostly to a primitive ugge No light better for the general health can b conceived than the light of the in presenting it in bou- . is stmply being true to it the | best it knows how. There is nothing which will take the place of wind in its healthful action on plants, its bendings and twistings and tuggings, which it gives them. thus exercising them In every fiber. There is nothing, except rain, which will so sweep the atmosphere and clean up the soiled haunts of man as a sweet wind * ook X Water, like sunshine, Wheth human being uses it in a shower, or plant roots drink it in as it falls in the garden, it comes from the sky. It has known the earth be- | fore, however, and is accustomed to its | ways, | Raln is not a stranger, therefore, | | but & very part of us. These very drops | which fall upon us may have bathed the face of great Caesar or sweetened | the roses of centuries gone. When we take a rainy day into our | hearts and minds, as well as into our | shoe soles, we are greeting an old | friend again Children, it is well known, show no | fear of rain, but willingly go out into | it, sometimes at their own peril, if they are left to their own devices. Clvilization has not wrapped them around and made them cautious: they are unwary of the perils of elemental | things; they see straight lines in beat- | | ing rains and trains of drop¥ in slow| ones: they wante to get out and play | with the water. ok ok ok Those few remaining city people who growl at rainy days should be some- what ashamed of themselves, They should realize that they possess unparalleled ways of getting around in rains, and that a rainy day means, at the worst, but a slight inconvenience to them, What more ordinary city folk need is a better gospel of sturdy overshoes and | | umbrellas and raincoats. They must realize that it is neither unseemly nor | unmanly to wear rubbers, but merely | sensible. This rain which falls upon the ~ity | Is a decree from an unknown. It is not | to be sneezed at or treated with indif- ference or contempt. is an essential | and render voiceless in national elec- ioffset and render voiceless in national | cheerfully join if the organization will ‘The very color of sidewalks and Mighty forces far greater than civ- streets, of bark on trees, and the glis- | ilization, have prepared and matured tening of evergreens, is beautiful to the garden lover, Some folks even get a sense of satls- | faction from the added cleanliness which the rain brings, not only to the | BY FREDERIC Anybody who knows what a canny politician Charley Curtis is will account it a good break for Herbert Hoover that the Vice President is ready to run again for his present job. It means that he thinks the signals are set for another Republican victory in 1932. Mr. Curtis fire winner for the Kansas senatorshin if he had preferred to go after his old seat from the alfalfa belt. The fact that | he chooses to tempt fate a second time at the (ail-end of the Hoover ticket can only denote that the noblest Republican Indian of them all believes the going next year will be at least as good na- in Kansas. It would be interesting to know just what corroborative evidence the ‘Vice President has acquired on that sc what nearly all other observers, even publication, their view is that if election were now. the administration would be headed_straight for & disaster at the polls. Vice President Gurtis evidently thinks, as many politicians do, that bet - ter times for Mr. Hoovor and his party—perhaps by a narrow margin, but a sufficient one, ot k) ok Main Street comes into its own the high command of the H-use Representatives that takes office next week. All three rankin Speaker, the mejority floor leader and the minority floor leader—hail small towns. Jack Garner, who in- herits the Longworth throne, s a resi- dent of Uvalde, Texas. Henry T Rainey, captain of the Democratic forces, registers from Carrollton, Ills. Bertrand H. Snell, who has just wrested the Republican minority from John Q. Tilson, of Connecticut, is from Potsdam, N. Y. Snell has finger in a number of important cor- porate pies in New York State, in- cluding banks, power companies, oil re- fineries and paper mills. _Sitting in a place of authority in the House will not be & new sensation for the minority manager As chairman of the auto- cratic Committee on Rules, he was one of the old Longworth-Tilson-Snell tri- umvirate that so long was monarch of all it steam-rollered in the lower branch. in X ok Frank Billings Kellogg, former Unit- ed States Senator from' Minnesota, former Ambassador to Great Britain, former Secretary of State, co-author of the Kellogg pact and now an associate justice of the World Court, s in Wash- ington. It's strictly private business that brings him here son Is