Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1931, Page 38

2 THE SUNDAY THE EVENING “ With Sunday Merning Editien. WASHINGION, D. C. December 6, 1831 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor b Ay el The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Business Office 1ith 8t and Pennsylvania Ave. S0 East 42nd 8t 8:;7:"" Take Michican Bunding. 14 Regent' .. Lendon, ropean Office ln!hu'd', Rate by Carrier Within the City. e 45c per month H The: Evenin ar d Sundny Siar undays) 60c per month | antare) .- 65¢ per month | 1 S Ler copy tion made at thé end of each month. | Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone | NAglonal 5 STAR | niversary edition, with a wealth of 11- | lustrations and with a great volume of text, tells the wonder story of Los Angeles. 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The BSeventy-second Congress as- | interests of the community hes represented so ably half century of mutual growth, in itsell attests the sppreciation of a greal body of people of the merits of this splendid exponent of American Journalism which 1t during the - —— Another Treaty at Stake, bleak and drrary days when solemn internatlonal treatles coem to be registering a ncw low, in so far as any obligations on the part of signa- tories are concerned. ‘Lhe Far East is the most glaring example of what can hap- pen to treaties, but within the past few the com- | clsm. It cannot do otherwise. But-the | fine work of the citizens of this com- | munity in doing their part to alleviate suffering and hardship should mot be undermined by stories maliciously eirqu- lated or related as idle gossip and which lack any foundaticn of fact. The next time that a contributor | hears criticism of the work of the Com- | munity Chest, he should try the inter- | esting experiment of testing out, fct his own information, the basis of the | eriticism, Virginia Road Improvements. The announcement by the chairman of the Virginia Highway Commission that within the near future the Rich- | mond-Washington Highway will be widened to three and eventually to four | lanes will be greeted with satisfaction | by Washingtonians as well as Vir- | ginlans, While Route 1 to the South, ! as the road is known, has never been | s narrow as the Defense Highway, from | Washington to Annapolis, its paucity of | | width has been the cause of many acci- |dents. 1t is & highway that carries | heavy bus and truck traffic, and when !two of these large vehicles attempt to pass the clearance s small. Another angle of the conditions on the road | trom Fredericksburg to the Virginia | capital is that it is unusually straight, {with few towns slong the way and | few intersections. These circumstances sembles here Monday for its fifst 8¢8- doys n Central American situation has | DAturslly induce higher speeds of au- sion with & multiude of problems con- | fronting it. The Government faces a | defictt which may run as high as $2- | £00,000.000 by the close of the fiscal | year, if steps are not ta to check it. Notwithstanding the work that has | been done throughout the country in ' Tecent months to reduce unemployment | and to provide funds to care for the | needy during the Winter months, many i demands will be made upon the Con- | gress for Federal appropriations, not | only to provide work for the unem ployed but also to feed, clothe and shelter the destitute. The problems are in the main economic and domestic But because of the interweaving of in- ternational Interests, involving the | United States along with the rest of | the world, problems of foreign relations | are also to be dealt with. President | Hoover brought about & year's suspen- | sion of intergovernmental debts, mov- ing to prevent a threatened collapse in Germany and other foreign nations Legislation to make that moratorium effective is necessary. The eyes of the Nation will be upon Congress. 1t may aid or mar. No legislative panacea is possible for the economic situation, but wise leadership and the adoption of sound policies in Jegislation is the function of the Congress The danger to the country les in the irresponsibility of politicians, seeking to make capital for the coming na‘lonal election. ‘The very fact, however, that the situstion in the country, because of the business depression, is far more serious than usual is likely to have a sobering effect even upon the most par- tisan members of Congress, Republican or. Democrat. Democratic control of the House of Representatives, where all revenue legislation must originate and where governmental apptopriation bills are initisted, may not be an unmixed blessing. Responsibility is & great sobering force. The Democrats have a clear majority in the House, the first time since the elections of 1918 turned control of that body over to the Republicans midway in the second term of President Wood- row Wilton. All the standing com- mittees which frame the bills for pres- entation to the House will be dominat- ed by Démocrats. The Democrats have an opportunity to impress upon the country faith in their wisdom or, fail- ing that, to show themselves unworthy of having the reins of Government turned over to them. In the Senate the political score is almost evenly divided, with 48 Repub- licans, 47 Democrats and 1 Farmer- Labor Senator. The Republican control, however, is merely nominal, a fiction on paper. Yor a group of Republican Pro- gressives, a dozen or more in number, hold the balance of power, and can up- set the policles of the Republican ma- jority whenever they wish, provided they have the support of the Demo- erats. The Democrats will have to de- termine just how far they are willing 30 go along the course outlined for them by the Progressive Republicans. If they expect the latter to follow Democratic leadership, the Democrats are likely to And themselves mistaken Eeonomy should be the watchword of | the Congress, notwithstanding the fact that pleas for huge governmental ap- propriations are to be expected. The de- serving destitute and unemployed are worthy of all aid, but some of the pro- posdls advanced for the consideration of Congress would have the effect of relieving those who wish to live and not % work of further anxiety. Should the session of Congress now | approaching degenerate into a struggle between the President and