Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1932, Page 8

A8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. January 15, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 1 and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office; 110 East 42nd 8t. Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. European Office: 14 RtJenl .. London, Engla. . . Editor Rate by Carrier Within the City. Btar ... 45c per month and Bunday Star 90c per month | 65¢ per month 5c_per copy of each month | rs may 1 or telephone ( National 500 s | Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ails and Sunday.....1 3. $10.00: 1 mo. All Other States and Canada. Daily and Su 1¥r.$12.00: 1 mo aily $8.00. 1 mo.. Bunday 35000 1 mo’. day £1.01 50 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exc Iy entitled e of wll r.ews dis- otherwise cred Relief—for the Whole People. Every effort must be made by the leaders of Congress to expedite final enactment of the so-called reconstruc- | tion bill. This measure is expected to be pessed by the House today. But as it differs from the passed by the Senate. it will, in all probability, have to go to conference. Both houses are represented as being insistent upon the amendments that each has added. And after Congress completes its work the President must make the appointments to the Board of Directors of the Re- construction Finance Corporation, en- abling it to get to work. No effort should be spared to cut the corners and put the bill in final shape. Congress has been in session six weeks. Nearly two weeks of that period were lost with the Christmas hoidays. And if there has been even relative speed so far in handling this | bill, the actual time spent on it must be considered in relation to the fol- Jowing descriptions of the emergency quoted from the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency report on Janu- ary 6 Unless vigprous financial support can be promptly rendered the inevitable consequences must be increased diffi- culties for every branch of business. * * * the country * * * is eager | for the prompt enactment of a meas- | ure guaranteeing Government support, su#h as is provided by this bill. ‘That this step should be taken with & minimum of delay is the unanimous opinion. Morcover, if the machinery provided by the bill cannot be set in motion without loss of time. the op- poriunity for good which might other- wise be accomplished will inevitably be sacrificed and the azid when offered or made available may come too late. During the debate on the bill in the House it has been pointed out that speed in enactment of the measure is of the utmost importance. Represent- ative Underhill of Massachusetts went 80 far as to express the belief that “if we had realized the seriousness of the situaticn soon after we convened and had shortened our Christmas vacation, irrespective of what was done before, and had passed some measures of relief, I do not believe that the Satur- day before the new year 22 banks would have gone out in North Carolina and I think, an equal number in South Carolina and several in my own State. As 1 said, I do not offer this as criti- cism. We could not anticipate how serious the situation was.” Yet there has been delay already and more delay is threatened in the eventual process of substituting the Senate bill for the House bill, or vice versa, or froning out their differences in con- ference. Such delays as have been encoun- tered and are threatened are not due to natural doubt that might arise as to the efficacy of the measure itself. There are few such doubts on any- body's part. The trouble is in the at- , against which the House was ed so well by Mr. Luce of Massachu- ¢ attempting to make the bill ibus measure of relief for the of particular interests, classes he farmers have in getting a front es, or one of them, has defeated in their attempt to get on the band wagon. So far the House has made a good record in getting rid number of proposals that would benefit suc- | | | | | | ‘While there have been no public state- ments from those in charge of athletics at either West Point or Annapolis, a very distinct feeling exists that in the near future differences will be ironed out and the colorful game played as of yore. Unquestionably, the friendly feud in foot ball between the Army and the Navy should be revived, if not for char- ity, then as a sportsmanlike event of national interest. Probably no athletic spectacle so stirs the patriotism of the American people as this annual game To the general public it makes com- paratively little difference which team is the victor, but the public feels a natural pride in a clean exhibition of gridiron skill between the young men of its military services. The Army- Navy game hms become an institution. No technicalities should prevent a re- newal of relationship next December. France at Geneva. It can hardly be accounted a good omen for the success of the Geneva Disarmament Conference, Wwhich will open on February 2, that Andre Tardieu will be a member, if not chief of, the French delegation. M. Tardieu has just been made minister of war in the reconstituted Laval cabinet. In that capacity the astute young statesman who was on duty in Washington during the war will come close to being the dominating figure in the Geneva meetings, for, as all ‘the world knows, no decisions can be taken there over the veto of France. M. Tardicu is the very flower of that school of French thought which, with the persistence that the republic's gallant troops at Verdun once sald “Thou shalt not pass!" today trumpets to the world: “No disarmament without security!" The naval powers which met and dis- agreed at the London conference of 1930 have vivid recollections of M. Tardieu. He was then premier of France, or was until a cabinet crisis which broke out at Parls while the conference sat in London. Indeed, until the French poli- ticlans composed their differences con- ference affalrs remained in hopeless deadlock, for it was the mutual in- transigence of France and Italy over naval parity that shadowed the whole London proceedings. M. Tardieu from first to last stood out against Itallan pretensions to equality at sea with France. As Signor Mussolini was no less insistent upon Italy’s position, the conference finally incubated only a three-power ~Anglo-American-Japanese limitation agreement. It had been hoped until now that a reconciliation of the French and Italian viewpoints on naval matters might be the outstanding result of the Geneva