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A8 THE _EVENING fTHE EVENING STAR With Sundsy Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D, C THURSDAY.......March 3, 1932 Virsinis THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor i ¥he Evening Star N Company e e e e Rate by Carrier Within the City. e mont B BT g w2020 The Eveniog 4 Buniday Siar en ays) “86¢ per month 3.‘:“%:.- mads b id ot FRTAC eh ‘month teieohone oa or Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. e i All Other States and Canada. y and Sunday...1yr.$1200: 1 mo.§ only . yr. 3400 1 mo. ay only . 0 i Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively ertitled te the use for republieation of sll vews dis- atehes credit it or Hot cthersise ered- R i this paper and also ine local news ubltshed herein. * All riehts of publication of #pecial dispatches herein are aiso reserved. mo.. mo.. mo’; 1.00 3¢ 50 . i 1 mo.. The Vilest Crime. %3 the Lindberghs want their baby returned alive they had better deal directly with the kidnapers. Lind- bergh should pay them anything they demand to get the baby back alive. After the baby is returned let the police step in. Lynch them or quarter them But get the baby back first.” Thus speaks Pat Crowe, who thirty years ago kidnaped the boy Edward | Cudahy and was caught and sent to prison, and who now, having served his term and sincerely reformed, is at work s& 8 lecturer in the interest of better citizenship. Crowe speaks as an expert. His words are from the heart. They may well be heeded now. The universal hope is that the Lind- bergh baby will be recovered without harm. That, as Crowe says, is most important. But it is likewise important that the ¢rime be punished, and to the utmost severity. “Lynch them or| quarter them,” says Crowe of the baby | stealers. That likewise is the impulsive | demand of the entire country. Ye | there is no real desire for the execu- tion of mob law if there is a chance that statute law can reach the crime | adequately. How stands the Jaw in this respect? Not very satisfactory, in truth. In only one State is kidnaping punishable by the death penalty. and that State is Missouri, in which Crowe stole the Oudahy child and which revised its statutes in response to a public demand aroused by that crime. Jn other States the sentences for kidnaping range through various periods of imprison- ment up to life. In New Jersey, where this latest crime was committed, the law authorizes & sentence of from five years to life imprisonment. In New York the penaity is imprisonment from five to Afty years, virtually for life at the maximum. A fourth offender - under the Baumes law might get a life sentence in that State. ! There is no Pederal law on the sub- Ject. But it is likely that one will now be enacted under the impetus of the intense feeling aroused by this Lind- bergh kidnaping. Bills have already been introduced and the House Com- mittee on the Judiciary has begun the consideration of the measures, which deal with the crime on the “interstate" basis, making the transportation of kidnaped persons across Btate lines a TFederal offense, punishable by death or long prison term. | Kidnaping is almost invariably ac- eompanied by threats of the death of the stolen person if ransom is not paid M is therefore potential murder. It matters not whether ths threats are kept. The possibility thet if monev is met given, a beloved child. or an adult member of the familv. will be rlain a terrifying menace. It is meant to ter- rify. It is intended to coerce vavment It is murder by intention if not in fact ‘The stealing of this child has aroused the entire country to a furv of anger that has seldom, if ever, been krown TUniversally the crim~ is depounced ‘n unmeasured terms. This is not merely due to the remarkable interast jn the father of the stolen child. who is be- loved and admired bv all Americans, | but is also due to the feeling that erim~ has gone to unbearable leneths in this country and that a sweening refcrm must occur else our civilizetion feils ——— No objection is offered by Bill Murray to being tvpified as the Oklahoma *zlad with alfalfa as the base, petroleum as the oil, with vinegar of passing tom- perament. salt of Western wit and peo- per of repartee with disoretion. It makes a refreshing incident of the er~najgn menu, though perhaps not to F~ velied on for intellectual novrish- ment. —— e A boycott is another of those ideas that appear simple at first. but become perplexing when sil the possible com- plications are considered. st Analostan Islsnd. A bill has just been pessed by the @enate and now goes to the House for eoncurrence providing for the accent- T copy | was devoted to such scenes as this t | | 1 | | | | ance by the Government of An:\lm’(an[ Island. recently purchased by the Rcose- velt Memorial Assoclation and offered to the United States 25 & permanent memorial to the late President. The measure carries no appropriation for the development of the island. There s, in fact, no immediate plan for its treatment or use. The formel accept- ance of the gift is necessary in order that such a plan may now be consid- ered. Anglostan Island has a history. 1} was formerly the site of the home of | the purchaser liable f-r his deferred George Mason, one of Washington's | orks,” that the Roosevelt Memorial Association purchased it. Adjoining the newly created Colum- bia Island, which forms part of the approach to the Arlington Memorial Bridge. Analostan Island is essentially & perk feature of the Po- tomac front of the Capital. That it will be formally added to the park is 1o be assumed. Whether it will be; developed with some distinctive fea- ture in memory of Theodore Roose- velt remains to be determined. Its preservation as nearly as possible in its native condition would be in keep- ing with its association with the nature lover whose name it will bear. He little tract of river land affords. One proposal already advanced is that the island be made the site of a great athletic §eld, with a stadium for important events. That, however, is questionable. The space is inadequate for such a purpose, on the scale that would be requisite. Such use, further- more, would destroy its natural beauty. Far better, it would scem, would be its preservation as & park, perhaps with some structure of a suitable form commemorative of Roosevelt’s char- acter and services. With the island formally added to the park system of the Capital, through the acceptance of