Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1932, Page 8

A—8 THE Ky haidNG STAR, WASHINGTON, DG BRIEDAY, FEBRUARY 5 9 1932, THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. February 5, THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company ce Pennsylvania Ave. Office: 110 East 42nd 8t \cago Office Take Michigan Building uropean Office’_ 14 Reeent M., London, Ensland Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening Star 45¢ per month . Sinday Sia 4 Sundavs 60c per month g nd Sunday Siar Sundays) s ma Ational 5000. €5¢ per month Rate by Mall—Pzyable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Fsiv and Sunday.... 1yr. 31000 1 mo. g3 ily onlv unday only 1vr 3600 1 mo.. 80c $4.00. 1 mo.. 40c All Other States and Canada. aily and Sunday .1yr.$1200° 1me Rl Tyr. 5800 1mo. enly 1vr. $5.00. 1 mo.. Member of the Assoclated Press. . sdis- Patches credited 10 it or not etherwies cred- ited in this paper and also the Incal news ed All rights of ’ Japan's Reply to the Powers. Japan's reply to the four-power peace Jroposels is more accommodating to the possibility of effective international in- lervention to check the conflict sat Bhanghal than was at first apparent from a preliminary statement of the position of the government at Tokio, In effect Japan leaves open the door of mediation in Ch Proper, whi'e it cloes the door of mediation regarding the situation in Manchuria Japan agrees, first, to cease hostile acts if it assured that the Chinese forces will immediately and c-mpletely “stop their menacing and disturbing activities.” If, however, the Chinese, including both regulars snd plain- clothes soldiers, “persist in such activi- ties” Japan reserves full freedom of action for its military forces. Passing 1932 however, have already discovered that the M-2 lies at a forty-five-degree angle, with her stern burled in the sand. Her hull is reported as intact, forcing the discard of the first theory that she was ripped apart by an under-water. col- lislon &nd the crew given no chance to escape. Whether the M-2 will be raised is still being debated by the British ad- miralty. This work cannot be under- taken in Winter and must wait until next Summer, even if it is decided upon. In view of the fact that it is one of ithe major submarine disasters in the history of any navy it would reem im- portant to learn its exact cause. If Y | this cannot be done by the divers, then lit would appear that an attempt to bring it to the surface should be made |to determine whether mechanical fail- |ure or human failure was responsible for the loss of sixty lives ——— - The League's Defender. i ! fender, Joseph P. Tumulty, s-cretary |'to the Iate President Woodrow Wilson. While two of the men most prominently | mentioned for the Democratic presi- | dential nomination this year, Gov. Pranklin D. Roosevelt of New York and Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War in the Wilson administration, have shied away from the League in recent state- ments. Mr. Tumulty demands a leader- | ship of the Democratic party “made of | finer stuff”: a leadership that will fight {for the ideals of Woodrow Wilson as ;l‘\f‘mphflw-d in the formation of the | League of Nations. It may be sald | that Mr. Tumulty is not himself a can- { didate for office, and that therefore his | espousal of the League cause today is | negligible since 1t does not raise the | |issue of American adherence to the League in the coming national cam- | paign. In justice to Mr. Tumulty, however, it may be said that whether he were a candidate for office or not | he would continue to stand for what f course for this country to take. The League of Nations has a de-| [ he believes to be the proper. the right ! ‘n protest against hard times when they 180 to the polls, they are more likely to turn to the traditional foes of the Re- publican party, the Democrats In the statements issued by Thomas, the | Socialist, and Dewey, who demands in- " dependent political action, are proposed platforms. These platforms are a strange jumble. They do, not appear 'likely to appeal to the irreconcilable Pregressives in the Senate, particularly as | they propose entry into the World | Court by the United States, co-opera- { tion with the League of Nations in non- { military matters and the abandonment icf the Monroe Doctrine. On the other | hand, the platforms propose the recog- | nition of Soviet Russia, which has its "appeal particularly to Senator Borah of | Idako, who has been mentioned now and then as a potential leader of a third party. With regard to prohibi- tion, suggestion is made by the third party advocates that a constitutional convention be called, at which the dele- gates would have the power to confer {on Congress the right to regulate the I‘uqunr traffic, providing for light wines and beer and for Government sale of these beverages. A constitutional con- | vention, one called, however, might easily take up far different subjects, and a controversy over many propoced | changes in the Federal Constitution might arise which would do the country | no good. | The third party program, as enun- ciated, calls for $250,000,000 for Ped- eral relief to the unemployed and & $5.000,000,000 public works program. Once dip into the Pederal Treasury for contributions to the relief of th: unemployed and the destitute, and the end has come to private charity, and a permanent program of Federal ald to people, some of whom will not work, will have been begun. The third party proposal speaks of the $250,000,000 as an annual appropriation during the “emergency.” But if it is adopted the | emergency will never end. RS S Bhe British peer whose daughter eloped with & professional African | Mr. Tumulty's loyalty to WoodroW |, ni0r was 5 displeased that he be- over the point of the cause of the yyon and to the League cause will Chinese resistance, which was induced | ive an echoing chord in the hearts by Japan's cwn aggressive action and which may become the subject of in- quiry by an international commission, if such is organized. this agreement may Be accepted as assurance of A truce pending settlement of the primary issue involved in the invasion of Chinese ter- ritory A second point advanced by Japan bears upon the first. “In view of the unreliableness of the Chinese in the past and the gravity of the present situation, the Japanese government finds it impossible to renounce mob:li- zation or preparations for hostilities.” In other words, Japan is willing to check actual operations if the Chinese cease their “menacing and disturbing activities,” but will not cease prepara- tions for war, because it does not trust Chinese