Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1931, Page 8

A-8 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11 S e {THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edftion. WASHINGTON, D. C. +December 11, 1831 : e T | THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor| ewspaper Company | m i 11th St New York O jcaso Office opean Office Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening Star 45c per mongh | a Evening & & & { 60c per month | by mail or telephone Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Elly only unday only All Other States and Canada $12.00° 1 mo £8.00; 1 mo $5.00: 1 mo. | #5¢ 40c y only 1yr Member of the Associated Press. sociated Press is exclusively ertitle use for republication of all news d:s- | atches credited to it or Dot otherwise cred Reco (h Daper ud also the. local published herein 1 rights of publica! I dispatehes X rein are also reserved Mr. Hoover and the Debts President Hoover's message to Con- gress on foreign affairs supplies grap evidence that the area of American in- terests overseas has become an e on which ramifies from the Caribbe churia and across Europe and all the Americas. We may pretend to b Iated and self-contained, but th dent's review of t ation is designed to shake of such complacency and remind us that | if the times are out of joint anywhere in the world nowadays they automatic- | ally disarrange things in the United States, The Chief Executive reveals a | healthy grasp of these realities His desire for immediate congressional approval of the celebrated Hoover moratorium is the outstanding xmm" of the President's message. Payments | due to the United States from many countries, both on account of principal | and interest, accrue on December 15 Mr. Hoover urges Congress to enact a 1aw before that date authorizing the postponement cf all payments due us| from foreign governments durihg the current fiscal year, and to provide for their payment over a 10-year period be- | ginning July 1, 1933. The presidential | recommendation should be followed. | Delay would aggravate & situation that | is already menacing. Ratification of the “Hoover year” carries with it no| sutomstic promise of moratorium e tension. That such an extension may become necessary the President candidly indi- cates. As the new year approaches, he says, “it is clear that s number of the governments indebted to us will be un- sble to meet further payments to us in full, pending recovery in their economic life. It is usecless to blind ourselves to an obvious fact.” The situation being what it is, Mr. Hoaver declares “fur- ther temporary adjustments” are in- escapable. To that end he urges the Te-creation of the World War Debt| Commission, which funded the debts as | they now stand on the Treasury’s books | and which included strong representa- tion of both House and Senate. This proposal of the President de-| serves congressional approval, also. As | the representatives of the people, he| rightly calls for the participation of Congress, through renewed representa- tion on the commission, in the con- | sideration of questions arising from the European debts. It would be the com- | mission’s duty to re-examine the debt | question in light of present-day condi- | tions in Europe. There can be no rea- sonable objection to guch a fact-finding | procedure. | That there is a strong undercurrent | of popular opposition to any revision | that would connote cancellation or | additional heavy reduction of war| debts is undeniable. The storm that | broke in both branches of Congress| yesterday over the President’s ! tion of the inevitability of “temporary | adjustments” leaves little doubt on that score. But it will be time enough to | adhere to or modify that opposition | when e revived World War Foreign Debt Commission, in the Pre words, “reports to the Congress its con. clusions and recommendations.” 1f the | fron logic of things com | sideration of the entire debt stru common sense and not blind pre must prevail. | | | | | the us out sugges- | ) Judging from New Y the “get-away” of a six-day has little on that of a br ment in the way o monium Aid for the Railroads ‘The Inter: sion, upon Congr railroads W the laws 1al repor to go to the portant change It is the duty of Cor us deration e and The well-being of entire country. A most cursory exam- ination of the sit 1 should be ficlent to prove that if the rail &ré to continue, some steps must taken to improve their condition, O danger the railroads face in Congre: cofnes from a determined minority @oup which seeks to force Gover ment ownership and operatio @ansportation lines. The r ¢ diffculties of the roads under private @mership and operation, the ne me of these legislators believe is U I.;, when the @overoment will oker the roads and operate them 3 A large majo memb @ongress are opposed hav Government assume the railroads. Ma x are anxious to help the roads in their | present straits. 1In the Senate a res lution has already been favorably re- ported from the Committee on Inter- sipte Commerce calling for en inquiry into the whole rallroad problem. Its purpose is to make available to the Gongress the fullest information regard- ing-the plight of the roads o U lation may follow. President Hoo in his annual message to the Congress has emphatically called attention to the need of some amendments to the existing laws. The problem should be and is non-partisan. The Democrats, " y of the to e operat y of the m | repeal of the | which the Government | sha | wkich could be n Jennings Bryan, listened for a while to the talk of Government ownership and operation, but did not commit them- selves to it. Commerce Commis- | sien's recommendations are likely to; be far reaching in cffect, provided they are enacted into law. The commission proposes a new basis for establishing 8 level of rates. The new plan would | sbandon the principle of “fair return” | 28 it is now applie | The commission says frankly thet| | the rate bese proposal is likely to stir | up considerable controversy., It !".s' | coupled with this recommendation ! “recapture clause,” by| is entitled to recovbr one-half of the annual earn- | ings of carriers which are in excess of | the so-called fair return of 5.75 per cent on the value of the investments. By such a change in the law the roads d be able to retain earnings in years by which they would s in the lean fall below the! portant provision is that some | portios The commission urges the regulation of hany competitors of the ds, including motor trucks and pipe lines and water carriers.