Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1932, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY......February 12, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Offce: = 1 and Pennsylvanis Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Bullding. European Office: 14 Regent &.. London. ne Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening Star g om et = cach monih. or FAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 85¢ S0c 0. All Other States and Canada. {ly and Sunday...1yr.$12.00° 1 mo. $1.00 En.\- Snly . 1yr. $8.00: 1mo., 75c nday only ......1yr. $500: 1mo. B80c Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited (o it or not otherwise cred- ited in this paper and aiso the local news published herein. All rizhts of publication of #pecial aispatches herein are also reserved. — Releasing Hoarded Gold. An old banker, who had been through much of the same sort of thing before, was asked for comforting advice on how best to stand the Stresses and strains of the period. “Keep liquid, son,” he replied. Good, sound advice, ordinarily. Any bank that “keeps liquid” can face its de- positors any day of the year with the confidence born of knowledge that there is enough cash on hand to meet & panicky rush of those who want to feel their gold and see that it is there. But the effort by the banks to “keep liquid” has become one of the vicious boomerangs of the period. To remain liquid, the normal extension of credit has been retarded. Loans have been called. Money in vast quantities has accumulated cobwebs, and hoarding. openly deplored, has been encouraged nevertheless. One can denounce the banikers for lack of courage and timidity in lending, but the average banker ob- viously prefers the accusation to the alternative, in too many cases pre- sented, of closing the bank to stem the tide of depositors who want thewr money. Nobody can blame him. One of the chief purposes of the bi- partisan bank bill, under the care of Senator Glass in the Senate and Rep- resentative Steagall in the House, is to ifurnish the banks with something mere tangible than confidence, en- abling them to follow the banker's ad- vice to “keep liquid,” but at the same time providing them with facilities for extending credit without running the risk of inability to meet an emergent demand for cash. The bill is intended to accomplish this by modifying the rediscounting section of the Federal Reserve act by making available for rediscount certain types of paper that, while potentially scund enough, are not now classed as “eligible” collateral for loans to the member banks, and by enabling the Federal Reserve Board to use Government bonds as a basis for currency issues. This latter provision is intended to correct one of the de- fects of the Federal Reserve system 8s exposed by the depression. The statutory - requirement that Federal Reserve notes must be backed by a minimum of 40 per cent gold reserve, while the 60 per cent balance is to be made up of commercial paper of pre- scribed types, has resulted in an ex- cessive amount of gold reserves in relation to the amount of commercial paper. The shortage of the Ilatter type of security has forced the system to make up the balance in gold. This has led to an accumulation of idle gold that should be free. By making direct obligations of the United States a basis for Pederal Reserve currency issues and fortifying the goid status, the amount of currency for issue will be increased at the time that restric- tions are eased on its availability to the member banks. One naturally anticipates the charge that this bill represents another step to counteract deflation by inflation. But such charges will represent cynicism and not the doubts that result from judicious opinion. The chief purpose of the bill can probably be described as reicasing the gold that a technical pro- vision of the Federal Reserve act has required unnecessarily to be held. The bill does not offer opportunity for any dargerous inflation of currency beyond the amount of a safe gold reserve. The success of the bill, the provisions of which are to be effective for one year only, depends upon whether the situation it aims to correct is really in large measure responsible for the paralysis that has resulted from the depression, preventing healthy recovery. ‘The bankers and economists believe that that situation is to blame, and that this | bill will go far to remedy it = ——— = A recent states that a grandfather clock “made in the time of William VIII” sold in London for over $2,000. A somewhat futuristic timepiece, if one may be per- | mitted to say so. T B Language and the Law. A judge of court at Bridgeport, Conn, in a recent charge to a jury in a case on trial used the phrase “an ordinarily reasonable and prudent person.” Upon rendition of judgment counsel for the losing interest de- manded that the verdict be set aside on the ground that the court's lan- guage was faulty. In a formal decision on this plea, which he denied, the Jjudge admitted that his words were “awkward, clumsy and imperfect Eng- lish" and that he should have said “a reasonably prudent person.” He never- theless declared that the verdict should stand, as the meaning of his phrase was entirely clear. This incident directs attention anew; to the matter of legal phraseology. which is in urgent need of correction and modification. Charges andgindict- ments are phrased in cumbersome and obscure form. An angient code of circumlocution, repetition and variation continucs to be employed. Juries are confounded by the phraseology. Slight, immaterial and highly technical vari- ations from this relic of past procedure cause mistrials and reversals. The course of justice is greatly impeded and extended in consequence. From time to time efforts have been THE EVENING respect. Jurists and lawyers have met |added an airplane pllot who was to and debated the matter and in some |attempt to drop bombs on the trap- instances have agreed upen & plan for | per's stronghold. Just as everything the modernization of the Janguage used | was in readiness for the final onslaught in indictments. But little progress has |a terrific blizzard came on which ne- been effected, and in practically all | cessithted postponement. Ia the bliz- news item from England | Jurisdictions the forms employed