assurances, even if they are given to the powers. The third point of the international proposal is met the most squarely of all, though not quite fully. Japan “has no objection to its consul and commander entering into negotiations for agreement concerning the separa- | tion of the respective forces and the establishment, if necessary, of a neutral zone in the Chapei district.” There may be a difference between “entering into negotiations for agree- ment” and agreeing upon such an arrangement. But the advance toward some effective means of keeping the conflict outside of the area of the Internationdl Settlement is evident. The fourth point of the powers' proposal is definitely rejected in so far as it may possibly bear upon the question of Manchuria, which the Japanese government regards “as an entirely separate question from the Shanghai affair” On this point Japan is quite frank. policy of the Japanese government not to accept the assistance of neutral observers or participants in the settle- ment of the question concerning Man- churia.” It is to be noted that there is no mention in the Japanese note of an agreement to yield the Shanghai affair to the scope of an international inquiry or intervention. It is, how- o be assumed that Japan's’will- ingness to suspend hostilities, if as- sured of an immediate and complete cessation of “menacing and disturb- ing activities” on the part of the Chinese, implies willingness to have the whole case examined by the powers, though without any pledge to abide by & decision rendered. However unsatisfactory this may be, it is nevertheless somewhat of a gain toward at least the suspension of major activities. It remains now for the powers, if they accept the Japanese reply as the ultimate that can be secured,to employ their “good offices” with China to obtain guarantees that will meet the Japanese requirement stated In the response to the first point It is intimated in dispatches from Shanghai that Chinese politics is play- ing & mischievous part in the case. The virtual collapse of the Cantonese government, the presence at Nanking of two of the “war lords” who have ever heretofore bitterly fought Chiang Kai| Shek, and the reappearance of Chiang Xai Shek himself as commander of the Chinese forces render the situation difficult to gauge and perhaps difficult for effective international representa- tions S e e Ten taxicabs were completely demol- ished to provide a collision scene for a movie. Some citizens here sometimes wish this act might have been staged in Washington. Cannot some one, somehow, persuade Will Rogers to ride in an airplane just once? Think of the varlety it would 8dd to his newspaper stuff! —r——— The M-2. If the unofficial theory that an open afterhatch on the ill-fated British sub- marine M-2 was the cause of the trag- edy that has entombed sixty officers and men on the floor of the British Channel is borne out by investigations now being carried on by divers under great difficulties, it will demonstrate a shocking bit of carelessness by the crew of the undersea craft. Located aiter a week of inte e search, the M-2 was found to have lodged between two other wrecks which, with the treacherous tides that sweep that part of the Channel, has made exploration “It is the settled | | of many Democrats who stood with Mr. | | Wilcon on the League issue. And be- {cauze he is loyal, because he “stavs | put.” he will have the admiration even | of those who oppose the League. But if | the Democrats undertake to follow & iprn-bennue Jeader in the presidential | ! clection, in the present state of senti- | ment in the United es. they wil ! have assumed an added burden. It is 'a burden which pract all of the | leaders of the party have decided the | Democratic cause should not be com- | pelled to carry in 1932 | Just which one of the leading figures in the Democratic party does Mr. Tum- | ulty propase for a leader, carrying the | standard of the League? In 1928 Alfred | E. Smith made no campaign as a pro Leaguer. The League issue was not men- tioned in that contest. Mr. r. who | has been regarded as the League’s most ardent champion in this country since | the death of Woodrow Wilson, has de- | clared that while he believes the United | States “some day” should become & member of the League, the League issue should not be raised in the coming | campaign. He would not have the | Democratic party, therefore, put & pro- League plank in its national platform | Former Gov. Cox of Ohio, the 1920 | standard bearer of the Democracy, went !down to & crushing defeat fighting valiantly for the cause of American ad- herence to the League of Natiofis. He has been mentioned of late as a possible | compromise candidate in the Demo- | cratic national convention next June, should the leading candidates in the race not be able to make the grade, But | 1 Mr. Cox should permit it to be known |that he would run as & pro-Leaguer, would he ever get the nomination? The | chances are that i Mr. Cox becomes a serfous contender for the nomination he will have to agree at least not to raise the issue of the League in the cam-| paign. And even under such a promise | he might find it difficult to reply to pointed questions of the Republicans on | the subject of the League. It does no: | Democratic party is to go to the front this year in advocacy of the entry of the United States into the League of Nations, ——————— “The League of Nations today is not the league conceived by Woodrow Wil- son,” declares Franklin D. Roosevelt, who stumped for it back in 1920, and who is today opposed thereto, Perhaps he is right. What Wilson planned was a major league, while the one now in operation occasionally appears to be de- cidely “Class B.” ——— A Third Party Call. Liberals in the country are urged by Norman Thomas, Socialist leader, and Prof. John Dewey's organization, tion, to back a third party movement Their plea for a third party is made on the ground that both the Republican and Democratic parties are politically | bankrupt and unable to deal effectively with the problems now confronting the { American people. The plea has a| | familiar ring. It wes argued in 1924 and | in 1912, and in “Populist’ days still | earlier, by those who proclaimed them- selves liberals or progressives. The hold of the Republican and Democratic par- ties on the people, in good times and | in bad, has been remarkably firm. One |reason for this is the hard-headed common sense of the American people, | who refuse to be rushed off their feet | to follow doctrines strange to thelr fore- | fathers and untried except by other peoples, and when tried found disas- | trous. | The demand for a