the Con- | greds the country will be the loser. Co- | operation on the part of the executive and legislative branches of the Govern- ment i& greatly needei now | | | | Alexander Kerensky foresees the fu- ture downfall of “Stalinism.” The down- | and-out club always watches the hatch- | way hopefully. PRSP, o When some big cigarette company finally gets Aimee Semple McPherson | to indorse it, then, perhaps, the titanic | strugyle will be over. —r———— The Los Angeles Times. The fifty years of the existence of | the Los Angeles Times, marked by the issue of an exceptionally comprehensive and . attractive anniversary edition, dated December 4, 1931, spans one of the most extraordinary community developments in the history of the worid: This semi-centennial edition, ! With fts seven parts of the highest | typographical excellence, tells the story | of Los Angeles, in its growth from a INfle over 11,000 inhabitants, when the Times made its first appearance, | to nearly 1,300,000 today. Los Angeles, which was little more than & hamlet when the Times made its bow in 1381, is maw the fitth city in the Untted | States. The first issue of the Times was_only & few hundred coples of a four-page newspaper. Today its circu- lation reaches as many hundred thou- sand. Los Angeles and The Times Bavg thus grown together. The success of .the latter has been in part the resilf of the development of the city. It tas become a powerful instrument ‘x’fi‘: advancement. Its present an- It boiled up that may sooner or later in- volve the sanctity of pacts. In the tiny ftate of Ban Salvador, uccumbing to the Latin American evolutionary epidemic, & group yeung militery offic:rs has ous.ed Presi- dent Arturo Araujo and set up an army junta government. that Presicent Araujo is rallying a rem- nant of loyal troops and established his government at Santa Ana, described s an important city by the Salvadorean egation in Washington. The legation, in announcing thg President's determi- nation to fight for his rights and his office, calls attention to th: Washington eaties of 1923. Signed under the auspices of the United States Govern- ment, though we are not a party to them, these treaties bind the five Cen- tral American states not to recognize any government that issues from a : olution or coup d'etat Addressing the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on February 6 last, Sccretary Stimson defined the American attitude toward revolutions in Latin America. He categorically af- firmed that, in accord with the spirit of the Wash'ngton treaties, the United States would not recognize a Central American government that came into power by foree. Ths military junta in San Salvador announces that it will hold an election soon. The President then chosen will have to prove himself to have been com- plctely unconnected with last week's revolution if his government is to be recognized by the United States or by other Central American countries. Uncle 8am did not hesitate to recognize th: South American goverments which were born in 1930 and in 1931 as the result of revolutions. But there was no Wash- ington treaty of 1923, which applies V- only to the Central American States, to| dictate the State Department's action on those successive occasions. ‘The Salvadorean revolution is a horss i Maryland's Disgrace. A few frresponsible hotheads have brought disgrace and shame to the State of Maryland. There is no way of expunging from the records of sav- agery and crime the action cf the mob at Salisbury. Such things are written in indelible black that only fades with time. But it is within the power of the peoplé of one of the most progressive States to apply the remedy that lies in the law; to show that what ma jesty there is in the law and order that have been won at such cost through the years can be defied cnly momentarily and that those who defy it must pay the penalty. The reports of the mob outbreak in Balisbury and the resulting lynching are such &s to indicate the relatively easy task that lies before the authorities in apprehending those responsible. Such responsibility, of course, does not end with the few men who led the mob; it extends to the officials who, from reports, put up such futile and cowardly resistance One expects from Gov. Ritchie the leadership i a movement among the good people of Maryland to punish these whose acts or failure to act has brought this blct. Maryland has been free from the stains of such outbreaks for the last twenty years, The punish- ment of the guilty should be so swift and sure as to constitute a definite guarantee that the barbaric scrawls of mob law have effaced justice in Mary- land for the last time e —— A Connecticut guide sends forth a story about having caught a three- pound trout in one of his beaver traps. Perhaps in the Spring he will oblige with one about a full-grown beaver hooked, played and landed on a fly rod P— Spiking the Rumors. It 1s to be hoped that many persons will find time to read the erticle, appesring elsewhere in today's Star, describing briefly the life history of a scandalous story concerning the Wash- ington Community Chest. The story is unimportant except for the light that it sheds on other stories of the sort. For it is typical, as everybody who works with a newspaper knows. First, fhe outraged citizen who has heard of some stupld or even cruel action on the part of the Chest officials; next, the wcrk of investigation in running down the truth of the story; third, the denouement. The trouble is that these stories go the rounds, improve marvel- ously in the telling, and the truth about them s confined to relatively a few, never catching up with the original story. Any contributor to the Community Chest who hears a story going the founds conveying eriticism of the Com- munity Chest methods or its officials feally owes it to himself to seek the truth. For the contributor has bought with his contribution a very real in- terest in the functioning of this com- munity enterprise. He should make it a part of his duty to see that reflections on the Community Chest are based on fact, and seek proper remedy, or to convince himself that they are un- founded and brand them as false. The Comxppnlty Chest welcomes criti- Late reports indicate | | tomobiles, and, with & highway of in- _adequate width, accidents are