Conference, which is otherwise, un- fortunately, none too rich in promise of practical results. But with ultra- nationalist Andre Tardieu on the job for France, it would require a strong admixture of optimism to look for any wider concessions than Italy at London, or during protracted negotiations since then, achieved. Germ:any in & way holds the key to the Geneva Disarmament Conference as well as to'the Lausanne Reparations Conference. ~ Certainly 1f Lausanne, which comes first, reveals a Reich stub- bornly determined to end rcparations once for all and a France as unhesitant to retaliate against the “defaulter” and “treaty breaker,” the prospect for tangible results at Geneva can only be depicted in gloomy tints. It may not be & prospect &s pleasing to the eye as might be wished by the hordes of well- intentioned peace advocates, mainly women, massing for demonstrations at Geneva. But it is one which should be envisaged by all who would know the actuz] background of caming events on the shores of Lake Leman, which so soon are to echo with the thunders of idealistic and polyglot oratory. —————————— The “midge,” “punkie” or ‘“no-see- um,” so well known to all sportsmen who visit the North woods, can, it is claimed, pass through the eye of a small needle. The trouble is that it devotes so little time to this interesting athletic stunt. | —r—— | “warned against rack- | like warning a Chicago is eteers.” Somewhat dog against flea: ——— s. Candidates and Near-Candidates. President Hoover's hat was tossed in the ring for him yesterday by Walter F. Brown, his Postmaster General. It has been taken for granted that the Presi- | dent would stand for renomination. In | | up the bill with amendments 7 ]r: :n,n than difficult to ad- | recent months, however, rumors that he . The demand of the coun-|Would be content with one term have try now is that the House continue|been spread. and, further, suggestions { have been made by anti-Hoover Repub- this good record, under the leadership : of able men. and that the conferees | licans that the President declare him- T House and Senate strive to strip | SEIf out of the race so that some other the bill clean of amendments that will | Candidate could be s “:‘ "’;f cqn? yn's st a in any degree impair its usefulness M. Brown's istalement Sinab e tlow up the process of its administra. | President will stand for renomination gt ™ | clears the atmosphere of these rumors remembered that Congress | At Mr. Hoover might take himself out SR The, Of the race. To those who have thought + | seriously of the matter it has seemed or must be is dealing an emergency is to tell the| that its them bill is not for the the rallra It is not for mv‘i are doing now ates save uch, gpecific relief of that list enumerated by Mr. Tucker of Virginia—"farmers laborers, merchants, doctors or law- | but, as he declared | the farmers. of it is for the | relief “of the whole people of the United States.” The bill is not a pork barrel in disguise. It is not a measure to i flate the currency or to inflate values b is designed to apply emergent rem- edies in a period of dangerous deflation. | It sets up machinery that can work at top speed, unincumbe y Ted tape, for direct aid for vast and valuable en- terprises that must be saved. It is not signed to repair damage already done, to prevent future damage now threatened. This is an emergency emergent measure. Emergent steps must be taken to enact it without more loss of time. vers as Army-Navy Foot Ball. The two annual foot ball games that the Army and Navy have staged for charity have evidently done more than merely to provide assistance to the un- fortunate. They have renewed a very definite agitation among graduates, mid- ~ | nomination in opposition to Mr. Hoover, | ot beat somebody with nobody. The bill is an ! incredible that any one should believe | that Mr. Hoover should retreat from politics at this time. To do so would have been tantamount to retiring under fire. He has made a fight, in difficult times, for Republican policles. He will continue to make that fight. With Mr. Hoover'’s candidacy defi- nitely determined, the Progressive Re- publicans from the West are on notice of what to expect. If they are to put forward candidates for the presidential They can- Sena- tor Hiram Johnson of California has been urged repeatedly to get into the race, and so has Senator Borah of Idaho. One difficulty which confronts the Progressives is to center on a single candidate against the Republican Presi- dent. Evidences of jealousy among the Progressive leaders crop up with con- siderable regularity. Those who have no presidential ambitions—and there are some of them—wander from one possible candidate to another, causing more and more confusion. The Hoover hat in the ring looms large. The difficulty of defeating a sit- ting President for renomination has been proved many times in the past. ‘The regular Republicans will rally about i the candidacy of President Hoover. Some of the Republicans in the East they must do so before long ghipmen, cadets and the public for a resumption of relationship between the two institutions; an agitation that had nite refusals of former President Calvin mands respect; but de man dat 388 impatience was not stilled as Brook-. soparently fluffed out as the<years Coolidge and of Ambassador Dawes to every word he means ulk{‘ o0 much.” hart’s babble flowed on, Then, with ! have been urging the party to select THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, BRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1932. ! rolled by with no gridiron eontuu.'be considered as possible candidates and their espousal of the cause of President Hoover have effectively stopped such movements. While the atmosphere has been cleared on the Republican side of the political fence, there has been no such clearitg on the Democratic side. Democracy’s foremost presidential pos- sibilities have yet to declare themselves openly. Gov. Ritchie of Maryland, it is true, has come forward with a frank statement that he would be glad to be President of the United States. Last Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and”the former Governor of the Empire State, Alfred E. Smith, de- livered addresses at great Democratic gatherings, but neither opened his lips about presidential candidacies. In Bos- ton, where Mr. Smith spoke, there was a demonstration when an admirer declared that Smith would be drafted for the presidential nomination, and newspaper reports are to the effect that Mr. Smith will