con- tinue to follow the old formulas of in- volvement and repetition, leaving dan- gerous possibilities for slight but nulli- fying errors. The Bridgeport case is not of itself important. The language used by the judge was only clumsy, not misleading or susceptible of misunderstanding. Redundancy is not an uncommon fault in courts. Attorneys and judges alike are prone to the over use of words. | Exceptions are taken upon the slightest grounds, on the theory of possibly: hit- ting a mark somewhere. The more verbose the court the more exceptions, | and on the shotgun bypothesis that some pellet will probably score a wound the records of cases tried are weighted down and complicated by protests and demands. If jurists are to be schooled in judicial English as a training for their responsibilities, the first lesson should be to cut their remarks to the bone of defi- nite meaning and to use their words with scrupulous care for their exact signifi- cance. A language test as a means of determining the qualifications of the wearers of the ermine would perhaps thin the ranks of the aspirants for | the bench. st ———— The Wet Republican Drive. Two years ago the late Senator- Dwight W. Motrow of New Jersey, demanding a return of the control of the liquor traffic to the Sictes, gave the Republican party in that State the final shove toward the wet side of the prohibition controversy. In that year, despite the fact that there have been and continue to be many drys in New Jersey, the Republican State Committee and State Convention put a wet plank in the party platform. And now the Re- publican powers that be in the State are intent upon keeping in the wet path. The two Senator§ Hamilton F. Kean and W. Warren B:YSeE®. and Ambas- sador Walter E. Edge, who gave up a seat in the Senate to go to Paris as America’s diplomatic representative, at | & meeting here have decreed that the State platform shall be wet this year They have gone further, however, and planned for a wet delegaion to the Republican National Conveaticn to fight for a wet plank in the Republican na- tional platform. The New Jersey dele- gation is to become the rallying post of the wet Republicans, if such a rally- ing post should be necessary. The Republican high command this year has not looked with favor, so far, on any proposal to make the national platform wet or even slightly moist.It will | have to meet the drive of the New Jersey Republicans, however, when the conven- tion assembles. And the New Jersey Re- publicans will probably be joined by delegates from a considerable number of other States in their demands for a plank proposing some kind of modifica- tion of the prohibition laws, or at least a so-called referendum plank. There is, of course, a desire on the part of Republicans from wet States like New Jersey, Massachusetts and New York to put themselves right with their own people. Some of these Re- publicans have to run for office this year, and they wish to run as wets. They must make a play to bring the G. O. P. to the water even if it cannot be made to take a drink. The New Jersey leaders are prompt to declare their support of President Hoover and to favor his renomination and re-election. This does not mean that they have had any assurance from the President that he favors their pro- | §ram of putting a wet plank in the na- tional platform. But it has been ob- vious for some time that the Republican national platform will in all probability not be_on all fours with some of the Republican State platforms in regard to the prohibition question. This may be an unfortunate situation, but there seems to be no remedy for it. It is obvious that if the Republican national platform should contain a wet plank, many of the Republican State plat- | forms—for example, in Maine and| Kansas—would bear dry planks. In the “ past, while the Democratic national platform has been sufficiently dry to please probibition leaders, Democratic | State platforms in the North and East have been decidedly wet. The situation, | with prohibition cutting across both political parties, leaves the voters in many States voting dry in the national | election and wet in their State elec- | tions. There seems to be no way out | of this anomalous position at present. e e A business in which two and a half pounds of waste are produced for every | pound of product, namely, the grain | industry, is declared “a challenge to science.” Science will undoubtedly take {up this broad challenge in due time; in the meanwhile a good sparring part- | mer would be the artichoke, vt *“Get Your Man.” ‘The slogan of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is “Get yowr man.”| And more often than not #hey get | their men even in the face ol appar- l!nl.ly insurmountable difficulties. In their latest man hunt, however, they are having a hard time of it. Albert John- son, “bush cragzy” trapper, has suc- ceeded 50 far in defying them. Some months ago it was reported that John- son was tampering with the traps of Indians near Rat River in Northwest | Territory. Two troopers from the nearest station were sent out to bring him in. Johnson, however, did not intend to be taken, and fired through the window of his cabin, seriously injuring one of the approaching po- licemen. His brother officer thereupon began a grueling eighty-mile dog sled dash to bring reinforcements and to give the wounded trooper the medical attention that was needed to save his life. An expedition was hurriedly or- !ganized and in forty-degree-below-zero weather laid siege to the trapper’s cabin. A constant exchange of shots ensued for the next few days. Finally, when Johnson appeared to run out of ammunition an officer cautiously ap- proached the door only to be met by & hail of lead that killed him instantly. Weary and cold and with their food supply almost exhausted, the mounties were forced to give up the fight and return to the nearest stationy with their dead comrade. Another expedition was then organized and amply equipped for \ sard the trapper was reported to have escaped into the wilderness and his whereabouts are now unknown. Even though Johnson has eluded the mounties temporarily, eventually they will get him. Their reputation for efficiency has been built on a solid foundation over a period of years. They never forget and through the long