Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1932, Page 8

"ASHING OX, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1932, a8 THE EVENING STAR, V ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY. ....March 2, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editer The Evening Star Newspaper Campany nnsylvanis Ave : 110 Ea Rate by Carrier Within the City. e B ing Blars e nirm per month inda: e "’ A v o 5180 per month e Eveninz and Sunday Siar (wnen S Sundays) .--..... 5 per month Ty Sunday Star ScoLer copy Collection made at the end of each montl rarrs may be sent in by mail of telepnone AtionsT '5000; Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. B unda. day.. 1 . $10.00: 1 mo.. anf, Sunder... 1 or- $1008: 1 - 8¢ 5 only 135, $4.00: 1 mo.. 40¢ All Other States and Canada. 11} and Sunday.. 1yr.$1200 1mo. $1.00 aily only 00 linday only . mi . 18.00: 1 mo. I8¢ 130 800 imesn see Member of the Associated Press. e Ascociated Press is exclusively ertitled use for republication of all news dis- s credited fo it or not cthersise cred- n this pAper and also the Incal news lied herein All righis of publi~ation ol nes hercin are also reserved. o ¥ to B te publis special dispa Wets Force a Vote. Qne-third of the total membership of the House, 145 Representatives, have signed a petition to bring before the House the Ieck-Linthicum resolution proposing to rectore control of thej liquor traffic to the States. It would | require two-thirds of ¥ie House mem- | bership to propose this amendment to the Constitution, although the motion to bring the resolution before the body needs only a majority vote to be adopted. The resolution is before the Judiciary Committee of the House, which earlier declined to report it back to the House for consideration and action. Under the rules of the House | a petition signed by 145 members au- tomatieally gives the House an 0ppor- tunity to vote on a motion to discharge | & committee from further considera- | tion of & bill or resolution and to bring | it directly to the Houss just as though it had been reported out by the com- | mittee. Thus on the eve of a national election campaign the question of resubmission of the prehibition amendment to the Constitution comes before the House for a vate, And many of the members may plaintively complain, “Why bring that up?” With wet sentiment flourishing in congressional districts, along with dry sentiment, & vote either way might lose & citting member either rencmination or | re-election, when if the prohibition is-; sue could be avoided the member might | again ride safely to victory at the polls. But the wet-dry issue has thrust itself to the fore, particularly since the de- pression began. The drys have claimed in the past that great prosperity was due to prohibition. The wets now retort that we have no prosperity now, but we still have prohibition. With increased taxes on all kinds of business impend- ing to meet the expenses of Govern- ment, the wets propose licensed sale of liquer. and suggest that it would be bet- ter for the Government and the taxpay- ers than to have all the profit go to the _moonshiners and the bootleggers. The wets have still a long road to travel bsfore they can hope for & faverable vote on their proposal to restore liquor contrcl to the States. The wet leaders of the House are not hopeful @f getting a majority to vote to bring their resolution before the House. A two-thirds vote of the House io re- submit the eighteenth amendment as new proposed represents & much higher hurdle for tae wets to jumn. The avowed purpose of the wets has been to | put on reeard in this vote in .he House all members, so that their constituents may have their stand on prohibition before them when they come to the primary elections and to the gemeral election. This vote is expe:ted to be taken in the House on Marsh !4. Then, unless members uncertake vo sidesiep the issie by zbsenting themselves, or veting “present,” they must stand up #nd be counted. Twenty-six States are represented by districts in the list of 145 signers of the petition to have the Beck-Linthi- eum resolution laid before the House. Four of these States, Texas, Loulsiana, Bouth Carolina and Virginia, are in the South, which has been held to be as solidly dry as D:mocratic. The great majority of the signers of the petition, however, hail from the States of the North and East and from Illinols and Wisconsin. New York alone has 31 signers. Notwithstanding the fact that the Republican party has been dubbed the ehampion of prohibition and the Dem- ecratic party is claimed by the wets, 76 of the signers of the wet petition are Republicans and 60 arz Democrats. The wets in the G. O. P. will urge more strongly than ever that a resub- mission plank be written inte their ional platform this year, while the drrs in the Demcoratic party, in an effort to prevent a wet plank in their platform and to halt the nominatien for President of an opponent of na- tional prohibition will point te the " small showing made by the wets among the Democratic members of the House. I | e PFinland is frankly expressing deubt whether she can enfore temperance laws or any other kind S reee Dramatie Criticism. The proposal of Representative Wil- liam L. Sirovich that dramatic critics be licensed befcre they are allowed to practice has much in its favor. Complete freedom after a high stand- ard has been met is probably the best, and the only wise, syst=m of censorship. The censorship is applied before, and not after, the production. It is the sys- tem of the medipal and legal profes- L A system might be provided for the licensing of crities on the basis of & rigid, searching examination pn the principles of dramatic art and the hia- tory and content of the dramatic litera- ture of the world. The drama every- where would b2 immensely benefited. Wrash would gt its desarts. There are, of course, various objec- tions. One is that a man able to meet the eritic knows the more likely he is to sense those elements of universal ap- in all probability, ## would bring re- sults exactly the opposite to what he desires. A thoroughly competent critic would be deaf to the appeals of the box office. Certainly he would scath- ingly condemn productions which now good naturedly are allowed to pass. More theaters would be closed. Critics would not be impressed by the size of crowds. Art would be divorced from business, 30 far as the reviewer was con- cerned. He would approsch closer to the one infallible Father Time, who sees and knows all things. This second objection deserves serious