pro- imotrd. The tendency all over the | United States is to widen roads, and { Virginia, which for years lagged behind in road bullding and maintenance, is | now taking rank with the progressive | States in a forward-looking policy. - It is related that when a seventeenth- century Belgian chemist invented the term “gas” for Vapor, he derived his new word from the Greek “chacs.” He could not then have been familiar with democratic institutions, but, none the less, he must have had a vision of the future American Congress. - - Most of the aliens now being smug- gled into the United States are either Poles or Italians, it is suthoritatively stated. A glance at this year's various line-ups will give some indication of what marvelous foot ball teams will be competing all over the country a few years hence. SRR A S It appears that Clara Bow's rehabili- tating ranch life in God's great green outdoors has given her renewed strength to make some more big bets and, ac- cording to the declaration of a Nevada gaming establishment, again to “‘welsh" on the same. - What with Maj. Glassford's new order about daily washing of police automo- biles, henceforward items for purchase of hoce should receive less suspicious | scrutiny. b When marathon dancers leap forth | &t the starting gun, they cheek-to-cheek to cozily. But, oh, what a difference a few weeks make! ———— g Some legislators believe that the | United States Farm Board, although { only two years old, is, as regards a mis- | spent life, & veritable old rake. ———— Hirsute grandfathers are advised in advance that when mechanical toy planes in fight get caught in whiskers they hurt terribly. . SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON The Day Dreamer, My Uncle Jim is dreamin’ Even when he's wide awake, A-strivin’ an’ a-schemin’ Pur his home an’ country's sake. He is dreamin’ of the glory That will shine around his name ‘Whes they come to tell the story Of the way he won his fame. He plctures lofty portals Leading to a spacious hall, Where he’ll find his fellow mortals All attentive to his call, As he writes his name an’ number Where they never can grow dim— You don't have to wait for slumber ‘When you dream like Uncle Jim. Consistency. “I suppose you always say exactly what you think?” “I try to,” replied Senator Sorghum; “but I also try to avold thinking any- thing it would not be expedient for me to say.” Jud Tunkins says a man who smiles and doesn't mean it isn't any more attractive to him than a boy who makes faces, A Safe Program. ‘The Weathi'r Bureau settles down, With each day waxing bolder. For truth it reaches some renown By sticking close to “colder.” . A Proverb Unrespected. “If you want a thing done properly, do it yourself,” said the ready-made philosopher. “Sometimes, maybe,” commented Uncle Bill Bottletop. “But I've about declded I'd rather go thirsty than take chances on these homemade drinks.” Criticism Welcomed. “Why did you give up that fine chance to be & motion picture star in & Wild West scenario?” “I don't want no advantages” an- swered Cactus Joe. “I want to be & regular actor or nothin’. If any of the boys in the audience don’t happen to like my performin’ I want him to have & chance to hand me his opinion right across the footlights; me, of course, havin' the same opportunities fur de- fendin' my art.” Avolding Monoteny. T do believe the world is flat; That black is white and lean is fat. In vain the volce of consclence small Suggests they are not so at all. Whoever speaks must do his bést To catch the ear of interest. The surest way is to (eny What was called truth in days gone by. So good is bad and sour is sweet, And light is dark and heads are feet. Old facts are so familiar that We'll try to think the world is flat. “Some men,” said Uncle Eben, “gits & heap o' credit foh bein' good-natured when dey is atmply too lagy to Jook out foh delr rights.” I : STAR, | along like & stream,” WASHINGTON, Reasoning BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES Text: “Come now, let us reason to- gether, saith the Lord.”—Isaiah, 1.18. There is'a winsomeness in the language of the above text that is compelling and fascinating. A statesman - prophet is bearing to the people an appeal for the rehabilitation and stabilization of their nation. It is a trumpet call to recog- nize the unwisdom and folly of their course, the inadequacy of their devo- tional practice, the faiuure of their usages and customs and the utter need of a thorough revaluation of their whole system. “To what purpose is the mul- itude of your sacrifices unto me?” “Bring no more vain oblations: incense is an abomination unto me.” “Your wearled of them.” Siern language this, but needed in a time of crisis. from this bitter arraignment, & plain- tive call is made to the people: “Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil a cease to do evil, learn to do well, seek Jjudgment, relleve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow." establish themselves and restore their habits and practices to ways that are normal and profitable, a still more win- some and appealing invitation is given: “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” If there was ever a time for the exer- cise of reason and a careful restudy of our trends and tendencies, it is the present hour. The world is passing through one of its great crises and fear has seized the hearts of men. It is universally true that our periods of mis- fortune either make or break us. The aays of our prosperity, where “life flows ntribute little to the strengthening and enriching of our character. It is only when the test is on and what we hold of principle is being tried to the utmost that we dis- close weakness or strength. We grow soft and flabby where all things are favorable and nothing interrupts the even tenor of our way. By the same token, we grow strong and robust where appointed feasts my soul hateth; I am | Turning | of your doings from before mine eyes, | Following this urgent appeal to re- | D. C., DECEMBER 6, Together E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D. Bishop of Washington. we are confronted with problems and difficulties that seem insuperable. This is as true of us in the aays of our youth as In the days of our maturity and riper years. Excesses of indulgence, the free play of our