third party today so | [ far lacks real body. The people are not | convinced that the country can im-| prove conditions by adopting a Federal Cole, for example, or by borrowing huge sums running into the billions of dol- lars for public works, when the tax- payers are already burdened and are about to be burdened still more. The Progressive groups in the Congress have so far not responded to or undertaken to lead s third party movement, al- though there has been much conversa- tion about it. ‘The organization of a national poli- tical party is no overnight affair. It does not spring up automatically any more than does a tralmed army or navy. There must be a perlod of prep- aration, a period In which actual or- | The program arranged I must follow appear in the cards, however, that the | the | League for Independent Political Ac-| rated her and fired him. All will be glad to learn, however, that he has {been able to hire another hunter, a 17300 lion man,” so everything is serene | again | e An orator declares that the gossamer garb of a feminine audience does not absorb enough excess sound, which | makes proper delivery difficult for a | speaker. One remedy suggested is for Owing to Jack of funds Virginia pub- lic schools must close this season a good bit earlier than usual. Youngsters of centennial year even longer and more pleasantly. ————— Theodore Roosevelt, sr., talked a good bit in his day about “the little brown brother.” find out if he inherits any of this pa- ternal predilection. | —e——— John D. Rockefeller is reported from Florida as much better. Probably he has only missed a couple of short putts, or been stymied. i e So far as known there were no leaky or inadequate tanks in Chicago's vast new Shedd Memorial Aquarium. ————— SHOOTING STARS, BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Tyrannical Influence. A man of extensive and worthy renown Had called for the paper which brings him the news. He said, as he gazed, with a serious frown, Tefuse I wonder what style of attire I shall wear, And whether my words shall be solemn or gay. with care, | Oh, what is my press agent saying today? “Shall I look on the world from a pedestal's height, Severe as the marbles of ancient renown? Oh shall I appear to find simple delight In familiar discourse with the folk of the town? I must fashion my mood to the public demand, Though personal wishes may fall by the way, As 1 answer descriptions sent forth through the land; Oh, what is my press agent saying today?” Exacting Voters. “Your constituents seen anxious to| hear from you.” “Yes," replied Senator S8orghum. “My work isn't going to be as easy as I once found it. There was a time when I could hire a brass band and give 'em a concert that would leave 'em per- fectly satisfied. Now I've got to throw in a carefully prepared lecture free of charge.” The world is rapidly pulling away from the old notion that putting a man in office is giving him a license to loaf at public expense. New Version. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, Like a diamond up so far the speaker to make a little less sound. | the Old Dominion will thus recall Bi-| Now Theodore, jr. is off to| “To act well my part I must never | THIS AN The state or condition lenenlly’ called bad manners is an offensive men- tal disease. It is g sort of moral smell. He who is affiicted with bad manners usually doesn’t mind it at all until| some one speaks of it. | Thus he is not offended at it really, but atthe person who mentioned it. Thus we see in full operation the sly | old human trick of transferring the blame. ‘The disease of bad manners can take a thousand forms. Here is a fellow who will sneeze in another's face and get & good laugh out of it when the other dares to show his dislike of the pro- cedure. Here fs another sad wight who takes pleasure in telling smutty stories to one who does not enjoy hearing them. Of he may love to relate deeds of cruelty to animals to the friend of animals, all the time mentally daring the other to say a word in protest. You see, it is the protest, the signifi- cation that one is “onto” such a speci- men that arouses his ire. His indigna- tion is not against his own bad man- ners in any form, no matter how offen- sive to another, but solely at the dis- covery of them in plain terms. * ok % % The person who is not addicted to this type of mentel vice—and it is that—scmetimes asks ‘himsel{ why the victim does not find his own actions i reprehensible. What pleasure can he find in hurting another? And there, of course, lies the answer. Inflicting hurt is one large branch of human endeavor. Some people do phys- ical damage wherever possible, aml where it is not possible Tely on the mind, or such mind as they have. The mind Is a weapon, too. At least it may be used as such Every one does some sort of think- ing. The trouble is that elyness often masquerades as such Some of the most successful men are really very ignorant. They merely have managed to co-ordi- | nate certain requirements of life with their own abilities to grasp certain opportunities If you once get the idea that they do it by sheer brain power—and that is an idea which they would very much like for you to entertain—you perhaps will begin to feel very bad about it and wonder what the world is com- ing_to. ©One might think that since the mind is 50 old and Is so evidently the very peak of life that some precise measure [ of it would have been evolved long | before this. There s nothing, however, which is more nebulous than brain power That is why it can be used as a weapon for hurt as well as a means for healing. There is nothing that cannot be done with the mind and almost nothing which is not done | | | therefore, as a s. in which to take a tances given There are many, | mans more. Specimens of physical bad monners are legic But even such have mental backgrounds A pure type of physical bad man- | mers is the way women push onto pub- lic vehicles, street cars and busses. He who is inclined to give others credit for all he can at first is unwilling to | believe that all this elbowing and push- | Ing is done “on purpose,” as the chil- | dren say. The beautiful ladies are merely thoughtless. Or, relying on past codes of chivalry, they believe that the gen- tlemen are standing back to permit | them to get on first som | sheer above are but two. The promotion of Undersecretary | Ogden L. Mills to be Secretary of the Treasury and the transfer of Secretary | Mellon to the post of Ambassador at | the Court of St. James, succecding Gen. Dawes, who was drafted to head the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, | 1ounds out to the great