consideration. From the viewpoint of the artist it 38 of no coneern Whatso- ever. Doubtless it would bring a far better condition in the course of time. But, for the present, it would be hard on the producers and the theater owners. Eventually it “would teach! them & lesson—that they must not judge the intellectual level of the gen- eral public by their own. —————— — Shanghai and Manchuria. An additional Japanese division has been landed on the shore of the Yangtze River some miles above the Woosung forts and has begun a turning move- ment sgainst the Chinese forces, which are in retirement. The Japanese have released Ken Wang, a young Chinese general who graduated from West Point and who was arrested as a spy the other day in the lobby of a hotel in Shanghai. This action was taken, it is explained, because there is no “war.” Thus do the ccritradictions in th: Far Eastern situation continue. Ken Wang is not held as a prisoner of war, “for this is not a war,” and yet some thou- sands of troops are pressing back the Chinese army, wiii ieavy guns and machine guns and bombs. The im- portant fact is that the Chincse are | going back and are mow nearing the twenty-kilometzr point indicated by the Japanese as the place to which they must go before . truce can be declared, preceding negotiations for peace. Mean- while the Japanese privy council refuses | to sanction a bond issue of twenty-two million yen for military expenses by im- perial decree, \inasmuch as the Dist could be summoned in session to act upon the proposed issue, but the cabi- net declines to summon the Diet in ses- sion on the ground of lack of time. At other complex, understandable only on the hypothesis that there is no war. Up in Manchyria developments are not entirely satisfactory to the Japa- nese, who are finding it difficult to es- tablish order while bands of fghting men continue their raids and Russian forces are assembling in Soviet territory. The possibility of Russian attack is an ever-present menace. Moscow advices in respect to the attitude of Russia to- ward Japan are confusing. An arrange- ment with the Russian controllers of the Chinese Eastern Railway for the use of trains for the transport of Jap- anese troops does not caver any military movements toward the Russian boun- dary lines. Farmal establishment of the new Manchurian government is pro- claimed and arrangements have been made for the installation of Henry Pu Yi, the former “boy Emperor” of China, as the head of the government at Muk- den some time between the fifth and tenth of this month. No further de- velopments appear with regard to the proposed Chinese military mevement under Chiang Kai Shek to wrest Man- churia from the Japanese control, but it is estimated that there are now be- tween fifty and one hundred thousand Chinese troops scattered about in Man- churia, possibly awaiting leadership in a campa gn. This is a perploxing situation. Japan may within a few weeks, if it dees not let go at Shanghai and withdraw Iis large and now increasing forces there, be faced with a fight on two widely separated fronis. 1If there is an in- creased pressure in the north several hundred theusand treaps will be needed there. Little reliance can be placed upon thase Chinese forces that have joined the Manchurian organization. It may therefore become necessary choose, ang perhaps quickly, between the shadow of & technical wiplomatic victory at Shanghai and the substance of the accomplished seizure of Man- churia. In the eireumstances it would seem that Japan's chief desire should bs for the cessation of the “state of war” that is not a "war’ in the south. - 1t is the cpinion of Henry Ford that President Hoover ought to be re-elected because he has “learned the job.” It might be added that he has had experi- ‘ence in taking unpleasant criticism without being unduly disturbed, which appears to have hecome a necessaty qualification of his high and exacting office. B It is no longer & questipn @ Whether proRibition should have a pla-e in poli- tics. The only peint of discussian now is whetker it ean be getten out, and, if %, how much. ) Soviet Russia’s industrial program has to be safeguarded from an ele- ment of populstion that is liable to de- cide that it would rether fight than work e Bus Terminals. Qperators of busses entering Wash- ington on regular interstate lines, not including certain suburban services, have been ordered by the Public Utili- ties Comm.ssion to establish terminals outside of the congested area of the city. A date has been set, April 1, after which they may not load and un- load their vehicles withip that terri- tory, ragardless of whether the loading places are at the curbs or on priv property. After August 1 no curb load- ings will be permitted within a second zone, somewhat wider in extent. al- maintained within that area. No information has reached the such requirements would have escaped the point of view of the mass of theater goers. He would condemn, from the heights of his superior wisdom, what |tend that they have net understood the ‘was generally liked. This, in the great majority of cases, " would mot be true, Producers generally Publie Utilities Commission as to the intentions of the hus eperaters with re- gard to this order, Lest they later con- requirement the commission has now addressed each of the companies asking whether arTangements have been made dramatic ecritic, - il though off-street terminals may be | are asked to reply by March 8, next Tuesday. ‘There should be no modification of the order. The bus lines affected have had ample time to make the necessary ) arrangements for complance. The Commission is entirely within its rights in setting a positive date as a lmit to the free use of the street space within the congested area for terminal purposes. The fact that this is the Bicentennial year, when great num- bers of people will come to Washing- ton on the busses, does not justify postponement. Eventually the busses must cease to use the street spaces for terminal purposes, and if there is difi- culty now in providing proper facili- ties off the streets that difficulty will be increased by delay. The Public Utilities Commission has the full support of public opinion in its move to clear the streels of the hlock- ading busses at loading points and it will be supported also in the adoption of positive measures to compel obe- dience to its reasonable orders, with- out further delay. —r——— The Lindbergh Kidnaping. It is impossible to escape the awful symbolism of the crime at the Lind- bergh home, which for the moment leaves one