Arctic days and nights the fugitive will be relentiessly tracked. His fate is a certainty and probably no one knows 1t better than himself. —— et Brand-new Senator Long of Louisi- ana, who recently devoted four days to an exhaustive investigation of na- tional affairs here, speaks pityingly of “political paralysis in Washington.” When. that little-advertised but highly efficient “hazing committee” of the Senate gets & good crack at him his ideas concerning paralysis and its symptoms are likely to undergo a marked change. ——————————~ It costs about twenty-five per cent less to build an average home today than it did two and a half years ago, according to the chief statistican of a great building company. The catch in it is that the average would-be builder has only about fifty per cent of the resources he then could command. ey This is the year during which a thousand times as meny people as usual will gaze across the Potomac instead of the Rappahannock, where it really happened, and say to themselves, “No man could throw a silver dollar a mile.” ———————— Among the nightly questions asked by the Goddess of Liberty, in addition to “Uncle Sam, have you locked up the Treasury?” may be this one: “And have you folded up those Memorial Bridge towers for the night?” = o The alleged record for distance of a punted foot ball grows steadily, ac- cording to the statements of sports writers and cartoonists. At the cur- rent rate no stadium, past or present, will be able to hold it. e—e— Almost every imaginable sport is now represented on the Olympic games cal- endar. The United States should see to it that.eventually a pie-eating con- test is included. — e ‘This has been an easy Winter on those offensively healthy faddists who take a year-round morning swim in ocean, bay or river. —— e ‘The main trouble with free verse is that, while it is very free, it is not verse. — e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Unvalued Antique. Of course I've oft been told about The good old-fashioned way. But this I'll whisper, sing or shout: I don't desire a sleigh. Now let the radiator freeze And traffic cops get gay And leave me often ill at ease— I dont desire a sleigh. I ask no jingling bells to hear, Nor yet the horse’s neigh. Though things antique are growing dear, I don't desire a sleigh. Give me the shelter from the storm When sparkling snowflakes play. Give me the flivver, staunch and warm, And you can have the sleigh. Element of Chance. “By this time you are surely entitled to feel that you understand the great game of politics.” “Thoroughly,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “But politics is like poker. No matter how well you play, you never know when some ome is going to sit in an’ beat you with nothing but dumb luck.” Jud Tunkins says the real troubles of the railroads started when they be- gan to be crowded off the maps in order to show the automobile routes. Publicity Wise. “George Washington was a truly truthful man,” remarked Miss Cayenne. “And a successful statesman at tha “Of course. He took the benefit of Parson Weems' cherry tree story, but | never orice permitted himself to vouch for it.” “It's wrong to hoard,” said Uncle Eben, “but remember, you ain' gineter git no medals for runnin’ too deep in debt.” Expurgation Demanded. “Did you read Homer in your youth?” “Yes,” answered the unwavering ad- vocate of peace. “I objected then to its fascinating fight descriptions. ‘The Tliad’ is a beautiful literary work. But it ought to be expurgated™ Incense and Nonsense. ) “Ghost. writers” now apply their minds | judgment and who has been close to | To patient rites propitious. And he who a true favorite finds Must join the superstitious. A source of laughter rather small May grow by flattery’s rumor And prove a produgt, after all, Of an incense of humor. TUndaunted Gambler. The farmer struggles to his feet And bravely plants his corn and wheat. Though oft his manner must be meek, You can't suppress his sporting streak. RS-, Germany’s Peril. Prom the Worcester Daily Telegram. Belgium, it seems, is terribly angry at Germany over the tions question. It is to be hoped that Belgilum will not get out of hand and invade Germany | and sack Berlin. Irregulars Needed. From the Hamiiton (Ont.) Spectator. It was being explained that it was Chinese irregulars who shot down a Japanese plane the other day: there is an almost :nenl belief now that what chln’n most is & larger frregular army. ) . Finns Find Use for Ice. From the Port Worth Star-Telegram. The Finns probably ought to make some of all that made to bring about s reform in this an extended siege, To this squad was ice. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘The more or less weather uniformity has made Nature lovers more aware of the part the seasons play in their lives. { 'The seasons! ‘The Greeks led t! made them beautiful ladies, and all that sort of #m ‘e of today have no hankering to do aught except take the seasons as they come—Spring, Summer, Autumn and ‘Winter. ‘The trouble has been that, broadly speaking, they have all been alike dur- ing the past 12 months. There have been a succession of warm days in Winter, there were cool days last August, the old-time snap and vim of Autumn was lacking, and Summer— well, Summer was very like what it should have been. * * x % Ordinarily one does not stop to think of the wholesome part which the sea- sons play in the lives of all of us of the temperate zone. An unusual year is necessary; then we see easily how much we are in- debted to their orderly successsion. Occasionally one is inclined to lament the absence of perpetual Summer. How happy the inhabitants of the tropics must be, one may 1 But they have various crawling things, serpents and the like, centipedes, and 50 on. They must be extremely careful about the vegetables they eat, even dis- infect them before they cook them. All in all, finicky persons do not feel that they would like to live in such heathen ~ places. “Them that likes them"” can have 'em. We will stay home. * kK % Give us, however, the land of Whit- tier, where Spring follows after Winter, | and Summer after Spring. In a perpetual smiling land there would be no poem called “Snowbound.” If any one thinks that a poor plece of writing, let him take down the old volume and read it over again. He will