wills and the uninterrupted satisfaction of our desires make no contribution to the strengthening of our characters. Sydney Carton, in Dickens’ great work, “A Tale of Two Cities,” lived his dissolute life until a supreme test was laid upon him, then he disclosed qualities of real greatnes: and moral worth that make him one of the most appealing figures in fiction. ‘We are in sore need today of hearing and heeding the lesson which the above passage seis before us, for it is axio- matically true that our misfortunes either make us or break us. They make us where they stabilize and strengthen our characters and give us a fresh sense of our moral cbligations; they break us where we passively yleld to their at- tack and wait for changed and more | favorable conditions. We of America are not accustomed overmuch to hard- ship, the misfortunes and mishaps that have attended other peoples we have rarely experienced. Hence the present situation in which we find ourselves seems unique and we are unprepared to meet it. We are bound to believe that it we face it feariessly and with a full recognition of its implications we shall emerge from it a stronger and better people, It is & time for calm and dis- passionate reason and serious thinkin about our ways and practices. thoughtless and flippant attitude wiil prove of little worth in a day fraught [with such momentous issues as the | present one. We began our life a | Nation with a full recognition of the | indispensable placc that God and right- eousness occupy in our life. In our | soberer and more reflective hours we are consclous cf the need of this. It may be unpoptilar today to acknowledge |our sins and weaknesses, but we shall | hardly recover the ways of normal d | satisfying uvmf until’ we frankly rec- | ognize our faults and are really peni tent for our mistakes. Arrogance, pride and self-conceit are of little avail in this present hour. “Come now, let us | reason together saith the Lord.” BY WILLIAM HARD. “The Democratic party will commit a fatal error if it now proceeds to try to satisfactory to the big business people, who, in any case will support the ticket of our Republican opponents in the next presidential election.” Such was the further contribution made the other day by Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana to the principal question now perplexing the Democratic party on the eve of the reconvening of Congress. The Democrats, controlling the House of Representatives and nearly con- trolling the Senate, are concerned to- day with three successive steps in the development of their ambition to com- plete their control of the Senate and to capture the White House and to possess the whole Government. The first of these steps is a legislative record to be achieved during the coming Congress. The second is a legislative record to be promised in the national party plat- form of next June. only the third—is the naming of a press idential candidate. * ok ox % It is conceded that if the legisla- tive achievements and legislative pledges of the Democratic party are not such as to command the confidence of the country, the Democratic presidential candidate will enter the race against Mr. Hoover severely handicapped. Legislatively, thereupon, the alter- natives now ardently discussed among Democrats in Washington are 8hall we take a progressive “plunge Or shall we “watch our step”? xRk The ‘advocates of ‘“step-watching" contend that in times of economic ad- versity the ‘“common man” ested principally in getting back his job and is therefore dominantly inclined to follow the gentlemen who are thought to be able to do most in the matter of jobs; namely, the leaders of business. The Democratic party, saccordingly, should give no offense to the leaders of businiess, On the contrary, it should operate in harmony with them for the revival of prosperity on a business basis Such s the argument, in & general way, of the “right wing” of the Democratic party in the National Capital. This argument is known to be given large weight in the Democratic National Committee party headquarters. It re- oy John J. Raskob, chairman. It appeals with considerable force to Mr. Jouett Shouse, executive manager. The at- tacks made by the committee upon the | present tariff law are not at all nec- essarily indicative of any anti-big-buei- ness point of vlew. Great segments of big business—particularly in financial New York—are vigorously opposed to the present tariff law and are moving toward a belief in virtual free trade. * oK K K The test comes not on the tariff, but chiefly on (a) taxation and (b) “the Government in business.” On_these points it seems inevitable that the Democrats in the Congress will | make & record at wide variance from the wishes of most big-business leaders. .The reason lies partly in the prospective behavior of a certain minority within | the Republican party in each of the two house: of the Congress. x K Kok In each house the supreme Demo- cratic_ocmmand 18 quite fairly “mod- erate.” In the House of Representatives Mr. Garner, the coming Democratic , the coming Democratic floor leader, have been say- age critics of the Republican apples in the national cart, but, while squeesing the apples, they are not likely to be found really upsetting the cart. It hap- ns, however, that in the House of presentatives there are some 40 or 50 bound to be extremely “anti-Hoover” in order to get re-elected in November of next year. These Republicans, in cowi- bination with the mass of the rank-ande file Democrats in the House, will be able any time to enact so-called “radical” legislation, for which the Democratic party will be accounted mainly re- sponsible. The same situation exists even more obviously in the Senate. Senator Rob- inson of Arkansas has already § umously warned his party against “raaicalism” in taxation, but a combination of the mass of his rank-and-file Democratic colleagues in the Senate with the “Bro- gressive” Republicans in the Senate will almost indubitably produce taxation legislation thought extremely radical by the possessors of large fortunes. x % ok % Moreover, in any ccmpetition with the average regular Republican states- man for the esteem of the possessors of such fortunes, Mr. Robinson will try in vain, and Mr. Garner and Mr. Ralney will not even try. ‘There should