stunned and Incoherent. For that home has come to represent, not only in America, but throughout the eivilized world, the beauty and the sanctity of romance and youth. Some- how it seemed unspoiled and untouched |bY mundane evil and ugliriess and re- |mained apart as a sort of common ideal. The ravishment of that home by crime becomes a challenge, a per- sonal affront to every decent man and woman and a disgrace to the Nation in which such a thing should occur. The act itself may serve as a spark to ignite the long-pent indignation of a suffering and stricken people. It may ’bfln‘ definite rebellion against the |ruthless rule of crime that seems so secure in its insolent definance of puny and futile protest. It may serve as a Jolt to awaken us from temporizing lethargy. It may do all these things. But God grant that the little boy will suffer no harm. e Even when peace is arrived at, it is seldom so expertly managed as to pre- vent a needless sacrifice of soldiers who could not be informed as to the exact hour when firing chould cease. News travels fast, but not fast enough ia such cases. R — T S No statesman has ever been powerful enough to insure uninterrupted pros- perity for a constituency that insists on pressing its luck in speculative yen- ture, ——————— Eminent personages will doubtless Le found in both China and Japan who, with some enterprising Buropean mili- tarists, would step in and take the war off their hands. R ——— It is possible that Japan neglected to consider a large amount of flaming youth that the Chinese philasophers have held in repression for centuries. e Hold-up news makes it appear that the manufacture and sale of firearms is one industry that has not suffered seri- ously in the general business depression. ———— Conversational restraint has every- where relaxed. Language once consid- ered unparliamentary {s now regarded as entirely permissible. ——— SHOOTING STARS BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Before the Campaign. “Now is the time for every good man To ecome to the aid of his party.” The typewriter's chime holds the old- fashicned plan With & tune that is happy and hearty. Each favorite son is striving with care To wark up a logal commotion And before they are done we'll have talent to spare In plenty fram ocean to ocean. spotlight they turn And rate with the stars as they glisten With luminous grace, & reward you may earn ‘Mongst the people who stop, logk and listen. Though it isn't sublime, there's a thrill as you scan which | | is not at all To come to the aid of his party.” A Hat From Manhatfan, “Is your hat in the ring?” “Anybody can threw a hat in the ring,” answered Senator Sorghum. *“If Tammany will stand by me, what I'm going to throw, in is & war bonnet.” | Jud Tunkins says some folks use such long words that they naturally (have the best of an argument. Al you can fay to them is, “Oh, well, have it your way!" An Honered Portrait. George Washington I much admire, That 3-cent stamp se ald Pills me with patriotic fire, Intense and uncontrolled, As to the letter box I tramp I fear T'll choke some day. Each time I use a postage stamp I stop to shout Heoray!" Patronage. “Crimson Gulch has & man in jail"” said the traveling man. “Yes," answered Cactus Joe. “And it has already brought wezith into the |town. That jail has been fortunate ing care of some of the most refined and Juxurious bootleggers.” “A politician,” sald Hi Ho, the ssge of Chinatown, “must have the art of the play actor, knowing how to weep when he is not persanally sad and how i to smile when he is not greatly amused.” Bejter Far. Apd still we turn with hope immense To parleys to make things all right As men agree, with common sense, It's better far to talk t n fight. “A man dat’s too smart," said Uncle Eben, “ain’ gineter git along so very good. It's too easy foh him to think up mean things to say offhand” ’ If you cap't have a place where the “Now Is the time for every good man | enough to enjoy the privilege of nk-] THIS AND THAT teresting, snd perhaps give quite as good results as any other method of planting. Confining it to perennials, every home owner would have a wide choice in flowers whose names begin with his initials. It has been our experience that the amateur gardener has one great grief above all others, and that is that he never knows what to plant. “If I only knew what to plant!" such a one will say. Well, let chance decide. for once. Let him take a catalogue from any seedsman, and look through the list of perennial plants offered. These usual- ly are put in alphabetical order. ‘There he will find flowers for his initials in all probability, whase suit- ability will be as great, in all likelihood, as if they had been selected by an ex- . 3 * K K % Suppose his initials are C. E. T. Here are some the excellent plants which the proud possessor of those initials might select for his mono- gram garden: Calamintha, Calimeris, Callirhoe, Campanula, Chrysanthemums, Caltha, Carnation (hardy), Caryopteris, Cassia, Centaurea, Cephalaria, Cerastium, Cheiranthus, Chelone, Cimicifuga, Clem- alis (shrubby), Convallaria, Coreopsis. Under the Es he would find: I nus, Eryngium, Eupatorium, Euphorbia. Under the Ts the following: Teucrium, Thalictrum, Thermopsis, Thymus, Tradescantia, Trillium, Tri- toma, Trollius, Tunica, * x X % This random selection, based on in- itials, brings into the garden some of the world's favorite plants, including the great chrysanthemum. Most of them will be better known by their so-called common names, al- though not all of them. Calamintha, for instance, whose sec- ondary name is “Alpina,” has no bet- ter known cognomen. It is a small rock garden plant, half a foot high, with tiny blue flowers. Calimeris is bestter known as the Star Wort. “Wort” is one of our most interesting words. It is from the An- glo-Saxon, and means plant or herb. Thus Calimeris is simply Star Plant. , This plant grows about a foot and a thalf high, and has pale lavender flow- i!rs_ daisylike in character, with | low conters. Callirhoe is the Poppy Mallow, a sort of trailing plant with saucer- shaped flowers of & peculiarly bright rosy-crimson. ‘When one comes to the Campanulas he comes to a whole garden full of flowers. Thes> include the familiar and beloved Chimney Beliflower, the 1 Blue Bells of Scotland, Coventry Bells, Tufted Harebell. Carpathian Harebell, | Clustered Beliflower, Great Bellffower, | Peach Bells, and last, but not least, Canterbury Bells, including the so- icalled Cup and Saucer Canterbury Bells. Every garden knows the Campanula | Pyramidalis. the Chimney