discover that the teacher of the old days was right for once in her life. “Snowbound” is good! The adult mind without coercion | places the stamp of its approval on it. Teacher had an adult mind, too—at least we suppose she did—but the school board was behind her approval. | Teacher, alas for her, could not take | her pick of all possible poems. She had to grow enthusiastic where the “educational authorities” told her to grow enthusiastic. Poor teachers! Sometimes one may grow Very sorry for them. A teacher finds herself con- fronted, early in her scholastic career, with several bockfuls to teach. ‘That is her job. What she may think. herself. about what she has to teach has no legitimate bearing on the problem before her. Nobody, from the superintendent down, would be interested in hearing her personal cpinions as to the worth or non-worth of any writer, * ¥ ok x We dare say that if any teacher had the honest conviction that Edmund | Rostand's “Cyrano de Bergerac” is & greater play than any Shakespeare ever | wrote she would no more dare say as, much out loud than she would to at-| OBSERVATIONS I WASHINGTON ‘Wall Street, ever quick on the financial | trigger, responded enthusiastically to the Washington news of a bi-partisan mm:&nautndwdn-m Isn't Shakes) the. dram- atist wl;o .v.r"nz‘v.':z H-'E:lh“:m any real right to belleve Moliere can equal him? Surely that is only their nat 3 One thing without stopping to consider their own minds is the nature lore which abounds in the class room. The children like to know about the animals, the birds, the trees, the but- terflies. In this happy work our old friends, the seasons, play a prime part. * x % % The seasons, too, are teachers of & sort. Without their happy aid mankind (at least in the temperate zone) would be more bored with itself than it is. How sad a thing, this thing known as “killing tim: The thoughtful may well ask them- selves how such a phrase ever grew into being. With the life of every living creature strictly limited on this globe, it would seem, at least at first blush, that no conscious creature ought to want time to go any faster than it does. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1932. Urges Capital Honors For Susan B. Anthony the 112th mirks mmfi:‘r‘“yo(-.nnm- , our greatest American woman. y I make an appeal through your ‘women. ion’s Capital, to which Miss Anthony made her annual pilgrim- d Work of Susan B. Anthony,” by Ida Husted Harper: “At the begin- ning she (woman) was a chattel in the eyes of the law, shut out from All opper- tunities and advantages of higher edu- cation, an utter dependent on man, occupying & subordinate position in the church, restrained to the narrowest limits along social lines, an absolute nonentity in politics. Today by those of other paratively free He might even desire it to slow down, | ind! 30 that he could revel in its lack of mo- tion. Yet nothing is surer than that most human beings, granted a certain amount of comparative safety and affiu- ence, seem to find time goes too slow for them. ‘They want to hurry it up. They find life monotonous. Some philosophers even go to the extent of saying that the popularity of warfare is based largely upon boredom. * A % % Certainly the coming and going of tie seasons do a great deal to keep the nature lover satisfied with life as he finds it. (If that isn't being a philoso- pher, we do not know what is.) No sooner does one become tired of ‘Winter than along comes Spring, clad in greenery, with cherry blossoms in her hair and gay hlooms of yellow over her shoulders. She brings a whole new world of experience, the outside world of gardening. ‘This annual experience is all the hap- pier, many think, because it comes bearing memories. These reach down to the very beginnings of humanity. The garden is no new thing in the world. It is as old as the eternal hills. The planting of flowers and vege- tables, the care of trees and shrubs and evergreens—these occupations are nor- ma! and natural, and most human beings find them so if given the chance. % &= ‘There comes a time, however, when gardening tends to grow tiresome. That time is Autimn. - How happily the Fall comes, then, with its golden and red leaves and its mcense and its shut dogrs and win- dows! Not Summer, not yet Winter, the Au- tumn would become tiresome in its turn if it were not for Winter. The joys of Winter are all things to all men. One may find it in “bracing” weather. Another in books. Another in sitting by the fire. Temperamental creature that he is, man becomes tired at last of Winter. And there is beautiful Spring again waiting just around the corner! Hoo-o0! d:yl and outgoing calls more than 300 daily. 4 * % x x agreement for further loosening of ‘The rise in postal receipts was one credit by emergency changes of far- of President Coolidge’s f4vorite cita- reaching import in Federal Reserve re- | tions as proof of prosperity. Scarcely discounts, reserves and note issues. The |a month passed but the White House momentary uprush of stocks was im- | found occasion to mention the monthly pressive. For weeks there has been a | report of postal receipts. The figures battle behind the scenes between those tell a different story mow, and con- in Washington and in New York who |tinue bearish. Indeed. the decline in have favored “limited inflation” through | postal receipts for the past year has monentary and credit channels, end those who opposed any “artificial” stimulants, and specially opposed any letting down of the bars in the matter | of rediscounts by member banks with the Federal Reserve Bank. Senator Carter Glass has been the leading con- gressional opponent of any substantial change in the rediscount eligibility pro- visions of the Federal Reserve act. What has now happened seems to be that the President. the Treasury end congressional leaders of both parties have at last united in the beiief that the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion alone cannot halt the failures of the weak banks and relieve the fears of the strong banks; that enti-hoarding drives are futile until the people them- selves have new confidence in the banks and the banks new confidence in them- selves and in their depositors and cus- tomers. Having resched this conciu- sion. all hands have gotten together on a fiscal program which is