| just. At the same time, the | declares that the railroads es, by constructive leadership, meet, many of the problems of com- n g from the growth of new | busse: themsel | | | - in Manchuria. acceplanc Jepan and 2 of the League of Nations’ resolu- on the Manchurian dispute co- incided with President Hoover’s mild rences to the confiict in his foreign airs message to Congress. “Peace” is restored in Manchuria— with reservations. Japan reserves the Ch tior | tight to take measurcs against bandits, which means the right to resume mili- tary operations practically at will. China reserves any “remedies and rights” to which she is entitled under the League covenants and under treaties to which a party. The Japanese are pledged to withdraw troops “as quickly she is {as possible from invaded territory, and a neutral commission of inquiry is to study the whole Sino-Japaness coniro- v China “understands and ex- pects” that the neutral commission will first of all concern itseif with the with- drawal of Japanese forces, if it has not been completed when the commission arrives on the ground. Thus ends an- other Paris “peace” conference. President Hoover devotes a page of his message to narrating the sad course of events in China and the no less sad | course of events at Paris. The United | States, Mr. Hoover says, “has been | deeply concerned over the situation in Manchuria.” Because we signed the nine-power treaty and the Kellogg- Briand pact “we have a responsibility in maintaining the integrity ‘of China and a direct interest with other nations in maintaining peace there.” The President expresses. the belief that “public opinion in this country has appreciated the wisdom of the restraint” exercised by the outside nations in “bringing about a peaceful settlement” of the Manchurian imbroglio. The United States Government, Mr. Hoover says, “realized that the utmost patienee was desirable.” The President may find, before congressional discussion of his foreign affairs message is ended, that American popular sentiment is not so wholeheartedly satisfied as he thinks with the way in which “peace” has been preserved in the Far East. The American people are profoundly shocked by Japen's flouting of her solemn international obligations. They are shocked not only by Japan's action | in itself, with its disregard of China’s | sovereign national rights, but are even more dee stirred by the manner with t Japanese have disregarded separate pacts to which they i r. Hoover proclaims that we have a definite responsibility toward China. How has that responsi-| bility been shouldered? he rep-ris to Congress on | tragedy, President in accents of com- ss the forthcoming | Disarmament Conference Ln‘ He speaks of the ‘atmosphere in which the conference | S the one-year initiated by Italian Grandi. What sort | re of confidence” can | a world in which events like conquest of - Manchuria can be three are ted? How much c:nfidence in | disarmament can pre- | rid which knows that at| great and powerful member | 1. still adhere knows no | 1o of treaties | t dependence, a stoned world might be placed ges to respect a dis- can ent Lreacy? - ——— snaring g up her rivers, | from Scotland % Wwhica enjoys fish as they leap | K to their spawn- i remarkable thing in 1 is that these two coun- so long ago, still in their rivers in y have disappeared hickly settled ve these gam The Taxicab Ban. days of warning I the police yest: orce rigidly the taxicab ban on with the result that s were charged with ure to obey the regulation which into effect on December 2. Each of the thirty-four who scorned a rule designed to better conditions on this| busy artery was required to post a col- al of five dollars. The ban on Seventh street was made necessary by intolerable ~congestio: crested largely by the number of taxi- cabs cruieing on it. Only a sna ned by the ¢ d other The same thing was trae of F and G strects before the re- street, di went striction on taxicabs was placed on 1ose thorcughfares While in some cases the ban may be an inconvenience to shoppers, it will ‘hldln the days of the late wun-'m for the 'dhn.dhflm.‘ Patrons of stores may either phane for & cab, which will then be permitted to enter the stieet, or they may walk to any cross street where taxi cruising is allowed. As it has proved on F and G strgets, the new rule should work hard- ship on few and give benefit to many. ) ———— Quick Action in West Virginia. Happily the country is spared the unseemly spectacle of a protracted trial of the monster who has just been con- victed of murder in West Virginia. The case has been brought to a finish with dispatch and it is to be hoped that there will be little delay n the execu- tion of the sentence of death which sutomatically accompanies the finding of the jury. This case was particularly abhorrent in its circumstances. The crime was diabolical and at the time of its discovery sent a shock of horror throughout the land. But it was just the kind that certain types of minds delight to contemplate to the least de- tail. Fortunately the guilt of the mc- R | cused was demonstrated by the platnest of evidence. The charge was concen- trated upon one of the several murders which this fiend had committed. Thus it was possible to reach a conclusion without the duplication and elabora- tion 0 dear to the heart of the morbid- minded. An appeal has been taken as & matter of form, but