Belifiower, with its beautiful blue flowers, Fortu- ts the monogram gardener who has a “C" in his name. % % n the “E" section we find Thistle (Echinops), a thistle-lfke plant. | The Barren Wort, also wn as | Bishop's Hat (Epimedium), is another small vock garden offering, with flat fil‘in\ch of flowers slightly suggest- | Ing its second common name. | The Fleabane (Erigeron) is about & | foot and a half high, showing flowers :sumelh!ng like asters in July. Erinus June is still some distance off, but already congressional speculation has started on the question of adjournment date, and specifically whether Congress will ‘be ready to quit before the na- tional conventions in Chicago, ar whether a 30-dey recess will be in or- der during convention time, and Ccn- ss will be sitting in Washington through hot July. Senator Watson, Republican leader in the upper branch, ever an cptimist, says he feels sure Congress will have “completed its work" by the end of May. The Senatorial pessimists do not share that opinion, and foresee many months of work ahead on the tax bill and the Demo- | eratic tariff bill, the World Court, | Muscle Shoals, the Davis-Kelly coal bill. | | Philippine independence and & host af other controversial measures of major | tmportance. Some argue that it will be good Democratic sirategy to keep | Congress in session through the Sum- 'mer to bedevil the administration and as a political forum. There is nothing in sight yet to support that view. The Democratic machine in the House has heen driving through the legislative rogram Wwith asteniching speed. So r‘r as the House is concerned, if the present rate is maintained, its decks will be cleared by mid-May. If a leg- islative log jam tles things up, and h-Ms Congress here, it wi'l be in the |upper branch. The underlying fact is that the members of neither branch, at heart, want to return to Washington after the Chicago conventions if they ean help it, and the avoidance of that course lles wholly within their own hands. Hence the favorite present guess as to adjournment date is June 10. 3y Congressional repartee in debate in the House last Monday. Representative Homer C. Parker of Statesboro, Ga, to Representative Charles L. Underhill of Massachusetts: I suppose the gen- Jeman’s ancestors landed on Plymouth ock. It is a pity that Plymouth Rock did not land on him. The gen- tleman is notorious for his matchles egoism and conceit. His arrcgance is xcusable. What right has the down Republican aristocrat _from to speak for the Demo- Representative Underhill eratic party?” "I to Representative Parker in reply: My only coliege cheer is ‘rah, rah. night schoal.’ by trade.” The clash was the renewal |of a feud which began some days | earlier when Represeniative Parker ! shouted at Mr. Underhill that the At- lanta Constitution had recently carried an editorial in which was the phrase, “to hell with Massachusetts.” and that he fully subscribed to “;{Il sentiment. * ok % Representative Parker, the hero of the incident related in the preceding paragraph, is a newcomer to Congress. obtaining his seat in a special election ! Inst September. According to the Con- ressional Directory he is the son of Hilliam Cling and Sarah Belle Mattox arker and the grandson of Hampton ling and Catherine Baggs Parker und of Dr. John Humer and Lucinda Shef- flield Mattox of Homerville, Ga.. and was christened “Homer Cling.” He is 8 graduate of the Htateshoro Hl%:l | School, a Baptist, Mzson, Eagle, Elk. Phi Delta Theta, and a retired brigadier eneral of the Georgia N 1 &eprrsonl:‘li\'e Parker says: “I find now that many of our Demo ratic Senators gnd Represent tives ere begipning Lo | think as I think end soie of them are beginning to talk as I talk.” ® * With all th> commotion being raised in Congress cn the question of govern- mental economy in general and a pos- sible cut in the salarics of members of Congress in particuler, it may be timely to shatter the conspiracy of silence that is nearly always observed in congres- sicnal debate with relevence to the.r Gthor perquisites. The $10,000 salary. which is now the bone of contention, is only one item. Each member of the House has an lllowm”:f ‘&mnh l;r ear for stenogri a g e an owance for this purpose of $10,000. is is wholly apart from and addi- ticnal ta the “patronage” enjoyed by the majority party in each branch, in the disposal of jobs in the legisiative A monogram garden would be in- Echinops. Epimedium, Erigeron, Eri- | vel- | Globe | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS am a son of the South and proud of it. | And I am a blacksmith | tional Guard. | BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. is another rock garden specimen, with rosy-purple flowers in the Spring and very early Summer. The Sea Holly ( ) _grows from 2 to 3 feet high and has flowers which look well in vases, either as cut flowers or dried, in the latter of which form they make handsome Winter bou- uets. 4 The Eupatorium is better known as the Mist Flower, and is sometimes | called the Thorough Wort, although why, we do not know. Its small. white | flowers grow in big heads, which to | some imaginative flower lover of the past appeared as so much mist, hence the name. It is a curious fact that flower fan- clers the most imaginative minds in the world. It will be an in- teresting occupation, some day, to §o | and see exactly how fanciful they are. The name “Euphorbia” is the Latin | for the Flowering Spurge, bearing small | white flowers with green eyes. | like it, and some do not. * % x % Teucrinm also is called Germander. | It is a small evergreen plant, possessing sromatic foliage of & glossy nature. It bears small spikes of purple flowers in the Summer. Meadow Rue is the popular name for Thalictrum. The plants run from 2 to 4 feet high, and come in several var- | feties, in various colors. The Globe Flower is familiar to many | who would not recognize it as Trolilus. Its flowers are like giant buttercups, supposed to bloom In May and June. | Tunica Saxifraga is a popular rock | plant, which also makes a good edy for a border. foot high. A little “T."” as it were. | _ Thermopsis bears spikes of yellow | flowers in July, and attains a height of 3 feet or more, | Thymus is the famous Thyme of | poetry, especially Shakespearean poetry. ! ml’u are several varieties, mostly sweet scented, somewhat resembling lemons. The flowers range from white to red. Tradescantis—there is a word for you—is also called the Spider Wort, and | may be secured in a white or blue form. Every flower lover appreciates the Trillium, or Wood