seem in truth to be not the slightest doubt that the Democratic legislative record, when ultimately com- pleted next %nr. will seem to the lead- ers of big business to be quite more “radical” than the Hoover record. Democratic Senators, like Mr. Wiseeler of Montana, thereupon maintain that the Democratic party should not accept its manifest destiny irresolutely and apologetically, but should boldly and convincingly announce itself as the party of revolt against “big business domination.” * K ok x Mr. Wheeler conversed with writer as follows: e “Never mind, for & moment, the un- emploved. Never mihd, for a moment, the working man. He has every just make a record and write a platform | The third—and | celves instinctive sympathy from Mr. | Republicans who concelve themselves | Wheeler of Montana Discusses Ways Of Helping Democracy’s Cause in 1932 reason to be discontented. But, for the sake of argument, for a moment, leave him out. “The striking feature of the national soclal situation today is that the small | | business man has utterly lost confl- | dence in the big business man. The | sreat ‘middle class’ is today not for but against the so-called ‘captains’ of in- dustry and of finance. | “Those ‘captains’ were given a free | rein. We reduced their taxes dras- tically. We allowed them to retain in | their own hands at least 80 per cent of their incomes. We allowed them to | accumulate fabulous capital. What did | thev do with it? “They gave us a crushing excess of plant equipment in the United States and proceeded to try to make the pur- chasing public pay for the excess. They made vast unsound loans abroad and | passed the bonds and the losses on into | the pocketbooks of hundreds of thou- sands of small business investors. They invented a stock market speculative | frenzy which engulfed the small busi- ness Investors and at t filled the country with economiz wreckage. “Business is tired of such business | leadership. It wants such busines: leadership put under restraint, I | would not be thought to be threatening | the Democratic party. I onlv warn it | of what T believe to be a fact. If the | Democratic party will not lead the ef- | Tort to give American business & new | direction and a new ideal, some new | party will arise to do so; and I want | to_emphasize this point about it: “It will not be a partv for revolution. | It will be a party for good, sound, sensible, right business.” | WE Xty . Mr. Wheeler thinks that his favorite | candidate for the Democratic presiden- tlal nomination. Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. is neither «revolutionary” nor “reactionary,” but | “soundly” and ‘“progressively” in favor of a “bettef business era.” | ~Mr. Wheeler's big business antagon- | ists within the Democratic party seem to think him corre¢t about Gov. Roose- | velt; and they incline toward Owen D. | Young as the Democratic nominee. | That preference of thefrs would para- | doxically seem, however. to fortify Mr. | Wheeler in his conception of the role | of the Democratic party in its contest against the Republican party. | 'Mr. Young has publicly given his | support to the essence of the la Fol- lette Wisconsin principle of railroad and public utility valuation. He has publicly advocated a monopoly of transoceanic wire and wireless commu- nications under public ownership and operation if necessary in order to achieve the monopoly. He has gone even much farther. “He has publicly proclaimed his hope of the day whert capital will cease to control corpora- tlons and when corporations will be controlled by their own managing and working personnel. Whether, then, the Democratic party toward Roosevelt or moves “left” “right” toward Young, it would in fact seem unable to escape the fate of be- ing “lefter” than Hoover. Onbinion here, therefore, accumulates to the ef- fect that it will write its legislative Tecord accordingtly. (Copyriht, 1931.) o | Christmas Business May Lighten the Depression BY HARDEN COLFAX. With colder, more seasonal weather alding general business throughout most of the country, as indicated by reports to the Department of Commerce, mer- chants are preparing for the holiday trade this year with greater expec- tations than they had felt warranted in_hoping for a while back. While it does not seem likely that the cut of Christmas trees will be any- where near as large this season as in preceding years, the varicus State authorities, notably those of New York and Vermont, are already granting per- | mits for the “export” of trees. A number of industries have r ed to the department elaborate Christmas promotion sales plans. In one case a shop for “men only” in a store featuring articles for women is a Christmas shop- year by one New England establishment and was 8o successful in attracting cus- tomers that it will be repeated again this year. A representative selection of gifts taken from all parts of the store were shown in this inner shop and & separate entrance, attractively indi- cated, was provided cn the main floor. * oK K A couple of stores in Middle Western cities have been featuring gifts “suitable for those who serve you well through- out the year.” Suxgesnuns are made, with prices indicated, rapher, the office boy, the telephone girl, the elevator man, the laundress, the maid, the pcliceman, the mail man, the chauffeur, the newsboy, etc., from 8 to 12 jtems being mentioned in each instance. Beveral establishments in cities in Canada announced that one of their Christmas features for the early part of December consists of goods particu- larly suitable for mailing. Lightweight, compact articles were suggested, so as to require little postage and wrapping troubles. Some of these items were stockings, scarfs, gloves, lingerie, watches, bridge pac PR Throughout these reports fndieate that the ecoriomi¢ importance of Ohrist- mas business udeln: stressed more and 1931—RPART TWO. Advocates More Jobs To Halt Red Influence To the Editor of The Star: While T do not mean to insinuate that the Community Chest enterprise is a moral faflure and its use a humiliation to any American worker, 1t appears to me that the dole system is no better or worse, as its recipient will eventually become easy prey to the soap-box or- ator who advocates the establishment of a soviet'form of government in our United States. The