that he is giving another sitting to Philip Laszlo, eminent Hungarian portrait painter, who did the Kellogg portrait now hanging among other Sec- retaries of State done in oil at the State Department. Incidentally, Mr Kellogg has_been seeing his medical advisers in Baltimore, who pronounce him fit as a fiddle despite his 75 years. ok ox ok Somebody in Washington whose duty it was to collect all the public utter- ances of Signor Dino Grandi in Amer- ica discovers that never once—at least WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS was generally looked upon as a sure- | tionally for the G. O. P. as it would be | re. If he has any, it runs counter to | Republican stalwarts, think. Excépt for | vear hence will save the day | of | members—the | from | leadership | a | nothing to lose by a searching inguiry. The main rea- | this rain, and here it Is at last, drop-| | ping upon us. Let us hail it and be glad for it is plain and common, but divine messages in its wings. It | it carries WILLIAM WILE. | ception to his rule. He took his LLB., |at College Park in 1913. His alma | mater had a pretty successful 1931 carcer, and the squad calls Senator Tydings its mascot. He had a place of honor on the players’ bench at every | game, and now and then ventured to | give the head coach a suggestion. o ow % Ambassador Charles G. Dawes' bust has recently bcen added to those of ofher Vice Presidents who have pre- sided over the Senate. It is placed at the principal entrance to the chamber. The American sculptor, Jo Davidson, who did the La Follette statue in Stat- | uary Hall beneath the Capitol dome, is responsible for the Dawes head and shoulders. The Senate appropriated $1,000 for the bust, but rumor hath it that Hell-and-Maria privately ponied up considerably more for the master- plece. Gen. Dawes is sald to have observed, when the counterfeit pre- sentment of himself was first shown , “It's all right, I guess.” the 'Chicagoan misces the underslung pipe and the mid-Victorian double high-standing collar to which he still clings. Perhaps A R ok One of agriculture’s foremost spokes- men, the Farm Journal of Philadelphia, thinks that, far from dodging a con- gressional investigation, the Federal Farm Board ought to insist upon it. “While attendance at committee meet- ings is irksome,” the Journal says, “ard | | tends to delay’ the important work of the board, ard while it is not pleasant to undergo the calculated bullying of a certain type of politician, nevertheless the benefit of a better understanding of what the board has done must out- weigh these hardships. The Federal | Farm Board has everything t> gain and If Congress does not vant the facts it should be made to take them.” | * kX X Maj. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, Washington’s new chief of police. prob- ably never imagined that he'd have a | chance to strut his military stuff within |a month of taking his new office. Next | week's “hunger march” cn the Capital will probably witness the most compre- hensive, far-flung and intricately | worked-out police plan the Capfital has | seen for many a moon. It's essentially |a job calling for “staff work,” and “Happy” Glassford has had a lifetime of that. Here's a guess that Washing- ton will get its first glimpse of the giant new police boss surveying the “battle- | field” cn his favorite mount—a motor cycle. (Copyright, 1931.) v 'Obstructed View At Crossings Blamed To the Editor of The Star Your editorial of November 28 on “Death at the Crossing” appears to be based on the ascumption that the drivers who are killed see the train | coming and miscalculate the time re- | quired to cross ahead of it. I believe it | would be more correct, in the majority | each will do the trick, that together ECEMBER 2. 1931 Uniform Federal Election Law Urged To the Editor of The Star: Here is some food for thought for the citizens of 38 States who are opposed to 10 Southern States, with 114 electoral votes, wielding such tremendous power in naticnal elections by the operation of either direct or indirect disenfran- chisement laws. - Since the last reapportionment of the House of Representatives under the census of 1910, as there was not any in 1920, in violation of the Constitution, the electoral coliege has contained 531 electoral votes—435, or 1 for each Rep- treuntm\‘e. and 96, or 1 for each Sena- or. Ten Southern States—namely, Ala- bama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia— with 114 electoral votes, in which Re- publicans are unconstitutionally dis- enfranchisedp efther directly or indi- rectly, offcet and render voiceless in national elections the 114 electoral votes of 8 Western States—namely, Cali- fornia, Colorado, Illmois, Iowa, Kansas, Indiana, Ohlo and Utah—in all of which