Lily, or Wake Robin | It was a favorite of John Burroughs, of Thoreau, of Emerson. It you have the Wake Robin in your garden, in a shady nook, you will hob- nob with the intellectual mristocracy of America, irrespective of time and space * * ¥ % As for Tritoma — well plant, indeed! Every one knows the Red-hot Poker Plant, sometimes called the Flame Flower, or the Torch Lily. Wherever it is planted, it turns into about the brightest thing on the place. A few Red-hot Poker Plants in & | border will be quite encugh. If one wants more he should b# a millionaire and possess & great, sweeping, curved road, around the bend of which he may plant a hundred or & thousand of these plants, depending on his mood. Tte effect will “knock your eye out." as the expression has it. and, what is more, will really be extremely effective. But too many of these startling spikes of flowers in & small place are {ha pro- verbial “too much of a good thing. So much for one moncgram 2 We hope we have shown that & miost interesting and colorful garden can be built up in this haphazard manner. Nature herself is haphazard. ‘That is one of her ways to secure diversity and interest. and if we follow her, without worrylng too much about effect, there is every chance in the world of securing & charming result in & perennial garden. that Is = | department of the Government, the doormen, pages, elevator operators, watchmen, telephone operators, palice- men and clerks in the folamng room, the document rocm, el¢. The allowances for clerk hire are in addition to the sal- | arles of the “clerks of committees,” who jare the personzl appointees and the personal assistants of the committee chairmen. ~ The members of both | branches draw $120, at each session as | an allowance for stationery. They draw mileage at the rate of 20 cents per mile each way at each sessian. Their office rent is. free and Uncle Sam pays for | their telephones and telegrams, prints their speeches and carries their mail free, | | * % % % | Speaker Jack Garner's presidential |boom has attained proportions which are said to be embarrasing to him. 3 Question of which ane of them is his | campalgn manager. The demand that Mr. Garner take one side or the other of the prohibition fssue is also a thorn |in the flesh. Though a veteran in Con- gress, Garner has never before mixed in pres dential politics. Though the D2mo- | cratic National Convention in 1928 met | in his home State, he did not concern himself with it and did not sttend. * ok ox x Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts of the Supreme Court is back on the bench again, logking a hit pale and | thin after another haspital visit for an operation on the arm which he | injured when thrown from his horse wLile riding last Spring. The accicent | bccurred in Pennsylvania and Justice Roberts treated it lightly and received no medical attention until his return to Washington several days later. Then it was discovered that his arm was broken in three places and a painful setting insued and he carried his arm in splints for many weeks. The bone healing was slow and after a lavse of months he was still hamperad in the use of his arm. Recently new X-ray | bictures diszlased that his arm was dis- located. It was found necessary to re- sort to heroic treatment, drilling the bene and cutting and splicing ligaments. The justice has made light of the mat- ter and few of his host of Washington | friends have known the siege which he has come through. over the list of popular flower names, | it is only about half a ¢ i fellow Texans are squabbling over fhe | New Arrival in D. C. Protests Driving Ban Fo the Bditer of The Star: Because I know that I am only one of many who are being unnecessarily in- convenien: by the authorities in charge of automobile license tags, drivers’ licenses and titles in the District of Columbia, I am appealing to you to give my “case” some publieity for the benefit of others as well as myself. Have recently arrived in the District of Columbia, and, expecting to remain I applied in December for a District of Columbia license for my automobile. was sent to police headquarters, and there my troubles began. 1. At police headquarters I was told that I must first secure title to car, and from State. would have to come in the way of a record of sales from the company from which I bought the car {n Louisiana in 1930. They doubted my veracity when 1 told them I had a Florida license but had no Florida title. 2. 1 wrote Florida motor vehicle au- thorities of dilemna, but I glso wrote for the record of sales from the Louisi- bill of sale that I told them I was hav- ing the Louisiana firm send to them) I receive from Florida their letter stating that, as & tourist, I had been issued a Florida license without a title, and they hoped with their letter to this effect and the inclosure in the way of receipt from Louisiana I would have no fur- ther difficulties with District of Colum- bia authorities, 3. At police headquarters again, and after much doubt and hesitancy, they confirmed my eligibility to title, which I pald for but did not receive! Was told “it would be ready the next day (Saturday) or Monday." Why did not he girl in the cashier’s box simply add, “It will be sent by mail"> After wait- ing until the following Thursday, I re- turned to 4. Police headquarters again, to be told “it was being sent by mail.” How was I to know this without taking this extra _trip to police headquarters? 5. Received title by mail in due time. 6. Received lcense tags, not by going down to tag department on Pennsyl- vania avenue. 7. Palice headquarters again to fill out slip for driver's license, and get in- formation as to traffic regulations ex- amination. Was given folder to take home and study. not being able to apply “twice in same day” for purpose of passing test! No one told me that in taking test I would have to have & friend with me, J eadquarters again, and answered the traffic qunu!u‘u satis- factorily. Was then asked “have you a friend with you in your car?” It seems I must have a D C. {riend with & D. C. license with a D. C. title and a D. C. driver’s license. who musé act as my “sponsor” while authorities at police headquarters accompany me around a few blocks in my car to see whether I can drive! I know no one of that description, so I have no sponsor. As I said before, have arrived in the D. C. recently. Htl‘:; driven ears for many years, beginn in 1903 with an electric Stanhope; have driven all over the dangerous mountains of California, have driven across the continent from San Francisco to New