believed will turn the tide. Senator Glass agreed to go 2long with this program upon the condition that the changes in the Fed- eral Reserve system would b2 only temporary. The present plan is to_put a one-year time limit on them. Con- gress is to be asked to break all legis- lative speed laws in speeding the bill to the White House. *ox % % | Much water will go over the dam be- fore the Democratic convention meets. | In appraising the claims of the Roose- velt managers some observers see & parzllel between the Roosevelt pre-con- vention position today and the positi of McAdoo at the corresponding period | in 1924. At this time in that year the McAdoo managers claimed 800 votes, as compared with the Roosevelt claim a few weeks ago of 670 votes. The forces back of McAdoo, except Tammany, were practically identical with those | back of Roosevelt. He was weak among | the same elements. McAdoo was a more | resourceful and dangerous fighter. Yet| Smith stopped McAdoo. So it argued that Smith can stop Roosevelt | this time if he sets out to do so. On| the other hand, Smith was a candidate in 1924—a mighty determined one: this vear he is simply the “leader of the party.” * K X x Garner and Ely, Texas and Massa- chusetts, that is the best Democratic 1932 vote-getting combination in sight. the one taat would give Hoover and Curtis the stiffest battle, according to a promincnt Republican, who may not be quoted or identified, but who has an enviable record for canny political both the Coolidge and the Hoover ad- ministrations. Furthermore, this gentle- man, discussing this week the repercus- ! sions of the BSmith- statement, was willing to hazard a guess that just that combination was more than Jikely | to eventuate at Chicago. The prospect of the elimination of Roosevelt by Smith and of Smith by Roosevelt is booming the presidential stock of both Ritchie and Garner. Both now look to be for- midable contenders. If Ritchie is nom- inated his running mate will not be from the Atlantic seaboard. nor a mili- tant wet. But if Garner wins the prize a wet from the Northeast area for sec- ond place is the logical choice, and the present Governor of Massachuscits meets the specificstions to a nicety. * ok k * Coincident with the march to the White House this week of 100 labor leaders headed by President Green of the A. F. of L. to proclaim the exist- ence of a “real national emergency” and to plead for the enactment of the La Follette-Costigan bill to appropriate £375,000,000 to help the jobless, the President proclaimed an_embargo upon extensive handshaking. Mr. Hoover re- ceived the labor petition without com- ment, but did not spare any time for greeting or It was an- nounced that hereafter Mr. Hoover will receive small committees they have m{ recommendations before mm; of the enormous the White House Sundays be cxcluded, * calls now average mare than 1,000 per been progressive and continuous and are no longer broadcast. Waskington was the only city in the list of the 50 largest cities of the country to make a good showing in January and that was attributed to the big sale of Bi- centennial commemorative stamps here to philatelists. Every other city rhowed a smart decrease as compared with January a year ago. In the 50-city total the drop was $3,860,085, or around 13 per cent. * x % % In the welter of war news from the Far East the assassination this week of Junnosuke Inouye, former finance min- ister of Japan, came in for only passing notice. The eccnomic implications of his violent removal from the scene of Japinese affairs are of major import A former president of the nation's iargest financial institution, the Yoko- hama Specie Bank, Mr. Inouyve had served twice as governor of the Bank of Japan and twice as finance minis- ter. From 1927 until the Minseito cabinet was overthrown last November, Mr. Inouye was virtually the financial end economic dictator of Japan. His realistic attitude in the face of Japan's economic difficulties may be judged by the following extract from one of his public addresses: “The financial hori- zon, gentlemen, is black: it is very black indeed, and in the clouds which encomnass it I see no rift, no gleam of sunligiht, #nd in their shadow we wa daily. Do not misunderstand me: this state of affairs is no ephemeral phase, no transient outcome of chence. It is a persistent feature of the economic life of this country.” * x % % The A. R. A. (the American Re- lief Association) will hold its eighth annual reunion in New York City at the Army-Navy Club early next month. ‘The association came into existence in 1924 of men who had once called Herber. Hoover “chief.” Its members have rendered yoeman service in spreading the Hoover gospel and in re- sponding to “draft calls” for govern- anental duty in the Hoover administra- tion. George Akerson. Georg: Barr Baker, Paul S. Clapp, Lawrence Richey d Edgar Rickard are among the iends of the President on the A. R. A. roster. The current issue of the asso- ciation’s bulletin, commenting on the depression, remarks that “everybody is getting blamed today, including scme of the best members of the Amer- ican Relief Association.” (Copyrisht. 1032.) — e Sincerity Seen Need In Depression’s Din To the Editor of The Star: Depression: Economists. Near econ- omists. Doctrinaires. Theories. Analyses. Executive ledgerdemain. Congressional prestidigateurism. Talk. More talk. A babel of voices howling statically into a cavernous void. Ineptitude rampant. And millions jobless! Remedies: Pay cuts. The dole. Bonds. Public works. Ccmmunity Chests. Or what have you! Oh, for one clear voice of conviction, from out the dolorous din of discordant diagnosticians, ringing with sincerity and authority, with courage and with faith, that will lead America back to its ancient philosophy—that industry plus frugality spells social content and & prosperous, happy Nation. It can bz done! GEO. W. McENTEE. Curb Fruit Venders At Post Office Hit To the Editor of The Star: Washington has spent thousands of dollars in destroying eyesores and im- proving around the Union Station, vet there remain two eyesores that will not cost anything to remove. I refer to the two fruit venders’ i | traction companies are looking out for gotten or put aside for any other object. Never a single tie has been formed, either of affection or