satisfaction of all concerned several difficult situations From the White House standpoint the President has scored three ten strikes in a row. The Dawes appointment ,made an instantaneous hit with the | country. The resulting London ambas- sadorship vacancy just at this time presented a problem of peculiar diffi- culty. First, because of the host of | international questions, especially finan- | clal questions, crowding for settiement; second, because if Mr. Hoover fails of re-election whoever goes to London | now must be prepared to pack up and come home a year hence, and third, because of the heavy drain upon the private pocketbook of the Ambassador, and fat private pocketbooks at the mo- |ment are few and far between. So | the sending of Mr. Mellon to London is one of those rarities in politics, the | ideal appointment, the one that exactly fits all the diverse requirements. The promotion of Undersecretary Mills to full cabinct rank as head of the Treas- ury Department is another felicitous solution of what otherwise might have been an immensely troublesome ques- |tion. ~Mr. Mills enjoys Mr. Hoover's confidence to an unusual degree. He enjoys the confidence of his associates | and “subordinates in the Treasury De- partment. Everything will go along there without a ripple. He has the | confidence of the financial interests of the Nation. He has the place he long has wanted and has long been promised. It is understood that Ar- thur A. Ballantine of New York, As- sistant Secretary, and & former mem- ber of the old law firm that included Fithu Root, will succeed Mr. Mills as | Undersecretary. i oxoxox The White House press conference | last Tuesday, when the war clouds in China were hanging the heaviest, was | unique, in that practically the entire cabinet were in attendance, ranging themselves about the President during | the latter's discussion of the subject with the newspaper correspondents. The administration wanted it made clear that the United States is not vsing the “big stick” on Japan to com- pel a settlement of the Sino-Japanese controversy. American policy in the Far East has but two objectives, accord- ing to Mr. Hoover. First and foremost, the protection of the lives of American nationals in China—not in pmtecu‘ng American property interests there. The omission of any such declared objective was studied and significant. Second, peaceful settlement by mediation of the quarrels of the belligerents. The latter otjective ic more diplomatically de- scribed as “the tender of our good of- fices, at the request of the Chinese and the Japanese governments, to secure, if | A celestial jewel set— Maybe we will tax you yet! Appreciation. “What do you consider the greatest achievement of acience?” “Well,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax, “after a careful study of values of all kinds I must say that the scientists who started radium at millions of dol- lars an ounce and then managed to hold the price up deserve credit for considerable achievement.” ‘There is no sight more pathetic than & couple of timid, well meaning parents who sre in constant fear that their children are about to reprove them. old Story. Oh, politics is something queer; 1t is an ancient text The friends you counted on one year Are enemies the next, ganization takes place, and organiza- tion takes money. This does not look like & good year for the third perty | | the military mission to Armenia in 1919 possible, an adjustment of outstanding | differences.” * kK K Maj. Gen. Frank R. McCoy, accom- panying the international commission dispatched by the League of Natlons to the Far East to investigate at first| hand the Manchurian gquestion, is by | way of becoming America’s foremost | professional soldier diplomat. His| Army career since his graduation from West Polnt in 1897 has been distin- guished. He saw service in Cuba dur- ing the war with Spain, and later in the Philippine campaigns and in the Mexican border troubles and- during the World War, among other assign- ments, he was director general of trans- rt. But in the past 15 years his forte as been the heading of special mis- sions. Thus he was chief of staff of and of the special mission to the Philippines in 1921. He was com- mander of the American Relief Mission | to Japan in 1923, He was appointed by Mr. Coolidge in 1928 to supervise the Nicaragua elections. * % % % The proponents of the Co:tigan-La Follette bill for Federal aid to the | Sicte “De worst thing about a mean man,” said Uncle Eben, “is dat he tempts so many naturally good peopls to &7 te ih olling Senator l& Follette has his woe o the floor best part WO =0 Ris esvIsiiny & e CUREN I subject and | Senate Democrats, privately D THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. The Joke is that no matter how much one stands back to let 'em get on first, they nevertheless will prod and poke with elbows and knot their lovely eye- brows in anger if one cannot escape from said proddings and pokings. Ask any street car conductor. He will tell you that no woman ever has been known to board the car with her fare in her hand. Nothing doing! She | waits until the crowd gets in the con- ductor's well, then she calmly opens her handbag, ruffies around for her purse, opens it, peers in for change, finds no change, scrabbles around in the big bag for coins, finds nene, goes back to the pocketbook, takes out $20 bill, hapds it with triumphant air to conductcr. Just a small sample of bad manners which no amount of un- natural eyebrows will make goo manners. TR 1t is difficult to believe that the crime of bad manners in any form is human. In reality it is of and by the beast in human nature. The animals are not finicky, as we say: they know no better. | With them there is no good or bad, but | everything is interesting. A bad odor | to them is just as interesting as a good one, as we say. As a matter of fact, be- cause a bad ordor from our viewpoint is likely to be pungent it may interest the animal more than & sweet smell. But human beings through their ability to grasp relative values have set up a system of rights and wrongs. It is one thing to be interested in an odor and another to show that interest. | The animals, having no minds, in our sense, do what they do because they know no better, and there is no rea- son, since they are animals, why they should act any other than they do Human beings, hovever, having minds, know values. Even the most ignerant persons, those who not only know nothing but sneer at thise who do, know enough to know the differ- ence between good social values and bad social values. That is why their bad manners can- not be forgiven them, and