driving at times t] h the densest of trafic in New York Ofty, have driven down from Northern to Southern States many times, and have never had an accident, but it looks as if the D. C. title, etc. is going to deprive me of the privilege of driving a car! Must I go out and cultivate & D. C. sponsor who will be a more recent acquaintance of mine than the D. C. authorities at police headquarters, and really could not vouch as well as they for my being me as they have seen end] dgnunuuon papers in_securing title, e Perhaps 1 should add that gg “registration eard” that I had whi driving in California from 1915-1920 er in New York City from 1920-19: \where 1 had a driver's license, eourse) has been lost in my travels. Driving for years in Louisiana, we re- uired no title or driver’s license. But ould it be such a difficult matter to try to clear this all up and get a title and driver’s license even “supposing” It were for the first time? What would yeu and the public ad- vise? I to drive or not to drive my car? 'RINE L. KENDALL. - A Protest Against Undue Vigilance of the Police To the Editor of The Star: The conditions in our City of Wash- ington have reached a most incongruous tate. The city is rife in shooting affrays, burglary and other erimes, and there appears to be no way to check these evils or to bring any of the miscreants or criminals to terms or to trial. On the other hand, the police are most diligent in administering justice to same poor innocent man or woman who may have parked 5 or 10 minutes over time while g to earn an honest liy- ling or for some technical misdemeanar by one who is barely earning enough money to provide food for hungry chil- dren. The following case has come dir to my notice. A taxi driver with evi- dently the best intentions of earning an honest living was taking & woman to her home from the theater between 11 and 12 o'clock & few nights ago whep there was little or no traffic on the streets. Nea: the Pension Office Park he was jumped upon by two policemen and taken to the Traffic Bureau. He was not spe:ding. according to the statement made by the occupant of the taxi, and it was not clear just what traffic regulation was being violated, but. at any rate, it was at the most & slight violation of any law. The occupant of the taxi who had contracted for delivery to her home was compelled also to go to the Traffic Court. No provision was made by the police to assist this wonan to her home. In fact, her predicament was almost entirely 1 - i * ¥ ¥ % Captioned “Keep the Faith” and signed “Sol Bloom,” the following I‘r‘l- spirational message was put into cir- | culation this week, accompanied by 8 | fampalgn hutton 'which carried the | Image—not indeed of Bloom—but of Gen. Washington: “George Washing- ton never felt sorry for. himself. He wasted no time discussing conditions. He faced the job of winning & war with |a ragged and hungry srmy: he was without adequate funds or suppliss; he was surrounded by men who had lost courage. Yet his confidence in his | country and its future never wavered. | He overcame all his tremendous ob- stacles. Let 1‘: emulate his example as we celebrate his 200th birthday anni- versary. We cen stimulate ourselves and implant the great message of | Washinglon’s life in the hearts of others by wearing this emblem and proving | our faith by aur work." (Copyright, 1932) —~— Unlike Oklahoma. Prom the Oklahpma City Daily Oklalioman. All Oklahomans are for Secretary Pat | Hurley, the only Oklahoman in the pgp- inet, and. as we of Qklahoma think, the | mest brilliant cabineteer of the lot. But it is unlike Oklahomans to walk out on a party when lusty blows are being exchanged and ugly faces are being oficred across 8 counell board. As much as we of Oklahoma admire the brilliant Patrick, we are persuaded that | he was not living trye to the Oklahoma | cade when he turned his back upop vo- ciferous baiters and left an unfriendly Senate committee unchallenged and un- oppcsed. Jt was the time of all for the War Secretary to show efl::c ):l;n-lon from moss-decked States Just W 8 true ?kl&hnm bel when properly mobilized for‘n'::tlon'.,"ws-': ;:y( it mwilu&t:nvc;. but we must say ar 3 g' Secretary scted | yery e the typical Oklahp Wl | he left while thers were vum' -'2 | to break, A ignored. She was compelled to ac the services of a strange man who h: pened to be in the room at the same time. woman by a mere chance Mm luck arrived home safely. e driver, trying to earn an honest living and at a time when small posi- tions are at a premium and living fs exorbitantly high, probably lost his job or, at any rate, turned over a part of his hard-earned money to the police force which is not even pratecting him effj- ciently either by night or by day and there is no redress. Many of us have given three days of our salary to take care of the unem- ployed, and those wha are supposed tp administer justice for a mere nothing try to bregk down the effort we as in- dividuals have made to correct a wrong { for which none of us are responsible. It seems that all these things can do no were than to produce in the minds of law-abiding, conscientious citizens g spirit of anareby. JOSEPHINE GRAHAM. ————y Canceled. Prom the Milwsukee Sentinel. Now that there is talk about morato- riums, we desire to gnnovnce to our favorite panhandlers that we can ng longer be considered their visible means of support. e Costs, From the Minneapolis Journal. The Soviet's next five-year plan estimated to cost about $75,000,000.000, cr about what Japan's present five-year plan may cost if she goes on through with it. Orleans Times-Picayune. Maude Adams says: “I have no in- terest in what the critics think of m Perhape not, but we venture to guess that the lady has a profound interest in what the critics say of her, to police headquarters, but by mnll ‘When troublesome questions arise, avail yourself of the service of this de- rtment. It costs you nothing—you ve only to send 2 cents for postage on the personal letter you will receive in reply. Any question on any subject of fact will be answered. Address your letter of inquiry to The Washington Biar, Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C, Q. Does & big league ball player have | to a);xp%ly his own bats and gloves?— A. The management supplies the insisted upon such title coming from bats, but the player must provide his| Florida, as I had my 1931 license tag | own gloves. However, as a rule the! I assured them it players are given the gloves by the | manufacturers, Q. How much do automoblle acci- dents cost the people of the United States in a year?