this gift, the question of its use can well be left for mature consideration and the wisest decision. e A Fine Prospect for Success. There Is every reason to believe in the complete success of the effort, now begipning, to raise the necessary guar- antee funds for next year's National | Symphony Oreiestra scason, because the season now drawing to a close has been so remarkably successful. The bardest part of the task, the founding of the orchestra and the raising of initial funds for the original experi- ment, is over. The element of doubt as to the city’s ability to support a symphony orchestra by enthusiastic patronage has in large measure been eliminated. The season now closing has produced revenue enough to meet expenses and to return a healthy and unexpected percentage of funds to tie guarantors, The average attendance in the past season has been nineteen hundred, and the excellence of the or- chestra’s work has brought only en- thusiastic praise. Everybody realizes the difficuities faced by such ventures. None of the now famous orchestras ever found the path to the fame it won a smooth one. Tne rirst years are always critical, and & Jot of money must be spent with- out hope of immediate return, a lot of seats must remain unfilled, a lot of grinding toil must be put forth before any great orchestra wins its right to security. + Washington has been more fortunate at the ocutset in having had the serv- ices of Mr. Kindler, for that happy | circumstance has obviated the parlous business of finding a conductor through the risky process of trial and error, with resultant damage to the tempera- ment of the musicians and the patience of the patrons. Mr. Kindler won his spurs gs a musician before he entered the lists in Washington, and his success as a leader and &s an organizer has been marked from the very beginning and has brought favorable comment | in the form of congratulations from these in other cities who have been watehing the birth of Washington's orchestra with interest. If Mr. Kind- ler and the orchestra can count on as much support for the second season as they received during the first, the National Symphony Orchestra’s future | can be regarded with confidence, | For these movements gather momen- tum once they get under way. The first season has shown g fine start. The second should eliminate more friction and conquer more inertia. If the going | cont{nues good, Washington will soon | be able to regard its National Sym- | phony Orchestra as one of its most | prized possessions and wonder how it | ever got zlong without it. = ———— The member of Congress Who desires | an investigation of dramatie eritics is | said to have written plays himself. In case of unfavoreble reyjews, he will have | established personal prejudice as a pos- sible motive for them Ce——— Most hotels put a copy of the Bible in every room, but it does not seem to represent as much competition as it should to the highly illustrated litera- | ture they sell at the pewsstands. \ ——— = { Fereign Travel by “Installments.”! Application of the installment buying | principle to foreiga travel, just an- nounced by one cf the leading trans- atlantic steamship companies, is by no means & strange development. It is quite in keeping with the prevafing method of financing personal purchases If one can buy an eutomobile on the pertial payment p'cn. why not & boat | ride? The id=a is just the same in| the twp cases. The purchaser cagiracts | for a service the cost of which is beyond his immediate means and obligates him- self to pay on a monthly basis after he hes had his tip. just as he pays for his motor car or his refrigerator, his house or his radio, after he has taken possestion. There {s. however. ane definite differ- ence beiween the buying of & steamboat ride #nd a tangible article such as & car of an fce machite, a heating plant or a dwelling. In the case of the ma- terial purchase, the “g-ods” themselyes czn be retaken by the seller if pay ments are not maintained, whereas in the case of a voyage, deferred payments for which are to begin after the con- clusion of the trip, replevin eannot be effected. The voyager may default and the steamship company cannot take it | | covered by @ provision which renders peyments in terms of suit for restiiu- | | Of any sympathy of humankind? away frem him. But this difference s |! the average traveler has returned from his trip, and these paymenis may ex- tend over four to twelve months. As & matter of fact many foreign trips are financed on berrowed, money at present, though the arrangements for the “deferred psyments” are not made with the steamship company or a direct agent. This plan, it is frankly stated by the | T steamship company, is designed to stimulate business, which has been very slack for two ‘years. The “depression” has cut heavily into the revenues of the ocean services and it is now hoped | wa that th: extension of credit facilities will stimulate patronage. Whether it will have that effect remains to be seen. S S il The Nation's Sympathy. Unguestionably the most vividly ap- pealing “human interest” story this country has known within the memory of living persons, the sccounts of the Lindbergh kidnaping are commanding an extent of newspaper space such as Was perhaps never before given to any happening concerning an individual or a single family. Literally pages are devoted to it in single issues. This is not merely because of the sentimental con- cern of the people in the theft of the child of one of its best beloved citizens. 