the Democrats are not dis- enfranchised. Exclasive of the above 18 States with 228 electoral votes, there are 30 States with 303 electoral votes in which the Republicans must receive 152 to win a presidential election, should the above 228 votes be divided equally between the two parties, as 266 votes are required to win, being a majority of 531. Should the Democrats in a presiden- tial electior, with their sewed-up 114 votes, carry Kentucky, Maryland, Okla- homa and Tennessee, with 43 votes, which is highly probable, the Demo- crats would have 157 votes, or 109 less than the required 266 to obtain from 26 States. Should the Democrats, in addition to the above, carry out of the 26 States States—namely, Delaware, Massa- chusetts, Missourl, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and West Virginia— with 111 electoral votes, they would have 268, or 2 more than the required 266 to elect the President and Vice | Precident. Also, the 10 Southern States offset tions the 114 clectoral votes of the fol- lowing 10 States in which the Demo- crats are not disenfranchised, namely, New Ycrk, New Jersey, Delaware, West Virginia, Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- mont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island the Moreover, | 10 Southern States elections the 114 electoral votes of the following 8 States in which the Demo- crats ere not disenfranchised, namely, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ne- braska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Furthermore, 3 of the 10 Southern States, with 32 electoral votes, offset and render voiceless In national elec- tions the 32 votes of the following 8 States in which the Democrats are not disenfranchised, namely, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ore- gon, Washington and Wyoming. How long is the Nation going to tol- erate the above cituation without urging the passage of & uniform Federal elec- tion law? H. A. CLARKE. —_ e Change A. F. L. Leaders To Save Labor Unions To the Editor of The Star: Though not a member of the Fed- eral Employes’ Union, the writer would only sever ils connection with the American Federation of Labor. Certain officials of the latter organization have formed an offensive and defensive al- liance with certain business and bank- ing Interests inimical to the best inter- | ests of those devoted to the constructive upbuilding of organized labor. _ Organized labor in trades unions is Goomed if the leaders are not soon | expelled. The movement is being be- trayed. Labor must organize politically, very soon, or face early and absolute | annihilation. Which shall it be? Labor- ing men and white-collar workers alike | must do their own individual thinking | from now on. The present wholesale wage reduc- | tions and the heavy reduction in num- ber of workers show that labor, like egriculture, has now been sadly de- flated. When are we going to deflate the parasites at the top of our chaotic system? “Individual initfative” has been largely abolished almost everywhere . Small merchants, small banks, wherein individual initiative once was | in effect—where are they now? Only a small percentage remain for the time being. The “non-partisan” effort of union- ized labor in politics has sadly failed. The attempts seemed for awhile to be Successful, but the advantages gained were only temporary and not funda- mental or permanent. Productive labor, including farmer and white-collared worker, must finance their own politi- cal party. The old parties no longer represent the lower or middie classes. Such financing is not so difficult as it might seem when millions catch the vision of vast results. A little from with co-operation and cohesion. There is no relief from the ravages of the machine age. In fact, conditions will constantly grow worse. This is in- | evitable. "The trend is certain and will increase in momentum as time goes on. Only one option remains. We must either destroy the machines or sup- plant the present archale and anarchic | system of capitalism with 100 per cent socialism so as to protect the produc- ing masses, not only by balanced pro- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Did you ever write a letter to Prederic J. Haskin? You can ask him any ques- tion of fact and get the answer in a ersonal letter, ‘Here is a great educa- lonal idea introduced into the lives of the most Intelligent people in the world—American newspaper readers. It is a part of that best purpose of a news- paper—service. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address Frederic J Haskin, Director The Evening Star Information Bureau, Washington, D. C Q What is meant by off-side in a foot ball game?