not do anything to prevent the use of his name in the presidential preferential primary States If the last be true, Mr. Smith can be regarded as a candidate for the Democratic nomination. Sooner or later this Democratic presidential situa- tlon must have a showdown. ———— A Persistent Britisher. Bir Malcolm Campbell appears to be a difficult man to please, It would seem that any one who has driven an auto- mobile at more than two hundred and forty-five miles an hour for a world record and lived to recount his sensa- tions would be more than satisfied. But not so with the British captain, who was knighted by King George for his achievement. He does not think that that is enough speed, and so through his American representative he has applied to the City of Daytona, Florida, and his request has been granted, to lengthen the runway on the smooth, hard sands of the beach by demolishing piers along the course. Two miles additional, mak- ing eleven miles in all, will then be avallable for the new record he hopes to create. Sir Malcolm has always maintained that the nine-mile runway was too short to get the maximum out of his bullet-like machine. In his record- breaking effort he used four miles to get started, one mile for the record and the other four miles to stop, but he claimed that his car was not at its peak speed when it entered the measured mile and that it was con- stantly gaining momentum when he had to decelerate to come gradually to a stop. And strangely enough it | is the stopping that is the most hazard- ous feature of these tests, the slightest miscalculation tending to throw the! car into a skid. With the lengthened course, Sir Mal- calm will be able to add a mile oni each end, and if he is correct in his | belief that his machine will do close | to three hundred miles an hour a new and imposing record will be set up. His efforts will be watched with interest. = B A Sy When Maj. L'Enfant laid out Wash- ington, who could ever have foreseen, among other things, that the Federal City would one day become the mecca of heavyweight wrestling “artists” and fans? —————— The United States Naval Academy seems to produce a yearly output of graduates that is either far too great or far too small. —————— The Balkan Quartet will now render “And Another Little Moratorium Won't Do Us Any Harm.” ——e—— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. night, in New York and Boston, the; The tremendous popularity of the expression “O. K.” with the juvenile population is not difficult to account for. No schoolboy of the age of 10 or :.l‘2 years would think of replying with an ;3 will” or “All right” or a mere “Yes. Evidently the expression is considered a sort of sign of manliness by the small boys of the present generation. It is almost as if they had a secret society of their own in which the pass- word was spelled “okeh,” or “okay,” or simply abbreviated to “O. K.” The spelling makes no difference, after all. The boys do not enter into the derivation of the phrase. Tt is the sound evidently which gets them. * koK K 0. K. Yes, there is something satisfying in it. Like all such expressions, however, overuse renders it little less than idiotic, It is the inevitableness of the rejoinder which irks. If only one of them once in a Whllc‘ would yell “All right!” But not & cne ever does, “O. K.” flashes through the air. It is O. K. here and O. K. there until the listener shrinks to hear any one sk one of them to do anything. An honest “Yes” would be a relief. ko One has but to think over the words and phrases popular at times among adults to realize the essential natural- ness of the thing. “Twenty-three for you!” for instance. If that phrase was used once many ears ago, it was used a million times— ow many million times no one dared hazard a guess then and could not now. T Shiould warey i Wes another Bl of essential silliness which nevertheless had a tremendous vogue. “Yes, I have no bananas!" although & song title, came to rejoice in a verbal following all its own. Even “I faw down and go boom" lasted for a few months. ‘The use of an expression such as . K.” then, cannot be held to be other than natural. The only trouble with it is that it tends to inhibit the use of the standard words whose place it takes. * ok ok K Grown people as well as children have a great deal to learn about the h;nut use of the simple afMrmative “Yes.” It is at once the best and the most abused word of its type. Sneers have been directed at it, so that those who use it to keep in favor with another are called “yes-men.” No one has ever heard of any “no-men.” It used to be the fashion for children to say “Yes, sir” when speaking to their elders, but today a plain “Yes” is all that is required. When we were going to school the child who should have answered teacher with an honest “Yes” would have been called “impudent.” What a word “impudent” was, to be sure! Any child who displeased an elder was called impudent, without it mean- ing anything in particular. It hap- pened to be one of those words which sound as if they should mean a great deal, whether they do or not. * K ok % The power of words over the human race is thus exemplified early in the in- dividual life. Boys who instinctively | realize that “impudent.” as applied '/J‘ themselves. means little or nothing, readily seize upon “O. K.” as being | another of these wide pleasantries | | | It probably is less in disparagement of Hiram Johnson's vote-getting powers than it is in tribute to the invincibility of the Hoover machine that adminis- trationists say the Senator couldn’t muster 25 delegatestagainst the Presi- dent. Hence and therefore, White House composure in the face of a possible Johnsonian threat in the North Dakota primaries and at points East and West. Of the 1,000-odd men and women who'll sit in the Republican national conven- tion_ G. O. P. regulars are ready to wager that at no time will Hoover con- trol fewer than 1,000 of them. The one and only chance of stopping the Presi- dent’s renomination lies in a stampede. There is the history of the preceding Chicago Republican Convention of 1920, Satisfactory Conditions. Oh, Willie has a sled and skates Which look exceeding nice; The landscape he investigates In vain for signs of ice. We think of many a Wintry day ‘When he went gliding 'round And caught pneumonia by the way, And very nearly drowned. We've tied a bunch of ribbons smart Upon the little sled; As bric-a-brac or works of art, The skates hang overhead. And while we do the best we can From home to banish