it should be quickly met with denial. There is no Justice in protracting’ such a case or prolonging the life of one who has for- feited it by kis vile crimes. = A Wisconsin couple wanted to build @ fireplace for their Summer cabin which was to include a stone from every State in the Union. Answers to their Tequests were 5o enthusiastic that they have what they set out to get and a lot left over, including thirgy-one from foreign countries. One never knows; these may ~ome in handy later to build & spite wad, ————— Old-time Jumberland, Md., residents have declared that the appesrance and speech of the recent “hunger marchers” were in marked contrast to “Coxey’s Army” of 1894. There is & distinct com- pliment implied here for all the sur- vivors of the mayor of Massillon’s then host. ————— - One of Tulane’s All-America-caliber gridiron artists, who {s working his way through college, is said to hoid down no fewer than six separate and distinct real jobs. This may explain pertially, at , least, the present unemployment situation. ————— Featured among 1031 Christmas gifts are “lipstick towels.” They cannot be mistaken, it is announced, because they come plainly marked ‘Lipstick.” These may, or may not, supplant others that ere plainly marked “Pullman.” — - Paderewski, former Polish premier and perennial pianist, plans the erec- tion of a shaft in memory of Col. E. M. House. Better not erect it in the “Corridor” if they want to be sure of keeping it around. e Richmond has been famed as 2 State capital, as the last great stronghold of the Confederacy and on many other scores. Now comes another distinction: She has still in operation a miniature golf course. SNOOTING STARS, BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Comforting Consideration, When Autumn is grieying, Midst sunshine deceiving, We sigh for the Summer gone by, When the blossoms were smiling "Mongst breezes beguiling The birds as they fluttered on high. But there's one compensation That gives us elation When we are 'most tempted to sob; As we gather at table With appetites able, Nobody eats corn on the cob, What curious faces We met at the places Where elbows on table were dropped! The corn they went after With leering and laughter So fendish it ought to be stopped! Though Summer has left us And somewhat bereft us, Our bosoms with gratitude throb, To conquer dejection, , There comes this refiection: Nobody eats corn on the cob. Anti-Golden Rule. “What are you going to do for the men who have put you in your present sition?” "My dear sir,” said Senator Sorghum, “that is not the question. Prosperity is attained by observing what people can do for you, not what you can do for other people.” Businesslike Instincts. “You don’t beligve there is any Santa Claus?” said one small boy. “No,” replied the other; “when it comes to Christmas presents, 1 prefer some one who will have to meet me face to face and be responsible.” The Objection to Novelty. At humorous things I fain would roar; A jest, T truly prize it. Eut, if we've never met before, How shall I recognize it? Sincerity Test. “What's your idea of an honest man?” “An honest man,” replied Mr. Cum- rox, “is one who likes the same music te that he says he likes when ife is giving & musicale.” Credulity Sustained. “Do you believe all you read in the 5?” ure,” replied Farmer Corntossal. | “As soon as the paper ‘starts printin’ things I don’t belleve, I quit subscribin’ to it.” Santa Claus Suggestion. “If T was Santa Claus dis year,” Said Pickaninny Jim, “Wif more dan toys I would draw near Dat Christmas tree to trim. I'd git a bundle of dat stuff Called ‘money’ an’ I'd bring My dear old mammy cash enough To pay de rent till Spring.” “Sometimes,” said Uncle Eben, “people talks about bein’ a bird in & gilded cage ( when de troof is dat dey is too indolent to flop deir wings an’' do a little fyin® when dey gits de chance.” A 2 Put| away and finding them lwl“!:'hg;h’:c unheralded but im- portant actions of the every-day life. ‘The putting away is easy enough, but tke finding again is a different matter, as every household and office knows. Where is my old briar pipe? I put it right there in the top drawer of the secretary, and now it is gone. Are sure you put it in the top drawer’ Maybe it in the bottom drawer or down at the office in your desk. No, T remember cistinctly putting it in the top drawer of the secretary—and now it is gone. Well, let’s look around a bit. Here it is, just where you put it, in the bot- tom drawer. [ And so it goes. One may just have finished reading & certain book and have recalled a re- view of the same published in a certain copy of & well known magazine. Surely it will be easy enough to find it. One can see it, beginning at the top of the page and continuing over onto another. The reviewer said something or other about something or other. Now, that was absurd. Surely he did not read the book before he reviewed it, or he could not have got such an idea. Let us see. Here are coples of the magazine for several months back. It is in one of these surely. ‘Then it must No, not in this copy. be this one. Guess it isn't this copy, either. Well, there are four more—it is just a question of continuing the search. The stack dwindles, and the review does not come to light. It is—of course, of course—in the one missing copy. S o * x % It is often so with things one lays away. Perhaps housewives know this better than most people, although men in office have same &) ience. It is the old story of tyranny of material things. 