—J. E. W. A. A player is off-side when any part of his person is ahead of the ball, his scrimmage or restraining line when the ball is put in plav. When a player is off-side his team is penalized 5 yards. Q. How long does it take for the light of Mars to reach the earth?—E. C. from the earth varies from 35,000,000 to 247,000,000 miles. It therefore requires from 188 to 1,328 seconds for light from the planet to reach the earth, depending upon the relative positions. Q" What is the name for the inside and outside of a loaf of bread?—L. R. B. A. The inside is the crumb; the out- side is the crust. Q. What portion of the immigrants who come to this country live in the cities?—J. C. R, A. It is estimated that nearly 60 per cent of the immigrants live at least temporarily in the cities of the United States. Q. When did Rudolph Valentino come to America?—J. S. S, A. He arrived on the Hambury ican liner Cleveland two day: Christmas, 1913. -Amer- before Q Is jJazz a particular type of music?—G. M A. The Etude says that Paul White- man has defined it most definitely not as a particular type of music, but as a method of playing music. a round, woody pericarp, or seed vessel, almcst the size of a man's head, within which there are many of the seeds or nuts. These are packed so closely that it would be quite impossible to replace them once they were removed. Q. What does the word Sault in Sault Ste. Marje mean?—N. B. A. The name is French and is trans- lated Falls cf St. Mary. Sault is the same word that appears in somersault, meaning leap. The word should by right be pronounced So, but custom has given it the pronunciation Soo. Q. Who discovered the process for making paper from wood pulp?—N. L. A. Charles Fenerty experimented for many years and in 1841 ‘made public his invention. Q. When was the last cargo of slaves brought to America?—C. H. R. A.In 1859 by the slave-ship Clo- thilde. W. H. Blumenthal says that only one of these Negroes is still living. He is known as Cudjo Lewis, lives at Plateau, Ala., and is 94 years old. Q In the West Point class where Robert E. Lee ranked sccond who ranked first?—S, M. A. Charles Mason stood first in the class of 1829, in which Robert E. Le2 stood second. A. The distance of the planet Mars | Paidiise | Q. How do Brazil nuts grow?—E. K. | A. The Brazil nuts are contained in | E ! Q. What is meant by the “calll the sea” in Tennyson's Enoch Ardep® A. The calling of the sea is an om | English term for a ground-swell. When this occurs on a still night the sound is sometimes heard for miles inland. Inhabitants of seaside towns looked on |1t as & summons by death. Tennyson refers to this phenomenon again “Crossing the Bar"—“And one clear call for me.” | —R. A. Indian tribes were formed origi- nally as family units—that s, the mem- | bers of a certain family banded them- selves, maintaining certaln customs -, | life and religion. Various factors after | ward caused the tribes to expand. Q. When did Cuba become a repub- | He?—L. M. A. Cuba attained independence of Spain by the Treaty of Parls, December 1, 1898. A constitution, modeled after that of the United States, was adopted February 21, 1901. Q. Did George Washington use the expression entangling alliances in his farewell address?—W. 8. A. He did not. He used the adjec- tive permanent. Thomas Jefferson used the word entangling in his first inaug- ural address. Q- How were Indian tribes formed? | Q. How many automobile rims does General Motors produce annually?— E. L. | A. The corporation produces about | 4,000,000 rims annually for Chevrolet { wire wheels only. All other models and other types of rims are purchased from outside sources. Q. Did the screening of “Beau Geste” actually occur in Algeria?—A. W. A. This was the original plan, but disturbances there caused it to be aban- | doned. The picture was filmed on & | stretch of desert east of Burlingame, | Calit, and southwest of Yuma, Ariz. Q. Is there a television station in the Empire State Tower?—D. H | “A. One has been tnstalled but | present it will be a field laboratory | where tests will be conducted for sev- | eral months. at [ Q. Does Jack Dempsey engage in any | other pastime besides boxing?—E. G. A. The former heavyweight champion is keenly interested in bridge and plays a good game. Q. Which letters of the alphabet ap- pear oftenest in print?—C. R. B. |~ A. The letters which occur most fre- | quently are e, t, a, i and s in their re- ! spective order. | Q. Please describe the “Soclalist | City” which is being built to house | workers in the Nizhni Novgorod auto- mobile plant—R. M. A. Sixiy four-story apartment build- ings are in process of comstruction. | These will accommodate 50,000 persons and are planned in groups of five | houses. Each group forms a unit col nected by heated corridors with a | house of culture containing a com- |munal kitchen, gymnasium, library, kindergarten, club rooms and baths. A | mechanizad factory kitchen will supply the needs of the families. | Q Where did the Gutenberg Bible come from which was sold in London recently?