strife, We say, “Stand pat, oh, weather man! You're saving Willie's life!” Erudition. “How is your boy Josh getting along with his books?" “First rate,” replied Farmer Corn- tossel. “He's learned a whole lot.” “Knows more than you do, I bet.” “I won't say that. But he kin tell me a lot of the things I already know in language I can’t understand.” If you don't agree with a man as to the way to have peace, he immediately accuses you of wanting war. Preparation. A man should think before he speaks, Composure to be gaining. And sometimes he should pause for weeks And take athletic training. Always a Consideration. “You never lectured for compensa- tion, did you?” “I won't say that” replied Senator Sorghum. “Whenever I spoke in public, I expected my compensation in votes in- stead of cash.” Business is not nearly as sociable as it was when the value of a salesman was estimated largely by his ability to tell funny stories. Comparison. “I'm glad I'm not a Congressman,” Said Miggleton McGee. “The toil for which each day I plan Is quite enough for me. Up to my desk at morn I sit. At noon my lunch I take. And then until it’s time to quit I bravely stay awake. “A Congressman may never know Just when for work he's due. He dares not falter or be slow. His joys are very few. To make a speech he studie; hard. When he has shown his skill, They say, ‘Reel off another yard; There's yet more time to kill'” “De man dat means every word he ! another standard bearer, but the defi- with its precipitate rush to Calvin Cool- idge for Vice President, to prove that such things are possible. But an anti- Hoover stampede next June is branded by hard-boiled politicians as the zenith of improbability. With those few who hold to the contrary the wish is father to the thought. * * x ok Senator Johnson's reluctance openly to toss his hat into the ring has been thought, in some degree, to be due to his inabllity to finance an honest-to- goodness pre-convention campaign. Like Borah, Johnson is not richly blessed with this world's goods. He has sacri- ficed in the public service what might at any time have been a handsome in- come at the bar. Capitol Hill hears that Hiram has found an angel in a brother Senator—Bronson Cutting, Re- publican, of New Mexico. The Cut- tings—the aristocratic Long Island W. Bayard Cuttings—have money to burn. Some day the lion's share of the dynastic fortune will go to the young Senator from the Southwest, who quit Harvard and the eflete East in 1910 to carve out a public career in New Mex- ico. Senator Cutting is a bachelor. He and his mother inhabit marble halls in | the Massachusetts avenue extended sec- | tion of Washington. An intellectual and a liberal, Cutting during his four years in the Senate has consistently veered to the Progressive wing of the Republicans. - He is still in the sunny 40s. Priends say the mantle of Henry Cabot Lodge, as “the scholar in poli- tics” has descended on the New Yorker-New Mexican's broad shoulders. * ok % Another apparent field marshal in the Johnson high command is that other Republican Progressive young- ster, Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota. For a while Nye was supposed to have staked out a permanent claim on the Hoover reservation. The North Dakota comrade, whom the Senator brought into the administration, As- sistant Attorney General Seth W. Richardson, is now one of the fair- haired boys around the White House. It is this two-fisted Nye man who has just been sent to Hawall by the De- partment of Justice to survey crime conditions. The Nye lukewarmness toward the Hoover cause may spring | from the Senator's impending fight for | Tenomination in North Dakota. His | prospective primary opponent, Gov. George F. Shafer, ranks as—or has had thrust upon him the rank of —a Hoover man. The President’s stock is admittedly low out in the Northwestern wheat fieids, so the story goes that Nye, a keen poiitician, has denned anti- Hoover war paint as one means of keeping Gov. Shafer of% of the sena- torial nomination. * k X *x It escaped general notice, but Sen- ator Joe Robinson, Democratic minority leader, earned at least a White House breakfast invitation by stemming the tide of useless debate on the Recon- struction Finance Corporation bill. His | fellow Democrat, Tydings of Maryland, was wasting time with one of his cloquent but familiar tirades against | the eighteenth amendment. Not to be | outdone, that peerless paladin of pro- | hibition, Brookhart, Republican Pro- gressive of Towa, prolonged the pro- crastination With an equally thread- bare panegyric on the virtues of Vol- steadism. Senator Robinson had been pacing up and down the aisle in obvious hope that brother Tydings would cut | says,” remarked Uncle Eben, “com- the cackle and hasten the finance measure to a vote. The Arkansan's | effect—that very small THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. which possess an ample grace all their wn. < ‘When one is 10 years old and is able to snap back “O. K.” with no effort at all, it marks one as up and coming. It shows the rest of the kids that one is right on his toes. It reveals one as fully abreast of the times. For stuffy persons of a larger age it may be neces- sary to be able to talk easily about “Mourning Becomes Electra,” but for a boy with a funny top the nonchalant use of “O. K.” gives the required stamp. 1f one is playing Tarsan, that mighty bunter of the jungle replies with a ringing “O. K.” If one is merely an Indian, the Choctaw grunts “O. K." There is no situation in life where the affirmative is not good evidently. Thus in our earliest years we tend to become “yessers” instead of “noers.” e A philosopher might say that this | trend was inimical, yet the practical man would reply something to this children use the negative without restraint and find | great difficulty in saying “Yes.” It is almost insti with little | children to shriek “No" if they are! asked to eat spinach (all praise to them for a brave stand against a horrible dish), if they are told to go to bed, if they are requested to give up a piece of candy to another. In their progress to the wisdom of 7 they come to see the exmediency of an agreeable affirmative. They grasp pretty shortly that it is easier to say “Yes” than to keep on yelling “No.” They feel, however, that the simple affirmative is somehow not quite enough. Perhaps it is too simple, too | easy, in a world which prefers to fool itself. They hear a comrade, perhaps vears old, utter a nonchalant “O. K. It strikes them as pretty good. They essay a timid use of it. “0O. K.!" they scream in ranks one to another, one for all and all for one. ‘The heavens do not fall. The Re- public still stands, and the old traffic policeman never seems to notice the witticism. But Johnny Jones, also 7, who has not yet learned the magic letters, fairly falls over himself. The proud one sees instantly that Johnny is vastly im- pressed. 