man who wants to work and can't find a job, and because of his idleness his family suffers, is an ex- cellent recruit for said soap-box orator or for any wild organization that prom- ises him better conditions. It is up to the city adminictrators of our entire country —not charitable stunts, such as woodyards, etc—to show this man that he will be taken care of if he wants to work. A realization of this duty has been & strong factor in inducing intelli- gently managed communities, includ- ing Washington, to undertake exten- sive public work just at this time, but more work should be found. These public enterprises have helped to mini- mize the burden of unemployment. The more fully is it realized that soclety must plan still more intelli- gently to meet the present and the recurring problem of the man without ;aénb, the better it will be for every- y. Only a system that makes it possi- ble for every decent man to earn a living can be enduring. 1If it falls in any conslderable extent in this, it wil open the way to Communism and to other soclal experimenters of the ilk. DANIEL PAGE. Butler Astride Fence On Policies for G. 0. P. From the Chicago Daily Tribune. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler says that the Republican party at present is much in the position of its predecessor, the Whig, in 1852-56. It has a splendid constituency and a fine tradition, but it doesn't know what to do or, it it does, it 18 afrald to do it. The Whigs failed ping innovation, which was offered last | g and the Republican party was botn, If the Republicans fail they will follow the Whigs into oblivion and another party will take their place. Dr. But- ler's prophecy has & great deal of prob- ablility in support of it. Mr. Fess of Ohlo, the Republican national chairman, is a good index of the disposition of the party manage- ment in times which Br Butler ob- serves as critical. Mr. Fess believes that the Republican management is the best of all possible managements in the best of all possible parties in the best of all possible times and countries. That is why he is national chairma; and that is why the Republican future at times seems dubious. The com- placent face of self-satisfaction may run into something in the dark. Dr. Butler himself is, however, a bit odd. He has his ideas of what the party must do to be saved and he picks up half of them on one side of the street and half on the other. Half his principles make faces at the other. For instance, Dr. Butler says that the eighteenth amendment and all its works must be discarded and disowned and the police powers gathered into the restored to the State which unwisely delegated them. He also says that the Republican party must commit itself to whole-hearted co-operation with such agencles of international humanity and Jjustice as the League of Nations and the World Court. Both Federal prohibition and the in- ternational arrangements Dr. ‘Butler supports have the origin in human wist- fulness, 1illusion, d« a or doctrine. They represent a belief that super- organization will turn the trick and that remedies must be found in mech- anisms. percelves the fallacy in one, but not in the other. He is will- ing to accept experience in one, but ot in the other. He would take apart the' superorganization which has been set up in prohibition to gov- ern human nature as a substitute for individual worth and local police, but he would builld up the extra govern- ment which is to make nations follow a prescribgd line of conduct. A party which incorporated such ideas in its doctrine would be reason- able in one direction and sentimental in another. It would declare one species of supercontrol to be desirable and another undesirable, with no con- sistent argument with which to bind its statements into principles. There is room it American political action for a party which reaffirms its belief in older American docttines and spreads that reaffirmation across the board. Many citizens will agree with Dr. But- ler that if the Republican party re- mains in a daze it will find & successor in the boots it'might have worn, but when Dr. Butler gives his specifications he creates a hybrid astride a fence, Sl Sl Unfair Competition Feared for Railways From the Wheeling Intelligencer. The Public Service Commission has before it & difficult case. It involves application of the Baltimore & Ohio Rallroad for authority to discontinue 16 passenger trains in West Virginia. Numerous protests have been lodged by citizens from all parts of the State who feel suspension of this service is unjustified and will impose an undue hardship upon them. Ordinarily the railroad, having estab- aged public dependence upon it, should be required to continue it. Railroads must take some of the bitter with the sweet. It will not do to let them skim off the cream without regard to the public convenience. In the matter of raflroad passenger business, however, the private automo- bile and the commercial bus have just about appropriated the field. They have taken so much business away that it is impossible to operate railroad service at a profit and hopeless, under present conditions, to expect an T Xpe y improvement This is true, not only of steam rail- roads, but of traction lines organized for the express purpose of transporting passengers. Unless steps are taken to correct the present unfair character of railroad competition we merely are post- tp‘(‘}enlnl ‘:.hl 1nevll‘lhle by compelling continuance of rail ook allroad passenger —— Why Wait Longer? From the Cincinnati Wimes-Star, If all the world #rust learn English, and 0‘:&4 say it's coming, America's radio dio broadosaters will have 1o go to more, particularly to retail stores. A for the stenog- | 6600 number of retail merchants, according to an announcement of the Nl"flnl‘ Retail Dry Association, are plac- ing special dependence on holiday busi- ne;. thls year. ccording to figures gathered and complled by this -uomtsn. the retail business in the four weeks before Christ- shopping.” also that mu';’oos - be added to the staffs e .28 3 n e thousands required to handle the extra 000 people vwlrd of Tetall stores Federal Government under prohibition | R. lished such service and having encour- | L&! to | the currency, while former NICKNAMES WHICH STUCK BY FREDERI Overwhelming party majorities