1t is also because of a climaxing horror at the monstrous crime of child stealing. Lindbergh has been an objective of continuous interest since the day the young fiyer landed at Le Bourget Field in France. Everything he did was “news.” He did not betray the millions of his admirers by any subsequent folly He remained steadfast and sincere and held the publ'c interest despite his persongl desire for privacy. His mar- riage was a nagional romance. His first child was the Nation’s baby. It is a pitiful plight now in which the father of the kidnaped baby finds himself. He craves seclusion from pub- lic attention, Now it is centered upon him as intensely as during the days of his great achievement in 1927. He chose the site of his home in the “wilder” part of New Jersey because of his desire to evade public notice Now that peaceful home is in the focus of the attention of millions of people Lindbergh is paving the penaltv of his popularity. But of that he and Pis wife are not pow thinking. Their thought is solelv for the recovery of their beloved child. It s at least to be said that there is no danger of any ill effects upon them of the unprecedented symoethy end interest of the American people, and of others beyond these boundaries. They have proved their capacity to withstand the concentra- tion of the mu'titude ynen their per- sonel affairs without any lessening of their dignity apd grace of bearing. And if—rather, let it be said in hope, when— their child is restored to them a shout of joy will arise throughout the land that will doibtless be sweet to their ears. | | v Madrid is ssid to desire Paris to send | the former King of Spain home, regard- | less that a visitor from abroad who spends liberally is always considered by the Prench capital as a valuable asset - B The Republican party may rely on an advantage over the Democrats in not being obliged to figure on so many fayorite sons or dark horses. | e Sentiment is all one way with the, American public for the Lindbergh fam- ily, whether it be one of rejoicing or deepest sympathy. - After a period of patient exile Trotsky | is beginning to look like a man who felt | just about ready to say, “I told you so0.” - B It Congress cannot stop the kidnapers, no one can find so much fault if the bootleggers continue to get by. SHOOTING BTARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Kidnaper, I sometimes wonder—surely so do you— Just what some creature strange can hope to do +| With money he obtains by means so | itinerant black That even gold its common worth must lack. What can he buy? What pleasure can he seek That with some hideous memory does not reck? A rome where joy has been transformed by grief, Where even toars can offer no reliel. Where is the hope to apimate his mind What mental ever come, unless A drug delirium brings forgetfulness? pesce can When Fido Won't Lie Down. “A man fs entitled to his opinion." “Of ccurse.” answered Senator Bor- ghup, “but an opinion may, in the course of time, be like an unfriendly dog. You don't care 50 much to assert ownership. What you'd like would be a painless way of getting rid of it.” | i Jud Tunkins says he wondors how | much of & college education you're supposed to get by reading the jokes in & college magazine. Orientals Not Oriented. The Orientals. people Stand oppositely to the way Which we up here consider neat In managing our heads and feet. Those Orieptals, as we know, Regard our place as “there below.” They try to terrorize each town And turn the whole world upside down Magnified Experience. “Is the life of a great financier a ppy one?"”’ “It all deperds,” ancwered Mr. Dustin | Stax, “on his luck. A great financier | has his dicappointments like other peo- | ‘ epartment, STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. One national institution left over from pre-war days is the candy called ocolate fudge is peculiarly the dish of the adolescent, but no boy or girl who liked it ever lost the taste for it. ‘The result is that today many an old- timer sneaks off to the kitchen to make himself & plate in the old-fashioned 5 “A kind of soft candy,” says the dic- tionary, “composed of sugar, milk, but- ter and chocolate or maple sugar, and often containing nuts, ed and stirred to the proper consistency.” Fudge is distinctly more than that, however: but one cannot expect a dic- tionary to know everything. Memories are individual: one’s own will never be in a book unless one puts them there. %% Pudge is one dish which, despite its somewhat feminine name, or connota- tion, however, is a speciaity of mascu- line cooks. More often than not in the old days it was the suitor for the fair lady's hand who actually cooked the fudge. Cooking up fudge was and is no easy task. Sometimes a strange perversity g°ts into the stuff. Boil the mixture &s one will, drop it into & cup of cold water “as per directions,” stir until one’s arm seems willing to drop off, still it will rematn soft, Now softness is the ultimate crime of this ca ‘There are some candles, both manufactured and home made, which should be of a soft consistency to be right, but fudge is not one of them. ‘The dictionary calls it a soft candy. as we have seen, but that is only by comparison with “jaw breakers” and other really hard candies, Do they make “jaw breekers” any ore? d aceu- of the hardesi candy sible to manufacture at that time Maybe the profession has done better since. but one may doubt it. * x ¥ % Fudge, to be at its best, must harden immediately after it is poured into the buttered plate. If it does not do this it remains s gooey mass, almost impossible to eat, usually without the proper taste and Jacking the luster which goes with the real article. The gloss on & proper plate of fudge is what. in art circles, would be termed a patina On a plate of fudge it's just plain shine. It is part of the true-blue article, however, and is well known to all friends of this interesting dish. The great difficulty its admirers have always experienced is in getting the stuff to cook up right—that is, to be of such a consistency that it will hard- en immediately after pouring into the pans: One may have tried to achieve this result in a8 number of ways Pirst, there is the scientific method. Ac- cording to this, all the cook has to do is to boil the mixture to a certain num- ber of degrees then remove it from the fire, stir and pour. % Another method, the slap-stick, is to have no idea at all of how one makes fudge, but just to go ahead and make it This is the method of the best cooks, | according to legend. “Oh. I just take a pinch of salt,” etc.. etc. 1t sounds well and with some persons | it undoubtedly turns out well, but the erage concocter of candies or other Highlights ont delicacies had better let the method alone, The truth is that such “natural born | cooks” more often have precise recipes than they will admit; they like to make a sort of mystery out of their profession, so their humble credit will be all the larger. It is a harmless sort of delusion and hurts no one, unless, perhaps. the ama- | teur cook who takes it all too seriously. In fudge making there are various artificies which are used to insure the roper hardening of the candy. so that |it may be eaten hot. Of this, more later, - One is to use a proportion of corn- | starch, Apother is to cook longer than usual. Another is to make sure that the proportion of butter is lessened. Cut| down on the butter content in