—A. B. S. A. It is belleved to have come from | Q. At what age do oysters yield the | the imperial library of the Hermitage, best pearls?—A. T. at Leningrad, having been purchased in A. Oysters yield the best pearls at 1858 by the librarian of Czar Alexander about four years of age. 11 at a sale in Munich for about $960. Work on Inland Waterways Urged as Relief Measure Waterways projects in the United six months ahead of schedule. The States command increasing interest ns1 matter will be pressed upon Congress. prospects become brighter that the St.| President Hoover and Secretary of War Lawrence and Great Lakes development | Hurley are said to favor more speed. will, at no far distant date, become a| The Chicago section of the waterway reality. Resulting construction, as well | must be equlflped with necessary term= as the canals themselves, is held likely | inals, and this work must likewise pro- to contribute to the business activity | ceed vigorously if the whole project is of the country and to give greater|to be hurried. It does look, after 30 cpportunities for employment. Some | years during which this improvement criticism is to the effect that the re- | has been agitated, that it is to become quired expenditures at this time would | a reality.” be unwise. | Some doubt is raised, however, as to Noting that “prospects for the com- | the treaty Ifetweenv the United States pletion of the St. Lawrence River chan- |and Canada becoming an assured fact nel have become exceedingly bright|in the immediate future. The Buffalo lately, with the promise of a treaty be- Evening News points out that “in view tween Canada and the United States at |of the fact that the two governments an early moment being announced,” the | cnly recently decided to reconvene the Oshkosh Dally Northwestsrn declares: “A deep-water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, via the St. Lawrence River, the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, would create a huge demand for tugs, barges, docks, wharves, warehouses and new indus- tries. It would mean new factories, the stimulation of agricuiture, coal mining and commerce in general.” ““There is nothing else is sight that could bring such a large part of the Northwest so sorely needed,” says the Sioux City Journal. “The St. Lawrence seaway would do more in that direction than all the. legislation that could be passed in the Rext 50 years. The solu- tion it would provide would be purely | economic, a saving of scores of millions in railroad freight rates that could be duction, but by balanced and or erly and equitable redistribution of the fruits of industry people as & whole. When that is done then the small bank and small merchant will come, back again. “Individual initiative” | which is now a subject of ridicule among the masses, will be possible. Great aggregations of capital, selfishly organized, will be broken up into smail units, and various parts of the Nation will alike prosper. | Socialism is more evolutionary than revolutionary. It can be effect without changing a line of the United States Constitution. S. R. RANDELL. - i Praises Move to Save Elms on Capitol Hill To the Editor of The Star: It is very gratifying to know that a move has been made to save Capitol Hill's beautiful old trees, though it is very regrettable that it was too late to save those that have already been ruthlessly destroyed. Your editorial, “Official Vandalism,” describes it as “wanton destruction,” which it really is. Good judgment should be used in the course of what is termed progress, otherwise real progress is retarded. ‘Washington has been called ““The City Beautiful,” and its trees are the principal cause of its beauty, and the destruction of them certainly does de- tract from the beauty of it, as the pic- ture in Wednesday’s Star, “Down With the Elms,” shows. They not only add beauty but health, giving out oxygen, and making shade as well. applied in two definite directions, to the marke! den of competition in foreign * X x X Recognizing the economic importance | of the portions of the country affected | by the Federal inland waterway sys- | tem, which Is “unequaled by that of | any other Iand, possibly excepting | Brazils” the San Antonfo Express | urges that “work should be pushed on a1l unfinished sections,” and the Rock favoring “as speedy action as is con- | sistent with good work.” The Argus further declares: “There is only a 60- | mile link bstween the Great Lakes and | the Gulf of Mexico which has not been finished. ~The Federal Government, through