in the houses of Congress may make for 20Y steam-roller administration legislation which gets things done quickly, but such a situation is likely to produce duliness. The opposition, when too completely inundated, is inclined to grow listless and only occasionally rise to those heights of parliamentary in- vective and sharp personality which give color to solonizing. With the knife edge on which the new House of Representatives is bal- anced there is a promise of better things, better, that is, looking at Con- gress as a show, as so many do look at that august body. It seems & long time since there has been the sort of era of congressional strife which breeds nicknames, the sort of descrip- tive labels attached to statesmen, often originally in derision, but later clung to with affection. There are indica- tions that this new assembly may usher in such a period. Standing out above all other Amer- fcans In this matter of nicknames is Abraham Lincoln. It was not integded as a compliment when politiclans called him the Railsplitter. That was a day of fine gemtlemen when the com mon gort was supposed to keep its hands off public affairs. The ear} legal career of Lincoln is filled wit anecdotes of the mild scorn in which bar, fine gentlemen, indeed, who came to court in their carriages while he trudged afoot. Later many were to him for favors, and from & term derision, the name of Rallsplitter be- came almost & title of dignity. His homely manners and country ways brought him the joshing nickname of Uncle Abe, Father Abraham to a whole people, and at length Captain, my Captain! The nam>s that were applied to Mr. Speaker Cannon scarce would pass the censor at one time in his long career, but & later time came when Uncle Joe Wwas a term of endearment which people g:lled to apply to the sturdy old aker. Fighting Bob was a nickname which the elder Benator La Follette mchieved early in his political career before Washington knew him, and it is & tribute to his consistent champion- ship that it stuck to him to the day of his death. His son, the incumbent Senator, so far, is just Young Bob. Descriptive Nicknames. In earlier days it appears that | political wits ehowed more of a descrip- tive ability in -pg:yl | which stuck. They had a tinge or re- spect in them, and in a manner char- acterized and identified the bearer. For example, could there be a more sonorous title than the Tall Bycamore of the Wabash? Most people of today have forgotten that this long appella- tion was constantly applied to Senator Daniel Voorhees of Indiana. It gave A picture of his tall figure and erect })eafiing and also placed him geograph- cally. The Plumed Knight, of course, was James Q. Blaine, whose political im- g%runce was tremendous in his day. e nickname arose from a spasm in the course of an oration delivered by re no less &ctmlque Joshua iddings of Ohio, who referred to Mr. Blaine as resembling the white- plumed Henry of Navarre. All of the nicknames arose from some trifling incident. Probably not { he was held by his opponents at the | g, but in time he became | ng nicknames | try. C J. HASKIN. one was applied consciously or Wwith premeditation. For e: in the course of & speech on the of e lr! Jfl'fiw; Hiacoursed tpon ve from upon the of the Army and indicated that there were so many great generals in it that he appeared to be the only private. So long as he remained in Congress or anywhere else he thereafter was known as Private Jobn Allen. Perhaps he was unique in hav- |ing named himself, but all uneon- | sciously. | Among other closely identifying nick- | names was that of the Watchdog of the Treasury, first applied to Repre- sentative Holman of Indiana, who, as a member of the Committee on Appropria- tions, so closely scrutinized every re- | itself automatically. He was just that. Then, 100, there was Old Figgers. He was Representative Grosvenor of Ohio, whose gift for figures and alert- ness 10 detect arithmetical fallacies amazed his colleagues. Old Bullion got his nickname from his preoccupation also. He was Senator Benton of Mis- souri, who was deeply concerned with legislation relating to gold. Some of the Best Known. There is & long list of statesmen who drew their informal names from out- inding attributes, No more ple could be found than that of Gum-; Bill. He was Stone of Missourt, as shrewd & 24 he was able & statesman. He got things done so silently and smoothly that he reminded one enough of a sleuth to invite the gum-shoe epithet. Going back a way we find Ol Hickory, who might be bent but never could be broken no matter how the Eastern millionaires or his British or Indian foes tried. Then there was Zachary Taylor, Old Rough and Ready, whose rugged preparedness could be depended upon to confound his_opponents. The Boy Orator of the Platte was William Jennin an's earliest nick- name and fc him when he céased to be the youth who startled w&m&mmxm.mmma; ere others, mhenun_}. indeed, description of Silver Tongued which earlier had been umflefl to Benator Roscoe Conkling. Also it was, for & time, applied to Senators Beveridge of Indiana and Breckinridge of Kenti . Another member of the House, for but a part of one term, bore one of the Inil‘t knwnunlckmxmu in the coun- e was Marse Henry Watterson, for 50 years editor of the Loulsville Courler Journal. Although an officer in the Confederate Army and aide to Gen. Forrest, a statesman, and a #umlmt. his nickname rose merely om his typical Kentucky manners and he was Marse Henry the length and breadth of the country. None would lhl.lrw *vno was meant if one referred to One may start with the Father of His Oountry and include the Sage of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson; Old Tippecance, who was Gen. William Henty Harrison, and _come down through Senator Platt of New York, the Easy i B Oox of Ohio, and A host of others and find the shortest and simplest nickname of them all which, as the toastmasters say, needs no introduction, “T. R." India and Sterling Cause British Cheer and Woe BY A. G. GARDINER. - LONDON, December 5.