9 EE Jones in his turn bawls out a hearty “O. K.” to the request of a comrade to accompany him to the corner drug store for an ice cream cone. And here we will let the reader in on a secret. It is not an ice cream cone at all which Sam Smith invites | Johnny Jones to purchase, each for | each, and one for one, but simply the old-time “snowball.” And what an outrageous price the firms get them, to be sure! In the old days when a boy with a block of ice and a sprinkler full of raspberry flavoring and a scraper could set him- self up as a merchant the favorite snowball sold for a penny apiece. Today, unless our ears deceived us, one Johnny Jones and cne Sammy Smith paid 5 cents each for one of these delicacies. Of course, times have | changed, snowballs and all. We were Interested to note that Sam and John both demanded and got rasp- berry snowballs. Raspberry was a 10 to 1'seller in the old days, when ginger- ale could be purchased at 5 cents a huge bottle and a pound or so of dates, kept outside the store on a stick, where all the dust could get on them, sold for a dime. Whether “them were the days,” we are not sure: but surely some will rise to say “O. K. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Chesterfieldian courtliness, Robinson asked the Iowan to yleld. “I do not | believe if we stood here and talked about prohibition for 90 days,” the Democratic leader pleaded, ‘“that we would accomplish anything except our own embarrassment.” Brookhart re- torted that he was sorry Robinson “couldn’t put a bridle on our friend from Maryland and keep this frothy stufl out of the debate. I didn't bring | it in” Robinson rejoined: “All the Senator says is entirely true. Then the sharpshooter statesman from the corn belt sat down, explaining that he'd postpone further prohibition propa- ganda “until another occasion.” * ok ok ok There's a black-haired, black-eyed Washington taxicab driver who speiks English with a cultured Spanish accent and who's hoping one of these days to pick up scme “fares” whom he knew when he was a debonair and shining light in Capital diplomatic society. It was during the last days of the Diaz regime in Mexico. The taximan, ac- cording to the yarn he spins, then was |an attache of the Mexican embassy, or | | legation, as it then was. With the old | dictator's fall, he, too, found himself out of a job. He ccnfides to an occa- sional guest in his chariot that once upon a time he spent “$10,000 a year” on entertainment here. His fortunes went from bad to worse, and now he says he's grateful for the tips that hackers sometimes, but not always, get, £ x vk Senora Maria Luisa S. de Ferrara, accomplished wife of Senor Don Orest>s de Ferrara, Cuban Ambassador at Washington, distributed to friends at New Year a charming greeting in the form of a 100-paged booklet entitled “From Tientsin to Byelo-Ostrow.” It's an account of the railroad trip she and Ambassador Ferrara made across China end Siberia last Summer, homeward bound from the Far East. Written in classic English, it tells of the vicissi- :udss of present-day life, especially arail, in Sovietland and only thinly disguises the writer's conviction that Bolshevism isn’t all it's cracked up to be. Senora Ferrara, who spent the holidays in Ha- vana, tells of meeting a New York news- paper correspondent, who announced that he'd taken unto himself a wife that very day. When the Ferrswas sought to tender congratulations, the Yankee scribe interrupted: “Oh, no. I'm not in love, or any of that sort of thing. This is merely a Russian experiment o Ret divorced rapidly and know first- hand what the proceedings imply!"” L "Tis rteported that Representative Louis T. McFadden, Republican, of Pennsylvania, now travels about Wash- ington with a private bodyguard of three detectives. Apparently these precau- tions are the result of threats against his life after his recent denunciation of President Hoover and the “international | bankers” in the House. * ok %o Uncle Sam is supervising another pres- identia] election this year besides his own. Nicaragua will try to say it with ballots instead of bullets, and to help her do so her government requested | President Hoover to designate an Amer- | lcan officer to superinténd the election. Rear Admiral Clark Howell Woodward, U. 8. N, has just reportsd for duty at Managua, presented Mr. Hoover's greet- ings and announced that he'll be back on the job in June to remain until after tha election. (Copyright, 1932.) | | —— Outlasts the Wite. From the Meridian Star. A wedding ring doesn’t have to be | very durable nowadays to last a man a wife-time. N New Anthem Needed. From the Glendale News-Press. If only some genius would compose band music to make us thrill with the glory of paying taxes. e ———— Einstein Up to Date. From the Duluth Herald. 3 Dr. Einstein is out with his 1932 model theory. The .old one has no trade-in value. Hunger Marches Are Styled Silliness To the Editor of The Star: Having just read your editorial en- titled “A Little Hard on the District,” I hasten to show my appreclation of the way you covered this question of imposition on the District under the convenient guise of unemployment re- lief. Unless we put a check to such silliness, it is hard to say where it [ will lead to. I am in favor of any legitimate movement that will benefit the workingman, but I fail to see where these idiotic demonstrations are going to butter any bread for him. Where in the Sam Hill is the sense of 20,000 able-bodied men—some with much cash in pockets—expasing themselves to danger of death from pneumonia on the open road from Pittsburgh to Washington on a matter that could have been handled far more efficiently by their duly elected Representatives? If they have a grievance with the Gov- ernment, why not at least make the first attempt through their Representa- tives? Such movements as the last two staged, no matter how honest at heart they must seem to the casual observer, are meant for the purpose of embar- rassing the administration. I would think they would be very embarrassing to the local Representatives. Unem- ployment is the greatest affliction the real honest-to-goodness