business, which would interfere with this supreme pur- pose. Never a speech has been given, a trip taken, a visit made, a letter writ- ten, in all this half century, that has not been cone directly in the interest of this one object. There has been no thcught of personal comfort, advance- ment or glory; the self-abnegation, the self-sacrifice, have been absolute—they have been unparalleled. Those who fol- low the story of this life will confirm the assertion that every girl who now 2njoys a college education; every woman who has the chance of earning an hon- est living in whatever sphere she chooses; every wife who is protected by law in the possession of her person and her property; every mother who is blessed with the custody and control of her own children—owes these sacred privileges to Susan B. Anthony beyond all others.” | Men and women built this Republic. Its great men are signally honored each year. Its great women are submerged | in oblivion to the great mass of Amer- ican people. Susan B. Anthony's place in history is best expressed by the fol- lowing tribute, paid to her back in 1898: “A Washington and a Lincoln have come in our great century, and between their birthdays born a Susan B. Anthony, whose grand life has been given to a noble cause; once the target for the cruel znd bitter shafts of ridicule, now deemed the noblest among women. The task of ‘Washington and Lincoln could not be complete till crown was placed on the brow of an as well as man, and when the angebls shall call Susan B. Anthony to the life immortal, her name, her memory on earth should and will take its place among the martyrs and saints of liberty, not for man alone, but for woman and child.” Up with the colors on Monday, men and women! ROSE ARNOLD POWELL. r———- Life Saving in Time Of Economic Stress To the E¢itor of The Sta I read your editorial entitled “Prin- ciples vs' Distress,” printsd February 11, with great interest, and I confess that at first I was inclined to agree . with your logic which objects that $375,000,000 is useless to do any large | measure of good. On second thought I cannot recon- cile mysel! to that logic. In my humble opinion, it is not a gquestion of the measure of good that the sum may do, but of any good at all it might ac- complish, considering that no other funds and means are available. Even if some communities and many indi- viduals must necessarily be neglected | in the distribution of these funds, if | a fairly large number are helped this! Jjustifies the appropriation. One life | saved is worth the whole sum. A few dollars or a quantity of food | made available to families in distress | might so bring present couiage, am- . bition and hope that numerous trag- | edies might be avoided. This is the matter as I see it ALBERT LEVINSON. S |Careful Study Urged Before Car Merger To the Editor of The Star: The new street car merger bill now | being considered by Congress appears to be a very hasty plece of work, and certainly any measure relating to so vital an issue as Washington's trans- portation system demands careful scru- tiny before passage. I think that nearly every one will agree that the primary purpose of such legislation should be to provide better service for the municipal- ity, yet this bill, if passed in its present form, will merely enable the continued prosecution of poor methods at a lower cost. In other words, whereas our two Toonerville Trollies recently seem to have been prodded into some degree of wakefulness by the sharp competition of low-rate taxis, upon passage of this bill they will immediately relapse into their former lethargy—with this dif- ference: they will then have a strangle- hold upon the city's transport system! Let's not have a merger simply for the merger's sake. In my opinion the street car service of the District is rotten. I am quite aware that local railway officials con- sider their companies the equal of any in the United States, prating long and loudly of the good. faithful service they have rendered, but facts are facts, whether their existence is admitted or not. The result is, Washingtonians are going to have poor transportation just as long as they'll stand for it; the only ! way they can obtain better is to take I matters into their own hands and pro- vide it themselves, either through pub- lic ownership, public ownership with private operation, or public control. Any bill authorizing merger should contain a specific “service” clause to protect the public. We all know what present conditions are. Do you think the touch of the magic hand of Congress is going to work some marvelous cure? The their interests, but who's taking care of ours? The only known standard we have with which to gauge coming events is that of past performances, and appli- cation of this yardstick to the merger bill certainly sugurs ill for the future. It is high time the people of the Dis- trict chucked their policy of “laissez faire” into the waste basket and sought a solution to their transit problem themselves. Oh, undoubtedly Washing- ton must eventually have a good car line some day, but what good will that do the dead? We need one now. ‘WILLIAM DOYLE JOHNSON. ———r——— Now to Increase Sales. Prom the Cleveland News. News that the Democrats’ program will probably include a national sales! tax suggests the hope that it will also | advance some mears of increasing the | sales. s Chicago Motto. Prom the Lynchburg New: Chicago's motto: Millions for conven- tions; not 1 cent for teachers. Tariff on Spats Suggested. lo Evening News. idea is to tax those most able , why is there no heavy tariff on ble. Roque, Q square American | the sa ! seat Q. How did the game of roque get its pame?—K. D. T. A. , the evolution of croquet, gets its name dropping the first and last letter from croquet. as played today, is one of the most scientific games in the list of sports. . How does Japan e in_size with Great Britain and Ireland?—B. S. A. Japan proper contains 148,756 miles, while Great Britain and Ireland contain 121,633 square miles. Japan has 64,450,000 inhabitants, while United Kingdom has 46,500,000, Q. Who divided the ages of man into seven?—G. W. A. Hippocrates did so, and the ar- rangement was adopted by Shakespeare. Q. Who gave the name Empire to New York State?