the mixture Is one of the best WAYS. | The temptation is to put in more and | more buiter, in order to make the “rich.” is one of fudge Ri the gredtest de- lusions of cookery. The striving for | an artificial and undesirable “richness has ruined more good cocks than any- thing else. Most foods are good enough, if onme has scnse enough to let them alone. Smothering steaks in onlons is !bad on steaks. * % * % The peak pulnlz o!hpro?:rily hpr:vlfed choeolate fudge is when s hot. Those who have mnul eaten hot fudge have missed something. It is the only way to get the best flavor from this type of candy. With every second of cooling, some- thing of sweetness and flavor goes out | of it. Like corn eff the stalk, so much sugar content is lost with the passage of time. |He who eats fudge cold never knows | what it really tastes like Now. there is something gourmandiz- | ing about all this. it must be admitted { There is about the peak point in the flavor of all good dishes. Hot biscuits, hot fried mush, hot pop- overs, hot bread, even hot cake—who is there who does not know that they taste best? The interest the children take in hot breads and cake is proof enough. Doc- tors and parents combined, for many vears, to lessen the interest sof the little ones in food hot out of the oven. Maybe they succeeded, and maybe they didn't. It is perhaps true that | such hot foods are not as bad for one as they were represented. | * % x ¥ | Certainly fudge is best when hot. | One of the good points about eating it while warm is that it cools off rapidly. and if one prefers it so his | intake will necessarily be limited. | This will be a good thing, because | fudge, for all its virtues, has one very poor feature. It is. in the opinion of | some, a sure breeder of common colds. Just what connection chocolate fudge hss with a “cold” it is impossible tn | state. Prom cne standpoint it would seem that the desire for it is a sure |sign ibat the human system is in | condition which renders it susceptible [to_colds. If this is true, one should never ear fudge, but rather resist the temptation, knowing that the desire for it is an | indication that one is in a state of | health making a cold inevitable unless one refrains from eating eltogether. ‘Those who like this delicacy, however. will continue to feel that if a cold is to be the result of a plate of hot fudge, eaten while resding one’s fa- vorite author, then one must put u with a cold once in awhile for ol time's sake. he Wide World | | | | d Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands L MUNDO, Havana.—Each loafl of bread sold in this capital is reguired to weigh a full pound under the provisions of the edict ratified by the munici- | He wil thus leave Mis sickness between them. | A fantestic notion of the old-time | miller beguiled him into expsctation of | & prosperous year if on New Year eve 1932, MARCH _ 3. The Political Mil) By G. Gould Lincoln, ‘When Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler announced his candidacy for the Re- publ torial nomination yester- day with the backing of Gov. Gifford Pinchot it apparently set at rest a icion which has been in the ba n'r"fm heads of a number of Dfllllld::f that the Governor would get into the senatorial race himself. With sena- torial aspirations laid aside, just where does’ Gov. Pinchot expect his present feverish sactivity against the Hoover administration to take him> That 15 the question which some of the poli- ticlans are asking themselves today. The rumor still persists that the Goy- ernor will undertake to lead a forlorn hope, backed by progressives, for the Republican nomination for President. And barring that, the Governor might seek to raise a third party standard. For weeks :}x‘xd months harping on the need of direct P aid for the unemployed. 1If he erdnex.::: the standard of Tevolt, it may be as a | champion of the unemployed. * % % % Gov. Pinchot, however, is even i known throughout the country b:s"en militant_dry. When times were pros- perous, he attacked the Republican ad- ministration in Washington because it did not better enforce the prohibition laws, and singled out Andrew W, Mel- lon, then Secretary of the Treasury and head of the department which had charge of enforcing the dry laws, for special attack. The present Ambassa- dor to Great Britain, Mr. Mellon, is & Pennsyl , too. Perhaps ~Gov. Pinchot feels that with many of the Republican leaders today, including some of the members of President Hoo- ver's cabinet, clamoring for a plank in the Republican national platform to appease the wets, can capitalize on | bis bone-dry stand when it comes time for the Republican National Conven- | tion to meet *xox o Gen. Butler has declared his inten- tion of running as & dry. His oppo- nents so far entered in the race for the Republican senatorial nomination, which is regarded as equivalent to an election | in the great State of Pennsylvania, are Senator James J. Davis and State Sen- ator George Woodward. Both of these gentlemen have declared their adher- ence to the wet cause. With two wets to divide the vote, this is just the kind of a set-up which Gov. Pinchot and the drys have made capital of in the past. Gov. Pinchot tried for the Sen- ate himself back in 1926, when he was Governor before. At that time he ran as & bone dry. Willlam S. Vare, the Philadelphia Republican boss, ran as wringing_ wet and former Senator George Wharton Pepper was neither entirely wet nor entirely dry. The re- sult in that campaign was disastrous to Pinchot. Vare, the wet, won, al-| though he was ultimately denied a seat | on the ground he had been nominated' through the expenditure of too great sums of money and through political | corruption. But in 1930 Gov. Pinchot | waged another three-cornered fight for the gubernatorial nomination, against two wets, Brown and Phillips, and won. ' But the anti-Pinchot Republicans al- most beat him in the election, for they | | went over in droves to the Democratic | | candidate. who was defeated by about ! 