'IPcrluu -unmml' people who h}:v! iven up gral for everything they can get their hands mmwndjy. after all. ybe the stress and strain of having | beca things and caring for them has got the Rgf; of them. Ithl: M: not to. W Diogenes, who preferred to live in a tub rather than in a house of his own, might have lacked the ability to care for a house. Paying the taxes and keeping his domicile in repair, and getting the coal in, and seeing to the planting of an other shrub, and water| the lawn— Perhaps 12 himsel, “Oh, bother is too much trouble to own & home S92 he went and lived in a tub, where he only had to repair a broken stave aecukmulL No doubt he fumed more about his broken stave than a modern e lder does over a big plumbing D Business men have gone to great | pains to construct filing system¥ which will enable them or their secretaries to i lay mlrhm«:ednummu- meyt or paper wanted. llm d:hst files go astray at times, i L poring o T suppascd over to be t and bull-high, as the fence people say. The human element, of course. If any one in a hurried a bill or any other sort of the wrong in the file, per into is no BY FREDERIC Democratic and Republican Pro- gressive leaders have just had pre- sented for their consideration a brand- new idea in American politics. It's a proposal that there be formed a sort of general staff of economic advisers, to be on duty at Washington during the session of Congress, and per- mquhrlg hereafter, if the scheme pans out. e suggastion has nothing to do with the “policy committee” which House and Senate Democrats have formed. The duty of the econcmic general staff would be not so much to plan a legislative program as to supply information and advice re- garding specific items in such a pro- gram. It would consist of professional economists for the most part, and largely of college professors, statistical experts and men skilled in research. The underlying purpose of the project, which has made a.lively appeal to Democratic and Progressive leaders, would be to prevent Congress going off half-cocked in such major fields as taxation, tevenue, agriculture, ing. unemployment insurance, arma- ments and the other subjects now cl for attention on Capitol Hill fact-finders and fact-facers unfettered by political considerations. * % ok x Amid the rush and bustle of other matters competing for the limelight in ‘Washi: n this week little attention was md to President Hoover's recom- me! for incorporation of the Department of Commerce and for ap- pointment of an Assistant Secretary for Merchant Marine. If Congress acts on the suggestion, it will be the first time that a semi-cabinet office was ever cre- ated to shepherd our trade interests on the high seas. In a recent radio address Assistant Secretary of Com- merce Julius Klein called on the Amer- iean shipping public to ship more goods in our own boats. Today vessels flyi the Stars and (_Vsh"‘pes carry only aboi 35 per cent of Uncle Sam’s foreign cargo business. Dr. Klein says there's no rea- son to_expect that ail of our foreign trade should be sent overseas in Amer- ican ships. But the tonnage we own today, he declares, certainly can take care of at least half of our export ship- ments on a competitive basis. Prob- ably it would be the task of an Assist- ant Secretary for Merchant Marine to educate American business men to ship patriotically. * ok koK Senatorial gentlemen begin with B certainly seem to be in the hard luck category. All of the three new solons whose credentials are under fire happen to have names com- mencing with the second letter of the alphabet—Bailey of North Carolina, Bankhead of Alabama and Barbour of New Jersey. Speaking of Bankhead, ‘Tom Heflin, hot and bothered, con- tinues to haunt the Senate chamber like a sailor who hates to leave the ship. Former members have courtesy access to the floor, the cloak rooms, the Senate restaurant and practically all thelr old perquisites except the seals they once occupied. The un- whose names ma senatorship vacant would not automatically give it to Heflin, It would mean another election and re- quire the man with the leather lungs and the papal complex to try again, * oK % If the management of the mer United States Lines, !.temsllo?‘les Mercantile Marine and Dollar Line can arrange it the steamship Leviathan will carry. the American delegation to the Geneva Disarmament Conference, sail- ing Jan 23. That would land the delegation "at Cherbourg on January 29 or 30 and permit it to reach Geneva 24 hours later, or three days before the conference is scheduled to open on February 2. The American party, including delegates, advisers, attaches and secretaries, is expected to number some 50 souls. Opinion persists that President Hoover will appoint Secretary of State Stimson as chief American spo at Geneva, * ok koK “The Administration and the World Court” is the theme on which James Grafton Rogers, Assistant Secretary of State, will hold forth in Philadelphis tonight before the American Founda- tion. The occasion is & World Court THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. moment, ¢lips | such bank- | staff would be a body of | United States Shipping Board in the | seating of Bankhead by declaring the | bell which will ring to warn the world of the error. Nor is there any red flag which will be hoisted if in a file of consecutive documents one is discovered missing. Some one may have abstracted it and falled to put it back. The interesting question is this: ‘Why is the only missing one the very one the searcher wants? Here are 99 papers, each one car&» fully documented. But it is never tHe ninety and nine the searcher seeks; it is the hundredth. Always it is the one which is not there, it seems. “Old man, you need & new filing sys tem,” says some one. ‘“Now, I don't want to take any of your time, but—" And he sits down and takes it. * X x ¥ ‘Women in particular have a Tralt | habit of putting things away carefully, | as they say. Putting a thing away carefully, of course, means hiding it so completely | that no one, not even the person who put it there, can ever find it. A place for everything and everything in its place—that was the old, orderly maxim, and & good one, too, but it pre- b an intensely orderly person. fle who always lays his pipe away in the top drawer of the secretary will be able to find it again if he invariably puts it there. It is only when he forgets his sys- tem angd ‘puts it in another compart- ment that he