—J. B. A. The annual cost of the conse- suencu of America’s automobile acci- 1;:1“ totaled $2,500,000.000 in 1931 juries which disabled for life, the i Juries from which the victims will re- cover and the damage to property. The per capita cost is $20, Q. Where can I get 8 map showing the trees in Lafayette Park in Wash- ington, D. C?—H. A. W. A. Such a map is contained in the February number of American Forests. Q. Who were the youngest men ever nominated for the presidency by a major political party?—L. R. A. Willlam Jennings Bryan was 36 when nominated by the Democratic Convention at Chicago in 1896, and the Democratic party nominated Gen. George B. McClellan of New Jersey at Chicago in 1864 to run against Abra- ham Lincoln when McClellan was but 38 years of age, Q How many independent nations are there in Africa?—J. T. A. There are at present four inde- rndml nations in Afriea—Egypt. e ingdom; Ethiopia, an empire; Liberia, an Afro-American Negro republic, and the Union of South Afriea, a self-gov- e dominton of the British Empire. | The remaining portions of Africa are all protectoraf or colonies of Euro- pean powers, principally Great Britain, France, Italy and Portugal, Q. What is the origin of the six- pointed star?—M. L. S. A. It has been used as a symbal from early times. It was a Pythagorean symbol. In Chinese literature it is ane of the 64 figures made of six lines, !nrnlx the basis of Chang or of Changes, Q. How many Catholic nuns are there in the United States>—J. W. A. It Is imj ible to g the pi cise number of Catholic nuns. including | Sisters of Oharity, Mercy and other or- | ganizations. More than 75,000 are en- gaged in g. and it is estimated that there are at least as many others engaged in various charity work. Q. What is the condition of the Com- rallel ti ¥i- re- recently decided that the inmsurer can- not be compelled to pay compensation |in the case of John Driscoll. & team- | ster, whose wooden leg was broken | when his horses shied and threw him. ! The case was bitterly fought, three | judges dissenting from the majority of the bench. It was urged that loss of an artificial member was a real dis- ability. The majority held that a de- cision favorable to the workman would open the door to claims for damage fo jCrutches, eyeglasses and faise eth. | Q. When did Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiski :p]glr in “The New York Idea"? | A In jocs. | — | Q. Has Dr. Lorenz an office in the | United States>—R. E. 8. A. Dr. Adolf Lorenz. the Viennese sur- | geon, maintains an office at 160 East | Seventy-second street, New York City. Q. Is the institution for boys known as Dr. Barnardo's Home still in ex- istence? Through this institution many boys were emigrated to Canada.— |A 3 w. | A. Dr. Barnardo's Homes, established | more than 50 years ago. are still op- | erating both in England and Canada. According to a recent report more than | 100,000 children have established them- | selves as first-class citizens through | the agencies of this charity, 13.378 children passing through the homes in a single year. The average number in residence in the homes is 7,300. |, Q. What was the highest rank held by the Confederate general, Joseph Wheeler>—S, A, A. Wheeler was a lleutenant general in the Confederate Army, and on the | outbreak of the War with Spain he was commissioned and served as a major genzral in the United Btates Army, | Q. What railroad was the first to do | away with the system of indiseriminate | issuance of free ?—S8. D. A. The Pennsylvania is believed to | have been the first. Its directors took |action to discontinue the issue of passes and free tickets of all kinds on Decem- | ber 13, 1905, the order taking effect on January 1 following. | Q. What was the War Finance Cor- | poration?—P. G. H. | "A. The War Finance Oorporatien, | created during the World War, was set Up & a War emergency measure. Ad- vances were made out of its $500.000,- | 000 revolving fund to industries classed | as essential to the conduct of the war | and to producers of food. Interest was | negotiated on the basis of each loan. \frha corporation has been liquidated. Q. How can newsj rs afford to | cable ‘tolls on columns of news from | China and other far-off places? Are the \v;r stories manufactured at home? |, A. Single newspapers could not af- ford to pay the huge sums spent in ob- | taining news from Shanghai, Paris, London and other distant places. Press munity Chest in Washington?—M. C. | associations, serving hundreds of indi- A. While the amount needed for the | vidual newspapers, gather the news at welfare work in the National Capital | the source and cable it to New York. has mot been entirely subscribed, last | There the press association sends year’s total has been exceeded by over duplicates to each newspaper member. after taking my money for license tags, | $500,000. The total membership in the this year by ni seribers, mi fourth of the trict ‘mem| Q. In what year was the so “everybody works at our house old man" first sung?>—G. H. R. : no‘a' The song was first published In new sub- of one- tion of the Dis- early 125,000 a gt of Columbia included in the Chest bership. about ut my Supreme Court of Californis | A press association with 1,000 ne York City, have driven and am still| District of Columbia was increased Per members can thus supply smm the tches at one-thousandth of to each paper. Q. What is Italy’s plan for giving popular training in the sciences?—G. S. A. The institution of a free popular school in Italy desires to popularize the most reliable conclusions of sci- ence and make them accessible to those who have not received a special sci- entific training. Rome and Bologna :::lk up. efl;&:‘y ‘movement it (%on- paran o upper er are :wrdol these ‘:ll mn Phd: mont and Ligyria, seven in Lombardy, five in Venetia and one in Naples. dis) i ) Curb Placed on Action by officials of the New York Stock Exchange curb\n{nthc operations of those who H!s‘le short selling arouses much favorable comment. While maintaining the importance of free action in the market as a means of uuhlutxln& true values, most ob- servers state that the bears have fre- quently sbused their privileges. The new order is to be effective April 1, and it is pointed out that it immediately had an : ect on thudm&rke‘t.ul’m- ceed! n Congress ang e interven- tion of President Hoaver are also dis- cussed. “The more ethical nature of the new order will appeal ta millions of men and women as a substantial better- ment,” says the Baoston Transeript. Qbserving that “pbpular dislike of the