that is why, curiously enough, they cannot forgive themselves. For what is their anger at those who dare to point out their failure to observe the human code but & complete confession on their part that they are ashamed of themselves? Soclety has got to a point, civiliza- tion has got to a point, where certain demands are made upon those in it. If one does not measure up to these 19131:11 demands, one falls short, that s all. The custom of pretending not to see these overt acts, as they really are, has grown to such a point. too, that some persons tend to believe that they are hiding their misdeeds, that they are “getting away with it as the jargon of the day has it. The jargon of the next century will have another way of putting it, but it will mean the same thing. Society has overdone, one may think, the overlooking of social faults. In order to keep anger at a minimum, in order to keep the animals from becom- ing stirred up. all too many Caspar Milquetossts have keen willing to make out that they do not realize how ill- mannered many people are. The soul of every Milquetoast. how- ever, lcngs for the moral stamina, the physical brawn, the honesty of thought and expression, which would permit him, with a flourish even, to tell the man with bad manners just what a poor sort of brute he is. Mr. Webster's re- cent cartoon. in which Caspar was shown “bawling out” everybody, is the sort of thing the world needs. It was only a dream of poor old Milquetoast, ‘ol' f?urle—but dreams sometimes come rue! WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS the accompanying documents which he submitted have filled more than 200 consecutive pages of the Congressional Record, and much of it is in extra small type, t00. The La Follette opus alone entails a printing cost of more than $25,000. When the Wisconsin Senator concluded, his colleague, Senator Costi- gan of Colorado, took up the cudgels of debate. and his speech, 0o, was a two- day affair. The authors are taking the taking _themselves with deadly seriousness. Senator Costigan goes back to the days of the famous debate of Webster and Hayne, when questions of slavery and secession were hanging in the balance, for & parallel to the prescnt debate. Most of the convinced of the unwisdom and inexpediency of the Costigan-La Follette proposals for a dole to the States from the Federal Treas iry, are, nevertheless, hard put to oppose it without seeming to be un- sympathetic to the pleas of human mis- ery. Furthermore, their own utterances last Winter are now rising to plague them. They are distinctly on the de- fensive. ok ok % A new country-wide prohibition poll has been started by the Literary Digest Twenty million ballots are being mailed out at the rate of 1500,000 a day. Two questions only are asked. you favor continuation, of the eight- centh amendment? Do you favor re- peal?” The 1930 poll under similar auspices showed 30 per cent in favor of prohibition enforcement, 29 per cent for modification and 4 per cent for repcal. Both the wets and the drys contended the results sustained their position. Doubtless the Tesults this time will provoke similar claims and settle few disputes. But the expecta- tion Is that the percentage for straight repeal of the eighteenth amendment will show & big increase. ek x Representative George Holden Tink- ham of Massachusetts startled some of his assoclates in the House this weck by announcing, informally, but em- phatically, that he had adopted an ogcnly pro-Japanese attitude in the Shanghai affair. He declared he could not refrain from heartily indorsing any movement which resulted in discomfort to Methodists even so far away China. His only regret, he added, was that Bishop Cannon was not present in the stricken area to share some of the horror and suffering. Having just enjoyed several favorable rulings on his pleas in Bishop Cannon’'s libel suit against him, Representative Tinkham is now preparing for the trial, which he | expects will bring him to the stand just before election, when he can use the slogan, “A vote for my opponent is a vote for Cannon.” EEE Something brand new in the way of electric traffic signals has been installed in Washington's famous Rock Creek Park. Employing the “electric eye,” or photo electric cell, as a means of de- tecting approaching horsemen, the signal is unique. A green light shows fixedly to the auto highway and & red light shows to the intersecting bridle path. At the approach of & horseman the signal miraculously changes o that the horses pass through the inter- section fully guarded without having had to halt for a single moment. The secret is in two little invisible beams of light cast across the bridle path. When a horse and rider pass through the beams, a shadow is cast on the “electric eyes” and an electrical impulse is sent to the “brains” of the system, the con- trol box. Immediately the lights change. The twe beams that play scross the path are sensitive only to horses going toward the intersection. When horses pass the other way through the rays, no notice is taken of them, thus not ope! ating the signal needlessty. The signal “knows,” {00, when there are & number and automatically holds the red light against traffic until the last rider is clear of the intersection. (Copyrixht, 1932.) —— Another Phase of Taxes. From the Bt Evening News. taxes according to the citi- L try. l Policy of Golden Rule Seen Aid to Business To the Editor of The Btar: ‘There is one aspect of our modern business methods which deserves con- structive attention. This is the grcw- ing tendency of our great corporations to belittle the human factor and to edopt low wage standards. Many pub- lic utilitles, chain store groups and holding company corporations may be included. ‘To illustrate: it seems par- ticularly unfortunate that the electric light and power industry should fail to express the highest Americanism, for Edison, with his enthusiasm and un- selfish work, was of a generous and loyal nature, and hoped to have these qualities nurtured and expressed by the |industry he founded. Moreover, he | clearly saw the need and the valie of {the practical use of the Golden Rule in business. 