forgets where he latd it. ‘Thus the system of systems undoubt- edly is sameness. Once in the drawer, always in the top drawer. Then | the thing is done by instinct. | W | ‘The primary fault, tken, in the failure to find things lles in the human ele- | ment. The camera is not on the shelf where one placed it, not because it has | a material spite against the owner and | has moved itself, but because the would- be picture-taker left it at the office or | some other member of the household moved it. Thus co-operation may be said to be the keynote of success in this matter, as in many others. Some people will be inclined to say that most of the trouble in failing to find things comes use of the “other person,” who will not leave one’s desk alone, or who in- sists on running away with the very copy of the magazine one happens to want or who has a mania for tidiness. There will be some truth to this as- sertion. Often what appears to be dis- order to one will be very orderly to another. Many a lawyer's coffice is a prime instance of this. The essentially rim and tidy person may regerd it as , | a disorderly mass of papers, old filing cases and musty documents. The lawyer, however, knows to a mhc just where he has put away all briefs. He has his clients’ business well in hand and asks for no assistance. An orderly person might create such confusion by “setting things to rights” that the attorney would not be able to find a single thing he wanted. ‘The same applies to many a desk, rently untidy and chaotic to an outsider, but well kept and vastly or- derly from the viewpoint of the desk- | user himself. é Just as some people have ‘curious per- sonal systems of remembering things, so such desk-users possess their own ways | of knowing where what they seek is. Like the femous lambs which come home wagging their tails behind them, users of papers and documents find them if you will let them | will alone. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. | dinner rally, timed to draw the coun- try’s attention to Senate consideration of President Hoover's recommendation that the United States, after a 12-year hesitation waltz, join the international tribunal of justice. The American Foundation was endowed by the late Edward W. Bok for popular education in peace relations. In addition to the State Department spokesman, the Phila- | delphia bangueters will hear from Pres- ! ident Guy Thompson of the American Bar Association; from Julius H. Barnes in the name of the United States Cham- ber of Commerce; from representatives of the National Grange and the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, and from Mrs, Pranklin D. Roosevelt, speaking for a group of national women's organizations. * X ok x Senator Borah has received an ardent recruit in his campaign for recognition of Soviet Russia tative Wil- liam R. Sirovich, Democrat, of New York. Dr. Sirovich spent three weeks in Russia last Summer and came away a full-fledged believer in the advisability of American diplomatic intercourse with Moscow. He has a speech on ice which will expound his views on the subject in the House. Senator Borah’s resolu- tion for recognition has never emerged from the Foreign Relatians Committee. It automatically dies with the expiration of a Congress, but the expectation is that the Idahoan will presently drag it forth again and perhaps seek Senate action. Even if the resolution were adopted, it would have no mandatory effect upon the President and the State Department. It would merely be an expression of the Sennt:'s opinion. * K K Rear Admiral Prank Brooks Upham, U. 8. N, chief of the Bureau of Navi- , who has just called spades spades in connection with naval cheese- ang plans, first saw the light of day far from salt water, He was born in Arizona. A stocky, bespectacled sailor- man, he looks more a scholar than a ter, but his plain speaking on the fln\nx of ships snd personnel re- veals Admiral Upham as a scrapper with plenty of intestinal investiture. He's been in the Navy roundly 40 years—ever since his graduation from Annapolis, in 1893—and has seen all of the service ashore and afloat | i long interval. It's an open secret that Admiral Upham took his courage in both hands to say out loud what large numbers of naval officers think about the economy program, but | lacked the right to say. Upham had| the right and dared to'us! it £ Dr. Meyer Jacobstein, former member |of the House of Representatives from the Rochester, N. Y. district, & rock- ribbed Democrat, was in Washington for the opening of Congress and the renewing of old ties on Capitol Hill, h now a prosperous banker in Rochester, Jacobstein acknowledges the lure of political Washington. His friends prophesy his return to Con- gress some day. He is a close asso- clate of Gov. Roosevelt, and predicts his nomination and election in 1932. (Copyright, 1031.) Do Not Forget to Feed The Birds in Winter To the Editor of The Star: As Winter draws near and Nature's food supplies dwindle, I am wondering how many residents of Washington end nearby places are planning to feed the birds in our parks and vicinity that are 50 dependent upon the charity of their human friends during this season when Nature sleeps. Their food supply is necessarily very slim in Winter and when the ground is frozen and covered with snow it is entirely cut off and they face starvation unless their kind friends come to their help. Since they have no Community Chest to aid them, cannot we each be a Community Chest to them by seattering bread—which ordinarily in y cases is thrown into the garbage m—lh shelt.ercddplac,(s. ;iziere such is eager] and enjoyed? ks ELEANOR W. HITE. ———— & | congratulated on the | {Pleads Against Fox g Blockaded. Prom the Duluth Herald. oesn’t seem probable that Senator s : and the other powers of ibe will ever get together, T ‘ IWnshngl,' on’s Police Force Is Commended To the Editor of The Star: Many times recently I have volced vigorous protest against the Hoover .mubd{m'- policies, but after lis- tening for two days to the utterances of m{"m marchers” I am cured. all, Herbert Hoover is President of the United States, and the average citizen does not realize the reaction experienced by & Tepresentative citizen until he actually hears & mob of fanat- ical Communists expound their revolu- tionary and seditious theorles. You soon realize that,common defense is far more important than political opposition. The “hunger marchers” came and went without a single disturbance, for one, and only one, reason: There was tog much evidence of police power and back of that the definite knowledge that the silk glove contained an iron fist. Had there been a weak or in- different attempt to police the demon- stration our Capital would have suf- fered an international disgrace. I had the privilege of being on duty with police headquarters during the entire period of the emergency, and I want the citizens of the country to know that we have as fine a body of police in Washington as ever wore the uniform. They certalnly are to be efficlent way the handled the situation. e = For our police to show this esprit de corps and spirit of co-operation so seon after emerging from the many morale- breaking weeks they have been through is nothing short of mirvelous. Gen. Glassford contributed to this spirit to 8 large degree. He is a friend of the force, and his commands of “let's go,” and not “you go,” have inspired the utmost confidence of his command. It looks as though Gen. Crosby made the ideal selection for superintendent of police. A character with less force would utterly ruin the organization at this time. Gen. Glassford combines the rare but opposing qualities of stern command and good nature. The ring of leadership in his tone, the stamp of authority in his manner is used with- out making himself either disliked or taken too lightly. Washington is not through with so- called “hunger marohers,” but the citi- zens of our commuynity can rest assured that any situation will be adequately dealt with. The administration can likewise feel sure that, regardless of political opposition, the real American, lA::gel mob like that, cannot but re. m Y the famous ecommand of French general, “They shall not pass.’ RO T F. JONES. Spanish Church Law Regarded Oppressive To the Editor of The Star. The dispetch from Madrid printed in The Evening Star for December 2 un- der the e “New Constitution Ap- proved in Spain” is confusing when it says that, “the new fundamental code separates church and state.” The new Spanish constitution provides quite the contrary. The status of the church has been the subject of heated debate in the Constituent Cortes. Minister of Justice and Worship Fernando de los Rios, in- troducing articles 3, 24 and 25, which refer to the church, spoke at great length on this subject, arguing precisely that to recognize in the constitution the Jjuridical personality of the church would separate the church from the state and make the church independent of the state. Mr. Botello Ascenci, speaking for the committee in charge of these articles in the Cortes, declared that the purpose of the committee had been to destroy the religious unity of the Spanish nation, which he con- demned as a “monopoly of & single church.” T o Melqm?u varez, e: g opinion vhich finally prevailed in the Cortes, stated that he had never been in favor of separation of church and state, because, to be separate, church and state must be independent of each other; and he demanded that the church be subjected to civil authority in all her acts. $The only group in the Cortes which accepted aé;::nmn of church and state were the tholics. The Cortes refused to recognize the juridical personality of the church and thus make separation of church and state possible. The new constitution de- clares in article 24: “All religious confessions will be treated as associations subject to spe- cial legislation.” It thus denies the juridical personal- ity of churches and refuses to grant the church even the small degree of inde- pendence conceded to other associa- tions. Article 46 contains the following: “The right of churches to teach their respective doctrines in their own estab- lishments, subject to inspection by the state, is recognized.” It thus denies to the church liberty direct educational institutions, a lib- rty which it concedes to the Socialist and all non-religious groups. No constitution contaf such pro- yisions can fairly be said to provide for separation of church and state. Having recently returned from Ma- drid, where I was an interested observer of the Constituent Cortes, I feel confi- dent that you and your readers will| him agree with. me that no good purpose can be served by drawing a cloak over the breach created by this new consti- tution between the Catholic people of Spain and the government of the new republic. It is interesting to note that the op- position to woman suffrage was based | on the charge that the women of Spain ' are Catholic by a great majority, and that to extend to them the suffrage would endanger the anti-Catholic pro- gram of the present republican govern- ment. WILLIAM F. MONTAVON, K. 8. G, LL. D. People Need W;ork, Not “Humiliating Relief” To the Editor of The Star: Theoretically, the feasibility of tem- porary relief to unemployed through the much-heralded woodyards and other similar agencies has been demonstrated, in print, but any intelligent person wi readily concede that something more substantially enduring than these well intentioned h; rmics, however beneficently and judiciously adminis- tered, is urgently needed to bring about the end of the distressing situation. Charitable institutions, public homes and civic benevolence may be extremely useful in caring for the aged, the infirm and the indigent, but & healthy and capable American needs no aid from that scurce. Work is what he needs, not humiliating rellef of very brief dura- tion. DANIEL PAGE. —p— Hunting as Unfair ‘To the Editor of The