Its engineers, has been doing | work of a commendable character on economic relief to the Middle West and | S joint engineering board to get an agre ment upon the geperal plan of develo] ment to be undertaken in the St. Law- | rence, it would seem that the negotia- |tors still have a long way to go befo: | they will be ready to report a treaty. |and finds cause for doubt as to early completion in the fact that “the Sen- ate is notoriously slow in passing upon international pacts of whatever char- acter.” The Cleveland News is also a little pessimistic of speedy constructicn, | saying: “Only as it is considered in re- | lation to other needed expansion proj- | ects'of the Government can the water- | way receive the immediate indorsement of the Nation end of Congress.” AR Discussing the matter from the view- |point of present unemployment, the Appleton Post-Crescent says: “That a herculean project of this kind should and trade among the increase margins of profit and to ease | require many months of planning and negotiation is easy to understand, but an administration looking around for matters of internal improvement, so as to employ men usefully on needed proj- ects, might have speded up this great adventure so essential to the wellbeing, the prosperity and the development of position of the millions whd live in this central empire of the Great Lakes.” The Omaha World-Herald declares that “the inauguration of work on a vast placed into Isand Argus places itself on record as |SC21¢ Would g3 a long way toward meet- ing the problem of unemployment in those areas where construction work is necessary.” Others disagree as to its economic desirability, taking the view of the Chearleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail: “Only a real emergency, and one that could by handled in no cther way, would jus- | tify a large bond issve now. Notwith- this link, and Army Engineers set May. | standing the conceded importance of an |inland waterway system, there is no 1933, as the n:,ate for the opening. The assoclation, however, is supporting | ’ movement; which has gathered much<“rg"" necessity for hurrying it to | completion just when the Naticn is be- momentun, to ccmplete the job at least | ginning to recover from one of the so- | verest | toward accomplishing this and relieve depression and bring peace and pros- perity to the world at the same time. Many good roads are torn up. with the excuse of giving people work when the principal reason is to give people a chance to drive faster, with the result that, with the completion of these roads, the main highways, the number cf persons injured and killed increases all the time, while other roads leading from these highways on which so much money is spent unnecessarily. are nar- row, rough and almcst impassable. industrial depressions in the world’s history. It is a matter that can walt without causing sericus damags to any national interests, and there is ason to belleve or hope that Congyess will look at it in this light.” & As to the financing of the unéler- taking, the St. Louis Times concludes “The propesal that a Pederal bond s sue be employed to hasten to ¢ mple- tion the inland waterways prosram now going forward bv piacemeal will be far- reaching in the discussion it wiy arouse.” Pointing to its relation to other means of transnortation, espes ciallv the railroads, the Times c°ne toys that afford grown people 50 much amusement.” This T know. Recently I spent several |tends: “The real problem bafore the months in a section only a two-hour | waterways workers is to compose the drive from this city and about one-h.lr} interests of the two great carriers, mile from one of those roads that was| There can be no question about the i torn up all of the Summer. A doctor | desirability of pushing the river d was called at that place at night. He|opment to speedier conclusion, but said the reason he was so late was|most enthusiastic of deep-water that the road over which he had |cates does not care to say that it should driven was in such a terrible condition b2 done by dislocating the existing he could hardly drive at all. Another | transportation system.” man drove over that same road two g, days before. He sald he would not go fover it again for $20 and had to go Theory and Practice. From the Goshen Daily News Times. miles out of his way to get back. Ihid been over 1t & shott thee BESNE. IARINE | curily Tuded To Mew Yook uaides Oh, well, disarmament a passenger t0 the train. He said,| “Ne ain will T let y oot | armed guard Nev in will T let you come over | s iGnty Qg ne came here cuss. Meny are now justifying destruction, not only of trees, but good buildings, and some practically new, as in the case of the Pcst Office, for example, to give people