workingman has to encounter, It hits body and soul. It is a shame for so-called workingmen who are first and last only “gents of the road” to be mustered out as con- tenders in a betterment movement for the workingman when they do so much to hold back the helping hand. We will have the unemployed question with us every Winter until we make it compul- sory for the part-time or transient worker to lay aside a part of his wages for a rainy day. The workingman has got to learn to help himself by saving. Expecting to make a Santa Claus out of Uncle Sam will prove disappointing. PERRY F. SKINNER. | | PR Thy the Police Chief Arrested the Beggar’ To the Editor of The Sta: Catherine E. Hayes, recently in The Star, has done a masterly job of satire on our new chief of police, Gen. Glass- ford. She takes him severely to task because he atrested a panhandler ask- ing for the price of & meal. The trouble with Catherine Hayes is that she is not aware of the motives which prompted the arrest. Gen. Glassford placed the panhandler in custody, not because he asked for a handout, but be- cause the man impressed him as ono wanted for a major crime. In other words, Gen. Glassford thought he re- membered the man as described by a police circular, or perhaps viewed in the line-up at detective headquarters. The chief of police did not arrest a panhandler, he arrested what he thought wes a man wanted by the po- lice. He has fed plenty of panh2ndlers since he became chief. Catherine Hayes is wrong {if she believes Gen. Glassford is bearing down on the un- fortunates. Far from it. He has fed a number and will probably f:ed more But, as a friend of many years stand- ing, I happen to know the reasons which prompted Glassford making the arrest; namely, that the panhandler aroused in the mind of Gen. Glassford the suspicion of a criminal wanted by the police. No individual in the city has done more for unemployed than Gen. Glassford. JOHN GLEASON O'BRIEN. ———————— | Hot Water From Solar Heat in the Sahara To the Editor of The Star: It surprises me to see the position of prominence which you accorded in Sunday's editorial _section to the item from Paris about French army posts in the Sahara heating water in the sun. This method of heating water has been in use for many years in Cali- fornia. I cannot tell you just exactly when the inhabitants of the southern part of the State learned that trick, but a great many farm houses have “solar tanks” on top of the roof where the sun beats down all day and pro- vides very hot water for baths and dish- washing. On my father's ranch, near San Diego, there was a glass-covered box, set into the ground very much like a hotbed for plants. Under the glass was a large coil of pipes which connected with the water system, and water ran through these pipes to the hot-water faucets throughout the house. By midday there was sufficient hot water for dishwashing, or even laundry work on very hot days, and by sundown we could all have fine hot shower baths. is mentioned in your news item, no doubt even that would be possible if the sun's heat were as intense in Cali- fornia as in the Sahara. I am 25 years old, and the above sys- tem has been in use ever since I can re- | member. RUTH ROLF. e s Cardinal O’Connell’s Comments on Crooners To the Editor of The Star: Your editorial of January 11 carrying the portion of Cardinal O'Connell’s ad- dress in reference to the debasing in- fluence of crooning and your comments following same surely must have struck a responsive chord in the minds of most of your readers above the level of the moron. This reminds me, by the way, of a broadcast by Collier's Magazine some time ago in which a fake professor on evolution was asked in an “interview” if he had found the missing link. “Yes,” sald he, “I am convinced that, as far as my investigations go, the radio | crooner is the nearest specimen yet dis- covered.” It is enough to say that not only does this “specimen” debase the sacred name of music, but himself as a man as_well. | I can't conceive of & sane man con- | trolling those broadcasts tolerating this form of musical degeneration. JOSEPH A. GOLDEN, e Wickersham Report On the Mooney Case To the Editor of The Star Semators Walsh of Montana, Cutting of N2w Mexico and Costigan of Col rado performed an outstanding public service by insisting that the report on the Mconey-Billings case, prepared by experts of the Wickersham Commission, be submitted to the Senate. If they had not pressed a resolution calling for the report, its contents would still be a mystery to the general public. In- cidentally, there seems no good reason why the Wickersham Commission should not have given out the report, which bears out forecasts of its nature. The report is a scathing, blistering criticism of California’s handling of the Mooney-Billings case and amply jus- tifies the demand for the pardon of Mooney and Billings on the ground they were the victims of perjured evi- dence and grosely unfair methods. The Mooney-Billings case has long been a disgrace to California and a dark blot on the administration of American justice. The three Senators who forced publication of the report on the famous case have served the cause of justice. Their action constitutes public service and redounds to their credit. OLIVER E. CARRUTH. e League of Nations Out. the Toledo Bicde, . Nicholas Murray Butler and Miss Addams sharc the Nobel peace fifty-fifty. The League of Na- didn’t even get honorlh{a men- Prom Dr. Jane prize | tions tion. e Kipling Finds Burden. From the Loulsville Courler-Journal. Rudyard Kipling, complaining that his taxes are too high, acquiring & new slant on the ‘“white man's burden.” What is your question? Whatever it may be, uniess it be a request for legal, | medical or financial advice, it will be | answered without cost to you, and you | will receive the reply in a personal let- ter. Write your question clearly and briefly, inclose 2-cent stamp for return postage, and address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederick J. Has- kin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. Who is_the checker champlon of | the world? Of America?—A. D. | A. The American Checker Associa- | tion says that the checker champion of | the world is Robert Stewart of Bluln-‘ dam, PFife, Scotland. The American | champion is Asa A. Long of Toledo, | Ohio. Q. What is the average value of a rubber In contract bridge?—W. 8. A. Approximately 1,000 points. Q. Are postal savings guaranteed by the United States Government or by a bonding company?