—N. A. L. A. It is attributed to George Wash- ington, who, in an address in 1784, d “* * * your State (at present the of Empire) * * *." Q. How many people when the Statue of Liberty was un- vel'ed>—H. B. A. It was unveiled on October 28, | 1886, in the presence of 1,000,000 peo- ple. Q. Where do you enlist in the French Foreign Legion’—H. L. A. It is necessary that the applicant be on French soil. He would go to the nearest recruiting station. Q. Why doesn't Floyd Gibbons wear a glass eye?—C. O. A. Ployd Gibbons' eye was injured during the World War and then re- moved. The socket was injured in such a way that he could not use a glass eye. Q. How can I locate the North Star? —C. A. P. A. The Naval Observatory says that the North Star may be found by ob- erving the direction of the pointers or two end stars of the Big Dipper: also by remembering that the North Star is the last star in the handle of the Little Dipper. Q. Do we own embassies in London, Beriin and Paris?—J. H. L A. This country has built embassies in Berlin and Paris and purchased one in London. Q What is the word, martyr’—J. L. A It comes from the Greek word derivation of the A waich literally means one who remem- | bers, and thus signifies a witness or ene who by his death bore witness to the Christian faith. Q. What will femove the odor of onjons from the hands’—R. M. A. The Public Health Service says that there is no preparation on the market Wwhich will remove the odor of cnicns from the hands, other than natural lemon juice, which will cut it to some extent. If the onions are skinned or sliced under runningz cold water, there is very little, if any, odor on the hands. . Who_invented cellophane, and when?—P. T. R. A. Cellophane was ceveloped in 1908, by 2 Frenchman named Brandenberger and perfected by 1912. The French government took the entire output dur- ing the World War, using it to make Roque, | ‘were present ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. eye-pleces for gas masks. The Du Ponts ;thulreu fldt’he Amkell;licnn lmn&nu in 1923 used for mal ? from hats to fish ek e Sveryihiia 3‘ What is meant by sans culotte? A. The Prench words were a term of derision frequently applied to the peasants or proletariat. Liberally trans- lated it means without skirts, under- clothes or g the Revo- lution the aristocrats were frequently alluded to by the revolting peasants as * " meaning that they were frequently deprived of their heads. Q. Please explain the symbolism of u‘i‘;’“‘ white whale in “Moby Dick.” A. The book “Moby Dick” is a Scuth Sea romance by Herman Melville. Moby | Dick is a feroeious white whale. who was known to whalers of the perind as Mocha Dick. He is pursued in a fury | of revenge by Capt. Ahab, whose leg be had bitten off; and under Melville's ;}undunl( the chase takes on a signifi- cance beyond mere externals, Moby Dick becomes a symbol of the terrific | forces of the natural universe, and Capt. | Ahab is doomed to disaster even though | Moby Dick is killed at last. Q. Does “inland city” refer to any city not on or near a coast line or must the city be situated where there is not |a river or lake?—G. G. A. Inland eity is applicable to any | ¢ity mot on the seacoast, whether or | Dot it is located on any inland water. Q. After a person has been natural- 1zed can he be deported if he commits a crime?—T. J. A. A naturalized citizen of the United States is not subject to deporfation. Q. How many bones are there in a horse?>—A. D. A. The number of bores in the body | of a horse is somewhat variable accord- ]lng to whether the teeth or certain | parts of the skull and other portions |of the body are included as separate bones. There are approximately 216 bones in a horse’s skeleton or if the | teeth are included, there are 258 sepa- rate pieces. | Q. What newspaper in the United swmrn carries the most advertising? | "A." The New York Times was the world leader in volume of advertising for 1931. It carried 24402912 agate | lines. The Washington Star was second | with 23.706.576 agate lines. This is an | extracrdinary showing for The Wash- ington Star because its circulation was |less than ome-fourth of that of the | New York Times and the population of | Washington is less than one-fourteenth ! of that of New York City. | Q. Please name the governor generals | of the Philippines—N. A. B. | A. The first one, William Howard Taft, was appointed in 1903. Since then there have been Luke E. Wright, Henry Clay Ide, James F. Smith, W. | Cameron Forbes, Francis Burton Harri- scn, Gen, Leonard Wood, Henry L. Stim- | son, Dwight Davis and Col. Theodore | Roosevelt. Q. What became of the German submarine Deutschland?—J. D. M. A. The Deutschland, with other sub- marines, was recalled to Germany and | reached Kiel on November 15. four days after the armistice. On November 24 she went to Harwick, Englard. 2nd surrendered. In the distribution of these surrendered U-boats, after the armistice the Deutschland (U-153) was turned over to the British. In a report submitted by the American con- sul general in London, dated June 27, 1822, it is siated that former German super-submarine U-155, the Deutsch- land, was put up for auction and sold for £200. It was understood that she was to be broken up and sold for p. Mellon Choice for London Receives General Approval Americans generally feel that the cover administration is better off be- cause of the recent shifting of leading cfficials by which Secretary Andrew W. Mellcn goes from the Treasury to the diplomatic post at London, Ogden Mills is elevated to the chief Treasury post, and Gen. Charles G. Dawes, for- mer Ambassador to England., becomes head of the Pinance Corporation. It is believed that Mr. Mellon’s long expe- 1ience in finance admirably fits him to deal with foreign relations, which now tend to rest on a basis of financial and econcmic considerations. Full confi- cence is expressed in the ability of Mr. Mills, who for a long time has been intimately connected with the admin- istration of the Treasury as Undersec- retary, to undertake the full direction of that department. Gen. Dawes Is credited with business acumen as well as popular support present _conditions. “President Hoover appears to be shifting his key men about to take care of important jobs, as the manage- | ment of a great private corporation would do.” thinks the Newark Evening News. while the Sioux City