Star Now that the hunting season ls on, may I not plead again in your columns for the fox, hoping thet some one may read these lines and wake up to the fact how lacking in fair play [n’zx We 'do 80 many oruel things be- ing fis. cause we do not think and many who follow the hounds are not awarg that these foxes are ralsed in oaptivity and thereby lose much of the cunning of the wild creature, They are then turned loose by thelr owners, to wham they many times turn for protection, and then the thrill of the chase begins; humans and a pack of hounds, 20 or more together, with as many well trained horses, all after one poor fox And this s the sport 'mrrv(f into by people of refinement and culture and whom we look (o for the fine things of life, We put a ban on eockhghting and the like. where Lwo ereatures are equally matched, and yot we condone and make & groat yaarly feativity of the hunt. Even our song writer » word to say for the fox when anays, “Would 1 tell the way he went? No, not I, as he trudged o ur!ly‘ wearlly by.” MARY B CLARK, hunt- ANSWERS TO QUESTION ‘This is a special department, devoted solely to the handl of les. This paper puts at your the services of an extensive or tion in Wash- ington to serve you in any capacity that relates to information. This service is free. Failure to make use of it de- prives you of benefits to which you are entitled: Your obligation is only 2 cents in coin or stamps, inclosed with your inquiry for direct reply. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D. Q. How are altitude records of avia- tors verified?—R. H. T. A. When an aviator attempts to break an official record he .carries a barograph, which has been sealed. When he lands the barograph, un- opened, is sent to the Bureau of Stand- ards or some similar organization and opened and tested. Q If a woman was naturalized 15 years ago through her marriage to an American citizen and now divorces her husband will she lose her citizenship?— E. L M. A. She will not. Q. How long is St. Marys River?— E L. A. This river, connecting Lake Supe- rior with Lake Huron, is 63.6 miles in length. Q. Where are the Dodecanese Islands, over which Greece and Italy are having sharp diplomatic exchanges, and what is their history and significance?—L. §. islands.” They are in the Agean Sea near the coast of Asia Minor, and al- though long an obstacle to Graeco- Italian friendship, have been confirmed by the treaties of Sevres and Lausanne where the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the wonders of the ancient werld, stoed; Gos, Kaiymnos, Leros, Nisyros, Telos, Syme, Khalke, Astypalai, Karpathos, Gasos, Patmos and Pipsos. They figure in classic Greek history and also in Greek mythology. The islands were un- der rule of the Turkish firmans from 1652 to 1835, paying annual tribute. In :lu warl hetweenu:tflly 909 Italy occup e islands, ing the aid of the islanders through a promise to make them autonomous. An assembly on Patmos actually proclaimed the State of the Agean and wholly of Greek race. The islands ae unimportant economically, sponge fish- ing being the only uuxmfiy, but they are regarded as strat: ly lmpor?.‘ 13 from a naval viewpoint. Italy has for- tified Leros. Q. What does the word “taman” in the “Rubaiyat” mean?—L. J. A. 1t is an Arabic word, which may uifillme: or be translated ‘“end,” “fi nt” “perfection.” { i Q. How many children -did Mark | Twain have?—M. L. M. A. He was the father of Susie, Jean and Clara Clemens. Susie died when a young girl; Miss Jean died shortly be: fore the death of her father; Miss Clara Clemens is in gfl'm life Mme. Gabrilo- vitsch. She is the author of the new mx:' book called “My Pather, Mark fi' gvmz is Doggett’s coat and badge? A. It is the prize for and the name of a rowing race for working men, held every August 1 on the Tharhes, the course being from London Bricge to Cadogan Pier, Chelsea. It was insti- tuted in 1716 by Thomas Doggett, a Dublin actor, in honor of the aceession A. The word Dodecanese means “12\ in Italian sovereignty. They are Rhodes, | | | | and Turkey in |A. T. obtain- [ BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. of George 1. He hung up a prize of a bright-colored coat and a silver . Six young watermen who have just completed their appren are eligi- ble to enter eac! 3 y prizes have been added in the gourse of gen- erations. 4 Q Which President_had the first Christmas tree in the White House’— A M. . g lions of other stars, which are divided in groups or constellations, in what group or constellation does our sun belong?—J. H. A. The sun, the center of our solar system, is not in any constellation. The stars in the heavens are merely divided into constellations for convenlence in studying them. Q. 1Is ermine the fur of a white rab- bit?—P. B. A. True ermine comes from a mem- ber of the weasel family, the lesser weasel, or stoat, which has an almost fluu white coat in the Wintertime. owever, there are a number of inferior furs which ate dressed up in imitation of true ermine, the most important of which is the white rabbit. Q. What is meant by & “web perfect- "?—J. C. H. perfected; or, in other , of the web are printed on and the printed product is then folded, ready for use or delivery. The | outstanding example of this kind of press is the modern newspaper press. Q. What did_the early settlers call petroleum?—J. B. H. A A. When Europeans first came to America they found the Indians using crude petroleum as a cure for various ailments, and the settlers of New York, Psnmylvunh and Ohio called it rock ofl. Q. the W many of the inhabitants of plnes are Americans A. The latest population show @ total of 5,776 Americans of a total population of 10,314,310, Q. How many issues of commemora- Ber fiv,:'l:mp. ‘have been made since 19287 A. The Post Office ent says there have been 18 hl?erm Q. Who has the power to impeach Pl’;sid’:_l';lt of the U;l ZMYTM. D. . e House of Representatives, un- der the Constitution, has the sole power to bring an impeachment. Q. What particular poem of Ovid's caused him to be banished by Augustus for “perverting the morals of the Ro- man youth”?