4 In a semi-public letter October 13, 1925, he wrote in part: “You ask for niy ideas of what the aspirations of a public utility should be. They can be stated in very few words: “First. It should constantly use every endeavor to reduce the cost of production of its commodity and sell it to the public at the lowest possible | price consistent with the making of a | reasonable profit on the investment. “Becond. To regard the public as a partner and as such entitled to know the sallent facts of its business, espe- cially as it is & public utility. “Third. It should lay all its cards on the table and play the game fair and square. “It seems to me that if these ideas were carried out, our public utility cor- porations would escape many trouble- some investigations and harassing re- sirictions.” Some time later Mr. Edison, in & per- sonal letter, d in regard to the Gol- den Rule: “You and your fellow workers are to be congratulited on forming the ‘Order |of the Golden Rule.’ with the intention |of carrylng out this great principle in your business.” |" Furthermore, the story Edison in the early days made an | agreement with Santa Claus where Santa was to foster the human ele- ment in the Edison electric light indus- The first effects were spontane- cusly delightful, but the more big cor- porations controlled the business, the more difficulty Santa had, until he finally gave up discouraged, and, after requesting that the bad news be kept from Mr. Edison, he practically disap- peared from the industry. The trouble was that Santa was up against a business system which, with-| out due regard for the human element, demanded all the profits possible. Now. the business men in the electric light and power industry are as fine and capeble a set of men as can be found {in"any industry—but the business sys- tem demands compliance. Therefore, the business system should be improved and quickened by a spir- ftual factor such as the Golden Rule, Spirit is intelligent power and to 1 gain the full value of this rule it must be understood as such and used in good faith. Then it brings improved | ideas, greater capability and more h: monious conditions. expressing a tr and higher economy Gandhi, a Hindu, recently said: “If | mankind is to live in a manner be- | fitting its dignity, it must observe the fundamental principles of truth, ju | tice. mercy and love. enunciated 2000 vears ago by the Great Man whose coming upon earth the whole Christian world is celebrating. “Christ’s sermon on the mount is the loftiest piece of moral teaching the world has ever received. It is a calamity that the present-day world seems o believe it impossible to re- duce Christ's teachings to practice, whereas I believe it is. If the doc- trines there proclaimed by Jesus were practiced by the human rece, we would have no wars and the world would not be rent by economic troubles. “How I wish America could lead the way Gandh goes that e . i, the Hindu, was right—and America should lead tnc way. The way of the Golden Rule, which changes the thoughts to a higher, brighter and & more constructive activity. If this well named rule were to be | generally used as a guiding principle | in business, such, for example, as that of our public utility corporations— | even as Edison advised—the new out- | look assured and, more particularly, the | new public confidence inspired would [ be of great value, not only to the utility, but to the community and to | America i ROGER SHERMAN WHITE | Secretary, Order of the Golden Rule. i ———— Owner Without Tags ' Blames D. C. Officials To the Editor of The Star Reading some notices from | Traffic Bureau in the newspapers late- 11y, cne gains the impression that tho | automobile owners who now are w | out the mew tags get just punishme for their negligence to secure titles and tags early enough. In other wor the Department of Traffic and Ve- hicles is innocent of the misfortune of those tardy motorists. However, here are some facts which might enlighten those who condemn those eight or ten thousand procrasti- nate (?) motorists: I secured a title for my car September last year. Upon announcement from the Traffic Bureau that tag applications will be mailed to those with titles I waited until the be- ginning of December before I applied by letter for tags. Results; Nothing happened. The second lefter (reg- istered with return postage) was sent to the director of traffic and_vehicl the same results. Two times I went the bureau myself and each time re- ceived the kindly assurance that ap- plication blanks will be sent by ma This information cost me about a day’s wages. When I wrote the third letter (return postage included) I made a bet with myself that its journey's end would be the wastepaper basket again and that T still would wait for the ap- plication to be mailed, even after Pebruary 3. I have won my bet. F. R. WURZBACHER. Lewis’ War Warning Is Declared Unfounded To the Editor of The Star: About 23 or 24 years ago I covered an address by J. Hamilton Lewis, then, |as now, & United States Senator, de- livered at & meeting of men at St. Luke's | Episcopal Church, Evanston, Ill. At | that time I was & reporter on the old | | Chicago Record-Herald. | At that time Senator Lewis spoke on | the Japanese peril, and predicted that | within two years this country and Japan would be at each others' throats in a' desperate war. The bone of contention, of course, was to be the Philippines. The burden of his fiery address was for the country to get ready, to arm, to pre- pare for this great war. | At that time I considered the ha-! rangue all & lot of piffie, by one who | had some ax to grind as an alarmist, | although, of course, I wrote up the story for my paper just as I heard it. | Last Monday evening I heard Senator | Lewis over the radio in a similar talk, | warning the people to arm, to prepare for a newly-predicted war with Japan | although this time we'll have to meet | Russia, too, for while the Japs are after | the Philippines the Big Bear will come | over and grab Alaska. When I heard all this the reaction was just the same as it was in my mind a quarter of & cen- tury ago. Of course, this will not come to pass any more than his predictions at the Evanston meeting. ILEY P. MARTIN. ——e—t One “Day” After Another. From the New Castle News. No wonder folks want to reform the alendar. It is getting to be just onc day” after another. r——— All Represented in Senate. Prom e Omaia Evenine Worid-Herald With Huey Long at last in the Senate, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Did you ever write a letter to Fred- | eric J. Haskin? You can ask him any question of fact and get the answer | in a personal letter. Here is a great | educational idea, Introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in | the world—American newspaper read- | ers. It is a part of that best purpose of & newspaper—service. There is no | charge except 2 cents in coln or stamps | for return postage. Address Frederic | J. Haskin, Director, The Evening Star Information Bureau, Washington, D.C. Q. Who is the new Governor of Porto Rico?