Journal, advising that “Uncle Sam need not worry about Mr. Mollons success,” holds that “his acquaintancesnip in British governmental circles is exten- sive, and that fact will serve him well in London.” homan points out that “at a time when the debtor nations are clamoring for readjustments and cancellation, it is altogether fitting that our country should be represented in London by one whose knowledge of world finance is 5o profound and accurate.” “The London post,” according to the Nashville Banner, “gives him an oppor- tunity to round off his part in public life under favorable auspices, always supporing h> handles the duties there in the cap:ble manner one has every right to expect of him.” The Banner recalls that “he made apparently suc- cessful contacts with foreign govern-| ments last year.” The Schenectady Gazette, observing that Mr. Mellen “has warm friends and determined enemies. concludes that “they will admit frecly that he is well qualified to represent us there during these trying days, when it is of greatcr importance than ever to have capable spokesmen.” That “his equipment is such as should make his service at London distin- guished” is the feeling of the Buffalo Evening News, while the New York Sun offers the general appraisal of his po- sition before the country: “Mr. Mellon mA{ leave the Treasury, but his works will stay. His public utterances on tax- ation will remain, in soundness and clearness unapproached by any other economist of his time. It augurs well for Ogden L. Mills, who will succeed him, that h® has been with Andrew W. Mellon so long. Mr. Mills' own first- class grasp of national finance must have been improved by his association with the old mister.” “The net effect of the transfers.” in the opinion of the Spokane Spokesman- Review, “is a strengthening of the Hoover administration at home and abroad. Dawes is called back ftein London to direct the stupendous oper- ations of the $2,000,000,000 Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation. Mr. Mellon is transferred to London to represent the administration in ‘the critical situ- ation facing all countries in their in- ternational relations,’ and Undersecre- tary Mills is given merited promotion.” “After all sa'd,” ‘remarks the Lynchburg News, “the fact remains that Mr. Mellon will make a better Am- bassador than the country might have expected President Hoover to select. He has not been the greatest Secretary of | the Treasury since Alexander Hamil- ton. He hasn't measured up to the cu- logies his frieads have heaped upon him in embarrassing quantity and quality. Yet he is a financier of ability, he has had experience in public office, he has acted as negotiator, he has had con- tacts with representatives of foreign nations and he is thoroughly acquainted with some of the irportant questions that will between Great Britain and the United States.” in dealing with | The Oklahoma City Okla- | | Indorsement of Mr. Mellon as official and as prospective diplomat is given by the Roanocke World-News, the Port Wayne News-Sentinel, the Houston Chronicle and the Davenport Demo- i . Mellon. Stimson. s, suggests that “on this quartet the President is depending in the solution of the many pressing problems ahead.” The Charleston (W. Va.) Daily adds that the selection of Mr. ) “should prove confidence-insp the country.” That the present is an appropriate time for the closing of Mr. | Mellon’s long term in the Treasury, while still keeping him in the public service, is the interpretation by the | Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post, the Rutland Herald and the Peoria Star. | The Chattenocga Times suggests that “time will determine Mr. Mellon’s place smong the men who have held the cffice from which he retires™ Branding as ‘“ridiculous” the charge that has been made that the shift “had some connection With impeachment proposals,” the Fort Worth Star-Tele- gram says: “Affairs abroad are largely economic. No one in the Nation is bet- ter acquainted with involved details of war debts and reparations than Mr. Mellon, for it was he who largely work= ed them out. What more logical than that in casting about for a rew Am- bassador to deal with this difficylt prob- lem the President should seket the man best fitted to handle it, and par- ticularly when it could be done without weakening the Treasury portfolio be- cduse of the able understudy avadable? { Or that Mr. Mellon, on his pari, be- | cause of his advancing years, should | wish to round out a distinguished ca- | reer of public service by represerting | his Nation in its most important dplo- | matic post—that of Ambassador to England? “Mr. Mellon is no diploi avers the Youngstown Vingicator, “and it would hardly seem that the best inter- ests of the country were served n sending him to London.” The St. Louis Times, stating thet “he h: t Lied popular appeal” sees “a political thought back of the new arrangement.” The Lincolm State Journal suggests that “the embarrassing Mr. Mellon |must move on.” a thought which is | shared by the New Orleans Itera. The | Morgantown Dominion-News thinks the | London appointment “will lend éolor to the charge that American policies to- ward foreign questions are dominated by big business interests.” “Within the last six months," con- tends the Akron Beacon-Journal, “the sentiment has been crystallizing that Uncle Sam has been Europe’s dupe in all past debt settlements and that he is now going to be permitted to give away his shirt also. The first sign that the new Ambassador is making a move to- ward this final surrender will provoke the wildest sort of popular outery against it on this side of the Atlantie” ————— Who Signed the Treaty? Prom the Nasiville Banner. The nine powers that signed the trealy at the time being consist of Japan and efght cther fellows. e e Double Handicap. | Prom the Sout: Bend Tribune. An inmate of the Leavenworth Pen itentiary is » canary dealer. Perhaps | the canaries do not realize that two sets of bars are a double handicap. r——— Water Also Freezes. From the Glencile News-Press. Alas! Whea you overdo the job of squeezing water out of stocks they no | longer qualify as liquid assets. . Goa Flat Quickly. From the Minjeapolis Journal. John Masdield says poetry is the wine of the universe. Too much of ¢ poetzy today & home brew, e