work. Center Market and many other buildings that have been torn down recently to make way for this new bullding project—almast for- got the “project”—would have lasted many years. Conslderation for others in this direc- tion—giving people employment—is very commendable. I am unemployed, be- cause of {ll health, and know only too well what it means, but to create work by uscless destruction works a hard- ship on cthers, taxpayers, many who have only their homes and are unem- ployed. If there were not so much waste in the world and every one were provided with necessitles there would be enovgh wark to keep all ablebodied people employed, and enough money to pay them. The 80 per cent of the tax- payers’ money which goes for “war pur- Poses” every year would go a long way automobiles for a few days. The official | annual safety campaign closed at mid- night, November 30. It ran for six full weeks, in which time every resi- |dent of the State was supposed to| Not so long | have his car examined as to brakes, | before 1t was achieved, Lancashire mill | lights, steering gear and gencral me. | ' hands were on a 55':-hour working | chanical condition. The motorists were scale, which involved getting up at 5| warned that penalties would be severe o'clock in the morning % be at the| for non-compliance. looms at 6, and then working until 8:30| Today finds thousands of motor car am., when there was a half-hour break- | owners without the stickers showing fast period. In all, ten hours of Work- | official inspection, arid Col. E. Austin ing were sprcad over eleven and Baughman, commissioner of motor ve- half hours of the dey five days & week. | hicles, has made it plain that very lit- |of cases, to assume that there was an | cbstructed view, in one or both direc- tions, and the driver could not see the train 'approaching. When I cross a track I know that T am taking a chance, | but I know of no way to avoid it ex- | cept to stop the car and walk out on the track, as indeed used to be stand- ard practice for street cars. And there are cases where the railroad curves at a crossing and you cannot see an ap- | proaching train from the middle of the track. ~ WINSLOW H. HERSCHEL. when he spoke in English— did the young' Italian statesman mention the words ‘Mussolini or Fascism. There was, of course, method in his absten- tion. ~The ever-conscious aim of 11 Duce's administration is to have the outside world believe that Mussolini and Fascism are synonymous with Italy, and that thelr respective places in the picture should ot be over- stressed, especially on international oc- casions’ Thus the graclous Grand ! always referred to “my government” or to “my chief” or to “the chief of my government.” *oxoxox . Scnator Millard E. Tydings, Demo- 1 Pigskin Honor Sy Vholo'stucent and slomml bodross the As a New York Times correspendent | tle leniency will be shown the delin-| Prom the Lowell Evenins Leader University of Maryland out on the cables from Manchester, “there was quents. “I am not interested in ex-! And in the opinion of the under-!political side-lincs.zooting for Mis re virtually no time {rom Monday il Fri- | cuses,” said Col. Baughman, I am in- Taduates it s likely !h;tm““gmml”yfi“‘;‘x::‘g: i e ATnUAl L Ty dings day for anything but work, eating and terested in saving lives,” and there- rb;m:-r lhe“;:ox;s o;h:lg?e Booth’s col- fortunes of (gpunxt‘nr;)!sri;m:o‘:lg l:‘fi sleep.” On Saturday the 55 hours upon he announced that twenty-four lege career. team, and the late season was no ex- | oldsters in the mills before the war. ‘What is inevitable is a revolution in social habits rooted in the years The 48-hour week was British labor's biggest post-war victory Foreboding. O'er holidays I might be gay, Nor sing a song of sorrow, If time would but remain today And never turn tomorrow. “Some men,” said Uncle Eben, “says | dat honesty is de bes’ policy, an’ den seems puffickly willin’ to give deir neighbors a monopoly of its advan- tages." Not Internal Treatment? From tle Columbus Ohio State Journal That hump on the cam back is| where he was hit with a grape brick.| ——— But Not §1 a Year. From the San Antonio Evening News. The Democratic party’s new “minute men” doubtless think to become men of the hour. that awful road for me.” Many homes which taxpayers have are hardly a fit shelter for animals, many farmers once making a good living have had to sell their homes, and their living, because of excessive tax burdens imposed on them by politicians and others in au- | SQge thority. Patriotism should be proved | ratheP briskly, but what th le_of by dealing justly with all. Vm city are yearning for is bt E. MARRIOTT. | fashioned smoke nuisance. one- ——— mbol. T 5 And Traffic Jams, From the Toledo Blade of our factories are working ’