—G. E A. He 15 James Rumsey Beverley, for- merly attorney general of Porto Rico. Q. Who is Forrest Wilson, one of the authors of the new play ‘“Blessed Event”?—F. C. D. A. Robert Forzest Wilson is a native of Okio. He lived in Washington sev- eral y engaged in newspaper work, and more recently has resided in Paris and New York. He has written several | books and magazine articles and fic- tion, but this is his first play. Q. How many wearing apparel chain stores are there in the United States?— W e A. A list of 2600 wearing apparel chain store organizations has been com- piled by the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Q. For what purpose is a dynagraph used on a railroad?—S. J. | A. It is an apparatus, or a collection of apparatuses, in a railroad car for exhibiting and recording the condition of & line of track and the resistance of & train, its speed and other particulars concerning its running. Q. Was “Ca or a novel”—D. A. It first appeared as a novel in 1048 and was dramatized the following year. mille” originally a play c! Q. What is a lac of rupees the equiv- alent of in our money?—8. D. C A, About $46,350. Q. How large do lake trout grow? {C. 8. A A Specimens have been known that exceed 100 pounds in weight, but the average is from 15 to 20 pounds. Q. What were the apples that were supposed to be sweet on one side and bitter on the other>—B. 8. W. A. Apples of Istakhar. Q. How much lard is consumed in a year In this country?>—H. T. D A. About 1,800,000,000 pounds of lard | is consumed. ' Ttis amounts to near 15 | pounds per capita. Q. What is the difference between a xylophone and a marimba’—M. A. M | "A. Harry Forbes writes as follows: | “The marimba is built in a similar way | to the xylophone, except that the com: pass is considerably lower ing a very beautifu 11 marimba is used only with soft beaters and for slow or sustained numbers. It is not suitable for the same class of | work as the xvlophcne. nere is an | instrument now on the marxet which jcan be used for both soft-hammer and hard-hammer playing, known as the | marimba-xylophone, having part of the | marimba compass and also the range | of the xylophone notes.” | Q In litera meant by the “imagists’>—L. O. R. A The imagists are a school of | modern poets who advocate the use of | free verse, freedom of choice as to | subject matter and clear, exact images | to build up a unified impression. | @ How big is Lake Lucerne?—P. L. N. | A Lake Lucerne has an area of | about 44! s Its greatest “eriticism, what s R Baker’s Position on Leagu | | | | Newton D. Baker's statement that| entry into the League of Nations should not ‘be made an issue ih the coming national political campaign is widely interpreted as an indication that he is | 2 potential candidate for the presiden- | clal nomination in the Democratic con- vention. There are differences of opin- |ion as to whether he has strengthened his own position by the declaration | ‘It is generally thought,” | Scranton Times (Democratic), “t | those Democratic leaders who oppos the candidacy of Gov. Roosevelt will Iturn at once to the support of Mr. Baker.” The New York Herald Tribune | (Republican) adds that “Mr. Ba | return to the picture will be wid ’welwmed,” and the Youngstown Vin dicator (independent Democratic), hold- ing that his announcement “will satisfy the friends of the League,” concludes that “it has strengthened him with leaders who feared he might be loyal to the League to the point of imprac- | tieall The Akron Beacon-Journal | (independent Republican) feels that it “has_put life into efforts to give him the Democratic nomination for Presi- | dent.” Recalling that editorfally it has “ad- | vocated American entrance to the | League from the beginning.” the Cleve- land Plain Dealer (independent Demo- cratic) continues: “It believes now as thoroughly as it did in 1920 that this Nation, which pioneers in the effort to abolish wars, should take its place as & full member of the one going. organized | concern now dedicated to the single, . | prime purpose of keeping nations from | tearing each other to pieces. We indorse | the judgment of Newton D. Baker, how- | ever, that to make the League a party | | question this year would tend to dis- tract attention from other pressing issues more clearly within the fleld of immediate political action.” [ * % % X | Noting interpretations of the state- ment as equivalent to “throwing his hat | into the ring,’ the Rochester Times- | Union (independent) voices the convic- | tlon: “It does not appear that he intends to go after delegates or to| make any other move as an active can- | | didate for the nomination.” The Mor- | | gantown Dominion-News (Democratic) | | declares: “Thousands will take delight {4n the fact that Mr. Baker deemed it | desirable to make the statement that he | did. It does not, of course, place him | in the fleld as an active seeker for the nomination, yet it points to the fact| that he is in a receptive mood, and | that he desires that there shall be no false barriers between himself and the | honor which all honorable men are pleased to accept. He now stands be- fore the countrv and his party as a| man whose abilities and whose record in the public service make him one in | whom his party and his country should | be glad to repose the great responsi- | bil®ies that are a President’s.” | Agreeing that “it is difficult to look | upon Mr. Baker as less than a recep- tive candidate,” the Cleveland News (Republican) believes that “the nomi- nating and campaigning will unques- | tionably have to be done by Mr. Baker's | friends, if done at all.” Quoting Mr. Baker's statement that for entry into the League there must be “an informed and convinced major- ity sentiment,” the Roanoke Times (Democratic) makes the appraisal: “That is clear and explicit, and will serve to remove objections to him as the candidate on the ground that it would be most unwise for the party to advocate entrance of the United States into the League. Mr. Baker is in ac- cord with this view, it seems; Lence one of the most serious objections that has been raised against him automati- cally disappears. Democratic leaders will revive discussion of the Ohioan as a possible head of the ticket. True, he is not secking the noxination, but un- | questionably he is one of the strongest and ablest leacers of the party, and bis nam> is sure to figure prominently in the deliberations of the national ccn- vention in June.” | uation is for the length is 24 miles and its greatest width about 2 miles. Q. What is the inscription on the Arlington Amphitheater which is @ quotation from Lincoln?