20,000 votes on election, an unpre-| cedentedly small Republican majomy. in the second most populous State in the Union. | * % % * ‘The Pennsylvania p.imary falls in April and with the wet and dry issue D | involved in the senztorial race the elec- tion will_have more than ordinary in- terest. There has been much talk about the great gain in the wet senti- ment in the couniry to demonstrete it, if the wets are able to do s0. It is true that other issues will be involved and other interests. Pinchot will attack the Philadelphia orggnization, it may be supposed, backing his candidate for the sena- torial momination. And where “will formier Senator Joseph R. Grundy, head of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ | scciation for so many years in the !be found? Mr. Grundy has helped out Gov. Pinchot in the past. He has no iove for Senator Davis, who defeated pal authorities. It has been discovered, | he threw some living animal into thel|im by a considerable vote in the last however. that a majority of the loaves do not weigh more than 9 or 10 ounces. A commission has now been appointed through efforts of the National Associa- tion of Workers to secyre a sengtorial investigaticn of the matter, and it is likely that in future the selling of bread will be so regulated that there will be no further possibility of fraud. All es- tablishments selling bread gnd other vital necessities, under the new regi-| lations, must provide a scale or balance, easily accessible to the public, whereon the latter may weigh their own pur- chases. The proprietors of retail stores will be held primarily responsible and culpgble in the sales of short-weight commodities, and they must look for redress and restitution to the sources from which they obtained the goods.| | Their elerks and other employes will not be considered blameworthy except in cises wherein they are employed as “house-to-house” vendors. * k% % Spanish Palace Opened as Museum, El So!, Madrid.—The palace formerly occuped by King Alfonso and his fam- ily with their servitors, though intended to be used henceforth as a national museum, has been opened cnly in i to the public. The prin- salons o corridors may be visi-d daily under the gulcsnce of old rc “ineis of the royal houschold who act as cicerones in return for a small gratyity. These functionaries still ap) polished meta) buttons embossed with the Spanish crown. The embellishments of the throne | room are particularly costly and mag- nificent, and are reported to have re- quired an_expenditure of 3.000,000 peselas. (Prom $300.000 to $600,000, depending on value of peseta when work was done.) . Other lavishly decorated spartments are the Gasparini room, which has its walls completely covered with porcelain sheets, while the furniture appears to be of the same pittern and composition. The hall of Columbus is another rich especlally archs used to wash the feet of 24 of their humbler and poorer subjects—12 men and 12 women—on Holy Thursday, ex- emplifying in this service the common origin and destiny of all men, o o Many Superstitions Sill Held Sway in Germany. Berliner Tageblatt —While there are many supersiitions in Germany which | appesr to have a vogue and currency at Silvesternacht (New Yeer eve) and other special occasions, there are some that are tenaciously adhered to, par- ticularly among the country people, throughout the year, due to the fact, no doubt, that the various favors sought | ere applicable to common and con- tinuous human experience. Among these irrational and idle cus- toms may be mentionsd thst of the r in their tra-| ditional liveries, even in the detail of | interesting be- | cause it was here that the Spanish mon- | | mill race. This practice, happily, is well-nigh obsoleted. Ceneluding this random miscellany with an instance similar to one or two ajready cited, it is firmly maintained by country folk that a pear tree the trunk of which is crossed with bands of £traw on Christmas eve will be especially pro- lific in its season. Most of thes: beliefs, even the most illogical, are harmless, and when in- tended only to supplement, by a sort of rite of ceremony. a steadfast diligence and patience can surely do no mischief, * ok ox ¥ Imperfect Washing Betrays Young Robbers. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna—A telegram from Leinsic reports that two intermediate school purils assaultad re- cently at Naumburg a strange-to-that- | place pedagog, with the object of rob- | bery. It seems that they must have selected by some sort of instinct their tracitional prey. However, they were balked in the attempt by pass2rs-by, and put to flight. The boys had their faces blackened as a disguisz. A little later they repaired to a restawrant in a railrond depot, but officcrs wers al- ready op the “qui vive,” and they were arrested. They were recognized through the fact that ther efforts to wash all the black off their faces hid not been successful. Their ears and necks be- trayed them. They were found to be the sons of respectghle parcnts. It is likely they will be charged with othcr similar infractions of the law. One of | them has already made a complete con- | fession, | | * x *x % Hurricane Brings Wealth to East Prussians. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna—The | hurricane-like storms which during re- cent days have swept the coasts of East Prussian S8amlind have conferred unon the inhabitents of the region a gift in the form of large and valuable quanti- ties of amber. People dwelling in the neighborhood of the bathing beach at Crapza, poverty-stricken and in dire neetl before the providential visitation, suddenly awoke to find themselves wealthy after the tempest had subsided. for the sea was coversd with amber to the depth of 6', centimeters (2'y inches), and some integral pieces of the substance weighed as much as 520 grammes (11 pounds). ———— Horse’s Populuril,\; W | Again on Incline | Prom the Des Moiues Register. Hints have recently come from vari- { ous sources that the horse is about to regain some degree of the popular {avor | which was lost with the general adop- | tion of motor vehicles and power ma- | chinery. Lovers of horseflesh will give | hearty welcome to the assurance of Dr. L. A. Merillat, speaker at the State Bavariin pessant who swings an ax | Vcterinarians' Conventlon, that the day ageinst the trunk of any barren fruit of revival of Dobbin’s popularity is now tres on his farm, while his neighbor.| at hand. rtanding near, intereedes, -and. & It is probable that the majority of 1o evert its frie, by assuring the owner | farmers who abandoned horsepower on senasorial prima in Pennsylvenia. Indeéd, Mr. Grui is credited with having alded Gov. Pinchet in his own fight fcr the Republican nomination in 1930 very matcrially. i Gov. Pinchot has still two more years | 85 Governor of Pennsylvanis, his term i not ending until January. 