—B. L. 8, "“:‘d Themc:l\::e otthth: nelxuc. which uni ceath of the poet, was never stated. Macaulay has called the “Ars Amatoria” the most immoral poem ever written, but tradition exists that Ovid also was concerned in an intrigue between his friend Stlanus and the Em- granddaughter, peror’s Julia. . ¢ melt t of tin? _'Q'gwuwmmn of A. is 232 d m“lpk.E uouneumr:x: Q. What were the accommoZations of the famous baths of the Roman Em- perors Caracalla (186-217, AD.) and Diocletian (284-305, AD.)—F. E. A. They had marble accommodations for 1,600 and 3,000 persons, respectively, the water being supplied from the great agueducts. | Charles Curtis that he will ‘soek: | nomination in the Republican conven- | tion for his present office is some observers as a possible indication of his estimate of the political trend, | Many think it is evidence of his belief | that the national ticket faces & more promising field than the party candi- |date who may seek the senatorship e T e Xington Leader (Republi is convinced by the fflfl?‘?}ut "hl is willing to make the race with Mr. Hoover" that he is “a loyal Y man and faithful to the lortunes of the President.” The Asbury Park Evening (independent Democratic) sees him as, by his action, having “cast a belated vote for the Hoover iministration by deciding to stick by it.” In fact, “the Curtis deci- sion might be regarded as a sharp stroke in polities, for it rather mli.dlfl's the mg;l:n_c‘g:tb:&r ‘Hoover again” 1] Observer (indepen- dent Democratic). ; o “There is no that the Re- Annouonocement by Vice President re- | Springfield |can), * should have the honor. | ducted himself very ofice and has made s efficient presiding officer. He has been popular with the farmers of Kansas. Democratic swing in | presidential election, |talk of replacing him with a younger |man, a more progressive man or one slightly moister, it seems to be in the cards that Mr. Curtis shall run again.” * X %k x “Mr. Curtls, it is true,” asserts the Chicego Tribune (independent Repub- |lican), “takes agambie. not only with what the national convention will do but, against greater odds, with what the people will do. It is not improbable | willing to run on the ticket next year “as Republican candidate for Vice Presi- dent will be regarded as & game stal- | wart and will be given the job with the acclaim of his fellows, a warrior of stout | heart.” | “The Curts necessarily setile the choice of a Re- | publican candidate for Vice President.” asserts the publican national convention will | the nomination,” according m"':'fii' by | had lost bis hold on his | | | ’m t in the convention any one who is | Vice President, the Altoona Mirror (in- dependent) says: Vice President Curtis Gives Aid to /Prophets by Decision because then to And Mr. Curtis, they add, knows aii o e ¥ e Kansas the Minneapolis be defeated for Vice President the President was unpopular be defeated for “some significance is attached fact that Mr. Curtis in his an- nouncement failed to That to the 2 Post (Democratic) sug- gests that Mr. Curtis’ decision “must mean, of course, thet Mr. Hoover is | He may serve fo counteract the recent | willing to have Mr. Curtis as his run- that State in a | ning mate, and if that is so perhaps Mr. Despite all the ' Curtis’ nomination is also assured.” * x k% But is tke nomination of Mr. Curtis assured? The Akron ¢ ot, declaring: “In making this decision Mr. Curtis has not taken account of the habits of a national convention. What if next year’s conclave does not want him and gives the yomination to another?” As to the importance of the of n of “Some folks affect a | mild sort of contempt for the vice presi- dential office. Yet the chances are | that not one of the carpers would turn Daily Press (Re- | | publican). and the New London Day (independent Republican) | “It is int to note tha President Curtis, if nominated snd elected in 1932, would be the first Re | publican Vice President to serve two terms. Stnce 1856 only two men have ibeen nominated twice for the office by the Republican party.” As to the reason for his final choice between running again for the Senate | from Kansas and Tenomina- ! tion to his present office, the Louisville Courier-Journal (independent) remarks: | “The interpretation, according to du\cyuv N e o | sary should it be 5o that Le might be- come President by chance of fate, as succeeded velt £ | his back upon it if it were really of- | fered to him.” As to the Ppreference. does not | sponsibilities that always hover over if, tial re- the Dayton Dally News ¢(independent Democratic) points out that “the United Jonger than is now neces~ ! of view, hopes and prejudices, will range Jani suspicion, i b from surmise and conjecture to reasoned The secret of the impelling motive remains locked in a bosom impenetrsble to political X- % x % “Had he decided upon the senator- shlf Democratic leaders would have hafled it as evidence of lack of faith |in the ability of the Republican to win” s3ys the New News (Republican) as it notes Curtis “has refused to give them opportunity that they hoped The Lynchburg News (Democraf the, matter as follows: Republican interpretation is that | Curtis, after long consideration after careful study of the feld. to accept a renomination President because convineed s e drop be foolish for js mouth in order to snap he Democratic Mr. Curtis, after a © | cided that no Republican. mot Ourtis, would have amy elected to the Senate and that it % §E? ] 1] { i { i ablebodied EE tude of nggv £ i (Mass.) claims that “a Vice President has no unless reason for he is an for the President no man can take up the heavy of the presidency in the pleni- strength and with the full success in the years follow- his ” On the other the Sioux City Journal (indepen- lent Republican) thinks that the “main . however, as time - u'fdo? for the 8F romise # i KiE.