—H. R, . “We hereby resolve that these cead shall not have died in vain.” The quotation is from Lincoln's address at the dedication at Gettysburg. Q. Can a patent be obtained jointly by an inventor and a Rperson who is financing the filing for patent? —L. M. S A. A common mistake made by pat- entees is where they are not actually joint inventors, but apply for a patent as such and sign the oath and petition for the application for patent, alleging that they are joint inventors, whereas the actual fact is that but one is an inventor or “sole” inventor, the other being usually under such conditions the party who is financing the obtaining of the “patent. Under such conditions, and where an oath is untrue, the re- sulting patent is invalid. The proper way of meeting the above outlined sit- “sole” inventor to apply for the patent and at the same time make a proper assignment of the agreed interest to the other party. In this manner the patent will issue to them as joint patentees as distinguished from joint inventors. A partnership agreement may e formed between élh'm relative to exploiting the inven- on, Q. Taking the whole world and dis- tributing the population evenly, how thick would the population be?—E. W. A. It would be 384 persons to the square mile. .Q. What is “lady day"?—R. E. A. One of the quarter days in Eng- lang and Ireland on which rent is made payable. It falls on March 25 in each year. Q. Has T N T any use save as a high explosive?—E. S A. T N T, or trinitrotuluol, is ad- ministered as a medicine in cases of deranged blood pressure. Q. What percentage of airplane acci- dents are chargeable to inclement weather?’—A. A. L. A. Weather was charged with 32.02 per cent of the accidents in scheduled flying from July to December, 1930 Other causes were pilot errors, power plant failures and structure failure. Q. Why were Jews in Russia 5o often sent into exile in Siberia?—B. C A. Exile to Siberia was not decreed by the czarist government of Russia actually cn account of Je affilia- tion, excepting that the Jews in Russia were largely suspected of political in- trigue and of insubordination. This, added to the dislike of the Jewish race as a whole, served to render it prac- tically impossible for a Jew in Russian courts or before any tribunal to prove his innocence of crimes attributed to him. Al political offenses—and this covered practically all offenses, if de- sired—were punishable by exile. Q. Will all the $2.000.000,000 pro- vided by the Reconsiruction Finance Corporaticn be used to release frozen { assets of banks and restore to solvency banks in liquidation?—C. E. N. A. The organic act of the corpora- tion limits the arount of relief to banks to $200,000,000. Q. How old was Henry Ford when his car was put on the market?—F. H W A. Henry Ford began his experiments as a mere boy. He was 40 years of age o he offered the Ford car to the His first car was completed his second car in 1896. Unt he worked quietly and experi- Qqe then introduced the fa- e is & strategic move. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram (independent Demo- cratic) states as to his utterance: “So far as ability and personality are con- cerned, there is no man of presidential caliber politically who is better quali- fied for the presidency than Newton D. Baker. He knows his way around Washington and through the labyrinths of ‘foreign entanglements.” He has been tried under the superlative of executive cetail. But he appears to be the poor- est politician of them all. His an- nouncement concerning the League of Nations proves that statement. A poli- tician would make it a platform plank and then paint it with two or three coa's of presidential hokum. The Baker system is to declare it an educational issue to be kept out of politics and ready for use only when an informed citizenship is prepared to give the sure intent of public opinion to this coun- try's membership. It is rather too bad that he has taken that stand. It merely serves to make possible the nomination of a more adroit politician with no more of earned right to party preferment and of native ability.” * ok % % ‘The declaration “is undoubtedly in a form very different from what the pub- lic has been accustomed to have from Mr. Baker,” contends the Charleston Evening Post (Democratic), adding that “it is naturally and doubtless correctly assumed to be an adjustment of himself to the possibilities of a call to lead his party.” The Birmingham Age-Herald (Democratic) declares its significance “is in the fact that he seems to be for soft-pedaling discussion, at least for the time being,” and adds that “one wonders why he felt it desirable to fling this sop to Cerberus.” The San Francisco Chronicle (independent Re- publican) is convinced that “it must be & blow to some of Mr. Baker's chief advhcates,” and “it must be that he does not count them as the ones who have a nomination to bestow.” Finding that the League and recent world events have received joint atten- tion, the Dayton Daily News (indepen- dent Democratic) says: ‘“Because the League hasn't had the strength to coerce Japan, we spurn the League. It is true that our original rejection of the League was based on the fear that the League would have the coercive power whose lack we now denounce, but logic and consistency seldom rule. If | Japan has shredded the League, it also has shredded our own Kellogg-Briand treaty. Shall we, therefore, denounce that? But that is a horse of another color. The upshot of &ll this is appar- ently an increased mass antipathy to the League. Politics must deal with facts as they are. America will neces- sarily in time co-operate with the world, probably through the League. This will come through education and grow- ing experience. For the present that question, along with Mr. Hoover's abo~ lition of poverty, is out of politics.” ‘The Baltimore Sun (independ Democratic) gives the mm-mlc):an;fi? “He prefers to limit our official action to a policy of sympathetic co-opera- tion with all League efforts to promote peace. He would leave the broad ques- tion of any permanent relationship with the League to the slower processes of study and education. This is a sound and enlightened position. It steers clear of the pettifogging isolationist dogma which has governed most of our relationships with Europe since the close of the Wilson administration.” e Add Pathetic Figures, Prom the New York Sun Among the pathetic figures of th season is the small boy who receives & sled for C-istmas. Real Butter for Farmers, From the Topcka Daily Capital, Novw thal Wisconsin his socked a 6- cent tax on oleomargerine and other ———— There is bt that Mr. Baki $n. 20 150 Fantue 13 acimer b bouin substitutes. for butter even farmers