old state of affairs has centered very largely on the feature that a customer’s own purchase could be used against him without his specific assent” the Transcript suggests: “No doubt the governors of the New York Exchange were well aware that this was the weakest point in their defensive armor against legislation now pending in Congress, which, if passed, might place short selling under an extreme ban.” “The Stock Exchange is wise in adopt- ing the rule,” according ta the Duluth Herald. “but its position would have been far better if it had not waited until the threat of legisiation against short-selling forced it to stop this bane- ful and unjust practice of using a spec- ulator's holdings to defeat his purpose in buying them.” The Pasadena Star- ment in the speculative wrena should have the power to put the speculative pistol at the head of the buyer of stocks on margirs and command ‘Deliver,’ and | proceed to take everything.” The Lin- | coln State Journal remarks: “The Gov- ernment is not in a positian to act quickly when a bear raid is in progress. The exchanges are, and it is time they tock the hint. If they cannot regulate themselves, the Government is likely to make the attempt, and that would not I be satisfactory to any ane.” The New London Day is impressed by the fact that, with “a definite, strictly enforced rule.” it is probably that “fewer ‘plung- ers’ buying op margin will be left dan- gling high and dry when a strong stock suddenly slumps.” Prospects of “complete elimination of short selling from the commodity markets and its severe regulation in thE security markets by Federal agencies are pointed out by the South Bend Tribune, which records that measures “will be favorably reported to the House by the Agriculture and Judiciary Committees.” The Tribune empha- sizes the fact that “stock market fluc- tuations do not affect permanent values, of course, but speculation which in- creases p-yrhulo" depression does become intolerabl and also suggests that “it looks as if stock exchange and commodity market directors are golng to have difficulty convincing Congress that drastic le.‘uum:. 1: unngcessary.” > “It is important and epcouraging." In the opinion of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, “to know that there is vigil- ance and determination in this drive at ‘Washington for prosperity.” The Eve- ning Bulletin also comments: “The new requirements in the loan of stock are not absolutely prohibitive of short selling. They leave room for legitimate and reasonable transactions on the short side. Bug the limitations on stock 18 | porrowing will be a substantial handi- cap for speculative bear undertakings by making it more difficult to cover, and to that extent will aid the nationai restoration.” “The Street,” commenis the Newark Evening News, “may overestimats ihe effect of the new rule In figuring it will reduce short selling 50 per cent, but the rule takes from brokers the op- portunity to back professiapal shorts without reg]lrd to the wishes and in- terests of their clients on the long side. That its effect will be real, in the judg- News declares that “no group or ele- | Meets With Public Approval t of experignced shorts, has been 3%”-‘ by their market leaders, after the New';’o.r.ku | I LUy et e clocl cisco and ani the New York apening the nu?l cry by orders in Londan. We have had V- ous exfe:;gu Wwith the results of legis- lative in erence with economi¢ proc- fisels u.nu;uncul principles, More t is clearly to be expected if short sl is not regulated.” ™ ipective of whether urchaser is carrect or not in his estimate of the value of his stocks, it is obvious that he should have the privilege of saying ‘yes' or ‘no’ to a barrowing transaction that involves them,” comments the Indhn‘?npolu Niews. uol various opinions on the reg- ruJSkm 0‘ traders lr’; stocks, the Boe\go | Idaho Statesman offers the judgment: “While one hesitates to make an un- qualified defense of the bears and bear ralders (there can be do doubt but what their manipulations many times have & bad psychological effect, if nothing worse), it seems only fair to remember that if the bears have committed offenses so have the bulls. In one sense the bulls constituted a powerful factor in bringing on the depression be- cause, over a period of many months, they forced values far above their real worth and set the stage in which the }‘l:::\:""’e" later to command the spot- !Stock Exchange Favors Bears Rather Than Bulls To the Editor of The Star: Now that the subject of selling shorg |on the Stock Exchange is being given some public attention, it might be well to consider the subject of corners at the same time. It is said that at times the quantity of certain stocks sold short is actually greater than all the outstanding issue of those stocks. If the bears get away with such a situa- tion by covering their commitments at the expense of weak holders it is con- sidered a great victory for them. But if they happen to get caught in a cor- ner, in trap of their gwn making, | the Stock Exchange authorities mercie | fully call all bets off or remove the stock fram the list. It is my under- tanding that the rules of the Exchange | Tequire a certain quantity of every | stock to be available at all times for trading pu . Such a rule seems to put the Exchange in the odd posis tion of maintaining the presumption that none of its listed stocks is a gilt- edge security of real investment value. If & stock has undoubted value and worth why shouldn't it be bought in by the company or supporied by a pool, and, if necessary, the bears on that stock be | punished” unmercifully? Why doesn't | the Bxchange protect the bull rather than the bear? ‘The argumemt is often made that g | short interest acts as a stabilizing force |in the market. It seems to me, how- | ever, that if this argument has any | weight it implies that short selling is in | the first place a depressing force, and if it is later balanced by the same force in the opposite direction it really gets | nowhere and has no permanent eco- nomic value. It might, perhaps, take care of itself if it were not for these strange rules of the Exchange that seem to favor the bear in preference to the bull, simply for the purpose of maintzining the practice, whicly in efs fect merely enables the seller to poste pone delivery as long as ho wishes. R, O, WELLS. —giire i Or the Rappahannock. From the Columbus Ohio State Journal. I conditions den't improve, it is likey |ly a econgressional committes will be appointed to hunt for that dollar Washe !ington flung across the Potomae,