1935. He does not have to get into the presiden- tial race if he does not wish to do so. Nor does he have to reinquish his | present office if he desires to make a ' bid for the presidential nominstion. R E The Republican regulars in the Sen- ate did not wait this year for a Repub- lican Progressive or a Democrat to call for the setting up of a Campaign In.- vestigating Committee, Senator Dick- inson of Iowa has come forward with much such a resolution as was pre- sented by Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska and which brought sbout the aj intment of the Nye Committee in 1930. It was a foregone conclusion that & Campaign Investigation Committee would be set up this year. In 1928 the Stelwer Commitiee was appointed to inquire into presidential campaign ex- | penditures and the committee called before it the various Republican ecan- didates for the presidential nomination, as well as the Democratic candidates. Among those who appeared was Presi- dent Hoover. This year, if a Senate committee is appointed. as it is expected to be. the pre-convention campaigns of the Democr2ts will probably contain the greatest amount of interest, since there are a dozen or more candidates for the presidential nomination on that side of the fence. The 1esolution which resulted in the appointment of the Steiwer Ccmmiitee in 1930 was offered by the Democrstic leader of the Senate, Robinson of Ar- kznsas. The Dickinson resolution, which is before the Senate Privileges #nd Elections Committee for considera. tion. calls for the apoointment of & spezial committee of five Senators to be appointed by the Vice President, Jjust as the earlier committees were ‘ap- pointed. Dickinson is not a cnm‘r - date for election this year, having been elected only a couple of years ago and with a long service still ahead of him. He is eligible for appointment as chair- man of the speeisl committee if the practice of the Senate is followed, Wwhich usually accords & chairmanship to the author of a resolution unless he prefers not to serve. In 1930 Sen- ator Norris was a candidate for re- election and in 1928 Senator Robinson was a candidate for the presjdential nomiration and wss finally nominated for ce President. The Dickinson resolution ruthorizes the expenditure of nct more' than $100,000 to be used by the Investigating Committee, i * k x % Alfred E. Smith has gives permission to the Smith ‘l;en:‘oczflki’; Massachusetts to place him in the race for delegates in that State to the Dem- ocratic National Convention. This has cleared up the situation for the Demo- crats of Massachusetts and also has given a clearer pieture of the Bmith candidacy to the country at large, If |the former standard bearer of the | party is to become a serious contender for the presidential nomination in- he has been | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, Any reader of this newspaper is wel- come to make use at any time of the free information service of this depart- ment. Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D, C., and you will receive a per- sonal letter in reply. Inciose 2 cents for return postage. Be sure to state | your question clearly and to write your name and address plainly. Q. Is Newton D. Baker of Jewish | descent?—L. L. A A. There is no Jewish ancestry in the family of either Mr. Baker or his wife. Q. What is the truth about business always being bad in a presidential | year?—N. A. A. In the last 50 years there have been 13 presidential elections. In six of these presidential years there has been booming prosperity. In only two cases has there been outright depres- |sion. In the other election years a part of the year has been Pmuperous and a part depressed. In all probabil- |ity the election year 1916 would have | witnessed @ depression had not the European War been im progress. Q. What are the earliest and latest detes upon which Easter can fall?— C.C A. The earliest date on which it can occur s April 25, s ?. How long is the Transsiberian Railroad? What did it cost?—E. P. W. A. Alml single-track line it was com- &l’% distance of 5550 miles across both European and Asiatic Russia. |_Q who buil the Roman Colosseum? ] A. It was begun by Vespasian on the |site of t of Nero's famous Golden ! House and inaugurated by Titus in A.D. 80. It consisted originally of three arcaded stories of stone and an upper gallery, originally of wood, which was rebuilt of stone in the present form some time in the third century. The Colosseum probably seated between 40,- 000 and 50,000 people. Q. How often should tomatoes and oranges be fed to children’—A. 8. A. Children should have one or the other each day. Q. How much of & navy is Germany i permitted to have’>—J. R “ A. Germany is allowed by treaty to have six battleships in commission and two in reserve, six cruisers in commis- sion and two in reserve. These can- not be replaced under 20 years of age. | Germany has 26 destroyers and torpedo boats and miscellaneous ships: such ss school ships, mine layers, tenders, ete. Address your inquiry to The | tinetion March 22 and the latest | those who reach s certain percen Sometimes elections are made in junior ‘yesr as & mark of special dis- fro dlxttn;uhh:d Tumn, And_ b m al jon- orary members are selected from those who have achieved eminence in some branch of learning. Q Is there s test which shows whether milk has been watered?— W. L. F. A The Babcock test for de- termining the amount of fat in milk, checked by the test for specific gravity, will successfully indicate whether milk has been watered or not. Watered milk will obviously have a considerably lesser content fat and its specific gravity will likewise be altered. MQ, Wéh.\ did Mme. Thebes diet— A. Mme. de Thebes, the Prench seer- ess, died in 1017. Her real name Mme. Anne Victorine Savigny. Q. Where was the first monastery | established? —G. MeC. lA.ThmhMrtcordnl!hem | monastery Monasticism has existed | among various peoples of the world since a very early period, and ante- dates Christianity. Ql.‘ When was the chalr invented?— | "'A” Chairs are of extreme sntiquity |and were originally for state and | | J. to exist in Greece in the Afth or sixth century B. C., and in Rome at a later period. One of the most famous of the ancient chairs is the reputed chair of St. Peter in §t. Peter's, Rome. Q. How much live stock did G Washington keep on his farm?—N. O. A. The will of Washington. made in | the vear of his death, listed more than | 1.000 head of live stock of all kinds, | valued at over $15,000. Q. How is the mame of the gorilla pronounced—the one who was given oxygen treatment for pneumonia?