—E. P. H. A. Postal savings deposits are ac- cates. These are made out in the name of the depositor, serve as receipts, are valid until paid, and are backed by all the strength of the Government. Q. Why is the distance so great be- tween a tug and between all the boats it is towing?—K. D. W. A. The long hawsers give additional pulling power. Kknowledged by postal savings certifi- | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. aries of the Chinese contained 44449 characters. ‘There are about 25,000 written characters still in use. Q. What size was the reproduction of Mount Vernon which was erected at the Paris exposition?—E. H. A. Every detail of the original was carefully carried out. Even the mold- ings and carvings were copied. It was the actual size of the original. Q. How much money was spent on education in this country last year?— M. M. N. The amount is estimated at $3,200,000,000. Q. What is the significance of Ember ays? When do they come?—E. J. A. Ember days or Ember weeks are the four seasons set apart in the early centuries by the Western Church for special prayer and fasting and for the ordination of the clergy. The weeks are those immediately following Holy Cross day, September 14; St. Lucy's day, De- cember 13; the first Sunday in Lent (movable), and Whit Sunday (also movable). Wednesdays, Pridays and | Saturdays of these weeks are called | Ember days, the Sundays following | these days being days of ordination. They were known to be observed in Britain as early as 597, and were af- firmed by the Council of Aenham, 1009. Q. Why is Fort Worth, Tex., called di | the_Panther City and Cow Town?—J. Q. On which side of the Seine is the | P. B. City of Paris?—K. E. P. | A, Tt is related that Fort Worth was A. It is situated on both banks. The | nicknamed the Panther City as a result river divides it into parts, one-third of | of a story written by Robert E. Cowart the city on one side and two-thirds on | of Georgia for the Dallas Herald, in Though they cannot “make coffee,” as | the other. Q. Are elk browsing or grazing ani- mals?>—E. B. A They are both. They feed not only on pasturage but on the leaves and tender young shoots of trees and | shrubs. Q. In the 1930 census were people | counted where they were found at that | fime ‘or ‘where they had homes?—J. .-N. A. The district where a person actu- ally had a home was credited with the count. If the person did not have a permanent residence, he was counted in the district where he was found. Q What became of Dr. Cook after he left Leavenworth?—E. E. H. A. After his release from Fort Leav- enworth Dr. Frederic A. Cook accepted an offer to become physical director of the Boys' Brotherhood Republic in Chicago. Q What is “seborrheat”?—W. L. A. The word means “dandruff.” | Q. Wrat is the diameter of the | shacow cast on the earth when the moon eclipses the sun?—C. W. D. | A. At the time of a solar eclipse the | moon's shadow at the point where the | earth's surface cuts it is at most only | 168 miles in diameter. | Q. What is the purpose of the Lin- guistic Society of America?—G. G. A. It was organized for the advance- ment of scientific study of language. Q. Does a cow close her eyes when she sleeps?—F. 5. A. She does, as do all other animals. Q. Who was Helberg, for whom the Axel Heiberg Glacler, in the Antarctic, was named?—A. B. J. A. The glacier was named by Raold Amundsen. Heiberg contributed to the support of the first and second Fram expeditions, and took the initiative in the establishment of the Pridtjof Nan- sen fund for the advancement of science. Q. How many characters are there in the Chinese language?—C. O A. The eighteentn century diction- which he told of discovering a panther walking in the streets of Fort Worth The nickname Cow Town is given to Fort Worth because it is the live stock market for the Southwest. Q. What kind of for a glider port>—C A. A glider port is distinguished from an airport, in that an airport is a level piece of land Which has the least pos- sible number of approach obstructions, and the glider port should be entirely surrounded by high hills, 5o that these motorless fiying machines may be taken off from the top of the hills in any wind direction and flown to the level ground in the center. Q. How often is there a famine in China?—D. P. A. Within the past 2,200 years there :m;'e been 2,000 famines, or almost one yeas. Q. What is the difference between stammering and stuttering?—H. C. A. There is no difference. Q. Please describe the Columbia War Memorial dedicated on Armistice day in Potomac Park, Washington, D. C.— ground is chosen R. E ) % A. Its height is approximately 45 feet; diameter, 45 feet; height of col- ums, 22 feet; diameter of columns, 4 feet. Vermont marble was used in the construction. The floor is composed of white Vermont marble and pink Ten- nessee marble. The approximate cost was $137,000, exclusive of landscaping. Q. What is the symbolism of the Albanian flag>—D. 8. A. The flag has a red field with a black double-headed eagle. This is an old national emblem of the Albanian people, dating back to the time of the Crusades, and signifies both spiritual and temporal power. This' has an added meaning in Albania, standing for North and South Albania. Q. Did Queen Victoria live to see the present Prince of Wales?>—G. E. D. A. E. T. Cook, writing of the chris- tening of the present Prince of Wales, says that for the first time in history a ruling queen took into her arms her descendant in the fourth generation. New Theory in Death of Julius Rosenwald, Chicago _business leader and great philanthropist, | arouses special interest in his unique theory that the “dead hand” should be banished from the world of philan- thropy and that in gifts to education | and charity both principal and interest | sbould be spent within less than a life- jtime. His benefactions are estimated at more than $50,000,000, “distributed,” {as the Chicago Dally News says, “with | infinite care.” Qu-ting Mr. Rosenwald as having stated that “charity is the one pleasure that never wears out,” the Cleveland News pays the tribute that he “prac- ticed what he preached.” That paper says of his death that it means the passing of “one of the greatest philan- | thropists of modern times.” who ‘“did much to impress upon the world the satisfaction to be gained by rendering | an accounting of the stewardship of | great riches.” The Miami Daily News attests that “he built lasting monuments | to himself in the hearts of millions of less fortunate people