—India and the fate of the nd have been the chief sensations of the week in England. In the case of India, events have taken a favorable turn. The round table conference was redesmed from failure by Premier Ramsay MacDon- ald's declaration at the closing session of the intention of the government to pursue an all-India federal policy and continue the work of the conference with a view of composing the Moslem and Hindu differences in regard to the methods of implementing this policy. When the declaration was submitted for approval of the House of Commons | on Thursday, Winston Churchill made & powerful attempt to mobilize the Con- servative rank and file against the gov- ernrent. He had delayed salling to | America to fulfill a lecture tour in | order to launch the attack. 1ts main | purpose was to discredit Stanley Bald- | win and detach Conservative sup | from him. The danger of the position | was that the Conservatives, who com- ! pose_the majority of the House, largely | are lukewarm on the subject, while & considerable section is definitely hos- tlle to the 1ede:ll‘wllcy. * Churchill sought also to make a breach in the government by showing tha: the Simon Commission’s recom- mendations had been disregarded mn favor of the late Socialist government's licy and that the duty of the nsw g«:nservam‘e House of Commons was to revive the Simon policy. Churchill's effort was a brilliant per- formance, but entirely failed to effect 2 serious revolt against the government. Sir John Simon, who now is foreign minister, asscciated himself completely with the policy of fulfillment of the pledges to India of self-government and warned the opposition against taking advantage of racial and re- s differences in India in order to escape the fulfilment of those pledges. Baldwin was '““3 emphatic, and the fact that Churchill during the war had committed himself to the dominion status as a solution to the Indian prob- lem greatly weakened his attack. The result was that only a handful of Con- servative die-hards voted with him and the government’s policy was indorsed by & majority of 326. ® X % % Haying thot his bolt, Churchill is now free for his American adventure. Meanwhile the government’s over- whelming victory has cleared the air and created general relief, the only se- rious critic in the press being the Man- chester Guardian, whose w.ntagonism to the MacDonald government has as- sumed the character of an obsession. The Indian delegates are relirning to India in & much more confident temper and Mahatma Gandhi, in an interview after the verdict of Commons, ex- pressed guarded willingness to continue the work of the conference and advised his followers to give continuous co-op- eration to the government in the for- muistion of the federal scheme. 1f the Indian cloud was lifted some- what, however, the financial shado over the country deepened with the heavy reciation in the exchange value of the pound. The anxiety was relieved by the statement of Chancellor of the Exchequer Chamberlain that there was no occasion for apprehension and that the slump was due to excep- tionally heavy seasonal demands (0 meet imports. The fact, however, has caused scute concern as to the vul- nerability of the pound. Prominent economists Pt o mm{mt use l:(r he bank rate as & means of protect! h Chancellor of the Exchequer Horne favors adop- tion of the silver stane x % %% The possibility of establishing a com- mon basis of exchange between the British dominions and other non-gold standard countries also was disoussed. All opinion, however, agreed in regard to the necessity of a and preserving the internal pi freight, mail an plr il d express involved. ’131‘: pensation paid * for Christmas season b mated st $46 by Tetall stores is esti 000,000, sa; Goods Association lnnumcy:nwg‘t? it Christmas buyl.n1 will thus be shown to havs & definite place in the busineas structure and the continuance of the Bift-giving custom will be properly ::lahd S dl'l%\nlft ald for the relief of Dresent oconditions of em - ployed,” the organisation points o‘:ln\. (Qovrrisht, 1991 urchasing power of the pound. This so far has been accompl xm.a:: nl‘un of the naequences of ve strength- oot the hand of the free traders in the cabinet in resisting the demands of rotect i . th'enrb duties so far imposed have been trivial and, as Parliament is umg until February, no further extension the tariff policy is immediately possible, In view of the critical situation of 1fc affalrs, members of the cabinet have all mman‘rw spend the Christmas Fifty Years Ago In The Star Ballot box “stuffing” was considerably in vogue 50 years ago and nowhere Voting Frauds in mfi: Philadelphis. SO he S ‘lx:ll. t‘huz comments upo the practice ide fictitious for the wmn Vi names for lists, nmmmfif"&s parrot which hung in a cige in the saloon of one of the political strike was enrolied as a voter name of P. Parrot and that the voted regularly by proxy. A picture the beer god, which ornamen walls of another saloon, their ballots. The ;e;;zl:x‘rin g ;zlolxeu’n:m ollt.he citizens of e] growing steadily in strength and crowding the pol:;ucll rings to the wall. New developments of past fraud and rascality are being Mmade, showing that that city has been 83 corruptly governed as New York.” - * * % The trial of Guiteau held the atten- tion of the entire country & cen- f sg tUry g0, and unusual Guiteau's clreummguu ed g much severe criticism e Oaj Oonduet. {6 Court, The Star of Do- cember 2, 1881, says: papers. The audience is much above the general character of such assem- blages, weeded out as it is by the ticket system of admission; the ‘laughter’ so subdued sort, and does not pervade the entire court room. As it is usually elicited by the odd sotto voce remarks of the prisoner, it is apt to be confined to those in his immediate vicinity who can hear distinctly what he says. At most, the laughter is nothing more than that always witnessed in great criminal trials, and which seems to come in as nature’s relief from the intense tragic straln prevailing. The jury have the rance of being a rather unusually ate set of men, and Judge Oox, it is hardly necetsary to The Sta: readers, 18 the embodiment of dignity and decorum on the bench. He has been much censured for failing to put ® stop to Guiteau's utterances in the defendant in & criminal lsic of consulting his counsel and of being confronted with the witnesses against him. Were Guiteau either 824 or removed from the court room whi hls‘t‘rh] 'fi in opinion of good lawyers be able to make this 3 “Again it should borne in mind that Guiteau is in some