—8. T. A. N'Gi is pronounced “Enjy.” It is a native name for a gorilla. Q. What is the attitude of Japan toward Christianity?—C. C. C. A. It is said to be that of toleration, mostly either antagonistic or mildly in- | differcn®. It is estimated that there are more than 200,000 professed Chris- tians at present on the island. | Q. What is the shield which forms J . | part of the seal of the University of P | Pennsylvania?—8. D. C. date will the Kentucky Derby be runte A B, A. It is, with slight modification, the A. On May 17, 1932. coat-of-arms of William Penn. The g 'ormn:‘: ctl;.mh‘: r;( the :vaznuy were hat try Is grant y ¢ enn family as pro- iR ooty s in pomestion of | 2. s’ of Colgpipt Pennsyivenia, ‘and Corsica is todav one of the de-|tWo members of the family were also monts which make up the repub- Smong the early trustees of the institu- of Prance. tion, Q. How are members of the hon- Q. Isa rainbow ever seen at night?— grary fraternity, Phi Beta Kappe. P. C. choten?—J. A L. | A. A rainbow at night is an unusual A. Active membership in Phi Beta phenomenom, but not what should be Kappa varies in fts detalls with dif- called a rare phenomenon, It requires a ferent chapters, but, as & rule, it is|shower with bright moonlight on it, | extended to members of the senior class | when the moon is not too high in the Q. Upon what Here is a chance | As- L. studying for a baccalaurate degree In arts or science, as distinguisheq from those studying for tezhnical er pro- | fessional degrees; usually, also, not | more than the quarter of g class stand- ing highest is elected. and in many col- leges eligibility is further restricted to | heavens. | = P boadd s Uty b- . It is & tly blue gaseous sul stance obtained (ususlly much diluted) by the silent discharge of electricity in ir or oxygen or by other methods. ‘Conservatism of Labor Men Expected t Americans give much attention 'to the prospects of a change of policy in the Irish Pree State as a result of the election of Eamonn de Valers as Pres- hdent. The man who has been the ex- | tremist in Ireland throughout the ad- | ministration of President Cosgrave is ! placed in a position of responsibility, but is expected to follow & more cau- tious policy while holding office. One factor is the Labor party. on which he is partly dependent, and which is influenced by economic considerations, and cpnoses radical moves in the di- rection of indenendence. The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin | observes that “Mr. de Valera himself | has indicated that his pregram for eco- nomic indcpendencs dces not mean that he is not desirous of negotiating favorable to the Pree State, and that send a delegation to the Ottawa Im- | perial Conference in the coming Sum- { mer.” The Rutland Hera!d believes i that “the extreme de Valera wing prob- ably will not be allowed to disrupt the Free State gevernment. “De valera and his colleagues.” says the New Orleans Item, “have a par- liamentary margin over Ccsgrave's Free Staters, with rome Independents and Laborites in the midfield. They will natyrally have to go through a lot of the motions of asserting ther old | principles. but that does not neces- sarilz mean a reversion to the bitter, | bloody and destructive manifestations that for centuries kept the Green Isle or and depleted it of many of its Best sons.” “We may expect orderly progress and development to continue as years pass,” | pecording to the Schenectady Gazette. “De Valera's success at the polls is a tribute to his determination, to his vnwillingness to admit defeat. A mem- ber of the minority or opposition for years, beaten time and again at the | polls, he has continued its fight until success has crowned his efforts.” Th> Baltimore Sun forecasts that Ireland “is in for a period of delicate and elab- orate political maneuvering, but for no I especially sensational _developments.” ‘That paper recognizes that “by holding the exact balance of power, Labor con- trols the situation, and De Valera finds his hards tightly bound in so far as any radical ‘republican’ measures are | concerned.” * o ok “Labor has let 1t ‘be definitely known. records the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator, “that it will support the | Anglo-Irish treaty. and Dé Valera can- | not get along without Labor, but he | counters with a suggestion that aboli- tion of the oath could be brought about by a change in the constitution, without affecting the Irish treaty. This is & precarious mapeuver and it is evident that the President is going to have a very difficult time of it maintaining himself in office.” “Small doubt that Mr, de Valera and the Flanna Faill were aided materially by Ireland's reaction to the contagion with Great Britain a trade agreemenc | | for that purpose he may consent to | o Cheek Valera | Argus and. ‘the; Springfield (Mass.) Union, ¥ % o* % “Ireland. which for 700 years was poverty stricken,” remarks the Dayton Daily News, “is more '0uUs now than any other country . Oos- ve has been a far. ng man, sens- the wealth of old Erin's natural re- sources.” | “a comparatively fortynate land in a |time of widespread misfortune.” The Newark Evening News concludes that | “Mr. Cosgrave ml‘y‘r!fln content in the kncwledge that his job was well done.” The Buffalo Evening. News remarks | that “Ircland has beeome the only cor- I ner of Europe which is not exhibiting | dfi?('ultl:l." Fo'nting out that De Vi was born m Pruvlzthx‘x:e Journal in New York, voices the interest of America in the celection, and ds: -“He Is no mere ded student dds @ egita‘or, but a_serious-ming end teacher. He believes with all the nqor of a determined pature in the ab- solute scparation of Ireland from Eng- lish control, but apparently he does not intend to push the independence move- 1lent as far as that st present. In the | campaign just closed he stressed the necessity, as he saw. it, of relieving | Free State citizens from forma] ajle- | giance to the British King, and we may expect to see legislation to that effect promptly passed at Dublin. The oath | preseribed in the 'ment of 1922 | will presumably go the board. Po- |litical prophecies are dangerous, like most utheis, but it is a fair guess that Ihe new Pree Biate government will | tend to become more constructive and | co!uervluve than some of the platform utterances and printed policies of the 'l”':?n- Pall party bave been in the st “The Irish Pree State,” advises | Rochester Times-Union, “is already ?!nrfl!