and revealed the stature of a true nobleman in universal | human society.” “He was a man among men, this mer- chant prince, who was also the prince of philanthropists,” says the Houston Chronicle, while the Cincinnati Times- Star sees him as “typical of America’s business genius at its best.” The Sioux Falls Daily Argus-Leader is impressed | by the fact that “so extensive was his charitable work that he was better known as a philanthropist than as the | head of a business,” and that “his ideals | Philanthropy Is Credited to Rosenwald tion have been fortunate in the posses- sion of Jullus Rosenwald.” That paj also comments: “Few men of wealth have given as much personal attention to their philanthropies as did Mr. Rosenwald. In recent years he engaged a staff of specialists to handle his ghilnnthrnplc foundation—the Julius osenwald Fund, whose assets at one time amounted to $34,440,000—but he kept in close touch with their work till within a short time of his death. Simultaneously he disbursed large sums from his personal fortune. Wealth to Mr. Rosenwald was a sacred trust which he administered as & conscientious steward. He communicated that atti- tude to some of his wealthy friends, and undoubtedly influenced the dis- tribution of many millions other than his own.” “He put all his sound business judg- ment and unusual acumen into his philanthropic undertakings,”: in the opinion of the Lexington Leader, which offers the judgment: “He was a man gifted with a great heart, a noble spirit of humanitarianism, free from narrow prejudices and from intolerance in any shape, and kind and generous to a fault in every relationship of life.” “Based upon the experiences of the past and the known uncertainties of the future,” says the Appleton Post- Crescent, “he formulated the principle that no money should be given except- |ing upon the condition that it be spent within a relatively short time. He rea- soned that if we took care of our gen- eration and the men of means provided liberally, accomplishing the twofold ob- ject of doing good to others and pre- venting the stagnation of great funds, the next generation would be more able to do likewise. He showed how the change in situations makes impossible, excepting in a ludicrous manner, some of the fine bequests of a perpetual na- ture that looked sane when originated.” were such that he made his millions a helpful factor in American life.” The Oklahoma City Oklahoman feels that “this great vacancy now created in the world of philanthropy will remain a vacancy for many years." “His_ gifts went far and wide, but | particularly to the drearier places and | the less fortunate people of his own and other lands,” observes the Atlanta Journal, with ' the conclusion that “wherever great-heartedness and high- mindedness are revered his memory will be cherished.” * ok % % “The chief pleasure he derived from | | et Breeding by Games of Children Crime | | a long and busy life,” states the Fort | Wayne News-Sentinel, “is to be found in the Julius Rosenwald Foundation for the ‘wellbeing of mankind’ Out of | this fund of $35,000,000 went vast sums for the help of the American Negro, in whom Rosenwald had been interested | for more than a score of years; and also large contributions to funds for | the construction of Y. M. C. A. and | Y. W. C. A buildings. Julius Rosen- | wald will be recorded, like Abou Ben- | Adhem, high in the lists of those who | loved their fellow men. An example of cnergy, intensive application to large undertakings, constructive organization —he will be known even more immor- tally as one who shared his rewards generously with the less fortunate.” Finding special interest in the provi- sfon that Mr. Rosenwald’s endowments “must be fully spent 25 years after his death,” the Roanoke Times adds that “it is gratifying to note that his ideals will be carried on and his work per- petuated by his children, who met a short time before his death and formed the Rosenwald Family Association.” The Columbia (S. C.) State pays the tribute that he “left his name to be graven on human hearts alone,” lndi declares further: “In Julius Roun-‘ | wald there was a greatness of heart, a humanity that uplifts him for all time. One of the remarkable things about this man. particularly in this era of self- exploitation, was the modesty and even Shyness of his spirit. He helped tens of thousands of persons that needed bodily or spiritual help, but he would allow none of these to exalt him. He endowed libraries and schools, but gl. ways insisted that these were not to figure as monuments to their creator or endower.” * ok x % “Such men do not appear in every community or in every generation,” at- tests the Chicago Daily News, advising that “this community and this genera- | To the Editor of The Btar: A few days ago, while walking in a good residential district of Washington, my attention was attracted by the shouts of some boys who were playing across the street, I watched them while one, who wore a black mask, pretended to shoot another. His victim fell down and was dragged away by the others Soon afterward I passed & shop in the same district before which several boys were standing, staring in at something displayed for sale in the window. They were staring, I found, at a couple of revolvers. One said, “I'd rather have the .38-caliber one.” I have been “held up” on the street by tots scarcely out of the cradle, aim= ing toy pistols at me. Are we rearing a generation of gangsters? Have mur- derers and thieves and kidnapers re- | placed, in the minds of our children, the place which used to be held by King Arthur’s knights? Are parents indifferent or merely blind? What about “crime clubs” and the flood of books now on the market which glut the youthful imagination with every possible detayl of crime, inventing evi) with fascination? What about movies and certain newspapers which make hem‘ll‘]’.’ hi-jackers? Le% tors can do much by prohibit- ing the sale and possession of firearms except under stated conditions. It is astonishing they have not done this long ago. Those revolvers exposed for sale szem almost an invitation to crime. But teachers and parents can do even more, They can make children and our youth see the gangster as the cowardly sneak, the human rat, he really is. The nor- mal boy hates the “yellow streak.” Hs should know that the gangster is all “yellow.” And any boy who plays at being one of these human rats ought to be treated—until he comes to his senses —as unfit to associate with decent people. YEAMAN,