_ml- and bids fair to benefit still urther, from the drift toward protec- tion and imperial preference in Great, | Britain. This is the very time ‘when | fight such as Mr. de Valers L like to wege would be most foolish and Irish fractical wisdom will, it | eostly. is hoped, triumph over Irish sentimén. in tality.” e |Protect the Alaskan Bears. nosm the Schenectady Gazette. 3 ince we have, belatedly in - stances, sought to mlegi ll:o.:’ :- life in this coun- tinct species of wil nge that steps are rovi ctuary for the Alaska ben?l—t% % nnbm'm asked ;;m zr:uneblm (‘::n'rm is to g‘h esc:;‘z ’;ndml\dm Ity l;;x:;:,w'“h n: e lur'bvfdfi ammals may live th few minor except: this time the bears are pl’:gtk:‘l:‘y - m"i{ of hunters. Any number be killed at any time, and ‘in o Rt g gl soon and u‘nlur p st o e Residents, of course, comp] depredations of the bears, mv.}ee‘hn:: the same condition here, where farm- of nationalism that is sweeping Eu- rope.” is seen by the Nashville Banner, but that peper finds it “unlikely that the course of the Irish Pree State will be immediately or fundamentally ers contend rabbits and d tected most ‘of the time, destray. gardens and produce. Al rt the & asse! rther eloest friends and most velued advisers. | tion in the event of default. A judz- |ple. The diference is that they cost | that the tree will soon bear fruit. Three | the farm did so with a tinge of regret. |stead of a stalking horse for the op. |changed.” since “De Valera and the HMe drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights and took &n active part in the be satisfied by the attachment of his Constitutional Convention. Fragments of the ruins of his dwelling op the dsland are still to be found there. In later years the island became a favorite resort for the people of the Capital. It passed through pumerous hands, being used at one time as an athletic fleld In the course of the years it was neg- | tion in lected and lost much of its eitractives ness and in recent tines (i poses. ke was allozn s §104 and tie maximum §ise possibility of its use for ingust:~1 pur- | A “down paymcnt” is made of twenty- It was indeed from the gas five per cent of the price of the round :aid Uncle Ebs: Yght company, which had purchased it trip ticket, fjax oventual utilisation for some of its start sixty days later, within which time forward.” ment may be obtsined against him, to property. The plan as just apnounced involves the co-operation of a well known lend- ing organigation, which acts as selling egent for the steamship company, or as borrowing agent for the deferred-pay- ment teaveler. The financial corpora- vesligales the applicant and guarintees the credit. e mipimum him more money.” “Neations who truly hate each other, caid Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “are at peace only when they fear each otrar," Evil Communigztions. | The crook egclaimed, “Perhaps it's well |3 deaded @ prion eell | The erocks cut in the world so free |Have grown too touzi for even me.” | The monthly payments “No matter which way he steps out,” “a bootleg man allus looks like hes puttin’ his worst foot ‘ t time: the blow averted, the supposition being that the branches thus granted a new lease of life will repay such clemency with a lavish yleld of pears or apples the caming Summer, Another custom, not such a difficult one to underptand, is the laying of a pair of crossed hose beside the bed of & | sick child. Others believe that while a stuffed owl guerds the door, lightnin that peril the husbandman, will never strike the barn, SBome think a gold ring susp>nced by a string above £n egg will, by some snacies of wizavdry, disciope wiether it “will hatch ocut a cock or & hen. Then ihere are districts of Germany wherein it is an accepted hypothesis that one desiring to be cured of certain silments need but crawl the spokes of a wagon wheel. the "ax is raised end three times True, , & tractor never gets tired, nor h: sunstrcke. On the other hand, it never whinnijes a welcome when you open the barn door on a frosty January morn- ing. Dobbin never had. to be cranked, and he started more easily on a cold gorn- ing than in Midsummer. He had to have his occaslonal kick-back. to be sure—but so does a tractor, And there was always an intimate touch in Dob- bin’s fiying hoof: his was not the im- | persanal kick of a tractor. = No, the horseless farm never pres: cd quite & proper pisture, It was poi a | farm; it 1 and who wants the tractors, by all means, where they fill a peed—but Jet us hope 4 8 stall may still be saved for the Percheron. ponents of the nomination of v. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, the Democratic National Convention threatens to become still more of a battleground. Mr. Smith has s host of followers in many parts of the coun- try. On the other hand, he has great opposition among the Demoerats, If he is finally denied the nomination this year. as his oproneuu insist he will be denied, what will the Smith followers do in’ the national camoaign snd netional elcciion? Tre situation 5 one thit holds plenty of griaf for tize Demc-rots unless it is froned o 2-torlly. And by the same o) *mith's eondidacy is boosted e po--ib's by the Republicans, who fn- sist that Mr. Smith would be the strongest candidate the ocould put up this year, Democrats Emph: Fianna Fail eppear to have been con- siderably tsught .and modified by tne years, and there is small question, if any, of their sincerity. “There is a certain! in the opinion of the Scranton Times, “that there will not be any return to the distressing times which preceded the setting up of the Free Strte government, and a gen- eral belief that De Valera will, for all his republican declarations, proceed along constitutional lines.” The Hart- ford Times holds that “there is little | reason to believe that the new Parlia- | ment will coniribute &nything serious the uniest of tha world.” The Lowell | Evening Leader bolieves “it s not clear nat {o sever all relations with Grea Britoin would be to their advantage. possibly brown grizal on Admiralty Island, '.?t‘:h - o number also on Chicago. the places it is desired to set as uaries, s Instead of waiting until too lateSas ool o, o, o S arech to take necury o oo, on o may be preserved from e —aai it Definition Needed. asis 1s placed on the restraining of by the Rock | Prom the Herrisury Teiopraph. 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